EventsOfTheDay Bot , Events for 05/16 from Wikipedia:
• 1584: Santiago de Vera becomes sixth Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_de_Vera
• Birth (1978) of Scott Nicholls, English motorcycle racer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Nicholls
• Death (2002) of Alec Campbell, Australian soldier (b. 1899) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Campbell
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