📜 This Day in History
May 16
- 1426Mohnyin Thado captured Sagaing to become the king of Ava, in present-day Myanmar.
- 1812The Conference of Dresden began, an attempt by Napoleon to secure support for his planned invasion of Russia.
1918The Sedition Act was passed in the United States, forbidding Americans from using "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the government, flag, or armed forces during the ongoing World War I.- 1958The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, a supersonic interceptor aircraft, set a world flight airspeed record of 1,404.012 mph (2,259.538 km/h).
- 1968A gas explosion in Ronan Point causes a corner of the building to collapse, leading to a loss of public confidence in high-rise residential buildings.
- 2014At least 12 people were killed and 70 others injured when two bombs exploded in a market in Nairobi, Kenya.
