Timeline January 2016

Events in January 2016 15

• 1925 – 2016 Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) Died 5 January 2016, aged 90 Boulez was a French composer and conductor who was a leading figure in postwar avant-garde classical music. He led major orchestras including the New York Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony. His compositions and writings shaped serialist and modernist music for decades.
• 1946 – 2016 Alan Rickman (1946-2016) Died 14 January 2016, aged 69 Rickman was an English actor known for roles including Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films and Hans Gruber in Die Hard. He built a distinguished career on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company before his film breakthrough. He died of pancreatic cancer.
• 1947 – 2016 David Bowie The Starman Iconic musician and cultural chameleon.
• 2016 Australian Open 2016 Men: Novak Djokovic · Women: Angelique Kerber
• 2016 Nokia acquires Alcatel-Lucent for €15.6 billion Nokia completes its €15.6 billion acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent in January 2016, creating one of the world's three largest telecommunications infrastructure companies alongside Ericsson and Huawei. The new Nokia focuses entirely on 4G and 5G network equipment, cloud services and patents. Nokia's Bell Labs — acquired with Alcatel-Lucent — continues fundamental research; previous Bell Labs inventions include the transistor, laser, Unix and C programming language.
• 2016 2016: Nico Rosberg Mercedes German-Finnish driver Rosberg beat teammate Hamilton to win his only World Championship, then sensationally retired five days later, becoming the first reigning champion to retire since Prost in 1993.
• 2016 Rocky Horror 40th Anniversary Made a cameo as the Criminologist in Fox's television special The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again, marking the 40th anniversary of the original film. His appearance, in a wheelchair, was a deeply moving moment for fans.
• 2016 Tesla Model 3 announced Mass-market electric car changes auto industry Tesla unveiled the Model 3 on March 31, 2016, a mass-market electric car priced at $35,000. It received 325,000 pre-orders in 24 hours, transforming expectations for electric vehicles.
• 2016 Appointed Real Madrid first-team head coach Zidane replaces Rafa Benítez On 4 January 2016, Real Madrid appointed Zidane as head coach of the first team, replacing the dismissed Rafa Benítez. The appointment was seen as a bold gamble given his lack of senior managerial experience, but Zidane quickly stabilized a fractured dressing room built around Cristiano Ronaldo, Sergio Ramos, and the club's "BBC" attacking trio. His man-management and stature as a club legend proved decisive in the seasons that followed.
• 2016 Pascal architecture — P100 delivered to Elon Musk Nvidia's Pascal GPU architecture launches in 2016 with the P100 — the most powerful computing chip ever made at the time. Pascal is designed from the ground up for deep learning: its NVLink interconnect allows multiple GPUs to work together as one. Jensen Huang delivers a P100 personally to Elon Musk for Tesla's Autopilot development. Nvidia's stock rises 225% in 2016 — the best performance of any S&P 500 stock that year.
• 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 David Bowie releases Blackstar Final album Released on his 69th birthday.
• 2016 David Bowie dies Ziggy Stardust, age 69 David Bowie died on January 10, 2016, just two days after releasing his final album Blackstar on his 69th birthday. One of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
• 2016 David Bowie dies in New York Aged 69 Dies two days after Blackstar.
• 2016 Eagles' Glenn Frey dies Aged 67 The co-founder dies in New York.