Historical Events In May - 16

1941  Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham) on May - 16.  

1941  Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT) on May - 16.  

1941  On this day in history 1st US/radio performance of Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"  

1942  The first transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma on May - 16.  

1942  1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma on May - 16.  

1942  Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, anthropologist, dies on this day in history.  

1943  On May - 16 german troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw  

1943  On May - 16 jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting  

1943  Nazi officer Jergen Stroop reports to his superiors that the Warsaw ghetto is no longer in existence. According to his calculations 7,000 Jews have been killed in street fighting, 30,000 have been deported to Treblinka and 5-6,000 have perished in flames on this day in history.  

1943  On this day in history rAF bombs Möhne & Eder (Battle of Ruhr)  

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1943  On May - 16 -17th] RAF bombs Möhne & Eder (Battle of Ruhr)  

1944  Military police attack gypsies on May - 16.  

1944  Rabbi Weissmandl sends out pleas to bomb camp and rail lines - based on his "Auschwitz Protocol" - a 31 page report from escapees' eyewitness accounts of Rudolph Verba and Alfred Wetzler on this day in history.  

1944  On this day in history the first of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz  

1944  On May - 16 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz  

1944  On this day in history george Ade, US novelist/playwright (Counsel Widow), dies at 78  

1945  On May - 16 9th Division lands at Brunei  

1945  Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/Half Moon Okinawa on May - 16.  

1946  The Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun opens on this day in history.  

1948  On May - 16 cBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece  

1948  On May - 16 chaim Weizmann elected first President of Israel  

1948  Egyptians enter the Gaza on May - 16.  

1948  On this day in history israel issues its first postage stamps  

1949  On this day in history william Newzam Prior Nicholson, painter/engraver, dies  

1952  Alec Hearne, cricketer (scored 9 in Test for Eng v S Afr 1892), dies on this day in history.  

1954  On May - 16 clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (Vienna State Opera), dies at 61  

1955  Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Don Cockell in 9 (San Fransisco) for heavyweight boxing title on May - 16.  

1955  King Baudouin of Belgium visits Congo on this day in history.  

1955  On this day in history ray Lindwall scores his 2nd Test Cricket century 118 at Bridgetown  

1955  On this day in history the birth of Debra Winger, American film actress  

1955  James Agee, US critic/writer (Death in Family), dies in NY on May - 16.  

1956  On this day in history egypt recognizes People's Republic of China  

1956  Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Monte Bello Is Australia on this day in history.  

1957  Major Irwin, USAF flies a Lockheed Starfighter to a record 1,404.18 MPH on May - 16.  

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1558  On this day in history birth of andreas of Austria, Bohemia cardinal/gov of Netherlands (1598-1600)  

1578  Everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606) was born on this day in history.  

1609  On May - 16 birth of ferdinand, Austria, cardinal of Spain/governor of Netherlands  

1641  On this day in history birth of dudley North, financier/economist  

1659  Campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist was born on May - 16.  

1710  On May - 16 birth of william Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (d. 1782)  

1718  On May - 16 birth of maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799)  

1748  On this day in history birth of antonius van Alphen, apostolic vicar of De Bosch  

0942  On May - 16 saadiah Gaon, head of Talmudic Academy of Sura, dies  

1265  Death of Saint Simon Stock, English saint (b. 1165) on May - 16.  

1434  Pieter Appelmans, Flemish architect/master builder, dies at about 60 on May - 16.  

1569  Death of Dirk Willems, Anabaptist Martyr on this day in history.  

1620  On May - 16 death of william Adams, English navigator (b. 1564)  

1657  On May - 16 death of andrzej Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)  

1667  On May - 16 death of thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b. 1607)  

1669  On this day in history pietro da Cortona, [Berrettini], painter/architect, dies