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2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election
The 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election, held May 2016 for 140 seats, saw the LDF under Pinarayi Vijayan defeat the incumbent UDF (91-47 seats), with the BJP winning its first Kerala Assembly seat at Nemom.
2016 Kids' Choice Awards
The 2016 Kids' Choice Awards, the 29th annual Nickelodeon ceremony, was held March 12, 2016, at The Forum in Inglewood, California, hosted by Blake Shelton. Star Wars: The Force Awakens won Favorite Movie; Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Adele, and The Thundermans also won.
2016 Kumamoto earthquakes
The 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes (平成28年熊本地震) were a sequence of shallow inland earthquakes that struck Kumamoto Prefecture on Kyushu, Japan, beginning on April 14, 2016, and culminating in a magnitude 7.3 mainshock that killed 276 people.
2016 London mayoral election
The 2016 London mayoral election (5 May 2016, supplementary vote) elected Sadiq Khan (Labour, 1,148,716 first preferences) over Zac Goldsmith (909,755), with record 46.1% turnout; Khan became the first Muslim mayor of a major Western capital.
2016 Los Angeles Rams season
The 2016 Los Angeles Rams season: the franchise's return to Los Angeles after 21 years in St. Louis, finishing 4-12 under Jeff Fisher, who was fired in December; worst-ranked offense, Jared Goff's delayed debut, John Fassel interim.
2016 Louisville Cardinals football team
The 2016 Louisville Cardinals football team represented the University of Louisville in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS season, finishing 9–4 and 21st in the final AP poll behind Heisman-winning sophomore quarterback Lamar Jackson.
2016 Maine Question 4
2016 Maine Question 4, An Act to Raise the Minimum Wage, was a citizen initiative approved November 8, 2016 (420,892 to 337,486) raising Maine's minimum wage to $12 by 2020 with CPI indexing and phasing out the tipped wage.
2016 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
2016 MLB All-Star Game (87th Midsummer Classic), July 12, 2016 at Petco Park, San Diego; American League beat the National League 4-2, Eric Hosmer won MVP, and it was the last All-Star Game deciding World Series home-field advantage.
2016 Major League Baseball season
2016 MLB season: Chicago Cubs (103-58) beat Cleveland Indians 4-3 in the World Series, ending the Cubs' 108-year title drought with a 3-1 comeback and a 10-inning Game 7; Ben Zobrist was MVP.
2016 Malaysian Grand Prix
2016 Malaysian Grand Prix, Formula One race, 2 October 2016 at Sepang, round 16 of 21. Won by Daniel Ricciardo from Max Verstappen after Lewis Hamilton's lap-41 engine failure while leading; Rosberg third.
2016 Masters Tournament
The 2016 Masters Tournament, won by England's Danny Willett with a bogey-free 67 after Jordan Spieth's quadruple bogey on the 12th erased a five-shot lead; also featured three holes-in-one on the 16th in one round.
2016 Miami Dolphins season
2016 Miami Dolphins season, first year under head coach Adam Gase; finished 10-6, second AFC East, reached playoffs after eight-year drought, lost Wild Card 30-12 at Pittsburgh; Ajayi 1,272 rushing yards.
2016 Michigan Wolverines football team
2016 Michigan Wolverines football team, Jim Harbaugh's second Michigan squad; 10-3, 7-2 Big Ten, Orange Bowl loss 33-32 to Florida State, ranked 10th in both final polls.
2016 Minnesota Vikings season
2016 Minnesota Vikings season: first year at U.S. Bank Stadium; started 5-0 behind Sam Bradford, acquired after Teddy Bridgewater's knee injury, then finished 8-8, third in the NFC North, missing the playoffs.
2016 Monaco Grand Prix
2016 Monaco Grand Prix, Formula One race, 29 May 2016, Circuit de Monaco; won by Lewis Hamilton from Daniel Ricciardo and Sergio Perez after a wet-to-dry race decided by tyre strategy and a botched Red Bull pit stop.
