16 Mey

The **16t o Mey** is the 136t day o the year (137t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 229 days ti come.

## Events

* 218 - Elagabalus is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
* 1568 - Mary, Queen o Scots flees tae Ingland.
* 1605 - Pape Paul IV is electit.
* 1702 - A major fire occurs in the ceety o Uppsala in Swaden.
* 1868 - The impeachment o US Preses Andrew Johnson fails.
* 1920 - Pape Benedict XV canonizes Joan o Arc.
* 1929 - The first Academy Awairds ceremony takes place.
* 1974 - Helmut Schmidt replaces Willy Brandt as Chancellor o Wast Germany.
* 1975 - The Kinrick o Sikkim in the Himalayas votes tae become pairt o Indie.
* 1975 - Junko Tabei becomes the first woman tae reach the top o Munt Everest.
* 1991 - Elizabeth II becomes the first Breetish monarch tae address Unitit States Congress.
* 2003 - Several fowk are kilt in terrorist attacks in Casablanca, Morocco.
* 2007 - Alex Salmond o the Scots Naitional Pairty becomes First Meenister o Scotland, an forms a minority government.
* 2007 - Nicolas Sarkozy succeeds Jacques Chirac as Preses o Fraunce.
* 2009 - Alexander Rybak o Norawa wins the Eurovision Sang Contest in Moscow, Roushie, wi his sang "Fairytale". He gets 387 points.
* 2013 - The Spaingie Wikipaedia reaches the nummer o 1 million airticles.
* 2014 - Narendra Modi's BJP Pairty wins elections in Indie.
* 2015 - Jim Murphy, efter juist five month, propales his demission as leader o the Scots Labour Pairty, follaein its worst-ever general election result.

## Births

* 1611 - Pape Innocent XI (d. 1689)
* 1718 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathemateecian an philosopher (d. 1799)
* 1824 - Levi P. Morton, Vice Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1920)
* 1845 - Elie Metchnikoff, Roushie zoologist (d. 1916)
* 1905 - Henry Fonda, American actor, sangster an producer (d. 1982)
* 1916 - Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biopheesicist an Preses o Israel (d. 2009)
* 1917 - George Gaynes, Finnish-American actor (d. 2016)
* 1925 - Nilton Santos, Brazilian fitbawer (d. 2013)
* 1937 - Yvonne Craig, American actress (d. 2015)
* 1948 - Jimmy Hood, Scots politeecian (d. 2017)
* 1950 - Georg Bednorz, German pheesicist
* 1953 - Pierce Brosnan, Erse actor
* 1955 - Olga Korbut, Belaroushie gymnast
* 1965 - Krist Novoselic, American muisicker
* 1966 - Janet Jackson, American sangster
* 1970 - Gabriela Sabatini, Argentine tennis player
* 1972 - Andrzej Duda, Preses o Poland
* 1974 - Laura Pausini, Italian sangster
* 1977 - Emiliana Torrini, Icelandic sangster
* 1986 - Megan Fox, American actress
* 1991 - Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgarian tennis player

## Daiths

* 1703 - Charles Perrault, French writer (b. 1628)
* 1830 - Joseph Fourier, French mathemateecian (b. 1868)
* 1920 - Levi P. Morton, Vice Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1824)
* 1926 - Mehmed VI, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1861)
* 1947 - Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Inglis chemist (b. 1861)
* 1953 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian muisicker (b. 1910)
* 1990 - Sammy Davis, Jr., American actor an sangster (b. 1925)
* 1990 - Jim Henson, American producer, director an puppeteer (b. 1936)
* 2013 - Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss pheesicist (b. 1933)
* 2019 - Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Meenister o Australie (b. 1929)
* 2019 - I. M. Pei, Cheenese-American airchitect (b. 1917)

## Halidays
* Erse Calendar: Feast Day o Saunt Brendan
* Naitional Day o Sooth Sudan
* Teachers' Day (Malaysie)