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39 people are killed in an attack on the Reina nightclub in Istanbul on 1st January.
Matilda The Musical closes on Broadway on 1st January after 1,554 performances.
On Friday, 6th January five people are killed and six injured when an Iraq war veteran, Esteban Santiago, opens fire in the baggage claim area of Terminal 2 at Fort Lauderdale Airport, Florida.
Peter Sarstedt, best known for his 1969 number one hit Where Do You Go To (My Lovely), dies on 8th January, aged 75.
On 9th January Martin McGuinness resigns as Northern Ireland's deputy first minister.
Rockabilly guitarist Tommy Allsup, who lost a coin toss for a seat on the plane that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper, dies on 11th January, aged 85.
The society photographer Lord Snowdon, Princess Margaret's former husband, dies on Friday, 13th January, aged 86.
The Broadway production of Jersey Boys closes on 15th January; the London production closes on 26th March.
On Wednesday, 18th January, after several earthquakes and heavy snowfall, an avalanche engulfs the Hotel Rigopiano in the province of Pescara, in Southern Italy's Abruzzo region, killing 29 people and injuring 11 others.
Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th president of the USA on 20th January.
On the same day 16 people are killed when a bus full of secondary school students and their teachers, who were returning to Budapest from a skiing trip in France, crashes into a highway barrier near Verona and bursts into flames.
Gorden Kaye, who starred as café owner Rene Artois in the classic 1980s BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!, dies on Monday, 23rd January, aged 75.
Mary Tyler Moore, who rose to fame in the 1960s sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show, dies on Wednesday, 25th January, aged 80.
Sir John Hurt, known for his many film roles (Midnight Express, Alien, The Elephant Man and Mr. Ollivander in the Harry Potter films), dies on the same day, aged 77.
On 27th January US President Donald Trump issues a directive suspending all refugee admissions to the USA for 120 days and suspending entry for refugees from Syria indefinitely. The executive order also halts the issuing of visas to visitors from six other mainly Muslim countries. On 30th January he dismisses Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who questioned the legality of his immigration directive.
Six people are shot dead and eight wounded on Sunday, 29th January when a gunmen opens fire on people attending evening prayers at the Islamic Cultural Centre in Quebec City.

On 3rd February a soldier guarding the Louvre Museum shoots and injures Abdullah Hamamy, a 29-year-old Egyptian wielding two machetes.
On the same day Judge James Robart, a federal judge in Washington state, grants a temporary restraining order against President Donald Trump's executive order on travel and immigration.
On 8th February Russia's main opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, is found guilty of embezzlement and given a five-year suspended sentence. The verdict prevents him from standing against Vladimir Putin in the 2018 presidential election.
North Korea test-fires a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan on Sunday, 12th February. The missile test coincides with a visit to the United States by Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, is poisoned on 13th February as he waits to board a flight in Kuala Lumpur.
Michael Flynn, the US National Security Adviser appointed by Donald Trump, resigns on the same day over allegations that he discussed US sanctions with Russia before Donald Trump took office.
Following a referendum held on 20th February the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh adopts a new constitution and a new name - the Republic of Artsakh.
Elor Azaria, an Israeli soldier who on 24th March 2016 killed a disarmed and wounded Palestinian, Abdul Fatah al-Sharif, in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, is sentenced to 18 months in jail by a military court on Tuesday, 21st February.
On 22nd February Ian Stewart is sentenced at St. Albans Crown Court to 34 years in jail for the murder of his partner, the children's author Helen Bailey.
Moonlight wins the Oscar for Best Film at the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, 26th February - but only after the award had been presented by mistake to the producers of La La Land. Instead of being handed the envelope containing the results for best film, presenter Warren Beatty was given the back-up envelope for actress in a leading role. Confused by the envelope's contents co-presenter Faye Dunaway then announced the wrong winner.

