16th may history.... 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 Chmielrickis 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 Astronomer Johannes KeplerAstronomer Johannes Kepler 1804 - French Senate & Tribune declare Napolean leader of France 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 Champions 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 Drewrys Bluff, Virginia (6,666 casualties) 1866 - Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer US President Abraham LincolnUS President Abraham Lincoln 1866 - US Congress authorizes the nickel 5 cent piece (replaces silver half-dime) 1868 - Bedrich Smetanas 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 Dvoráks Slavic Dancing premieres 1879 - Treaty of Gandamak to set up Afghan state between Russia & English 1881 - Worlds 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) 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, near Masonic Street, opens 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. French Soldier and National Heroine Joan of ArcFrench Soldier and National Heroine Joan of Arc 1920 - Joan of Arc (Jeanne Darc) 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 Soldier, Author and British Prime Minister Winston ChurchillSoldier, Author and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill 1940 - British Premier Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris 1941 - 1st US/radio performance of Bennetts 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 1948 - Mikhail Botvinnik wins 5-player tournament to determine world chess champion 1948 - CBS news correspondent George Polks 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 Baseball Player Ted WilliamsBaseball Player Ted Williams 1954 - Ted Williams gets 8 hits in 1st game (DH) since breaking collarbone
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