May 16
1770 - Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.
1868 - The first ballot on one of 11 articles of impeachment in the U.S. Senate failed to convict President Andrew Johnson.
1920 - Joan of Arc was canonized.
1929 - The first Academy Awards were awarded. (The term "Oscars" was not used to describe the statuettes given to actors and actresses until 1931.
1939 - The federal government began its first food stamp program in Rochester, New York.
1943 - The nearly month-long Warsaw Ghetto Uprising came to an end as German forces crushed the Jewish resistance and blew up the Great Synagogue.
1960 - A harsh exchange between Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and President Dwight D. EIsenhower doomed a much heralded summit conference between the two nations, following the Soviet downing of an American U-2 reconnaissance plane.
1960 - The first working laser was demonstrated at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California, by physicist Theodore Maiman.
1966 - China launched the Cultural Revolution, a radical as well as deadly reform movement aimed at purging the country of “counter-revolutionaries.”
1975 - Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1984 - Comedian Andy Kaufman died in Los Angeles at age 35.
1988 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in California v. Greenwood, ruled that police could search discarded garbage without a search warrant.
1988 - Surgeon General C. Everett Koop released a report declaring nicotine was addictive in ways similar to heroin and cocaine.
1990 - Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. died at age 64.
1990 - "Muppets" creator Jim Henson died at age 53.
1991 - Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the United States Congress.
1997 - President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire was expelled from his country by Laurent Kabila and his troops, ending 32 years of autocratic rule.
1997 - President Bill Clinton publicly apologized for the notorious Tuskegee experiment, in which government scientists deliberately allowed Black men to weaken and die of treatable syphilis.
2002 - The remains of kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl were unearthed in Pakistan.
2005 - Newsweek magazine retracted a story that claimed investigators had found evidence the Quran was desecrated by interrogators at the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay. The story had sparked deadly protests in Afghanistan.
2006 - The Pentagon released the first video images of American Airlines Flight 77 crashing into the military headquarters and killing 189 people on 9/11.
2007 - Nicolas Sarkozy succeeded Jacques Chirac as president of France.
2011 - Endeavour blasted off on NASA’s next-to-last shuttle flight commanded by Mark Kelly, husband of wounded Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
2016 - President Barack Obama called on the nation to support law enforcement officers as he bestowed the Medal of Valor on 13 who risked their lives.
2016 - The International Space Station reached the orbital milestone of 100,000 laps around Earth, akin to traveling more than 2.6 billion miles in 17 1/2 years.
2020 - Democrats demanded that the White House hand over all records related to President Donald Trump’s latest firing of a federal watchdog, this time a State Department inspector general; they suggested it might be an act of retaliation by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Birthdays
22 - Lani Randol (model)
27 - Miles Heizer (actor)
29 - Kirstin Maldonado (singer)
31 - Marc John Jefferies (actor)
31 - Thomas Brodie-Sangster (actor)
32 - Behati Prinsloo (model)
33 - Jermaine Fowler (actor/comedian)
35 - Jacob Zachar (actor)
35 - Drew Roy (actor)
35 - Megan Fox (actress)
40 - Joseph Morgan (actor)
43 - Jim Sturgess (actor)
44 - Melanie Lynskey (actress)
47 - Sean Carrigan (actor)
48 - Tori Spelling (actress)
50 - Rick Trevino (country singer)
50 - Kelly Hyland (reality star)
51 - Gabriela Sabatini (tennis player)
52 - Tracey Gold (actress)
52 - Tucker Carlson (talk show host)
55 - Janet Jackson (singer)
62 - Mare Winningham (actress)
65 - Olga Korbut (gymnast)
66 - Debra Winger (actress)
68 - Pierce Brosnan (actor)
77 - Danny Trejo (actor)
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Today in Sports History - May 16
1869 - The Cincinnati Reds played their first baseball game.
1939 - The Philadelphia Athletics and the Cleveland Indians met at Shibe Park in Philadelphia for the first baseball game to be played under the lights in the American League.
1976 - The Montreal Canadiens sweep the Philadelphia Flyers to win the Stanley Cup.
1979 - The National League approved the sale of the Astros from Ford Motors to John J. McMullen for $19 million.
1980 - The Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Philadelphia 76ers in six games to win the NBA championship.
1981 - Craig Reynolds (Houston Astros) hit 3 triples against the Chicago Cubs.
1982 - The New York Islanders sweep the Vancouver Canucks to win their third consecutive Stanley Cup.
1985 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls was named NBA Rookie of the Year.
1996 - Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs became the first player in franchise history to hit two home runs in one inning.
2019 - Brooks Koepka fires a tournament record 63 (-7) to lead the PGA Championship by one stroke after the first round at Bethpage Black, New York.
