May 16
1770 - Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.
1866 - Congress authorized minting of the first five-cent piece, also known as the “Shield nickel.”
1868 - The U.S. Senate failed by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it took its first ballot on one of 11 articles of impeachment against him. (He was acquitted of all charges.)
1920 - Joan of Arc was canonized.
1929 - The first Academy Awards were given. (The term "Oscars" was not used to describe the statuettes until 1931.). The first best picture award went to "Wings" while Emil Jannings and Janet Gaynor were named best actor and best actress.
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.
1946 - The Irving Berlin musical "Annie Get Your Gun" opened on Broadway.
1957 - Federal agent Eliot Ness, who organized “The Untouchables” team that took on gangster Al Capone, died in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, at age 54.
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.”
1990 - Death claimed entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. at age 64 and "Muppets" creator Jim Henson at age 53.
1975 - Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest.
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 the 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.
2003 - Five simultaneous suicide attacks claimed the lives of 33 victims and a dozen suicide bombers in Casablanca, Morocco.
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.
2007 - Nicolas Sarkozy took over from Jacques Chirac as France's president.
2007 - Anti-war Democrats in the Senate failed in an attempt to cut off funds for the Iraq war.
2012 - Gen. Ratko Mladic went on trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands, accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. (Mladic would be convicted on 10 counts and sentenced to life in prison.)
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.
2017 - The White House issued a furious denial after a report that President Donald Trump personally appealed to FBI Director James Comey to abandon the bureau’s investigation into National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
Birthdays
20 - Jessica Belkin (actress)
23 - Lani Randol (model)
28 - Miles Heizer (actor)
30 - Kirstin Maldonado (singer)
31 - Ashley Wagner (figure skater)
32 - Marc John Jefferies (actor)
32 - Thomas Brodie-Sangster (actor)
34 - Jermaine Fowler (actor/comedian)
34 - Behati Prinsloo (model)
36 - Ana Cheri (model)
36 - Jacob Zachar (actor)
36 - Drew Roy (actor)
36 - Megan Fox (actress)
39 - Nancy Ajram (singer)
41 - Joseph Morgan (actor)
44 - Jim Sturgess (actor)
45 - Melanie Lynskey (actress)
48 - Sean Carrigan (actor)
49 - Tori Spelling (actress)
51 - Rick Trevino (singer)
51 - Kelly Hyland (reality star)
52 - Gabriela Sabatini (tennis player)
53 - Tracey Gold (actress)
53 - Tucker Carlson (TV host)
53 - David Boreanaz (actor)
55 - Brian O'Byrne (actor)
56 - Scott Reeves (singer)
56 - Janet Jackson (singer)
63 - Mare Winningham (actress)
66 - Olga Korbut (gymnast)
67 - Debra Winger (actress)
69 - Pierce Brosnan (actor)
75 - Bill Smitrovich (actor)
78 - Danny Trejo (actor)
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Today in Sports History - May 16
1869 - The Cincinnati Reds played their first baseball game.
1933 - Cecil Travis became the first player to get five hits in his first 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.
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 the Stanley Cup.
1985 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls was named NBA Rookie of the Year.
1996 - Sammy Sosa became the first Chicago Cub player to hit two home runs in one inning.
2003 - The Anaheim Mighty Ducks defeated the Minnesota Wild 2-1. The win advanced the Mighty Ducks to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time in franchise history.
2019 - Brooks Koepka fires a tournament record-tying and course record 63 (-7) in the first round of the PGA Championship at Bethpage Black in New York.
1770 - Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.
1866 - Congress authorized minting of the first five-cent piece, also known as the “Shield nickel.”
1868 - The U.S. Senate failed by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it took its first ballot on one of 11 articles of impeachment against him. (He was acquitted of all charges.)
1920 - Joan of Arc was canonized.
1929 - The first Academy Awards were given. (The term "Oscars" was not used to describe the statuettes until 1931.). The first best picture award went to "Wings" while Emil Jannings and Janet Gaynor were named best actor and best actress.
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.
1946 - The Irving Berlin musical "Annie Get Your Gun" opened on Broadway.
1957 - Federal agent Eliot Ness, who organized “The Untouchables” team that took on gangster Al Capone, died in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, at age 54.
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.”
1990 - Death claimed entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. at age 64 and "Muppets" creator Jim Henson at age 53.
1975 - Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest.
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 the 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.
2003 - Five simultaneous suicide attacks claimed the lives of 33 victims and a dozen suicide bombers in Casablanca, Morocco.
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.
2007 - Nicolas Sarkozy took over from Jacques Chirac as France's president.
2007 - Anti-war Democrats in the Senate failed in an attempt to cut off funds for the Iraq war.
2012 - Gen. Ratko Mladic went on trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands, accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. (Mladic would be convicted on 10 counts and sentenced to life in prison.)
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.
2017 - The White House issued a furious denial after a report that President Donald Trump personally appealed to FBI Director James Comey to abandon the bureau’s investigation into National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
Birthdays
20 - Jessica Belkin (actress)
23 - Lani Randol (model)
28 - Miles Heizer (actor)
30 - Kirstin Maldonado (singer)
31 - Ashley Wagner (figure skater)
32 - Marc John Jefferies (actor)
32 - Thomas Brodie-Sangster (actor)
34 - Jermaine Fowler (actor/comedian)
34 - Behati Prinsloo (model)
36 - Ana Cheri (model)
36 - Jacob Zachar (actor)
36 - Drew Roy (actor)
36 - Megan Fox (actress)
39 - Nancy Ajram (singer)
41 - Joseph Morgan (actor)
44 - Jim Sturgess (actor)
45 - Melanie Lynskey (actress)
48 - Sean Carrigan (actor)
49 - Tori Spelling (actress)
51 - Rick Trevino (singer)
51 - Kelly Hyland (reality star)
52 - Gabriela Sabatini (tennis player)
53 - Tracey Gold (actress)
53 - Tucker Carlson (TV host)
53 - David Boreanaz (actor)
55 - Brian O'Byrne (actor)
56 - Scott Reeves (singer)
56 - Janet Jackson (singer)
63 - Mare Winningham (actress)
66 - Olga Korbut (gymnast)
67 - Debra Winger (actress)
69 - Pierce Brosnan (actor)
75 - Bill Smitrovich (actor)
78 - Danny Trejo (actor)
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Today in Sports History - May 16
1869 - The Cincinnati Reds played their first baseball game.
1933 - Cecil Travis became the first player to get five hits in his first 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.
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 the Stanley Cup.
1985 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls was named NBA Rookie of the Year.
1996 - Sammy Sosa became the first Chicago Cub player to hit two home runs in one inning.
2003 - The Anaheim Mighty Ducks defeated the Minnesota Wild 2-1. The win advanced the Mighty Ducks to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time in franchise history.
2019 - Brooks Koepka fires a tournament record-tying and course record 63 (-7) in the first round of the PGA Championship at Bethpage Black in New York.
