2016
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DECEMBER
December 30, 2016 – A Ceasefire Organised By Russia, Iran And Turkey Between Syria’s Government And Opposition Groups Takes Effect.
December 23, 2016 – United Nations Security Council Adopts A Landmark Resolution Demanding A Halt To All Israeli Settlement In Palestinian Territory Occupied Since 1967. Resolution 2334 Was Moved By New Zealand, Malaysia, Senegal And Venezuela And Passed 14-0 With A U.S. Abstention.
December 22, 2016 – Ebola Vaccine VSV-EBOV Is Found To Be 70-100% Effective In A Study Published In The Lancet, Becoming The World’s First Proven Vaccine Against Ebola.
December 21, 2016 – Congress Passes Bill To Start Putting RFID Chips In Disabled People.
December 19, 2016 – Truck Driven Into A Christmas Market In Berlin Kills 12, Injures 48.
December 17, 2016 – Did Congress Pass A Bill Allowing The Government To Microchip Citizens With ‘Mental Disabilities’?
December 16, 2016 – U.S. State Department Increases Reward For Information On Islamic State Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi To $25 Million.
December 7, 2016 – 6.5 Earthquake In Aceh Province, Indonesia Kills At Least 97 People.
NOVEMBER
November 14, 2016 – 7.8 Earthquake Cuts Off Town Of Kaikoura, New Zealand, Raising Sea Bed By 4m, And Killing 2 People.
November 8, 2016 – Republican Donald Trump Is Elected President Of The United States Of America, Defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton, Who Received 2.9 Million More Votes.
November 4, 2016 – Paris Agreement On Climate Change Becomes Effective.
OCTOBER
October 30, 2016 – 6.6-Magnitude Quake Hits Central Italy – Strongest Earthquake In Italy For 36 Years.
October 25, 2016 – Suicide Bomb Kills 61 And Injures 117 At A Police Training Academy In Quetta, Pakistan, ISIS Claims Responsibility.
SEPTEMBER
September 27, 2016 – First Baby Born With DNA From 3 Parents Through Mitochondrial Transfer In Mexico.
September 9, 2016 – North Korea Conducts Its Fifth Nuclear Test At The Punggye-Ri Nuclear Test Site, At The Time Its Largest Ever Test At 10 Kilotons But Superseded By The 2017 Test.
AUGUST
August 29, 2016 – Sanhedrin Appoints High Priest In Preparation For Third Temple.
August 24, 2016 – 6.2-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Central Italy, North East Of Rome, Killing 268, Injuring 400.
August 16, 2016 – Wildfire Breaks Out In San Bernardino County, California, Engulfing 15,000 Acres, Prompting Evacuation Of 82,000 People.
August 13, 2016 – Flood Waters Recede In Louisiana Leaving 13 Dead And Damaging 4,000 Homes.
August 7, 2016 – Deadlock In Battle For Aleppo Broken When Russian Air Strikes Cut Rebel Access To The City, 250,000 People Put Under Siege.
JULY
July 23, 2016 – Suicide Bomb In Kabul Kills 80 During A Protest March, Islamic State Claim Responsibility.
July 22, 2016 – A Man Shoots And Kills 9 People At The Olympia Shopping Mall In Munich, Germany And Then Kills Himself.
July 15, 2016 – Attempted Military Coup In Turkey Fails, Nearly 300 Killed, 6,000 Then Arrested.
July 13, 2016 – Theresa May Is Elected Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom By Conservative Party MPs.
July 2, 2016 – Large Lorry Bomb In Baghdad Kills At Least 125 People And Wounds 150, Islamic State Claims Responsibility.
JUNE
June 26, 2016 – City Of Falluja Freed From Islamic State Control After A Month-Long Campaign By Iraqi Forces.
June 23, 2016 – Brexit: The U.K. Votes To Exit The EU.
June 23, 2016 – Brexit Referendum: United Kingdom Votes To Leave The European Union.
June 12, 2016 – Gunman Claiming Allegiance To The Islamic State Opens Fire At Gay Nightclub In Orlando, Florida, Killing 49, Injuring 53 – Worst Mass Shooting In The U.S.
MAY
May 19, 2016 – How To Create A Refugee Crisis.
May 5, 2016 – Fort McMurray Wildfires: Canadian Province Of Alberta Declares A State Of Emergency As Evacuation Of 80,000 People Continues.
APRIL
April 22, 2016 – Paris Agreement On Climate Change Signed In New York Binding 195 Nations To An Increase In The Global Average Temperature To Less Than 2°C Above Pre-Industrial Levels And To Pursue Efforts To Limit The Increase To 1.5°C.
MARCH
March 25, 2016 – Suicide Attack During A Football Match In Iskandariya, Iraq Kills At Least 32 People, ISIS Claim Responsibility.
March 22, 2016 – Suicide Bombings At Brussel’s Zaventem Airport And Maelbeek Metro Station, Leave Around 28 Victims Dead And 260 Injured, ISIS Claim Responsibility.
March 14, 2016 – NASA Releases Data Showing February 2016 Warmest Month Ever Recorded Globally – 1.35C Above The Long-Term Average.
March 14, 2016 – President Putin Orders Russian Troops Out Of Syria.
FEBRUARY
February 21, 2016 – Bombings In The Syrian Cities Of Homs And Damascus Kill 140 People, Islamic State Claims Responsibility.
February 18, 2016 – Pope Francis Questions U.S. Presidential Hopeful Donald Trump’s Christianity Over His Call To Build A Wall On The Mexican Border.
JANUARY
January 6, 2016 – North Korea States That They Have Successfully Conducted Their Fourth Nuclear Test, Saying It Was A Hydrogen Bomb In A Claim Disputed By Most International Experts.
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