Editing 2017

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== Events ==
* January 1 - [[Abdulkadir Masharipov|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 - [[Alexandre Bissonnette|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 - [[Jeremy Joseph Christian|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 - [[Randy Stair|Eaton Township Weis Markets shooting]]
* June 14 - [[Grenfell Tower fire]]
* June 27 - [[FARC]] officially disarms and dissolves.
* June 30 - [[Dr. Henry Bello|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 - [[Caleb Sharpe|Freeman High School shooting]]
* September 24 - [[Emanuel Samson|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 - [[Sayfullo Saipov|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 - [[Kevin Janson Neal|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 [[Houthis|Houthi]] forces.
* December 7 - [[William Atchison|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 ==

=== Villain deaths ===
*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 ===
*January 29 - Victims of the [[Alexandre Bissonnette|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 [[Salman Abedi|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 [[Randy Stair|Eaton Township Weis Markets Shooting]]:
**Victoria Brong
**Brian Hayes
**Terry Sterling
*June 9 - Yingying Zhang
*June 19 - Otto Warmbier
*August 12 - [https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/Heather_Heyer Heather Heyer]
*August 16 - Kian delos Santos
*September 13 - [[Caleb Sharpe|Sam Strahan]]
*September 24 - [[Emanuel Samson|Melanie Crow]]
*September 28 - Antonio DiStasio 
*October 1 - Victims of the [[Stephen Paddock|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 [[Devin Patrick Kelley|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 [[Kevin Janson Neal|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 [[William Atchison|Aztec High School Shooting]]:
**Casey Marquez
**Francisco Fernandez