Last week I put together a collection of some great 2017 reviews. This time I look back at the key moments from 2017 for our last post of the year.
Key moments of 2017
| January | A few days after President Obama delivered his final address, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States |
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| British actor John Hurt died | |
| February | Kim Jong Nam, the brother of the North Korean president was poisened at an airport |
| NASA announce that they have so far found 7 'earth like' planets | |
| March | Floods and mudslides hit Peru killing |
| A number of terrorist attacks hit London with a van hitting pedestrians on Westminister Bridge and the driver then attacking Parliament | |
| April | Chemical attack in Syria |
| Veteran comedian Don Rickles died | |
| Charlie Murphy died after a battle with Lukemia | |
| Bill O'Reilly was fired from his job after it was revealed he had tried to hide claims of sexual assault by settling out of court | |
| May | Boko Haram release 82 girls |
| Ransomware infects the world hitting Britain's NHS | |
| A suicide bomber attacks an Ariana Grande concert, but she returns weeks later to host a benefit concert for the victims | |
| Roger Moore died | |
| June | Terrorists run pedestrians over on London Bridge and proceed to attack people in Borough Market |
| The Conservatives lost their majority in the UK's General Election | |
| Adam West died | |
| Grenfell Tower in London is hit by a fire that spread upwards thanks to the flammable cladding used on the building | |
| July | President Trump bans transgender people from serving in the military |
| August | Jerry Lewis died |
| A Solar Eclipse occurs in the US | |
| September | Apple announce the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X which replaces the home button with a gesture and Touch ID with Face ID which is said to be 20 times more secure |
| NASA's Cassini probe ends its mission by burning up in Saturn's atmosphere | |
| Hurricane Maria hits Puerto Rico | |
| 58 people are shot dead and 546 injured in a Las Vegas terrorist attack | |
| October | Harvey Weinstein is accused of sexual misconduct, leading to the #metoo movement and many other influential and famous people from Hollywood being named and shamed |
| The people of the region of Catalonia vote in favour of independence sparking unrest in the area | |
| November | Donald Trump's Twitter account is disabled for 11 minutes by an outgoing employee |
| An earthquake hits Iran | |
| Charles Manson died | |
| Robert Mugabe resigns as president of Zimbabwe after 37 years in power having effectively ousted by the military | |
| Bitcoin is valued at $10,000, later rising to $17,900 before losing a third of it's value towards the end of December | |
| December | Large wildfires hit California |
| Nasa, with help from Google's AI, have found a star that is circled by 8 planets | |
| Mudslides hit Peru again |
Inevitably I'll have missed a thing or two from the list but with 2018 just days away, it's now time to look forward to the next year... If anything has been missed, let me know @1thingaweeek.
Wishing everyone a very happy Christmas and New Year.
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