A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on May 16 throughout history.
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Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō leaves Edo on his epic 150-day journey to Honshu Island in Japan, which he writes about in the literary masterpiece "Oku no Hosomichi" (The Narrow Road to the Deep North)
Belgian-French engineer Étienne Lenoir builds the first automobile with an internal-combustion engine
The impeachment of Andrew Johnson for "high crimes and misdemeanors" was initiated by the United States House of Representatives on February 24, 1868.
Joan of Arc is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the…
Operation Chastise: No. 617 Squadron RAF begins the famous Dambusters Raid, bombing the Möhne and Eder dams in the Ruhr Valley with bouncing bombs
Jews, or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of ancient Israel and Judah. They traditionally adhere to Judaism.
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping meet in Beijing and formally end a 30-year rift
In multicellular organisms, stem cells are undifferentiated or partially differentiated cells that can change into various types of cells and proliferate indefinitely to produce more of the same stem...
The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and hosted by AMPAS president Douglas Fairbanks, honored the best films from August 1, 1927, to…
Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, and Herbert Fields' musical "Annie Get Your Gun," starring Ethel Merman and featuring "There's No Business Like Show Business," opens at the Imperial Theatre, NYC
First Chess World Championship since WWII, Russian player Mikhail Botvinnik wins a five-player tournament to begin 24 years of Soviet dominance
The National Basketball Association's Rookie of the Year is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given to the top rookie (s) of the regular season.
Marie Antoinette was the queen of France from 1774 until the fall of the monarchy in 1792 and her subsequent execution during the French Revolution. Born an archduchess of Austria, she was the…
Austrian composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel (35) weds German opera singer Elisabeth Röckel (20) in Vienna, Austria, until his death in 1837
Edgar Allan Poe (né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales…
"24" actor Kiefer Sutherland (37) divorces former model Elizabeth Kelly Winn (42) due to irreconcilable differences after nearly 8 years of marriage
Pope John XII (Latin: Ioannes XII; c. 930/937 – 14 May 964), born Octavian, was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 16 December 955 to his death in 964.
Ramjbam & his family reach Acre Palestine
Baldwin I (Dutch: Boudewijn; French: Baudouin; July 1172 – c. 1205) was the first Emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople; Count of Flanders (as Baldwin IX) from 1194 to 1205 and Count of...
The Republic of Florence (Latin: Res publica Florentina; Old Italian: Republica di Fiorenza), known officially as the Florentine Republic, was a medieval and early modern state that was centered on...
Seven West Frisian towns divide the monasteries of Egmond, Blokker, and St. Pietersdal in the Dutch Republic
Pope Paul V (Latin: Paulus PP. V; Italian: Paolo V) (17 September 1550 – 28 January 1621), born Camillo Borghese, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 16 May 1605 to his...
2,000 foreigners murdered in Russia
Battle of Zhovti Vody: Ukrainian Cossacks, commanded by Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Crimean Tatars led by Tuhaj Bej, defeat Polish King John II Casimir, after 18 days of battle
William V Prince of Orange sworn in as Admiral-general of Netherlands
Battle of Alamance: A pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called "The Regulators" is fought in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina
Button Gwinnett, Georgia delegate to US Continental Congress, and signer of the Declaration of Independence, wounded in a duel with political rival Lachlan McIntosh
Denmark abolishes the slave trade
Hedges Treaty: Bataafse Republic becomes French vassal state
Lombardian Republic forms
The Peninsular War (1808–1814) was fought in the Iberian Peninsula by the Iberian nations Spain and Portugal, along with the United Kingdom, against the invading and occupying forces of the First...
The Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, officially names the town of Blackheath in the upper Blue Mountains
Mississippi River steamboat service begins
The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence fought by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire from...
The units of the Arkansas Militia in the Civil War to which the current Arkansas National Guard has a connection include the Arkansas State Militia, Home Guard, and State Troop regiments raised by...
The Battle of Jackson was fought on May 14, 1863, outside Jackson, Mississippi, during the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War.
The Battle of Resaca, from May 13 to 15, 1864, formed part of the Atlanta campaign during the American Civil War, when a Union force under William Tecumseh Sherman engaged the Confederate Army of...