2016 Mong Kok civil unrest
The 2016 Mong Kok civil unrest, also called the Fishball Revolution or Mong Kok riot (旺角騷亂), was a night of violent police-protester clashes in Mong Kok, Hong Kong, on 8-9 February 2016, sparked by a street hawker dispute during Lunar New Year, leaving over 100 injured.
2016 MotoGP World Championship
2016 MotoGP World Championship: premier-class motorcycle racing season won by Marc Marquez (298 pts) over Rossi and Lorenzo; 18 races, Michelin sole tyres, spec ECU, record nine different winners.
2016 MTV Video Music Awards
2016 MTV Video Music Awards: ceremony held August 28, 2016 at Madison Square Garden, New York. Beyoncé won 8 VMAs for Lemonade to become the show's most awarded artist (24 career); Rihanna received the Video Vanguard Award presented by Drake.
2016 MTV Video Music Awards Japan
The 2016 MTV Video Music Awards Japan was the fifteenth edition of MTV Japan's annual music video awards, where Hikaru Utada won Video of the Year.
2016 Munich shooting
The 2016 Munich shooting (OEZ attack): 18-year-old German-Iranian David Ali Sonboly killed nine people and wounded five at Munich's Olympia-Einkaufszentrum on 22 July 2016, then killed himself; officially reclassified as right-wing, racist violence.
2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, the 68th and final Sprint-sponsored season: 36 races from the 58th Daytona 500 to Homestead, where Jimmie Johnson won his seventh title; introduced the 36-team Charter system, 40-car fields, and a low-downforce rules package.
2016 NBA All-Star Game
2016 NBA All-Star Game: 65th NBA All-Star, first held outside the United States, at Toronto's Air Canada Centre on Feb 14, 2016. West beat East 196-173; Russell Westbrook won a record second straight MVP with 31 points; Kobe Bryant's 18th and final All-Star Game.
2016 NBA draft
2016 NBA draft, held June 23, 2016 at Barclays Center, Brooklyn; 60 picks. Ben Simmons went first to Philadelphia, Brandon Ingram second to the Lakers, Jaylen Brown third to Boston; record 27 international players were selected.
2016 NBA Finals
2016 NBA Finals: Cleveland Cavaliers beat the 73-9 Golden State Warriors 4-3, the first team to erase a 3-1 Finals deficit; LeBron James unanimous MVP, Kyrie Irving's Game 7 shot ends Cleveland's 52-year title drought.
2016 NBA playoffs
2016 NBA playoffs (April 16–June 19, 2016): 16-team postseason in which the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the 73–9 Golden State Warriors 4–3 in the Finals, the first 3–1 Finals comeback, ending Cleveland's 52-year title drought; LeBron James Finals MVP.
2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season
2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season, the 2016 college football season decided by the four-team College Football Playoff; Clemson won the national championship, beating Alabama 35-31 in the January 9, 2017 title game at Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, after 31-0 and 24-7 semifinal wins.
2016 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
2016 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, March Madness 2016: 68-team field won by No. 2 seed Villanova, which beat No. 1 North Carolina 77-74 in Houston on Kris Jenkins's buzzer-beating three.
2016 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
2016 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team: Mike Riley's second-season squad that went 9-4 (6-3 Big Ten), started 7-0 ranked as high as No. 7, and lost 38-24 to Tennessee in the Music City Bowl.
2016 Nevada Democratic presidential caucuses
2016 Nevada Democratic presidential caucuses, held February 20, 2016 as the third Democratic contest: Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders 52.64% to 47.29%, earning 20 pledged delegates to his 15, with later state-convention disputes over delegate allocation.
2016 New England Patriots season
2016 New England Patriots season: NFL team's 14-2 championship year under Bill Belichick; Tom Brady served a four-game Deflategate suspension, then the Patriots won Super Bowl LI 34-28 in overtime over Atlanta after a record 28-3 comeback.