Jan 1 Portuguese politician and diplomat AntΓ³nio Guterres becomes the United Nations Secretary-General, replacing South Korean Ban Ki-moon
- Jan 1 Vidarbha wins its first Ranji Trophy title in its first final appearance in 61 years, beating Delhi by 9 wickets in Indore; medium pacer Rajneesh Gurbani stars with the ball, taking 6 wickets
- Jan 2 Michael van Gerwen of the Netherlands wins his 2nd PDC World Darts Championship, beating defending champion Gary Anderson, 7-3 at the Alexandra Palace, London
- Jan 2 US House Republicans vote to weaken the independent Office of Congressional Ethics, and a public uproar forces them to back down the next day
Jan 5 Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima is named the most valuable Victoria's Secret Angel, modeling for the brand from 1999 to 2018
Jan 6 Elizabeth Warren announces her intention to run for a second term as Massachusetts Senator
- Jan 10 Multiple bombings across Afghanistan kill at least 64, including 11 UAE diplomats at the governor's estate in Kandahar
Jan 12 US President Barack Obama in surprise presentation awards Vice President Joe Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Jan 17 Search for missing aircraft MH370 over the Indian Ocean is called off
Jan 17 US President Barack Obama commutes WikiLeaks discloser Chelsea Manning's prison sentence from 35 to 7 years
- Jan 18 43rd People's Choice Awards: Ryan Reynolds & Jennifer Lawrence win (Movie Star), Justin Chambers & Priyanka Chopra win (TV Drama), and Jim Parsons & Sofia Vergara win (TV Comedy)
Jan 18 Baseball Hall of Fame adds Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines and Ivan Rodriguez
- Jan 18 NASA and NOAA announce that 2016 was the hottest year on record, surpassing the previous record set in 2015 which itself topped a record set in 2014
Jan 19 Adama Barrow sworn in as President of Gambia in Dahkar as Senegalese troops enter Gambia to persuade former President Yahya Jammeh to leave
- Jan 19 High-rise building collapses in Tehran, killing 20 firefighters
Jan 19 Mexican drug lord JoaquΓn "El Chapo" GuzmΓ‘n is extradited to the United States to face trial for his leadership of the Sinaloa drug cartel
- Jan 20 Car ploughs into pedestrians in central Melbourne, killing 6 and injuring 27
Jan 20 Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States of America and Mike Pence as the 48th Vice President
- Jan 21 Adam Hadwin fires only the 7th sub-60 round (59) in PGA Tour history in the 3rd round of the CareerBuilder Challenge at LaQuinta CC
- Jan 21 More than two million people protest worldwide in the 'Women's March' against Donald Trump, with 500,000 marching in Washington, D.C.
- Jan 22 Chile declares a State of Emergency and requests international assistance as wildfires rage out of control
Jan 23 Formula One Group removes Bernie Ecclestone as CEO, making him chairman emeritus, as Liberty Media completes $8 billion takeover of the organization
- Jan 23 Most expensive house in the US worth $250 million goes on the market in Bel Air, Los Angeles
- Jan 23 Thunderstorms and tornadoes in Georgia and Mississippi leave at least 18 dead in the US
- Jan 24 President Trump withdraws the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA)
- Jan 25 Kisenosato becomes the 1st Japanese home-grown sumo champion since 1998 when he is made yokozuna, 72nd Grand Champion
- Jan 27 Donald Trump issues executive order banning travel to the US for 7 mostly Muslim countries and suspending admission for refugees
Jan 28 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Serena Williams defeats older sister Venus Williams 6β4, 6β4 for her 7th Australian title and record 23rd Grand Slam event singles victory
- Jan 28 US President Donald Trump and Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull have a contentious phone call over deal for US to take 1,250 refugees
- Jan 29 Attack on mosque in Quebec kills 6 and injures 17, shooter is French Canadian student
- Jan 30 Scientists in central China reveal the oldest known human ancestor, a 540-million-year-old Saccorhytus fossil
Jan 31 Philip Glass' Symphony No. 11, premieres with the Bruckner Orchester Linz conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, at Carnegie Hall in NYC
