Notable Historical Events on May 16th
May 16th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
955 |
Alberich II, (bastard?) son of Octavianus elected pope |
1165 |
Ramjbam & his family reach Acre Palestine |
1204 |
Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders, is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople. |
1527 |
Florence becomes a republic |
1532 |
Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord Chancellor |
1547 |
Protestant German monarch surrenders to Karel in Wittenberg |
1568 |
Mary Queen of Scotland flees to England |
1571 |
Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 AM |
1584 |
7 Westfriese towns divide monasteries of Egmond/Blokker/St-Pietersdal |
1605 |
Camillo Borghese elected to succeed Pope Leo XI becomes Paul V |
1606 |
2,000 foreigners murdered in Russia |
1648 |
Battle at Zolty Wody: Bohdan Chmielricki's cosacks beat John Casimir |
1747 |
Prince Willem V sworn in as admiral-general of Neth |
1763 |
Samuel Johnson 1st meets his future biographer James Boswell in London |
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. |
1792 |
Denmark abolishes slave trade |
1795 |
Hedges Treaty: Bataafse Republic becomes French vassel state |
1796 |
Lombardian Republic forms |
1803 |
Peace of Amiens ends |
1811 |
Peninsular War: Allies defeat French at Albuera |
1815 |
The Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, officially names the town of Blackheath in the upper Blue Mountains. |
1817 |
Mississippi River steamboat service begins |
1822 |
Greek War of Independence: Turks capture the Greek town of Souli. |
1860 |
-18] Chicago: Republican convention selects Abraham Lincoln as candidate |
1861 |
Twiggs Surrender, San Antonio, Texas during US Civil war |
1861 |
Confederate government offers war volunteers $10 premium |
1861 |
Kentucky proclaims its neutrality |
1862 |
Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir builds 1st automobile |
1863 |
Battle of Champion's Hill, MS-bloodiest action of Vicksburg Campaign |
1864 |
Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Resaca, ends (since May 13) |
1864 |
Battle of Bermuda Hundred, VA |
1864 |
Last battles at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia (6,666 casualties) |
1866 |
Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer |
1866 |
US Congress authorizes the nickel 5 cent piece (replaces silver half-dime) |
1868 |
Bedrich Smetana's opera "Dalibor" premieres in Prague |
1868 |
By one vote, US Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson |
1869 |
Cincinnati Reds play their 1st baseball game, win 41-7 |
1872 |
Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time |
1874 |
1st recorded dam disaster in US (Williamsburg, Mass) |
1875 |
Quake in Venezuela & Colombia kills 16,000 |
1877 |
May 16, 1877 political crisis in France. |
1879 |
Antonin Dvorák's "Slavic Dancing" premieres |
1879 |
Treaty of Gandamak to set up Afghan state between Russia & English |
1881 |
World's 1st electric tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin) |
1882 |
8th Kentucky Derby: Babe Hurd aboard Apollo wins in 2:40.00 |
1884 |
10th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Buchanan wins in 2:40.25 |
1888 |
CPR opens Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC |
1891 |
George A Hormel & Co introduce Spam |
1894 |
Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium & 170 other buildings |
1901 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Priory School" (BG) |
1902 |
2 deaf-mutes face each other for 1st time as Dummy Hoy leads off for the Reds against Dummy Taylor of the Giants, Reds win 5-3 |
1903 |
1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at SF (George Wymann) |
1907 |
In the Pact of Cartagena, Great Britain, France, and Spain agree to maintain the status quo in the Mediterranean and along the Atlantic coast of Europe and Africa |
1910 |
US Bureau of Mines forms |
1911 |
Remains of a neanderthal man found on Jersey, Channel Islands |
1911 |
Zeppelin "Deutscheland" wrecked at Dusseldorf |
1914 |
American Horseshoe Pitchers Association organizes in Kansas City |
1914 |
Ewing Field baseball park opens near Masonic Street, San Francisco. Relocated a year later. |
1916 |
41st Preakness: Linus McAtee aboard Damrosch wins in 1:54.8 |
1918 |
The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government an imprisonable offense. |
1920 |
Joan of Arc (Jeanne D'arc) canonized a saint |
1920 |
Spanish bullfighter Joselito is fatally gored fighting his last bull |
1921 |
