
May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (137th in leap years). There are 229 days remaining. ==Events== *1204 - Baldwin I of Constantinople 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 I of Scotland flees to England. *1605 - Pope Paul V becomes Pope. *1770 - 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis XVI of France who later becomes king of France. * 1777 - Lachlan McIntosh and Button Gwinnett shoot each other during a duel near Savannah, Georgia. Gwinnett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies three days later. *1843 - The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail. *1866 - The Congress of the United States eliminates the half dime (U.S. coin) coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel (U.S. coin). * 1866 - Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer. *1868 - President of the United States Andrew Johnson is acquitted during his impeachment trial, by one vote in the United States Senate. *1910 - The Congress of the United States authorizes the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines. *1918 - The Sedition Act is passed by the Congress of the United States, making criticism of the government a jailable offense. *1919 - US Navy Naval Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company 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 canonization 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 influential Rock and roll 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 Union spaceprobe, lands on Venus (planet). *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 addiction 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 cinemas. *2005 - ''Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith'' premieres in London. *2005 - Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly of Kuwait vote. *2005 - Sony's ''PlayStation 3'' video game console is shown at a press conference (E3). ==Births== *1490 - Albert of Prussia, first duke of Prussia (d. 1568) *1611 - Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689) *1678 - Andreas Silbermann, organ (music) builder (d. 1734) *1718 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, mathematician (d. 1799) *1827 - Pierre Cuypers, the Netherlands 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 piano (d. 1987) *1919 - Gisela Uhlen, actress *1928 - Billy Martin, baseball player, coach (d. 1989) *1929 - Friedrich Nowottny, journalist *1931 - Natwar Singh, India politician *1936 - Karl Lehmann, Germany cardinal (Catholicism) and theology *1936 - Roy Hudd, United Kingdom radio and television actor *1946 - Robert Fripp, guitarist *1950 - J. Georg Bednorz, physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1987 *1953 - Pierce Brosnan, Ireland actor *1955 - Olga Korbut, gymnastics *1955 - Jack Morris, baseball pitcher *1955 - Hazel O'Connor, United Kingdom singer *1955 - Debra Winger, actress *1958 - Amp Fiddler, musician (P Funk) *1963 - Rosie Perez, actress *1965 - Krist Novoselic, musician, former bassist for Nirvana (band) *1966 - Janet Jackson, singer *1966 - Thurman Thomas, American football player *1969 - Steve Lewis (athlete), American athlete *1969 - Tucker Carlson, print and television commentator *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 * The feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church: ** Ubaldus ** Saint Honoré ** John of Ponuk or John Nepomucene (1330 - 1393) ** Adrew Bobola ** Simon Stock * Whit Monday in Western Christianity (2005) * Adelaide Cup day - South Australia (2005) == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/16 BBC: On This Day] * [http://www.tnl.net/when/5/16 Today in History: May 16] ---- May 15 - May 17 - April 16 - June 16 – historical anniversaries li:16 mei ml:മേയ് 16 th:16 พฤษภาคม
--User:Maveric149 23:38, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC) Template:May 16 selected anniversaries - Template talk:May 16 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:May_16_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- This is my birthday. woo whoo.... Robert Fripp, musician, was born on may 16, 1946 ---- Moved birth from article: *1981 - Wing-yin,WONG, student No verification found. User:Lupo 12:41, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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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. ==Events== *1204 - Baldwin I of Constantinople 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 I of Scotland flees to England. *1605 - Pope Paul V becomes Pope. *1770 - 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis XVI of France who later becomes king of France. * 1777 - Lachlan McIntosh and Button Gwinnett shoot each other during a duel near Savannah, Georgia. Gwinnett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies three days later. *1843 - The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail. *1866 - The Congress of the United States eliminates the half dime (U.S. coin) coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel (U.S. coin). * 1866 - Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer. *1868 - President of the United States Andrew Johnson is acquitted during his impeachment trial, by one vote in the United States Senate. *1910 - The Congress of the United States authorizes the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines. *1918 - The Sedition Act is passed by the Congress of the United States, making criticism of the government a jailable offense. *1919 - US Navy Naval Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company 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 canonization 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 influential Rock and roll 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 Union spaceprobe, lands on Venus (planet). *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 addiction 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 cinemas. *2005 - ''Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith'' premieres in London. *2005 - Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly of Kuwait vote. *2005 - Sony's ''PlayStation 3'' video game console is shown at a press conference (E3). ==Births== *1490 - Albert of Prussia, first duke of Prussia (d. 1568) *1611 - Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689) *1678 - Andreas Silbermann, organ (music) builder (d. 1734) *1718 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, mathematician (d. 1799) *1827 - Pierre Cuypers, the Netherlands 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 piano (d. 1987) *1919 - Gisela Uhlen, actress *1928 - Billy Martin, baseball player, coach (d. 1989) *1929 - Friedrich Nowottny, journalist *1931 - Natwar Singh, India politician *1936 - Karl Lehmann, Germany cardinal (Catholicism) and theology *1936 - Roy Hudd, United Kingdom radio and television actor *1946 - Robert Fripp, guitarist *1950 - J. Georg Bednorz, physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1987 *1953 - Pierce Brosnan, Ireland actor *1955 - Olga Korbut, gymnastics *1955 - Jack Morris, baseball pitcher *1955 - Hazel O'Connor, United Kingdom singer *1955 - Debra Winger, actress *1958 - Amp Fiddler, musician (P Funk) *1963 - Rosie Perez, actress *1965 - Krist Novoselic, musician, former bassist for Nirvana (band) *1966 - Janet Jackson, singer *1966 - Thurman Thomas, American football player *1969 - Steve Lewis (athlete), American athlete *1969 - Tucker Carlson, print and television commentator *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 * The feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church: ** Ubaldus ** Saint Honoré ** John of Ponuk or John Nepomucene (1330 - 1393) ** Adrew Bobola ** Simon Stock * Whit Monday in Western Christianity (2005) * Adelaide Cup day - South Australia (2005) == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/16 BBC: On This Day] * [http://www.tnl.net/when/5/16 Today in History: May 16] ---- May 15 - May 17 - April 16 - June 16 – historical anniversaries li:16 mei ml:മേയ് 16 th:16 พฤษภาคม
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--User:Maveric149 23:38, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC) Template:May 16 selected anniversaries - Template talk:May 16 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:May_16_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- This is my birthday. woo whoo.... Robert Fripp, musician, was born on may 16, 1946 ---- Moved birth from article: *1981 - Wing-yin,WONG, student No verification found. User:Lupo 12:41, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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