Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 16
May 16: Lag Ba'omer in Judaism (2006)
- 1204 - Fourth Crusade: Count Baldwin IX of Flanders was crowned the first Latin Emperor in Constantinople.
- 1527 - The Medici were driven from Florence and a republic was re-established.
- 1866 - Root beer was first prepared commercially.
- 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.