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Events on the 16th of May in history

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16 May 0218 Julia Maesa, aunt of the assassinated Caracalla, is banished to her home in Syria by the self-proclaimed emperor Macrinus and declares her 14-year old grandson Elagabalus, emperor of Rome.
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16 May 0955 Alberich II, illegitimate son of Octavianus elected pope
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16 May 1165 Ramjbam & his family reach Acre Palestine
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16 May 1204 Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
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16 May 1527 The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic.
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16 May 1527 Florence becomes a republic
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16 May 1532 Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
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16 May 1532 Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord Chancellor
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16 May 1547 Protestant German monarch surrenders to Karel in Wittenberg
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16 May 1568 Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.
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16 May 1571 Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 AM
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16 May 1584 7 Westfriese towns divide monasteries of Egmond / Blokker / St-Pietersdal
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16 May 1584 Santiago de Vera becomes sixth Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines.
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16 May 1605 Camillo Borghese elected to succeed Pope Leo XI becomes Paul V
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16 May 1606 2,000 foreigners murdered in Russia
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16 May 1648 Battle at Z
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16 May 1747 Prince Willem V sworn in as Admiral-General of Netherlands
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16 May 1763 Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London
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16 May 1770 A 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
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16 May 1770 Marie Antoinette (14) marries future King Louis XVI (15) of France
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16 May 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.
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16 May 1792 Denmark abolishes slave trade
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16 May 1795 Hedges Treaty: Bataafse Republic becomes French vassel state
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16 May 1796 Lombardije Republic forms
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16 May 1803 Peace of Amiens ends
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16 May 1804 Senate & Tribune declare Napolean leader of France
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16 May 1811 Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom, defeat the French at the Battle of Albuera.
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16 May 1811 Peninsular War-Allies defeat French at Albuera
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16 May 1812 Russian Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov signs the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Russo-Turkish War. Bessarabia is annexed by Imperial Russia.
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16 May 1817 Mississippi River steamboat service begins
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16 May 1822 Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.
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16 May 1834 The Battle of Asseiceira is fought, the last and decisive engagement of the Liberal Wars in Portugal.
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16 May 1843 The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.
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16 May 1860 Republican convention (Chicago) selects Abraham Lincoln candidate
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16 May 1861 Confederate Government offers war volunteers $10 premium
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16 May 1861 Kentucky proclaims its neutrality
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16 May 1862 Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir builds 1st automobile
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16 May 1863 Battle of Champion's Hill MS-bloodiest action of Vicksburg Campaign
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16 May 1864 Battle of Bermuda Hundred, Virginia
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16 May 1864 Atlanta Campaign-battle of Resaca, ends (since May 13)
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16 May 1864 Last battles at Drewry's Bluff VA (6,666 casualties)
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16 May 1866 Congress authorizes nickel 5 cent piece (replaces silver half-dime)
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16 May 1866 US Treasury Department authorizes nickel
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16 May 1866 The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
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16 May 1866 Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer
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16 May 1866 Congress authorizes nickel 5
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16 May 1868 By one vote, Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson
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16 May 1868 United States President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.
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16 May 1868 Bedrich Smetana's opera "Dalibor" premieres in Prague
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16 May 1868 President Andrew Johnson acquitted during Senate impeachment, by 1 vote
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16 May 1869 Cincinnati Reds play their 1st baseball game, win 41-7
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16 May 1872 Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time
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16 May 1874 1st recorded dam disaster in US (Williamsburg, Massachusetts)
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16 May 1874 A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
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16 May 1875 Quake in Venezuela & Colombia kills 16,000
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16 May 1877 May 1877 political crisis in France.
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16 May 1879 Antonin Dvor
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16 May 1879 Treaty of Gandamak to set up Afghan state between Russia & English
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16 May 1881 World's 1st elec tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin)
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16 May 1882 8th Kentucky Derby: Babe Hurd aboard Apollo wins in 2:40
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16 May 1884 10th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Buchanan wins in 2:40
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16 May 1888 CPR opens Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
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16 May 1888 Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
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16 May 1888 CPR opens Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver British Columbia
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16 May 1891 The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electrical current (the most common form today).
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16 May 1891 George A Hormel & Company introduce Spam
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16 May 1894 Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium & 170 other buildings
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16 May 1901 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Priory School" (BG)
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16 May 1901 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the Priory School" (BG)
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16 May 1902 2 deaf-mutes face each other for 1st time as Dummy Hoy leads off for the Reds against Dummy Taylor of the Giants, Reds win 5-3
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16 May 1903 George Wyman makes 1st motorcycle trip across the US
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16 May 1903 1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at San Fransisco (George Wymann)
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16 May 1910 US Bureau of Mines forms
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16 May 1911 Zeppelin "Deutscheland" wrecked at Dusseldorf
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16 May 1911 Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey UK
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16 May 1914 The first ever National Challenge Cup final is played. Brooklyn Field Club defeats Brooklyn Celtic 2–1.
