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Peter Jozzeppi Burns was an English singer, songwriter and television personality.
Pete Burns, English singer-songwriter (born 1959)
Robert Thomas Velline, known professionally as Bobby Vee, was an American singer who was a teen idol in the early 1960s and also appeared in films. According to Billboard magazine,…
Bobby Vee, American pop singer (born 1943)
Jorge Luis Batlle Ibáñez was a Uruguayan politician and lawyer, who served as the 38th president of Uruguay from 2000 to 2005. A member of the Colorado Party, he previously served …
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, Uruguayan politician, former president (2000-2005) (born 1927)
Carlos Alberto "Capita" Torres, also known as "o Capitão do Tri", was a Brazilian football player and manager who played as an attacking right-sided full-back or wing-back. A techn…
Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian football player and manager (born 1944)
Robert Anderson Hoover was an American fighter pilot, test pilot, flight instructor, and record-setting air show aviator.
Bob Hoover, USAF, Test, and Airshow pilot (born 1922)
On June 12, 2016, 29-year-old Omar Mateen shot and killed 49 people and wounded 58 in a mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States. Pulse was hostin…
An Islamic terrorist killed 49 people in a mass shooting at the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida
Helen Joanne Cox was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Batley and Spen from May 2015 until her murder in June 2016. She was a member of the Labour Pa…
Jo Cox, a British Member of Parliament, was murdered in her constituency
The United States Army Reserve (USAR) is a reserve force of the United States Army. Together, the Army Reserve and the Army National Guard constitute the Army element of the reserv…
A U.S. Army Reserve veteran ambushed and shot at police officers (memorial service pictured) in Dallas, killing five…
Takahito, Prince Mikasa was a Japanese prince, the youngest of the four sons of Emperor Taishō (Yoshihito) and Empress Teimei (Sadako). He was their last surviving child. His elde…
Takahito, Prince Mikasa, member of the Imperial Family of Japan (born 1915)
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, an international treaty on climate change, opened for signature and was signed by 175 parties
On May 1, 2016, a wildfire began southwest of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. On May 3, it swept through the community, forcing the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history…
The evacuation of nearly 88,000 people began when a wildfire swept through Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, and burned fo
Harambe was a western lowland gorilla who lived at the Cincinnati Zoo. On May 28, 2016, a three-year-old boy visiting the zoo climbed under a fence into an outdoor gorilla enclosur…
Harambe was shot and killed after grabbing a three-year-old boy in his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gar
The 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, commonly referred to as the EU referendum or the Brexit referendum, was a referendum that took place on Thursday 23 Ju…
Citizens of the United Kingdom voted in favour of leaving the European Union
The Taedonggang Brewing Company is a state-owned North Korean beer brewery company that brews the Taedonggang beer. The brewery is located in East Pyongyang and has facilities of t…
The state-owned Taedonggang Brewing Company inaugurated the first beer festival in North Korea.
The monarchy of Thailand is the constitutional form of government of Thailand. The king of Thailand is the head of state and head of the ruling Chakri dynasty.
The King of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej, died after 70 years on the throne, at which point was the longest-reigning…
The Atatürk Airport attack, consisting of shootings and suicide bombings, occurred on 28 June 2016 at Atatürk Airport in Istanbul, Turkey. Gunmen armed with automatic weapons and e…
Gunmen attacked Istanbul's Atatürk Airport, killing 45 people and injuring more than 230 others
On the evening of 14 July 2016, a 19-tonne cargo truck was deliberately driven into crowds of people celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, resultin…
A man deliberately drove a truck into crowds in Nice, France, resulting in 86 deaths.
The Council for Peace at Home, alternatively called the Peace Council, claimed to be an executive body that led a coup attempt in Turkey starting on 15 July 2016 and ended on July …
The Peace at Home Council, a faction of the Turkish Armed Forces, staged a coup d'état attempt against the government…
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat. She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2…
Hillary Clinton (pictured) became the first female nominee for president of the United States by a major political…
The Aston Martin DB9 is a two-door grand tourer car that was produced by the British carmaker Aston Martin in Gaydon, Warwickshire. It was manufactured both as a coupé starting in …
The last nine Aston Martin DB9 units rolled off the production line, marking the end of a twelve-year manufacturing…
The Aston Martin DB9 is a two-door grand tourer car that was produced by the British carmaker Aston Martin in Gaydon, Warwickshire. It was manufactured both as a coupé starting in …
The last nine Aston Martin DB9 (example pictured) units rolled off the production line, marking the end of a…
Chen Quanguo is a Chinese retired politician who was the Party Secretary of Tibet from 2011 to 2016 and the Party Secretary of Xinjiang from 2016 to 2021, making him the only perso…
Chen Quanguo became the Chinese Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang, and in that role later oversaw the creation of…
Rape in Germany is defined by Section 177 of the Criminal Code of Germany. The definition of rape has changed over time from its original formulation in the penal code established …
Following a number of high-profile sexual assaults, major reforms were enacted to strengthen laws related to rape in…
Ecnomiohyla rabborum, commonly known as Rabbs' fringe-limbed treefrog, is a possibly extinct species of frog in the family Hylidae. They are relatively large frogs that inhabited t…
The Ecnomiohyla rabborum became extinct when the last known surviving member died in captivity.