Historical timeline for July 16

A 100-year-old building in Mumbai, India, collapses, killing at least 10 people and leaving many others trapped.

Four U.S. Marines and a United States Navy Sailor are killed in the a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India.

Syrian civil war: The Battle of Ras al-Ayn resumes between the People's Protection Units (YPG) and Islamist forces, beginning the Rojava–Islamist conflict.

Teoh Beng Hock, an aide to a politician in Malaysia is found dead on the rooftop of a building adjacent to the offices of the Anti-Corruption Commission, sparking an inquest that gains nationwide attention.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing eight people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant.

An Antonov An-24 crashes near Baney in Bioko Norte, Equatorial Guinea, killing 60 people.

The comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 is destroyed in a head-on collision with Jupiter.

The Luzon earthquake strikes the Philippines with an intensity of 7.7, affecting Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac.

The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.

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

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

The Apollo 11 lunar landing mission is launched from Cape Kennedy in Florida, USA.

South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, a formerly undetected communist spy and double agent, is hunted down and killed by unknown individuals after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyễn Khánh.

The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.

KLM Flight 844 crashes off the Schouten Islands in present day Indonesia (then Netherlands New Guinea), killing 58 people.

J. D. Salinger publishes his popular yet controversial novel, The Catcher in the Rye.

King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin of Belgium.

Chaplain–Medic massacre: American POWs are massacred by North Korean Army.

Uruguay beats hosts Brazil 2–1 to win the World Cup in a match dubbed as the Maracanazo.