On This Day in History May 16, 2019

Historical Events 1920  Joan of Arc (Jeanne D'arc) canonized a saint 1943  Operation Chastise: No. 617 Squadron RAF begins the famous dambusters Raid, bombing the Möhne and Eder dams in the Ruhr valley with bouncing bombs 1944  1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz 2013  Human stem cells are successfully cloned More Historical Events Famous Birthdays H. H. Holmes (1861 - 1896) Henry Fonda (1905 - 1982) Janet Jackson 53rd Birthday Liberace (1919 - 1987) More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths Django Reinhardt (1910 - 1953) Margaret Hamilton (1902 - 1985) More Famous Deaths