December 1, 2016, Roscosmos cargo spacecraft Progress MS-04 fails to dock with the International Space Station after experiencing a rocket failure. The spacecraft is believed to have mainly burnt up in the atmosphere. (Euronews)
December 1, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump names retired United States Marine Corps general James Mattis as United States Secretary of Defense. (USA Today)
December 2, 2016, Release of Incarnate
December 2, 2016, Release of Jackie
December 2, 2016, Release of The Comedian
December 2, 2016, Release of Man Down
December 2, 2016, At least nine people are killed and 40 are missing in a warehouse fire in Oakland, California. (BBC)
December 2, 2016, United States President-elect Donald Trump holds a telephone conversation with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, the first known contact between a U.S. president or president-elect with a Taiwanese leader since the United States recognized People’s Republic of China in 1979. (The Washington Post)
December 2, 2016, The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry announces official names for recently-discovered superheavy elements Nihonium (113), Moscovium (115), Tennessine (117), and Oganesson (118). (BGR)
December 3, 2016, At least three first responders are injured battling a 10-alarm fire that's spread to seven buildings in Cambridge, Massachusetts (US).
December 3, 2016, Recovery efforts continue in the US city of Oakland, California, after a fire at a music party in a converted warehouse kills at least nine people with dozens missing. (NBC News)
December 3, 2016, The People's Republic of China lodges a complaint with the United States after President-elect of the United States Donald Trump speaks with President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen. The PRC and the United States view Taiwan as a breakaway province. (BBC)
December 4, 2016, The remains of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro are interred beside independence leader José Martí. (Reuters via Jerusalem Post)
December 5, 2016, At least 12 people are killed and 75 others injured as a fire erupts in Karachi's Regent Plaza Hotel. (The Express Tribune Pakistan)
December 5, 2016, Authorities report the death toll has risen to 36. Alameda County Sheriff Gregory Ahern told the Associated Press they don't believe additional bodies will be found in the debris. (San Francisco Chronicle)
December 5, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump nominates Ben Carson for United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. (The Guardian)
December 5, 2016, Tests, by a team of international archaeologists, of mummified legs found in QV66 in Egypt's Valley of the Queens indicate they most likely belong to Queen Nefertari, Pharaoh Ramesses II's first and favorite wife. (Phys.org)
December 6, 2016, Release of Nerdland
December 6, 2016, A meteorite lands near Sayanogorsk, the Republic of Khakassia, Russia at 18:37 UTC+3. No one was hurt. (Russia Today)
December 6, 2016, After a meeting with President-elect of the United States Donald Trump, Masayoshi Son of SoftBank Group pledges to invest $50 billion in the United States and create 50,000 jobs. (The New York Times)
December 7, 2016, Series Premiere of Shut Eye
December 7, 2016, President-elect of the United States Donald Trump is named Time Person of the Year. (Time)
December 7, 2016,
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December 7, 2016, At least 96 people are killed following a 6.4 magnitude earthquake in Indonesia's Aceh region. Hundreds of people are injured and several buildings have collapsed. (BBC)
December 7, 2016, John F. Kelly is selected as Secretary of Homeland Security. (The Washington Post)
-Linda McMahon is selected as Administrator of the Small Business Administration
-Scott Pruitt is selected as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
-Linda McMahon is selected as Administrator of the Small Business Administration
-Scott Pruitt is selected as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
December 7, 2016, India has launched its Resourcesat-2A imaging satellite via its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket. (NASASPACEFLIGHT)
December 8, 2016, American astronaut John Glenn dies at the age of 95. (Space)
December 8, 2016,
December 8, 2016,
December 8, 2016, A bill is introduced into the South Korean National Assembly to impeach President Park Geun-hye. A vote is expected tomorrow. (Reuters)
