What happend on 16th June

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1977

Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the USSR

1976

Apartheid: A non-violent march by 15000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd and kill 566 children.

1972

Largest single-site hydro-electric power project starts at Churchill Falls Newfoundland

1972

Burglars are caught breaking into the United States Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building

1972

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

1972

Opening of the New York Jazz Museum

1963

Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space

1962

Two U.S. Army officers are killed in Saigon,Vietnam.

1961

Rudolf Nureyev defects at Le Bourget airport in Paris

1960

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho opens in New York