In the UK penalties for drivers using a phone at the wheel double from 1st March to six points and a £200 fine.
On 2nd March Sweden's Defence Minister, Peter Hultqvist, announces that Sweden will re-introduce military conscription from 1st January 2018.
On Monday, 6th March North Korea test-launches four ballistic missiles towards the Sea of Japan.
The next day the USA begins to deploy its controversial Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system (THAAD), a system designed to protect South Korea, and US troops based there, from North Korean missile attacks.
Four Islamic State terrorists dressed as doctors storm a military hospital in Kabul on 8th March, killing more than 30 people and wounding more than 70 others.
The abstract painter and printmaker Sir Howard Hodgkin dies on Thursday, 9th March, aged 84.
John Surtees, the four-time 500cc motorcycle World Champion, who also won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1964, dies on 10th March, aged 83.
On the same day South Korea's President Park Geun-hye becomes the country’s first democratically elected president to be forced from office, after judges in the constitutional court uphold a parliamentary vote to impeach her. Two people die in protests after the ruling.
On 11th March, following similar action by Austria and Germany, Dutch authorities withdraw the Turkish Foreign Minister's permission to visit. Another Turkish minister is prevented from entering the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam and a Turkish referendum rally is banned. Turkish President Recep Erdogan responds by labeling the Dutch government "Nazi remnants and fascists".
In the general elections held in the Netherlands on Wednesday, 15th March the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) led by Prime Minister Mark Rutte retains its position as largest party. The anti-immigration Party for Freedom (PVV) led by Geert Wilders finishes in second place on 20 seats, a gain of five.
On the same day Federal judges in Hawaii and Maryland block US President Donald Trump's second executive order banning travel from six majority-Muslim countries. The new travel ban had been due to come into effect on Thursday,16th March at 12.01am EST.
On 16th March the UK Electoral Commission announces that the Conservative Party had been fined £70,000 following an investigation into election campaign expenses. The investigation found that the party had failed to declare a total of £275,813 in campaign spending.
Chuck Berry, whose hits included Sweet Little Sixteen, Memphis Tennessee and No Particular Place To Go, dies on Saturday, 18th March, aged 90.
The former IRA leader Martin McGuinness, who had resigned as Northern Ireland's deputy first minister in January, dies on 21st March, aged 66.
On 22nd March a man (Khalid Masood) drives into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, then stabs to death a policeman (PC Keith Palmer) outside Parliament, before being shot dead himself. Two pedestrians are killed in the attack with at least 50 injured. A 75-year-old man, Leslie Rhodes from Clapham, dies from his injuries the next day. A Romanian woman, Andreea Cristea, who fell from Westminster Bridge into the River Thames, dies more than two weeks later.
The UK Prime Minister Theresa May gives official notification that the UK is leaving the European Union, triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty in a letter signed on Tuesday, 28th March. The letter is handed to the European Council's president Donald Tusk the following day.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is jailed for 15 days for resisting police orders during mass protests on Sunday, 26th March. He is also fined 20,000 roubles ($350) for organising the banned protests.

On Saturday, 1st April landslides hit the town of Mocoa in south-west Colombia, killing at least 262 people.
On Monday, 3rd April 14 people are killed and 49 injured when a bomb explodes on an underground train traveling between two metro stations in the centre of St. Petersburg.
On 4th April chemical weapons are used in an aerial attack on Khan Sheikhoun in north-west Syria. At least 89 people, including 33 children are killed. The USA responds by launching a missile strike against a Syrian air base from two US Navy ships in the Mediterranean. Syria's President Bashar-al Assad says the reports of a chemical weapons attack by his forces are "100% fabricated".
On Friday, 7th April a hijacked lorry is deliberately driven into the front window of the Ahlens department store in central Stockholm, killing at least four people.
The Basque separatist group ETA disarms on Saturday, 8th April, handing over an inventory of weapons and their locations at a ceremony in the southern French city of Bayonne.
Broadcaster Brian Matthew dies on 8th April, aged 88.
Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi announces a three-month state of emergency on 9th April (Palm Sunday), after attacks on two Coptic churches.
On 13th April the USA drops the "mother of all bombs" (a 9,800kg Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb) on IS tunnels in the Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, killing 36 IS militants and destroying their base.
In the referendum held in Turkey on 16th April the electorate votes by 51.36% to 48.64% to replace the parliamentary system with an executive presidency.
On 18th April the Prime Minister Theresa May announces plans to call a snap general election in the UK on 8th June.
On 20th April an armed man opens fire on a police van on the Champs-Elysees. One policeman is shot dead and two others wounded. Their attacker is killed by security forces as he flees the scene.

