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In May 2016, the Islamic State conducted a series of bombing attacks in and around Shia neighbourhoods in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, killing and wounding hundreds. According to …
One hundred and ten people are killed in an ISIL bombing in Baghdad
The 2016 Aktobe shootings were a series of shootings on civilian and military targets in Aktobe, Kazakhstan, in June 2016. On 5 June, two attacks occurred at gun stores, while a th…
Two shootings in Aktobe, Kazakhstan, kill six people
On 20 August 2016, a suicide bomber targeted a Kurdish wedding in Gaziantep, Turkey. 57 people were killed and 66 injured in the attack, 14 critically.
Fifty-four people are killed when a suicide bomber detonates himself at a Kurdish wedding party in Gaziantep, Turkey.
Christian Joseph, known online as The Rizzler, is an American social media personality from New Jersey. He is best known for his "Rizz Face", an expression where he squints his eye…
The Rizzler, American internet personality
Chyna, also known as Joanie Laurer, was an American professional wrestler, fitness model, bodybuilder, actress, adult actress, and television personality.
Chyna, American wrestler (born 1969)
Doris May Roberts was an American actress and comedian whose career spanned seven decades of television and film. She received five Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild award duri…
Doris Roberts, American actress (born 1925)
Patricio Aylwin Azócar was a Chilean politician, lawyer, author, professor and former senator who was the 30th president of Chile from 1990 to 1994. He was the first president to b…
Patricio Aylwin, Chilean politician (born 1918)
Prince Rogers Nelson, known mononymously as Prince, was an American singer, songwriter, musician, dancer, and actor. Often being credited as one of the greatest musicians of his ge…
Prince, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (born 1958)
Ingeborg Viktoria "Inge" King was a German-born Australian sculptor. She received many significant public commissions. Her work is held in public and private collections. Her best …
Inge King, German-born Australian sculptor (born 1915)
Tamio "Tommy" Kono was an American weightlifter of Japanese descent. A two-time Olympic gold medalist, Kono set world records in four different weight classes: lightweight, middlew…
Tommy Kono, American weightlifter and coach (born 1930)
Harry Wu was a Chinese-American human rights activist. Wu spent 19 years in Chinese labor camps, and he became a resident and citizen of the United States. In 1992, he founded the …
Harry Wu, Chinese human rights activist (born 1937)
The 2016 Ecuador earthquake occurred on April 16 at 18:58:37 ECT with a moment magnitude of 7.8 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). The very large thrust earthquake …
Ecuador's worst earthquake in nearly 40 years kills 676 and injures more than 230,000
The Paris Agreement is an international treaty on climate change that was signed in 2016. The treaty covers climate change mitigation, adaptation, and finance. The Paris Agreement …
The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming
Dmytro Mykhailovych Hnatyuk was a Soviet and Ukrainian baritone opera singer and a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament.
Dmytro Hnatyuk, Ukrainian singer (born 1925)
Renato Tereso Antonio Coronado Corona was a Filipino judge who served as the 23rd Chief Justice of the Philippines from 2010 until his removal from office in 2012.
Renato Corona, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (born 1948)
Daniel Joseph Berrigan was an American Jesuit priest, anti-war activist, Christian pacifist, playwright, poet, and author.
Daniel Berrigan, American priest and activist (born 1921)
Sir Harold Walter Kroto was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. He was the recip…
Harry Kroto, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1939)
Fort McMurray is an urban service area in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in Alberta, Canada. It is located in northeast Alberta, in the middle of the Athabasca oil sands…
Eighty-eight thousand people are evacuated from their homes in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada as a wildfire rips through
EgyptAir Flight 804 was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to Cairo International Airport, operated by EgyptAir. On 19 May 20…
EgyptAir Flight 804 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea while traveling from Paris to Cairo, killing all on board
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. Its territory comprises a main island, over 60 satellite islands and islets,…
The government of Singapore authorised the controversial execution of convicted murderer Kho Jabing for the murder of a
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. Its territory comprises a main island, over 60 satellite islands and islets,…
The government of Singapore authorises the controversial execution of convicted murderer Kho Jabing for the murder of a
The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnation…
Two suicide bombings, conducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, kill at least 45 potential army recruits in Aden
Afeni Shakur Davis was an American political activist and member of the Black Panther Party. Shakur was the mother of rapper Tupac Shakur and the executor of his estate. She founde…
Afeni Shakur, American music businesswoman, activist, and Black Panther (born 1947)
Ian Deans was a Scottish-Canadian politician. He was a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1979 and was a member of the House of Commons of Ca…
Ian Deans, Canadian politician (born 1937)