About May 16
May 16, 2025 is the 136th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 229 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 277 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 16
- 1770 –14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
- 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.
- 1822 –Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.
- 1868 –President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.
- 1877 –May 16, 1877 political crisis in France.
- 1914 –The first ever Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup final is played. Brooklyn Field Club defeats Brooklyn Celtic 2-1.
- 1918 –The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government an imprisonable offense.
- 1919 –A naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
- 1943 –Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
- 1948 –Chaim Weizmann is elected the first President of Israel.
- 1953 –American journalist William N. Oatis is released after serving 22 months of a ten-year prison sentence for espionage in Czechslovakia.
- 1961 –Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
- 1974 –Josip Broz Tito is re-elected president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he is elected for life.
- 1975 –India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state holds a referendum in which the popular vote is in favor of merging with India.
- 1975 –Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
- 1983 –Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.
- 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.
- 1991 –Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addressed a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.
- 2003 –In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.
- 2005 –Kuwait permits women’s suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.
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