16. мај 1976. је био недеља под знаком звездице ♉. Био је 136 дан у години. Председник Сједињених Држава је био Gerald R. Ford.
Ако сте рођени на данашњи дан, имате 50 година. Ваш последњи рођендан је био субота, 16. мај 2026., пре 57 дана. Ваш следећи рођендан је недеља, 16. мај 2027., за 307 дана. Живели сте 18.319 дана, или око 439.679 сати, или око 26.380.772 минута, или око 1.582.846.320 секунди.
Date: 17 May 1976
By HENRY TANNER Special to The New York Times
Henry Special
Edouard Saab, editor-in-chief of Lebanese paper L'Orient-le Jour, is killed on May 16 after car he was in was struck by sniper fire at crossing point between Christian and Moslem areas of Lebanon; NY Times correspondent Henry Tanner, who accompanied him, suffered superficial cuts (S)
Date: 17 May 1976
News photographer is trampled to death on May 15 when mob riots in Kobe, Japan (S)
Date: 17 May 1976
By JAMES F. LYNCH
James LYNCH
number of NJ officials and public interest groups believe that 3 1/2-mo-old Sunshine Law is working; Assemblyman Byron M Baer, prime sponsor of law, comments (L)
Date: 17 May 1976
Ed observes that threats of gubernatorial veto have cast shadow over hopes in Albany for new 'sunshine law,' which would require govt meetings, at all levels, to be open to public unless unit that is meeting votes to conduct exec session for limited, specified purposes
Date: 16 May 1976
San Quentin News advertises opening for reporter experienced in either journalism or in life at San Quentin (S)
Date: 16 May 1976
JOHN LEONARD
John LEONARD
John Leonard comment on issues of techniques of electronic journalism raised by disclosure on CBS News program 60 Minutes that JDL West Coast coordinator Irv Rubin discussed possible murder of Yasir Arafat during Arafat's visit to NYC for UN session with alleged 'hit-man' John Dane; defends techniques used by producer Joe DeCola (M)
Date: 17 May 1976
By MARTIN WALDRON Special to The New York Times
Martin Special
Repub-backed plan in NJ Sen Educ Com requiring state to set reading, writing and arithmetic standards for ps pupils seen as key to passage of NJ income tax bill; standards bill, introduced by Assemblyman Kean, and opposed by NJ Educ Assn and most teachers, requires annual testing of pupils and provides for special tutoring for pupils who do poorly on tests (S)