24 Hours of Le Mans. June 22 - Emanuela Orlandi, a 15 years old Vatican girl, misteriously disappears in Rome while returning home from a music lesson. The disappearance of the girl led to many speculations which see the involving of international terrorism, italian organized crime and even a plot inside the Vatican to cover a sexual scandal inside the Holy See. Because of all these theories, the missing of Emanuela Orlandi would later become Italy's most famous unsolved mystery. June 25 – India wins the Cricket World Cup, defeating the West Indies by 43 runs. June 30 – A total loss of coolant occurs at the Embalse Nuclear Power Station, Argentina. It is classified as an "Accident With Local Consequences" – level 4 on the International Nuclear Event Scale. July July 1 A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet, en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea, crashes into the Fouta Djall Mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board. A technical failure causes the release of iodine-131 from the Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant, Germany. July 15 Nintendo's Family Computer, also known as the Famicom, goes on sale in Japan. The Orly Airport attack in Paris leaves eight dead and 55 injured. July 16 – Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities. July 20 – The government of Poland announces the end of martial law and amnesty for political prisoners. July 21 – The lowest temperature on Earth is recorded in Vostok Station, Antarctica with −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F). July 22 – Australian Dick Smith completes his solo circumnavigation of the world in a helicopter. July 23 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, starting the Sri Lankan Civil War which continued until 2009. Heavy rain and mudslides at western Shimane Prefecture, Japan, kill 117. July 24 – The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War. August August 4 – Thomas Sankara becomes President of Upper Volta. August 18 Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 and causing over US$3.8 billion (2005 dollars) in damage. Five people are killed and 18 others injured when a road train is deliberately driven into a motel at Ayers Rock in the Northern Territory