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16 May 1914 American Horseshoe Pitchers Association organizes in Kansas City
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16 May 1914 Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens
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16 May 1916 41st Preakness: Linus McAtee aboard Damrosch wins in 1:54.8
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16 May 1918 The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense. It will be repealed less than two years later.
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16 May 1919 A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
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16 May 1920 In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
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16 May 1920 Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) canonized a saint in Rome
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16 May 1920 Spanish bullfighter Joselito is fatally gored fighting his last bull
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16 May 1921 47th Preakness: F Coltiletti aboard Broomspun wins in 1:54.2
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16 May 1922 White Star Line Majestic completes 5
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16 May 1924 108
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16 May 1925 1st network radiocast (WHAS) of Kentucky Derby
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16 May 1925 51st Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Flying Ebony wins in 2:07.6
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16 May 1927 New York Yankee Bob Meusel steals 2nd, 3rd & home
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16 May 1927 Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax
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16 May 1929 1st Academy Awards - "Wings, " Emil Jennings and Janet Gaynor wins
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16 May 1929 In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards are awarded.
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16 May 1929 1st Academy Awards - "Wings", Emil Jennings & Janet Gaynor win
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16 May 1930 6th Walker Cup: US, 10-2
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16 May 1930 6th Walker Cup: US 10-Great Britain/Ireland 2
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16 May 1931 57th Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on Twenty Grand wins in 2:01.8
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16 May 1932 Yankees 4th straight shutout to equal record set by Cleveland & Boston
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16 May 1933 Cecil Travis becomes 1st player to get 5 hits in his 1st game
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16 May 1936 1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France
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16 May 1936 62nd Preakness: George Woolf aboard Bold Venture wins in 1:59
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16 May 1938 1st animal breeding society forms (New Jersey)
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16 May 1938 38 die in Terminal Hotel fire (Atlanta GA)
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16 May 1938 In cricket Bradman scores 278 Australia vs MCC, 349 minutes, 35 fours 1 six
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16 May 1939 1st American League night game, Philadelphia Shribe Park (Indians 8, Athletics 3 in 10)
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16 May 1939 Food stamps are 1st issued
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16 May 1940 Nazis forbid non-professional auto workers
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16 May 1940 Prime Minister Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris
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16 May 1941 Germans made their last major air attack on Britain
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16 May 1941 1st US/radio performance of Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"
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16 May 1941 Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia
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16 May 1941 Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham)
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16 May 1941 Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT)
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16 May 1942 1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma
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16 May 1943 The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
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16 May 1943 German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw
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16 May 1943 Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting
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16 May 1943 RAF bombs M
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16 May 1944 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz
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16 May 1944 Military police attack gypsies
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16 May 1945 Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/Half Moon Okinawa
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16 May 1946 Musical "Annie Get Your Gun, " starring Ethel Merman premieres in New York City
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16 May 1946 Musical "Annie Get Your Gun" starring Ethel Merman premieres in NYC
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16 May 1948 George Polk, CBS news correspondant, body found
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16 May 1948 Botvinnik wins 5-player tournament to determine world chess champion
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16 May 1948 CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece
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16 May 1948 Chaim Weizmann elected 1st President of Israel
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16 May 1948 Egyptians enter the Gaza
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16 May 1948 Israel issues its 1st postage stamps
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16 May 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.
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16 May 1952 "New Faces (of 1952)" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 365 performances
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16 May 1953 American journalist William N. Oatis is released after serving 22 months of a ten-year prison sentence for espionage in Czechoslovakia.
