What happened on 16 May?

7 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1966 Cultural Revolution Decade of Maoist upheaval that purges intellectuals and devastates Chinese culture.
2. 1961 Park Chung-hee's coup A military coup brings Park Chung-hee to power; his authoritarian rule drives the 'Miracle on the Han River' industrialisation.
3. 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement Secret Anglo-French treaty partitioning Ottoman Arab provinces; reshapes the Middle East after WWI.
4. 1967 Nasser orders the UN peacekeepers out of Sinai Fed false Soviet intelligence of an imminent Israeli attack on Syria, Nasser demands the UN force that has kept Egypt and Israel apart since Suez leave Sinai — and to general aston
5. 1920 Joan of Arc canonised Four hundred and eighty-nine years after the Church burned her, the Church declares her a saint — before 60,000 people in St Peter's, with a France fresh from the trenches watching
6. 1791 Boswell's Life of Johnson James Boswell's biography of Samuel Johnson, widely regarded as the greatest biography in the English language.
7. 2007 Presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy The financial crisis, the Libya intervention and a restless hyper-presidency.