Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 16
This is a list of selected May 16 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1527 – The Medici were driven from Florence and a republic was re-established. | Tagged for cleanup (prose-list, expansion) |
| 1866 – Root beer was first prepared commercially by American pharmacist Charles Elmer Hires. | stubby, fact not in article |
| 1877 – President Patrice de Mac-Mahon dismissed Jules Simon and installed Albert, Duc de Broglie as Prime Minister, triggering a political crisis in the French Third Republic. | unreferenced |
| 1988 – A report by United States Surgeon General C. Everett Koop stated that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine. | Need to verify date, fact not in article |
| 2003 – In the deadliest terrorist attack in Morocco's history, a series of suicide bombings in Casablanca killed 33 civilians and 12 out of the 14 bombers. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1866 – The United States Congress authorized the minting of the country's first copper-nickel five-cent piece, the Shield nickel.
- 1918 – The Sedition Act was passed in the United States, forbidding Americans from using "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, flag, or armed forces during the ongoing World War I.
- 1929 – The first ceremony of the Academy Awards was held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles.
- 1943 – World War II: Royal Air Force Dambusters embarked on a raid to deploy bouncing bombs on German dams in Operation Chastise.
May 16: Teacher's Day in Malaysia
- 1204 – Fourth Crusade: Count Baldwin IX of Flanders was crowned the first Latin Emperor in Constantinople.
- 1811 – Peninsular War: An allied force of British, Spanish, and Portuguese troops clashed with the French at the Battle of Albuera south of Badajoz, Spain.
- 1960 – American physicist Theodore Maiman operated the first working laser at the Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
- 1966 – Chinese leader Mao Zedong (pictured) launched the Cultural Revolution officially as a campaign to rid China of its liberal bourgeois elements and to continue revolutionary class struggle.