What happend on 16th August

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2005

West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes near Machiques, Venezuela, killing the 160 aboard.

1996

Sigma Beta Rho is founded at the University of Pennsylvania.

1993

The Debian GNU/Linux distribution is founded by Ian Murdock.

1987

A McDonnell Douglas MD-82 carrying Northwest Airlines flight 255 crashes on takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport killing 155 people onboard, with the sole survivor four-year old Cecelia Cichan).

1984

Carmaker John De Lorean is acquitted of all eight counts of possessing and distributing cocaine.

1974

The Ramones play their first ever show at the CBGB's.

1972

The Royal Moroccan Air Force mistakenly fires upon, but fails to bring down, Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.

1966

Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested.

1964

Vietnam War: A coup d'état replaces Duong Van Minh with General Nguyen Khanh as President of South Vietnam. A new constitution is established with aid from the U.S. Embassy.

1962

The Beatles fire drummer Pete Best and replace him with Ringo Starr.