Emmanuel Macron wins the French presidential election held on 7th May, defeating far-right candidate Marine Le Pen by 65.5% to 34.5%.
On Tuesday, 9th May US President Donald Trump fires FBI Director James Comey.
Moon Jae-in is sworn in President of South Korea on 10th May, following his victory in the presidential election held on the previous day.
On 12th May the National Health Service (NHS) in England and Scotland is one of many organisations in 99 countries affected by a massive ransomware cyber-attack.
On 13th May Portugal, represented by Salvador Sobral singing the ballad Amar Pelos Dois, wins the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in the competition's history.
Ian Brady. who was jailed in 1966 for the notorious 'Moors Murders', dies on 15th May, aged 79.
Singer Chris Cornell commits suicide on Wednesday, 17th May, shortly after playing a concert with Soundgarden in Detroit.
At a press briefing on Friday, 19th May Sweden's top prosecutor Marianne Ny announces that the rape investigation against Julian Assange is to be dropped.
Hassan Rouhani is re-elected President of Iran in the election held on 19th May, winning 57% of the votes cast.
Twenty-two people are killed and 116 injured in a suicide bomb attack at Manchester Arena on Monday, 22nd May, following a pop concert by the US singer Ariana Grande.
Former MotoGP champion Nicky Hayden dies on the same day, aged 35, five days after being involved in a crash while cycling in Italy.
Sir Roger Moore, best known for his starring role in seven James Bond films, dies of cancer on 23rd May, aged 89.
On 26th May gunmen open fire on a bus carrying Coptic Christians to the Monastery of St. Samuel the Confessor in the Minya province of Egypt, killing at least 26 people and wounding 25 others.
On Saturday, 27th May British Airways cancels all flights from Heathrow and Gatwick airports amid global problems with its IT systems.
Gregg Allman, a founding member of the Allman Brothers Band, dies on 27th May, aged 69.
Former Blue Peter presenter John Noakes dies on 28th May, aged 83.
Manuel Noriega, military dictator of Panama from 1983 to 1989, dies on 29th May, aged 83.

Roy Barraclough, who played Alec Gilroy in Coronation Street, dies on 1st June, aged 81.
On the same day US President Donald Trump announces his decision to withdraw the USA from the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
Peter Sallis, who played Norman "Cleggy" Clegg in Last Of The Summer Wine and who was also the voice of Wallace in the Wallace and Gromit films, dies on 2nd June, aged 96.
On Saturday, 3rd June eight people are killed when three men wearing fake suicide vests and armed with knives drive a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and then stab people in Borough Market.
Several Arab countries (Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Yemen, Libya's eastern-based government and the Maldives) cut diplomatic ties with Qatar on Monday, 5th June.
Thirteen people are killed on 7th June when gunmen and suicide bombers target Iran's parliament and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini.
On 8th June the Scottish Episcopal Church votes to allow gay couples to marry in church.
The general election held in the UK on 8th June ends in a hung parliament. Prime Minister Theresa May forms a government with the support of the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland.
Shortly before 1.00am on Wednesday, 14th June a fire breaks out in Grenfell Tower, a 24-storey apartment block in North Kensington. 71 people are killed in the blaze.
On Wednesday evening in New York David Israelite, president and CEO of the National Music Publishers' Association, announces that Yoko Ono is to be given a writing credit on John Lennon's Imagine, 48 years after its release.
On the same day Leo Varadkar becomes the the Republic of Ireland's youngest and first openly gay taoiseach.
Helmut Kohl, the Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998, dies on 16th June, aged 87.
The Queen’s Birthday Honours Lists published on 16th June include a Knighthood for Billy Connolly and MBEs for Emeli Sande and Ed Sheeran. Olivia de Havilland, Julie Walters and June Whitfield are all made dames. Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Terence Conran, Delia Smith and JK Rowling become companions of honour.
On 17th June Judge Steven O'Neill declares a mistrial in the sexual assault case against Bill Cosby after the jury in Norristown, Pennsylvania is unable to reach a unanimous verdict.
Fires break out in the forested region of Pedrógão Grande in central Portugal on 17th June.
On Monday, 19th January, just after midnight, a man dies and ten people are injured when a van is deliberately driven into worshippers outside the Muslim Welfare House in Finsbury Park, north London.
On 25th June 148 people are killed when an overturned oil tanker bursts into flames near the Pakistani city of Ahmedpur East.
On 26th June the US Supreme Court upholds the introduction of a temporary travel ban preventing people from six mainly Muslim nations, including refugees, from entering the USA unless they have a "credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity" in the country. The ban comes into force on Thursday, 29th June.
On 27th June the European Commission fines Google 2.42bn euros for illegally favouring its own shopping service.
The best-selling children's author and creator of Paddington Bear, Michael Bond, dies at his home on 27th June after a short illness, aged 91.
On 30th June the lower house of the German Parliament votes to legalize same-sex marriage.
Film critic Barry Norman dies on 30th June, aged 83.

