Timeline September 2016

Events in September 2016 13

• 1923 – 2016 Shimon Peres (1923-2016) Died 28 September 2016, aged 93 Peres served twice as Prime Minister of Israel and later as its President, holding nearly every senior office in Israeli government over a seven-decade career. He shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the Oslo Accords. He remained an active statesman into his nineties.
• 1928 – 2016 Edward Albee (1928-2016) Died 16 September 2016, aged 88 Albee was an American playwright best known for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and other works exploring the darker undercurrents of American domestic life. He won three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama over his career. His plays remain widely staged and studied.
• 1929 – 2016 Arnold Palmer (1929-2016) Died 25 September 2016, aged 87 Palmer was an American professional golfer who won seven major championships and helped popularize the sport during the television era. His charisma earned him a fan following known as "Arnie's Army." He was a founding member of the Golf Channel and a successful businessman.
• 1944 – 2016 Gene Wilder dies Willy Wonka and Young Frankenstein star, age 83 Gene Wilder, best known for his roles in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and Young Frankenstein, died on August 29, 2016, aged 83, from complications of Alzheimer's disease.
• 1992 – 2016 Jose Fernandez (1992-2016) Died 25 September 2016, aged 24 Fernandez was a Cuban-American Major League Baseball pitcher for the Miami Marlins, known for his dominant fastball and infectious enthusiasm for the game. He defected from Cuba as a teenager before starting his MLB career. He died in a boating accident off the coast of Miami.
• 2016 North Korea Nuclear Tests Fourth and fifth nuclear detonations escalate tensions North Korea conducted its fourth and fifth nuclear weapons tests, claiming the January test involved a hydrogen bomb. The September test was the country's most powerful to date and prompted new United Nations sanctions. The tests significantly escalated tensions on the Korean peninsula.
• 2016 Diversity Speech Delivered a landmark speech at a garden party celebrating the monarchy, declaring: 'Norwegians are girls who love girls, boys who love boys, and boys and girls who love each other. Norwegians believe in God, Allah, everything and nothing.' The speech went viral worldwide and was hailed as one of the most powerful statements on diversity by any head of state.
• 2016 Galaxy Note 7 recall — battery fires Samsung recalls all 2.5 million Galaxy Note 7 smartphones worldwide after reports of batteries catching fire and exploding. The Note 7 is banned from flights globally. The recall costs Samsung an estimated $5.3 billion and causes a 7% drop in its share price. Samsung investigates and finds that aggressive battery design to maximise capacity, combined with manufacturing defects, caused the fires. The crisis damages Samsung's premium brand image but the company recovers with the well-received Galaxy S8 in 2017.
• 2016 Dell-EMC merger completes — Dell Technologies born The Dell-EMC merger completes on 7 September 2016, creating Dell Technologies — a company with $74 billion in annual revenues offering end-to-end IT infrastructure from laptops to data centre storage to virtualisation software. Dell Technologies is privately held but issues publicly traded tracking stock linked to its VMware stake. Michael Dell becomes CEO of one of the world's largest technology companies.
• 2016 Wells Fargo Fake Accounts Scandal Bank fined over unauthorized customer accounts Wells Fargo was fined $185 million after regulators found employees had opened millions of unauthorized customer accounts to meet aggressive sales targets. The scandal led to the resignation of CEO John Stumpf and the firing of thousands of employees. It triggered a broader reckoning over sales practices in U.S. retail banking.
• 2016 Yahoo Discloses Massive Data Breach 500 million accounts compromised in 2014 hack Yahoo disclosed that data from more than 500 million user accounts had been stolen in a 2014 breach, one of the largest in internet history. The disclosure came amid Yahoo's pending acquisition by Verizon and led to a reduction in the sale price. A second, larger breach affecting a billion accounts was disclosed months later.
• 2016 Hurricane Matthew Category 5 storm devastates Haiti Hurricane Matthew, a powerful Category 5 storm, struck Haiti, Cuba, and the southeastern United States, killing over 500 people, mostly in Haiti. It was the strongest Atlantic hurricane in nearly a decade at its peak. The storm caused widespread flooding and a humanitarian crisis in Haiti.
• 2016 Rosetta Mission Ends ESA spacecraft lands on comet to conclude mission The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft ended its mission by deliberately descending onto the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta had orbited the comet since 2014 and deployed the Philae lander to its surface. The mission provided unprecedented data on the composition of comets.