On this day in History - May 16

1204 - Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
1490 - Albert of Prussia, was born (d. 1568). First duke of Prussia.
1527 - The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes a republic.
1532 - Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
1568 - Mary Queen of Scots flees to England.

1605 - Paul V becomes Pope.
1611 - Pope Innocent XI was born († 1689).
1620 - William Adams, dies (b. 1564). English navigator and Japanese samurai .
1678 - Andreas Silbermann, was born (d. 1734). Organ builder.
1703 - Charles Perrault, dies (b. 1628). French author.
1718 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, was born († 1799). Mathematician.

1763 - Nasceu o cientista francês Louis Vauquelin
1770 - 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
1777 - Patriot general Lachlan McIntosh shots Button Gwinnett during a duel near Savannah, Georgia. Gwinnett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies three days later.
1782 - Daniel Solander, dies (b. 1736). Swedish botanist.

1811 - Ocorreu a Batalha de Albufeira entre forças francesas e portuguesas
1827 - Pierre Cuypers, was born. Dutch architect.

1763 - Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin was born (d. 14 Nov 1829). French chemist who discovered the elements chromium (1797) and beryllium (1798).

1830 - Morte de Joseph Fourier. Matemático e físico francês.

1831 - Nasceu David Hughes, inventor do microfone.

1833 - Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana assume a presidência do México.
1834 - Batalha da Asseiceira. As forças liberais comandadas pelo duque da Terceira, derrotam as tropas miguelistas, terminando de facto com a Guerra Civil que durava desde 1832.
1845 - Nasce Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, microbiólogo russo, Premio Nobel de Medicina - 1908.

1864 - Em Portugal, foi decretada a criação do Banco Nacional Ultramarino.
1866 - The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
1866 - Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer.
1868 - President Andrew Johnson is acquitted during his impeachment trial, by one vote in the United States Senate.
1882 - Anne McCormick, was born († 1954). Journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner.
1891 - Richard Tauber, was born (d. 1948). Tenor.
1891 - Ion C. Bratianu, dies (b. 1821). Romanian statesman.
1905 - Henry Fonda, was born (d. 1982). American actor.
1906 - Nace Arturo Úslar Pietri, escritor venezolano.

1907 - Britain, France, and Spain sign the Pact of Cartagena - an agreement to maintain the status quo in the Mediterranean and West Africa.
1910 - The U.S. Congress authorizes the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines.
1912 - Studs Terkel, was born. Writer.
1913 - Woody Herman, was born (d. 1987). American musician, band leader.
1918 - The Sedition Act is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government a jailable offense.
1919 - Liberace, was born (d. 1987). American pianist.
1919 - Gisela Uhlen, was born. Actress.
1919 - US Navy Naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 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 as a saint.
1928 - Billy Martin, was born (d. 1989). Baseball player, coach.
1929 - Friedrich Nowottny, was born. Journalist
1929 - In Hollywood, California the first Academy Awards are handed out. Best actor Emil Jannings; Best actress award went to Janet Gaynor. The best film was "Wings".

1931 - Natwar Singh, was born. Indian politician.
1936 - Karl Lehmann, was born. German cardinal and theologian .
1936 - Roy Hudd, was born. British radio and television actor.
1938 - A fire at the Terminal Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 35 people.
1943 - Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
1943 - World War II: The Dambuster Raids by RAF 617 Squadron on German dams.
1944 - George Ade, dies (b. 1866). Author.

1946 - the magnetic tape recorder is demonstrated for the first time by Jack Mullin.
1947 - Morre Frederick Gowland Hopkins, bioquímico británico, Prémio Nobel de Medicina-1929
1948 - Robert Fripp, was born. Guitarist.
1948 - Chaim Weizmann is elected as the first President of Israel.
1950 - J. Georg Bednorz, was born. German physicist who, with Karl Alex Müller, was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint discovery of superconductivity in a new class of materials at temperatures higher than had previously been thought attainable.
1953 - Pierce Brosnan, was born. Irish actor.

1953 - Fundação do jornal francês L'Express.
1955 - Olga Korbut, was born. Gymnast
1955 - Jack Morris,was born. Baseball pitcher
1955 - Hazel O'Connor, was born. British singer
1955 - Debra Winger, was born. Actress.
1955 - James Agee, dies (b. 1909). American writer.

1957 - O belga Paul-Henri Spaak assume o cargo de secretário-geral da OTAN
1957 - Eliot Ness, dies (b. 1903). Federal agent.
1958 - Amp Fiddler, was born. Musician (P Funk).
1960 - Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from US President Dwight D. Eisenhower for U-2 spy plane flights over the Soviet Union thus ending a Big Four summit in Paris.
1965 - Krist Novoselic, was born. Musician, former bassist for Nirvana.
1966 - Janet Jackson, was born. Singer.
1966 - Thurman Thomas, was born. American football player.
1966 - Two extremely influencial rock albums are released on the same day: Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde and The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds.

1968 - Estudiantes de la Plata vence a Palmeiras de Brasil, por 2 goles a 0, en el partido definitorio de la Copa Libertadores, obteniendo este título, tras 16 partidos jugados. Luego se consagraría también en los dos años siguientes.
1969 - Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus.
1969 - Steve Lewis, was born. American athlete.
1970 - Gabriela Sabatini, was born. Tennis player.
1973 - Tori Spelling, was born. Actress.

1974 - Nascimento de Laura Pausini. Cantora italiana.
1975 - India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state held a referendum where popular vote was in favour of merging with India.
1975 - Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

1977 - Estreia na RTP de Gabriela, a primeira telenovela brasileira apresentada em Portugal
1984 - Andy Kaufman, dies (b. 1949). Comedian.
1984 - Irwin Shaw, dies (b. 1913). Author.
1985 - Margaret Hamilton, dies (b. 1902). Actress.
1988 - Charles Keeping, dies (b. 1924). Illustrator.
1988 - A report by American Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
1990 - Jim Henson, dies (b. 1936). Creator of the Muppets.
1990 - Sammy Davis, Jr., dies (b. 1925). Singer, actor, comedian.
1992 - STS-49: Space Shuttle Endeavour lands safely after a successful maiden voyage.

1993 - Süleyman Demirel assume a presidência da Turquia.

1995 - Morre Lola Flores (Dolores Flores Ruiz) (n. 21 Jan 1923). Bailarina, cantora e actriz espanhola.

1996 - A team of American palaeontologists announce the discovery of a 1.5 million year old skull of the shark-toothed reptile Carcharodontosaurus saharicus in the Sahara desert, Morocco.

2000 - Ahmet Necdet Sezer assume a presidência da Turquia.
2002 - Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones opens in theaters.
2003 - Mark McCormack, dies. Sports business pioneer, founder of IMG
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