- Jan 31 Romanian government passes emergency decree to release prisoners and decriminalise corruption charges, triggering huge protests in Bucharest
- Jan 31 US President Donald Trump announces he is nominating 49-year-old Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court
- Jan 31 US President Donald Trump fires Attorney General Sally Yates after she instructs Justice Department officials not to defend Trump's travel ban
- Feb 1 British MPs vote in favour of the European Union Bill, allowing the government to begin Brexit
Feb 1 Rex Tillerson confirmed as 69th US Secretary of State
- Feb 5 African Cup of Nations 2017: Cameroon defeat Egypt 2-1 in Libreville
- Feb 5 Heavy metal band Black Sabbath play their last concert in their home town Birmingham, England
- Feb 5 Romanian government scraps corruption degree after 6 days of mass demonstrations
- Feb 6 Qatar Airways achieves the longest-ever scheduled commercial flight when its B777 aircraft lands in Auckland after a 16 hour and 23 minutes flight from Doha; surpassed in 2020
Feb 8 US Senate confirms Jeff Sessions Attorney General, after controversy and protests
- Feb 12 Emergency spillway at Oroville Dam, California threatens to collapse, 180,00 residents ordered to evacuate
- Feb 12 North Korea conducts a solid fuel ballistic missile test from Banghyon air base
Feb 13 Harrison Ford involved in a near miss while flying a plane at John Wayne Airport, Orange County
Feb 13 US President Donald Trump accepts the resignation of national security adviser Michael Flynn over his dealings with Russia
Feb 14 Laureus World Sports Awards, Monte-Carlo Sporting, Monaco: Sportsman: Usain Bolt; Sportswoman: Simone Biles; Team: Chicago Cubs
- Feb 15 The Indian space rocket PSLV-C37 successfully launches 104 satellites in a single flight
- Feb 16 Car bomb in Bayaa, Baghdad kills at least 48, Islamic State claims responsibility. 3rd attack in 3 days
- Feb 16 Suicide attack on shrine of Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, Sehwan, Pakistan kills 72, Islamic State claims responsibility
- Feb 17 Discovery of a new mostly underwater continent, Zealandia, in the South Pacific is announced in the research journal "GSA Today"
- Feb 20 Famine is declared in Unity State, South Sudan, affecting 4.9 million
Feb 21 Alex Puccio completes the first female ascent of Nagual V13 (8B) at Hueco Tanks
- Feb 21 Bodies of 87 African migrants wash ashore at Zawiya, Libya
- Feb 21 Plane crashes into shopping centre in Essendon, Melbourne, Australia killing the five people on board
- Feb 22 Apple's new campus is named Apple Park in Culpertino, California, nicknamed 'the spaceship', designed with Foster + Partners, the first of 12,000 employees to move in, in April [1]
- Feb 22 Discovery of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting star TRAPPIST-1 announced in journal "Nature" raises possibility of alien life
- Feb 22 US President Donald Trump overturns Obama directive on Transgender rights to use toilets
- Feb 25 Tom Perez is elected Chair of the Democratic National Committee
- Feb 26 59th Daytona 500: Kurt Busch wins after Kyle Larson runs out of gas on last lap; Jeffrey Earnhardt makes NASCAR history, 1st ever 4th generation driver to compete in Daytona 500
Feb 26 89th Academy Awards: Best Picture "Moonlight" (after mix-up), Best Director Damien Chazelle, Best Actor Casey Affleck, Best Actress Emma Stone
Feb 26 Margo Hayes becomes the first woman to climb a 9a+ (5.15a) graded route by ascending La Rambla in Siurana, Spain
- Mar 1 Gustav Klimt's painting "Bauerngarten" sells for $59.3m in London
- Mar 2 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from the investigation into Trump campaign contacts with Russia after revelations he met Russian ambassador
- Mar 3 Mass grave of 800 children and infants confirmed at a former Catholic care home in Tuam, Ireland
- Mar 6 US President Donald Trump signs his second executive order barring travelers from 6 mostly-Muslim countries for 90 days but leaves out Iraq
- Mar 7 19 girls killed in a fire at a government-run care center in San JosΓ© Pinula, Guatemala
- Mar 7 Malta's famous landmark the Azure Window collapses into the sea after a storm
