What is 2017?
{{Year nav|2017}} {{Year in various calendars|2017}} '''2017''' ([[Roman numerals|MMXVII]]) was a [[common year starting on Sunday]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]], the 2017th year of the [[Common Era]] (CE) and ''[[Anno Domini]]'' (AD) designations, {{Year article header/year number|2017}} ==Events== ===January=== [[File:Donald Trump swearing in ceremony.jpg|thumb|right|200px|20 January: [[Donald Trump]] is [[First inauguration of Donald Trump|inaugurated]] as the [[List of Presidents of the United States|45th]] [[President of the United States]]]] * 1 January: ** The [[BBC]]'s [[Royal Charter]] expires. ** An attack on a [[nightclub]] in [[Istanbul]], [[Turkey]] kills 39 people and injures 70. [[ISIS]] clams responsibility. * 6 January &ndash; A [[2017 Fort Lauderdale airport shooting|mass shooting]] occurs at the [[Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport]] in [[Broward County, Florida|Broward County]], Florida. Five people were killed while 48 were injured. * 7 January &ndash; [[Mário Soares]], former [[President of Portugal|President]] and [[Prime Minister of Portugal|Prime Minister]] of [[Portugal]] who brought democracy to Portugal after a dictatorship, dies at 92 from a stroke in [[Lisbon]]. * 8 January &ndash; Former [[President of Iran]] [[Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani]] dies of a heart attack in [[Tehran]] at age 82. * 19 January &ndash; ECOWAS forces, including troops from Senegal, Ghana, and Nigeria, intervene in Gambia's political crisis to force longtime [[President of the Gambia|President]] [[Yahya Jammeh]] to step down after losing the December 2016 elections to [[Adama Barrow]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/01/20/world/africa/ap-af-gambia-crisis.html|title=Gambia's Defeated Leader Agrees to Cede Power: Official|last=The Associated Press|date=20 January 2017|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=20 January 2017}}</ref> * 20 January &ndash; [[Donald Trump]] is [[First inauguration of Donald Trump|inaugurated]] as the [[List of Presidents of the Unit