Today is Saturday, May 16, the 136th day of 2026. There are 229 days left in the year.<\/p>\n
Today in history:<\/p>\n
On May 16, 1991, Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress, speaking to a joint meeting of both chambers during her state visit to the United States.<\/p>\n
Also on this date:<\/p>\n
In 1770, Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.<\/p>\n
In 1868, having already been impeached by the House of Representatives, President Andrew Johnson narrowly avoided impeachment by the Senate, which voted 35-19 in favor of impeachment \u2014 one vote shy of the required two-thirds majority.<\/p>\n
In 1929, the first Academy Awards were presented. \u201cWings\u201d won the award for Outstanding Picture, while Emil Jannings and Janet Gaynor were named Best Actor and Best Actress.<\/p>\n
In 1943, the nearly monthlong Warsaw Ghetto Uprising came to an end as German forces crushed the Jewish resistance and blew up the city\u2019s Great Synagogue.<\/p>\n
In 1960, the first working laser was demonstrated at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California, by physicist Theodore Maiman.<\/p>\n
In 1966, the Chinese Communist Party issued the May 16 Notification, a document that criticized \u201ccounterrevolutionary revisionists\u201d within the party and marked the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.<\/p>\n
In 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.<\/p>\n
In 1988, U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop declared that nicotine is as addictive as heroin or cocaine as part of his campaign to warn against the health hazards of smoking and make America smoke-free by 2000.<\/p>\n
In 1997, President Bill Clinton publicly apologized for the notorious 40-year Tuskegee Experiment, in which government scientists deliberately allowed Black men to weaken and die of treatable syphilis.<\/p>\n
In 2011, Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on its 25th and final flight into space, bound for the International Space Station. The launch came as NASA was winding down the 30-year shuttle program that would end with a final flight by the orbiter Atlantis in July of the same year.<\/p>\n
In 2018, officials at Michigan State University said they had agreed to pay $500 million to settle claims from more than 300 women and girls who said they were assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar.<\/p>\n
In 2022, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 reached 1 million.<\/p>\n
In 2025, a devastating tornado claimed several lives and damaged hundreds of homes in Somerset, Kentucky, during a severe weather outbreak in the South and Midwest that killed at least 19 people.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/p>\n
Actor Danny Trejo is 82.
\nActor Pierce Brosnan is 73.
\nOlympic gymnastics gold medalist Olga Korbut is 71.
\nBaseball Hall of Famer Jack Morris is 71.
\nActor Debra Winger is 71.
\nOlympic marathon gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson is 69.
\nActor Mare Winningham is 67.
\nRock musician Krist Novoselic (Nirvana) is 61.
\nSinger Janet Jackson is 60.
\nFootball Hall of Famer Thurman Thomas is 60.
\nSinger Ralph Tresvant (New Edition) is 58.
\nActor David Boreanaz is 57.
\nTennis Hall of Famer Gabriela Sabatini is 56.
\nActor Tori Spelling is 53.
\nActor Megan Fox is 40.
\nActor Thomas Brodie-Sangster is 36.
\nRapper Travis Bennett is 32.
\nModel Lani Randol is 27.
\nBasketball player Kamorea \u2018KK\u2019 Arnold is 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is Saturday, May 16, the 136th day of 2026. There are 229 days left in the year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[91629,9,24,63,1315,122,124,123,3646],"class_list":["post-233596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-may-16-history","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queen-elizabeth","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-today-in-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}