August 1, 2016,
August 1, 2016, Tesla announces plans to acquire Solar City in a $2.6 billion deal. (Reuters via CNBC)
August 2, 2016, Three top staffers leave the Democratic National Committee 100 days before elections in early November as a result of the email leak. (Washington Examiner)
August 3, 2016,
August 3, 2016, An Emirates Boeing 777-300, flight EK521 from Thiruvananthapuram in India, crash lands at Dubai International Airport and bursts into flames. All 282 passengers and 18 crew evacuate safely, although 1 firefighter is killed during the rescue. (BBC)
August 3, 2016, Nida,
the strongest typhoon to hit the Chinese coast in 33 years with winds
of up to 145 kilometers per hour (90 mph), affects about 500,000 people;
led to the cancellation of over 180 flights at the Hong Kong International Airport;
caused 2,100 people to need emergency living assistance; destroyed over
300 houses; and, damaged about 2,400 houses and 19,600 hectares (48,433
acres) of crops. (News Nation)
August 3, 2016, At least one person is dead and several injured as a result of a knife attack in London's Russell Square. (BBC)
August 3, 2016, The United States Federal Aviation Administration approves private startup company Moon Express landing a robotic craft on the Moon, according to the Mountain View, California, company. (The New York Times)
August 3, 2016, Competition begins with six matches in women's football. (ESPN)
August 4, 2016,
August 4, 2016, China's unmanned lunar rover Yutu shuts down after exploring the Moon for 31 months. (BBC)
August 4, 2016, The International Olympic Committee rules that 271 of the 389 athletes nominated by the Russian Olympic Committee will be eligible to participate in the 2016 summer Olympics. (IOC)
August 5, 2016, Release of Suicide Squad
August 5, 2016, Release of Nine Lives
August 5, 2016, The 2016 Summer Olympics held in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro are scheduled to officially start with the Opening Ceremony at Maracanã Stadium. (BBC)
August 5, 2016, British activists with the Black Lives Matter movement from America block the road to Heathrow Airport and to streets in Manchester, Birmingham, and Nottingham, marking the fifth anniversary of the deadly police shooting of Mark Duggan in north London. Ten protestors are arrested. (NBC News)
August 7, 2016, Oscar Pistorius is admitted to a Pretoria hospital after sustaining injuries to his wrists. Blades are subsequently found in a search of his cell. (News24)
August 7, 2016, Iran confirms it has executed nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri by hanging for treason. Iranian judiciary spokesman Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i says Amiri was charged with spying for enemies of the Islamic Republic of Iran and that U.S.
officials had been unaware that Iran was monitoring Amiri's efforts for
the West. His body was returned to his family with rope marks around
his neck. (USA Today)
August 7, 2016, The International Paralympic Committee
bans all Russian athletes from the Paralympics due to state-sponsored
sample doctoring to avoid the detection of the use of banned drugs. (BBC Sport)
August 7, 2016, In baseball, the Miami Marlins' Ichiro Suzuki becomes the 30th Major League Baseball player with 3,000 career hits, reaching the milestone with a seventh-inning triple against the Colorado Rockies. (ESPN)
August 7, 2016, Jim Furyk becomes the first golfer to shoot a round of 58 in an official PGA Tour event, doing so in the final round of the Travelers Championship. (ESPN)
August 8, 2016, Manchester United complete the signing of Paul Pogba on five-year deal from Juventus for a world record transfer fee of £89m (€105m), making Pogba the most expensive football player ever. (BBC Sport)
August 8, 2016, Manchester United complete the signing of Paul Pogba on five-year deal from Juventus for a world record transfer fee of £89m (€105m), making Pogba the most expensive football player ever. (BBC Sport)
August 9, 2016,
August 9, 2016,
August 9, 2016, WikiLeaks announces that it is offering $20,000 for information leading to a conviction in last month's shooting death of 27-year-old Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer Seth Rich in Bloomingdale, Washington, D.C.. Police say they believe Rich could have been killed in an attempted robbery, though nothing was stolen. (The Hill)
August 9, 2016, A study conducted at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology shows a positive correlation with playing online video games and higher test scores in math, science and reading while a negative correlation with social media use. (CNN)
