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Saturday, May 16, 2015
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, Liberace (Wladziu Valentino Liberace) 1919 - Musician
Billy Martin (Alfred Manuel "Billy" Martin, Jr.) 1928 - Baseball player and manager, Pierce Brosnan 1952 - Actor ("Remington Steel," "Dante's Peak," "Golden Eye"), Olga Korbut (Olga Valentinovna Korbut) 1955 - Gymnast, known as the Sparrow from Minsk
Debra Winger 1955 - Actress, Janet Jackson 1966 - Singer, Janet Jackson Merchandise, Tori Spelling 1973 - Actress ("Beverly Hills 90210")
1770 - Marie Antoinette, at age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.
1868 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson was acquitted during the Senate impeachment, by one vote.
1929 - The first Academy Awards were held in Hollywood.
1960 - Theodore Maiman, at Hughes Research Laboratory in California, demonstrated the first working laser.
1963 - After 22 Earth orbits Gordon Cooper returned to Earth, ending Project Mercury.
1965 - Spaghetti-O's were sold for the first time.
1975 - Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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.
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