Today is Thursday, May 16, the 136th day of 2013. There are 229 days left in the year.
955 ― Alberich II, illegitimate son of Octavianus, elected pope
1770 ― Marie Antoinette (14) marries future King Louis XVI (15) of France
1804 ― Senate & Tribune declare Napoleon leader of France
1881 ― World's first electric tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin)
1911 ― Remains of a Neanderthal man found in Jersey, U.K.
1920 ― Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) canonized a saint in Rome
1975 ― Japanese Junko Tabei became first woman to reach Mt. Everest's summit
1985 ― Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of Year
1988 ― Surgeon General C. Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin
1993 ― Farmer Sugeng finds 1.2 million-year-old Pithecanthropus IX skull