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Disasters and accidents 2016 San Pablito Market fireworks explosion 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) (CNN) (AP and NBC News) 2016–17 UK and Ireland windstorm season The Met Office issues warnings for parts of Scotland, Northern England ...
December 20 Experimental Breeder Reactor I 1860 – South Carolina became the first of eleven slave states to secede from the United States, leading to the eventual creation of the Confederate States of America and later the American Civil War .
Aerosucre Flight 157 was a domestic cargo flight from Germán Olano Airport in Puerto Carreño, Colombia, to El Dorado International Airport, Bogotá.On 20 December 2016, the Boeing 727-2J0F operating the route overran the runway during takeoff, striking the perimeter fence and other obstacles before becoming airborne, ultimately losing control and crashing 4 nmi (4.6 mi; 7.4 km) from the airport.
December 2016 Aden suicide bombing. A suicide bomber kills at least 50 soldiers and injures 70 more at a military barracks in Aden, Yemen. December 2016 Istanbul bombings. Two bombs, one detonated by a suicide bomber, near the Vodafone Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, kill at least 29 people and injure more than 150 others. Ten people have been ...
December 20 is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) ... 1927 – Jim Simpson, American sportscaster (d. 2016) [44] 1927 – Kim Young-sam, ...
Typhoon Nock-ten, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Nina, was the strongest Christmas Day tropical cyclone worldwide in terms of 1-minute sustained winds. [1] [2] Forming as a tropical depression southeast of Yap and strengthening into the twenty-sixth tropical storm of the annual typhoon season on December 21, 2016, Nock-ten intensified into the thirteenth typhoon of the season on ...
It also broke Fifty Shades of Grey ' s records ($85.1 million) for the highest weekend debut in February and for the President's Day weekend, American Sniper ' s record ($89.2 million) for the highest weekend debut for a winter release, The Matrix Reloaded ' s record ($91.7 million) for the highest weekend debut for an R-rated film, and Star ...
The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2016. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.