Events1204 -
Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned first
Emperor of the
Latin Empire.1527 - The Florentines drive out the
Medici for a second time and
Florence re-establishes a
republic.
1532 -
Sir Thomas More resigns as
Lord Chancellor of
England. 1568 -
Mary Queen of Scots flees to
England.
1605 -
Paul V becomes
Pope.
1770 - 14-year old
Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old
Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of
France.
1771 - The Battle of Alamance, a pre-
American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called "The Regulators" occurs in present-day
Alamance County, North Carolina.
1777 -
Lachlan McIntosh and
Button Gwinnett shoot each other during a
duel near
Savannah, Georgia.
Gwinnett, a signer of the
United States Declaration of Independence, dies three days later.
1811 -
Peninsular War - Allies (Spain, Portugal & Britain) defeat French at the
Battle of Albuera.
1822 -
Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of
Souli.
1836 -
Edgar Allan Poe marries his 13-year-old cousin
Virginia.
1843 - The first major
wagon train heading for the
Northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from
Elm Grove, Missouri on the
Oregon Trail.
1866 - The
U.S. Congress eliminates the
half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or
nickel. 1866 -
Charles Elmer Hires invents
root beer.
1868 -
President Andrew Johnson is acquitted during his
impeachment trial, by one vote in the
United States Senate.
1874 - A
flood on the
Mill River in
Massachusetts destroyed much of four villages and killed 139 people.
1877 -
May 16, 1877 political crisis in France.
1910 - The
U.S. Congress authorizes the creation of the
United States Bureau of Mines.
1918 - The
Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the
U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government a jailable offense.
1919 -
US Navy Naval
Curtiss aircraft
NC-4 commanded by
Albert Cushing Read leaves
Trepassey,
Newfoundland, for
Lisbon via the
Azores on the first
transatlantic flight.
1920 - In
Rome,
Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc as a
saint.
1929 - In
Hollywood, California, the first
Academy Awards are handed out.
1938 - A fire at the Terminal Hotel in
Atlanta, Georgia, kills 35 people.
1943 -
Holocaust: The
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
1948 -
Chaim Weizmann is elected as the first
President of Israel.
1951 - The first regularly-scheduled
transatlantic flights begin between
New York and
London, operated by
El Al Israel Airlines.
1960 -
Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from
US President Dwight D. Eisenhower for
U-2 spy plane flights over the
Soviet Union thus ending a
Big Four summit in
Paris.1960 -
Theodore Maiman operates the first
optical laser, at
Hughes Research Laboratories in
Malibu, California.
1965 -
Campbell Soup Company introduces
SpaghettiOs under its
Franco-American brand.
1966 - The
Communist Party of China issued the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the
Cultural Revolution.
1967 - The city
Jerusalem is taken over by the nation of
Israel1969 -
Venera program:
Venera 5, a
Soviet spaceprobe, lands on
Venus.
1974 -
Josip Broz Tito was re-elected as president of the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he was elected
for life.
1975 -
India annexes
Sikkim after the mountain state held a
referendum where
popular vote was in favour of merging with
India. 1975 -
Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of
Mount Everest.
1983 -
Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement rebelled against the Sudanese government
1986 - The
Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for
UNESCO, in
Seville,
Spain.
1988 - A report by
United States'
Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the
addictive properties of
nicotine are similar to those of
heroin and
cocaine.
1992 -
STS-49:
Space Shuttle Endeavour lands safely after a successful maiden voyage.
2003 - In
Casablanca,
Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the
Casablanca terrorist attacks.
2004 - The Day of Mourning at
Bykivnia forest, just outside of
Kiev,
Ukraine. Here during 1930s and early 1940s
communist bolsheviks executed over 100.000 Ukrainian civilians.
2005 -
Kuwait permits
women's suffrage in a 35-23
National Assembly vote.
2006 - A large
earthquake (7.4 on the
Richter scale) occurs near
New Zealand.
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