Historical Events on May 16, Special Events on This Day
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What Happened on May 16th This Day in History
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2014 | Twelve people are killed in two explosions in the Gikomba market area of Nairobi, Kenya. |
| 2011 | STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour. |
| 2005 | Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35–23 National Assembly vote. |
| 2003 | In Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks. |
| 1997 | Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country. |
| 1991 | Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress. |
| 1988 | A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine. |
| 1975 | Junko Tabei from Japan becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.[18] |
| 1974 | Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia. |
| 1969 | Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus. |
| 1966 | The Chinese Communist Party issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. |
| 1961 | Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea. |
| 1960 | Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. |
| 1959 | The Triton Fountain in Valletta, Malta is turned on for the first time. |
| 1951 | The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines. |
| 1943 | The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends. |
| 1943 | Operation Chastise is undertaken by RAF Bomber Command with specially equipped Avro Lancasters to destroy the Mohne, Sorpe, and Eder dams in the Ruhr valley. |
| 1929 | In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place. |
| 1925 | The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria occurred in Paris. |
| 1920 | In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc. |
| 1919 | A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight. |
| 1918 | The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense. It will be repealed less than two years later. |
| 1916 | The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria. |
| 1891 | The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opened in Frankfurt, Germany, featuring the world's first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today). |
| 1888 | Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances. |
| 1877 | The 16 May 1877 crisis occurs in France, ending with the dissolution of the National Assembly 22 June and affirming the interpretation of the Constitution of 1875 as a parliamentary rather than presidential system. The elections held in October 1877 led to the defeat of the royalists as a formal political movement in France. |
| 1874 | A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people. |
| 1868 | The United States Senate fails to convict President Andrew Johnson by one vote. |
| 1866 | The United States Congress establishes the nickel. |
| 1842 | The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail from Elm Grove, Missouri, with 100 pioneers. |
| 1834 | The Battle of Asseiceira is fought; it was the final and decisive engagement of the Liberal Wars in Portugal. |
| 1832 | Juan Godoy discovers the rich silver outcrops of Chañarcillo sparking the Chilean silver rush.[9] |
| 1822 | Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli. |
| 1812 | Imperial Russia signs the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Russo-Turkish War. The Ottoman Empire cedes Bessarabia to Russia. |
| 1811 | Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom fight an inconclusive battle against the French at the Albuera.[6] It is, in proportion to the numbers involved, the bloodiest battle of the war. |
| 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. |
| 1770 | The 14-year-old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste, who later becomes king of France. |
| 1739 | The Battle of Vasai concludes as the Marathas defeat the Portuguese army. |
| 1584 | Santiago de Vera becomes sixth Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines. |
| 1568 | Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England. |
| 1532 | Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England. |
| 1527 | The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic. |
| 1426 | Gov. Thado of Mohnyin becomes king of Ava. |
| 1364 | Hundred Years' War: Bertrand du Guesclin and a French army defeat the Anglo-Navarrese army of Charles the Bad at Cocherel. |
| 1204 | Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. |
| 946 | Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan. |
Famous People Born on May 16
Here is a random list who born on May 16. For full list please click on the link above.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1988 | Martynas Gecevičius, Lithuanian basketball player |
| 1956 | Loretta Schrijver, Dutch television host, news anchor |
| 1890 | Edith Grace White, American ichthyologist (d. 1975) |
| 1961 | Kevin McDonald, Canadian actor and screenwriter |
| 1910 | Higashifushimi Kunihide, Japanese monk and educator (d. 2014) |
| 1957 | Anthony St John, 22nd Baron St John of Bletso, English lawyer and businessman |
| 1928 | Billy Martin, American baseball player and coach (d. 1989) |
| 1968 | Ralph Tresvant, American singer and producer |
| 1859 | Horace Hutchinson, English golfer (d. 1932) |
| 1882 | Simeon Price, American golfer (d. 1945) |
Famous People Deaths On May 16
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on May 16. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1862 | Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (b. 1796) |
| 1818 | Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (b. 1775) |
| 1667 | Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1607) |
| 2013 | Angelo Errichetti, American politician (b. 1928) |
| 1375 | Liu Bowen, Chinese military strategist, officer, statesman and poet (b. 1311) |
| 934 | Meng Hanqiong, eunuch official of Later Tang |
| 1696 | Mariana of Austria, Queen consort of Spain (b. 1634) |
| 1977 | Modibo Keïta, Malian politician, 1st President of Mali (b. 1915) |
| 1913 | Louis Perrier, Swiss architect and politician (b. 1849) |
| 1943 | Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist and academic (b. 1865) |
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