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A bit of May 16th history…
1866 - Charles Hires invents Root Beer (pictured)
1918 - Sedition Act of 1918 passed by US Congress, making criticism of government an imprisonable offense
1929 - 1st Academy Awards
1966 - “May 16 Notification” released - Mao’s official justification for the Cultural Revolution
2013 - Human stem cells are successfully cloned
Today In History: May 16, 2021 at 05:00AM