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The 2016 Democratic National Convention was a presidential nominating convention, held at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from July 25 to 28, 2016.The convention gathered delegates of the Democratic Party, the majority of them elected through a preceding series of primaries and caucuses, to nominate a candidate for president and vice president in the 2016 United States ...
A test-firing of the Trident nuclear missile system from a Royal Navy submarine is reported to have failed, for the second time in a row. [196] The UK freezes the assets of six Russian prison bosses after the death of activist Alexei Navalny in a penal colony the previous week. [197]
The impetus for the test ban was provided by rising public anxiety over the magnitude of nuclear tests, particularly tests of new thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs), and the resulting nuclear fallout. A test ban was also seen as a means of slowing nuclear proliferation and the nuclear arms race. Though the PTBT did not halt proliferation or ...
1 January – It becomes illegal to import disposable vapes into Australia. [2]As Victoria transitions to clean energy, the state imposes a ban on natural gas connections for new dwellings, apartment buildings and residential subdivisions.
8 April – Ray Ralph, molecular biologist (University of Auckland), Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand (since 1993) (born 1932). [299] 9 April Jack Alabaster, cricketer (Otago, national team) and schoolteacher, principal of Kingswell High School (1975–1981) and Southland Boys' High School (1981–1988) (born 1930). [300]
Luxottica Group S.p.A. is an Italian eyewear conglomerate based in Milan.As a vertically integrated company, Luxottica designs, manufactures, distributes, and retails its eyewear brands all through its own subsidiaries.
Most of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922 as the Irish Free State, and the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 created the present United Kingdom. The UK became the first industrialised country and was the world's foremost power for the majority of the 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly during the "Pax Britannica" between 1815 ...
Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses and eyeglasses have been manufactured by Ray-Ban since 1952. Made popular in the 1950s and 1960s by music and film icons such as Buddy Holly , Roy Orbison and James Dean , Wayfarers almost became discontinued in the 1970s, before a major resurgence was created in the 1980s through massive product placements .