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• ...that the Percival P.74 helicopter project (pictured) was canceled in 1956 because the aircraft was unable to fly?
• ...that the Estonian nationalist Aili Jõgi was only 14 years old when she blew up the preceding monument to the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn?
• ...that in Brown v. Hotel and Restaurant Employees of 1984, 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?
• ...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: Teacher's Day in Malaysia

• 1204 – Fourth Crusade: Count Baldwin IX of Flanders was crowned the first Latin Emperor in Constantinople.
• 1811 – Peninsular War: An allied force of British, Spanish, and Portuguese troops clashed with the French at the Battle of Albuera south of Badajoz, Spain.
• 1866 – Root beer (pictured) was first prepared commercially by American pharmacist Charles Elmer Hires.
• 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.
• 1966 – Chinese leader Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution officially as a campaign to rid China of its liberal bourgeoisie elements and to continue revolutionary class struggle.

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