• Today is Wednesday, May 16, the 137th day of 2012. There are 229 days left in the year.
• Today's Highlight in History:
• On May 16, 1868, the U.S. Senate failed by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it took its first ballot on the eleven articles of impeachment against him.
• On this date:
• In 1763, the English lexicographer, author and wit Samuel Johnson first met his future biographer, James Boswell.
• In 1770, Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.
• In 1866, Congress authorized minting of the first five-cent piece, also known as the "Shield nickel."
• In 1910, the U.S Bureau of Mines was established. (It ceased operations in 1996, its functions having been transferred to other agencies.)
• In 1920, Joan of Arc was canonized by Pope Benedict XV.
• In 1929, the first Academy Awards were presented. The movie "Wings" won "best production," while Emil Jannings (YAHN'-ings) and Janet Gaynor were named best actor and best actress.
• In 1939, the government began its first food stamp program in Rochester, N.Y.
• In 1948, CBS News correspondent George Polk, who'd been covering the Greek civil war between Communist and nationalist forces, was found slain in Solonica Harbor.
• In 1955, American author and critic James Agee died in New York at age 45.
• In 1961, Park Chung-hee seized power in South Korea in a military coup.
• In 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
• In 1992, the space shuttle Endeavour completed its maiden voyage with a safe landing in the California desert.
• Ten years ago: Congressional Democrats demanded to be told what President George W. Bush knew about terrorist threats before Sept. 11 as the White House

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