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Top Song(s)
• Drake - God's Plan
• Ed Sheeran - Perfect
• Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next
• Ava Max - Sweet but Psycho
• Childish Gambino - This Is America
Top Film(s)
• Avengers: Infinity War
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Mission: Impossible - Fallout
• Hereditary
• The Favourite
Best Selling Book(s)
• Circe - Madeline Miller
• The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah
• Educated - Tara Westover
• Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
• The Cruel Prince - Holly Black
Famous Deaths
• January 18 - Lucas Mangope, 1st president of Bophuthatswana (1977-94)
• February 2 - Dave Barrett, 26th Premier of British Columbia (1972-75)
• March 14 - Stephen Hawking, English physicist
• April 3 - David Edgerton, American entrepreneur and founder of Burger King
• May 26 - Alan Bean, American Naval captain and astronaut (Ap 12, Skylab 3, 4th to walk on the moon)
• June 23 - Kim Jong-pil, South Korean Prime Minister (1971-75, 1998-2000)
• August 6 - Paul Laxalt, American politician (22nd Governor of Nevada)
• September 15 - Jeff Lowe, American mountain climber (co-founder Lowe Alpine)
• October 20 - Ina Muller-van Ast, Dutch politician (PvdA - House of Representatives, 1977-89)
• November 22 - Carrie Saxon Perry, 1st African-American mayor of a major US city (Hartford)
Medical/Science/Technology
• MIT researchers devise a new method to create stronger and more resilient nanofibers.
• Engineers announce the creation of a memory storage device only one atomic layer thick; a so-called 'atomristor'.
• Researchers report developing a blood test (or liquid biopsy) that can detect eight common cancer tumors early.
• Uber suspends all of its self-driving cars worldwide after a woman is killed by one of the vehicles in Arizona.
• Odilorhabdins, a novel class of naturally-produced antibiotics, is formally described.
• Scientists identify 44 gene variants linked to increased risk for depression.
• The Genome Project-Write announces a new 10 year initiative to attempt to make human cells immune to viral infections.
• Scientists warn that banned CFC-11 gas emissions are originating from an unknown source somewhere in East Asia.
• The first 3D printed human corneas are created at Newcastle University.
• Artificial intelligence is used to demonstrate a link between personality type and eye movements.
Political
• January 20 – Senate Democrats block a bill that would have kept the government running until mid-February.
• January 24 - President Trump attends the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland.
• January 30 – President Trump gives his first official State of the Union Address.
• February 23 - President Trump announces a plan for the largest ever package of sanctions against North Korea.
• March 1 – President Trump announces tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum imports.
• April 6 – The Trump administration imposes sanctions on seven Russian oligarchs and 17 senior government officials.
• April 26 - CIA Director Mike Pompeo is confirmed as Secretary of State by the Senate.
• May 4 - The Trump administration announces an end to the special Temporary Protected Status program for 57,000 Hondurans.
• June 8–9 At the G7 summit in Canada, President Trump pushes for the reinstatement of the G8 (to include Russia).
• June 26 – The Supreme Court upholds President Trump's travel ban in a 5–4 decision.
National
• January 6 – The 2017–18 United States flu season causes dozens of deaths.
• February 14 – A mass shooting occurs at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, resulting in 17 fatalities.
• March 15 – A pedestrian bridge collapses at Florida International University, resulting in 6 fatalities.
• May 2 - The state of Iowa approves the so-called "heartbeat" bill, banning most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected.
• June 17 – A shooting at an all-night arts festival in Trenton, New Jersey, leaves one person dead and seventeen people injured.
• August 2 - The U.S. Department of Commerce proceeds with applying revised tariffs on Canadian newsprint.
• September 8 – The Cortlandt Street subway station reopens in Lower Manhattan, 17 years after it was destroyed by the 9/11 attacks.
• October 9 – America's ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, a senior Trump cabinet member, resigns unexpectedly.
• November 6 - Michigan becomes the tenth state to legalize recreational marijuana.
• December 14 - Federal judge Reed O'Connor rules that the health insurance mandate component of the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional.
Worldwide
• January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of South Sudan.
• February 9–25 – The 2018 Winter Olympics are held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
• March 12 – Flight BS211 crashes and bursts into flames at Tribhuvan International Airport, Nepal, killing 51 of the 71 people aboard.
• April 11 – 257 people are killed after an Ilyushin Il-76 belonging to the Algerian Air Force crashes near Algiers.
• May 27 – The first round of voting of the 2018 Colombian presidential election is held.
• June 3 - At least 109 people are killed and hundreds wounded by the eruption of Vulcan de Fuego,Guatemala.
• July 10 – Twelve boys and their football coach are successfully rescued from the flooded Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Thailand.
• August 1 – The 2018 Kivu Ebola outbreak begins in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• September 28 – A magnitude 7.5 earthquake hits Sulawesi, Indonesia, causing a tsunami that kills at least 4,340 people.
• October 17 – A school shooting and bomb attack in Kerch, Crimea, kills 20 people and injures 70 others.