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May 16 is the 136th day of the year (137th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 229 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).

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Events

218 – Julia Maesa, aunt of the assassinated Caracalla, is banished to her home in Syria by self-proclaimed emperor Macrinus; she declares her 14-year-old grandson Elagabalus to be emperor of Rome; Macrinus is later deposed.

1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.

1527 – The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic.

1532 – Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.

1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.

1584 – Santiago de Vera becomes sixth Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines.

1770 – A 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.

1811 – Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom, defeat the French at the Battle of Albuera.

1812 – Russian Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov signs the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Russo-Turkish War. Bessarabia is annexed by Imperial Russia.

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

1834 – The Battle of Asseiceira is fought, the last and decisive engagement of the Liberal Wars in Portugal.

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

1866 – The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.

1868 – United States President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.

1874 – A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.

1877 – May 1877 political crisis in France.

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.

1891 – The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today).

1914 – The first ever National Challenge Cup final is played. Brooklyn Field Club defeats Brooklyn Celtic 2–1.

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.

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.

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.

1920 – In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.

1929 – In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.

1943 – The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.

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.

1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.

1961 – Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.

1966 – The Communist Party of China issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

1969 – Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus.

1974 – Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia.

1983 – Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.

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.

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.

1997 – Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country.

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

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

2011 – STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.

2014 – Twelve people are killed in two explosions in the Gikomba market area of the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.

Births

1418 – John II of Cyprus, King of Cyprus and Armenia and also titular King of Jerusalem from 1432 to 1458 (d. 1458)

1455 – Wolfgang I of Oettingen, German count (d. 1522)

1611 – Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689)

1641 – Dudley North, English economist and politician (d. 1691)

1710 – William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician, Lord Steward of the Household (d. 1782)

1718 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1799)

1763 – Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist (d. 1829)

1788 – Friedrich Rückert, German poet and translator (d. 1866)

1801 – William H. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State (d. 1872)

1819 – Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet (d. 1890)

1821 – Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and statistician (d. 1894)

1824 – Levi P. Morton, American banker and politician, 22nd United States Vice President (d. 1920)

1824 – Edmund Kirby Smith, American general (d. 1893)

1827 – Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect, designed the Amsterdam Centraal railway station and Rijksmuseum (d. 1921)

1831 – David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (d. 1900)

1845 – Élie Metchnikoff, Ukrainian-French biologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)

1879 – Pierre Gilliard, Swiss author and academic (d. 1962)

1882 – Simeon Price, American golfer (d. 1945)

1883 – Celâl Bayar, Turkish politician, 3rd President of Turkey (d. 1986)

1888 – Royal Rife, American microbiologist and instrument maker (d. 1971)

1897 – Zvi Sliternik, Israeli entomologist and academic (d. 1994)

1898 – Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-American painter (d. 1980)

1898 – Desanka Maksimović, Serbian poet and academic (d. 1993)

1898 – Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter (d. 1956)

1905 – Henry Fonda, American actor (d. 1982)

1906 – Ernie McCormick, Australian cricketer (d. 1991)

1906 – Alfred Pellan, Canadian painter and educator (d. 1988)

1906 – Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan lawyer, journalist, and author (d. 2001)

1906 – Margret Rey, German author and illustrator (d. 1996)

1907 – Bob Tisdall, Sri Lankan-Irish hurdler (d. 2004)

1909 – Margaret Sullavan, American actress and singer (d. 1960)

1909 – Luigi Villoresi, Italian race car driver (d. 1997)

1910 – Olga Bergholz, Russian poet and author (d. 1975)

1910 – Higashifushimi Kunihide, Japanese monk and educator (d. 2014)

1910 – Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter and educator (d. 1972)

1912 – Studs Terkel, American historian and author (d. 2008)

1913 – Woody Herman, American singer, saxophonist, and clarinet player (d. 1987)

1914 – Edward T. Hall, American anthropologist and author (d. 2009)

1915 – Mario Monicelli, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2010)

1916 – Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel (d. 2009)

1916 – Margaret Jones, British archaeologist (d. 2001)

1917 – George Gaynes, Finnish-American actor and singer (d. 2016)

1917 – Ben Kuroki, American sergeant and pilot (d. 2015)

1917 – James C. Murray, American lawyer and politician (d. 1999)

1917 – Juan Rulfo, Mexican author and photographer (d. 1986)

1918 – Wilf Mannion, English footballer and manager (d. 2000)

1919 – Liberace, American pianist and entertainer (d. 1987)

