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Tuesday, 16 June 2026

2000

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.

1997

The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.

1989

Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister, is reburied in Budapest.

1977

Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.

1976

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.

1972

The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls, Labrador.

Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.

1963

Soviet Space Program: ''Vostok 6'' Mission – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.

1958

Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.

1940

World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes Premier of Vichy France.

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