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May 16th, 2007	Event	Alex Salmond is elected First Minister of Scotlandied in He is the first Scottish National Party leader to be elected as First Minister after winning an historic victory at the Scottish general election on the 3rd May.
May 16th, 2006	Event	A large earthquake (7.4 on the Richter scale) occurs near New Zealand.
May 16th, 2005	Event	Kuwait permits women s suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.
May 16th, 2004	Event	The Day of Mourning at Bykivnia forest, just outside of Kiev, Ukraine. Here during 1930s and early 1940s communist bolsheviks executed over 100,000 Ukrainian civilians.
May 16th, 2003	Event	In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.
May 16th, 2003	Death	Mark McCormack, American businessman (born in 1930)
May 16th, 2002	Death	Alec Campbell, the last surviving ANZAC (born in 1899)
May 16th, 2002	Death	Big Dick Dudley, American professional wrestler (born in 1968)
May 16th, 2001	Death	Brian Pendleton, English musician (The Pretty Things) (born in 1944)
May 16th, 2000	Death	Bodacious the Bull Famous rodeo bull (born in 1988)

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