Today is Thursday, May 16, the 136th day of 2013. There are 229 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On May 16, 1943, the nearly month-long Warsaw Ghetto Uprising came to an end as German forces crushed the Jewish resistance and blew up the Great Synagogue. An estimated 7,000 Jews were killed during the uprising, while about 7,000 others were summarily executed. The remaining Jews, more than 40,000 of them, were deported to concentration camps.
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• 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 1868, the U.S. Senate failed by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it took its first ballot on the 11 articles of impeachment against him.
• In 1913, jazz musician and bandleader Woody Herman was born in Milwaukee.
• 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 Salonika Harbor.
• In 1953, Associated Press correspondent William N. Oatis was released by communist authorities in Czechoslovakia, where he'd been imprisoned for two years after being forced to confess to espionage while working as the AP's Prague bureau chief.
• 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

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