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May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (137th in leap years). There are 229 days remaining.
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Events
- 1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
- 1527 – The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes a republic.
- 1532 – Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
- 1568 – Mary Queen of Scots flees to England.
- 1605 – Paul V becomes Pope.
- 1770 – 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
- 1777 – Patriot general Lachlan McIntosh shoots Button Gwinnett during a duel near Savannah, Georgia. Gwinnett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies three days later.
- 1866 – The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
- 1866 – Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer.
- 1868 – President Andrew Johnson is acquitted during his impeachment trial, by one vote in the United States Senate.
- 1910 – The U.S. Congress authorizes the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines.
- 1918 – The Sedition Act is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government a jailable offense.
- 1919 – US Navy Naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
- 1920 – In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc as a saint.
- 1929 – In Hollywood, California the first Academy Awards are handed out.
- 1938 – A fire at the Terminal Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 35 people.
- 1943 – Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
- 1943 – World War II: The Dambuster Raids by RAF 617 Squadron on German dams.
- 1948 – Chaim Weizmann is elected as the first President of Israel.
- 1960 – Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from US President Dwight D. Eisenhower for U-2 spy plane flights over the Soviet Union thus ending a Big Four summit in Paris.
- 1966 – Two extremely influencial rock albums are released on the same day: Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde and The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds.
- 1969 – Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus.
- 1975 – India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state held a referendum where popular vote was in favour of merging with India.
- 1975 – Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
- 1988 – A report by American Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
- 1992 – STS-49: Space Shuttle Endeavour lands safely after a successful maiden voyage.
- 2002 – Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones opens in theaters.
Births
- 1490 – Albert of Prussia, first duke of Prussia (d. 1568)
- 1611 – Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689)
- 1678 – Andreas Silbermann, organ builder (d. 1734)
- 1718 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, mathematician (d. 1799)
- 1827 – Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect
- 1882 – Anne McCormick, journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1954)
- 1891 – Richard Tauber, tenor (d. 1948)
- 1905 – Henry Fonda, American actor (d. 1982)
- 1912 – Studs Terkel, writer
- 1913 – Woody Herman, American musician, band leader (d. 1987)
- 1919 – Liberace, American pianist (d. 1987)
- 1919 – Gisela Uhlen, actress
- 1928 – Billy Martin, baseball player, coach (d. 1989)
- 1929 – Friedrich Nowottny, journalist
- 1931 – Natwar Singh, Indian politician
- 1936 – Karl Lehmann, German cardinal and theologian
- 1936 – Roy Hudd, British radio and television actor
- 1948 – Robert Fripp, guitarist
- 1950 – J. Georg Bednorz, physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1987
- 1953 – Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor
- 1955 – Olga Korbut, gymnast
- 1955 – Jack Morris, baseball pitcher
- 1955 – Hazel O'Connor, British singer
- 1955 – Debra Winger, actress
- 1958 – Amp Fiddler, musician (P Funk)
- 1965 – Krist Novoselic, musician, former bassist for Nirvana
- 1966 – Janet Jackson, singer
- 1966 – Thurman Thomas, American football player
- 1969 – Steve Lewis, American athlete
- 1970 – Gabriela Sabatini, tennis player
- 1973 – Tori Spelling, actress
Deaths
- 1620 – William Adams, English navigator and Japanese samurai (b.1564)
- 1703 – Charles Perrault, French author (b. 1628)
- 1782 – Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (b. 1736)
- 1891 – Ion C. Bratianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821)
- 1926 – Mehmed VI, last Ottoman sultan (b. 1861)
- 1944 – George Ade, author (b. 1866)
- 1953 – Django Reinhardt, jazz musician (b. 1910)
- 1955 – James Agee, American writer (b. 1909)
- 1957 – Eliot Ness, federal agent (b. 1903)
- 1984 – Andy Kaufman, comedian (b. 1949)
- 1984 – Irwin Shaw, author (b. 1913)
- 1985 – Margaret Hamilton, actress (b. 1902)
- 1988 – Charles Keeping, illustrator (b. 1924)
- 1990 – Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets (b. 1936)
- 1990 – Sammy Davis, Jr., singer, actor, comedian (b. 1925)
- 2003 – Mark McCormack, sports business pioneer, founder of IMG
Holidays and observances
- In the Irish Calendar – Feast of Saint Brendan the Navigator
- Whit Monday in Western Christianity (2005)
- Adelaide Cup day – South Australia (2005)
External links
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