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December 2016 Aden suicide bombings. An explosion outside a military camp in southern Yemen kills at least 49 people and injures many more. The explosion is believed to have been caused by a suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest. (AP) (BBC) Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
2016 (Sunday) 2015 (Friday) 2014 (Thursday) December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 13 days remain until the end of the year.
December 18: Republic Day in Niger ; National Day in Qatar Epimetheus 1867 – In Angola, New York , U.S., the last coach of a Lake Shore Railway train derailed , plunged 40 ft (12 m) down a gully , and caught fire, resulting in 49 deaths.
December 2016 was the twelfth and final month of that leap year. The month, which began on a Thursday, ended on a Saturday after 31 days. Portal:Current events. This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from December 2016.
It took place on December 18, 2016, at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The name of the event was a reference to it being WWE's final PPV of 2016. This was the final Roadblock until 2022 when WWE revived the event as a television special for the NXT brand.
Frequency. Annual. National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, also referred to as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day or Pearl Harbor Day, is observed annually in the United States on December 7, to remember and honor the 2,403 Americans who were killed in the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, which led to the United ...
Chart history. Justin Bieber ( pictured) scored two number-one singles with "Sorry" and "Love Yourself". The latter song became the number-one song on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 of 2016. With "Work", Rihanna ( pictured) earned her 14th number-one single on the chart, allowing her to surpass Michael Jackson for third most in the Hot 100 era.
Each year on December 18, the United Nations, through the UN-related agency International Organization for Migration (IOM), uses International Migrants Day to highlight the contributions made by the roughly 272 million migrants, including more than 41 million internally displaced persons, and the challenges they face.
2016 cancellation Following the December 2016 end of the Battle of Aleppo in the Syrian Civil War , the government on 18 December announced it would cancel all festivities in solidarity with the people of the city of Aleppo .
In 2010, the third Free Shipping Day began at 12 a.m. EST on Friday, December 17, and ended at 12 a.m. EST, December 18. More than 1,700 merchants from all 50 states participated and the official site saw 317,000 unique visitors.