16/05/10

A 27 year-old Edgar Allen Poe married a 13 year-old Virginia Clemm, who just happened to be his first cousin, in 1836.  In 1975, India annexed Sikkim and Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest.

Born today:  Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980), Henry Fonda (1905-1982), Studs Terkel (1912-2008), Nicky Chinn (1945), Robert Fripp (1946), Pierce Brosnan (1953), Olga Korbut (1955), Hazel O'Connor (1955) and Krist Novoselic (1965).

It is the feast day of Peregrine of Auxerre.