Today in History: May 16, China’s Cultural Revolution begins
In the modern day is Friday May the th day of There are days left in the year In current times 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 Currently in History May police kill two students during Jackson State protests Rockies strike out times in - loss to Rangers slide to - Currently in History May Jamestown becomes North America s first English settlement At present in History May Pope John Paul II shot and wounded Currently in History May tens of thousands die in Sichuan earthquake 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 regime scientists deliberately allowed Black men to weaken and die of treatable syphilis In functionaries at Michigan State University declared they had agreed to pay million to settle declares from more than women and girls who revealed they were assaulted by sports healthcare provider Larry Nassar In the U S death toll from COVID- reached million In the present day 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