The copper-nickel three-cent piece, often called a three-cent nickel piece or three-cent nickel, was designed by US Mint Chief Engraver James B.
Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time
First recorded dam disaster in the US occurs in Williamsburg, Massachusetts
Eathquake in Venezuela & Colombia kills 16,000
French May 16, 1877 political crisis is caused by President Patrice de MacMahon’s dismissal of Moderate Republican Prime Minister Jules Simon, triggering a power struggle that affirms parliamentary supremacy and seals the decline of the royalist movement
A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States, or a Tramcar) is an urban rail transit type in which vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run...
Italian inventor Angelo Moriondo receives patent for 1st espresso machine
CPR opens Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia
Hormel Foods Corporation, doing business as Hormel Foods or simply Hormel, is an American multinational food processing company founded in 1891 in Austin, Minnesota, by George A. Hormel as George A.
Fire in Boston destroys the South End Grounds baseball stadium and 200 other buildings
Two deaf-mutes face each other for the first time as Dummy Hoy leads off for the Reds against Dummy Taylor of the Giants; the Reds win 5-3
The first transcontinental motorcycle trip begins in San Francisco by George A. Wyman, who arrives in New York on July 6
Pact of Cartagena: Britain, France and Spain agree to maintain the status quo in the Mediterranean and along the Atlantic coast of Europe and Africa
US Bureau of Mines forms
Remains of a neanderthal man found on Jersey, Channel Islands
American Horseshoe Pitchers Association organizes in Kansas City
The Espionage Act of 1917 is a United States federal law enacted on June 15, 1917, shortly after the United States entered World War I. It has been amended numerous times over the years.
The White Star Line was a British shipping line. Founded out of the remains of a defunct packet company, it gradually grew to become one of the most prominent shipping companies in the world,...
°F (42°C) in Blitzen, Oregon
NY Yankee Bob Meusel steals 2nd, 3rd & home
The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx.
Washington Senators infielder Cecil Travis becomes 1st in MLB history player to get 5 hits in his debut game
First British air hostess, Daphne Kearley, flies to France
1st animal breeding society forms (NJ)
1st AL night game, Philadelphia Shribe Park (Indians 8, Athletics 3 in 10)
First US radio performance of Robert Russell Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"
The Burma campaign in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II was fought primarily by British Commonwealth, China and United States forces against the forces of Imperial Japan, who were assisted...
Violent battles around Sugar Loaf and Half Moon, Okinawa
George Washington Polk Jr. (October 17, 1913 – May 9, 1948) was an American journalist for CBS who was murdered during the Greek Civil War in 1948.
The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (New York International Airport) and Heathrow Airport (London), operated by El Al Israel Airlines
Philadelphia Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a lead-off single, then retires next 27 in a row in 3-0 win over Braves at County Stadium in Milwaukee
Baudouin (US: ; 7 September 1930 – 31 July 1993) was King of the Belgians from 17 July 1951 until his death in 1993.
The Republic of Egypt was a state created in 1953 under the rule of Mohammed Naguib following the Egyptian revolution of 1952 in which the Kingdom of Egypt's Muhammad Ali dynasty came to an end.
Belgian politician Paul-Henri Spaak takes of as the second Secretary-General of NATO, succeding UK's Hastings Ismay
Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mexico
WTOM-TV channel 4 in Cheboygan, Michigan begins broadcasting (NBC)
Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US
Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963.
USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
18th Cannes Film Festival: "The Knack...and How to Get It" directed by Richard Lester wins the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
Capitol Records releases the Beach Boys 11th studio album "Pet Sounds"; the groundbreaking work includes hit singles "Sloop John B", "Wouldn't It Be Nice", and "God Only Knows"
Philalphia voters approve a $13 million bond issue to build a new stadium
Earthquake kills 47 in Japan
Philadelphia Phillies slugger Greg Luzinski hits home run into the Liberty Bell monument at Philadelphia's Veteran's Stadium, an estimated 500-foot shot
David Soutar is a retired professional ten-pin bowler who competed on the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Tour.
