2016: A Year in Review

[LMAO]

I may be jumping the gun here with this thread, but 2016 is almost over, and it seems like the craziest year overall in (recent) memory. What have been your highlights (and lowlights) of 2016?

I know I'm missing a lot of things.
January
3 - Saudi Arabia ends diplomatic relations with Iran
5 - North Korea claims first successful nuclear bomb test
10 - David Bowie dies
14 - Alan Rickman dies
16 - UN lifts sanctions on Iran after Iran dismantled its nuclear weapons program
20 - Daesh destroys oldest Christian monastery in Iraq
28 - Zika outbreak

February
7 - North Korea launches long-range rocket into space
12 - Pope Francis meets with Patriarch Kirill
13 - Antonin Scalia dies
19 - Harper Lee dies

March
12 - AI beats world's top GO player
22 - Brussels terrorist attack
24 - Johann Cruyff dies
27 - Lahore terrorist attack

April
3 - Panama Papers
21 - Prince dies

May
2 - Leicester City wins PL
28 - Harambe executed (dicks out for our lord and savior)

June
3 - Muhammad Ali dies
10 - July 10 - EURO 2016
12 - Orlando terrorist attack
20 - Cleveland Cavaliers win NBA championship
23 - Brexit
28 - Istanbul terrorist attack

July
2 - Elie Wiesel dies
12 - The Philippines wins Nine-Dash Line claim against China
16 - Failed 'military coup' in Turkey

August
5-21 - Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro
29 - Gene Wilder dies
31 - Dilma Rousseff impeached

September
3 - Paris global climate agreement
9 - North Korea conducts its biggest nuclear test
26 - Arnold Palmer dies
28 - Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 concluded to be shot down by missile from pro-Russian rebels

October
7 - Nobel Prize winners
13 - Bhumibol Adulyadej dies

November
3 - Chicago Cubs win World Series
8 - Indian 500 and 1000 rupee notes demonetized
8 - Donald Trump becomes President-elect of the United States
24 - Florence Henderson dies
25 - Fidel Castro dies

December
2 - Brazil plane crash, killing most members of the Chapecoense football team
7 - Earthquake in Indonesia
8 - John Glenn dies
17 - Henry Heimlich dies
18 - Zsa Zsa Gabor dies
19 - Andrei Karlov assassinated
25 - Vera Rubin dies
25 - George Michael dies
25 - Russian plane crashes, killing all 92 on board
27 - Carrie Fisher dies
28 - Debbie Reynolds dies

[Pudpop]

I think you left out Alan Rickman

Also, it's not international but it's been a big year in South Africa:

March 31: Courts find Public Projector's resolution binding, President Zuma must pay back the money embezzled to fund his homestead upgrades.

August
Democratic Alliance win major metros Tshwane, Nelson Mandela Bay and Johannesburg in local elections, marking the first time the ANC lost these cities.

October
FeesMustFall protests reach boiling point as first death happens inside a residence hall.

Students March to Parliament on 26 October and the Finance Minister announces extensive increases to funding for higher education

November
The State of Capture Report is released incriminating President Zuma in grand scale corruption and the selling of cabinet positions to the Gupta family

[Santi]

genuinely the shittest year I've been alive for


Harambe <3

[Cripps]

April - found a new job. Delighted with it
May - quit job. f***ing shit job
July - my birthday which should be a national holiday
August - another new job but due to cousins wedding, I can't start til september.
August - Arsenal title campaign starts
August - Arsenal title campaign ends
September - start new job with a gig at Wembley for the billy joel concert. Pisses on any of these new dudes.
October - go to morocco for a weekend to try out the prostitutes.
October - realise I'm married therefore stay away from prostitutes and come home frustrated
November - get ill

[UFGN]

Tldr

Basically everyone died

[DiamondGooner]

LOL at this thread ...........

JANUARY - New girlfriend but at that stage where you haven't actually said it yet, she awaits the day.

FEBRUARY - Valentines, I make a nice romantic gesture and as a new couple she gives me 8 orgasm coupons, in the next 24 hrs I use at least 6 of them, if I were paying by the hour I'd of spent the mortgage money that day.

MARCH - Everything going well I meet the family at a wedding.

APRIL - She has a hen doo in Tenerife, first big test of our relationship, she asks to move in.

MAY - She moves in, everything ok

JUNE - Not great, sleeping patterns not compatible and she wants to take over decorations in my new house, I put foot down.
Brexit happens and UFGN's world collapses, I try to be there for him.

JULY - Not great have bust ups weekly.

AUGUST - Party month, Stag doo in Essex, we go to Sugar Hut have the best weekend ever, week 3 is the wedding, cousins down and we again go on a mad one, week 4 my birthday and we have a boat party ...... again another mad one, work suffers.

SEPTEMBER - Relationship just isn't going anywhere and I spend half the time trying to remember how happy I was before she moved in, take out my frustrations on members of Gooners World.
She moves out by end of month.

NOVEMBER - New flat mate who I know, relieved shes gone and she wonders why I'm not chasing after her, see her a few times but relief is so strong that shes out of my space that I wouldn't care if I ever saw her again, need to get myself back in shape and get back to being the man about town again that I was when I met her and life was fkin rosey.
Trump is elected President and for the 2nd time this year UFGN's world is in pieces on the floor, Communism has obviously had its day, again I try to console him but again he pushes me and Rowdy away.

Don't say I don't let you guys in, better than paying for a shrink session anyway.

[Pudpop]

April - found a new job. Delighted with it
May - quit job. f***ing shit job
July - my birthday which should be a national holiday
August - another new job but due to cousins wedding, I can't start til september.
August - Arsenal title campaign starts
August - Arsenal title campaign ends
September - start new job with a gig at Wembley for the billy joel concert. Pisses on any of these new dudes.
October - go to morocco for a weekend to try out the prostitutes.
October - realise I'm married therefore stay away from prostitutes and come home frustrated
November - get ill

October - go to morocco for a weekend to try out the prostitutes.
October - realise I'm married therefore stay away from prostitutes and come home frustrated

Sounds like something out of Catch-22

[KG3]

genuinely the shittest year I've been alive for


Harambe <3

[Va-Va-Voom]

April - found a new job. Delighted with it
May - quit job. f***ing shit job
July - my birthday which should be a national holiday
August - another new job but due to cousins wedding, I can't start til september.
August - Arsenal title campaign starts
August - Arsenal title campaign ends
September - start new job with a gig at Wembley for the billy joel concert. Pisses on any of these new dudes.
October - go to morocco for a weekend to try out the prostitutes.
October - realise I'm married therefore stay away from prostitutes and come home frustrated
November - get ill

Dead.

[LMAO]

I think you left out Alan Rickman

ffs can't believe I forgot about Professor Snape

[LMAO]

Other than 2009, I can't remember so many famous people/megastars dying in a single year in recent memory.

On a side note: I can't believe it's almost been eight years since Michael Jackson's death. He, along with The Beatles and Elvis, were the most iconic musicians since the classical period. Larger than life. I wonder who 2017 will claim. ffs, we need another legendary musician to come along soon.