August 11, 2016, The 2016 Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight. (CBS News)
August 11, 2016, American Michael Phelps wins the gold medal in the 200-meter individual medley becoming the first swimmer to gold medals in the same event at four successive Olympic Games. It is Phelps' 22nd gold medal in total. (Washington Post)
August 12, 2016, Release of Sausage Party
August 12, 2016, Release of Pete's Dragon
August 12, 2016,
August 12, 2016, Brendan Dassey, the subject of Netflix's hit drama Making a Murderer is found to have been wrongly convicted of murdering the photographer Teresa Halbach. A federal judge orders that he must be released from prison within three months. (People)
August 13, 2016, Violence breaks out in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, following a fatal police shooting of a 23-year-old male criminal armed with a handgun earlier in the day. The Milwaukee Police Department says an officer was injured after being struck in the head by a brick, while a police car and gas station were set on fire. (NBC News)
August 14, 2016, Usain Bolt of Jamaica becomes the first man to win three gold medals in the men's 100 metres. (CNN)
August 31, 2016, Blackish Season 3 Premiere
August 31, 2016, The Strain Season 3 Premiere
August 31, 2016, Your The Worst Season 3 Premiere
August 31, 2016, Mother Teresa of Calcutta is to be canonized into sainthood after "proof" of two miracles. (NPR)
August 31, 2016, The oldest fossil (stromatolite) that had life is discovered in the melting snow at the Isua Greenstone Belt of Greenland. (Nature)
August 11, 2016, American Michael Phelps wins the gold medal in the 200-meter individual medley becoming the first swimmer to gold medals in the same event at four successive Olympic Games. It is Phelps' 22nd gold medal in total. (Washington Post)
August 12, 2016, Release of Sausage Party
August 12, 2016, Release of Pete's Dragon
August 12, 2016,
August 12, 2016, Brendan Dassey, the subject of Netflix's hit drama Making a Murderer is found to have been wrongly convicted of murdering the photographer Teresa Halbach. A federal judge orders that he must be released from prison within three months. (People)
August 13, 2016, Violence breaks out in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, following a fatal police shooting of a 23-year-old male criminal armed with a handgun earlier in the day. The Milwaukee Police Department says an officer was injured after being struck in the head by a brick, while a police car and gas station were set on fire. (NBC News)
August 13, 2016,
August 13, 2016, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards declares a state of emergency as over 17 inches of rain (43 cm) causes unprecedented flooding across the region and takes at least three lives in his state, with more rain expected through Sunday. (Reuters)
August 13, 2016, A lone gunman shoots a Muslim cleric and an associate to death in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, New York City. Both were still wearing religious garb following afternoon prayers. No arrests have been made. (Reuters)
August 14, 2016, SpaceX successfully launches Japanese communication satellite JCSAT-16 into geostationary orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket used to place the satellite in orbit successfully landed on an autonomous spaceport drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. (RT)
August 14, 2016, SpaceX successfully launches Japanese communication satellite JCSAT-16 into geostationary orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket used to place the satellite in orbit successfully landed on an autonomous spaceport drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. (RT)
August 14, 2016,
August 14, 2016, Usain Bolt of Jamaica becomes the first man to win three gold medals in the men's 100 metres. (CNN)
August 15, 2016,
August 15, 2016, At least seven people have died and thousands have been rescued in the American state of Louisiana. President of the United States Barack Obama has declared a federal emergency in the state. (BBC)
August 15, 2016, The Obama administration transfers 15 Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United Arab Emirates. (BBC)
August 16, 2016, Westfield World Trade Center opens on schedule, part of the World Trade Center Ground Zero redevelopment in New York City. (CBS NY)
August 16, 2016, China successfully launches QUESS, the world's first ever quantum-communications quantum key distribution satellite. (The New York Times)
August 16, 2016, A United States Court of Appeals rules that the Department of Justice, per the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, cannot spend money to prosecute federal marijuana cases if the defendants comply with state medical marijuana laws. (Washington Post)