India annexes Principality of Sikkim
The MetLife Building (also 200 Park Avenue and formerly the Pan Am Building) is a skyscraper at Park Avenue and 45th Street, north of Grand Central Terminal, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of...
MLB National League approves sale of Houston Astros by Ford Motors to John J McMullen for $19M
Columbia moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating in preparation for STS-4
"Bobro 400", a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage sets sail from NYC, beginning an unsuccessful 8 week search for a dumping site
Pope John Paul II canonizes Roque González, Juan del Castillo, Alonso Rodríguez y Olmedo, three Jesuit missionaries murdered in Brazil in 1628
Dominican Republic President Joaquín Ricardo Balaguer re-elected
Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (fictional Superman character)
The America's Cup is a sailing competition and the oldest international competition still operating in any sport.
Farmer Sugeng finds 1.2 million year old Pithecanthropus IX skull
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Orlando, Florida on WTKS 104.1 FM
Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara and charge him with a nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subway two months earlier
Atlanta Braves beat St Louis Cardinals, 1-0 in 13 innings
Calcutta high court rules Calcutta does not have a birthday and that British East India employee Job Charnock is not the city's founder as previously claimed
Day of Mourning at Bykivnia forest, just outside of Kyiv, Ukraine where during 1930s and early 1940s communist bolsheviks executed over 100,000 Ukrainian civilians
Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Historically, women rarely had the right to vote, even in ostensibly democratic systems of government.
An earthquake, also called a quake, tremor, or temblor, is the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.
Alex Salmond is elected First Minister of Scotland. He is first Scottish National Party leader to be elected First Minister after winning a historic victory at the Scottish general election on the 3rd May.
ICC Men's Cricket T20 World Cup, Bridgetown, Barbados: England beats Australia by 7 wickets with 3 overs to spare for their first title; Player of the Series: England batsman Kevin Pietersen (248 runs)
The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S.
Paris Saint-Germain F.C. & Manchester City F.C. are each fined €60 million for breaching Fair Play Regulations
10-year-old girl granted special 20 week abortion request in Rohtak, India in land-mark case
Death toll passes 200 from Gaza conflict as 42 people killed in Israeli airstrikes and three building flattened [1]
Sri Lanka runs out of petrol, has only enough for one more day, has no cash to pay 1.4 million civil servants, says its newly appointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe [1]
"Ëxceptional" missile attack on Kyiv by Russian forces largely repelled by Ukrainian air defense [1]
Dow Jones Industrial Average surpasses 40,000 points for 1st time, before closing at 39,869 [1]
Princess Opeyemi Bright becomes the youngest UK mayor in history at 29 years old [1]
Infante Ferdinand, Portuguese portuguese prince, known for spanish and portuguese prince, was born on 1609-05-16.
William H. Seward, American politician, known for american politician, was born on 1801-05-16.
Ivan Sutherland is born
Henry Fonda, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1905-05-16. Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American actor whose career spanned five decades on Broadway…
Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor, known for irish actor, was born on 1954-05-16. Pierce Brendan Brosnan is an Irish actor.
Janet Jackson, American singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer, known for american singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer, was born on 1967-05-16.
Tucker Carlson, American political activist, known for american political activist, was born on 1970-05-16.
Megan Fox, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1987-05-16. Megan Denise Fox is an American actress.
Billy Martin athlete, known for american baseball player and manager, was born on 1928-05-16. Alfred Manuel "Billy" Martin Jr.
Jack Morris, American athlete, known for american baseball pitcher, was born on 1956-05-16. John Scott Morris is an American former professional baseball starting pitcher.
Olga Korbut is born
Gabriela Sabatini, Argentine athlete, known for argentine tennis player, was born on 1971-05-16. Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini is an Argentine former professional tennis player. A former world No.
Margaret Hamilton, American film actress, known for american film actress, died on 1985-05-16.
Jim Henson, American puppeteer, known for american puppeteer, died on 1990-05-16. James Maury Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was an American puppeteer, actor, animator, creative producer,…
Sammy Davis Jr. singer and actor, known for american singer and actor, died on 1990-05-16. Samuel George Davis Jr.
