TMN STAFF<\/p>\n
May 16, there are 230 days left in this year.<\/p>\n
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1770<\/strong>– Marie Antoinette married the future King Louis XVI of France.<\/p>\n 1868<\/strong>– The first ballot on one of 11 articles of impeachment in the U.S. Senate failed to convict President Andrew Johnson.<\/p>\n 1929<\/strong>– The first Academy Awards were given on this night. The term, Oscars, was not used to describe the statuettes given to actors and actresses until 1931.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong>– The Irving Berlin musical, Annie Get Your Gun, opened on Broadway.<\/p>\n 1975<\/strong>– Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong>– Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the United States Congress.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong>– President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire ended 32 years of autocratic rule when rebel forces led by Laurent Kabila expelled him from the country.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Birthdays<\/strong><\/p>\n 1801<\/strong>– William Seward, U.S. Senator, Secretary of State<\/p>\n 1804<\/strong>– Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, educator, lecturer, reformer<\/p>\n 1905<\/strong>– Henry Fonda, actor<\/p>\n 1919<\/strong>– Liberace, pianist<\/p>\n 1930<\/strong>– Betty Carter, jazz and blues singer<\/p>\n 1955<\/strong>– Olga Korbut, Gold Medalist, 1972 & 1976 Olympic Games<\/p>\n 1963<\/strong>– Wendy Davis, Texas state senator<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong>– Tori Spelling, actress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TMN STAFF May 16, there are 230 days left in this year. 1770– Marie Antoinette married the future King Louis XVI of France. 1868–… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6132],"tags":[106,6131],"class_list":["post-26900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-today-in-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26902,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26900\/revisions\/26902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}