1770 - Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.
1868 - The first ballot on one of 11 articles of impeachment in the U.S. Senate failed to convict President Andrew Johnson.
1920 - Joan of Arc was canonized.
1929 - The first Academy Awards were awarded. (The term "Oscars" was not used to describe the statuettes given to actors and actresses until 1931.
1939 - The federal government began its first food stamp program in Rochester, New York.
1943 - The nearly month-long Warsaw Ghetto Uprising came to an end as German forces crushed the Jewish resistance and blew up the Great Synagogue.
1960 - A harsh exchange between Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and President Dwight D. EIsenhower doomed a much heralded summit conference between the two nations, following the Soviet downing of an American U-2 reconnaissance plane.
1960 - The first working laser was demonstrated at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California, by physicist Theodore Maiman.
1966 - China launched the Cultural Revolution, a radical as well as deadly reform movement aimed at purging the country of “counter-revolutionaries.”
1975 - Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1984 - Comedian Andy Kaufman died in Los Angeles at age 35.
1988 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in California v. Greenwood, ruled that police could search discarded garbage without a search warrant.
1988 - Surgeon General C. Everett Koop released a report declaring nicotine was addictive in ways similar to heroin and cocaine.
1990 - Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. died at age 64.
1990 - "Muppets" creator Jim Henson died at age 53.
1991 - Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the United States Congress.
1997 - President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire was expelled from his country by Laurent Kabila and his troops, ending 32 years of autocratic rule.
1997 - President Bill Clinton publicly apologized for the notorious Tuskegee experiment, in which government scientists deliberately allowed Black men to weaken and die of treatable syphilis.
2002 - The remains of kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl were unearthed in Pakistan.
2005 - Newsweek magazine retracted a story that claimed investigators had found evidence the Quran was desecrated by interrogators at the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay. The story had sparked deadly protests in Afghanistan.
2006 - The Pentagon released the first video images of American Airlines Flight 77 crashing into the military headquarters and killing 189 people on 9/11.
2007 - Nicolas Sarkozy succeeded Jacques Chirac as president of France.
2011 - Endeavour blasted off on NASA’s next-to-last shuttle flight commanded by Mark Kelly, husband of wounded Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
2016 - President Barack Obama called on the nation to support law enforcement officers as he bestowed the Medal of Valor on 13 who risked their lives.
2016 - The International Space Station reached the orbital milestone of 100,000 laps around Earth, akin to traveling more than 2.6 billion miles in 17 1/2 years.
2020 - Democrats demanded that the White House hand over all records related to President Donald Trump’s latest firing of a federal watchdog, this time a State Department inspector general; they suggested it might be an act of retaliation by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Birthdays
22 - Lani Randol (model)
27 - Miles Heizer (actor)
29 - Kirstin Maldonado (singer)
31 - Marc John Jefferies (actor)
31 - Thomas Brodie-Sangster (actor)
32 - Behati Prinsloo (model)
33 - Jermaine Fowler (actor/comedian)
35 - Jacob Zachar (actor)
35 - Drew Roy (actor)
35 - Megan Fox (actress)
40 - Joseph Morgan (actor)
43 - Jim Sturgess (actor)
44 - Melanie Lynskey (actress)
47 - Sean Carrigan (actor)
48 - Tori Spelling (actress)
50 - Rick Trevino (country singer)
50 - Kelly Hyland (reality star)
51 - Gabriela Sabatini (tennis player)
52 - Tracey Gold (actress)
52 - Tucker Carlson (talk show host)
55 - Janet Jackson (singer)
62 - Mare Winningham (actress)
65 - Olga Korbut (gymnast)
66 - Debra Winger (actress)
68 - Pierce Brosnan (actor)
77 - Danny Trejo (actor)
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Today in Sports History - May 16
1869 - The Cincinnati Reds played their first baseball game.
1939 - The Philadelphia Athletics and the Cleveland Indians met at Shibe Park in Philadelphia for the first baseball game to be played under the lights in the American League.
1976 - The Montreal Canadiens sweep the Philadelphia Flyers to win the Stanley Cup.
1979 - The National League approved the sale of the Astros from Ford Motors to John J. McMullen for $19 million.
1980 - The Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Philadelphia 76ers in six games to win the NBA championship.
1981 - Craig Reynolds (Houston Astros) hit 3 triples against the Chicago Cubs.
1982 - The New York Islanders sweep the Vancouver Canucks to win their third consecutive Stanley Cup.
1985 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls was named NBA Rookie of the Year.
1996 - Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs became the first player in franchise history to hit two home runs in one inning.
2019 - Brooks Koepka fires a tournament record 63 (-7) to lead the PGA Championship by one stroke after the first round at Bethpage Black, New York.
