The May 16th is the 136e Jour of the Année (137e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

14th century

• 1328 : Jean the Blind man (count of Luxembourg, King de Bohême, 1296 - 1346) confers àu sex the town of the Esch-on-Alzette (Luxembourg) the statute of “free city”.

• 1364 : Battle of Cocherel: Bertrand Of Guesclin beats Charles the Bad and its English allies; he receives in reward the county of Longueville.

18th century

• 1703 : Foundation of Saint-Pétersbourg.

• 1770 : Marriage of Marie-Antoinette of Austria with the future Louis XVI, king of France

• 1800 : First general Census of the population in France

19th century

• 1811 : The British, Spanish and Portuguese allies push back the army of the marshal Soult with the Bataille of Albuera.

• 1877 : Crisis of May 16th, 1877 following which the mode of IIIe République becomes absolutely parliamentary.

20th century

• 1916 : secret Accord '' Sykes-Barb '' on the division of the Turkish colonies of the Middle East enters the France and the the United Kingdom.

• 1920: Canonization of Jeanne d' Arc

• 1929 : First ceremony of the Oscars to Hollywood

• 1932 : The French steamer Georges-Philipar runs with broad Djibouti: 90 died, of which the journalist and writer Albert London.

• 1943 : Operation Chastise, 19 Lancaster of the 617 Squadron, carried out by, bombard the stoppings of Möhne, Eder and Sorpe.

• 1950 : Creation of the Professional singer bald person of Eugene Ionesco.

• 1953 : First publication of the weekly magazine the Express train , like supplement of the daily newspaper the Echoes

• 1966 : Beginning of the Cultural revolution in China.

21e century

• 2002 : the Attack of the clones, episode II of the saga the Star Wars leaves in the cinemas whole planet

• 2003 : Morocco: A series of attack-suicides against Western targets of the downtown area of Casablanca make 45 dead, including 12 kamikazes; three French, three Spaniards and an Italian appear among the victims, as well as a hundred casualties.

• 2006 : Arrest of Stephan Lhomme in Bordeaux by the DST

• 2007 :

• France: Nomination of Nicolas Sarkozy which becomes the 23^e President of the French Republic and the 6^e president of the V {{E}} République.
• European Union: Malta and Cyprus obtains the green light of the Commission to adopt the Euro on January 1st, 2008.
• Opening ceremony of the 60e Cannes festival

Births

• 1718 : Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician († January 9th 1799)
• 1855: Jean-Victor Augagneur, doctor and politician French († April 23rd 1931).
• 1888 : Royal Front, American independent researcher († August 11th 1971).
• 1905 : Henry Founded, American Acteur († 1982).
• 1906 : Arturo Uslar Pietri, writer Venezuelan († 2001).
• 1920: Martine Carol, French Actress († 1967).
• 1922 : Michel Poniatowski, former minister and Historian French († 2002).
• 1934 : Roy Kerr, Mathematician New Zealand.
• 1935 : Carol Shields, Canadian Novelist († 2003).
• 1945 : Brewster H. Shaw, American astronaut
• 1946: Robert Fripp, British Type-setter .
• 1951 : Christian Lacroix, Dressmaker French.
• 1953 : Pierce Brosnan, Actor Irish.
• 1954 : Dafydd Rhys Williams, Canadian spationaut
• 1966: Janet Jackson, American Singer.
• 1970 : Gabriela Sabatini, Argentinian tennis player .
• 1973 : Tori Spelling, American Actress, girl of the producer Aaron Spelling.
• 1974 : Laura Pausini, Italian singer.
• 1982 : Billy Crawford, singer.

Death

• 1211 : Mieszko IV Legs Frays, duke of Cracow.
• 1561 : Jean Tarnowski, noble Polish (° 1488)
• 1620: William Adams, navigator English and samurai (° September 24th 1564)
• 1669: Pietro da Cortona, Italian architect (° November 1st 1598)
• 1729: Antonio Maria Salvini, 76 years, writer, Poet and Philologist Italy N. (° January 12th 1653).
• 1782 : Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (° February 19th 1736)
• 1891: Ion Bratianu, Rumanian political personality (° June 2nd 1821)
• 1910: Henri-Edmond Cross-country race ( Henri Edmond Delacroix ), painter naturalist then French pointillist (° May 20th 1856)
• 1920: Jose Gómez Ortega known as “Joselito” or “Gallito”, Spanish Matador (° May 8th 1895).
• 1926 : Mehmed VI, last Othoman sultan (° January 14th 1861)
• 1947: Frederick Hopkins, British biochemist , Nobel Prize of medicine 1929 (° June 20th 1861)
• 1953: Django Reinhardt, Belgian Guitarist of Jazz (° January 23rd 1910)
• 1957: Eliot Born, Police of Chicago which stopped Al Capone (° April 19th 1903)
• 1977: Modibo Keïta, first president of the Mali (° June 4th 1915)
• 1984: Irwin Shaw, writer states-unien (° February 27th 1913)
• 1984: Andy Kaufman, American artist (° January 17th 1949)
• 1990: Sammy Davis Jr., singer, actor and actor states-unien (° December 8th 1925)
• 1990: Jim Henson, marionnettist states-unien (° September 24th 1936)
• 1994: Alain Cuny, Actor French (° July 12th 1908)
• 2006: Andre Labarrère, French political personality (° January 12th 1928)
• 2006: Christophe de Ponfilly, French journalist (° January 5th 1951)

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

• Franchy of Amorges (7th century), hermit in Resident of Nevers.
• Brendan the Traveller († 578), Irish abbot.
• Honore of Amiens († 600), bishop.
• Martyrs of laure of Saint-Sabas († 616), monks.
• Pérégrin of Auxerre († 304), bishop martyr.
• Phal de Troyes or Fidole († towards 540), monk.
• Victorien

Catholic saints

• Jean Népomucène († 1383), martyr.
• Simon Stock († 1265).
• Ubald Baldassini
• Ubald de Gubbio († 1160), bishop.
• Gemmated Galgani (1878 - 1903), virgin.

Orthodoxe saints

• Cassien de Komel († 1537), monk.
• Laurent de Komel († 1548), monk.

See too

• May 16th in sport
• May 16th in the railroads

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