Pope John XII (Latin: Ioannes XII; c. 930/937 – 14 May 964), born Octavian, was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 16 December 955 to his death in 964.
Ramjbam & his family reach Acre Palestine
Baldwin I (Dutch: Boudewijn; French: Baudouin; July 1172 – c. 1205) was the first Emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople; Count of Flanders (as Baldwin IX) from 1194 to 1205 and Count of...
The Republic of Florence (Latin: Res publica Florentina; Old Italian: Republica di Fiorenza), known officially as the Florentine Republic, was a medieval and early modern state that was centered on...
Seven West Frisian towns divide the monasteries of Egmond, Blokker, and St. Pietersdal in the Dutch Republic
Pope Paul V (Latin: Paulus PP. V; Italian: Paolo V) (17 September 1550 – 28 January 1621), born Camillo Borghese, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 16 May 1605 to his...
2,000 foreigners murdered in Russia
Infante Ferdinand, Portuguese portuguese prince, known for spanish and portuguese prince, was born on 1609-05-16.
Battle of Zhovti Vody: Ukrainian Cossacks, commanded by Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Crimean Tatars led by Tuhaj Bej, defeat Polish King John II Casimir, after 18 days of battle
Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō leaves Edo on his epic 150-day journey to Honshu Island in Japan, which he writes about in the literary masterpiece "Oku no Hosomichi" (The Narrow Road to the Deep North)
William V Prince of Orange sworn in as Admiral-general of Netherlands
Marie Antoinette was the queen of France from 1774 until the fall of the monarchy in 1792 and her subsequent execution during the French Revolution. Born an archduchess of Austria, she was the…
Battle of Alamance: A pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called "The Regulators" is fought in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina
Button Gwinnett, Georgia delegate to US Continental Congress, and signer of the Declaration of Independence, wounded in a duel with political rival Lachlan McIntosh
Denmark abolishes the slave trade
Hedges Treaty: Bataafse Republic becomes French vassal state
Lombardian Republic forms
William H. Seward, American politician, known for american politician, was born on 1801-05-16.
The Peninsular War (1808–1814) was fought in the Iberian Peninsula by the Iberian nations Spain and Portugal, along with the United Kingdom, against the invading and occupying forces of the First...
Austrian composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel (35) weds German opera singer Elisabeth Röckel (20) in Vienna, Austria, until his death in 1837
The Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, officially names the town of Blackheath in the upper Blue Mountains
Mississippi River steamboat service begins
The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence fought by Greek revolutionaries against the Ottoman Empire from...
Edgar Allan Poe (né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales…
The units of the Arkansas Militia in the Civil War to which the current Arkansas National Guard has a connection include the Arkansas State Militia, Home Guard, and State Troop regiments raised by...
Belgian-French engineer Étienne Lenoir builds the first automobile with an internal-combustion engine
The Battle of Jackson was fought on May 14, 1863, outside Jackson, Mississippi, during the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War.
The Battle of Resaca, from May 13 to 15, 1864, formed part of the Atlanta campaign during the American Civil War, when a Union force under William Tecumseh Sherman engaged the Confederate Army of...
The copper-nickel three-cent piece, often called a three-cent nickel piece or three-cent nickel, was designed by US Mint Chief Engraver James B.
The impeachment of Andrew Johnson for "high crimes and misdemeanors" was initiated by the United States House of Representatives on February 24, 1868.
Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time
First recorded dam disaster in the US occurs in Williamsburg, Massachusetts
Eathquake in Venezuela & Colombia kills 16,000
French May 16, 1877 political crisis is caused by President Patrice de MacMahon’s dismissal of Moderate Republican Prime Minister Jules Simon, triggering a power struggle that affirms parliamentary supremacy and seals the decline of the royalist movement
A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States, or a Tramcar) is an urban rail transit type in which vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run...
Italian inventor Angelo Moriondo receives patent for 1st espresso machine
CPR opens Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia
Hormel Foods Corporation, doing business as Hormel Foods or simply Hormel, is an American multinational food processing company founded in 1891 in Austin, Minnesota, by George A. Hormel as George A.
