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

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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