Monday, May 16, 2016

History for May 16

History for May 16 - On-This-Day.com
William Seward (William Henry Seward, Sr.) 1801 - Governor of New York, U.S. Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln, Henry Fonda 1905 - Actor, father of Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda, Studs Terkel (Louis "Studs" Terkel) 1912 - Author, historian, actor, broadcaster


Liberace (Wladziu Valentino Liberace) 1919 - Musician, Billy Martin (Alfred Manuel "Billy" Martin, Jr.) 1928 - Baseball player and manager, Debra Winger 1955 - Actress


1770 - Marie Antoinette, at age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.


1879 - The Treaty of Gandamak between Russia and England set up the Afghan state.


1929 - The first Academy Awards were held in Hollywood.


1960 - Theodore Maiman, at Hughes Research Laboratory in California, demonstrated the first working laser.


1965 - Spaghetti-O's were sold for the first time.


1969 - Venus 5, a Russian spacecraft, landed on the planet Venus.


1985 - Michael Jordan was named Rookie of the Year in the NBA.


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.

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