1919 – Ramon Margalef, Spanish ecologist and biologist (d. 2004)

1920 – Martine Carol, French actress (d. 1967)

1921 – Harry Carey, Jr., American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)

1922 – Eddie Bert, American trombonist (d. 2012)

1923 – Victoria Fromkin, American linguist and academic (d. 2000)

1923 – Merton Miller, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)

1923 – Peter Underwood, English parapsychologist and author (d. 2014)

1925 – Nancy Roman, American astronomer

1925 – Ola Vincent, Nigerian banker and economist (d. 2012)

1925 – Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)

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

1929 – Betty Carter, American singer-songwriter (d. 1998)

1929 – John Conyers, American lawyer and politician

1929 – Claude Morin, Canadian academic and politician

1929 – Adrienne Rich, American poet, essayist, and feminist (d. 2012)

1930 – Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 2000)

1931 – Vujadin Boškov, Serbian footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2014)

1931 – K. Natwar Singh, Indian scholar and politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs

1931 – Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., American soldier and politician, 85th Governor of Connecticut

1934 – Kenneth O. Morgan, Welsh historian and author

1934 – Antony Walker, English general

1935 – Floyd Smith, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1936 – Karl Lehmann, German cardinal

1938 – Stuart Bell, English lawyer and politician (d. 2012)

1941 – Denis Hart, Australian archbishop

1942 – David Penry-Davey, English lawyer and judge

1943 – Kay Andrews, Baroness Andrews, English politician

1943 – Dan Coats, American politician and diplomat, 29th United States Ambassador to Germany

1943 – Marko Kravos, Italian-Slovenian poet and translator

1944 – Billy Cobham, Panamanian-American drummer, composer, and bandleader

1944 – Antal Nagy, Hungarian footballer

1944 – Danny Trejo, American actor

1946 – Robert Fripp, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer

1946 – John Law, English sociologist and academic

1947 – Bill Smitrovich, American actor

1947 – Roch Thériault, Canadian religious leader (d. 2011)

1948 – Jesper Christensen, Danish actor, director, and producer

1948 – Judy Finnigan, English talk show host and author

1948 – Enrico Fumia, Italian automobile and product designer

1948 – Emma Georgina Rothschild, English historian and academic

1948 – Staf Van Roosbroeck, Belgian cyclist

1949 – Rick Reuschel, American baseball player

1950 – Georg Bednorz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

1950 – Ray Condo, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2004)

1950 – Bruce Coville, American author

1951 – Christian Lacroix, French fashion designer

1951 – Jonathan Richman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1951 – Janet Soskice, Canadian philosopher and theologian

1952 – James Herndon, American psychologist and academic

1953 – Pierce Brosnan, Irish-American actor and producer

1953 – Richard Page (musician), American singer-songwriter and bass player

1953 – Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 55th Yokozuna (d. 2015)

1953 – David Maclean, Scottish politician

1953 – Stephen Woolman, Lord Woolman, Scottish judge and academic

1954 – Dafydd Williams, Canadian physician and astronaut

1955 – Olga Korbut, Soviet gymnast

1955 – Jack Morris, American baseball player and sportscaster

1955 – Hazel O'Connor, English-born Irish singer-songwriter and actress

1955 – Páidí Ó Sé, Irish footballer and manager (d. 2012)

1955 – Debra Winger, American actress

1957 – Joan Benoit, American runner

1957 – Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft, English politician

1957 – Yuri Shevchuk, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist

1957 – Anthony St John, 22nd Baron St John of Bletso, English lawyer and businessman

1957 – Bob Suter, American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2014)

1959 – Mitch Webster, American baseball player

1959 – Mare Winningham, American actress and singer-songwriter

1960 – Landon Deireragea, Nauruan politician, Nauruan Speaker of Parliament

1960 – S. Shanmuganathan, Sri Lankan commander and politician (d. 1998)

1961 – Kevin McDonald, Canadian actor and screenwriter

1961 – Charles Wright, American wrestler

1962 – Jimmy Hood, Scottish engineer and politician

1962 – Helga Radtke, German long jumper

1962 – Lisa Yuskavage, American painter

1963 – Rachel Griffith, Anglo-American economist

1963 – Serge Teyssot-Gay, French guitarist

1963 – David Wilkinson, English theologian and academic

1964 – John Salley, American basketball player and actor

1964 – Boyd Tinsley, American singer-songwriter and violinist

1964 – Milton Jones, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter

1965 – Tanel Tammet, Estonian computer scientist, engineer, and academic

1965 – Krist Novoselic, American bass player

1966 – Janet Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actress

1966 – Scott Reeves, American singer-songwriter and actor

1966 – Thurman Thomas, American football player

1967 – Doug Brocail, American baseball player and coach

1967 – Susan Williams, Baroness Williams of Trafford, British politician

1968 – Ralph Tresvant, American singer, actor, and producer (New Edition and Heads of State)

