2016 in the United States
List of events
Events in the year 2016 in the United States .
Incumbents
Federal government
Events
January
January 1 – The following laws go into effect:[ 1]
January 2–26 – The 3 Percenters and several other armed militia organizations take over the headquarters of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service 's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Oregon , in a series of incidents stemming from the 2014 Bundy standoff . The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) ends the occupation with a shootout, killing one militiaman and arresting five others, including leader Ammon Bundy .[ 2] [ 3]
January 5 – President Obama introduces executive orders to expand the enforcement of federal gun laws .[ 4]
January 6 – Star Wars: The Force Awakens highest-grossing film in North America , beating previous record-holder Avatar 's lifetime gross of $760 million in just 20 days of release.[ 5]
January 8 – The Obama administration announces an alliance with tech companies—including Apple , Google, Facebook, Microsoft , and Twitter—to block the recruitment of Americans to Islamic extremist groups , specifically the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), via social media.[ 6]
January 9 – For the first time in its history, the national Powerball lottery prize surpasses $1 billion.[ 7]
January 10 – 73rd Golden Globe Awards : The Revenant Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama , with Leonardo DiCaprio winning the award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and Alejandro G. Iñárritu winning Best Director . The Martian Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy , and Matt Damon wins Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy . Brie Larson wins Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for Room Jennifer Lawrence wins Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for Joy Mr. Robot Best Television Series – Drama ; Mozart in the Jungle Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy ; and Wolf Hall Best Miniseries or Television Film .[ 8]
January 12 – President Obama gives his final State of the Union Address to the 114th United States Congress .[ 9]
January 14 – The nominees for the 88th Academy Awards are announced at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California . The nominees for Best Picture are The Big Short Bridge of Spies Brooklyn Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian The Revenant Room Spotlight Will Smith and Spike Lee , an official motion by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to increase diversity in its membership. Chris Rock decides to stay on as Awards host and address the issue during the ceremony.[ 10] [ 11] [ 12] [ 13] [ 14]
January 15 – Myloh Jaqory Mason , a fugitive on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list , is arrested in Thornton, Colorado , after being added to the list on December 17, 2015, for two bank robberies and two attempted murders.[ 15]
January 16
January 21-24 – A crippling winter storm hits the central and eastern United States, producing several feet of snow and ice (as well as strong winds and tornadoes in some areas) and killing 55 people.
January 25 – A Texas grand jury finds no wrongdoing on the part of Planned Parenthood after a series of undercover videos made by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), an anti-abortion organization, purported to show Planned Parenthood employees selling fetal tissue and organs. The grand jury indicts CMP founder David Daleiden and another videographer.[ 18]
January 30 – During a brawl between rival motorcycle clubs , gunfire and stabbings kill one person and injure seven at the National Western Complex in Denver, Colorado .[ 19]
February
February 1
February 3 – Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky ) and former Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pennsylvania ) suspend their presidential candidacies.
February 4 – Six people are found dead , five from stab wounds and one from gunshot wounds, at a house in Chicago.
February 7
February 9 – The New Hampshire primaries are held. Donald Trump wins the Republican primary, and Bernie Sanders wins the Democratic primary.
February 10 – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina suspend their campaigns for the Republican nomination.[ 22]
February 12 – Former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore suspends his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.[ 23]
February 13 – Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dies at the age of 79.[ 24]
February 14 – The 2016 North American cold wave causes record low temperatures in New England .
February 15 – 58th Annual Grammy Awards : "Uptown Funk " by Mark Ronson , featuring Bruno Mars , wins the Grammy Award for Record of the Year . Taylor Swift wins Album of the Year for 1989 , Meghan Trainor wins Best New Artist , and Song of the Year is awarded to "Thinking Out Loud ", by Ed Sheeran and Amy Wadge .[ 25]
February 18 – 106-year old civil rights activist, Virginia McLaurin , visits Barack Obama at the White House , becoming the oldest known-person and first centenarian to the visit the White House .
February 20 – A man kills six people and injures two in Kalamazoo, Michigan , before being apprehended by the police.
February 21 – Denny Hamlin wins the Daytona 500 in the closest finish in the race's 58-year history, beating Martin Truex Jr. by 11 thousandths of a second.[ 26]
February 25 – A disgruntled former employee opens fire in an office building in Hesston, Kansas , killing three people and injuring fourteen others.
February 27 – Three people are stabbed at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim, California , and several people are arrested.
