On This Day: May 16th

A catastrophic EF3 tornado kills five people and causes over $1 billion in damages in St. Louis, MO.

A devastating EF4 tornado kills nineteen people in Southeast Kentucky, hitting the towns of Somerset and London.

Twelve people are killed in two explosions in the Gikomba market area of Nairobi, Kenya.

STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.

Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35–23 National Assembly vote.

In Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.

Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country.

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.

A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.

Junko Tabei from Japan becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.