Today in History, May 16: Kindergarten, the Academy Awards, and Mao
Posted May 16, 2008
1804—Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, who opened the first English-language kindergarten, is born.
1868—U.S. President Andrew Johnson narrowly escapes conviction on articles of impeachment by just one vote in the Senate.
1929—The first Academy Awards, hosted by Douglas Fairbanks, are handed out in a ceremony at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
1943—After a month of bloody fighting, Nazis destroy much of the Jewish section of Warsaw and crush those who resist. More than 40,000 Jews are massacred or deported.
1966—Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong announces the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, intended to ensure that China would pursue Mao's vision of communism and to secure his own place in history.
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