On This Day — May 16

Here are some of the most significant historical events that happened on May 16.

• 2025: A devastating EF4 tornado kills nineteen people in Southeast Kentucky, hitting the towns of Somerset and London.
• 2014: Twelve people are killed in two explosions in the Gikomba market area of Nairobi, Kenya.
• 2011: STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.
• 2005: Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35–23 National Assembly vote.
• 2003: In Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.

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