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Historical events & facts — May 16
What happened on May 16?
On May 16, 1929, the first Academy Awards ceremony of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles. The ceremony lasted just 15 minutes. Best Picture went to "Wings" (1927). The name "Oscar" for the golden statuette became popular in the 1930s. Today the Oscars are the most-watched entertainment awards in the world.
On May 16, 1966, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party approved the document that launched the Cultural Revolution — the radical political movement with which Mao Zedong sought to purge revisionists from the party and mobilise youth into the Red Guards. Over ten years, the Cultural Revolution caused between 500,000 and 2 million deaths and devastated Chinese culture, education and the economy.
On May 16, 1763, Scottish writer James Boswell met essayist and lexicographer Samuel Johnson in a London bookshop, beginning a friendship that would give rise to the Life of Johnson (1791) — considered the greatest biography in the English language and the model for all modern biographies. Johnson, author of the first complete English dictionary, dominated eighteenth-century London literary life.
Notable birthdays — May 16
Famous people born on May 16
Edmund Kirby Smith
Edmund Kirby Smith was a Confederate States Army general, who oversaw the Trans-Mississippi Department from 1863 to 1865. Before the American Civil War, Smith served as an officer of the United States Army.
Margret Rey
Margret Elizabeth Rey was a German-born American writer and illustrator, best known for the Curious George series of children's picture books that she and her husband H. A. Rey created from 1939 to 1966.
Merton Miller
Merton Howard Miller was an American economist, and the co-author of the Modigliani–Miller theorem (1958), which proposed the irrelevance of debt-equity structure. He shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990, along with Harry Markowitz and William F. Sharpe. Miller spent most of his academic career at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.
Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Edward Sutherland is an American computer scientist, widely regarded as a pioneer of computer graphics. His early work in computer graphics, as well as his teaching with David C. Evans in that subject at the University of Utah in the 1970s, was pioneering in the field. Sutherland, Evans, and their students from that era developed several foundations of modern computer graphics.
Danny Trejo
Danny Trejo is an American actor. In his body of work he appears as a character actor taking on roles such as inmates, gangsters, or other criminals.
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