February 28 – 88th Academy Awards : The ceremony, hosted by Chris Rock , is held at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood . Tom McCarthy 's Spotlight Academy Award for Best Picture . Leonardo DiCaprio wins Best Actor for his performance in The Revenant Brie Larson wins Best Actress for her performance in Room Alejandro G. Iñárritu wins his second Best Director award for The Revenant , becoming the first director to win back-to-back Oscars since Joseph L. Mankiewicz in 1949 and 1950. George Miller 's Mad Max: Fury Road
February 29 – H2 , History 's secondary network, becomes Viceland , a lifestyle channel aimed at millennials which will include programming about music, cooking, sports, technology and hard-hitting documentaries. The change comes after A&E Networks purchased a 10% stake in Vice Media, Inc. in August 2014.[ 27]
March
March 1 – Super Tuesday : Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump each win seven states on the Democratic and Republican sides, respectively. In the Democratic primaries, Clinton takes Alabama , Arkansas , Georgia , Massachusetts , Tennessee , Texas , and Virginia ; Bernie Sanders takes Colorado , Minnesota , Oklahoma , and Vermont . In the Republican primaries, Trump wins Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia; Ted Cruz wins Alaska , Oklahoma, and Texas; and Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) wins Minnesota.[citation needed
March 3 – 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney condemns GOP frontrunner Donald Trump in a speech at the University of Utah .[ 28]
March 4
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson suspends his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.[ 29]
Walt Disney Animation Studios ' 55th feature film, Zootopia The Lion King Frozen
March 9
March 11 – At least four people are injured and five are arrested in Chicago when protesters demonstrating against Donald Trump scuffle with Trump supporters at a canceled Trump rally .[ 35]
March 14 – Abu Omar al-Shishani , a commander for the Islamic State, dies after being wounded in a U.S. airstrike near Al-Shaddadah, Syria , on March 4.[ 36]
March 15 – Marco Rubio suspends his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination after losing the primary in his home state, Florida.[ 37]
March 16 – President Obama nominates Merrick Garland to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.[ 38]
March 21 – President Obama lands in Cuba for a meeting with Cuban President Raúl Castro , becoming the first U.S. president to visit Cuba since 1928.[ 39]
March 25 – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Zack Snyder , is released as the second film in the DC Extended Universe and a follow-up to 2013's Man of Steel
March 28
March 31–April 1 – The 2016 Nuclear Security Summit is held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., with 58 participants in attendance. It is the fourth edition of the conference, following the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit .[ 42]
April
April 2
April 3 – An Amtrak passenger train on the Palmetto Savannah, Georgia , with 341 passengers and seven crew members on board, derails in Chester, Pennsylvania , after striking a backhoe on the tracks, injuring 35 and killing two .[ 46]
April 4 – The Villanova Wildcats defeat the North Carolina Tar Heels , 77–74, in the NCAA Men's Championship .[ 47]
April 5
April 7 – American Idol Fox , with Trent Harmon being declared the final winner of the reality competition series' original run. (Idol would be revived on ABC after a two-year hiatus in March 2018.)[ 53]
April 8
April 9 – The United States Air Force deploys B-52 bombers to Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar , to join the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria .[ 57]
April 11 – John Kerry becomes the first Secretary of State to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum , where he and other Group of Seven (G7) members lay wreaths. Before Kerry's trip, Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-California)—then the Speaker of the House of Representatives—was the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the memorial.[ 58]
April 12 – Two unarmed Russian Sukhoi Su-24 jets fly simulated attacks against the U.S. Navy destroyer Donald Cook Baltic Sea . Later, a Russian Kamov Ka-27 naval helicopter is seen making seven passes around the warship while taking pictures.[ 59]
April 13
April 14
The top pick for the WNBA draft is UConn 's Breanna Stewart , followed by her teammates Moriah Jefferson and Morgan Tuck . This is the first time in any major North American sports draft that a single school produced the top three selections.[ 63]
Microsoft files a lawsuit against the United States, stating that it has been prevented from disclosing information to its customers when the government obtains a warrant to read emails or access data through the cloud.[ 64]
A Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jet intercepts and threatens a U.S. Air Force Boeing RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft in international airspace over the Baltic Sea.[ 65]
April 18
April 19 – The New York primary is held, with Donald Trump winning the Republican race and Hillary Clinton winning the Democratic race.[ 69]
April 20
April 21 – Music legend Prince dies at the age of 57. To celebrate his legacy, cities across the U.S. hold vigils and light buildings, bridges, and other venues in purple.[ 73]
April 22
April 25
April 26 – Super Tuesday III: Donald Trump wins all five states holding Republican primaries (Connecticut , Delaware , Maryland , Pennsylvania , and Rhode Island ). In the Democratic primaries, Hillary Clinton takes Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, while Bernie Sanders takes Rhode Island.[ 79]
