TODAY IN HISTORY

On May 16, 1770, Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.

In 1939, the federal government began its first food stamp program in Rochester, New York.

In 1943, the nearly monthlong Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ended as German forces crushed the Jewish resistance.

In 1966, China launched the Cultural Revolution, a radical and deadly reform movement aimed at purging the country of “counter-revolutionaries.”

In 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

In 1984, comedian Andy Kaufman died in Los Angeles at age 35.

In 1988, the U.S. Supreme Court, in California v. Greenwood, ruled that police could search discarded garbage without a search warrant.