What happend on 16th July

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1994

The civil war in Rwanda comes to an end.

1994

The planet Jupiter is hit by fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet.

1990

In the Philippines, an earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale kills over 1600.

1983

Sikorsky S-61 disaster: helicopter crash off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.

1979

Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.

1973

Watergate Scandal: Former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield informs the United States Senate committee investigating scandal that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.

1969

Apollo program: Apollo 11 launches from Cape Kennedy, Florida and will become the first manned space mission to land on the moon.

1965

The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France with Italy opens.

1963

Timothy Leary takes LSD for the first time.

1957

United States Marine Major John Glenn flies a F8U supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds setting a new transcontinental speed record.