2016

Facts and Events That Happened in This Year

Dec 19

Dozens of people died after drinking bath lotion in Siberia.

Dec 16

The US State Department increased the reward for information on the Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to $25 million.

Dec 16

A five-day pollution red alert was declared in Beijing and 21 other Chinese cities.

Dec 14

Amazon announced its first drone delivery.

Dec 5

Malta became the first European country to ban gay conversion therapy.

Nov 24

An international research team published their discovery of 1,500 new viruses that were in invertebrates in Australia and China.

Nov 14

Disney's Moana premiered in Los Angeles, California, US.

Nov 14

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Kaikōura, New Zealand.

Nov 12

Jackie Chan was awarded an honorary Oscar at the 8th Annual Governors Awards for starring in over 200 movies.

Nov 8

Donald Trump won an election to become the 45th president of the United States of America.

Nov 6

New Delhi air pollution was declared a public emergency, causing the city to close many schools and construction sites.

Nov 4

The Paris Climate Change Agreement went into force.

Oct 16

The 85-year-old athlete Ed Whitlock broke a world record after completing a sub-4-hour marathon.

Oct 13

The American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan posthumously won a Nobel prize in literature.

Oct 12

The cosmetics company CoverGirl featured their first-ever boy on the cover.

Oct 11

Samsung stopped producing Note 7 phones due to batteries exploding on users.

Oct 2

Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in Paris, France.

Sep 25

China finished building the world's largest radio telescope at 1,640 feet (500 meters) long.

Sep 25

Selena Gomez achieved a world record for being the first person to reach 100 million followers on Instagram.

Sep 21

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan gave $3 billion to fight and end all diseases.

Sep 20

An African American man, Keith Lamont Scott, was shot dead by police on Old Concord Road, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Sep 8

Space probe Osiris-Rex by NASA was launched to collect rock samples from the Bennu asteroid.

Sep 4

Mother Teresa was declared a saint by Pope Francis during a ceremony at the Vatican.

Aug 24

The Central Italy earthquake occurred.

Aug 24

Astronomers announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet named Proxima b.

Aug 20

A suicide bomber killed 57 people while injuring 66 in Gaziantep, Turkey.

Aug 16

Georgian heavyweight-lifting champion Lasha Talakhadze smashed a world record by lifting an incredible 473 kg.

Aug 11

Scientists discovered the oldest living Greenland Shark, with an estimated age of 392 years old.

Aug 10

Australian swimmer Kyle Chalmers won the 100-meter freestyle gold medal in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

Aug 8

The South Korean band 'Blackpink' released their debut single album 'Square One.'

Aug 1

Authorities blamed climate change for an Anthrax outbreak in the Arctic Circle of Russia.

Jul 31

The first edition of the script for 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' was published.

Jul 25

Verizon bought Yahoo for $4.8 billion in cash.

Jul 22

Funai Electric announced that the world's last VCR would be manufactured this month.

Jul 13

British prime minister, Theresa May of the Conservative Party, was elected by the Party's MPs.

Jul 6

South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to 6 years in prison for murder.

Feb 11

Researchers announced that gravitational waves had been discovered.

Feb 7

North Korea launched the Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 reconnaissance satellite atop an Unha rocket.

Jan 29

Zayn Malik's 'Pillowtalk' single was released.

Jan 24

The X-Files returned for Season 10 after a thirteen-year hiatus.

Jan 23

A category five blizzard occurred in the Mid-Atlantic and North East US, which covered the area in 3 feet of snow.

Jan 16

Astronaut Scott Kelly Tweeted a photo of the first flower ever grown in space.

Jan 15

A Chinese Long March rocket launched the Belarussian government's Belintersat-1 satellite into orbit.

Jan 6

A state of emergency was declared in California after a gas leak.