The children’s television actor Carol Lee Scott, best known as Grotbags the witch, dies on 3rd July, aged 74.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrives in Mosul on Sunday, 9th July to congratulate Iraqi forces on their victory over IS.
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is convicted of corruption charges on Wednesday, 12th July and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison.
Thousands of people line the streets of Blackhall, County Durham, on 14th July for the funeral of Bradley Lowery, a six-year-old Sunderland fan whose battle against the rare childhood cancer neuroblastoma captured hearts around the world.
General Pierre de Villiers, the head of the French armed forces, quits on Wednesday, 19th July after a clash with President Emmanuel Macron over budget cuts.
Sir Vince Cable, who was the only candidate on the ballot paper when nominations closed, becomes the new leader of the Liberal Democrats on 20th July. At the age of 74 he is the oldest person to lead a British political party since Sir Winston Churchill.
The dead body of Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington is discovered at a private home in LA County at 9.00am local time (5.00pm GMT) on 20th July.
On Friday, 21st July a 6.7-magnitude earthquake strikes in the Aegean Sea. At least two people are killed on the Greek island of Kos, both tourists, and 100 more injured.
The US actor and playwright Sam Shepherd dies on 27th July, aged 73.
On Friday, 28th July Pakistan's Supreme Court disqualifies Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from holding public office following an investigation into corruption allegations arising from the 2015 Panama Papers leak.
Charlie Gard, the baby whose parents fought a lengthy legal battle with Great Ormond Street Hospital to allow him to be taken to the US for treatment, dies on 28th July.
Jeanne Moreau, whose film appearances included roles in Jules et Jim, Moderato Cantabile and Viva Maria!, dies on 31st July, aged 89.

The actor Robert Hardy, known for playing the senior veterinary surgeon Siegfried Farnon in the long-running TV series All Creatures Great And Small and for his role as Cornelius Fudge, the Minister of Magic in the Harry Potter films, dies on 3rd August, aged 91.
Glen Campbell, whose hits included Wichita Lineman, Galveston, Rhinestone Cowboy and Southern Nights, dies on 8th August, aged 81.
Broadway star Barbara Cook dies on the same day, aged 89.
On 9th August 17 men and one woman are convicted of grooming and abusing vulnerable girls and young women across Newcastle.
A woman is killed and 19 people are injured in Charlottesville, Virginia on 12th August when a car rams a crowd of people opposing an "alt-right" rally. 15 are wounded in other violence and two police officers are killed when a Virginia State Police helicopter being used to monitor the unrest crashes in woodland south-west of the city.
On Monday, 14th August at least 400 people are killed in a mudslide near the capital of Sierra Leone, Freetown.
On the same day Taylor Swift is awarded a symbolic $1 in damages after winning a civil case against former KYGO DJ David Mueller. A Jury in Denver upholds Swift's claim that he had groped her during a pre-concert photo opportunity in 2013.
Thirteen people are killed and more than 100 others injured when a rented van is driven at speed into pedestrians on Las Ramblas, Barcelona on Thursday, 17th August. Following a second vehicle attack in Cambrils early on Friday, police shoot and kill five suspected terrorists. Younes Abouyaaqoub, the driver of the van, is cornered and shot dead by police 25 miles (40km) west of Barcelona on Monday, 21st August.
Sir Bruce Forsyth, famous for hosting the television shows The Generation Game, Play Your Cards Right, The Price Is Right and Strictly Come Dancing, dies on Friday, 18th August, aged 89.
On the same day a Moroccan asylum seeker, Abderrahman Bouanane, stabs two women to death and injures six others in the Finnish city of Turku. Two men who try to protect the women are also injured.
Comedian Jerry Lewis dies at his home in Las Vegas on 20th August, aged 91.
Big Ben's chimes sound for the last time at midday on 21st August to allow maintenance work to take place on the clock and surrounding tower.
On Friday, 25th August Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, a popular religious leader in north India, is convicted of raping two women at the headquarters of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect in 2002. At least 30 people are killed during protests after the ruling.
Hurricane Harvey hits Texas north-east of the city of Corpus Christi late on Friday, 25th August.
On the same day Rohingya militants armed with knives and home-made bombs attack more than 30 police posts in northern Rakhine, killing 12 members of Myanmar's security forces. Hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya flee to Bangladesh, as violence erupts in Rakhine state.
On Tuesday, 29th August North Korea fires a missile over northern Japan, prompting unanimous condemnation from the members of the UN Security Council.