April 27
The bodies of American climber Alex Lowe and photographer David Bridges, who were killed and buried during an avalanche in 1999, are discovered on the Himalayan mountain Shishapangma .[ 80]
Dennis Hastert , a former Speaker of the House, is sentenced to 15 months in prison for breaking banking laws through the payment of "hush money" to victims whom he had sexually abused.[ 81] Ted Cruz announces that Carly Fiorina will be his running mate if he wins the Republican presidential nomination.[ 82]
April 28 – Comcast 's NBCUniversal purchases DreamWorks Animation for $3.8 billion.[ 83]
April 29
The United States Air Force lands two F-22 Raptors in Lithuania for the first time in a show of support for Lithuania and surrounding countries, which have been worried over Russia's involvement in Ukraine .[ 84]
China denies a Hong Kong port call from Carrier Strike Group 3 , which includes the USS John C. Stennis and other escorting vessels.[ 85]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports the first U.S.-related death from the Zika virus, an elderly man in Puerto Rico .[ 86]
April 30
May
May 1
May 2 – The Loud House Nickelodeon and becomes the number-one children's animated series on television within its first month on the air.[ 95]
May 3
May 4
May 5 – A warehouse burns down during a four-alarm fire in Houston.[ 104] [ 105]
May 6
May 7 – Nyquist , ridden by Mario Gutierrez , wins the Kentucky Derby .[ 107]
May 10
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May 20 – The Angry Birds Movie
May 21 – A U.S. airstrike kills Mullah Akhtar Mansour , leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
May 22
A skydiving tour plane crashes in Hawaii, killing five people.
The U.S. lifts its embargo on arms trade in Vietnam .
May 25 – An audit by the State Department Inspector General finds that Hillary Clinton violated directives from the department in her use of a private email server for government business during her time as Secretary of State. The Inspector General says that Clinton did not request approval to use the private server, and that such a request would have been denied because of security risks.[ 119]
May 27
May 28
Harambe was shot and killed at the Cincinnati Zoo.
May 29 – 24-year-old rookie Alexander Rossi wins the 100th Indianapolis 500 mile race in front of a record crowd of 350,000. His car runs out of fuel coming to the finish line.
May 30 – Former Stanford University student Brock Turner is sentenced to six months in prison for raping an unconscious woman behind a dumpster. The short sentence, as well as statements by Turner's parents in the following weeks, draw significant controversy.[ 120]
May 31 – Major flooding occurs in Texas and Oklahoma.[ 121]
June
June 1 – A gunman opens fire at the University of California, Los Angeles , killing an associate professor and his wife in an apparent murder–suicide .[ 122]
June 3 – American boxing legend and conscientious objector Muhammad Ali dies of septic shock at a hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona , at the age of 74.[ 123]
June 7 – The final major state primaries are held for the 2016 presidential election, with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump emerging as the presumptive nominees for the Democratic and Republican races, respectively.[ 124]
June 10
June 12
June 13 – Lightning Rod , the world's first launched wooden roller coaster , opens at the Dollywood amusement park in Pigeon Forge , Tennessee , United States .[ 129]
June 15–16 – In response to the attack in Orlando, Senator Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) holds a filibuster for nearly fifteen hours, demanding new gun control laws from Congress. The filibuster ends when the Senate agrees to vote on two measures: one that would require universal background checks for gun sales, and another that would ban the sale of weapons to individuals on government watch lists of suspected terrorists .[ 130]
June 17 – Pixar Animation Studios ' 17th feature film, Finding Dory Finding Nemo
June 18 – A 19-year-old man is arrested after attempting to pull a gun from a policeman's holster at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas . He later admits he was planning to use it to kill Trump.[ 131]
June 19 – In the NBA, the Eastern Conference champion Cleveland Cavaliers defeat the Western Conference champion Golden State Warriors in seven games to win their first NBA Finals title in the Cavaliers' 45-year history. It is the first major professional sports championship won by a team based in Cleveland since 1964.[citation needed
June 22–23 – Members of the House Democratic Caucus , led by Representative John Lewis (D-Georgia) and Representative Katherine Clark (D-Massachusetts), declare their intention to remain on the floor of the House of Representatives until its Republican Speaker, Paul Ryan , allows votes on gun control legislation in the aftermath of the Orlando nightclub shooting. The sit-in is staged by about 60 legislators.[ 132]
June 24 – At least 23 people are killed after a huge flood hits areas of West Virginia .[ 133]
June 26 – Ten people are hospitalized, five with stab wounds, after a group of counter-protesters attack a white supremacist gathering in Sacramento, California .[ 134]
June 27 – In a 5–3 decision, the Supreme Court strikes down a 2013 Texas law that imposed restrictions on abortion clinics.[ 135]
June 28 – Pat Summitt the all-time winningest women's basketball coach in NCAA history dies of dementia at the age of 64, in Summit's 38-year coaching career with Tennessee she won 1,098 games the most of any men's or women's coach .
