Biggest Events of the Year 2016

The Top Ten
1 2016 Presidential Election

I was not expecting Trump to win

And Donald Trump won it!

2 2016 Summer Olympics

Give Team USA a pat on the back for another job well done at the Summer Olympic Games.

3 North Korea Conducts Its Fifth and Reportedly Biggest Nuclear Test
4 The US and China, Together Ratify the Paris Global Climate Agreement.
5 The UK votes in a referendum to leave the European Union

This was the year the UK gained their independence.

6 Egyptair Flight 804 Crashes with 66 People on Board
7 The World Health Organization Announces an Outbreak of the Zika Virus
8 Nasa Launches Osiris-Rex
9 The Maldives withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations
10 Three Coordinated Bombings in Brussels, Belgium
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11 Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Very appropriate and well deserved for lifetime achievement.

12 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Shot Down by a Buk Missile
13 The Gotthard Base Tunnel is opened
14 Orlando Nightclub Shooting
15 The Brazilian Senate Votes to Impeach the President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff.
16 UEFA Euro 2016
17 Prince, David Bowie, and Leonard Cohen All Die
18 November 14 Supermoon
19 Muhammad Ali Dies
20 'Breadwinners' Was Cancelled by Nickelodeon.
21 Release of Captain America: Civil War
22 Leonardo DiCaprio wins his first Oscar
23 Chicago Cubs win the World Series
24 Cleveland Cavaliers Won the NBA Finals
25 Super Bowl 50
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