2017

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Events edit

January 1 - Istanbul nightclub shooting
January 3 - 2017 Chicago torture incident
January 18 - Federico Guevara Elizondo commits a school shooting at the Northeastern American College.
January 19 - Yahya Jammeh is finally forced from power in the Gambia following interventions from other neighboring countries, allowing Adama Barrow to finally take office.
January 20 - Donald Trump officially takes office as the 45th President of the United States.
January 28 - Tahrir al-Sham is founded via a merger of several other jihadist organizations, including Al-Nusra Front.
January 29 - Quebec City mosque shooting
February 1 - Antifa protesters attend an event featuring right-wing activist Milo Yiannopolous at the University of California, Berkeley, causing widespread property damage and eventually forcing the event to be canceled.
February 13 - Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of Kim Jong-un, is assassinated, possibly on Jong-un's orders.
March 10 - Park Geun-Hye is removed as President of South Korea.
March 31 - Park Geun-Hye is arrested and charged with abuse of power, coercion, bribery and leaking government secrets.
May 22 - The Manchester Arena bombing is perpetrated by Salman Abedi.
May 23 - Abu Sayyaf and allied jihadist groups begin the Battle of Marawi.
May 26 - 2017 Portland train attack
June - The Communist Party of China begins establishing re-education centers for Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang autonomous region.
June 7 - The Islamic State attacks the Iranian Parliament building and the Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, both in Tehran, Iran, leaving 17 civilians dead and 43 wounded.
June 8 - Eaton Township Weis Markets shooting
June 14 - Grenfell Tower fire
June 27 - FARC officially disarms and dissolves.
June 30 - Bronx-Lebanon Hospital attack
August 12 - The Unite the Right rally takes place. Following the rally, James Alex Fields Jr. injures 19 and kills 1 in a vehicular assault.
August 22 - Jonathan Schmitz is released from prison.
September 9 - Beginning of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon.
September 13 - Freeman High School shooting
September 24 - Burnette Chapel shooting
September 25 - José Eduardo dos Santos steps down as President of Angola.
September 30 - Abdulahi Hasan Sharif rammed into Edmonton police constable Mike Chernyk with a car and later stab him, resulting Chernyk injured then later on he stole a rental truck and struck four pedestrians and left them all injured during a police chase.
October 1 - Stephen Paddock commits the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, killing 58 people and injuring 869 others before committing suicide.
October 14 - Al-Shabaab perpetrates two truck bombings in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing 587 people and injuring 316 others. The attack is the deadliest in Somalian history.
October 23 - The Battle of Marawi ends.
October 31 - 2017 New York City truck attack
November 5 - Devin Patrick Kelley commits the Sutherland Springs Church shooting, killing 26 people (one being an unborn child) and injures 20 others. Kelley later committed suicide after he lost control of his car and crashed during a high-speed chase.
November 13 to 14 - Rancho Tehama Reserve shootings
November 21 - Robert Mugabe is ousted as President of Zimbabwe by members of his own party, ZANU-PF. He is subsequently replaced by Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
November 22 - The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) finds Ratko Mladić guilty of ten charges (one of genocide, five of crimes against humanity and four of violations of the laws or customs of war) and sentences him to life in prison.
December 4 - Former President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh is assassinated at his home in Sana'a by Houthi forces.
December 7 - Aztec High School shooting
December 13 - Isauro Aguirre is found guilty of first-degree murder and torture in regards to the 2013 death of his stepson, Gabriel Fernandez, and is sentenced to death.
December 27 - Alberto Fujimori is pardoned.
Unknown - Derek Chauvin places his knee on a 14-year-old boy, almost killing him and leading to his notoriety, but thankfully the victim survives.

Deaths edit

Villain deaths edit

January - Ahmad Abousamra
January 1 - Abu Omar al-Turkistani
January 15 - Jimmy Snuka
January 18 - Federico Guevara Elizondo
February 18 - Omar Abdel Rahman
April 16 - Arcan Cetin
April 19 - Aaron Hernandez
April 20 - Karim Cheurfi
May 22 - Salman Abedi
May 29 - Manuel Noriega
June 8 - Randy Stair
June 22 - Armand Nicholi Jr
June 30 - Dr. Henry Bello
August 5 - Ernst Zündel
August 10 or 11 - Johnny Paul Koroma
September 21 - Juozas Kuolelis
October 1 - Stephen Paddock
October 5 - Damião Soares dos Santos
October 16 - Isnilon Hapilon & Omar Maute
November 5 - Devin Patrick Kelley
November 14 - Kevin Janson Neal
November 17 - Salvatore Riina
November 19 - Charles Manson
November 29 - Slobodan Praljak
December 4 - Ali Abdullah Saleh
December 7 - William Atchison
December 10 - Max Clifford
Unknown - Emanuel Morre

