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Top Song(s)
• Ed Sheeran - Shape of You
• Taylor Swift - Look What You Made Me Do
• Bruno Mars That's What I Like
• Dua Lipa - New Rules
• Kendrick Lamar - Humble
Top Film(s)
• Blade Runner 2049
• Get Out
• Logan
• Thor: Ragnarok
• Baby Driver
Best Selling Book(s)
• The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
• A Court of Wings and Ruin - Sarah J. Maas
• Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
• A Conjuring of Light - Victoria E. Schwab
• Caraval - Stephanie Garber
Famous Deaths
• January 7 - Mário Soares, 17th President of Portugal (1986-96) and Prime Minister (1976-78 and 1983-85)
• February 8 - Peter Mansfield, British Physician whose discoveries led to MRI (2003 Nobel Prize)
• March 3 - René Preval, President of Haiti (1996-2001, 2006-2011)
• April 8 - Georgy Grechko, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 26, T-14)
• May 12 - Mauno Koivisto, President of Finland (1982-94)
• June 16 - Helmut Kohl, German chancellor (West Germany, 1982-90, unified Germany, 1990-98)
• August 5 - Mark White, American politician, lawyer, and 43rd Governor of Texas
• October 3 - Jalal Talabani, Iraqi-Kurdish politician and President of Iraq (2005-2014)
• November 3 - Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh, 1991-96
• December 5 - Michael I, King of Romania (1927-1930 and 1940-1947)
Medical/Science/Technology
• Researchers report a way of using an Alzheimer's drug to stimulate the renewal of living stem cells in tooth pulp.
• The Chinese government announces plans for the first prototype exascale supercomputer by the end of the year.
• Researchers demonstrate a prototype 3D printer that can print fully functional human skin.
• The genome of the quinoa food crop is decoded by researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.
• A new drug, evolocumab, is shown to prevent heart attacks and strokes by dramatically cutting bad cholesterol.
• Researchers in the U.S. demonstrate an artificial womb-like device on lambs.
• The first synthetic retina using soft biological tissues is created by a student at the University of Oxford.
• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam identifies seven risk genes for insomnia.
• Researchers announce the development of a genetically modified banana with higher levels of vitamin A.
• Analysts at Harvard use the CRISPR gene-editing system to store a GIF animation in the DNA of bacteria.
Political
• January 6 - The 115th United States Congress confirms the Electoral College victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
• January 9 - Eric Holcomb is inaugurated as the 51st governor of Indiana at the State House in Indianapolis.
• January 10 - Outgoing President Barack Obama delivers his farewell speech at McCormick Place in his hometown of Chicago.
• January 20 – Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, and Mike Pence is sworn in as the 48th vice president.
• January 23 - President Donald Trump signs an executive order withdrawing the US from the controversial trade pact, the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
• January 24 - The Trump administration freezes all new research grants and contracts for the Environmental Protection Agency.
• February 3 - The Trump administration enacts new sanctions against 25 entities in Iran in retaliation for their recent ballistic missile test.
• April 5 – President Trump removes his senior strategist Steve Bannon from the National Security Council.
• May 9 - FBI chief James Comey is fired by Trump for mishandling of the Hillary Clinton email controversy.
• June 1 – President Trump announces his intentions to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement.
National
• January 1 – Nevada's ballot initiative legalizing recreational marijuana officially goes into effect.
• February 7 - A tornado impacts New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving approximately 10,000 homes without electricity.
• March 2 – President Trump visits the aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford.
• April 17 - A State Department official warns of a "significant international response" if North Korea were to mount another nuclear test.
• May 12 – 43-year-old Thomas Hartless kills three people, including a police chief, in a shooting attack at Kirkersville, Ohio.
• June 3 – Intelligence specialist Reality Winner is arrested in Texas on suspicion of leaking classified information to journalists.
• July 18 – A Senate GOP bill to repeal and replace large portions of Obamacare fails to win enough support to pass.
• August 5 – A tornado takes place near Tulsa, Oklahoma.
• September 10 – Millions of homes are left without power as the center of Hurricane Irma hits mainland Florida, just south of Naples.
• November 5 - 26-year-old Devin Kelley kills 26 people and injures 20 in a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
Worldwide
• January 30 – Morocco rejoins the African Union.
• February 11 – North Korea prompts international condemnation by test firing a ballistic missile across the Sea of Japan.
• March 29 – The United Kingdom triggers Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.
• April 15 – Emma Morano, an Italian supercentenarian, becomes the last known person born in the 19th century to die.
• June 3 - London Bridge attack: Eight people are murdered and dozens of civilians are wounded by Islamist terrorists.
• July 4 – Russia and China urge North Korea to halt its missile and nuclear programs.
• August 5 - The UN Security Council unanimously approves fresh sanctions on North Korean trade and investment.
• September 1 – Russian President Vladimir Putin expels 755 diplomats in response to United States sanctions.
• October 14 – A massive blast caused by a truck bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia kills at least 587 people and injures 316 others.
• November 24 – A mosque attack in Sinai, Egypt kills 305 worshippers and leaves hundreds more wounded.