- Mar 8 Aboriginal DNA study by the University of Adelaide shows the Aboriginal population dates back 50,000 years from a single migration
- Mar 8 FC Barcelona in a great comeback become 1st team to overturn 4-0 deficit beating St-Germain 6-5 in return game to reach the Champions League quarter finals
Mar 10 South Korean judges uphold parliaments' decision to impeach President Park Geun-hye
- Mar 11 At least 65 killed in landslide at rubbish dump near Addis Ababa, Ethopia
- Mar 12 Irene Sankoff and David Hein's musical drama "Come From Away" opens at Schoenfeld Theatre, NYC
- Mar 14 European Court of Justice rules companies can ban staff from wearing religious symbols, including headscarves
- Mar 14 World's oldest golf club, Muirfield in Scotland, votes to admit women as members for the first time in 273 years
- Mar 15 Disney refuses to cut gay moment in film "Beauty and the Beast" for Malaysian censors, instead pulls film from Malaysia
Mar 15 Dutch elections; Prime Minister Mark Rutte's centre-right VVD party win 33 seats vs against 20 for right wing Geert Wilder's Party of Freedom
- Mar 16 US President Donald Trump's second travel ban is blocked by two federal courts
Mar 17 Live-action remake "Beauty and the Beast" directed by Bill Condon and starring Emma Watson opens
- Mar 20 Indian rivers Yamuna and Ganges are declared "living entities" by a court in the state of Uttarakhand
- Mar 21 Haitian-American singer Wyclef Jean wrongly identified as a suspect, handcuffed and detained by LA county sheriffβs department
- Mar 22 4th World Baseball Classic: United States wins the international tournament with an 8-0 win over Puerto Rico at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California
- Mar 22 Arctic records its lowest ever winter ice cover according to US National Snow and Ice Data Center, 5.5 million square miles
Mar 22 Terrorist attack on London's Westminster Bridge and Houses of Parliament kills 4 including a police officer and injures 40
- Mar 22 Tomb of Jesus reopens after restoration in Jerusalem
- Mar 24 US President Donald Trump and Republican party forced to pull their attempt to repeal Affordable Care Act ('Obamacare') after internal opposition
- Mar 25 Largest banana split ever, at 8,040 meters long, is made in Innisfail, Australia
Mar 26 Anti-corruption protests in Russia result in hundreds arrested including opposition leader Alexei Navalny
- Mar 26 Carrie Lam is first woman elected to lead Hong Kong by Beijing-influenced electoral commission
- Mar 26 Mass protests in Chile over country's privatised pension system
- Mar 28 Britain introduces 1st new pound coin in 30 years with secret security feature inside to stop counterfeiting
- Mar 28 Cyclone Debbie strikes north east Queensland coast as a category 4 storm
- Mar 28 US confirms likely it is behind the air strike in Mosul, Iraq, that led to collapse of a building that killed more than 100 civilians
- Mar 28 US President Donald Trump signs Energy Independence executive order undoing Obama climate-control measures
- Mar 28 World's largest dinosaur footprint, measuring 1.7 meters, is found in Kimberley, Western Australia
Mar 29 Ivanka Trump (35) assumes an unpaid position as Senior Advisor to the President, Donald Trump (her father)
- Mar 29 Man's body found inside a 7m long reticulated python in Sulawesi, Indonesia
Mar 29 UK Prime Minister Theresa May sends a letter to the EU invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, formally triggering Brexit
- Mar 30 Ex-South Korean president Park Geun-hye arrested in corruption investigation
- Mar 30 North Carolina repeals its controversial bathroom law that restricted transgender use
- Mar 30 Venezuela Supreme Court takes over legislative powers of the National Assembly, opposition calls it a coup
- Mar 31 Mudslides caused by heavy rains sweep through Mocoa, Colombia killing more than 200
- Apr 4 Chemical weapons attack on Khan Sheikhoun, Syria by Syrian government forces kills more than 80 civilians
- Apr 4 Pink Star diamond sets world record price of $71 million for a gem at an auction in Hong Kong
Apr 5 Pepsi ad featuring Kendall Jenner pulled after criticized for trivializing demonstrations
Apr 6 Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Florida for talks with US President Donald Trump
