2017
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- The shooting site of the Las Vegas shooting. Stephen Paddock shot and killed 60 and injured more than 400 attending a music festival from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel, making it the deadliest mass shooting in American history;
- Images of the solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, dubbed the Great American Eclipse;
- Two truck bombings kill at least 587 in Mogadishu, Somalia;
- The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, including Harvey (pictured), Irma, and Maria, becomes the costliest recorded in history;
- A military coup deposes Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, who had led the country for 37 years;
- After 13 years of orbiting Saturn, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft ends its mission;
- The Parliament of Catalonia declares the independence from Spain following Catalonia's referendum on independence, which was not recognized by any country and produced no legal effect;
- The Iraqi armed forces recaptures Mosul during the war in the country against the Islamic State;
- The Glade of Light, the memorial to the bombing following a Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England; the attack killed 23 and injured over a thousand.
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2017 (MMXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2017th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 17th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2010s decade.
2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly.