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Today in History: May 16, China’s Cultural Revolution begins

Also on this date, Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

A black and white image of students marching with a portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong
The propaganda squad of Red Guards, high school and university students, carry the portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong parade in June 1966 on Chang’an avenue in Beijing to spread Mao’s thought during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Since the May 1966 launch of the Cultural Revolution at Beijing University, the Red Guards were instrumental in Mao’s recapture of power after the failure of the Great Leap Forward. The movement was directed against “party leaders in authority taking the capitalist road.” The Red Guards went on rampage in Chinese towns, terrorizing people, particularly older ones. (Photo by JEAN VINCENT / AFP) (Photo by JEAN VINCENT/AFP via Getty Images)
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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.

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