Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: May 16
May 16, 2025 is the 136th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 229 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Friday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Taurus is your zodiac sign. Emerald is your modern birthstone. Sapphire is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: May 16
- 1204 –Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
- 1811 –Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom, defeat the French at the Battle of Albuera.
- 1843 –The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.
- 1874 –A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
- 1877 –May 16, 1877 political crisis in France.
- 1919 –A naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
- 1953 –American journalist William N. Oatis is released after serving 22 months of a ten-year prison sentence for espionage in Czechslovakia.
- 1969 –Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus.
- 1974 –Josip Broz Tito is re-elected president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he is elected for life.
- 2003 –In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.
Who were born on May 16?
- 1578 –Everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606)
- 1888 –Royal Raymond Rife, American inventor (d. 1971)
- 1918 –Wilf Mannion, English former footballer (d. 2000)
- 1964 –John Salley, American basketball player
- 1975 –Tonéx, American singer
- 1976 –Brian Langtry, American lacrosse player
- 1976 –Dirk Nannes, Dutch-born Australian cricketer
- 1979 –McKenzie Lee, English pornographic actress
- 1984 –Jensen Lewis, American baseball player
- 1993 –Lee Ji-eun, Korean singer also known as IU
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