GOOD MORNING – TODAY IS FRIDAY, May 16, the 136th day of 2014 with 229 to follow. Sunrise in the Boston area is @ 5:22 and sunset is @ 7:59. The moon is waning. The morning stars are stars are Neptune, Uranus & Venus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury & Saturn.
ON THIS DAY IN: 1770 – Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.
1866 – Congress authorized minting the nickel.
1868 – The impeachment of President Andrew Johnson failed.
1910 – The U.S. Bureau of Mines was authorized by Congress.
1920 – Joan of Arc was canonized in Rome.
1929 – The first Academy Awards were presented during a banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
1943 – In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising came to an end as Nazi soldiers took control of the Jewish ghetto and began mass deportation of the remaining dwellers to the Treblinka extermination camp.
1966 – The Cultural Revolution was begun by Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong.
1975 – Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest.
1985 – Michael “Air” Jordan was named Rookie of the Year in the National Basketball Association.
1995 – Japanese authorities arrested Shoko Asahara, a doomsday cult leader, who was linked to a nerve-gas attack on Tokyo’s subway system two months earlier.
2005 – Newsweek magazine retracted its Quran abuse story which sparked deadly protests in Afghanistan, leaving 15 people dead and scores injured.
2005 – Army Specialist Sabrina Harman was convicted of six of the seven charges she faced for her role in the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib.