Encyclopędia Britannica Online Daily ContentEncyclopędia Britannica presents people and events from this day in history.http://www.britannica.com/?source=RSSOTDen-usCopyright © 2005 Encyclopędia Britannica, Inc.http://www.britannica.com/bcom/images/ebol04_hdr_logo.gifEncyclopędia Britannica Onlinehttp://www.britannica.com/?source=RSSOTDSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with Live.comWarsaw Ghetto Uprising suppressed: 16 May 1943 - This Day in Historyhttp://www.britannica.com/eb/dailycontent?tocId=9396923&source=RSSOTD#eventHistoryBritannicaOn this day in 1943, Nazi troops quelled the monthlong Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in which Polish Jews, led by Mordecai Anielewicz and the Jewish Fighting Organization, resisted deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp.

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1975: Tabei Junko of Japan, accompanied by Ang Tsering of Nepal, became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

1961: The military seized power in South Korea, overthrowing the Second Republic, as Gen. Park Chung-Hee took over the government machinery, dissolved the National Assembly, and imposed a strict ban on political activity.

1920: Joan of Arc, national heroine of France, was canonized as a saint by Pope Benedict XV.

1763: In London, Samuel Johnson met James Boswell, who published his famous biography, Life of Johnson, in 1791.

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Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut, born this day in Belorussia (now Belarus) in 1955, earned three gold medals at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, West Germany, where she captivated audiences with her charm, youth, and diminutive size.

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