WHAT HAPPENED TODAY IN HISTORY MAY 16

PHOTO CREDITS- WIKIPEDIA/INTERNET ARCHIVE

1975 Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to conquer Mount Everest

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1966 In China, the Cultural Revolution begin

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1963 After 22 Earth orbits, Gordon Cooper returns to Earth, ending the last mission of Project Mercury.

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1960 Theodore Maiman fires the first functional laser

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1960 A Big Four summit in Paris collapses because of the American U-2 spy plane affair.

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1955 Olga Korbut, Olympic gymnast.

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1951 Chinese Communist Forces launch second phase of the Chinese Spring Offensive in the Korean War and gain up to 20 miles of territory.

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1943 A specially trained and equipped Royal Air Force squadron destroys two river dams in Germany.

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1929 Adrienne Rich, poet (Diving into the Wreck).

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1929 Betty Carter, jazz singer.

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1928 The first Academy Awards are held in Hollywood.

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1920 Joan of Arc is canonized in Rome.

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1919 Albert Cushing Read takes off on the first transatlantic flight in history

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1913 Woody Herman, jazz bandleader.

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1912 Studs Terkel, author and historian.

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1905 Henry Fonda, American actor (Grapes of Wrath, On Golden Pond).

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