MAY 16

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Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

Liturgical observances

References

External links

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.

★ 1771 - The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called "The Regulators" occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.

★ 1777 - Lachlan McIntosh and Button Gwinnett shoot each other during a duel near Savannah, Georgia. Gwinnett, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, dies three days later.

★ 1811 - Peninsular War - Allies (Spain, Portugal & Britain) defeat French at the Battle of Albuera.

★ 1822 - Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.

★ 1836 - Edgar Allan Poe marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia.

★ 1843 - The first major wagon train heading for the Northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail.

★ 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.

★ 1874 - A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroyed much of four villages and killed 139 people.

★ 1877 - May 16, 1877 political crisis in France.

★ 1910 - The U.S. Congress authorizes the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines.

★ 1918 - The Sedition Act of 1918 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.

★ 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.

★ 1960 - Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.

★ 1965 - Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiOs under its Franco-American brand.

★ 1966 - The Communist Party of China issued the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

★ 1967 - The city Jerusalem is taken over by the nation of Israel

★ 1969 - Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus.

★ 1974 - Josip Broz Tito was re-elected as president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he was elected for life.

★ 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.

★ 1983 - Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement rebelled against the Sudanese government

★ 1986 - The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.

★ 1988 - A report by United States' 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.

★ 2003 - In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.

★ 2004 - The Day of Mourning at Bykivnia forest, just outside of Kiev, Ukraine. Here during 1930s and early 1940s communist bolsheviks executed over 100.000 Ukrainian civilians.

★ 2005 - Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.

★ 2006 - A large earthquake (7.4 on the Richter scale) occurs near New Zealand.

Births

★ 1490 - Duke Albert of Prussia (d. 1568)

★ 1578 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606)

★ 1611 - Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689)

★ 1710 - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (d. 1782)

★ 1718 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799)

★ 1763 - Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist (d. 1829)

★ 1788 - Friedrich Rückert, German Poet, Translator and Orientalist (d. 1866)

★ 1801 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ¢/acre (d. 1872)

★ 1821 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (d. 1894)

★ 1827 - Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect (d. 1921)

★ 1831 - David E. Hughes, American musician (d. 1900)

★ 1845 - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1916)

★ 1891 - Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (d. 1948)

★ 1898 - Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (d. 1980)

★ 1898 - Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director (d. 1956)

★ 1905 - Henry Fonda, American actor (d. 1982)

★ 1906 - Alfred Pellan, French Canadian painter (d. 1988)

★ 1906 - Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer (d. 2001)

★ 1906 - Margret Rey, author and illustrator (d. 1996)

★ 1909 - Margaret Sullavan, American actress (d. 1960)

★ 1910 - Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (d. 1975)

★ 1910 - Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (d. 1972)

★ 1912 - Studs Terkel, American writer

★ 1913 - Woody Herman, American musician and band leader (d. 1987)

★ 1914 - Edward T. Hall, American anthropologist and author

★ 1916 - Adriana Caselotti, American actress (d. 1997)

★ 1917 - Juan Rulfo, Mexican novelist (d. 1986)

★ 1917 - James C. Murray, American politician (d. 1999)

★ 1917 - George Gaynes, American actor

★ 1918 - Wilf Mannion, English former footballer (d. 2000)

★ 1919 - Liberace, American pianist (d. 1987)

★ 1919 - Ramon Margalef, Spanish scientist (d. 2004)

★ 1920 - Martine Carol, French actress (d. 1967)

★ 1921 - Harry Carey, Jr., American actor

★ 1923 - Merton Miller, American economist, Nobel laureate

★ 1925 - Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian entertainer

★ 1927 - Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer

★ 1928 - Billy Martin, American baseball player and coach (d. 1989)

★ 1929 - John Conyers, American politician

★ 1929 - Claude Morin, French Canadian politician

★ 1929 - Adrienne Rich, American writer

★ 1930 - Betty Carter, American jazz singer (d. 1998)

★ 1930 - Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist (d. 2000)

★ 1931 - Jack Dodson, American actor (d. 1994)

★ 1931 - Denise Filiatrault, French Canadian actress and director

★ 1931 - Natwar Singh, Indian politician

★ 1931 - Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., American politician

★ 1936 - Roy Hudd, English radio and television actor

★ 1936 - Karl Lehmann, German Catholic cardinal

★ 1937 - Yvonne Craig, American actress

★ 1944 - Billy Cobham, American virtuoso drummer

★ 1944 - Danny Trejo, American actor

★ 1945 - Nicky Chinn, English songwriter (Sweet, Suzi Quatro)

★ 1946 - Robert Fripp, English guitarist (King Crimson)

★ 1946 - Roger Earl, English rock drummer (Savoy Brown, Foghat)

★ 1947 - Bill Smitrovich, American actor

★ 1948 - Judy Finnegan, English TV presenter (Richard & Judy)

★ 1950 - J. Georg Bednorz, German physicist, Nobel laureate

★ 1950 - Ray Condo, Canadian rockabilly musician

★ 1951 - Christian Lacroix, French fashion designer

★ 1952 - James Herndon, American media psychologist

★ 1953 - Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor

★ 1955 - Olga Korbut, Russian gymnast

★ 1955 - Jack Morris, American baseball player

★ 1955 - Hazel O'Connor, English singer

★ 1955 - Debra Winger, American actress

★ 1961 - Charles Wright, American professional wrestler known as "The Godfather"

