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Americans finally break through to end Ryder Cup frustration –
This was not eight years in the making. It was two decades. Two decades worth of frustration was pent up inside the American team room when it arrived to Hazeltine National this week for the 41st Ryder Cup. And two decades worth of relief was released with the force of popping champagne corks when the Americans put the finishing touches on a 17-11 rout of the Europeans Sunday, capturing the Ryder Cup for the first time since 2008 and only the third time since 1999. After eight losses in the last 10 Ryder Cups, including the last three, the Americans decided enough was enough. [New York Post] [See list of the day]
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- Armed conflicts and attacks
- Libyan Civil War (2014–present)
- An ISIL sniper in Sirte, Libya, shoots dead Dutch photographer and war correspondent Jeroen Oerlemans. (The Independent)
- Disasters and accidents
- 2016 Atlantic hurricane season
- Hurricane Matthew, at Category 4 strength with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph (240 km/h), temporarily stalls as it heads towards Jamaica and Haiti. Weather forecasters expect tropical storm conditions today with landfall tomorrow. Further, they expect rainfall of 20 inches, with up to 40 inches in some parts of southern Haiti. (BBC), (NBC News), (The National Hurricane Center)
- Weather forecasters issue hurricane warnings for eastern Cuba, from Las Tunas to Guantánamo provinces. (The Los Angeles Times), (The National Hurricane Center)
- 2016 Ethiopian protests
- A Ravn Alaska Cessna 208B crashes near Togiak, Alaska killing three people. (The Alaska Dispatch News)
- International relations
- Aftermath of the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016
- Theresa May, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, announces March 2017 as the deadline for triggering Article 50 and says that her government will introduce a “Great Repeal Bill” that will repeal theEuropean Communities Act 1972 once the United Kingdom leaves the European Union. (BBC)
- Law and crime
- Authorities arrest a Japanese man for killing as many as 48 elderly patients at the Oguchi Hospital in Yokohama. (The Independent)
- Politics and elections
- Hungarian migrant quota referendum, 2016
- Voters in Hungary go to the polls for a referendum on whether to accept mandatory European Union quotas on relocating migrants. While an overwhelming majority of voters reject the EU’s migrant quotas, turnout was too low to make the poll valid. (BBC), (Reuters)
- Brazil municipal elections, 2016
- Brazilian voters cast ballots in the nationwide election of mayors and city councils in 5,568 municipalities. Pollsters predict that the Workers’ Party will fair poorly. This is the country’s first election since theimpeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff. (Reuters), (Bloomberg)
- Colombian peace agreement referendum, 2016
- Referendum voters in Colombia narrowly fail to ratify a peace deal between the Government of Colombia and FARC. (Reuters), (Deutsche Welle), (BBC)
- Marino Riccardi and Fabio Berardi take office as the Captains Regent of San Marino. (San Marino RTV)
- Sports
- 2016 Ryder Cup
- In golf, the United States wins the Ryder Cup for the first time since 2008. (The New York Post)
- 2016 NRL Grand Final
- In Australian rugby league, the Cronulla Sharks defeat the Melbourne Storm 14–12 to win their first premiership after 50 years in the competition. (ABC News Australia)
- Major League Baseball
- Vin Scully, broadcaster for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers since 1950, calls his final game. (Major League Baseball)
- The Atlanta Braves play their final game at Turner Field. They now move to the new SunTrust Park for the 2017 season. (AP via ESPN)
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