Walter Becker, co-founder of Steely Dan with Donald Fagen, dies on 3rd September, aged 67.
On the same day North Korea carries out its sixth nuclear test.
An 8.1-magnitude earthquake strikes off the southern coast of Mexico at 11.49pm on Thursday, 7th September, causing the deaths of at least 98 people. A second 7.1-magnitude earthquake strikes south of the city of Puebla in central Mexico on 19th September. 370 people are killed and more than 6,000 injured.
Country singer Don Williams dies of emphysema on 8th September, aged 78.
Manchester Arena re-opens on 9th September with a fund-raising concert headlined by ex-Oasis star Noel Gallagher.
Hurricane Irma hits Florida on Sunday, 10th September, knocking out the power supply to more than 6.5 million homes - two-thirds of the state. Irma had already caused widespread destruction on several Caribbean islands including Barbuda, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Anguilla and the Virgin Islands.
Sir Peter Hall, the founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company and former director of the National Theatre, dies on 11th September, aged 86.
On Friday, 15th September at 8:20am a home-made bomb in a bucket partially detonates on a District Line tube from Wimbledon as it arrives at Parsons Green station during the morning rush hour. Thirty people are injured. In March 2018 the bomber, Ahmed Hassan, is convicted of attempted murder and ordered to serve a minimum of 34 years in jail.
Harry Dean Stanton dies on Friday, 15th October, aged 91. The Kentucky-born actor had more than 100 film credits, including Alien, Cool Hand Luke and Pretty In Pink.
On 22nd September Transport for London (TfL) rules that Uber is not a “fit and proper” private car-hire operator and announces that the company's licence would not be renewed when it expired on 30th September. On 13th October Uber files papers with Westminster magistrates court in an attempt to reverse the ruling.
The actress Liz Dawn, who played Vera Duckworth in Coronation Street for 34 years, dies on Monday, 25th September, aged 77.
The Christian Democrat Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) bloc led by Chancellor Angela Merkel wins 33% of the votes in the federal elections held in Germany on Sunday, 24 September but loses 65 seats in the Bundestag. The right-wing nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) wins seats in the Bundestag for the first time.
In a referendum held on Monday, 25th September in the Kurdish region of Iraq and areas "outside the region's administration" 2,861,000 people vote "yes" to independence and 224,000 vote "no".
Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy magazine, dies on 27th September, aged 91.

A referendum on independence from Spain, which had been declared illegal by Spain's Constitutional Court, is held in Catalonia on 1st October. Hundreds are injured as Spanish police use force to prevent people from voting. There is a low turnout (only 43%) but 90% of those voting are in favour of independence.
On the same day a gunman (Stephen Paddock) opens fire on concert-goers attending the open-air Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. 58 people are killed and 546 injured.
Monarch Airlines - the UK's fifth biggest airline - ceases trading at 4.00am on 2nd October, after its final flight (Flight ZB3785 from Tel Aviv) had landed at Manchester Airport
Tom Petty, best known as the lead singer of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, dies of a heart attack on 2nd October, aged 66.
Baroness Hale is sworn in as the UK Supreme Court's first female president on the same day.
On Thursday, 5th October 26 people are killed and 20 others injured when 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley opens fire on the congregation of the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, a small town Wilson County, Texas.
On the same day the New York Times publishes a story detailing allegations of sexual harassment against the film producer Harvey Weinstein. On Sunday, 8th October it is announced that Weinstein has been sacked by the board of his company, with immediate effect. He is expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on 14th October.
Between 8th October and the end of the month a series of wildfires spread through northern California, destroying thousands of homes and killing at least 43 people.
A truck packed with explosives blows up in the centre of the Somali capital Mogadishu on 14th October, killing at least 358 people.
Comedian Sean Hughes, a team captain on Never Mind The Buzzcocks (BBC2), dies on Monday, 16th October, aged 51.
On the same day the investigative journalist and blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia is killed close to her home in Malta when a bomb hidden under her car is detonated remotely.
Fats Domino (real name Antoine Domino Jr.), who was described by Elvis Presley as "the real king of rock 'n' roll", dies on 24th October, aged 89.
Uhuru Kenyatta is re-elected President of Kenya on 26th October. The result of a previous election held on 8th August had been annulled by Kenya's Supreme Court on grounds of irregularities.
The Catalan parliament votes for independence on 27th October, prompting the Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to impose direct rule on Catalonia from Madrid.
On Tuesday, 29th October 8 people are killed and 11 seriously injured when 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov deliberately drives a pick-up truck through a cycle lane in Lower Manhattan.

Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon resigns on 1st November, saying his past personal behaviour is "not acceptable now".
At least 540 people are killed and more than 8,100 injured after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake strikes near the border of Iran and Iraq on Sunday, 12th November.
Actor Keith Barron, best known for his role as David Pearce in the Yorkshire Television sitcom Duty Free (1984–86), dies on Wednesday, 15th November, aged 83.
On the same day the painting Salvator Mundi (Saviour of the World), believed to have been painted sometime after 1505 by Leonardo da Vinci, is sold for a record $450,312,500 at Christie's in New York.
On Sunday, 19th November Robert Mugabe is removed as leader of Zimbabwe's ruling party, Zanu-PF, having been placed under house arrest by the military four days earlier. Ex-Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who had been sacked by Mugabe two weeks before, is appointed in his place. Mnangagwa is sworn in as Zimbabwe's President on 24th November.
The 1998 Wimbledon Ladies Singles Champion Jana Novotna, who was famously consoled by the Duchess of Kent after losing the 1993 final to Steffi Graf, dies from cancer on 19th November, aged 49.
The cult leader Charles Manson, who had been in custody for more than 40 years, dies on the same day, aged 83.
David Cassidy, the Partridge Family star who became one of the biggest teen idols of the 1970s, dies on 21st November, aged 67.
Rodney Bewes, best known for playing Bob Ferris in the BBC television sitcom The Likely Lads, dies on the same day, aged 79.
Ratko Mladic, the military commander of Bosnian Serb forces known as the "Butcher of Bosnia", is convicted for major atrocities in the Bosnian war in the 1990s and sentenced to life in jail on 22nd November.
At 1.50pm on 24th November, during Friday prayers, gunmen in four off-road vehicles bomb the al-Rawda mosque in the town of Bir al-Abed in the Sinai region of Egypt, opening fire on the worshippers as they try to escape. At least 305 people are killed in the attack.
The engagement of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is announced on 27th November.
After being told that his 20-year jail term had been upheld at an appeal hearing in The Hague on 29th November, the former commander of Bosnian Croat forces, Slobodan Praljak, drinks poison and dies shortly afterwards in hospital.

Thousands of people are forced to evacuate their homes in the cities of Ventura and Santa Paula, north of Los Angeles, after a wildfire breaks out on 4th December.
Christine Keeler, the model who made headlines after her affair with cabinet minister John Profumo, dies on 4th December, aged 75.
On Tuesday, 5th December the International Olympic Committee (IOC) bans Russia from competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Johnny Hallyday, nicknamed "the French Elvis Presley", dies of lung cancer on 6th December, aged 74.
On the same day US President Donald Trump announces that USA now officially recognised Jerusalem as Israel's capital. On 21st December the UN General Assembly passes a resolution rejecting “any decisions and actions which purport to have altered the character, status or demographic composition of the Holy City of Jerusalem”.
Former celebrity publicist Max Clifford dies in hospital on 10th December, aged 74, after collapsing in prison.
TV presenter Keith Chegwin, who hosted the children's game show Cheggers Plays Pop (1978-86), dies on 11th December, aged 60.
Three people are killed in Washington County on 19th December when an Amtrak passenger train travelling at 80mph derails on a curve with a speed limit of 30mph.
The First Secretary of State, Damian Green, is sacked from the cabinet on 20th December after he is found to have made "inaccurate and misleading" statements relating to claims that pornography had been found on his office computer in 2008.
The Citizens party led by Inés Arrimadas wins the most seats (37) in the Catalan elections held on Thursday, 21st December. However, the three separatist parties - Together for Catalonia (JxCat), Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and Popular Unity (CUP) - together take 70 seats, giving them a majority in the 135-seat Parliament.
On 22nd December the United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to impose tougher sanctions on North Korea in response to its ballistic missile tests.
The former Paris St-Germain (PSG) and AC Milan footballer George Weah is elected President of Liberia, winning more than 60% of the vote in the run off election held on Tuesday, 26th December.
Following anti-government protests over high prices and living standards in Mashhad on Thursday, 28th December, unrest spreads to several cities in Iran, including the capital Tehran.

