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On This Day 16th May - Hedgehog - 05-16-2009 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.