What are the important events that happened on May 16? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
May 16: Facts & Myths About This Day
May 16 is the 137th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 229 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 3, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,596,960 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectatriacontaheptagon’ day.
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Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 258 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,164 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 16 Historical Events
- 1532 –Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
- 1770 –14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
- 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.
- 1866 –The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
- 1868 –President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.
- 1918 –The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government an imprisonable offense.
- 1919 –A naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
- 1943 –Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
- 1974 –Josip Broz Tito is re-elected president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he is elected for life.
- 1983 –Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.
Who were born on May 16?
- 1710 –William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (d. 1782)
- 1788 –Friedrich Rückert, German Poet, Translator and Orientalist (d. 1866)
- 1801 –William H. Seward, American politician and diplomat (d. 1872)
- 1898 –Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director (d. 1956)
- 1917 –George Gaynes, American actor
- 1951 –Christian Lacroix, French fashion desinger
- 1966 –Scott Reeves, American actor and singer
- 1975 –Tonéx, American singer
- 1975 –Tony Kakko, Finnish singer (Sonata Arctica)
- 1984 –Mickie Knuckles, American professional wrestler
Who died on May 16?
- 583 –Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484)
- 1620 –William Adams, English navigator (b. 1564)
- 1703 –Charles Perrault, French author (b. 1628)
- 1947 –Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1861)
- 1953 –Django Reinhardt, Belgian musician (b. 1910)
- 1955 –James Agee, American writer (b. 1909)
- 1979 –A. Philip Randolph, American civil rights activist and labor union leader (b. 1889)
- 1988 –George Pyrounakis, Greek religious figure (b. 1910)
- 2008 –Robert Mondavi, American winemaker (b. 1913)
- 2011 –Bob Davis, Australian rules footballer (b. 1928)
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