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Events:C/P.
218 Julia Maesa, aunt of the assassinated Caracalla, is banished to her home in Syria by the self-proclaimed emperor Macrinus and declares her 14-year old grandson Elagabalus, emperor of Rome.
1204 Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
1527 The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic.
1532 Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
1568 Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.
1770 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
1771 The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The "Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
1811 Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom, defeat the French at the Battle of Albuera.
1822 Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.
1843 The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.
1866 The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
1868 President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.
1874 A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
1877 May 16, 1877 political crisis in France.
1891 The International Electro-Technical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electrical current (the most common form today).
1914 The first ever Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup final is played. Brooklyn Field Club defeats Brooklyn Celtic 2-1.
1918 The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government an imprisonable offense.
1919 A naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
1920 In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
1929 In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out.
1943 Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
1948 Chaim Weizmann is elected the first President of Israel.
1951 The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
1953 American journalist William N. Oatis is released after serving 22 months of a ten-year prison sentence for espionage in Czechslovakia.
1960 Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
1961 Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'ιtat to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
1966 The Communist Party of China issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1969 Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus.
1974 Josip Broz Tito is re-elected president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he is elected for life.
1975 India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state holds a referendum in which the popular vote is in favor of merging with India.
1975 Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1983 Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.
1986 The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.
1988 A report by United States' Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
1991 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addressed a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.
2003 In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.
2005 Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.
2007 Nicolas Sarkozy takes office as President of France.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
218 Julia Maesa, aunt of the assassinated Caracalla, is banished to her home in Syria by the self-proclaimed emperor Macrinus and declares her 14-year old grandson Elagabalus, emperor of Rome.
1204 Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
1527 The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic.
1532 Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
1568 Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.
1770 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
1771 The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The "Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
1811 Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom, defeat the French at the Battle of Albuera.
1822 Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.
1843 The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.
1866 The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
1868 President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.
1874 A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
1877 May 16, 1877 political crisis in France.
1891 The International Electro-Technical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electrical current (the most common form today).
1914 The first ever Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup final is played. Brooklyn Field Club defeats Brooklyn Celtic 2-1.
1918 The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government an imprisonable offense.
1919 A naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
1920 In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
1929 In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out.
1943 Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
1948 Chaim Weizmann is elected the first President of Israel.
1951 The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
1953 American journalist William N. Oatis is released after serving 22 months of a ten-year prison sentence for espionage in Czechslovakia.
1960 Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
1961 Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'ιtat to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
1966 The Communist Party of China issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1969 Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus.
1974 Josip Broz Tito is re-elected president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he is elected for life.
1975 India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state holds a referendum in which the popular vote is in favor of merging with India.
1975 Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1983 Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.
1986 The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.
1988 A report by United States' Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
1991 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addressed a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.
2003 In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.
2005 Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.
2007 Nicolas Sarkozy takes office as President of France.
End of C/P.