About May 16
May 16, 2020 is the 137th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 229 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 272 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 16
- 218 –Julia Maesa, aunt of the assassinated Caracalla, is banished to her home in Syria by the self-proclaimed emperor Macrinus and declares her 14-year old grandson Elagabalus, emperor of Rome.
- 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.
- 1866 –The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
- 1920 –In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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