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On this day: 16 May |
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•1152: Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Henry Anjou, handing the future king of England most of France.
•1943: The Warsaw Ghetto uprising is crushed by German troops and 60,000 Jewish people are shot or deported.
•1943: The 'Dambusters Raid' by the RAF's elite 617 Squadron breaches two huge dams in Germany's Ruhr valley.
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