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*📰 TODAY IN HISTORY*
_📆 - May 16_
*📜 Events:*
* 1770 — Princess Marie Antoinette, at 14 years of age, marries Prince Louis-Auguste, at 15 years of age, who is the heir to the French throne.
* 1888 — Nikola Tesla gives a lecture describing the equipment that will enable efficient generation and the use of alternating current to transmit electrical energy over long distances.
* 1919 — A Curtiss NC-4 seaplane commanded by Albert Cushing Read departs from Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon, Portugal, via the Azores, on the first transatlantic flight.
* 1943 — Holocaust: the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
* 1960 — Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, United States.
* 1966 — The Communist Party of China issues the “May 16 Notice,” marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
* 1975 — Junko Tabei, of Japan, becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
*🌟 Births:*
* 1718 — Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799).
* 1905 — Henry Fonda, American actor (d. 1982).
* 1925 — Nilton Santos, Brazilian footballer (d. 2013).
* 1953 — Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor.
* 1966 — Janet Jackson, American singer.
* 1986 — Megan Fox, American actress and model.
* 1993 — IU, South Korean singer.
*🕊 Deaths:*
* 1164 — Heloísa de Argenteuil, French abbess (d. 1101).
* 1830 — Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1768).
* 1990 — Jim Henson, American cartoonist (d. 1936).
* 2010 — Ronnie James Dio, Italian-American musician and composer (d. 1942).
* 2021 — Bruno Covas, Brazilian economist and politician (d. 1980).
* 2021 — MC Kevin, Brazilian singer and songwriter (d. 1998).
* 2024 — Silvio Luiz, Brazilian narrator (d. 1934).
*📍 Holidays and Recurring Events:*
*Brazil:*
* Sanitation Worker’s Day
* Anniversary of the municipality of Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro
* Anniversary of the municipality of São João Nepomuceno, Minas Gerais
* Anniversary of the municipality of São Pedro da Aldeia, Rio de Janeiro
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