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