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Events for the 16th of June from Wikipedia:
• 1811: Survivors of an attack the previous day by Tla-o-qui-aht on board the Pacific Fur Company's ship Tonquin, intentionally detonate a powder magazine on the ship, destroying it and killing about 100 attackers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tla-o-qui-aht_First_Nations
• Birth (1941) of Mumtaz Hamid Rao, Pakistani journalist (d. 2011) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumtaz_Hamid_Rao
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