Saline Valley salt tram summit

The Saline Valley salt tram is located in Inyo County, California . The electric aerial tramway was constructed from 1911 to 1913 to carry salt from the Saline Valley , over the Inyo Mountains , and into the Owens Valley . Covering a distance of 13.4 miles (21.6 km), it operated sporadically from 1913 to 1935 for four different companies. The tram was built for the Saline Valley Salt Company (SVSC) by the Trenton Iron Company, but the costs of its construction and operation were ruinously expensive for the SVSC. The salt mining operation and tram were leased in 1915 to the Owens Valley Salt Company until the latter went bankrupt in 1918. In 1920, the tram was taken over by the Trenton Iron Company, which sold it to the Sierra Salt Company in 1928. The Sierra Salt Company put it back into service until the company went bankrupt in 1935. During its operation, it was the steepest tram in the United States. The tram was included in the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. ( Full article... )

Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

• Ten people are killed in a mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York .
• Ukraine , represented by Kalush Orchestra with the song " Stefania ", wins the Eurovision Song Contest .
• Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (pictured) inherits the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and becomes President of the United Arab Emirates after the death of Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan .
• Sagittarius A* , the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy, is imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope .

Southern Magazine cover, 1872

• ... that The Land We Love , a little magazine that merged into Southern Magazine (cover pictured) , printed Civil War recollections, poetry, agricultural material, and many works by female authors?
• ... that Serhiy Kot was the editor of Ukrainian Question , a collection of articles on the status of Ukraine in the 1930s?
• ... that Jacqueline Kennedy did not want to make her clothes the focus of her 1962 goodwill tour of India and Pakistan , but still wore 22 different outfits in the first nine days?
• ... that all but one of the court astrologers at the accession of King Minye Kyawswa I of Ava prophesied that he would rule for three years?
• ... that the first studio of Indiana high school radio station WETL was a cedar closet that once stored furs?
• ... that British barristers are on strike to protest against underfunding in the criminal justice system?
• ... that both the Qurm Nature Reserve and the surrounding city of Qurm are named for the grey mangroves protected by the reserve?
• ... that The Art of Cooking with Cannabis by Tracey Medeiros was praised by the Los Angeles Times for showcasing a wide range of recipes outside of the "tired pot-brownie cliché"?

May 16

Flag of Sikkim, prior to its 1975 annexation with India

• 1811 – Peninsular War : Allied British, Spanish, and Portuguese forces clashed with French troops at the Battle of Albuera fought south of Badajoz , Spain.
• 1832 – Prospector Juan Godoy discovered a silver outcrop in Chañarcillo , sparking the Chilean silver rush .
• 1925 – The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi 's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria occurred in Paris.
• 1958 – The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter , a supersonic interceptor aircraft , set a world flight airspeed record of 1,404.012 mph (2,259.538 km/h).
• 1975 – Based on the results of a referendum held about one month earlier, the Kingdom of Sikkim (flag pictured) abolished its monarchy and was annexed to become the 22nd state of India .