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What Happens on May 16th

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Every year : The feast of Saint Brendan (484-577), an Irish missionary monk who may have sailed across the Atlantic (but probably not)

1997 : Zaire's long-serving President Mobutu Sese Seko left his country (soon renamed the Democratic Republic of Congo) for the last time as rebel forces Laurent Kabila enters Kinshasa

1943 : After suppressing Warsaw's Jewish revolt brutally, Nazi general Juergen Stroop reported that "the former Warsaw Jewish center no longer exists"

1929 : For the first time Hollywood holds an annual Academy Award ceremony, awarding the Oscar for best film and filmmaker

1916 : Sykes-Picot Agreement is done in secret by Britain and France; this agreement planned the division of the post-World War I Middle East region

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