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Historical Events In May - 16

Monday, 25 September 2023

1987  On this day in history "Bobro 400", a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage, set sail from New York, beginning an unsuccesful 8-week search for a dumping site  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1987  Rocker David Crosby weds Jan Dance in Los Angeles on May - 16.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1987  On May - 16 weird Al Yankovic performs live at 72nd National Orange Show  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1988  On this day in history surgeon General C Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1988  On May - 16 the U S Supreme Court rules that police can search discarded garbage without a search warrant  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1988  On this day in history uS Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1988  Kay Baxter, best bodybuilder in the world (1983-85), dies in car crash at 42 on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1989  On this day in history russian President Mikhail Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping meet in Beijing, ending a 30-year rift between the two Communist powers  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1989  Hassan Khaled, sheik of Lebanon, murdered on May - 16.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1990  On May - 16 dominican Republic President Joaquín Ricardo Balaguer re-elected  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1990  Sammy Davis, Jr. entertainer died on this day on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1990  St.-Amable Quebec, fire breaks out at Quebec's largest tire dump (3 million tires) near Montreal; rages for four days before being put out on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1990  On May - 16 dag Drollet, Cheyenne Brando's boyfriend killed by brother Christian  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1990  Sammy Davis, Jr. entertainer: died on this day on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1991  Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first British monarch to address the U S Congress on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1991  On this day in history prudence Nesbitt, British actress/TV producer, dies  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1992  "Smells Like Nirvana" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #35 on May - 16.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1992  Polls show Perot, Bush & Clinton could be in a deadlock on May - 16.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1992  On May - 16 uS space shuttle STS-49 lands (maiden voyage of Endeavour)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1992  Marisa Mell, actress (Hostages), dies of cancer at 53 on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1993  Farmer Sugeng finds 1.2 million year old Pithecanthropus IX skull on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1993  Judd Nelson pleads no contest to kicking Kim Evans in the head on May - 16.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1993  Süleyman Demirel elected President of Turkey on May - 16.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1993  Marv Johnson, US soul singer (You Got What it Takes), dies at 54 on May - 16.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1994  Jacqueline Onassis admitted to the hospital for cancer treatment on May - 16.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1994  Joaquín Balaguer (86) elected President of Dominican Republic on May - 16.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1994  On this day in history tennis star Jennifer Capriati arrested on possession of marijuana  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1994  Alain Cuny, actor (Lovers, Emanuelle, Camille Claudel), dies on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1995  Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara & charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1995  Lola Flores, singer/actress (Kuma Ching, Faraona), dies at 70 on May - 16.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1996  On May - 16 edward McInnes, German scholar, dies at 60  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1997  Brandi Sherwood, (Idaho) replaces Brook Lee (Miss Universe) as Miss USA on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2005  George Galloway appears before a U.S. Senate committee, to answer allegations of making money from the Iraqi Oil-for-Food Programme.2007 Nicolas Sarkozy officially became President of the French Republic after taking over from Jacques Chirac on May - 16.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

2005  On May - 16 sony officially unveiled its PlayStation 3 game console at an E3 conference.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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Famous Birthdays In May - 16

Famous People Born On This Day In History

1558  On May - 16 birth of andreas of Austria, Bohemia cardinal/gov of Netherlands (1598-1600)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1578  On May - 16 birth of everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1609  On this day in history birth of ferdinand, Austria, cardinal of Spain/governor of Netherlands  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1641  On May - 16 birth of dudley North, financier/economist  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1659  On May - 16 birth of campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1710  On May - 16 birth of william Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (d. 1782)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1718  Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799) was born on May - 16.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1748  On May - 16 birth of antonius van Alphen, apostolic vicar of De Bosch  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Famous Deaths In May - 16

Famous People Died On This Day In History

0942  On May - 16 saadiah Gaon, head of Talmudic Academy of Sura, dies  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1265  Death of Saint Simon Stock, English saint (b. 1165) on May - 16.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1434  Pieter Appelmans, Flemish architect/master builder, dies at about 60 on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1569  Death of Dirk Willems, Anabaptist Martyr on May - 16.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1620  Death of William Adams, English navigator (b. 1564) on this day in history.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1657  On this day in history death of andrzej Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1667  Death of Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b. 1607) on May - 16.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1669  Pietro da Cortona, [Berrettini], painter/architect, dies on May - 16.  Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard


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