Hawaii Railroad Ends
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May 16th, 1956: The last island in Hawaii to use Railroad announces that it won’t anymore. The railroad at Lihue, on Kauai, which was used to transport cane to the port, says that by summer, it will use trucks to haul all its cane.
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — May 16th
- 1763: Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London
- 1770: Marie Antoinette, age 14, marries the 15-year old future King Louis XVI of France
- 1866: Congress authorizes minting of a nickel 5¢ piece (replacing the silver half-dime)
- 1868: President Johnson is acquitted during Senate impeachment (by 1 vote)
- 1903: The first transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at San Francisco (George Wymann)
- 1920: Joan of Arc (Jean D’arc) is canonized in Rome
- 1929: Academy Awards are first presented (Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood); the first Awards: Film-Wings, Actor-Emil Jennings, Actress-Janet Gaynor
- 1963: L Gordon Cooper becomes the first American to spend more then 24 hours in space (Mercury
completing 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends U.S. Proj Mercury - 1988: The U.S Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant
- 1991: Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress
- 1995: Japanese police arrest doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara for the nerve-gas attack on Tokyo’s subways two months earlier
- 2001: Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen is indicted on charges of spying for Moscow
- 2002: The remains of kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl are unearthed in Pakistan
- 2005: Army Specialist Sabrina Harman was convicted at Fort Hood, Texas, of six of the seven charges she faced for her role in the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. (She was later sentenced to six months in prison.)
- 2007: Nicolas Sarkozy took over from Jacques Chirac as France’s president.
BORN ON THIS DAY — May 16th
- 1801: William Henry Seward, U.S. Secretary of State
- 1905: Henry Fonda, actor
- 1912: “Studs” (Louis) Terkel, author/host
- 1913: Woody Herman, bandleader/composer
- 1928: Billy Martin, baseball manager/player
- 1931: Lowell Weicker, U.S. Senator (R-Conn)
- 1953: Pierce Brosnan, , actor
- 1955: Debra Winger, actress
- 1969: Tracey Gold, actress
- 1973: Tori Spelling, actress
- 1978: Vincent Larusso, actor
