Once Upon A Time – May 16 – 1985 – Michael Jordan Named NBA Rookie Of Year

1920 Joan of Arc (Jeanne D’arc) canonized a saint

1943 Operation Chastise: No. 617 Squadron RAF begins the famous Dambusters Raid, bombing the Möhne and Eder dams in the Ruhr valley with bouncing bombs

1944 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz

1989 Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping meet in Beijing and formally end a 30-year rift

2013 Human stem cells are successfully cloned

HISTORICAL EVENTS TODAY

TODAY IN FILM & TV

1929 1st Academy Awards: “Wings”, Emil Jannings and Janet Gaynor win

1986 “Top Gun”, directed by Tony Scott and starring Tom Cruise premieres

TODAY IN MUSIC

1946 Irving Berlin, Dorothy and Herbert Fields’ musical “Annie Get Your Gun” starring Ethel Merman and featuring “There’s No Business Like Show Business” opens at Imperial Theater, NYC

TODAY IN SPORT

1948 First chess world championship since WWII; Russian player Mikhail Botvinnik wins a 5-player tournament to begin 20-year Russian domination

1985 Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of Year

1960 Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California

1868 US Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson by one vote