July
July 1
The U.S. military officially lifts its ban on transgender people serving openly in the armed forces.[ 136]
Attorney General Loretta Lynch announces that she will leave it up to the FBI to decide whether to bring charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server as Secretary of State.[ 137] Vermont 's GMO labeling law goes into effect—the first in the U.S.[ 138]
July 3 – The Fort Bragg Game becomes the first professional sporting event to ever be held on an active military base ,[ 139] Major League Baseball regular season game ever held in the state of North Carolina when the Miami Marlins play the Atlanta Braves .[ 140]
July 4 – Juno successfully enters the orbit of Jupiter .[ 141]
July 5
Gypsy Rose Blanchard pleads guilty of the murder of her mother Dee Dee Blanchard who had abused her for many years, forcing her to use a wheelchair and to pretend to be ill. She is sentenced to 10 years in prison.[ 142] Multiple cellphone video recordings capture the police shooting of Alton Sterling , a man selling CDs outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana , sparking wide outrage. The Department of Justice opens a federal investigation.[ 143]
July 6
July 7 – During a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas, Texas , a sniper later identified as Micah Xavier Johnson opens fire , killing five Dallas police officers and injuring another eleven people in the deadliest incident for U.S. law enforcement since September 11, 2001 . Johnson is later found to have targeted white people (specifically white police officers) and to have been interested in several black nationalist groups. He is killed by a C-4 bomb delivered by a robot, the first use of lethal force by a robot by an American police department.[ 146] [ 147] [ 148]
July 8 – Despite the conclusions of the FBI and attorney general, the State Department reopens its investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.[ 149]
July 9 – The government of the Bahamas releases a rare advisory to Bahamian citizens traveling to the United States to be non-confrontational and cooperative with police after recent racial tensions in the country.[ 150]
July 16 – Donald Trump announces Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate for the Republican ticket in the 2016 presidential election .[ 151]
July 17 – Three police officers are shot dead and three others are injured in Baton Rouge , Louisiana . The shooter has been killed and an investigation is underway.[ 152]
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 .
July 25–28 – The Democratic National Convention is held in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania with Hillary Clinton accepting the nomination. She becomes the first woman to accept the nomination of a major party for president.
July 30
All 16 occupants of a hot air balloon are killed – the deadliest incident of its kind in U.S. history – after hitting power lines and crashing near Austin, Texas.[ 153]
Skydiver Luke Aikins sets a new world record for the highest altitude jump without a parachute, falling 25,000 ft into a safety net.[ 154]
July 31
August
August 2 – A charter bus crashes on Highway 99 in Merced County , California, killing four people.[ 159]
August 4 – A wildfire occurs[ 160] Montana , Nevada , Oregon , Washington and Wyoming .[ 161]
August 5 – Suicide Squad David Ayer , is released as the third film in the DC Extended Universe .
August 5–21 – The United States compete at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and win 46 gold, 37 silver, and 38 bronze medals.[ 162]
August 7 – Caleb Schwab, the 10-year-old son of Kansas state representative Scott Schwab , is killed while riding Verrückt —the world's tallest water slide—at the Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, Kansas .[ 163]
August 8 – A power outage causes hundreds of Delta Air Lines flights to be delayed or cancelled .[ 164] [ 165]
August 10 – Police in Dallas , Texas kill Tony Timpa , who had schizophrenia and depression, after he asked for help. The police laughed as he asked for help 30 times while they pinned his shoulders, knees, and neck to the ground.[ 166]
August 12–19 – The 2016 Louisiana floods submerge over 146,000 homes across south Louisiana , killing 13 people. The Red Cross characterized the floods as the worst natural disaster in the U.S. since Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and President Obama visited the Baton Rouge area to survey the damage.
August 16 – The Blue Cut Fire occurs in California, displacing more than 82,000 residents, burning over 37,000 acres (150 km2 ) and threatening at least 34,500 structures.
August 17–21 – The 74th World Science Fiction Convention is held at the Bartle Hall Convention Center in Kansas City, Missouri .[citation needed
August 20 – The U.S. Air Force deploys the B-1 , B-2 , and B-52 bombers in Guam to conduct exercises.
August 26 – Barack Obama expands the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument , making it the world's largest marine protected area in the United States. Barack Obama surpasses Theodore Roosevelt as the most water and land protected by a U.S. president.