47th Preakness: F Coltiletti aboard Broomspun wins in 1:54.2 |
1922 |
White Star Liner Majestic completes 5½ day maiden voyage |
1924 |
108°F (42°C) in Blitzen Oregon |
1925 |
51st Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Flying Ebony wins in 2:07.6 |
1927 |
NY Yankee Bob Meusel steals 2nd, 3rd & home |
1927 |
Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax |
1929 |
1st Academy Awards - "Wings", Emil Jennings & Janet Gaynor wins |
1930 |
6th Walker Cup: US, 10-2 |
1931 |
57th Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on Twenty Grand wins 2:01.8 |
1932 |
Yanks 4th straight shutout to equal record set by Cleveland & Boston |
1933 |
Cecil Travis becomes 1st player to get 5 hits in his 1st game |
1936 |
1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France |
1936 |
62nd Preakness: George Woolf aboard Bold Venture wins in 1:59 |
1938 |
1st animal breeding society forms (NJ) |
1938 |
38 die in Terminal Hotel fire (Atlanta Ga) |
1938 |
In cricket Bradman scores 278 Aust v MCC, 349 mins, 35 fours 1 six |
1939 |
1st AL night game, Phila Shribe Park (Indians 8, Athletics 3 in 10) |
1939 |
Food stamps are 1st issued |
1940 |
Nazis forbid non-professional auto workers |
1940 |
British Premier Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris |
1941 |
1st US/radio performance of Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers" |
1941 |
Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia |
1941 |
Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham) |
1941 |
Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT) |
1942 |
1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma |
1943 |
-17th] Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid; 617 Squadron RAF bombs Möhne & Eder dams (Ruhr valley) with bouncing bombs |
1943 |
German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw |
1943 |
Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting |
1944 |
1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz |
1944 |
Military police attack gypsies |
1945 |
Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/Half Moon, Okinawa |
1946 |
Musical "Annie Get Your Gun" starring Ethel Merman premieres in NYC |
1947 |
Billie Holiday is arrested in her New York apartment for possession of narcotics |
1948 |
Mikhail Botvinnik wins 5-player tournament to determine world chess champion |
1948 |
CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece |
1948 |
Chaim Weizmann elected 1st president of Israel |
1948 |
Egyptians enter the Gaza |
1948 |
Israel issues its 1st postage stamps |
1951 |
The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between John F Kennedy International Airport in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines. |
1952 |
"New Faces (of 1952)" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 365 performances |
1953 |
Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a single, then retires next 27 in a row |
1954 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA National Capital Golf Open |
1954 |
Ted Williams gets 8 hits in 1st game (DH) since breaking collarbone |
1954 |
WGAN (now WGME) TV channel 13 in Portland, ME (CBS) 1st broadcast |
1955 |
Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Don Cockell in SF |
1955 |
King Baudouin of Belgium visits Congo |
1955 |
Ray Lindwall scores his 2nd Test Cricket century 118 at Bridgetown |
1955 |
Rocky Marciano TKOs Don Cockell in 9 for heavyweight boxing title |
1956 |
Egypt recognizes People's Republic of China |
1956 |
Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Monte Bello Is Australia |
1956 |
Kraft Theater presents an act from "Profiles in Courage" |
1956 |
Laker takes 10-88 for Surrey v Australians at the Oval |
1957 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Invicti Athletae |
1957 |
US launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton Conn |
1957 |
Yanks involved in Copacabana Incident, leads to Billy Martin trade |
1958 |
Maj Irwin, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight F-104 A to a record 1,404.18 MPH |
1958 |
Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mexico |
1959 |
85th Preakness: William Harmatz aboard Royal Orbit wins in 1:57 |
1959 |
WTOM TV channel 4 in Cheboygan, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1960 |
Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US |
1960 |
Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. |
1961 |
13th Emmy Awards: Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr & Barbara Stanwyck win |
1963 |
"Beast in Me" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 4 performances |
