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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, 1992	Event	STS-49: Space Shuttle Endeavour lands safely after a successful maiden voyage.
May 16th, 1988	Event	A report by United States Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
May 16th, 1986	Event	The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.
May 16th, 1983	Event	Sudan People s Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.
May 16th, 1975	Event	India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state holds a referendum in which the popular vote was in favour of merging with India.

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