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• ...that the British Percival P.74 helicopter project (pictured) was canceled in 1956 because the aircraft was unable to fly?
• ...that Estonian nationalist Aili Jõgi, aged 14, blew up the wooden memorial that preceded the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn in 1946?
• ...that in the 1984 Brown v. Hotel and Restaurant Employees case, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New Jersey gaming law requiring union leaders to be of good moral character?
• ...that Frederick Bligh Bond enlisted the help of a number of spiritualist mediums to guide his excavations at Glastonbury Abbey?
• ...that the Six Feet Under episode The Plan has been described as a parody of Werner Erhard's est and The Forum personal development programs?
• ...that Iowa Stars centre Aaron Gagnon twice lost out on a Western Hockey League award to the Medicine Hat Tigers' Kris Russell before finally winning an award of his own?

• The death toll for violence associated with the general election in the Philippines reaches 126.
• At least one million people gather in İzmir for the fifth mass rally (pictured) to demand that Turkey remain a secular state.
• Afghan officials report the death of Mullah Dadullah, a Taliban military commander in southern Afghanistan killed in a battle with the coalition forces in Helmand.
• In Karachi, Pakistan, a political rally organised by the MQM before an address by suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry turns into a violent riot, resulting in more than 40 deaths and 800 arrests.
• Singer Marija Šerifović of Serbia wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song "Molitva".

May 16: Jerusalem Day in Israel (2007)

• 1204 - Fourth Crusade: Count Baldwin IX of Flanders was crowned the first Latin Emperor in Constantinople.
• 1866 - Root beer was first prepared commercially.
• 1877 - President Patrice de Mac-Mahon dismissed Jules Simon and installed Albert, Duc de Broglie as Prime Minister, triggering a political crisis in the French Third Republic.
• 1929 - The first Academy Awards were handed out at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles.
• 1943 - World War II: SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop (pictured) put an end to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the first mass uprising in Poland against the Nazi occupation during the Holocaust.

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