1868

Having already been impeached by the House of Representatives, President Andrew Johnson narrowly avoided impeachment by the Senate, one vote shy of the required two-thirds majority.

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.

2022

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

– From wire reports