Clockwise from top-left: the war againstISIS at theBattle of Mosul ; Islamic suicide terrorist Salman Abedibombs theManchester Arena following a concert byAriana Grande , killing 22 people and himself; a view of theSolar eclipse of August 21 ("Great American Eclipse") inNorth Carolina ;North Korea tests a series of nuclear missiles in the face of international condemnation, sparking aperiod of fierce tension betweenNorth Korea and the west; anearthquake strikes Central Mexico, killing 370 people;Spain rejects theCatalan declaration of independence after theCatalan independence referendum , leading to massive protests andstrikes ;Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd attending a music festival inLas Vegas , killing 60 people and himself and becoming thedeadliest mass shooting in theUnited States ; after 13 years of orbitingSaturn , theCassini-Huygens spacecraftends its mission.
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2017 (MMXVII ) was acommon year starting on Sunday of theGregorian calendar , the 2017th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini (AD) designations, the 17th year of the3rd millennium and the21st century , and the 8th year of the2010s decade.
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2017 was designated as theInternational Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by theUnited Nations General Assembly .[ 1]
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February 11 –North Korea prompts international condemnation by test firing a ballistic missile across theSea of Japan .[ 9] February 13 –Assassination of Kim Jong-nam :Kim Jong-nam , the eldest son of deceasedNorth Korean leaderKim Jong-il and the half-brother of current North Korean leaderKim Jong-un , is killed after being attacked by two women withVX nerve agent atKuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia.[ 10] February 26 – Anannular solar eclipse is visible from Pacific, Chile, Argentina, Atlantic, Africa. It is the 29th eclipse of the140th saros cycle (descending node) , which started with a partial solar eclipse visible in the Southern Hemisphere on April 16, 1512, and will conclude with another partial solar eclipse visible in the Northern Hemisphere on June 1, 2774.[ 11] March 3 –Nintendo releases theSwitch worldwide.[ 12] March 10 – TheUN warns that the world is facing the largesthumanitarian crisis since World War II, with up to 20 million people at risk of starvation and famine inYemen ,Somalia ,South Sudan andNigeria .[ 13] March 14 –March 2017 North American blizzard : A major late-season blizzard affects the Northeastern United States,New England andCanada , dumping up to three feet of snow in the hardest hit areas.[ 14] March 29 – TheUnited Kingdom triggersArticle 50 of the Lisbon Treaty , starting theBrexit negotiations, the talks for theUnited Kingdom to leave theEuropean Union .[ 15] March 30 –SpaceX conducts the world's firstreflight of an orbital-class rocket.[ 16] [ 17] March 31 –Horacio Cartes presents to Congress his plans of allowing the re-election of thepresident of Paraguay for a second term, going against theConstitution of Paraguay , leading to apolitical crisis which ended in the storm of Congress by liberal activists and in the assassination of Rodrigo Quintana by the police. After this, the Congress votes against the re-election project.[ 18] June 1 – Amidst widespread criticism, the U.S. government announces its decision to withdraw from theParis Climate Agreement in due time.[ 25] June 3 London Bridge attack : Eight people are murdered and dozens of civilians are wounded by Islamist terrorists. Three of the attackers are shot dead by the police. ISIS claims responsibility for the attack.[ 26] 2017 Turin stampede : During a screening of the2017 UEFA Champions League Final , pepper spray is discharged by individuals attempting to rob soccer fans in the square, causing the crowd to panic. There are 3 deaths and 1,672 people wounded.[ 27] June 5 June 7 –Two terrorist attacks are simultaneously carried out by fiveIslamic State (ISIL) terrorists against theIranian Parliament building and theMausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini , both inTehran , leaving 17 civilians dead and 43 more wounded. It is the first ISIL attack to occur in Iran.[citation needed ] June 8 – Asnap general election is held in the United Kingdom, three years before the next was due, resulting in ahung parliament , with theConservative Party , led byPrime Minister Theresa May , losing their majority in Parliament. TheLabour Party , led byJeremy Corbyn , makes gains for the first time since1997 . Days later, theConservative Party , now lacking a majority, enters a confidence-and-supply deal with the Northern Ireland loyalist partyDUP .[ 30] June 10 – The2017 World Expo is opened inAstana, Kazakhstan .[ 31] June 18 – Iran'sIslamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) fire sixsurface-to-surface mid-rangeballistic missiles from domestic bases targetingISIL forces in the SyrianDeir ez-Zor Governorate in response to the terrorist attacks in Tehran earlier this month.June 21 – TheGreat Mosque of al-Nuri inMosul , Iraq, isdestroyed by ISIL .[ 32] June 24 – TheGoodwin Fire , a wildfire, starts inYavapai County , Arizona nearMayer and forces evacuations of more than a hundred people.[ 33] June 25 – TheWorld Health Organization estimates that the2016–17 Yemen cholera outbreak has over 200,000 cases.June 26 – The2017 America's Cup yacht race, sailed in Bermuda, is won byNew Zealand 'sAotearoa .June 27 –2017 cyberattacks on Ukraine : A series ofcyberattacks using thePetya malware begins, affecting organizations inUkraine .[ 34] August 5 August 12 – TheUnite the Right rally is held inCharlottesville, Virginia , United States, by a variety of white nationalist and other far-right groups; Heather Heyer, a counter-protester, is killed after beinghit by a car .August 17 August 18 – Thefirst terrorist attack ever sentenced as a crime in Finland kills two people and injures eight others. Islamic terrorist Abderrahman Bouanane, a Moroccan man carried out the ISIS-inspired attack in southwest Finland.[ 46] [ 47] August 21 – Atotal solar eclipse (nicknamed "The Great American Eclipse ")[ 48] is visible within a band across the entire contiguous United States of America, passing from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts. The moon was just 3 days pastperigee , making it relatively large.[ 49] [ 50] [ 51] August 25 –ongoing – Amilitary operation targetingRohingya Muslims inMyanmar "seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing", according to theUnited Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights .[ 52] August 25 –30 –Hurricane Harvey strikes the United States as aCategory 4 hurricane , causing catastrophic damage to theHouston metropolitan area , mostly due to record-breaking floods. At least 108 deaths are recorded, and total damage reaches $125 billion (2017USD ), making Harvey the costliest natural disaster in United States history, tied withHurricane Katrina in 2005.[ 53] [ 54] September 1 –Russian President Vladimir Putin expels 755diplomats in response toUnited States sanctions .[ 55] United States Passports become invalid to travel toNorth Korea , in response to the death ofOtto Warmbier .September 3 –North Korea conducts its sixth and most powerfulnuclear test .[ 56] September 6 –Hurricane Irma , at peak intensity, would make the first of many powerful landfalls along the Caribbean islands and the United States. Damages would total $77.2 billion (2017 USD), and 134 would be killed by the storm.[ 57] September 13 – TheInternational Olympic Committee awardsParis andLos Angeles the right to host the2024 and2028 Summer Olympics , respectively.[ 58] September 15 –Cassini–Huygens ends its 13-year mission by plunging intoSaturn , becoming the first spacecraft to enter the planet's atmosphere.[ 59] September 19 – Twelve days after another powerfulearthquake , and on the 32nd anniversary of the deadly1985 Mexico City earthquake , a 7.1 Mw earthquake strikes central Mexico, killing 370, leaving up to 6,000 injured[ 60] and thousands more homeless.[ 61] September 19 –20 – Just two weeks afterHurricane Irma struck the Caribbean,Hurricane Maria strikes similar areas, making landfall onDominica as a Category 5 hurricane, andPuerto Rico as a Category 4 hurricane. 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