May 16

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on May 16. From 1900 until now. May 16 is under the sign of Taurus. Famous birthdays on this day include Megan Fox (1986), Pierce Brosnan (1953) and Laura Pausini (1974). Several movies were released around May 16 over the years, such as Cinderella Man in 2005 directed by Ron Howard and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold in 1965 directed by Martin Ritt.
But much more happened on May 16 over the years: find out below

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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: Forty-seven insurgents and five Egyptian soldiers are killed in a gunfight in the Sinai Peninsula. (Al Jazeera)
2018 War in Afghanistan (2001–present): Battle of Farah: Taliban forces claim to have taken control of the western city of Farah after two days of fighting. It is the second provincial capital to be temporarily taken over, after a similar assault on Kunduz in 2015. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
2017 WannaCry ransomware attack: The cybersecurity firms Kaspersky Lab and Symantec report that technical evidence connects the WannaCry ransomware attack to the North Korean-backed Lazarus Group. North Korea is also believed to be responsible for previous cyberattacks on the SWIFT banking system and against Sony Pictures. (The Guardian), (The New York Times)
2016 The Vegetarian, written by Han Kang and translated by Deborah Smith, wins the Man Booker International Prize. (BBC News), (The Independent), (The Telegraph)
2015 The United States claims that senior ISIL commander Abu Sayyaf is killed in a United States special operations forces raid within what is officially Syrian territory. (CNN)
2014 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine:: Pro-Russian rebels quickly withdraw from Mariupol as dozens of unarmed pro-Ukraine steelworkers with some employed by System Capital Management joined by the police start to patrol the city. (U.S. News & World Report)(New York Times)The United Nations warns of a deterioration of human rights in eastern Ukraine and the harassment and persecution of the Crimean Tartars in Crimea. (BBC)
2013 War in Afghanistan (2001–present):: Many people are killed in two suicide bombings in Afghanistan, at least fifteen of which are killed in the capital Kabul when a suicide bomber from Hizb-i-Islami, a Taliban affiliate, targeted a convoy carrying foreign troops, injuring another 40. (Xinhua) (NBC)
2012 Cambodian police and soldiers clash with villagers after attempting to evict them from their land, where a Russian plantation project is to be headquartered. A teenage girl has reportedly been killed. (AP via ''The Jakarta Post'')
2011 The European Union agree to €78ampnbspbillion rescue deal for Portugal. The bailout loan will be equally split between the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism, the European Financial Stability Facility, and the International Monetary Fund.
2010 20 people were killed and more than 60 others were wounded in shelling in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. (CNN)
2009 In Baltimore, Maryland, USA, the 134th running of the Preakness Stakes is held. The philly Rachel Alexandra wins, ridden by Calvin Borel, the first win for a philly since 1924.
2008 10 people were shot at a branch of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) in Cabuyao, Laguna, Philippines, with 9 dead and 1 in critical condition in what could be one of the bloodiest bank robberies in the nation's history. USA Today.com - 9 killed during Philippine bank robbery
2007 The United Nations General Assembly, recognizing that genuine multilingualism promotes unity in diversity and international understanding, proclaims 2008 the International Year of Languages.
2006 The United States releases a list of 759 former and current inmates of the Guantánamo Bay prison camp in Cuba after a Freedom of Information Act action was filed by the Associated Press. (Pentagon list) (The Age)
2005 George Galloway appears before a U.S. Senate committee, to answer allegations of making money from the Iraqi Oil-for-Food Programme.
2004 Ezzedine Salim, holder of the rotating leadership of the Iraq Interim Governing Council, is killed in a bomb blast in Baghdad.
2003 In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.
2002 Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones released in theaters.
2000 The Grand National Assembly of Turkey elects Ahmet Necdet Sezer as the tenth President 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 (Superman character)
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 (was 6 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 (BG)
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