Historical Events in 2016 (Part 3)

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• Oct 18 US White Houses says it is "confident" Russia behind recent email hacking and attempts to influence US election

• Oct 22 AT&T buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion
• Oct 24 Suicide bomb kills 61 and injures 117 at a police training academy in Quetta, Pakistan, ISIS claims responsibility
• Oct 25 4 killed on a theme park ride at Dreamworld, in Queensland, Australia
• Oct 25 Paul Beatty becomes the 1st American to win the Man Booker Prize for his novel "The Sellout"
• Oct 26 Jesus' supposed tomb is opened for the first time in 500 years by archaeologists for restoration in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem [1]

• Oct 28 Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area established off Antarctica - world's largest marine protected area at 598,000 square miles (2.06 million square-kilometers), larger than Mexico [1]
• Oct 30 6.6-magnitude earthquake hits central Italy - strongest in Italy for 36 years
• Oct 30 Canada and the EU sign free trade deal after opposition by Belgium
• Oct 30 Oakland Raiders break the single game record for most penalties in an NFL game gaining 23 in win over Tampa Bay Buccaneers

• Oct 31 Lebanon parliament elects Michel Aoun President after 2 1/2 years without a leader
• Nov 2 Baseball World Series: Chicago Cubs beat Cleveland Indians, 8-7 in Game 7 at Progressive Field, Cleveland; first Cubs' title in 108 years; MVP: Chicago utility Ben Zobrist

• Nov 4 Paris Agreement on climate change becomes effective
• Nov 6 Indian government declares levels of air pollution in Delhi an emergency situation, closing schools and construction sites
• Nov 6 New York City Marathon: Ghirmay Ghebreslassie of Eritrea wins men's race in 2:07:51; defending women's champion Mary Keitany wins her 3rd NYC crown in 2:24:26

• Nov 8 Republican Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States of America, defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton, with an Electoral College victory of 304- 227; Clinton received just under 2.9 million more popular votes [1]

• Nov 14 7.8 earthquake cuts off town of Kaikoura, New Zealand, raising sea bed by 4m, and killing 2 people

• Nov 17 Smaller pyramid find within 2 known Kukulkan "nesting" pyramids announced at Chichen Itza in Yucatan, Mexico, dating to 550-80 AD

• Nov 21 Adam Ondra completes the second free ascent of The Dawn Wall at El Capitan, leading every pitch in 8 days
• Nov 21 India celebrates 50th anniversary of IR8, rice variety specially bred that saved much of Asia from famine
• Nov 22 'Vegas Golden Knights' is revealed as the Las Vegas NHL expansion team's name
• Nov 22 Spirit Cave Mummy, North America's oldest at 10,600 years old, is returned to the Fallon Paiute Shoshone tribe for reburial after DNA sequencing proved he is an ancestor of contemporary tribes [1]

• Nov 24 International research team publishes discovery of 1,500 new viruses found in invertebrates

• Nov 28 Plane carrying Brazilian Chapecoense football team crashes near Medellín, Colombia killing 71 players and journalists
• Nov 29 Former NFL player Darren Sharper sentenced to 20 years in prison for a series of rapes
• Nov 30 UNESCO adds Belgian beer to its Cultural Heritage List
• Dec 1 Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn is declared King of Thailand, succeeding his father King Bhumibol Adulyadej

• Dec 1 Joel Embiid is named Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month for NBA games played in October and November
• Dec 1 UN admits its peacekeepers were responsible for the cholera epidemic in Haiti in 2010 that killed 30,000
• Dec 2 Donald Trump takes a call with Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen, in a break from America's long standing "One China" policy
• Dec 2 Fire during a dance party at an illegally re=purposed warehouse in Oakland< California kills 36
• Dec 2 For 6th time in 7 years, Cincinnati Reds 1st baseman Joey Votto wins Tip O'Neill Award as best Canadian MLB player; hit .326 with NL-leading .434 OBP, 29 HRs & 97 RBIs in an outstanding all-around season for last-place club
• Dec 3 US army decides it will not allow an oil pipeline to be built in North Dakota, after months of protests by The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
• Dec 4 Austria elects liberal independent Alexander Van der Bellen as President, after original vote in May annulled

• Dec 4 Tens of thousands march throughout Brazil against a vote to undermine anti-corruption investigations
• Dec 4 Venezuela issues new higher-value notes after currency falls 60% in 1 months against the US dollar
• Dec 5 Malta becomes the 1st country in Europe to outlaw conversion therapy
• Dec 7 6.5 earthquake in Aceh province, Indonesia kills at least 97 people
• Dec 7 Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi resigns 3 days after losing a referendum to reform the constitution
• Dec 7 Pakistan International Airways plane crashes north of Islamabad, killing all 48 on board, including singer turned preacher Junaid Jamshed
• Dec 9 Ghanaian Presidential election won by Nana Akufo-Addo of the opposition New Patriotic Party
• Dec 9 Mosconi Cup nine-ball pool, London, England: Europe wins 7th consecutive title convincingly beating US, 11-3; MVP: Albin Ouschan (Austria)
• Dec 9 South Korean MPs vote to impeach President Park Geun-hye

• Dec 10 Terrorist bomb attacks outside a stadium in Istanbul kill 38 and injure 166
• Dec 11 Bombing at a chapel in Cairo, Egypt, kills 25 and wounds 45
• Dec 11 Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh says he will contest his election defeat in court, after his 1st election loss in 22 years
• Dec 11 Kyrgyzstan votes in a referendum to change the constitution to give the government more power

• Dec 12 Bill English is sworn in as New Zealand Prime Minister, succeeding John Key
• Dec 12 Paolo Gentiloni is sworn in as Prime Minister of Italy, succeeding Matteo Renzi

• Dec 13 UN claims 82 civilians have been summary executed in Aleppo by pro-government forces
• Dec 14 Amazon announces its 1st delivery by drone 2 km from their warehouse in the UK

• Dec 14 University of Toronto scientists present findings of the world's oldest water - 2 billion years old from a mine in Canada
• Dec 15 Ceasefire declared in Aleppo to allow hundreds to be evacutated from last rebel held area
• Dec 15 White supremacist Dylann Roof is found guilty of the Charleston Church Massacre which killed 9
• Dec 16 5 day pollution red alert declared in Beijing and 21 other Chinese cities, classified by officials as a “meteorological disaster”

• Dec 19 At least 48 people die after drinking bath lotion in Irkutsk, Siberia, thinking it contained alcohol
• Dec 19 Russian ambassador to Turkey shot dead at an art gallery in Ankara by Turkish gunman
• Dec 19 Truck driven into a Christmas market in Berlin kills 12, injures 48
• Dec 19 US electoral collage votes 304 to 227 to nominate Donald Trump for President over the objections of seven faithless electors

• Dec 22 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
• Dec 23 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 US abstention.
• Dec 25 Russian military defence plane crashes into the Black Sea after takeoff from Sochi airport, killing all 92 on board

• Dec 30 83rd Orange Bowl: #10 Florida State beats #6 Michigan, 33-32
• Dec 30 A ceasefire organised by Russia, Iran and Turkey between Syria's government and opposition groups takes effect
• Dec 30 British singer-songwriter Ray Davies, of The Kinks, is awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II
• Dec 30 Last day Indians are able to deposit in banks 500 and 1,000 rupee notes which were scrapped only 50 days earlier in an anti-corruption measure

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