About May 16
May 16, 2021 is the 136th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 229 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 261 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.
- 1527 –The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic.
- 1568 –Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.
- 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.
- 1843 –The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.
- 1866 –The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
- 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).
- 1914 –The first ever Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup final is played. Brooklyn Field Club defeats Brooklyn Celtic 2-1.
- 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.
- 1929 –In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out.
- 1943 –Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
- 1951 –The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
- 1966 –The Communist Party of China issues the “May 16 Notice”, marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
- 1969 –Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus.
- 1983 –Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.
- 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.
- 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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