16. Mai

Count Baldwin of Flanders was crowned emperor in Hagia Sophia, and Venice took three-eighths of the empire. The Greeks of Nicaea retook the city in 1261.

The exiled princess asked Descartes how a soul that only thinks can move a body at all. It is the problem his dualism never solved. Their letters ran until his death in 1650, and he dedicated his Principles to her.

The decisive battle of the campaign: John Pemberton’s army was beaten in the field and fell back into Vicksburg’s trenches. 6,757 casualties (NPS).

On the eleventh article the vote was 35–19 for conviction, one short of the two-thirds needed. Seven Republicans voted with the Democrats to acquit; ten days later two more articles failed by the same count.

In the unlocked wing three women come to Harker in the moonlight, and one bends over his throat until the Count hurls her away: “This man belongs to me!” He promises them Harker later, and gives them a bag that moves. Harker faints, and the next entry begins with him in his own bed.

A secret British–French plan to divide the Ottoman Arab lands into zones of control, drawn up by Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot. The Bolsheviks published it in November 1917, to the fury of the Arab leaders Britain had been courting.

A dinner for about 270 guests at five dollars a ticket; the presentations took about fifteen minutes, and the winners had been announced three months before. Wings won the top award. Best Actor Emil Jannings had already gone home to Germany and got his statuette before the ceremony.

When the SS came to deport the last Jews of the ghetto, a few hundred young fighters under Mordecai Anielewicz, 24, fought back for four weeks against tanks and artillery: the largest Jewish uprising of the war. The SS commander Jürgen Stroop ended it by blowing up the Great Synagogue and…

One man in a capsule so small that he wore it rather than rode in it. Six crewed flights: two up-and-down hops over the Atlantic, then four orbital flights, each longer than the last.

The Assembly amended the election law 35 to 23. Women first voted and stood in June 2006; none won until 2009, when four did.