Major Events
- Jan 8 Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announces the recapture of drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, six months after he escaped prison
- Feb 12 Pope Francis meets Patriarch Kirill in Havana - first meeting between Catholic and Russian Orthodox church heads for nearly 1,000 years
- Mar 20 Barack Obama becomes the first US President to visit Cuba since 1928, arriving for a 3 day tour
- Apr 3 Panama Papers published - 11.5 million confidential documents from offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca expose widespread illegal activities including fraud, kleptocracy, tax evasion and the violation of international sanctions by the world's elite in the world's largest ever data leak
- Apr 22 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
- Jun 23 Brexit referendum: United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union
- Jun 26 Panama Canal's third set of locks opens for commercial traffic, doubling the Canal’s capacity at an estimated cost of $5.25 billion
- 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]
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2016 in Film & TV
2016 in Music
- Oct 13 American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Dec 10 Bob Dylan is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden; he does not attend
2016 in Sport
- May 2 Leicester City win the English Premier League title after starting the season at 5,000-1 odds
- Sep 1 NFL San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneels in protest during the US national anthem before pre-season game against the Chargers at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium, objecting to racial injustice and police brutality in the US
- 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
Did You Know?
First baby born with DNA from 3 parents through mitochondrial transfer in Mexico
Fun Fact About 2016
University of Toronto scientists present findings of the world's oldest water - 2 billion years old from a mine in Canada
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Articles About 2016
El Chapo Finally Recaptured
Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán in American custody after being extradited to the United StatesJanuary 8Obama Family Visit Cuba
Barack and Michelle Obama walk through the rainy streets of Havana, CubaMarch 20Britain Votes for Brexit
Counting gets underway in the UK referendum on membership in the European UnionJune 23
Famous Weddings in 2016
- Jan 8 American country music singer Colton Dixon (24) weds longtime love Annie Coggeshall (27) in Nashville, Tennessee
- Jan 16 Actress and singer Jamie-Lynn Sigler (35) weds baseball player Cutter Dykstra (53) in Palm Springs, California
- Jan 19 "Ghajini" actress Asin Thottumkal (30) weds Micromax co-founder Rahul Sharma in India
Famous Divorces in 2016
- Feb 8 American singer-actress Katharine McPhee (31) divorces producer Nick Cokas (50) after 8 years of marriage
- Mar 30 Comedian Rosie O'Donnell and marketing executive Kelli O'Donnell divorce after 3 years of marriage
- May 6 Actress Kaley Cuoco and professional tennis player Ryan Sweeting divorce after 2 years of marriage
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