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Old 05-16-2017, 01:59 PM   #830
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Today is May 16.

1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.

1770 – A 14-year-old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France. You'd think they married young, but it was the 1700s, they were middle-aged.

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 – United States 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.

1891 – The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today).

1916 – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria.

1918 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense. It will be repealed less than two years later.

1919 – A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft

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commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.

1929 – In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.

1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.

1965 - Driving away from a gig at the Civic Hall, Long Beach, California, the limo taking The Rolling Stones back to their hotel was besieged by fans who caved in the roof by standing on it. The band attempted to hold the roof up while their chauffeur drove off with bodies falling onto the road.

1966 - The Beach Boys released the album Pet Sounds

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in the US. The album is now regarded as the masterpiece of composer-producer Brian Wilson. To confirm this, Pet Sounds has been widely ranked as one of the most influential records ever released and has been ranked at No.1 in several music magazines lists of greatest albums of all time, including New Musical Express, The Times and Mojo Magazine. In 2003, it was ranked No.2 in Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, (Sgt. Pepper's came first).

1969 - Pete Townshend spent the night in a US jail for assaulting a man during a Who gig at The Fillmore East. What Townshend didn't know was the man who jumped onto the stage was a plainclothes policeman trying to warn the audience that a fire had broken out. The Who guitarist was later fined $30 for the offence.

1984 - Ozzy Osbourne was arrested in Memphis, Tennessee for 'staggering drunk' down Beale Street. Osbourne was released from the Memphis jail five hours later, after drying out, and was not required to return for a court appearance. He continued on with a tour in support of 1983’s Bark at the Moon.

1991 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.

2010 - Ronnie James Dio,

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singer with Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath and his own band Dio, died after a six-month battle with stomach cancer. He was 67 years old. Dio’s career began in 1957 with The Vegas Kings, which later changed to Ronnie and the Rumblers, then Ronnie and the Redcaps, then in 1961, Ronnie Dio and the Prophets. In 1967, Dio and Prophets guitarist Nick Pantas formed the Electric Elves, which shortened its name to Elf. The band’s success eventually landed them an opening slot for Deep Purple which exposed Dio’s voice to Deep Purple’s guitarist, Ritchie Blackmore, who later recruited Dio and other members of Elf for his new band Rainbow.

2011 – STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.



1801 – William H. Seward (bought Alaska from Russia, 375,303,680 acres, for 2 cents an acre), 1824 – Levi P. Morton (22nd VPOTUS), 1905 – Henry Fonda, 1913 – Woody Herman♪ ♫, 1919 – Liberace, 1921 – Harry Carey, Jr., 1928 – Billy Martin, 1944 – Danny Trejo, 1946 – Roger Earl(Foghat), 1946 – Robert Fripp♪ ♫(King Crimson), 1947 – Barbara Lee♪ ♫(The Chiffons), 1947 – Darrell Sweet(Nazareth), 1953 – Pierce Brosnan, 1955 – Olga Korbut, 1955 – Debra Winger, 1959 – Mare Winningham, 1964 – John Salley, 1965 – Krist Novoselic(Nirvana), 1966 – Janet Jackson♪ ♫, 1968 – Ralph Tresvant♪ ♫(New Edition), 1969 – David Boreanaz (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, Bones), 1969 – Tucker Carlson, 1970 – Gabriela Sabatini, 1973 – Tori Spelling, 1986 – Megan Fox



1920 – Levi P. Morton (22nd VPOTUS), 1953 – Django Reinhardt, 1956 – H. B. Reese (created Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, PBUH), 1957 – Eliot Ness, 1984 – Andy Kaufman, 1990 – Sammy Davis Jr.♪ ♫, 1990 – Jim Henson, 2010 – Ronnie James Dio♪ ♫(Elf, Rainbow, Dio, Heaven & Hell), 2012 – Chuck Brown♪ ♫, 2013 – Dick Trickle(one of the greatest names in racing)
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