- Apr 7 Smurfs: The Lost Village is released in the United States
- Apr 7 Truck driven into a department store in Stockholm, killing 4 in a terror attack
- Apr 7 US President Donald Trump orders missile strike on Syrian airfield after chemical weapons attack on Khan Sheikhoun
- Apr 8 Fifth day of protests by thousands in Caracas, Venezuela against the government
- Apr 9 Suicide car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia kills at least 17, Al-Shabaab group claim responsibility
- Apr 9 Twitter footage of passenger forcibly removed from United Airlines flight in Chicago after flight overbooked causes outrage
- Apr 9 Two Egyptian coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria attacked by suicide bombers leaving at least 44 dead
- Apr 10 "British Vogue" magazine announces Edward Enninful as new editor; first male and Black person to hold position
Apr 10 "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" directed by James Gunn, and starring Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana premieres in Tokyo, Japan
- Apr 10 Alabama Governor Robert Bentley resigns over relationship with an aide and possible misuse of state funds to cover it up
Apr 14 "The Fate of the Furious" directed by F. Gary Gray, starring Vin Diesel and The Rock opens worldwide - highest-grossing weekend at $532 million
Apr 14 Kendrick Lamar releases his fourth studio album "DAMN." (2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music)
- Apr 14 Meethotamulla rubbish dump collapses onto houses in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing 26
- Apr 15 Suicide car bomb targets buses carrying Syrian evacuees at Rashidin, 126 killed including 70 children
Apr 16 Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoΔan wins referendum on 18-article constitutional reform package
Apr 16 World record for gathering of Charlie Chaplin lookalikes - 662 at Manoir de Ban, Chaplin's World in Vevey, Switzerland
- Apr 17 1st living giant shipworm at 3 ft found in the Philippines, really a type of clam
Apr 17 Gary Sinise receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in the television industry, located at 6664 Hollywood Boulevard
- Apr 18 British Prime Minister Teresa May announces she will seek a "snap" election
Apr 18 Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo becomes first player to score 100 goals in the Champions League with a hat-trick in Real Madrid's 4-2 win over Bayern Munich
Apr 23 Adam Ondra sets a new highpoint for the Project indoor sport route in Stockholm, Sweden
Apr 26 "The Handmaid's Tale" debuts on Hulu starring Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes and Yvonne Strahovski, based on the book by Margaret Atwood
- Apr 26 Gift Ngoepe becomes 1st black African to play in Major League Baseball, for the Pittsburgh Pirates
- Apr 27 NFL Draft: Texas A&M defensive end Myles Garrett first pick by Cleveland Browns
Apr 28 Gwyneth Paltrow brand Goop and CondΓ© Nast announce they will be launching a quarterly publication together
- Apr 29 Three tornadoes hit southeast of Dallas, Texas, killing five
May 1 "The Smashing Punpkins" singer Billy Corgan agrees to purchase the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)
- May 1 World Snooker Championship, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Englishman Mark Selby defends title beating John Higgins of Scotland, 18-15; his third world crown
May 5 Anna Wintour, the editor of US Vogue, is made a dame by Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace
- May 6 84 abducted schoolgirls released in exchange for Boko Haram suspects in Nigeria
- May 6 Bus crash in Arusha region, Tanzania kills 35
- May 6 France bans too thin fashion models and makes labeling of digitally enhanced photos mandatory
- May 7 "Baahubali 2: The Conclusion" becomes the highest-grossing Indian box office film ever, earning $120 million
- May 7 MTV becomes the first major awards show to adopt gender-neutral categories, with Emma Watson winning Best Film Actor and Millie Bobby Brown winning Best TV Actor
- May 9 Fossil of Chinese feathered baby dinosaur formally identified as Beibeilong sinensis (baby dragon in Chinese)
- May 9 Jakartaβs Christian governor Ahok jailed for 2 years for blasphemy
