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May 16: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

May 16th marks the 136th day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 137th in case of leap years). There are 229 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Taurus. Famous birthdays on this day include Megan Fox (1986), Pierce Brosnan (1953) and Laura Pausini (1974). Holidays and observances around the world include: International Day of Living Together in Peace and International Day of Light [UNESCO].
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Holidays

Saint HonorT of Amiens
Saint Andrew Bobola
Saint Ubaldus
Adelaide Cup day - South Australia (2005).
Saint Simon Stock
Saint John Nepomuk or John Nepomucene (1330 - 1393)
Saint Brendan the Navigator - also in the Irish Calendar.
Teacher's Day in Malaysia.
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Events

2019 Sinai insurgency: 47 insurgents are killed and five Egyptian soldiers are wounded in a gunfight on the Sinai Peninsula.
2018 Afghanistan War (2001-present: Battle of Farah): Taliban forces claim that they have taken control the western city Farah, after fighting for two days. After a similar attack on Kunduz 2015, it is now the second provincial capital temporarily taken over.
2017 WannaCry ransomware attacks: Symantec and Kaspersky Lab, cybersecurity companies, report that technical evidence links WannaCry's ransomware attack with the North Korean-backed Lazarus Group. Also, cyberattacks against Sony Pictures and the SWIFT banking system in the past are believed to have been carried out by North Korea. (The Guardian),
2016 Han Kang's novel The Vegetarian was translated by Deborah Smith and won the Man Booker International Prize. (BBC News), (The Independent),
2015 The United States claims Abu Sayyaf, a senior ISIL commander, was killed in an attack by special forces of the United States on Syrian territory.
2014 Pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine 2014:: Pro-Russian rebels rapidly withdraw from Mariupol as unarmed pro-Ukraine Steelworkers, some of them employed by System Capital Management join the police to patrol the city. (U.S. News & World Report).(New York Times). The United Nations warns about a deterioration in human rights in eastern Ukraine, and the persecution and harassment of the Crimean Tartars.
2013 Afghanistan War (2001-present).: Many people die in suicide bombings in Afghanistan. At least 15 are killed in Kabul by a suicide bomber belonging to Hizb-i-Islami. This Taliban affiliate targeted a convoy of foreign troops and injured 40 more.
2012 After trying to expel the villagers from their land where a Russian plantation project was to be located, Cambodian police and soldiers clashed with the villagers. According to reports, a teenage girl was killed.
2011 The European Union has agreed to a EUR78ampnbspbillion rescue package for Portugal. The bailout loan will equally be split between the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism and the European Financial Stability Facility.
2010 In the shelling of Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, 20 people were killed and 60 more were injured.
2009 The 134th Preakness Stakes runs in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Calvin Borel rides Rachel Alexandra, the first win for any philly since 1924.
2008 Ten people were killed and one critically injured at the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation branch in Cabuyao (Laguna, Philippines) during what may have been the most bloody bank robberies in Philippine history. USA Today.com: 9 people were killed in a bank robbery in the Philippines
2007 Recognizing the importance of multilingualism in promoting unity in diversity, international understanding, and mutual respect, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2008 International Year of Languages.
2006 After a Freedom of Information Act request by the Associated Press, the United States released a list of 759 Guantanamo Bay prisoners in Cuba.
2005 George Galloway is appearing before a U.S. Senate Committee to answer allegations that he made money from the Iraqi Oil-for-Food Programme.
2004 Ezzedine Salam, the Iraq Interim Governing Council's rotating leader, was killed in a blast in Baghdad.
2003 Terrorist attacks in Casablanca, Morocco result in 33 civilian deaths and over 100 injuries.
2002 Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones is now available in cinemas
2000 Ahmet Necdet Szer is elected the tenth president of Turkey by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
1998 First Global Street Party, with events in Czech Republic, Netherlands, Finland, Germany, USA, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, England. Total of 30 Reclaim The Streets events are held in 20 countries, on sections of public roads, by hundreds or thousands of people.
1997 Brandi Sherwood, (Idaho) replaces Brook Lee (Miss Universe) as Miss USA.
1996 Sammy Sosa is first Chicago Cubs player to hit two homeruns in one inning.
1995 Japanese police besiege the headquarters of Aum Shinrikyo near Mount Fuji and arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara.
1994 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Orlando Florida on WTKS 104.1 FM
1993 3 Men on a Horse closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 40 performances
1992 Smells Like Nirvana, by Weird Al Yankovic hits #35
1991 Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson
1990 Juventus wins 19th UEFA Cup in Avellino.
1989 Soviet President Mikhail S Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping end a 30-year rift when they formally meet in Beijing.
1988 Surgeon General C Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin
1987 Bobro 400, a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage, sets sail from New York, beginning an unsuccesful eight-week search for a dumping site.
1986 Top Gun, premieres
1985 Pope John Paul II arrives in Belgium
1984 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1983 Lebanese parliament accepts peace accord with Israel.
1982 Barnum closes at St. James Theater NYC after 854 performances
1981 Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes hits #1 for next 9 weeks
1980 Brian May of rock group Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis
1979 NL approves Astros sales from Ford Motors to John J McMullen for $19M
1977 Muhammad Ali beats Alfredo Evangelist in 15 round for heavyweight boxing title.
1976 Sue Roberts wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic.
1975 Wings release Listen to What the Man Said in the UK
1974 Helmut Schmidt is elected German Chancellor after Willy Brandt resigns due to the spy in his office. Hans-Dietrich Genscher (FDP) becomes vice chancellor and foreign minister.
1973 AC Milan wins 13th Europe Cup II in Saloniki.
1972 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationale.
1971 1st class postage now costs 8 cents
1970 Grover Henson Feels Forgotten by Bill Cosby hits #70
1969 Barbra Streisand appears at a Friars Club Tribute
1968 Earthquake kills 47 in Japan.
1967 Philadelphia voters approve a US$13 million bond issue to build a new stadium.
1966 Stokely Carmichael named Chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating
1965 Roar of the Greasepaint opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 232 performances
1964 Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champion.
1963 Beast in Me opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 4 performances
1961 13rd Emmy Awards: Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr and Barbara Stanwyck
1960 Big four summit in Paris, France collapses as USSR levels spy charges against USA.
1959 WTOM TV channel 4 in Cheboygan, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1958 Walter Irwin flies 2,259 km/h in F-104A Starfighter
1957 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Invicti Athletae
1956 Kraft Theater presents an act from Profiles in Courage
1955 King Baudouin of Belgium visits Congo
1954 WGAN (now WGME) TV channel 13 in Portland, ME (CBS) 1st broadcast
1952 New Faces (of 1952) opens at Royale Theater NYC for 365 performances
1951 The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
1948 George Polk, CBS news correspondant, body found
1946 Musical Annie Get Your Gun, starring Ethel Merman premieres in New York City
1945 Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/Half Moon Okinawa, Japan.
1944 Military police attack gypsies
1943 Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting
1941 Germans made their last major air attack on Britain
1940 Premier Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris
1939 1st AL night game, Philadelphia Shribe Park (Indians 8, Athletics 3 in 10)
1938 38 die in Terminal Hotel fire (Atlanta, Georgia, USA).
1936 1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France
1933 Cecil Travis becomes first player to get five hits in his first game.
1931 57th Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on Twenty Grand wins in 2:01.8.
1930 6th Walker Cup: US 10-Great Britain/Ireland 2.
1929 1st Academy Awards - Wings, Emil Jennings and Janet Gaynor wins
1927 New York Yankees' player Bob Meusel steals second, third and home.
1925 51st Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Flying Ebony wins in 2:07.6.
1921 47th Preakness: F Coltiletti aboard Broomspun wins in 1:54.2.
1920 Spanish bullfighter Joselito is fatally gored fighting his last bull.
1918 The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government an imprisonable offense.
1916 41st Preakness: Linus McAtee aboard Damrosch wins in 1:54.8.
1914 Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens.
1911 Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey United Kingdom.
1910 US Bureau of Mines forms.
1903 George Wyman makes 1st motorcycle trip across the US
1901 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Priory School
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Famous Birthday

