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International relations North Korea and weapons of mass destruction North Korea may be preparing for an imminent thermonuclear weapon test at its Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, located in the country's North Hamgyong Province where previous tests took place in 2006, 2009 and 2013, according to a South Korean military report. (Yonhap News Agency) Saudi Arabia breaks off diplomatic relations with ...
January 3 is the third day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; ... 2016 – Peter Naur, Danish computer scientist, astronomer, and academic (b. 1928) [328]
Disasters and accidents About one thousand houses in Manila's Tondo district in the Philippines are set ablaze following New Year's Eve firecracker festivities that left one dead and 380 others injured. (AP via CTV News) International relations The EU-Ukraine Free Trade deal officially comes into force, coinciding with a Russian food embargo on Ukraine. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) Law ...
2016 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2016th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 16th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2010s decade.
It met in Washington, D.C., from January 3, 2015, to January 3, 2017, during the final two years of Barack Obama's presidency. The seats in the House were apportioned based on the 2010 United States census. [1] [2] [3] The 2014 elections gave the Republicans control of the Senate and the House for the first time since the 109th Congress.
Weekend end date Film Gross Notes Ref; 1: January 3, 2016: Star Wars: The Force Awakens: $90,241,673: Star Wars: The Force Awakens broke Avatar's record ($68.4 million) for the highest third weekend gross of all time and American Sniper ' s record ($89.2 million) for the highest weekend gross in January.
This is a list of selected January 3 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit.
April 3 – The Panama Papers were released by the German newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung, exposing a network of over 214,000 tax havens that involved people and entities from at least 200 nations. [8] April 17 – Brazil President Dilma Rousseff impeached after being charged with criminal administrative misconduct and disregard for the federal ...