1963 |
Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends US Proj Mercury |
1964 |
90th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 1:56.8 |
1964 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1964 |
Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
1965 |
"Roar of the Greasepaint" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 232 perfs |
1965 |
Balt Oriole Jim Palmer's pitching debut, beats Yankees 7-5 & homers |
1965 |
Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam |
1965 |
Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open |
1965 |
WNJU TV channel 47 in NY-Linden, NY (TEL) begins broadcasting |
1965 |
The Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiOs under its Franco-American brand. |
1966 |
Beach Boys' "Pets Sounds" is released |
1966 |
National Welfare Rights Organization organizes |
1966 |
Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating |
1966 |
"May 16 Notification" released, Mao's offical justification for the Cultural Revolution |
1967 |
Phila voters approve a $13 million bond issue to build a new stadium |
1968 |
Earthquake kills 47 in Japan |
1968 |
In the Stormont (Northern Ireland parliament) by-election in the city of Londonderry (Derry) the Ulster Unionists retain the seat |
1969 |
Barbra Streisand appears at a Friars Club Tribute |
1969 |
Students occupies Magden House Amsterdam |
1969 |
US nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off SF |
1969 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1969 |
Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere |
1969 |
Who's Pete Townsend & Roger Daltrey charged with assault |
1970 |
96th Preakness: Eddie Belmonte aboard Personality wins in 1:56.2 |
1970 |
Grover Henson Feels Forgotten by Bill Cosby hits #70 |
1971 |
1st class postage now costs 8 cents (was 6 cents) |
1971 |
Benjamin Britten's opera "Owen Wingrave" premieres in Aldwych London |
1971 |
Bulgaria adopts its constitution |
1972 |
"Don't Play Us Cheap" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 164 perfs |
1972 |
Greg Luzinski's 500' HR hits Liberty Bell monument in Phila Vet |
1972 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationale |
1973 |
ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Dave Soutar |
1973 |
AC Milan wins 13th Europe Cup II in Saloniki |
1974 |
Helmut Schmidt becomes West German chancellor |
1974 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1975 |
India annexes Principality of Sikkim |
1975 |
Junko Tabei from Japan becomes 1st woman to reach summit of Mt Everest |
1975 |
Muhammad Ali TKOs Ron Lyle in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
1975 |
Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK |
1976 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Phila Flyers in 4 games |
1976 |
Sue Roberts wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic |
1977 |
5 die as NY Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am bldg in NYC |
1977 |
Muhammad Ali beats Alfredo Evangelist in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
1979 |
FC Barcelona wins 19th Europe Cup II in Basel |
1979 |
NL approves Astros sales from Ford Motors to John J McMullen for $19M |
1980 |
34th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Phila 76ers, 4 games to 2 |
1980 |
Brian May of rock group Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis |
1980 |
Paul McCartney releases "McCartney II" album |
1980 |
Former Buggles members Geoff Downes & Trevor Horn replace Jon Anderson & Rick Wakeman in Yes |
1981 |
"Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes hits #1 for next 9 weeks |
1981 |
107th Preakness: Jorge Velasquez aboard Pleasant Colony wins in 1:54.6 |
1981 |
Houston Astro Craig Reynolds hits 3 triples beating Cubs 6-1 |
1982 |
"Barnum" closes at St James Theater NYC after 854 performances |
1982 |
"Is There Life after High School?" closes at Barrymore after 12 perfs |
1982 |
Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation for STS-4 |
1982 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament |
1982 |
Salvador Jorge Blanco wins presidential election in Dominican Rep |
1982 |
Stanley Cup: NY Islanders sweep Vancouver Canucks in 4 games |
1983 |
Lebanese parliament accept peace accord with Israel |
1983 |
Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government. |
1984 |
Guinea-Bissau adopts constitution |
1984 |
Juventus wins 24th Europe Cup II in Basel |
1984 |
Phillie pitcher Steve Carlton hits a grand slam homer |