December 8, 2016, Carl's Jr./Hardee's executive and minimum wage reform critic Andrew Puzder is selected as United States Secretary of Labor. (The New York Times)
December 9, 2016, Release of Office Christmas Party
December 9, 2016, Release of The Bounce Back
December 9, 2016, American film actor and producer Kirk Douglas, one of the last living movie stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, celebrates his 100th birthday. (CBS News)
December 9, 2016, Japan ratifies the Trans-Pacific Partnership. (ABC News)
December 9, 2016, A 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Makira in the Solomon Islands, causing infrastructure damage, yet no casualties have been reported in the hours following the quake. (ABC News)
December 9, 2016, South Korean lawmakers impeach President Park Geun-hye by a 234–56 vote. Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn, a staunch defender of Ms. Park, will serve as acting president. South Korea's Constitutional Court has up to 180 days to render a final decision. (The New York Times)
December 9, 2016, Cathy McMorris Rogers is selected as United States Secretary of Interior. (USA Today)
December 9, 2016, Donald Trump requests Gary Cohn, chief operating officer of investment bank Goldman Sachs, to join his administration as chair of the White House National Economic Council. (Reuters)
December 9, 2016, The CIA has concluded that Russia actively tried to help Donald Trump win the 2016 U.S. presidential election. (Washington Post)
December 9, 2016, JAXA launches the unmanned cargo spacecraft Kounotori 6, also known as HTV-6, from the Tanegashima Space Center to resupply the International Space Station. (Space.com)
December 10, 2016, Lamar Jackson of the Louisville Cardinals wins the Heisman Trophy. At 19, Jackson is the youngest ever winner of the Trophy. (CNN)
December 11, 2016, A bombing in Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo kills at least 25 people and injures at least 49 others. (AP via Daily Mail)
December 11, 2016, Iran Air finalises a deal with U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing to purchase 80 jetliners for $16.6 billion. (AP via ABC News America)
December 11, 2016, Tokyo breaks ground for the National Olympic Stadium on the site of the stadium used for the 1964 Olympic Games. (AP via ABC News America)
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December 13, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump formally announces ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his choice for United States Secretary of State. (BBC)
December 13, 2016, Rick Perry is named Secretary of Agriculture. [1]
December 14, 2016,
December 14, 2016, Yahoo! announces that ID information about more than 1 billion accounts may have been hacked in August 2013. This is separate from the company's earlier disclosure of a data breach of 500,000 accounts in 2014. (The New York Times)
December 15, 2016,
December 15, 2016, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio
holds a press conference showing findings from 2 different forensic
experts of "9 points of forgery" alleging President Obama's long form
birth certificate was forged and also claims to have found the birth
certificate used to make the forgery. (USA Today)
December 15, 2016, Dylann Roof is convicted of the racially motivated murder of nine black churchgoers in the U.S. city of Charleston, South Carolina. (New York Post)
December 15, 2016, A Pegasus rocket successfully deploys the CYGNSS hurricane observation satellite constellation for NASA. (NASA)
December 16, 2016, Release of Rogue One
December 16, 2016, Release of Collateral Beauty
December 16, 2016, Release of Fences
December 16, 2016, Release of The Founder
December 16, 2016, Release of Solace
December 16, 2016, Series Premiere of The OA
December 16, 2016, Season 2 Premiere of The Man In The High Castle
December 16, 2016,
December 16, 2016,
December 16, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump nominates his middle-eastern affairs advisor and former bankruptcy lawyer David Friedman as the next United States Ambassador to Israel. (CNN)
December 16, 2016, A Federal appeals court upholds the November 10 lower court order that Michigan must deliver bottled water or provide in-home filtration to all qualified residents affected by lead contamination in the city of Flint. (Reuters)
December 17, 2016,
December 17, 2016, Two people are killed and at least 15 are hospitalized following a 55-vehicle accident, involving a gas tanker explosion, on Interstate 95 in Baltimore, Maryland, as cold air causes rain and wet roads to freeze across the Eastern U.S. Three other deaths are reported from other accidents in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area. At least six people have been killed in total on icy roads. (AP)
