TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Wednesday, May 16, the 136th day of 2018. There are 229 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On May 16, 1868, at the U.S. Senate impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson, 35 out of 54 senators voted to find Johnson guilty of “high crimes and misdemeanors” over his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, falling one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict; the trial ended 10 days later after two other articles of impeachment went down to defeat as well.

On this date:

In 1920, Joan of Arc was canonized by Pope Benedict XV.

In 1939, the federal government began its first food stamp program in Rochester, N.Y.

In 1946, the Irving Berlin musical “Annie Get Your Gun,” starring Ethel Merman as Annie Oakley, opened on Broadway.

In 1991, Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the United States Congress as she lauded U.S.-British cooperation in the Persian Gulf War.

Today’s Birthdays:

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is 75. Actor Danny Trejo is 74. Actor Pierce Brosnan is 65. Olympic gold medal gymnast Olga Korbut is 63. Country singer Scott Reeves (Blue County) is 52. Olympic bronze medal figure skater Ashley Wagner is 27.

Thought for Today:

“I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.” — Studs Terkel, American writer (born this date in 1912, died 2008).