Today’s Highlights

On May 16, 1966, the Chinese Communist Party issued the May 16 Notification, a document that criticized “counterrevolutionary revisionists” within the party and marked the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

On this date

1929: The first Academy Awards were presented. “Wings” won the award for Outstanding Picture.

1943: 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.

1975: Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

1997: President Bill Clinton publicly apologized for the notorious 40-year Tuskegee Experiment, in which government scientists deliberately allowed Black men to weaken and die of treatable syphilis.

2018: Officials at Michigan State University said they had agreed to pay $500 million to settle claims from more than 300 women and girls who said they were assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar.

2022: The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 reached 1 million.

Today’s birthdays

Actor Danny Trejo is 81. Actor Pierce Brosnan is 72. Baseball Hall of Famer Jack Morris is 70. Actor Debra Winger is 70. Olympic marathon gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson is 68. Rock musician Krist Novoselic is 60. Singer Janet Jackson is 59. Football Hall of Famer Thurman Thomas is 59. Singer Ralph Tresvant (New Edition) is 57. Actor David Boreanaz is 56. Actor Tori Spelling is 52.