Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 16

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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