★ 1963 - Mercedes Echerer, Austrian actress and politician

★ 1964 - Boyd Tinsley, American violinist (Dave Matthews Band)

★ 1965 - Krist Novoselic, American bassist (Nirvana)

★ 1966 - Janet Jackson, American singer

★ 1966 - Scott Reeves, American actor and singer

★ 1966 - Thurman Thomas, American football player

★ 1968 - Chingmy Yau, Hong Kong actress

★ 1969 - David Boreanaz, American actor

★ 1969 - Tucker Carlson, American television commentator

★ 1969 - Tracey Gold, American actress

★ 1969 - Steve Lewis, American athlete

★ 1970 - Gabriela Sabatini, Argentine tennis player

★ 1970 - Danielle Spencer, Australian singer and actress

★ 1972 - Khary Payton, American actor

★ 1973 - Special Ed, American rapper

★ 1973 - Tori Spelling, American actress

★ 1973 - Jason Acuña "Wee-Man", American television personality

★ 1974 - Laura Pausini, Italian pop singer

★ 1974 - Sonny Sandoval, American singer (P.O.D.)

★ 1975 - Tony Kakko, Finnish singer (Sonata Arctica)

★ 1975 - Tonéx, American singer

★ 1977 - Dolcenera, Italian singer

★ 1977 - Jean-Sébastien Giguère, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1978 - Lionel Scaloni, Argentine footballer

★ 1979 - McKenzie Lee, English pornographic actress

★ 1980 - Mikel Alonso, Spanish footballer

★ 1980 - Michael Ryan, American ice hockey player

★ 1982 - Joo Ji Hoon, Korean actor and model

★ 1982 - Łukasz Kubot, Polish tennis player

★ 1983 - Kyle Wellwood, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1983 - Nancy Ajram, Lebanese singer

★ 1984 - Jensen Lewis, American baseball player

★ 1985 - Anja Mittag, German footballer

★ 1985 - Corey Perry, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1986 - Megan Fox, American actress

★ 1990 - Thomas Sangster, English actor

★ 1998 - Ariel Waller, Canadian actress

Deaths

★ 583 - Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484)

★ 1265 - Saint Simon Stock, English saint (b. 1165)

★ 1620 - William Adams, English navigator (b. 1564)

★ 1657 - Andrzej Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)

★ 1667 - Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b. 1607)

★ 1669 - Pietro da Cortona, Italian architect (b. 1596)

★ 1691 - Jacob Leisler, American colonist (b. 1640)

★ 1703 - Charles Perrault, French author (b. 1628)

★ 1778 - Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat (b. 1718)

★ 1782 - Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (b. 1736)

★ 1790 - Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (b. 1720)

★ 1830 - Joseph Fourier, French scientist (b. 1768)

★ 1891 - Ion Brătianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821)

★ 1913 - Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1849)

★ 1926 - Mehmed VI, last Ottoman Sultan (b. 1861)

★ 1943 - Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist (b. 1865)

★ 1944 - George Ade, American author (b. 1866)

★ 1947 - Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1861)

★ 1953 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian musician (b. 1910)

★ 1954 - Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (b. 1893)

★ 1955 - James Agee, American writer (b. 1909)

★ 1956 - H. B. Reese, American founder of Reese's (b. 1876)

★ 1957 - Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)

★ 1959 - Elisha Scott, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1894)

★ 1969 - Robert R., first confirmed death from AIDS in North America (b. 1954)

★ 1979 - A. Philip Randolph, American civil rights activist and labor union leader (b. 1889)

★ 1981 - Ernie Freeman, American pianist and arranger (b. 1922)

★ 1984 - Andy Kaufman, American comedian (b. 1949)

★ 1984 - Irwin Shaw, American author (b. 1913)

★ 1985 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902)

★ 1988 - Charles Keeping, English illustrator (b. 1924)

★ 1990 - Sammy Davis, Jr., American entertainer (b. 1925)

★ 1990 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer (b. 1936)

★ 1993 - Marv Johnson, American R&B and soul singer (b. 1938)

★ 1996 - Jeremy Michael Boorda, American admiral (b. 1939)

★ 2001 - Brian Pendleton, English musician (The Pretty Things) (b. 1944)

★ 2002 - Alec Campbell, the last surviving ANZAC (b. 1899)

★ 2002 - Big Dick Dudley, American professional wrestler (b. 1968)

★ 2003 - Mark McCormack, American businessman (b. 1930)

★ 2006 - Dan Ross, American football player (b. 1957)

Holidays and observances

★ Teachers' Day in Malaysia.

★ Middlesex Day.

★ Jerusalem Day in Israel for year 2007.

Liturgical observances

Feast days of saints in the Christian Church:

★ Aaron, in the Coptic Church^[1]

★ Abda and Abdjesus and companions, , including:

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★ Aba of Kaskhar

★ Saint Brendan the Navigator - also in the Irish Calendar.

★ Saint Germerius

★ Saint Honoré of Amiens

★ Saint John Nepomuk or John Nepomucene (1330 - 1393)

★ Saint Andrew Bobola

★ Saint Simon Stock

★ Saint Ubaldus

★ Saint Peregrine of Auxerre

References

1. Holweck, F. G. ''A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints''. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924.

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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