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Jadranka Stojaković was a Bosnian singer-songwriter popular in the former Yugoslavia, known for her unique voice. Her best known hits are "Sve smo mogli mi", "Što te nema", and "Bi…
Jadranka Stojaković, Yugoslav singer-songwriter (born 1950)
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…
Eight bombings are carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Jableh and Tartus, coastline cities in Syria
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first Africa…
Barack Obama is the first president of the United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha
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, a gorilla, is shot to death after grabbing a three-year-old boy in his enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Bota
The Syrian civil war was an armed conflict that began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered…
Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launch the Manbij offensive, in order to capture the city of Manbij
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…
Forty-nine civilians are killed and 58 others injured in an attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza was a Burundian army officer and politician who ruled Burundi as president and de facto military dictator from November 1976 to September 1987.
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, Burundian politician (born 1946)
Patrick Claude Ekeng Ekeng was a Cameroonian professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He had two international caps for his country's national team, whom he re…
Patrick Ekeng, Cameroonian footballer (born 1990)
Reginald Roy Grundy was an Australian entrepreneur and media mogul, best known for his numerous television productions. He was the producer of various Australian game shows, such a…
Reg Grundy, Australian businessman (born 1923)
Shanghai Disneyland is a theme park located in Chuansha New Town, Pudong, Shanghai, China, that is part of the Shanghai Disney Resort. The park is operated by Disney Experiences an…
Shanghai Disneyland Park, the first Disney Park in mainland China, opens to the public
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continenta…
The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%
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…
A terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others
Juno is a NASA space probe orbiting the planet Jupiter. Built by Lockheed Martin and operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral A…
The Juno space probe arrives at Jupiter and begins a 20-month survey of the planet.
On July 7, 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson ambushed and shot police officers in Dallas, Texas, killing five, injuring nine others, and wounding two civilians. Johnson, a 25-year-old Arm…
Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen, killing five of them, in downtown Dallas, Texas at…
William Joseph Schallert was an American character actor who appeared in dozens of television shows and films over a career spanning more than 60 years. He is known for his roles o…
William Schallert, American actor; president (1979–81) of the Screen Actors Guild (born 1922)
Michael George Raymond Agostini was a Trinidadian track and field athlete. He was the first athlete from his country to win a gold medal at what is now known as the Commonwealth Ga…
Mike Agostini, Trinidadian sprinter (born 1935)
Murray Arnold Straus was an American professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire. He is best known for creating the conflict tactics scale, the "most widely used inst…
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The Portugal national football team has represented Portugal in men's international football competition since 1921. The national team is controlled by the Portuguese Football Fede…
Portugal defeats France in the UEFA Euro 2016 Final to win their first European title.
The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the exercise of much of the royal prerogative,…
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron resigns, and is succeeded by Theresa May.
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 ploughs a truck into a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, killing 86 people and injuring another 434…
The Turkish Armed Forces are the military forces of the Republic of Turkey. The TAF consist of the Land Forces, the Naval Forces and the Air Forces. The Chief of the General Staff …
Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup.
The Sagamihara stabbings were committed on 26 July 2016 in Midori Ward, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan. Nineteen people were killed and twenty-six others were injured, thirteen severe…
The Sagamihara stabbings occur in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. Nineteen people are killed.
Darwyn Cooke was a Canadian comics artist, writer, cartoonist, and animator who worked on the comic books Catwoman, DC: The New Frontier, The Spirit and Richard Stark's Parker: The…
Darwyn Cooke, American comic book writer and artist (born 1962)
Morley Safer was a Canadian-American broadcast journalist, reporter, and correspondent for CBS News. He was best known for his long tenure on the news magazine 60 Minutes, whose ca…
Morley Safer, Canadian-born American journalist (born 1931)