December 17, 2016, Ethiopia officially opens the Omo River Gibe III hydroelectric dam, one of the biggest in Africa,
that is predicted to double the country’s electricity output. Critics
are concerned about this dam's impact on locals, on the environment,
including Kenya's Lake Turkana, and on neighboring countries. (AP)
December 18, 2016,
December 18, 2016, Stephanie Del Valle of Puerto Rico is named as Miss World 2016. (The Telegraph)
December 19, 2016,The Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov is killed in a gun attack in Ankara. Russia calls the assassin a "terrorist". (Reuters)
December 19, 2016, At least 9 people are killed and more than 50 others are injured as a truck rams into a packed Christmas market in Berlin, the capital city of Germany. (Aljazeera)
December 19, 2016, The Electoral College meets to select the next President of the United States with Donald Trump highly likely to be selected as the next President of the United States despite a concerted last minute effort to persuade electors to choose another candidate. (The Telegraph)
-A record number of electors break ranks and do not vote for their assigned candidate. Two electors from Texas vote for John Kasich and Ron Paul. Some of the electors from Washington cast three votes for Colin Powell and one vote for Faith Spotted Eagle. One elector from Hawaii votes for Bernie Sanders. (Politico)
-A record number of electors break ranks and do not vote for their assigned candidate. Two electors from Texas vote for John Kasich and Ron Paul. Some of the electors from Washington cast three votes for Colin Powell and one vote for Faith Spotted Eagle. One elector from Hawaii votes for Bernie Sanders. (Politico)
December 19, 2016, Three people are shot by an unknown gunman at an Islamic center near the Zürich Hauptbahnhof train station. A manhunt is underway for the suspect. (GlobalNews)
December 19, 2016, ALPHA, a CERN experiment, has observed for the first time the spectrum of antihydrogen. (CERN)
December 20, 2016, An explosion at a fireworks market in the city of Tultepec near Mexico City, kills at least 29 people and injures at least 70 others. Pyrotechnics is a major industry in Tultepec. (CBS Local)
December 20, 2016, U.S. President Barack Obama bans offshore oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean and off the Atlantic coast. (Washington Examiner)
December 20, 2016, Tupac Shakur, Joan Baez, and most of the members of Pearl Jam are to receive honors in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (The New York Times)
December 20, 2016, The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility via Amaq News Agency for the truck attack in Berlin, Germany, which left at least 12 people dead and 49 injured. (BBC)
December 20, 2016, The People's Republic of China returns a United States unmanned underwater drone that it seized in the South China Sea last week. (CNN)
December 21, 2016, Release of Assassin's Creed
December 21, 2016, Release of Passengers
December 21, 2016, Release of Patriots Day
December 21, 2016,
December 21, 2016,
December 21, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump names Carl Icahn as the Special Advisor to the President on Regulatory Reform. (The Hill)
December 21, 2016, Snow falls in the Sahara desert for the first time in 37 years. (CNN)
December 22, 2016,
December 22, 2016, U.S. president-elect Donald Trump calls President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, who then agrees to postpone a United Nations resolution regarding Israel. (al-Jazeera)
December 22, 2016, U.S. president Barack Obama scraps the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS), a registration system for Muslim immigrants. (The Washington Post)
December 22, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump names RNC Communications director Sean Spicer as White House Press Secretary, and Jason Miller as the White House Communications Director. (CNN)
December 22, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump names his former presidential campaign manager Kellyanne Conway as his Counselor to the President. (The Guardian)
December 22, 2016, A vaccine for the ebola virus is discovered to be 99.78%–99.87% effective. (NPR)
December 22, 2016, It is discovered that the Limusaurus dinosaur shed its teeth as it matured. (The Guardian)
December 23, 2016, Release of Why Him?