August 31 – The US conducts its first commercial flight to Cuba in 50 years
September
September 6 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrests Israeli rabbi Aharon Goldberg and divorce mediator Shimen Liebowitz, two planners of a contract killing on an estranged Jewish man, at a hotel in Central Valley, New York .[ 167]
September 10 – John Hinckley Jr. , the man who tried to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan in 1981, is released from a psychiatric hospital after 35 years.[ 168]
September 11
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September 19 – Ahmad Khan Rahami is identified as a suspect for the bombings in New York and New Jersey the previous two days. He is captured in a shootout.[ 177]
September 21 – A state of emergency is declared in Charlotte, North Carolina , after protests over the police killings of three black men in a single week.[ 178]
September 23 – A gunman opens fire at a mall in Burlington, Washington , killing 5 people. The shooter, Arcan Cetin, is arrested the next day.[ 179]
September 24 – The National Museum of African-American History and Culture , the biggest museum towards black history, opens in Washington D.C.
September 26 – Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton take part in their first live televised debate , with an estimated audience of up to 100 million viewers.[ 180]
September 28 – Congress votes to override President Obama 's veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act , which would effectively allow the families of victims of the September 11 attacks to sue the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for their part in the attacks.[ 181]
September 29 – A commuter train crashes in Hoboken, New Jersey , killing one person and injuring 114 others.[ 182]
October
October 21: The Dyn cyberattack October 1
October 4 – Tim Kaine and Mike Pence participate in the vice presidential debate at Longwood University .
October 6 – Hurricane Matthew strengthens to a Category Four storm as it approaches Florida.[ 185]
October 7
October 9 – Martha Raddatz and Anderson Cooper host the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis .
October 10 – Samsung announces an official discontinuation of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone after reports of the phone overheating and combusting, posing a severe health risk.[ 191]
October 11 – President Obama presents details of a human mission to the planet Mars .[ 192] [ 193]
October 15 – A firebomb is set off inside the Republican Party headquarters building in Orange County, North Carolina . No injuries are reported and a suspect has not been found.[ 194]
October 19 – Chris Wallace hosts the final presidential debate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas .
October 21 – A currently unknown attacker launches multiple distributed denial-of-service (DDos) attacks on networks operated by DNS provider Dyn , making numerous sites difficult or impossible to access for a period of time, including Twitter, Reddit , Netflix , Spotify , The New York Times BBC News , and PayPal . The Department of Homeland Security opens an investigation.[ 195]
October 27 – Seven defendants, including Ammon and Ryan Bundy, are acquitted of all federal charges by a federal jury in relation to their occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in January.[ 196]
October 28
November
November 8: Donald Trump is elected president November 8
The 2016 presidential election is held. Donald Trump is elected as the 45th president of the United States and Mike Pence is elected the 48th vice president, with Trump becoming the oldest man elected president at the age of 70 as well as the first president in history to take the office without any prior political or military experience. The win is considered one of the most shocking upsets in U.S. history, with most news outlets and experts considering a Trump victory unlikely. The result is also highly controversial due to Hillary Clinton 's popular vote lead of nearly 3 million votes over Trump, who won via the Electoral College .[ 201] [ 202] [ 203]
Four states – California, Nevada, Maine and Massachusetts – vote to legalize the use, sale, and consumption of recreational marijuana .[ 204]
Faith Spotted Eagle becomes the first Native American to receive an electoral vote.The U.S. senate elects the most diverse cast yet. Catherine Cortez Masto becomes the first Latina senator, Kamala Harris becomes the first Asian-American , and the second black woman into the senate, and Ilhan Omar becomes the first Somali-American lawmaker.
In the 2016 Senate and House elections, the Republican Party maintains its majority of seats in Congress .
November 9 – Anti-Trump protests are held in several cities across the nation over the next week after Trump's election win.
November 10 – John Kerry makes a trip to Antarctica , becoming the first Secretary of State to visit all seven continents.