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16 May 1953 Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a single, then retires next 27 in a row
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16 May 1954 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA National Capital Golf Open
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16 May 1954 Ted Williams gets 8 hits in 1st game (DH) since breaking collarbone
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16 May 1954 WGAN (now WGME) TV channel 13 in Portland, ME (CBS) 1st broadcast
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16 May 1955 Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Don Cockell in San Francisco
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16 May 1955 Rocky Marciano TKOs Don Cockell in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
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16 May 1955 Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Don Cockell in 9 (San Fransisco) for heavyweight boxing title
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16 May 1955 King Baudouin of Belgium visits Congo
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16 May 1955 Ray Lindwall scores his 2nd Test Cricket century 118 at Bridgetown
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16 May 1956 Kraft Theater presents an act from "Profiles in Courage"
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16 May 1956 Laker takes 10-88 for Surrey vs. Australians at the Oval
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16 May 1956 Egypt recognizes People's Republic of China
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16 May 1956 Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Monte Bello Is Australia
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16 May 1957 Major Irwin, USAF flies a Lockheed Starfighter to a record 1,404.18 MPH
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16 May 1957 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Invicti Athletae
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16 May 1957 US launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton CT
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16 May 1957 Yankees involved in Copacabana Incident, leads to Billy Martin trade
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16 May 1958 Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mexico
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16 May 1958 Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter
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16 May 1959 85th Preakness: William Harmatz aboard Royal Orbit wins in 1:57
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16 May 1959 WTOM TV channel 4 in Cheboygan MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
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16 May 1960 Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
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16 May 1960 Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US
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16 May 1961 Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
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16 May 1961 13th Emmy Awards: Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr & Barbara Stanwyck
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16 May 1963 "Beast in Me" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 4 performances
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16 May 1963 Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends US Project Mercury
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16 May 1964 90th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 1:56.8
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16 May 1964 Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champion
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16 May 1965 "Roar of the Greasepaint" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 232 performances
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16 May 1965 WNJU TV channel 47 in NY-Linden, New York (TEL) begins broadcasting
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16 May 1965 Baltimore Oriole Jim Palmer's pitching debut, beats Yankees 7-5 & homers
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16 May 1965 Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam
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16 May 1965 Spaghetti-O's 1st sold
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16 May 1965 Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open
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16 May 1966 National Welfare Rights Organization organizes
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16 May 1966 The Communist Party of China issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
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16 May 1966 Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" is released
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16 May 1966 Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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16 May 1967 Philadelphia voters approve a $13 million bond issue to build a new stadium
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16 May 1968 Earthquake kills 47 in Japan
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16 May 1969 US nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off San Francisco
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16 May 1969 Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus.
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16 May 1969 Barbra Streisand appears at a Friars Club Tribute
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16 May 1969 Students occupies Magden House Amsterdam
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16 May 1969 The Who's Pete Townsend & Roger Daltrey charged with assault
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16 May 1969 US sub Guitarro sinks at the pier at San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA
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16 May 1969 Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere
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16 May 1970 "Grover Henson Feels Forgotten" by Bill Cosby hits #70
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16 May 1970 96th Preakness: Eddie Belmonte aboard Personality wins in 1:56.2
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16 May 1971 1st class postage now costs 8 cents (was 6 cents)
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16 May 1971 1st class postage now costs 8
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16 May 1971 Benjamin Britten's opera "Owen Wingrave" premieres in Aldwych
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16 May 1971 Bulgaria adopts it's constitution
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16 May 1972 "Don't Play Us Cheap" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 164 performances
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16 May 1972 Greg Luzinski's 500' homerun hits the Liberty Bell monument in Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium
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16 May 1972 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationale
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16 May 1973 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Dave Soutar
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16 May 1973 AC Milan wins 13th Europe Cup II in Saloniki
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16 May 1974 Josip Broz Tito is re-elected president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he is elected for life.
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16 May 1974 Helmut Schmidt becomes West German chancellor
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16 May 1974 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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16 May 1975 Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in the UK
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16 May 1975 India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state holds a referendum in which the popular vote is in favor of merging with India.
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16 May 1975 Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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16 May 1975 India annexes Principality of Sikkim
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16 May 1975 Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mount Everest's summit
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16 May 1975 Muhammad Ali TKOs Ron Lyle in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
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16 May 1975 Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK
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16 May 1976 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Philadelphia Flyers in 4 games
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16 May 1976 Stanley Cup: Montr
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16 May 1976 Sue Roberts wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic
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16 May 1977 5 die as New York Airway helicopter topples on the Pan Am Building in NYC
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16 May 1977 Muhammad Ali beats Alfredo Evangelist in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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16 May 1979 FC Barcelona wins 19th Europe Cup II in Basel
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16 May 1979 National League approves Astros sales from Ford Motors to John J McMullen for $19 million
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16 May 1980 Former Buggles members Geoff Downes and Trevor Horn replace Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman in Yes
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16 May 1980 Paul McCartney releases "McCartney II" album
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16 May 1980 34th NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Philadelphia 76ers, 4 games to 2
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16 May 1980 Brian May of rock group Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis
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16 May 1981 "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes hits #1 for next 9 weeks
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16 May 1981 107th Preakness: Jorge Velasquez aboard Pleasant Colony wins in 1:54.6
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16 May 1981 Houston Astro Craig Reynolds hits 3 triples beating Cubs 6-1
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16 May 1981 Pretenders' Martin Chambers weds Tracy Atkinson
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16 May 1982 "Barnum" closes at St. James Theater NYC after 854 performances
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16 May 1982 "Is There Life after High School?" closes at Barrymore after 12 performances
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16 May 1982 Stanley Cup: New York Islanders sweep Vancouver Canucks in 4 games
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16 May 1982 Columbia moves to Vandenberg Air Force Base for mating in preparation for STS-4
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16 May 1982 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
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16 May 1982 Salvador Jorge Blanco wins presidential election in Dominican Republic
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16 May 1983 Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.
