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June 16th, 2000	Event	Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of it issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Sheba Farms.
June 16th, 1999	Event	Maurice Greene sets a new 100m world record at 9.79 seconds. This is the largest drop in a 100m world record in the history of electronic timing from Donovan Bailey s 9.84.
June 16th, 1997	Event	The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.
June 16th, 1994	Event	A Chinese operated Tupolev TU-154 crashes 10 minutes after takeoff killing 160.
June 16th, 1989	Event	Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister, is reburied in Budapest.
June 16th, 1977	Event	Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
June 16th, 1976	Event	Soweto uprising: a non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd and kill 566 children.
June 16th, 1972	Event	Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
June 16th, 1972	Event	The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada starts at Churchill Falls, Labrador.
June 16th, 1967	Event	The three-day Monterey International Pop Music Festival begins in Monterey, California.

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