November 18 – Donald Trump agrees to pay a $25 million settlement to two class action lawsuits and a New York state civil lawsuit regarding his now defunct unlicensed Trump University .[ 205]
November 20 – More than 300 people are injured, 26 seriously, after police use water cannons, tear gas, rubber bullets, and concussion grenades on a peaceful protest against the proposed construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation .[ 206]
November 21 – A school bus crashes in Chattanooga , Tennessee , killing at least six children and injuring another 22.[ 207]
November 25
November 28 – Eleven people are hospitalized with injuries after 18-year-old Abdul Razak Ali Artan attacks students on the campus of Ohio State University with his car and a butcher knife before being fatally shot by police. An investigation later shows that Artan was inspired by terrorist propaganda from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki .[ 210] [ 211]
December
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December 5 – The murder trial of white police officer Michael Slager in the 2015 shooting death of Walter Scott in South Carolina ends in a mistrial after a hung jury cannot reach a verdict, resulting in no charges on Slager.[ 216]
December 8 – John Glenn , former astronaut , Colonel , and Senator , and the first American to orbit the Earth, dies of presently undisclosed conditions at the OSU Wexner Medical Center in Columbus , Ohio, at the age of 95.[ 217]
December 9
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December 14
Yahoo discloses that a data breach in 2013 compromised more than 1 billion user accounts' information, such as names, passwords, and unencrypted messages, making it the largest data breach in the history of the Internet . Yahoo already disclosed a smaller 2014 data breach in September 2016.[ 224] The Federal Reserve raises its benchmark interest rate by 0.25%, only the second increase in a decade, citing strong economic growth and rising employment, though Chairwoman Janet Yellen says the outlook for the US economy going forward is "uncertain".[ 225]
December 16 – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
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December 20 – President Obama, in a joint agreement with Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau , permanently bans oil and gas drilling in most of the Arctic and Atlantic Ocean.[ 228] [ 229] [ 230]
December 23 – In a departure from its previous policy, the Obama administration chooses to not use its veto power and instead abstains from voting on United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 , allowing its passage. The resolution demands an end to the construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem . Both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President-elect Donald Trump imply that the decision will result in a reassessment of relations with the United Nations.[ 231] [ 232]
December 24 – Donald Trump announces that he will be dissolving his foundation to avoid potential conflicts of interest in his presidency. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman asserts that Trump will not be able to do so until an ongoing investigation into the foundation has completed.[ 233] [ 234]
December 27 – Carrie Fisher , known for playing the iconic character Princess Leia in the Star Wars script doctor and mental health advocate, dies at the age of 60 after having a cardiac arrest on a transatlantic flight four days earlier. Her mother, actress Debbie Reynolds dies the next day, after having a stroke while preparing for Fisher's funeral.[ 235]
December 29 – The Obama administration imposes sanctions against the leaders of the Russian intelligence agency GRU and expels 35 Russian operatives from the United States in response to Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election . President-elect Donald Trump urges the country "move on" from the issue, but nonetheless announces that he will be meeting with the United States Intelligence Community for an update on the situation.[ 236] [ 237]
December 31 – Federal judge Reed O'Connor in Texas blocks the enforcement of a policy seeking to extend Affordable Care Act anti-discrimination protections for transgender health and abortion -related services.[ 238]
December 31 – United States troops withdraw from Afghanistan , leaving behind 8,400 troops stationed at 4 garrisons (Kabul, Kandahar, Bagram, and Jalalabad).
Deaths
January
Dale Bumpers Vilmos Zsigmond Pat Harrington Jr. Otis Clay David Bowie Ann Z. Caracristi Monte Irvin Lawrence Phillips Jim Simpson Dan Haggerty Glenn Frey Marvin Minsky Abe Vigoda Paul Kantner January 1
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David Bowie , English singer, songwriter and actor (b. 1947)Alton Brown , baseball player (born 1925)Ann Z. Caracristi , cryptanalyst and intelligence official (born 1921)Charles Congden Carpenter , naturalist and herpetologist (born 1921)Jeanne Córdova , German-born American LGBT activist and writer (born 1948)Carolyn Denning , pediatrician (born 1927)Michael Galeota , actor (born 1984)Ralph Hauenstein , business and philanthropist (born 1912)Francis Thomas Hurley , Roman Catholic prelate (born 1927)Arthur S. Obermayer , entrepreneur and philanthropist (born 1931)Dick Spady , restaurateur (born 1923)
