May 16th
The May 16th is the 136e Jour of the Année (137e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.
Events
14th century
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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”.
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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
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1703 : Foundation of Saint-Pétersbourg.
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1770 : Marriage of Marie-Antoinette of Austria with the future Louis XVI, king of France
19th century
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1811 : The British, Spanish and Portuguese allies push back the army of the marshal Soult with the Bataille of Albuera.
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1877 : Crisis of May 16th, 1877 following which the mode of IIIe République becomes absolutely parliamentary.
20th century
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1916 : secret Accord '' Sykes-Barb '' on the division of the Turkish colonies of the Middle East enters the France and the the United Kingdom.
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1932 : The French steamer Georges-Philipar runs with broad Djibouti: 90 died, of which the journalist and writer Albert London.
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1943 : Operation Chastise, 19 Lancaster of the 617 Squadron, carried out by, bombard the stoppings of Möhne, Eder and Sorpe.
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1950 : Creation of the Professional singer bald person of Eugene Ionesco.
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1953 : First publication of the weekly magazine the Express train , like supplement of the daily newspaper the Echoes
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1966 : Beginning of the Cultural revolution in China.
21e century
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2002 : the Attack of the clones, episode II of the saga the Star Wars leaves in the cinemas whole planet
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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.
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2006 : Arrest of Stephan Lhomme in Bordeaux by the DST
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2007 :
- France: Nomination of Nicolas Sarkozy which becomes the 23e President of the French Republic and the 6e 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
See too
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