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  Tell Me You Love Me
  
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  100
  
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  ÷
  
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Tony Award for Best Musical:
Dear Evan Hansen

Olivier Award
for Best New Musical:
Groundhog Day

• The Apprentice (Series 13)
  
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• The Vietnam War
  
• The Voice UK (ITV1)
  
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• The X Factor (Series 14)
  
• Young Sheldon (USA: Season 1)
  
  

BBC Sport

BBC
Sports Personality
of the Year:
Mo Farah

Darts: Michael van Gerwen wins the PDC World Darts Championship, defeating defending champion Gary Anderson 7-3 in the final.
Glen Durrant wins the BDO World Darts Championship with a 7-3 victory in the final over Danny Noppert.

Snooker: Ronnie O'Sullivan wins a record seventh Masters title with a 10-7 victory over Joe Perry in the final.
Mark Selby beats John Higgins 18-15 in the final of the World Championships, becoming the fourth 'modern era' player after Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry and Ronnie O'Sullivan to claim back-to-back titles.
Ronnie O'Sullivan beats Shaun Murphy 10-5 in the final of the UK Snooker Championship, equalling Steve Davis's record of six UK titles.

Tennis: Serena Williams beats her sister Venus in straight sets (6-4, 6-4) to win her seventh Australian Open and an Open-era record 23rd Grand Slam singles title. Roger Federer beats Rafael Nadal in five sets (6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3) to win his fifth Australian Open men's singles title and his 18th Grand Slam trophy.
Rafael Nadal becomes the first man in the Open era to win an event 10 times when he beats Albert Ramos-Vinola (6-1 6-3) in the final of the Monte Carlo Masters. A week later he wins the Barcelona Open for the 10th time, beating Dominic Thiem in the final 6-4 6-1. Nadal beats Thiem again in the semi-final of the men's singles at the French Open, which he also wins for a tenth time, beating Stan Wawrinka in the final, 6-2 6-3 6-1.
Jelena Ostapenko wins her first ever title at the French Open, beating Simona Halep in the women's singles final, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3.
Garbine Muguruza wins her first Wimbledon title with a straight-sets win (7-5 6-0) over five-time champion Venus Williams.
Roger Federer becomes the first man to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon eight times and extends his record to 19 Grand Slam titles with a 6-3 6-1 6-4 victory over Marin Cilic in the men's singles final.
Sloane Stephens beats fellow American Madison Keys 6-3 6-0 to win the women's singles title at the US Open. Rafael Nadal wins his third US Open men's singles title and his 16th Grand Slam title with a one-sided win over Kevin Anderson, 6-3 6-3 6-4.
Team Europe captained by Bjorn Borg wins the inaugural Laver Cup with a 15-9 victory over Team World captained by John McEnroe.

Cricket: Alastair Cook resigns as England Test captain after leading the side in a record 59 matches. Vice-captain Joe Root is appointed as his successor.
England beat South Africa by 177 runs in the fourth and final Test at Old Trafford to complete a 3-1 series win.
England win the Test series against the West Indies 2-1.
Australia win the third Test in Perth by an innings-and-41-runs to reclaim the Ashes from England. It is Australia's seventh win in eight Ashes series 'down under'. The fourth Test in Melbourne ends in a draw.

