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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_16" title="May 16">May 16</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1426" title="1426">1426</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohnyin_Thado" title="Mohnyin Thado">Mohnyin Thado</a></b> captured <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagaing" title="Sagaing">Sagaing</a> to become <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Ava" title="Kingdom of Ava">King of Ava</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1605" title="1605">1605</a> – After a scuffle in which one cardinal received broken bones, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1605_papal_conclave" title="May 1605 papal conclave">the papal conclave</a></b> elected Camillo Borghese as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Paul_V" title="Pope Paul V">Pope Paul V</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929" title="1929">1929</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Academy_Awards" title="1st Academy Awards">1st Academy Awards</a></b> ceremony was held at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollywood_Roosevelt_Hotel" title="The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel">The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel</a> in Los Angeles.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960" title="1960">1960</a> – American physicist <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Maiman" title="Theodore Maiman">Theodore Maiman</a></b> operated the first working <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser" title="Laser">laser</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HRL_Laboratories" title="HRL Laboratories">Hughes Research Laboratories</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malibu,_California" title="Malibu, California">Malibu, California</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975" title="1975">1975</a> – Japanese climber <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junko_Tabei" title="Junko Tabei">Junko Tabei</a></b> became the first woman to reach the summit of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest" title="Mount Everest">Mount Everest</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Komnenos_Vatatzes" title="John Komnenos Vatatzes">John Komnenos Vatatzes</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1182); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Ursula_Jones" title="Margaret Ursula Jones">Margaret Ursula Jones</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1916); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Jackson" title="Janet Jackson">Janet Jackson</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1966)</p>
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