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Other Notable Events, May 16
In 1871, U.S. Marines landed in Korea in an unsuccessful attempt to open the country to foreign trade.
In 1929, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded the first Oscars. "Wings" was named Best Picture.
In 1969, the unmanned Soviet spacecraft Venus-5 landed on the surface of Venus.
In 1988, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop described nicotine as addictive as heroin or cocaine and called for the licensing of tobacco product vendors.
In 1991, 13 of the 15 Soviet republics agreed on an emergency economic plan to ban strikes while increasing wages and worker productivity.
In 1992, a poll showed 1-in-8 Southern California households were victimized within the last two years by crimes involving firearms.
In 1995, the leader of a Japanese religious cult was arrested and charged with murder and attempted murder in the March nerve-gas attacks in a Tokyo subway that killed 12 people and injured more than 5,000.
In 1996, U.S. Navy Adm. Jeremy Boorda, chief of naval operations and the highest-ranking officer in the U.S. Navy, shot himself to death after learning that Newsweek magazine wanted to question him about the propriety of wearing combat medals.
In 1997, U.S. President Bill Clinton apologized for the "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphillis in the Negro Male," which was conducted from 1932-72.
Also in 1997, Mobutu Sese Seko -- who'd ruled Zaire for more than 30 years, allegedly looting it of billions of dollars -- fled the capital city as rebel forces advanced. The rebels entered the city the next day and Laurent Kabila declared himself head of state.
In 2003, suicidal terrorists set off five bombs simultaneously in Casablanca, Morocco, killing 41 and injuring about 100.
In 2004, U.S. Border Patrol agents said confusion over U.S. President George Bush's proposed guest-worker program for illegal immigrants had fueled a rush across the southwest border from Mexico that threatened to overwhelm the patrol in some areas.
In 2005, Newsweek, after a public apology, printed a retraction to a story that accused interrogators at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay of flushing a copy of the Koran down a toilet. Riots in Afghanistan that followed publication of the story claimed 16 lives.
Also in 2005, a U.S. Senate panel said high-ranking Russian politicians made illicit multi-million dollar oil transactions with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein under the U.N. oil-for-food program.
Copyright 2006 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 05/16/2006
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