May 2016 in History

Events in History

Election of Interest

May 8 Sadiq Khan (L) is elected Mayor of London, becomes the 1st Muslim mayor of a major Western city

Event of Interest

May 9 Boris Johnson resigns as Mayor of London, succeeded by Sadiq Khan

Philippine Presidential Election

May 9 Rodrigo Duterte wins Philippine presidential election, promising war on drug trade and killing of criminals

May 10 Indian fertility clinic announces that a 70 year old woman has successfully gave birth to a baby boy

Event of Interest

May 11 Brazilian senate votes to suspend President Dilma Rousseff and put her on trial for budgetary violations

May 12 Michel Temer, former vice-president, becomes Brazilian interim President after a vote to impeach Dilma Rousseff
May 19 EgyptAir flight MS804 goes missing over the Mediterranean on route Paris to Cairo
May 21 Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, leader of the Afghan Taliban is reportedly killed by a US drone in Pakistan
May 22 Independent Alexander Van der Bellen defeats Freedom Party's Norbert Hofer by just 31,000 votes to become President in Austrian elections

Event of Interest

May 22 US President Barack Obama arrives in Vietman for a 3 day tour

May 23 Chinese archaeologists announce findings of earliest use of barley in China to make beer, Shaanxi province 3400-2900 BC
May 24 Kaduna state in Nigeria declares a state of emergency due to 'Tomato Ebola', as moth destroys 80% of tomato crops
May 27 3 ships in 3 days sink carrying immigrants across the Mediterraneann, drowning over 700 people
May 28 Harambe, a gorilla at Cincinnati Zoo, is shot after dragging a 3 year old boy who had slipped into its enclosure (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Habré Convicted of War Crimes

May 30 Former Chad dictator Hissène Habré convicted of crimes against humanity by the Extraordinary African chambers, 1st ex-head of state convicted of the charge

Weddings in History

May 7 Rich Kids of Beverly Hills star Morgan Stewart (27) weds cast-mate and real estate agent Brendan Fitzpatrick at the Hummingbird Nest Ranch in Santa Susana, California
May 28 The daughter of the duke of Wellington Lady Charlotte Anne Wellesley weds financier Alejandro Santo Domingo (39) in Íllora, Spain

Deaths in History

May 2 Afeni Shakur, mother of Tupac Shakur, Black Panther Party member, dies at 69
May 3 Carl Fredrik Reutersward, Swedish artist (knotted-gun sculpture), dies at 81
May 3 Thomas W. Libous, American politician (Senate-R-New York 1989-2015) brought down by scandal, dies of cancer at 63
May 4 Robert "Bob" Bennett, American politician (U.S. Senator fromfrom Utah, 1993-2011), dies at 82
May 6 Reg Grundy, Australian media and television mogul (Neighbours, Prisoner), dies at 92
May 7 Harold Kroto, English chemist, (Nobel Prize laureate 1996), dies at 76
May 8 John Bradshaw, American theologian, dies at 82
May 9 Dennis Nineham, British theologian, dies at 94
May 12 Delbert L. Latta, American politician (Rep-R-OH, 1959-89), dies at 96
May 21 Marco Pannella, Italian politician and activist, dies at 86
May 25 Yang Jiang, Chinese writer (Six Chapters From My Life ‘Downunder’), dies at 104
May 28 Harambe, Western lowland gorilla resident at Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, shot and killed at 17, by a zoo worker to protect a 3 year old boy who had climbed into its enclosure (Cincinnati, Ohio)