1984 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
1984 |
Mackay pays $218,718 for 44,166 tickets to keep Twins in Minnesota Twins sell 51,863 tickets but only 6,346 fans show up for the game |
1985 |
Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of Year |
1985 |
Pope John Paul II arrives in Belgium |
1986 |
"Top Gun" premieres |
1986 |
Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) comes back from dead on Dallas |
1986 |
Joaquín Balaguers PRSC wins Dominican Rep parliamentary election |
1986 |
South African Pres P W Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela |
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. |
1987 |
"Mystery of Edwin Drood" closes at Imperial NYC after 608 perfs |
1987 |
113th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 1:55.8 |
1987 |
Weird Al Yankovic performs live at 72nd National Orange Show |
1987 |
"Bobro 400", a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage, set sail from NY, beginning an unsuccesful 8-week search for a dumping site |
1988 |
US Surgeon Gen C Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin |
1988 |
US Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant |
1989 |
Soviet president Mikhail S Gorbachev & Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing |
1990 |
Dominican Republic President Joaquín Ricardo Balaguer re-elected |
1990 |
Juventus wins 19th UEFA Cup in Avellino |
1991 |
Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character) (fiction!) |
1991 |
Queen Elizabeth II becomes 1st British monarch to address US congress |
1992 |
"Smells Like Nirvana" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #35 |
1992 |
118th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Pine Bluff wins in 1:55.6 |
1992 |
Polls show Perot, Bush & Clinton could be in a deadlock |
1992 |
US space shuttle STS-49 lands (maiden voyage of Endeavour) |
1993 |
"3 Men on a Horse" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 40 performances |
1993 |
"Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" closes at Circle in Sq NYC after 30 perfs |
1993 |
Farmer Sugeng finds 1.2 million year old Pithecanthropus IX skull |
1993 |
Judd Nelson pleads no contest to kicking Kim Evans in the head |
1993 |
Laura Davies wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
1993 |
Suleyman Demirel elected president of Turkey |
1994 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Orlando FL on WTKS 104.1 FM |
1994 |
Jacqueline Onassis admitted to hospital for cancer treatment |
1994 |
Joaquín Balaguer (86) elected President of Dominican Republic |
1994 |
Tennis star Jennifer Capriati arrested on possession of marijuana |
1995 |
Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara & charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier |
1996 |
Sammy Sosa is 1st Chicago Cub to hit 2 HRS in 1 inning |
1997 |
Atlanta Braves beat St Louis Cardinals, 1-0 in 13 innings |
1997 |
Brandi Sherwood (Idaho) replaces Brook Lee (Miss Univ) as Miss USA |
1997 |
Brook Mehealani Lee, 26, of US crowned 46th Miss Universe |
1997 |
Expos trailing SF Giants by 9 runs comeback to win 14-13 |
1997 |
St Louis Cards Gary Gaetti records his 2,000th hits |
1997 |
A final agreement creating the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) is signed by project participants, inc. Russia, Kazakhstan, Chevron Corp and others |
1998 |
124th Preakness: Kent Desormeaux aboard Real Quiet wins in 1:54.80 |
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. |
2007 |
Alex Salmond is elected First Minister of Scotland. He is the first Scottish National Party leader to be elected as First Minister after winning a historic victory at the Scottish general election on the 3rd May. |
2007 |
Nicolas Sarkozy becomes the 23rd President of France |
2009 |
135th Preakness: Calvin Borel aboard Rachel Alexandra wins in 1:55.08 |
2011 |
Space shuttle Endeavour launches for its final commission in space |
2013 |
Bill Gates becomes the world's richest man with $72.7 billion again after losing the position in 2008 |
2013 |
Pope Francis calls for ethical financial reform to fight speculation |
2013 |
Human stem cells are successfully cloned |
2014 |
Paris Saint-Germain F.C. & Manchester City F.C. are each fined €60 million for breaching Fair Play Regulations |
2016 |
Ryanair flight to Manchester evacuated in Norway over bomb scare |
2017 |
White House denies report Trump shared classified intelligence with Russian officials |
2018 |
North Korea threatens to cancel US summit |
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