August 17, 2016, The Hybrid Air Vehicles HAV 304 Airlander 10 hybrid airship makes its maiden civil flight. (BBC News Online)
August 18, 2016, U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo sentences former NFL player Darren Sharper to 18 years in prison in rape and drugging case involving as many as 16 women in several U.S. states. (BBC)
August 18, 2016, The Obama Administration says it wants to phase out the use of privately owned federal prisons. The move would affect private prisons which house 22,660 federal inmates, out of a total of nearly 200,000. (BBC)
August 18, 2016, Twitter
announces 235,000 terror-linked accounts have been suspended over the
past six months amid increasing pressure on tech companies from the White House to censor extremists from groups like ISIS. (CBS News)
August 19, 2016, Release of Ben-Hur
August 19, 2016, Release of War Dogs
August 19, 2016, Release of Kubo and The Two Strings
August 19, 2016,
August 19, 2016, A Defense Department audit reveals that the United States Army had manipulated its finances, making $6.5 trillion of improper accounting adjustments in order to balance the books in 2015. (Reuters)
August 20, 2016, In men's football, Brazil defeats Germany 5–4 on penalties after a 1–1 draw to claim their first-ever gold medal in the sport. (BBC)
August 21, 2016,
August 23, 2016, Season 3 Premiere of Halt and Catch Fire
August 23, 2016, A 6.2 magnitude earthquake occurs in central Italy near the city of Perugia. The mayor of the town of Amatrice reports that residents are buried under rubble. (The Telegraph)
August 24, 2016,
August 24, 2016,
August 24, 2016,
August 24, 2016,
August 24, 2016, A 6.8 magnitude earthquake hits central Myanmar, 25km west of the town of Chauk, and was also felt in Thailand, Bangladesh and India, according to reports. At least three people were killed. (BBC)
August 24, 2016, The world's largest aircraft, Hybrid Air Vehicles HAV 304 Airlander 10, crashes at RAF Cardington, Bedfordshire, during its second test flight. (The Guardian)
August 24, 2016, Proxima Centauri b is discovered as closest exoplanet to Earth that may be habitable. (BBC)
August 26, 2016, Release of Hands of Stone
August 26, 2016, Release of Mechanic: Resurrection
August 26, 2016, Release of Don't Breathe
August 26, 2016,
August 29, 2016, Gene Wilder, known for his role as the title character in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, and for his collaborations with Mel Brooks, dies at the age of 83. (Variety)
August 29, 2016,
August 29, 2016,
August 29, 2016,
August 29, 2016,
August 29, 2016, A lightning strike from a freak thunderstorm kills 323 reindeer in Norway. (The Washington Post)
August 29, 2016, Scientists from the University of Texas at Austin postulate that the hominin fossil Lucy (Dinkinesh) died due to a fall from a tree. Paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson, who is credited with discovering and naming Lucy, disagrees. (National Geographic)
August 30, 2016, The European Union orders Apple to pay up to 13 billion euros in back taxes to Ireland. A three-year investigation by the EU's competition commissioner concludes that Apple received "illegal state aid" from Ireland, the EU order that Apple pay 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion), and, in addition, also interest and unpaid taxes. (Reuters)
August 30, 2016, Two North Korean officials are reportedly publicly executed by Kim Jong-un after they allegedly disobeyed orders: former agriculture minister Hwang Min for unsuitable policies and Ri Yong Jin, a senior official at the education ministry, for sleeping at a meeting with Kim, disrespect for the leader and corruption. They were allegedly executed by anti-aircraft artillery fire. (International Business Times)
August 30, 2016, American singer Chris Brown is arrested on suspicion on assault with a deadly weapon following a lengthy stand-off with the Los Angeles Police Department. (NBC Los Angeles)
August 31, 2016, Blackish Season 3 Premiere
August 31, 2016, The Strain Season 3 Premiere
August 31, 2016, Your The Worst Season 3 Premiere
August 31, 2016, U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump meets with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto in Mexico City after accepting an invitation from him. (The Washington Post)
August 31, 2016,
August 31, 2016, The oldest fossil (stromatolite) that had life is discovered in the melting snow at the Isua Greenstone Belt of Greenland. (Nature)
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