Victim deaths edit

January 29 - Victims of the Quebec City Mosque Shooting:
- Ibrahima Barry
- Mamadou Tanou Barry
- Khaled Belkacemi
- Aboubaker Thabti
- Abdelkrim Hassane
- Azzedine Soufiane
February 13 - Kim Jong-nam
May 22 - Victims of the Manchester Arena Bombing:
- Saffie-Rose Roussos
- Nell Jones
- Sorrell Leczkowski
- Eilidh MacLeod
- Megan Hurley
- Olivia Campbell-Hardy
- Chloe Rutherford
- Liam Curry
- Georgina Callander
- Courtney Boyle
- John Atkinson
- Martyn Hett
- Philip Tron
- Kelly Brewster
- Elaine McIver
- Angelika Klis
- Marcin Klis
- Alison Howe
- Lisa Lees
- Michelle Kiss
- Wendy Fawell
- Jane Tweddle
May 26 - Ricky John Best and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche
June 8 - Victims of the Eaton Township Weis Markets Shooting:
- Victoria Brong
- Brian Hayes
- Terry Sterling
June 9 - Yingying Zhang
June 19 - Otto Warmbier
August 12 - Heather Heyer
August 16 - Kian delos Santos
September 13 - Sam Strahan
September 24 - Melanie Crow
September 28 - Antonio DiStasio
October 1 - Victims of the 2017 Las Vegas Shooting:
- Hannah Ahlers
- Heather Alvarado
- Dorene Anderson
- Carrie Barnette
- Jack Beaton
- Steven Bergerv
- Candice Bowers
- Denise Burditus
- Sandy Casey
- Andrea Castilla
- Denise Cohen
- Austin Davis
- Thomas Day, Jr.
- Christiana Duarte
- Stacee Etcheber
- Brian Fraser
- Keri Galvan
- Dana Gardner
- Angela Gomez
- Rocio Guillen Rocha
- Charleston Hartfield
- Chris Hazencomb
- Jennifer Topaz Irvine
- Teresa Nicol Kimura
- Jessica Klymchuk
- Carly Kreibaum
- Rhonda LeRocque
- Victor Link
- Jordan McIldoon
- Kelsey Meadows
- Calla-Marie Medig
- James Melton
- Patricia Mestas
- Austin Meyer
- Adrian Murfitt
- Rachael Parker
- Jenny Parks
- Carrie Parson
- Lisa Patterson
- John Phippen
- Melissa Ramirez
- Jordyn Rivera
- Quinton Robbins
- Cameron Robinson
- Tara Roe
- Lisa Romero-Muniz
- Chris Roybal
- Brett Schwanbeck
- Bailey Schweitzer
- Laura Shipp
- Erick Silva
- Susan Smith
- Brennan Stewart
- Derrick Taylor
- Michelle Vo
- Kurt Von Tillow
- Bill Wolfe
- Neysa Tonks
November - Sydney Loofe
November 5 - Victims of the Sutherland Springs Church Shooting:
- Keith Braden
- Robert Corrigan
- Shani Corrigan
- Emily Garcia
- Emily Hill
- Megan Hill
- Gregory Hill
- Crystal Holcombe
- John Bryan Holcombe
- Karla Holcombe
- Marc Holcombe
- Noah Holcombe
- Haley Krueger
- Karen Marshall
- Robert Marshall
- Tara McNulty
- Annabelle Pomeroy
- Therese Rodriguez
- Ricardo Rodriguez
- Brooke Ward
- Joann Ward
- Peggy Warden
- Lula White
- Unborn Baby
November 13 to 14 - Victims of the Rancho Tehama Reserve Shooting:
- Barbara Glisan
- Danny Elliott
- Diana Steele
- Joseph McHugh III
- Michelle McFadyen
November 26 - Hakeem Hussain
November 27 - Mariah Woods
December 7 - Victims of the Aztec High School Shooting:
- Casey Marquez
- Francisco Fernandez