Fire in Boston destroys the South End Grounds baseball stadium and 200 other buildings
Two deaf-mutes face each other for the first time as Dummy Hoy leads off for the Reds against Dummy Taylor of the Giants; the Reds win 5-3
The first transcontinental motorcycle trip begins in San Francisco by George A. Wyman, who arrives in New York on July 6
Henry Fonda, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1905-05-16. Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American actor whose career spanned five decades on Broadway…
Pact of Cartagena: Britain, France and Spain agree to maintain the status quo in the Mediterranean and along the Atlantic coast of Europe and Africa
US Bureau of Mines forms
Remains of a neanderthal man found on Jersey, Channel Islands
American Horseshoe Pitchers Association organizes in Kansas City
The Espionage Act of 1917 is a United States federal law enacted on June 15, 1917, shortly after the United States entered World War I. It has been amended numerous times over the years.
Joan of Arc is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the…
The White Star Line was a British shipping line. Founded out of the remains of a defunct packet company, it gradually grew to become one of the most prominent shipping companies in the world,...
°F (42°C) in Blitzen, Oregon
NY Yankee Bob Meusel steals 2nd, 3rd & home
Billy Martin athlete, known for american baseball player and manager, was born on 1928-05-16. Alfred Manuel "Billy" Martin Jr.
The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and hosted by AMPAS president Douglas Fairbanks, honored the best films from August 1, 1927, to…
The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx.
Washington Senators infielder Cecil Travis becomes 1st in MLB history player to get 5 hits in his debut game
First British air hostess, Daphne Kearley, flies to France
1st animal breeding society forms (NJ)
1st AL night game, Philadelphia Shribe Park (Indians 8, Athletics 3 in 10)
Ivan Sutherland is born
First US radio performance of Robert Russell Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"
The Burma campaign in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II was fought primarily by British Commonwealth, China and United States forces against the forces of Imperial Japan, who were assisted...
Operation Chastise: No. 617 Squadron RAF begins the famous Dambusters Raid, bombing the Möhne and Eder dams in the Ruhr Valley with bouncing bombs
Jews, or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of ancient Israel and Judah. They traditionally adhere to Judaism.
Violent battles around Sugar Loaf and Half Moon, Okinawa
Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, and Herbert Fields' musical "Annie Get Your Gun," starring Ethel Merman and featuring "There's No Business Like Show Business," opens at the Imperial Theatre, NYC
First Chess World Championship since WWII, Russian player Mikhail Botvinnik wins a five-player tournament to begin 24 years of Soviet dominance
George Washington Polk Jr. (October 17, 1913 – May 9, 1948) was an American journalist for CBS who was murdered during the Greek Civil War in 1948.
The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (New York International Airport) and Heathrow Airport (London), operated by El Al Israel Airlines
Philadelphia Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a lead-off single, then retires next 27 in a row in 3-0 win over Braves at County Stadium in Milwaukee
Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor, known for irish actor, was born on 1954-05-16. Pierce Brendan Brosnan is an Irish actor.
Baudouin (US: ; 7 September 1930 – 31 July 1993) was King of the Belgians from 17 July 1951 until his death in 1993.
The Republic of Egypt was a state created in 1953 under the rule of Mohammed Naguib following the Egyptian revolution of 1952 in which the Kingdom of Egypt's Muhammad Ali dynasty came to an end.
Jack Morris, American athlete, known for american baseball pitcher, was born on 1956-05-16. John Scott Morris is an American former professional baseball starting pitcher.
Olga Korbut is born
Belgian politician Paul-Henri Spaak takes of as the second Secretary-General of NATO, succeding UK's Hastings Ismay
Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mexico
WTOM-TV channel 4 in Cheboygan, Michigan begins broadcasting (NBC)
Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US
Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963.
USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
18th Cannes Film Festival: "The Knack...and How to Get It" directed by Richard Lester wins the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
Capitol Records releases the Beach Boys 11th studio album "Pet Sounds"; the groundbreaking work includes hit singles "Sloop John B", "Wouldn't It Be Nice", and "God Only Knows"
Philalphia voters approve a $13 million bond issue to build a new stadium
Janet Jackson, American singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer, known for american singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer, was born on 1967-05-16.
Earthquake kills 47 in Japan
Tucker Carlson, American political activist, known for american political activist, was born on 1970-05-16.
Gabriela Sabatini, Argentine athlete, known for argentine tennis player, was born on 1971-05-16. Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini is an Argentine former professional tennis player. A former world No.
Philadelphia Phillies slugger Greg Luzinski hits home run into the Liberty Bell monument at Philadelphia's Veteran's Stadium, an estimated 500-foot shot
David Soutar is a retired professional ten-pin bowler who competed on the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Tour.
India annexes Principality of Sikkim
The MetLife Building (also 200 Park Avenue and formerly the Pan Am Building) is a skyscraper at Park Avenue and 45th Street, north of Grand Central Terminal, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of...
MLB National League approves sale of Houston Astros by Ford Motors to John J McMullen for $19M
Columbia moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating in preparation for STS-4
The National Basketball Association's Rookie of the Year is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given to the top rookie (s) of the regular season.
Margaret Hamilton, American film actress, known for american film actress, died on 1985-05-16.
"Bobro 400", a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage sets sail from NYC, beginning an unsuccessful 8 week search for a dumping site
Megan Fox, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1987-05-16. Megan Denise Fox is an American actress.
Pope John Paul II canonizes Roque González, Juan del Castillo, Alonso Rodríguez y Olmedo, three Jesuit missionaries murdered in Brazil in 1628
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping meet in Beijing and formally end a 30-year rift
Dominican Republic President Joaquín Ricardo Balaguer re-elected
Jim Henson, American puppeteer, known for american puppeteer, died on 1990-05-16. James Maury Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was an American puppeteer, actor, animator, creative producer,…
Sammy Davis Jr. singer and actor, known for american singer and actor, died on 1990-05-16. Samuel George Davis Jr.
Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (fictional Superman character)
The America's Cup is a sailing competition and the oldest international competition still operating in any sport.
Farmer Sugeng finds 1.2 million year old Pithecanthropus IX skull
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Orlando, Florida on WTKS 104.1 FM
Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara and charge him with a nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subway two months earlier
Atlanta Braves beat St Louis Cardinals, 1-0 in 13 innings
Calcutta high court rules Calcutta does not have a birthday and that British East India employee Job Charnock is not the city's founder as previously claimed
Day of Mourning at Bykivnia forest, just outside of Kyiv, Ukraine where during 1930s and early 1940s communist bolsheviks executed over 100,000 Ukrainian civilians
Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Historically, women rarely had the right to vote, even in ostensibly democratic systems of government.
An earthquake, also called a quake, tremor, or temblor, is the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.
Alex Salmond is elected First Minister of Scotland. He is first Scottish National Party leader to be elected First Minister after winning a historic victory at the Scottish general election on the 3rd May.
"24" actor Kiefer Sutherland (37) divorces former model Elizabeth Kelly Winn (42) due to irreconcilable differences after nearly 8 years of marriage
ICC Men's Cricket T20 World Cup, Bridgetown, Barbados: England beats Australia by 7 wickets with 3 overs to spare for their first title; Player of the Series: England batsman Kevin Pietersen (248 runs)
The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S.
In multicellular organisms, stem cells are undifferentiated or partially differentiated cells that can change into various types of cells and proliferate indefinitely to produce more of the same stem...
Paris Saint-Germain F.C. & Manchester City F.C. are each fined €60 million for breaching Fair Play Regulations
10-year-old girl granted special 20 week abortion request in Rohtak, India in land-mark case
Death toll passes 200 from Gaza conflict as 42 people killed in Israeli airstrikes and three building flattened [1]
Sri Lanka runs out of petrol, has only enough for one more day, has no cash to pay 1.4 million civil servants, says its newly appointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe [1]
"Ëxceptional" missile attack on Kyiv by Russian forces largely repelled by Ukrainian air defense [1]
Dow Jones Industrial Average surpasses 40,000 points for 1st time, before closing at 39,869 [1]
Princess Opeyemi Bright becomes the youngest UK mayor in history at 29 years old [1]