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     <p class="note only-rc">This is a release candidate version of ICU4C.
       It is not recommended for production use.</p>
 
-    <p>Last updated: 2020-Dec-02<br/>
+    <p>Last updated: 2021-Mar-16<br/>
       Copyright &copy; 2016 and later: Unicode, Inc. and others. License &amp; terms of use:
       <a href="http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html">http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html</a><br/>
       Copyright &copy; 1997-2016 International Business Machines Corporation and others.
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 <h1>International Components for Unicode for Java (ICU4J)</h1>
 <h2>Read Me for ICU4J 69.1</h2>
-(Last Update: 2020-Dec-02)
+(Last Update: 2021-Mar-16)
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