Saturday, May 16, 2026
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1965 - Campbell Soup Company introduces Spaghetti-Os under its Franco-American brand.
1966 - American National Welfare Rights Organization begins.
1967 - Philadelphia voters approve a US$13 million bond issue to build a new stadium.
1969 - US submarine Guitarro sinks at the pier at San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California.
1977 - Five die as New York Airway helicopter topples on the Pan Am Building in New York City.
1984 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1987 - The Old San Francisco Mint museum opens to the public.
1987 - Bobro 400, a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage, sets sail from New York, beginning an unsuccesful eight-week search for a dumping site.
1988 - US Surgeon General C Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin.
1988 - US Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant.
