Today is Friday May 16, the 136th day of 2025. There are 229 days a year left.
Today in history:
On May 16, 1966, the Chinese Communist Party published the notification of May 16, a document which criticized the “counter-revolutionary revisionists” within the party and marked the beginning of the cultural revolution.
Also on this date:
In 1770, Marie Antoinette, 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15 years old.
In 1868, having already been dismissed by the House of Representatives, President Andrew Johnson narrowly avoided dismissal by the Senate, which voted 35-19 in favor of the indictment – a timid two -thirds vote required.
In 1929, the first prizes of the Academy were awarded. “Wings” won the prize for an exceptional photo, while Emil Jannings and Janet Gaynor were named best actor and best actress.
In 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising almost a month ended when German forces crushed the Jewish resistance and exploded the city’s great synagogue.
In 1960, the first work laser was demonstrated at the Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California, by the physicist Theodore Maiman.
In 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mont Everest.
In 1997, President Bill Clinton publicly apologized for the famous 40 -year -old Tuskegee experience, in which government scientists deliberately allowed black men to weaken and die of treatable syphilis.
In 2018, officials of Michigan State University said they had agreed to pay $ 500 million to settle complaints from more than 300 women and girls who said they were attacked by sports doctor Larry Nassar.
In 2022, the number of American deaths from COVID-19 reached 1 million.
Today’s birthdays:
- The actor Danny Trejo is 81 years old.
- Actor Pierce Brosnan is 72 years old.
- The Olympic Olga Korbut Olympic Gymnastics medalist is 70 years old.
- The Jack Morris baseball renowned temple is 70 years old.
- The actor Debra Winger is 70 years old.
- The gold medalist of the Olympic marathon Joan Benoit Samuelson is 68 years old.
- Actor Mare Winingham is 66 years old.
- Rock musician Krist Novoselic (Nirvana) is 60 years old.
- The singer Janet Jackson is 59 years old.
- Temple of Football Football Thurman Thomas is 59 years old.
- The Singer Ralph Tresvant (new edition) is 57 years old.
- Actor David Boreanaz is 56 years old.
- The political commentator Tucker Carlson is 56 years old.
- Tennis Hall of Famer Gabriela Sabatini is 55 years old.
- The spelling of the Tori actor is 52.
- The actor Melanie Lynskey is 48 years old.
- Actor Megan Fox is 39 years old.
- Actor Thomas Brodie-Sangster is 35 years old.
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