"May 16th in History: Significant Events Through the Years"
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"May 16th in History: Significant Events Through the Years"
[!CDATA[Today marks May 16, 2025, the 136th day of the year with 229 days remaining. On this day in history, the Chinese Communist Party issued the May 16 Notification in 1966, initiating the Cultural Revolution. In 1770, Marie Antoinette married King Louis XVI of France. President Andrew Johnson narrowly avoided impeachment in 1868. The first Academy Awards took place in 1929. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ended in 1943. The first working laser was demonstrated in 1960. Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest in 1975. President Bill Clinton apologized for the Tuskegee Experiment in 1997. Michigan State University settled with Larry Nassar's victims in 2018. The U.S. COVID-19 death toll reached 1 million in 2022.]]