Legs presents ~ On This Day

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On this Day ~ May 16th

955
Alberich II, illegitimate son of Octavianus elected pope

1527
Florence becomes a republic

1568
Mary Queen of Scotland flees to England

1605
Paul V becomes Pope.

1747
Prince Willem V sworn in as Admiral-General of Netherlands

1763
Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London

1770
Marie Antoinette (14) marries future King Louis XVI (15) of France

1792
Denmark abolishes slave trade

1817
Mississippi River steamboat service begins

1866
Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer

1872
Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time

1874
1st recorded dam disaster in US (Williamsburg MA)

1891
George A Hormel & Company introduce Spam

1894
Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium & 170 other buildings

1901
Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the Priory School"

1920
Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) canonized a saint in Rome

1922
White Star Line Majestic completes 5½ day maiden voyage

1929
1st Academy Awards

1936
1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France

1939
Food stamps are 1st issued

1941
Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham)

1943
German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw

1944
1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz

1948
Egyptians enter the Gaza

1952
Pierce Brosnan: actor, born

1955
Olga Korbut: gymnast, born

1960
Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US

1965
Spaghetti-O's 1st sold

1967
Philadelphia voters approve a $13 million bond issue to build a new stadium

1971
1st class postage now costs 8¢ (was 6¢)

1975
Muhammad Ali TKOs Ron Lyle in 11 for heavyweight boxing title

1977
5 die as New York Airway helicopter topples on the Pan Am Building in NYC

1977
Muhammad Ali beats Alfredo Evangelist in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1981
"Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes hits #1 for next 9 weeks

1985
Pope John Paul II arrives in Belgium

1986
"Top Gun" premieres

1986
Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) comes back from dead on Dallas

1988
US Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant

1990
Jim Henson muppeteer & Sammy Davis Jr entertainer, die

1991
Queen Elizabeth becomes 1st British monarch to address US congress

1993
Judd Nelson pleads no contest to kicking Kim Evans in the head

1994
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Orlando FL on WTKS 104.1 FM

1994
Jacqueline Onassis admitted to the hospital for cancer treatment

2003
In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.