Today in History: May 16, China’s Cultural Revolution begins
In the present day is Friday May the th day of There are days left in the year In the present day in history On May the Chinese Communist Party issued the May Notification a document that criticized counterrevolutionary revisionists within the party and marked the beginning of the Cultural Revolution Also on this date In Marie Antoinette age married the future King Louis XVI of France who was Related Articles Attack on due process Immigration advocates lambast misinformation fear in Bay Area courts Hero gamer thwarted a mass school shooting being planned in California town sheriff says Bay Area activists denounce Trump s push to end migrant protections birthright citizenship Department of Homeland Assurance requests National Guard members to help with immigration crackdown Infamous California Tesla road rage driver assaulted by inmates in Hawaii jail In having already been impeached by the House of Representatives President Andrew Johnson narrowly avoided impeachment by the Senate which voted - in favor of impeachment one vote shy of the required two-thirds majority In the first Academy Awards were presented Wings won the award for Outstanding Picture while Emil Jannings and Janet Gaynor were named Best Actor and Best Actress In the nearly monthlong Warsaw Ghetto Uprising came to an end as German forces crushed the Jewish resistance and blew up the city s Great Synagogue In the first working laser was demonstrated at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu California by physicist Theodore Maiman In Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest In President Bill Clinton publicly apologized for the notorious -year Tuskegee Experiment in which administration scientists deliberately allowed Black men to weaken and die of treatable syphilis In functionaries at Michigan State University announced they had agreed to pay million to settle contends from more than women and girls who announced they were assaulted by sports physician Larry Nassar In the U S death toll from COVID- reached million In current times s Birthdays Actor Danny Trejo is Actor Pierce Brosnan is Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Olga Korbut is Baseball Hall of Famer Jack Morris is Actor Debra Winger is Olympic marathon gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson is Actor Mare Winningham is Rock musician Krist Novoselic Nirvana is Singer Janet Jackson is Football Hall of Famer Thurman Thomas is Singer Ralph Tresvant New Edition is Actor David Boreanaz is Political commentator Tucker Carlson is Tennis Hall of Famer Gabriela Sabatini is Actor Tori Spelling is Actor Melanie Lynskey is Actor Megan Fox is Actor Thomas Brodie-Sangster is