Following are some of the major events to have occurred on May 16:1900 - Joan of Arc canonised.1975 - Junko Tabei of Japan became the first woman to climb Everest.1986 - Members of the military junta that led Argentina to defeat in the 1982 Falklands war with Britain were sentenced to between eight
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