December 23, 2016, Release of Silence
December 23, 2016, Release of A Monster Calls
December 23, 2016,
December 23, 2016,
December 23, 2016, Carrie Fisher, the actress best known for the role of Princess Leia in the Star Wars franchise, suffers a massive heart attack while on a flight and is rushed to a hospital near Los Angeles International Airport in critical condition. (Mirror)
December 23, 2016, The 24-year-old Tunisian who is suspected of driving the truck that smashed through a Berlin market is killed in a shoot-out in Milan. (Reuters)
December 23, 2016, Carrie Fisher, the actress best known for the role of Princess Leia in the Star Wars franchise, suffers a massive heart attack while on a flight and is rushed to a hospital near Los Angeles International Airport in critical condition. (Mirror)
December 23, 2016, The 24-year-old Tunisian who is suspected of driving the truck that smashed through a Berlin market is killed in a shoot-out in Milan. (Reuters)
December 25, 2016,
December 25, 2016, A magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Chile spurs tsunami warnings. (BBC)
December 25, 2016,
December 25, 2016,
December 25, 2016,
December 25, 2016, Pope Francis pleads for peace in a Christmas Mass in the Vatican. (Voice of America)
December 26, 2016,
December 26, 2016, American Actor George S. Irving, best known for being one of the last members of the original production of Oklahoma! and voicing Heat Miser from The Year Without a Santa Claus, dies at age 94. (The Hollywood Reporter)
December 26, 2016, Researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory find a way to make thinner electrical wires that measure just three atoms wide. (Phys.org)
December 27, 2016, Carrie Fisher, the actress and writer best known for playing Princess Leia in the Star Wars franchise, dies following complications from a heart attack. (E! News)
December 27, 2016, The U.S. Federal Trade Commission gives the antitrust go ahead to Abbott Laboratories in its acquisition of St. Jude Medical. (Reuters)
December 27, 2016, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe makes a landmark visit to Naval Station Pearl Harbor in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, offering "sincere and everlasting condolences" to the victims of the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese empire on December 7, 1941. (BBC)
December 27, 2016, Former President of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is indicted on corruption charges. (The Telegraph)
December 27, 2016, Cuba's National Assembly of People's Power approves a law banning commemorative statues of late President Fidel Castro, and the naming of public places after him, in accordance with the wishes of Castro, who died last month. (Reuters)
December 27, 2016, The journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences publishes research from the Zoological Society of London that the cheetah population approaches extinction with only 7,100 individuals left alive in the wild as a result of a sudden crash in population. (BBC)
December 28, 2016, American actress Debbie Reynolds has a stroke and dies one day after her daughter Carrie Fisher's death. (BBC News)
December 28, 2016, The Korea Fair Trade Commission fines U.S. company Qualcomm $852.9 million for alleged antitrust violations for restricting access of its competitors to its patents. (Bloomberg)
December 28, 2016, Pan-STARRS project releases its first astronomical catalog, consists of 2 petabytes
of data collected over four years. An astronomer from collaborating
institution also discloses that his group has studied new types of supernova explosions and the disruptions of stars by supermassive black holes from data of this Massive Digital Sky. (SciTech Daily)
December 29, 2016, The United States expels 35 Russian diplomats over the alleged Russian interference during the U.S.'s 2016 Presidential Election. (BBC News)
December 29, 2016, U.S. President Barack Obama declares the Bears Ears in Utah and Gold Butte area of Nevada as National Monuments. Both are known for the presence of Native American populations and archaeological sites. (BBC News)
December 30, 2016, In mixed martial arts, Amanda Nunes defeats Ronda Rousey to retain the Women's Bantamweight title at UFC 207. {The New York Times)
December 30, 2016,
December 30, 2016, After 35 Russian diplomats are expelled from the United States, Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov recommends expelling 35 American diplomats. Russian President Vladimir Putin rejects Lavrov's recommendation and expresses a desire to restore relations between the two countries. (The New York Times)
December 30, 2016, A body found in a burnt-out vehicle north of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is confirmed to be that of missing Greek Ambassador Kyriakos Amiridis.
A military police officer who had an affair with the ambassador's wife
confesses to the murder. The wife and a second man are also detained. (BBC)
December 30, 2016, A volcanic eruption continues on Bogoslof Island near Unalaska, in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. The eruption has impacted air transportation routes, and has dramatically changed the island's shape. (Alaska Public Radio Network)
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