Rugby Union: England retain the Six Nations Championship with a 61-21 win over Scotland on 11th March and equal New Zealand's record of 18 straight Test wins.
The third and final match of the 2017 Test series between the British and Irish Lions and the All Blacks ends in a 15-15 draw, leaving the Test series tied at one win apiece.

Rowing: the 163rd University Boat Race goes ahead as planned, but only after a World War Two shell had been removed from the River Thames. the University of Oxford crew wins the men's race by just over a length; the Cambridge crew wins the women's race by 11 lengths in a course record of 18 minutes and 33 seconds.

Horse Racing: One For Arthur ridden by Derek Fox wins the Grand National.
Aidan O'Brien's 40-1 shot Wings of Eagles, ridden by little-known jockey Padraig Beggy,, beats favourites Cliffs of Moher and Cracksman to win the Epsom Derby.

Golf: at The Masters in Augusta the defending champion and world number one Dustin Johnson withdraws on the first day of the tournament after suffering a back injury in a fall at his rental home. He is succeeded as champion by Sergio Garcia. who becomes the third Spaniard to win the Masters - after Seve Ballesteros and Jose Maria Olazabal.
Alexander Norén wins the PGA Championship at Wentworth by two strokes.
Brooks Koepka wins the US Open at Erin Hills, equalling the US Open's lowest winning score of 16 under.
Jordan Spieth wins The Open at Royal Birkdale by three strokes.
Justin Thomas, who had trailed Kevin Kisner by two shots going into the final round, hits a three-under-par to win the US PGA Championship at Quail Hollow.

Athletics: Daniel Wanjiru wins the London marathon men's race; Mary Keitany wins the women's race for the third time, breaking Paula Radcliffe's women-only world record by finishing in a time of 2 hours, 17 minutes and one second.
Mo Farah wins his third consecutive world 10,000 metres gold at the World Championships but finishes second in the men's 5,000m.
In the final individual race of his career Usain Bolt finishes third in the men's 100m behind Justin Gatlin and Christian Coleman. He pulls up injured in his final team race - the men's 4x100m - which is won by the team from Great Britain (Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, Adam Gemili, Danny Talbot and CJ Ujah).

Boxing: Anthony Joshua beats Wladimir Klitschko in the 11th round of the WBA world heavyweight title fight at Wembley, adding the WBA belt to his IBF title to become the unified boxing heavyweight world champion.

Football: on 12th May Chelsea beat West Bromwich Albion 1-0 to win the Premier League title with two matches to spare.
Arsenal win the FA Cup for a record 13th time, beating Chelsea in the final, 2-1.
Real Madrid become champions of Europe for a record 12th time after beating Juventus in the final, 4-1.
Wayne Rooney scores his 200th Premier League goal on 21st August in a match that ends in a 1-1 draw between Everton and Manchester City. Two days later Rooney announces his retirement from international football, ending his career with the England team having scored 53 times in 119 internationals.

Cycling: Chris Froome wins the Tour de France for the fourth time in five years.

Swimming: Tom Daley wins gold in the individual 10m platform final at the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest.
Adam Peaty breaks his own 50m breaststroke world record twice in the same day (in the heats and again in the semi-final) on his way to retaining his 50m title. He also retains the 100m breaststroke title.

Motor Racing: Lewis Hamilton wins the Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship for the fourth time, making him the most successful British driver of all time. Mercedes win the Constructors' Championship.
Earlier in the season at the Belgian Grand Prix Hamilton equalled Michael Schumacher's all-time record of 68 Formula 1 pole positions. He broke the record by taking the 69th of his career at the Italian Grand Prix.

Sailing: François Gabart cuts more than six days off the record for fastest solo sail around the globe, completing his voyage on Sunday, 17th December in a time of 42 days, 16 hours, 40 minutes and 35 seconds.

Man Booker Prize

Winner:
George Saunders
Lincoln In The Bardo

Paul Auster
4321

Emily Fridlund
History Of Wolves

Mohsin Hamid
Exit West

Fiona Mozley
Elmet

Ali Smith
Autumn

Baileys Women's Prize
for Fiction

Naomi Alderman
The Power

Ayobami Adebayo,
Stay With Me

Linda Grant,
The Dark Circle

CE Morgan,
The Sport Of Kings

Gwendoline Riley,
First Love

Madeleine Thien,
Do Not Say We Have Nothing