TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Friday, May 16, the 136th day of 2014. There are 229 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History
On May 16, 1929, the first Academy Awards were presented.
On this date
1763 — The English lexicographer, author and wit Samuel Johnson first met his future biographer, James Boswell.
1770 — Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.
1868 — The U.S. Senate failed by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it took its first ballot on the eleven articles of impeachment against him.
1920 — Joan of Arc was canonized by Pope Benedict XV.
1939 — The federal government began its first food stamp program in Rochester, New York.
1943 — The nearly month-long Warsaw Ghetto Uprising came to an end as German forces crushed the Jewish resistance and blew up the Great Synagogue.
1961 — Park Chung-hee seized power in South Korea in a military coup.
1989 — During his visit to Beijing, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev met with Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, formally ending a 30-year rift between the two Communist powers.
Today’s Birthdays
Actor Danny Trejo is 70. Actor Pierce Brosnan is 61. Actress Debra Winger is 59. Actress Mare Winningham is 55. Rock musician Krist Novoselic is 49. Singer Janet Jackson is 48. Actor David Boreanaz is 45. Actress Megan Fox is 28. Sonny’s and Sams Club employee and Georgia Northwestern Technical College student Elizabeth Haynes of Rome is 22. Actor Miles Heizer is 20. Coosa Middle School eighth-grader Anna Morgan Cowan, daughter of Kirk and Hope Cowan of Rome, is 14.