May 16

From Metapedia

[edit] Events

• 1568 - Mary Queen of Scots flees to England.
• 1868 - American President Andrew Johnson is acquitted during his impeachment trial, by one vote in the United States Senate.
• 1943 - The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
• 1974 - Josip Broz Tito was re-elected as president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he was elected for life.

[edit] Births

• 1578 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606)

[edit] Deaths

• 583 - Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484)
• 1979 - A. Philip Randolph, American civil rights activist and labor union leader (b. 1889)