TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: MAY 16
0955 Alberich II, illegitimate son of Octavianus elected pope
1568 Mary Queen of Scotland flees to England
1770 Marie Antoinette marries future King Louis XVI of France.
1861 Kentucky proclaims its neutrality
1868 President Andrew Johnson is acquitted during Senate impeachment, by one vote, cast by Edmund G. Ross.
1879 The Treaty of Gandamak between Russia and England sets up the Afghan state.
1888 The first demonstration of recording on a flat disc was demonstrated by Emile Berliner.
1920 Joan of Arc is canonized in Rome.
1927 Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax
1939 Food stamps are 1st issued
1943 Operation Chastise: No. 617 Squadron RAF begins the famous Dambusters Raid, bombing the Möhne and Eder dams in the Ruhr valley with bouncing bombs
1944 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz
1960 Theodore Maiman fires the first functional laser
1963 After 22 Earth orbits, Gordon Cooper returns to Earth, ending the last mission of Project Mercury.
1965 Spaghetti-O’s 1st sold
1966 In China, the Cultural Revolution begins
The publication of the May 16 notification marks the beginning of the political campaign, which was initiated by Mao Zedong and lasted ten years. Its objective was to strengthen communism by removing capitalist, traditional and cultural elements from Chinese society.
1987 The Bobro 400 set sail from New York Harbor with 3,200 tons of garbage. The barge travelled 6,000 miles in search of a place to dump its load. It returned to New York Harbor after 8 weeks with the same load.
1988 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police do not have to have a search warrant to search discarded garbage.
1991 Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character)
1991 Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the United States Congress.
1997 President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire ended 32 years of autocratic rule when rebel forces led by Laurent Kabila expelled him from the country.
2013 Human stem cells are successfully cloned
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
