^B{^#!16!8 May^N! Feast day of St Indract, St Odger, St Victor, St Wiro, St Peter of Tarentaise, St Benedict II, pope, St Boniface IV, pope, St Gibrian, St Plechelm, St Desideratus of Bourges, and St Acacius.
^B{1559^B} Queen Elizabeth I of England signed the Act of Uniformity. ^B{1886 ^B}The Presidential Succession law was passed in the US, providing for succession to presidency in the event of the deaths of both the President and the Vice-President. ^B{1892^B} A ban was imposed on natives of the Congo, prohibiting them from collecting rubber and ivory other than for the state. ^B{ 1902^B} On the Caribbean island of Martinique, the volcano Mount PelΘe erupted, killing 30,000 people. ^B{1950^B} Douglas MacArthur appointed commander of UN forces in Korea. ^B{1958^B} J F Dulles stated in Berlin House of Representatives that an attack on Berlin would be regarded as an attack on the Allies.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Peter Martyr (Pieto Martire Vermigli), Italian religious reformer, ^B{1500^B}; Phineas Fletcher, English poet, ^B{1582^B}; Francis Quarles, English poet, ^B{1592^B}; Claude de Villars, French soldier, ^B{1653^B}; Alain RenΘ Lesage, French novelist and playwright, ^B{1668^B}; Henry Baker, English naturalist, ^B{1698^B}; Franτois Mignet, French historian, ^B{1796^B}; Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer, ^B{1858^B}; Harry S Truman, 33rd president of the US, ^B{1884^B}; David Attenborough, English naturalist and broadcaster, ^B{1926^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Palla Strozzi, founder of the first public library in Florence, ^B{1462^B}; Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, French chemist, guillotined, ^B{1794^B}; Vittorio Alfieri, Italian poet, ^B{1803^B}; John Stuart Mill, English philosopher, ^B{1873^B}; Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, ^B{1880^B}; Oswald Spengler, German philosopher, ^B{1936^B}; Henry Gordon Selfridge, US-born British store-owner, ^B{1947^B}; Emmanuel Shinwell, British politician, ^B{1986^B}.
