May 16 in Pop Culture History |
| May 16th is… Honor Our LGBT Elders Day Barbecue (BBQ) Day Biographer’s Day Coquilles Saint Jacques Day Do Something Good for Your Neighbor Day Love a Tree Day Mimosa Day Piercing Day Sea Monkey Day |
| 1866 – Charles Elmer Hires in Philadelphia, PA invented Root Beer. Annie Get Your Gun (Broadway Musical) Opened on May 16, 1946, and closed on February 12, 1949 1946 – Jack Mullin demonstrated the first magnetic tape recorder. #1 Hit May 16, 1964 – May 29, 1964: Mary Wells – My Guy. Motown Records got its first #1 hit with the song. 1966 – The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds and Bob Dylan’s Blonde On Blonde were both released. #1 Hit May 16, 1981 – June 19, 1981: Kim Carnes – Bette Davis Eyes 1983 – The concert special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever was broadcast by NBC; Michael Jackson performed his ‘moonwalk’ dance for the first time on television. #1 Hit May 16, 1987 – June 5, 1987: U2 – With or Without You 1988 – Nicotine was declared addictive in ways similar to heroin and cocaine in a report released by US Surgeon-General C. Everett Koop. 1991 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addressed a joint session of the United States Congress. 1996 – 12 million people tuned in for the series finale of Murder, She Wrote on CBS. The show was the longest-running American Murder-Mystery drama. 1998 – Unsolved Mysteries true-crime series ended. 2014 – Broadcast journalist and TV personality Barbara Walters retired from ABC News and from the daytime program The View. #1 Hit May 16, 2020 – May 22, 2020: Say So – Doja Cat featuring Nicki Minaj |