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Music charts

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Top #1 songs in the USA

2017 DJ Khaled Featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance The Rapper & Lil Wayne - I'm The One
2016 Drake Featuring WizKid & Kyla - One Dance
2015 Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth - See You Again
2014 John Legend - All Of Me
2013 Macklemore - Can't Hold Us
2012 Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know
2011 Adele - Rolling In The Deep
2010 Eminem - Not Afraid
2009 The Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
2008 Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
2007 Maroon5 - Makes Me Wonder
2006 Rihanna - SOS
2005 Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl
2004 Usher - Yeah!
2003 Sean Paul - Get Busy
2002 Ashanti - Foolish
2001 Janet - All For You
2000 Santana - Maria, Maria
1999 Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca
1998 Next - Too Close
1997 The Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize
1996 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Tha Crossroads
1995 Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It
1994 All-4-One - I Swear
1993 Janet Jackson - That's The Way Love Goes
1992 Kris Kross - Jump
1991 Hi-Five - I Like The Way (The Kissing Game)
1990 Madonna - Vogue
1989 Paula Abdul - Forever Your Girl
1988 Gloria Estefan - Anything For You
1987 U2 - With Or Without You
1986 Whitney Houston - Greatest Love Of All
1985 Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
1984 Lionel Richie - Hello
1983 David Bowie - Let's Dance
1982 Paul McCartney - Ebony And Ivory
1981 Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes
1980 Blondie - Call Me
1979 Peaches & Herb - Reunited
1978 Wings - With A Little Luck
1977 Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke
1976 The Sylvers - Boogie Fever
1975 Tony Orlando and Dawn - He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)
1974 Ray Stevens - The Streak
1973 Stevie Wonder - You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
1972 Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
1971 Three Dog Night - Joy To The World
1970 The Guess Who - American Woman
1969 The 5th Dimension - Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)
1968 Archie Bell & The Drells - Tighten Up
1967 The Young Rascals - Groovin'
1966 The Mamas & The Papas - Monday, Monday
1965 The Beatles - Ticket To Ride
1964 Mary Wells - My Guy
1963 Jimmy Soul - If You Wanna Be Happy
1962 The Shirelles - Soldier Boy
1961 Del Shannon - Runaway
1960 Elvis Presley - Stuck On You
1959 Dave Baby Cortez - The Happy Organ
1958 David Seville - Witch Doctor
1957 Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
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