1969 – David Boreanaz, American actor

1969 – Tucker Carlson, American journalist, co-founded The Daily Caller

1969 – Tracey Gold, American actress

1969 – Steve Lewis, American sprinter

1970 – Gabriela Sabatini, Argentinian tennis player

1971 – Phil Clarke, English rugby league player and sportscaster

1971 – Rachel Goswell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1972 – Christian Califano, French rugby player

1973 – Tori Spelling, American actress, reality television personality, and author

1974 – Laura Pausini, Italian singer-songwriter and producer

1974 – Sonny Sandoval, American singer-songwriter

1975 – B.Slade, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

1975 – Tony Kakko, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist

1976 – Dirk Nannes, Australian-Dutch cricketer

1977 – Melanie Lynskey, New Zealand actress

1977 – Emilíana Torrini, Icelandic singer-songwriter

1978 – Scott Nicholls, English motorcycle racer

1978 – Lionel Scaloni, Argentinian footballer

1978 – Jim Sturgess, English singer-songwriter and actor

1979 – Barbara Nedeljáková, Slovak actress

1980 – Nuria Llagostera Vives, Spanish tennis player

1981 – Ricardo Costa, Portuguese footballer

1981 – Taavi Rähn, Estonian footballer

1982 – Billy Crawford, Filipino-American singer-songwriter and actor

1983 – Daniel Kerr, Australian footballer

1983 – Kyle Wellwood, Canadian ice hockey player

1984 – Darío Cvitanich, Argentinian footballer

1984 – Tomáš Fleischmann, Czech ice hockey player

1984 – Mickie Knuckles, American wrestler

1984 – Jensen Lewis, American baseball player

1984 – Rick Rypien, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2011)

1985 – Anja Mittag, German footballer

1985 – Tadayoshi Okura, Japanese singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor

1985 – Rodrigo Peters Marques, Brazilian footballer

1985 – Corey Perry, Canadian ice hockey player

1986 – Megan Fox, American actress

1986 – Andy Keogh, Irish footballer

1986 – Shamcey Supsup, Filipino model and architect

1987 – Tom Onslow-Cole, English race car driver

1988 – Jesús Castillo, Mexican footballer

1988 – Martynas Gecevičius, Lithuanian basketball player

1988 – Jaak Põldma, Estonian tennis player

1989 – Behati Prinsloo, Namibian model

1990 – Amanda Carreras, Gibraltarian tennis player

1990 – Thomas Brodie-Sangster, English Actor

1990 – Darko Šarović, Serbian sprinter

1990 – Omar Strong, American basketball player

1991 – Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgarian tennis player

1991 – Ashley Wagner, American figure skater

1992 – Jeff Skinner, Canadian ice hockey player

1993 – IU, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress

1993 – Johannes Thingnes Bø, Norwegian biathlete

1993 – Karol Mets, Estonian footballer

1994 – Miles Heizer, American actor

1994 – Aaron Moores, English swimmer

1994 – Kathinka von Deichmann, Liechtensteinerin tennis player

1995 – Elizabeth Ralston, Australian footballer

1996 – Louisa Chirico, American tennis player

Deaths

290 – Emperor Wu of Jin, Chinese emperor (b. 236)

895 – Qian Kuan, Chinese nobleman

1182 – John Komnenos Vatatzes, Byzantine general (b. 1132)

1265 – Simon Stock, English-French saint (b. 1165)

1375 – Liu Bowen, Chinese military strategist, officer, statesman and poet (b. 1311)

1412 – Gian Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan

1569 – Dirk Willems, Dutch Anabaptist martyr

1620 – William Adams, English sailor and navigator (b. 1564)

1657 – Andrew Bobola, Polish missionary and martyr (b. 1591)

1667 – Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1607)

1669 – Pietro da Cortona, Italian painter and architect, designed the Santi Luca e Martina (b. 1596)

1691 – Jacob Leisler, German-American politician, 8th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1640)

1703 – Charles Perrault, French author and academic (b. 1628)

1778 – Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1718)

1790 – Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (b. 1720)