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Meg Mundy , British-born American actress and model (born 1915)Andrew Smith , basketball player (born 1990)
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January 18 – Glenn Frey , singer-songwriter and musician (born 1948)
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Tom Aidala , American architect (b. 1933)Eugene Borowitz , American rabbi and philosopher (b. 1924)Fred Bruney , American football player (b. 1931)Pete Carmichael , American football coach (b. 1941)Waymond C. Huggins , American politician (b. 1927)Mikhail Odnoralov , Russian-born American painter (b. 1944)Robert Pickus , American activist (b. 1923)Sarah , American zoo cheetah (b. 2000)Storm Flag Flying , American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1999)Rik Wilson , American ice hockey player (b. 1962)
January 23 – Marie Mahoney , baseball player (born 1924)
January 24 – Marvin Minsky , computer scientist (born 1927)
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January 27 – Barbara Berger , baseball player (born 1930)
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January 30 – Georgia Davis Powers , civil rights activist and politician (born 1923)
February
Maurice White Edgar Mitchell Dave Mirra Antonin Scalia George Gaynes Harper Lee Sonny James Donald E. Williams George Kennedy February 1
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February 14 – Steven Stucky , classical music composer (born 1949)
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February 17 – Tony Phillips , baseball player (born 1959)
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February 21 – Richard Horner Thompson , general (born 1926)
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February 23 – Donald E. Williams , astronaut (born 1942)
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March
Aubrey McClendon Bud Collins Ray Tomlinson Nancy Reagan Lloyd Shapley Hilary Putnam Frank Sinatra Jr. Larry Drake Tray Walker Andrew Grove Phife Dawg Ken Howard Joe Garagiola Garry Shandling Patty Duke March 1
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Retta Ward , health official and educator (born 1953)William O'Brien , police officer (born 1944)Laura Knaperek , politician (born 1955)Henry R. Horsey , judge (born 1924)Gavin Christopher , singer, songwriter, musician and producer (born 1949)Jack Buckalew , politician (born 1932)Rooney L. Bowen , politician (born 1933)Ralph Baruch , President of Viacom (born 1923)
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Ruth Terry , singer and actress (born 1920)Gerard Reedy , 30th president of the College of the Holy Cross (born 1939)Louis Meyers , festival organizer, co-founder of SXSW (born 1955)Shawn Elliott , actor and singer (born 1937)Ben Bagdikian , educator and journalist (born 1920)Joe Ascione , jazz drummer (born 1961)Keith Emerson , English keyboardist, songwriter, composer, and record producer (born 1944)
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Vic Schwenk , football player, coach and executive (born 1924)June Peppas , baseball player (born 1929)Lloyd R. Leavitt Jr. , lieutenant general (born 1928)Geoffrey Hartman , German-born literary theorist (born 1929)Tamara Grigsby , politician and social worker (born 1974)Virgilio Elizondo , Roman Catholic priest, theologian and civil rights activist (born 1935)Patrick Cain , football player (born 1962)John W. Cahn , German-born metallurgist (born 1928)
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April
Amber Rayne Joe Medicine Crow Merle Haggard Will Smith Balls Mahoney David Gest Doris Roberts Chyna Prince Lonnie Mack Billy Paul Tommy Kono Harry Wu Conrad Burns April 1
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Spec Richardson , baseball executive (born 1923)Balls Mahoney , professional wrestler (born 1972)Bryce Jordan , 14th president of the Pennsylvania State University (born 1924)Anne Jackson , actress, wife of Eli Wallach (born 1925)David Gest , entertainer, producer and television personality (born 1953)Paul Carey , broadcaster and sportscaster (born 1928)Hector A. Cafferata Jr. , soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1929)
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Pete Zorn , musician (born 1950)Milt Pappas , baseball player (born 1939)John McConathy , basketball player (born 1930)Richard Lyons, musician (born 1959)
Walter Kohn , Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)
April 20
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April 24
April 25 – Joe Blahak , football player (born 1950)
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April 29 – Don White , race car driver (born 1926)
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May
Bob Bennett William Schallert Mark Lane Julius La Rosa Guy Clark Fritz Stern Morley Safer Brandon Grove Hedy Epstein Bryce Dejean-Jones Don McNay May 1
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May 10 – Mark Lane , lawyer, politician, civil rights activist and author (born 1927)
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May 14 – Monteagle Stearns , U.S. Ambassador to Greece (1981–1985) and Ivory Coast (1976–1979) (born 1924)
May 16
May 17 – Guy Clark , singer-songwriter, Grammy winner (2014) (born 1941).
