Talk:May 16

May 16: Teacher's Day in Malaysia

• 1204 – Fourth Crusade: Count Baldwin IX of Flanders was crowned the first Latin Emperor in Constantinople.
• 1811 – Peninsular War: An allied force of British, Spanish, and Portuguese troops clashed with the French at the Battle of Albuera south of Badajoz, Spain.
• 1866 – Root beer (pictured) was first prepared commercially by American pharmacist Charles Elmer Hires.
• 1877 – President Patrice de Mac-Mahon dismissed Jules Simon and installed Albert, Duc de Broglie as Prime Minister, triggering a political crisis in the French Third Republic.
• 1929 – The first Academy Awards were handed out at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles.
• 1966 – Chinese leader Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution officially as a campaign to rid China of its liberal bourgeoisie elements and to continue revolutionary class struggle.

More events: May 15 – May 16 – May 17