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2016 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2016th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations. It was marked by various political, social, cultural, and scientific events, such as the Zika virus outbreak, the Brexit referendum, the US presidential election, and the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
- U.S. Presidential Election
- Russian Hacking
- Syrian Civil War
- Brexit
- Zika Outbreak
- Flint, Michigan Water Crisis
- Terror Attacks Around The World
- Pulse Nightclub Shooting
- Deaths of Iconic Figures
- America’s Opioid Crisis
The narrative of the 2016 election seemed to set the tone for the entire year. Donald Trump’s surprising win came at the end of a long, bitter campaign where both sides flung accusations of sexism, racism, lies, cover-ups, illegal activity, and even sexual assault. The country saw for the first time a political candidate who could change the entire...
The hacking of the Democratic National Committee before the convention in July was a game-changer that rocked the presidential race. The following email leaksexposed damaging and embarrassing information on the Democrats, creating a major headache for the Clinton campaign. But it increasingly became clear that the larger story was that the hack rev...
The brutal war in Syriais nearing its six-year mark, with no end in sight for the violence that has already killed more than 400,000 people and driven nearly five million from their homes. Several cease-fire deals were made this year, including one agreed to in mid-December just after Syrian government forces claimed the hard-hit city of Aleppo, bu...
The U.S. election wasn’t the first shocking vote of 2016. In June, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in a move nicknamed “Brexit.” After months of bitter campaigning, the result sent Britain’s prime minister packing and caused economic panic across the globe. The leaders of the “Leave” movement campaigned on the idea that, among ...
Mosquitoes were public enemy number one in many parts of the world this year due to their role in spreading the Zika virus. Brazil was the epicenter of the outbreak, where thousands of babies were born with Zika-related microcephaly, or a small head and under-developed brain. That’s just one terrifying result linked to the virus, and it seemed rese...
President Obama declared a state of emergency in response to the Flint water disaster on January 16, 2016. That was a little less than two years after the local government switched the city’s water source to the Flint River, causing an unprecedented public health crisis which officials were slow to recognize. The resulting corrosion of the water pi...
The year was punctuated by horrific attacks like the January siege by al Qaeda-linked militants on a popular tourist hotel in Burkina Faso, in West Africa, that left nearly 30 people dead, and a deadly bombing at the Brussels airport in Belgium that killed 32 in March. A terror cell involved in 2015’s Paris attackwas found to be behind the Brussels...
In the midst of pride celebrations across the country, the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history targeted the very group that should have been celebrating. A lone gunman entered Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, just after last call on Latin night on June 12, 2016. For several hours, he terrorized club-goers as he gunned down 49 of themwhile ...
2016 felt especially cruel as the losses of major cultural icons built up in a steady stream throughout the year — so many that it would be daunting to list them all here. From musical game-changers like David Bowie and Prince, to beloved actors Alan Rickman and Gene Wilder, to The Greatest, Muhammad Ali, America seemed to be in a constant state of...
Prince’s death was a high-profile chapter in the opioid addiction epidemic plaguing the U.S. that has dramatically increased in recent years. According to the Department of Health and Human services, 78 people die every day in this country from an opioid-related overdose, whether it be prescription drugs or heroin. Several gut-wrenching videos and ...
- CBS News
- Cydney Adams
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In 2016, Donald J. Trump won the Electoral College with 304 votes compared to 227 votes for Hillary Clinton. Seven electors voted for someone other than their party’s candidate.
Nov 29, 2018 · The 2016 election featured unconventional and divisive campaigns and the electoral college results led to a stunning upset victory for Republican Donald J. Trump.
July 18–21 – The Republican National convention is held in Cleveland, Ohio with Donald Trump accepting the nomination. July 22 – Hillary Clinton announces Virginia United States Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate for the Democrat ticket in the 2016 presidential election.
Nov 8, 2017 · This is the story of Election Day in 2016, from the last gasp campaign events, to the heady (for Clinton) early hours and glorious (for Trump) evening. The “day” – all 36 hours of it – ended at...
Dec 22, 2016 · It was a year to be confounded, shocked, humbled. Donald J. Trump won the American presidency, defying polls, mockery and fear to defeat Hillary Clinton. Britons jolted their country and the world...
