About May 16
May 16, 2024 is the 137th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 229 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 258 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 16
- 1204 –Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
- 1532 –Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
- 1568 –Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.
- 1770 –14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
- 1811 –Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom, defeat the French at the Battle of Albuera.
- 1822 –Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.
- 1866 –The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
- 1874 –A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
- 1877 –May 16, 1877 political crisis in France.
- 1891 –The International Electro-Technical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world’s first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electrical current (the most common form today).
- 1918 –The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government an imprisonable offense.
- 1920 –In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
- 1943 –Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
- 1966 –The Communist Party of China issues the “May 16 Notice”, marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
- 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.
- 1988 –A report by United States’ Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
- 2005 –Kuwait permits women’s suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.
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