What happened in 2017

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Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber · 16 weeks at #1 in 2017

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1. Jan 7StarboyThe Weeknd Featuring Daft Punk1 wk
2. Jan 14Black BeatlesRae Sremmurd Featuring Gucci Mane1 wk
3. Jan 21Bad And BoujeeMigos Featuring Lil Uzi Vert3 wks
4. Jan 28Shape Of YouEd Sheeran12 wks
5. May 6Humble.Kendrick Lamar1 wk
6. May 13That's What I LikeBruno Mars1 wk
7. May 20I'm The OneDJ Khaled Featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance The Rapper & Lil Wayne1 wk
8. May 27DespacitoLuis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber16 wks
9. Sep 16Look What You Made Me DoTaylor Swift3 wks
10. Oct 7Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)Cardi B3 wks
11. Oct 28RockstarPost Malone Featuring 21 Savage8 wks
12. Dec 23PerfectEd Sheeran2 wks

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1. May 22Twenty-two people are killed at an Ariana Grande concert in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.
2. May 22United States President Donald Trump visits the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall.
3. Jun 5Montenegro becomes the 29th member of NATO.
4. Jul 20O. J. Simpson is granted parole to be released from prison after serving nine years of a 33-year sentence after being convicted of armed robbery in Las Vegas.
5. Aug 25Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004.
6. Sep 10Hurricane Irma made landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida, as a Category 4, after causing catastrophic damage throughout the Caribbean.
7. Oct 1A lone gunman fired more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition from his hotel suite on a crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip, resulting in 60 deaths and 867 injuries.
8. Oct 12The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO. Israel immediately follows.
9. Oct 31An Uzbek immigrant drove a rented truck into cyclists and runners in Lower Manhattan, New York City, killing eight people.
10. Nov 5Devin Patrick Kelley kills 26 and injures 22 in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
11. Nov 21Robert Mugabe formally resigns as President of Zimbabwe, after thirty-seven years in office.
12. Dec 6Under President Donald Trump, the United States government officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
13. Dec 10ISIL is defeated in Iraq.
14. Dec 14The Walt Disney Company announces that it would acquire 21st Century Fox, including the 20th Century Fox movie studio, for $52.4 billion.

Event summaries from Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Each links to its article.

• U.S. President

  Barack Obama → Donald Trump

• UK Prime Minister

  Theresa May

• Prime Minister of Canada

  Justin Trudeau

• President of France

  François Hollande → Emmanuel Macron

• German Chancellor

  Angela Merkel

• Prime Minister of Japan

  Shinzō Abe

• President of Russia

  Vladimir Putin

Everyone who held the office at some point in 2017, from Wikidata.

A selection of the best-documented titles on Wikidata, by first release year; not a box-office ranking.