1818 – Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (b. 1775)

1830 – Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1768)

1862 – Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (b. 1796)

1882 – Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (b. 1799)

1890 – Mihkel Veske, Estonian poet, linguist and theologist (b. 1843)

1891 – Ion C. Brătianu, Romanian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1821)

1913 – Louis Perrier, Swiss architect and politician (b. 1849)

1920 – Levi P. Morton, American politician, 22nd United States Vice President (b. 1824)

1926 – Mehmed VI, Ottoman sultan (b. 1861)

1936 – Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (b. 1860)

1943 – Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist and academic (b. 1865)

1944 – George Ade, American journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1866)

1946 – Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (b. 1890)

1946 – Karl Weinbacher, German manager (b. 1898)

1947 – Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)

1947 – Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (b. 1903)

1953 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist and composer (b. 1910)

1954 – Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor and manager (b. 1893)

1955 – James Agee, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic(b. 1909)

1955 – Manny Ayulo, American racing driver (b. 1921)

1956 – H. B. Reese, American candy-maker and businessman, created Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (b. 1876)

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

1961 – George A. Malcolm, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1881)

1973 – Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-American sculptor (b. 1891)

1977 – Modibo Keïta, Malian politician, 1st President of Mali (b. 1915)

1979 – A. Philip Randolph, American union leader and activist (b. 1889)

1981 – Ernie Freeman, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1922)

1981 – Willy Hartner, German physician and academic (b. 1905)

1984 – Andy Kaufman, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (b. 1949)

1984 – Irwin Shaw, American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1913)

1985 – Margaret Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902)

1989 – Leila Kasra, Iranian poet and songwriter (b. 1939)

1990 – Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer, and actor (b. 1925)

1990 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer, director, producer, and screenwriter, created The Muppets (b. 1936)

1992 – Chalino Sánchez, Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1960)

1993 – Marv Johnson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1938)

1994 – Alain Cuny, French actor (b. 1908)

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

1997 – Elbridge Durbrow, American diplomat (b. 1903)

2002 – Alec Campbell, Australian soldier (b. 1899)

2003 – Mark McCormack, American lawyer and sports agent, founded IMG (b. 1930)

2005 – Andrew Goodpaster, American general (b. 1915)

2008 – Robert Mondavi, American winemaker, co-founded the Opus One Winery (b. 1913)

2010 – Ronnie James Dio, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1942)

2010 – Hank Jones, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1918)

2011 – Ralph Barker, English author (b. 1917)

2011 – Bob Davis, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1928)

2011 – Edward Hardwicke, English actor (b. 1932)

2011 – Kiyoshi Kodama, Japanese actor (b. 1934)

2012 – Patricia Aakhus, American author and academic (b. 1952)

2012 – James Abdnor, American soldier and politician, 30th Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota (b. 1923)

2012 – Chuck Brown, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1936)

2012 – Ernie Chan, Filipino-American illustrator (b. 1940)

2012 – Kevin Hickey, American baseball player (b. 1956)

2013 – Angelo Errichetti, American politician (b. 1928)

2013 – Bryan Illerbrun, Canadian football player (b. 1957)

2013 – Frankie Librán, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (b. 1948)

2013 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1933)

2013 – Dick Trickle, American race car driver (b. 1941)

2013 – Bernard Waber, American author and illustrator (b. 1921)

2014 – Chris Duckworth, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (b. 1933)

2014 – Vito Favero, Italian cyclist (b. 1932)

2014 – Bud Hollowell, American baseball player and manager (b. 1943)

2014 – Russi Mody, Indian businessman (b. 1918)

2014 – Clyde Snow, American anthropologist and author (b. 1928)

2015 – Prashant Bhargava, American director and producer (b. 1973)

2015 – Moshe Levinger, Israeli rabbi and author (b. 1935)

2015 – Flora MacNeil, Scottish Gaelic singer (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

Aaron (Coptic Church)

Abda and Abdjesus, and companions:

Abdas of Susa

Andrew Bobola

Brendan the Navigator (Roman Catholic Church)

Caroline Chisholm (Church of England)

Germerius

Honoratus of Amiens

John of Nepomuk

Margaret of Cortona

Peregrine of Auxerre

Simon Stock

Ubald (see Saint Ubaldo Day)

Martyrs of Sudan (Episcopal Church (USA))

Mass Graves Day (Iraq)

National Day, declared by Salva Kiir Mayardit (South Sudan)

Teachers' Day (Malaysia)

References

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Lagwagon may 16

Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

References