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16 May 1983 Lebanese parliament accept peace accord with Israel
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16 May 1984 Guinea-Bissau adopts constitution
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16 May 1984 Juventus wins 24th Europe Cup II in Basel
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16 May 1984 Mackay pays $218,718 for 44,166 tickets to keep Twins in Minnesota; Twins sell 51,863 tickets but only 6,346 fans show up for the game
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16 May 1984 Phillie pitcher Steve Carlton hits a grand slam homer
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16 May 1984 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
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16 May 1985 Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of Year
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16 May 1985 Pope John Paul II arrives in Belgium
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16 May 1986 "Top Gun, " premieres
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16 May 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.
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16 May 1986 "Top Gun" premieres
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16 May 1986 Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) comes back from dead on Dallas
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16 May 1986 South African President P W Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela
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16 May 1987 "Bobro 400", a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage, set sail from NY, beginning an unsuccesful 8-week search for a dumping site
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16 May 1987 "Mystery of Edwin Drood" closes at Imperial NYC after 608 performances
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16 May 1987 113th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 1:55.8
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16 May 1987 Rocker David Crosby weds Jan Dance in Los Angeles
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16 May 1987 Weird Al Yankovic performs live at 72nd National Orange Show
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16 May 1988 A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
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16 May 1988 Surgeon General C Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin
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16 May 1988 US Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant
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16 May 1989 Soviet President Mikhail S Gorbachev & Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing
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16 May 1990 Dominican Republic President Joaqu
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16 May 1990 Juventus wins 19th UEFA Cup in Avellino
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16 May 1991 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.
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16 May 1991 Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character)
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16 May 1991 Queen Elizabeth becomes 1st British monarch to address US congress
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16 May 1992 "Smells Like Nirvana, " by Weird Al Yankovic hits #35
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16 May 1992 118th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Pine Bluff wins in 1:55.6
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16 May 1992 Polls show Perot, Bush & Clinton could be in a deadlock
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16 May 1992 US space shuttle STS-49 lands (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
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16 May 1993 "3 Men on a Horse" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 40 performances
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16 May 1993 "Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" closes at Circle in the Square Theater NYC after 30 performances
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16 May 1993 "Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" closes at Circle in Square NYC after 30 performances
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16 May 1993 Farmer Sugeng finds 1.2 million year old Pithecanthropus IX skull
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16 May 1993 Judd Nelson pleads no contest to kicking Kim Evans in the head
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16 May 1993 Laura Davies wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
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16 May 1993 S
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16 May 1994 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Orlando Florida on WTKS 104.1 FM
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16 May 1994 Jacqueline Onassis admitted to the hospital for cancer treatment
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16 May 1994 Joaqu
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16 May 1994 Tennis star Jennifer Capriati arrested on possession of marijuana
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16 May 1995 Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara & charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier
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16 May 1996 Sammy Sosa is 1st Chicago Cub to hit 2 homeruns in 1 inning
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16 May 1997 Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country.
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16 May 1997 Atlanta Braves beat St Louis Cardinals, 1-0 in 13 innings
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16 May 1997 Brandi Sherwood, (Idaho) replaces Brook Lee (Miss Universe) as Miss USA
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16 May 1997 Brook Mehealani Lee, 26, of US crowned 46th Miss Universe
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16 May 1997 Expos trailing San Fransisco Giants by 9 runs comeback to win 14-13
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16 May 1997 St Louis Cardinals Gary Gaetti records his 2,000th hits
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16 May 1998 124th Preakness
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16 May 1998 124th Preakness: Kent Desormeaux on Real Quiet wins in 1:54.8
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16 May 2003 In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.
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16 May 2005 Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35–23 National Assembly vote.
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16 May 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy takes office as President of France.
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16 May 2011 STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.
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16 May 2014 Twelve people are killed in two explosions in the Gikomba market area of the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.
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16 May 2015 A passenger train collides with a tractor and trailer on a level crossing at Ibbenbüren, Germany. Two people are killed and 40 are injured.
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