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May 21
May 22
May 23 – Joe Fleishaker , actor (born 1954)
May 24
May 25 – Nancy Dow , actress and model (born 1936)
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May 29
May 30 – C. Michael Harper , executive (born 1927)
May 31
Fred Catona , business founder and chief marketing strategist (born 1946)[ 241] Jan Crouch , televangelist and broadcasting executive (born 1928)David Tod Roy , sinologist and translator (born 1933)
June
Muhammad Ali Phyllis Curtin Kimbo Slice Gordie Howe Christina Grimmie George Voinovich Janet Waldo Lois Duncan Anton Yelchin Ralph Stanley Alvin Toffler Pat Summitt June 1
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Joan Acker , sociologist and women's rights activist (born 1924)Jim Boyd , singer-songwriter (born 1956)
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July
Elie Wiesel William L. Armstrong Jim Metzen Sharon Runner Jeffrey Montgomery Betsy Bloomingdale Garry Marshall Mark Takai Marni Nixon Jack Davis Gloria DeHaven July 2
Roscoe Brown , aviator and educator (born 1922)Michael Cimino , film director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1939)Alphie McCourt , Irish-born writer (born 1940)Jack C. Taylor , businessman, billionaire, and philanthropist (born 1922)Elie Wiesel , Romanian-born writer, educator, political activist, and Holocaust survivor (born 1928)
July 3
July 4 – Abner J. Mikva , politician, federal judge, lawyer and law professor (born 1926)
July 5 – William L. Armstrong , politician and businessman; U.S. Senator from Colorado (1979–1991) (born 1937)
July 6
Marian Bergeson , politician; member of the California State Assembly (1978–1984) and California State Senate (1984–1995) (born 1925)Larry Bock , entrepreneur (born 1959)John McMartin , actor (born 1929)Mike Moore , football player (born 1956)
July 7 – Tom Marr , talk radio host and sportscaster (born 1942)
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Roger Chanoine , football player (born 1976)Troy Mader , rancher and politician; Wyoming state representative (2014–2015) (born 1955)Sharon Runner , politician; California state senator (2011–2016) (born 1954)
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July 28 – Conrad K. Cyr , federal judge (born 1931)
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July 31 – Eric Moon , British-born librarian (born 1923)
August
Steve LaTourette Patrice Munsel Richard Fagan Helen Delich Bentley Pete Fountain Glenn Yarbrough Fyvush Finkel Bobby Hutcherson Donald Henderson Steven Hill Marvin Kaplan Gene Wilder August 1
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August 8 – George Yarno , football player (born 1957)
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Donald Henderson , physician, educator, and epidemiologist (born 1928)Edward T. Maloney , aviation historian (born 1928)Lou Pearlman , record producer, music manager, and fraudster (born 1954)Jack Riley , actor, voice artist, and comedian (born 1935)
August 20
August 21 – Peter deCourcy Hero , college and foundation president (born 1942)
August 22
August 23
August 24
August 25
August 26
August 27 – Bill Lenkaitis , football player (born 1946)
August 28
August 29
Dee Dowis , football player (born 1968)Gene Wilder , actor, screenwriter, film director, and author (born 1933)
August 30
August 31 – Nathan Lyons , photographer (born 1930)
September
Hugh O'Brian Phyllis Schlafly Chris Stone Edward Albee Joe Seng Robert W. Cone Bobby Breen Victor Scheinman Arnold Palmer Jean Shepard Gloria Naylor Agnes Nixon September 1
September 2
September 3
September 4 – Clarence D. Rappleyea Jr. , lawyer and politician (born 1933)
September 5
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September 8
September 9
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September 11
September 12
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September 15 – Rose Mofford , politician (born 1922)
September 16
September 17 – Charmian Carr , actress and singer (born 1942)
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October
Lowell Thomas Jr. Kenneth P. Thompson Richard A. Pittman Clyde C. Holloway David Bunnell Tommy Bartlett Michael Massee Tom Hayden Bobby Vee Susan Lindquist Don Marshall October 1
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October 6
October 7 – Bill Warren , film historian and critic (born 1943)
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Tommy Bartlett , basketball and tennis player and coach (born 1928)Phil Chess , Polish-born record producer and music executive (born 1921)
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October 23
Jack Chick , cartoonist, publisher, and Christian fundamentalist (born 1924)Tom Hayden , writer, activist, and politician (born 1939)Bob Saunders , politician (born 1929)
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October 27
October 28 – Angeline Kopka , businesswoman and politician (born 1916)
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November
Kay Starr Janet Reno Robert Vaughn Leon Russell Gwen Ifill Mose Allison Melvin Laird Ruth Gruber Denton Cooley Ralph Branca Florence Henderson Ron Glass Grant Tinker November 1
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Diana Balmori , landscape designer (born 1932)Houston Conwill , sculptor (born 1947)Holly Dunn , country music singer and songwriter (born 1957)Bob Gain , football player (born 1929)Roger Hobbs , novelist (born 1988)Gwen Ifill , journalist, television newscaster, and author (born 1955)Mahpiya Ska , albino buffalo (born 1996)David Mancuso , club DJ (born 1944)Gardnar Mulloy , tennis player (born 1913)
November 15
Bob Addis , baseball player (born 1925)Mose Allison , jazz pianist, vocalist, and composer (born 1927)Dwayne Andreas , businessman and political donor (born 1918)Cliff Barrows , gospel singer and music director (born 1923)Jules Eskin , cellist (born 1931)Lisa Lynn Masters , actress (born 1964)Milt Okun , record producer, arranger. conductor, and singer (born 1923)Clift Tsuji , politician (born 1941)
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November 21 – Edward L. Kimball , legal scholar (born 1930)
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December
Joe McKnight Lyle Bouck Sammy Lee Mike Kelly John Glenn Joseph Mascolo Thomas Schelling Alan Thicke Craig Sager Zsa Zsa Gabor Vera Rubin Carrie Fisher Debbie Reynolds December 1
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December 5
December 6 – Dave Edwards , football player (born 1939)
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See also
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