- May 9 Moon Jae-in elected President of South Korea after a snap election to replace Park Geun-hye
- May 9 US President Donald Trump dismisses FBI Director James Comey
- May 10 Apple becomes the first company to be worth more than $800 billion
- May 10 US President Donald Trump shares classified information about ISIS plot with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the Oval Office
May 10 USGS releases a report saying that some glaciers in Montana have receded by 85% in the last 50 years
- May 12 Brazil declares end to Zika national emergency as cases decrease
May 12 Former One Direction singer Harry Styles releases his self-titled debut solo album
- May 13 22-year-old UK blogger halts the spread of a global ransomware cyberattack by accidentally identifying a "kill switch"
- May 13 Bus plunges off cliff near Marmaris, Turkey, killing at least 23, injuring 11
May 13 Portuguese children Francisco and Jacinta Marto (died 1919 & 1920 aged 10 & 9 in flu epidemic) canonized by Pope Francis at FΓ‘tima - the youngest Catholic saints not to die as martyrs
- May 15 First US prosecution under federal Hate Crimes Act for violence against a transgender person: the murder of Mercedes Williamson in Mississippi
- May 15 State of Emergency declared in Sanaa, Yemen after outbreak of cholera kills 115
- May 15 UN Security Council condemns North Korea missile test
- May 16 10-year-old girl granted special 20 week abortion request in Rohtak, India in land-mark case
May 17 US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appoints former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate any links between Russia and individuals associated with Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign
- May 20 US President Donald Trump begins his 1st foreign trip arriving in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
May 21 Barnum & Bailey Circus performs for the last time at the Nassau Coliseum in NYC after 146 years [1]
- May 21 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Greystone G&CC: Defending champion Berhard Langer wins by 5 strokes from Scott Parel & Scott McCarron
- May 22 Japanese researchers from University of Yamanashi report birth of mice from freeze-dried sperm stored on the International Space Station
- May 22 South Africa's Western Cape province declares a drought disaster - worst for 113 years
May 22 Suicide bombing at Manchester Arena, England, after Ariana Grande concert kills 22 and injures 59
- May 23 Library of Al-Qarawiyyin, the world's oldest continually operating library, reopens after a major restoration by King Mohammed VI in Fez, Morocco [1]
- May 23 Michael Bay is honored with a hand-and-footprint ceremony at The TCL Chinese Theatre
- May 23 UK raises terror threat level to critical following Manchester bombing
- May 23 US President Donald Trump meets Pope Francis at the Vatican
- May 24 UEFA Europa League won by Manchester United 2-0 against Ajax in Stockholm
May 25 Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg receives an honorary degree from Harvard University, after dropping out in 2004
- May 25 Pitched battles between Islamic State-linked militants and Philippine government troops in and around Marawi, leave 43 dead, with thousands fleeing
- May 26 Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche and Ricky John Best killed, Micah David-Cole Fletcher injured defending Muslim teenager in Portland, Oregon
- May 27 In Bangalore, India, white puffy toxic foam begins spilling out of Varthur Lake onto city streets
- May 28 70th Cannes Film Festival: Swedish film "The Square" directed by Ruben Ostlund wins the Palme d'Or
- May 28 Floods and landslides in Sri Lanka kill at least 151
- May 28 Tom Dumoulin wins the 100th Giro dβItalia in Milan; first Dutchman to win
May 29 Tiger Woods is arrested and charged with driving under the influence in Jupiter, Florida
- May 29 Violent storm and high winds in Moscow, Russia leaves 13 dead
- May 30 Bomb outside government pension office in Baghdad kills 14, injures 34, Islamic State claim respnsibility
- May 30 Car bomb outside ice cream shop in Baghdad kills 17, Islamic State claim responsibility
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