May 16 in history: • 1426 – Mohnyin Thado captured Sagaing to become the king of Ava, in present-day Myanmar. → go there • 1811 – Peninsular War: Allied British, Spanish, and Portuguese forces clashed with French troops at the Battle of Albuera fought south of Badajoz, Spain. → go there • 1881 – John Richard Clark Hall, a barrister who would go on to write a widely used Anglo-Saxon dictionary and translation of Beowulf, was admitted to Gray's Inn. → go there • 1968 – A gas explosion in Ronan Point (collapse pictured) causes a corner of the building to collapse, leading to a loss of public confidence in high-rise residential buildings. → go there • 2014 – At least 12 people were killed and 70 others injured when two bombs exploded in a market in Nairobi, Kenya. → go there Born 1926: Glen Michael Wiki link Died 1926: Mehmed VI Wiki link Born 1956: Faustas Latėnas Wiki link Born 1988: Amanda Asay Wiki link Pictured: Ronan Point collapse.