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Events from History on May 16

1165 : Ramjbam & his family reach Acre Palestine
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 Z¢lty Wody: Bohdan Chmielricki's cosacks beat John Casimir
1747 : Prince Willem V sworn in as admiral-general of Neth
1763 : James Boswell's 1st meeting with Samuel Johnson
1763 : Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London
1770 : Marie Antoinette (14) marries future King Louis XVI (15) of France
1792 : Denmark abolishes slave trade
1795 : Hedges Treaty: Bataafse Republic becomes French vassel state
1796 : Lombardije Republic forms
1803 : Peace of Amiens ends
1804 : Senate & Tribune declare Napolean leader of France
1811 : Peninsular War-Allies defeat French at Albuera
1817 : Mississippi River steamboat service begins
1860 : -18] Chicago: Republican convention selects Abraham Lincoln candidate
1861 : Confederate govt 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 : Congress authorizes nickel 5› piece (replaces silver half-dime)
1866 : US Treasury Dept authorizes nickel
1868 : Bedrich Smetana's opera "Dalibor," premieres in Prague
1868 : By one vote, Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson
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
1879 : Antonin Dvor k's "Slavic Dancing," premieres
1879 : Treaty of Gandamak to set up Afghan state between Russia & English
1881 : World's 1st elec tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin)
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
1902 : the Reds against Dummy Taylor of the Giants, Reds win 5-3
1903 : 1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at SF (George Wymann)
1903 : George Wyman makes 1st motorcycle trip across the US
1910 : US Bureau of Mines forms
1911 : Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey UK
1911 : Zeppelin "Deutscheland" wrecked at Dusseldorf
1914 : American Horseshoe Pitchers Assn organizes in Kansas City
1914 : Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens
1920 : Joan of Arc (Jean D'arc) canonized a saint
1920 : Spanish bullfighter Joselito is fatally gored fighting his last bull
1922 : White Star Line Majestic completes 5« day maiden voyage
1924 : 108øF (42øC) in Blitzen Oregon
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
1932 : Yanks 4th straight shutout to equal record set by Cleveland & Boston
1936 : 1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France
1938 : 1st animal breeding society forms (NJ)
1938 : 38 die in Terminal Hotel fire (Atlanta Ga)
1939 : Food stamps are 1st issued
1940 : Nazi's forbid non-professional auto workers
1940 : Premier Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris
1941 : 1st US/radio performance of Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"
1941 : Germans made their last major air attack on Britain
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] RAF bombs M”hne & Eder (Battle of Ruhr)
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 : Milt police attack gypsies
1945 : Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/Half Moon Okinawa
1946 : Musical "Annie Get Your Gun," starring Ethel Merman premieres in NYC
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 : George Polk, CBS news correspondant, body found
1948 : Israel issues its 1st postage stamps
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 : 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 : Maj Irwin, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to a record 1,404.18 MPH
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 : Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mex
1958 : Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter
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
1961 : 13rd Emmy Awards: Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr & Barbara Stanwyck
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 : 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 : Spaghetti-O's 1st sold
1965 : WNJU TV channel 47 in NY-Linden, NY (TEL) begins broadcasting
1966 : Beach Boys' "Pets Sounds" is released
1966 : National Welfare Rights Organization organizes
1966 : Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating
1967 : Phila voters approve a $13 million bond issue to build a new stadium
1968 : Earthquake kills 47 in Japan
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
1971 : 1st class postage now costs 8› (was 6›)
1971 : Benjamin Britten's opera "Owen Wingrave," premieres in Aldwych
1971 : Bulgaria adopts it's 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
1973 : ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Dave Soutar
1974 : Helmut Schmidt becomes West German chancellor
1974 : USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 : India annexes Principality of Sikkim
1975 : Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mt Everest's summit
1975 : Muhammad Ali TKOs Ron Lyle in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1975 : Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK
1977 : 5 die as NY Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am bldg in NYC
1977 : Muhammad Ali beats Alfredo Evangelist in 15 for heavywgt boxing title
1979 : NL approves Astros sales from Ford Motors to John J McMullen for $19M
1980 : Former Buggles members Geoff Downes & Trevor Horn replace Jon
1980 : Anderson & Rick Wakeman in Yes
1980 : Brian May of rock group Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis
1980 : Paul McCartney releases "McCartney II" album
1981 : Houston Astro Craig Reynolds hits 3 triples beating Cubs 6-1
1981 : Pretenders' Martin Chambers weds Tracy Atkinson
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
1983 : Lebanese parliament accept peace accord with Israel
1984 : Guinea-Bissau adopts constitution
1984 : Phillie pitcher Steve Carlton hits a grand slam homer
1984 : US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
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 : South African Pres P W Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela
1987 : "Bobro 400," a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage, set sail from NY,
1987 : "Mystery of Edwin Drood" closes at Imperial NYC after 608 perfs
1987 : Rocker David Crosby weds Jan Dance in LA
1987 : Weird Al Yankovic performs live at 72nd National Orange Show
1987 : beginning an unsuccesful 8-week search for a dumping site
1988 : 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
1989 : ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing
1990 : Dominican Republic President Joaqu¡n Ricardo Balaguer re-elected
1990 : K Endate & K Watanabe finds asteroid 4547 Massachusetts & 4585 Ainonai
1991 : Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character)
1991 : Queen Elizabeth becomes 1st British monarch to address US congress
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 : Sleyman Demirel elected president of Turkey
1994 : Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Orlando FL on WTKS 104.1 FM
1994 : Jacqueline Onassis admitted to the hospital for cancer treatment
1994 : Joaqu¡n 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
1995 : Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier
1996 : Sammy Sosa is 1st Chic 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 : St Louis Cards Gary Gaetti records his 2,000th hits
1998 : 124th Preakness
1999 : 125th Preakness

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