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Insurrection suppressed; The deaths of six people [a]; Assaults on at least 174 police officers [16]; Delay of counting electoral votes by several hours [17]; Extensive physical damage; [7] [18] [19] offices and chambers vandalized and ransacked; property stolen; [20] more than $30 million for repairs and security measures [21]
2016 1,111 [15] 2016 Indian heat wave: India Heat wave April – May 2017 3,059 Hurricane Maria: Puerto Rico, Dominica Tropical cyclone September 19 – 21 2018 4,340 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami: Indonesia Earthquake, Tsunami September 28 2019 3,951+ 2019 European heat waves: Europe Heat wave June – July 2020 6,511 2020 South Asian ...
Incident. 20,000. 30 May 1626. Wanggongchang Explosion in Beijing, China, in the Wanggongchang Gunpowder Factory, destroys part of the city and kills 20,000 people [1] 3,000. 18 August 1769. A lightning bolt caused the Brescia Explosion of a gunpowder depot in Brescia, Italy, destroying one-sixth of the city [2][3]
In 2016, the source for the Panama Papers said they approached WikiLeaks about the documents but that "WikiLeaks didn’t answer its tip line repeatedly". [302] In the summer of 2016, according to Foreign Policy WikiLeaks received several leaks from a source including 68 gigabytes from the Russian Interior Ministry. In 2014, the BBC and others ...
Health 2015–16 Zika virus epidemic The World Health Organization declares the spread of the Zika virus a global public health emergency requiring an urgent, united response. (BBC) The United Kingdom Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority gives licensing rights to the Francis Crick Institute to genetically modify human embryos to study the early stages of embryo development though still ...
Most of those who perished were civilians except for 343 members of the New York City Fire Department and 71 law enforcement officers who died in the World Trade Center and on the ground in New York City; [10] a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officer who died when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania ...
June. June 23 – The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union. [11] June 24 – Next day of referendum, the Prime Minister of United Kingdom David Cameron announced his resignation. June 28 – ISIL is suspected to be responsible for attacking Atatürk Airport in Istanbul, killing 45 and injuring around 230.
Armed conflicts and attacks. Turkey–ISIL conflict, Spillover of the Syrian Civil War. 2016 Gaziantep bombing. A blast hits a police station in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep leaving one officer dead and 13 injured. (BBC) (CNN) Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is suspected to be behind attack.