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- 2017 Brooke Raboutou wins a gold medal in lead climbing at the Pan American Youth Championship in Montreal, Canada
- 2017 Brooke Raboutou wins a gold medal in the combined climbing event at the Pan American Youth Championship in Montreal, Canada
- 2017 Gunman shoots 26 dead and injures 20 at a church in Sunderland Springs, Texas
- 2017 New York City Marathon: Geoffrey Kamworor of Kenya wins men's race in 2:10:53, 3 seconds ahead of Wilson Kipsang; Shalane Flanagan (2:26:53) first American to win women's race since 1977
- 2017 Paradise Papers are leaked; 13.4 million documents from offshore investment firm Appleby, mentioning Queen Elizabeth and Wilbur Ross US Secretary of Commerce
- 2017 Typhoon Damrey strikes Vietnam's south-central coast killing at least 27, leaving others missing
Event of Interest
2017 US President Donald Trump begins a 12-day trip to Asia in Toyko, Japan
- 2018 "Big Brother" reality show has its last episode in the UK on Channel 5, having run since 2000; series revived in 2023
- 2018 BBC opens its largest news bureau outside the UK in Nairobi, Kenya with 300 journalists
- 2018 Child suicide rate in Japan at 30-year high with 250 taking their lives 2016/17 according to Government Ministry
- 2018 More than 80 students and teachers kidnapped from a boarding school in Bamenda, Cameroon
Voyager 2 Spacecraft
2018 NASA's Voyager 2 probe leaves the solar system, becoming the second human-made object to reach interstellar space
Music History
2018 Spice Girls announce a new tour, without "Posh Spice" Victoria Beckham
- 2018 Taskforce set up to identify and punish LGBT people in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Film & TV History
2019 Actress Emma Watson interviewed in Vogue magazine says she is happy to be single "I call it being self-partnered" launching worldwide discussion on the term
COVID-19 Pandemic
2021 NFL Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers admits in interview he is unvaccinated and taking unapproved treatment after testing positive for COVID-19 and in isolation [1]
- 2021 Rashid Khan becomes youngest bowler to take 400 T20 wickets during a match against New Zealand in Dubai
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
2022 37th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo; Duran Duran; Eminem; Eurythmics; Dolly Parton; Lionel Richie; Carly Simon; Judas Priest; Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis; Harry Belafonte; Elizabeth Cotten; Allen Grubman; Jimmy Iovine; and Sylvia Robinson [1]
NHL Record
2022 Alex Ovechkin scores 787th career goal for the Washington Capitals surpassing Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings, for all-time NHL record for most goals scored for a single team, in 3-2 loss to Arizona Coyotes
- 2022 Iranian government acknowledges sending a limited number of military drones to Russia in the months before the invasion of Ukraine [1]
