On This Day:
Friday May 16, 2014 This is the 136th day of the year, with 229 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: pastry Pastry is a mixture of flour and liquid, usually enriched with fat, forming a light dough. It is used in recipes to encase a filling, or may be baked by itself and then filled or topped afterwards. Most pastry is leavened only by the action of steam, but Danish pastry is raised with yeast. The term pastry is used not only for the dough itself but also for sweet baked goods made from it. The Danish word for Danish pastry is wienerbrød, or Viennese bread.
Holidays Feast day of St. Brendan the Navigator, St. Carantoc, St. Peregrine of Auxerre, St. Simon Stock, St. Domnolus of Le Mans, St. Honoratus of Amiens, St. Germerius, St. John Nepomucen, St. Possidius, and St. Ubaldus of Gubbio.
Events 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.
Births 1316 - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
1801 - William Henry Seward, American politician, Secretary of State (1861-1869).
1804 - Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, founder of the first American kindergarten.
1905 - Henry Fonda, American Academy Award-winning actor.
1911 - Studs (Louis) Terkel, American writer, historian.
1913 - Woody Herman, American bandleader, jazz musician.
1919 - Liberace (Wladziu Liberace), American concert pianist, entertainer.
1953 - Pierce Brosnan, Irish-born actor.
1973 - Tori Spelling (born Victoria Davey Spelling), American actress.
Deaths 1703 - Charles Perrault, French poet and fairytale writer.
1984 - Andy Kaufman, American entertainer and comedian.
1990 - Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., 64.
1990 - Jim Henson, 53, "Muppets" creator.
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