January

January 1, 2017, Series Premiere of The Mick

January 1, 2017,

January 1, 2017, At least 35 people have been killed and 40 wounded after gunmen opened fire in a nightclub in Istanbul, on the European coast of the Bosphorus. Local reports claimed that one or more gunmen entered the venue disguised in Santa Claus costumes. (BBC)

January 1, 2017,

 

January 1, 2017, A gunman shoots dead at least 11 people, including his former wife, and then himself in a murder–suicide at a New Year's Eve party in the southeast Brazilian city of Campinas. Several others reportedly remain in critical condition. (Reuters)

January 1, 2017, The Church of Norway officially ceases to be the state church of Norway after almost 500 years. (The Christian Daily)

January 2, 2017, Series Premiere of Beyond

January 2, 2017, Season 2 Premiere of Shadow Hunters

January 2, 2017, The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility for the attack in what it claims is a response to Turkey's actions in neighbouring Syria. (The Washington Post)

January 3, 2017, Season 12 Premiere of Bones

January 3, 2017, Ford announces that it has cancelled plans to build a $1.6 billion plant in Mexico, long criticized by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, and will invest $700 million in its Michigan plant in Flat Rock, potentially creating 700 new jobs from the investment and expansion of the plant. (CNN)

January 3, 2017, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump says that Robert Lighthizer will be the country's chief trade negotiator. (Reuters)

January 3, 2017, The House GOP caucus overwhelmingly re-elects Paul Ryan to another term as House Speaker. (AP via KYTV)

January 4, 2017, Season 12 Premiere of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

January 4, 2017, Chicago Police arrest four African-American suspects after they stream a video on Facebook showing themselves torturing and scalping a bound and gagged, kidnapped, white man with a mental disorder. The four suspects will face elevated hate crime charges. (The Guardian)

January 4, 2017, A commuter train from the Long Island Rail Road derails during the morning rush hour in Brooklyn, New York, injuring 103 people. (CBS)

January 4, 2017, President-elect Donald Trump fills in more of his White House staff. (The Hill):

January 4, 2017, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announces the selection of two new Discovery Program space exploration missions: Lucy, a mission to several Jupiter trojan asteroids, and Psyche, a mission to the asteroid 16 Psyche, which is believed to be the exposed core of an early protoplanet. Both missions are scheduled for launch in the early 2020s. (NASA)

January 5, 2017, Season 5 Premiere of Nashville

January 5, 2017, Season 7 Premiere of Portlandia

January 5, 2017, 

January 5, 2017, Sears Holdings announces that 108 Kmart and 42 Sears stores will close in the United States in 2017, affecting retailers in 40 states. The company also announced it is selling its trademark Craftsman tool brand to Stanley Black & Decker for $900 million. (USA Today)
January 5, 2017, Scientists classify the mesentery as an organ, making it the 79th human organ. It connects the intestines to the abdominal cavity. (Science Alert)

January 6, 2017, Series Premiere of Emerald City

January 6, 2017, Series Premiere of One Day At a Time

January 6, 2017, Season 6 Premiere of Grimm

January 6, 2017, An arriving passenger from Alaska removes his checked-baggage pistol and kills five people and injures six at the Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Florida. (Fox News)

January 8, 2017, A truck rams into a group of Israeli soldiers in a deliberate attack in East Jerusalem, killing four and wounding 21. The perpetrator was previously convicted of terrorism and was jailed for 10 years. (CNN)

January 8, 2017, The 74th Golden Globe Awards are held in Hollywood. (News Limited)

-The Crown wins the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama. (Variety)
-La La Land wins the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy while Moonlight wins the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. (Los Angeles Times)
-La La Land becomes the single most winning film in Golden Globes history, winning all seven awards out of its seven nominations and becomes the seventh film to achieve all the awards it was nominated for,

January 9, 2017, A California storm in the Calaveras Big Trees State Park fells the 1,000-year-old American tree, the Pioneer Cabin Tree. (BBC)

January 9, 2017, Two Orange County police officers are killed in connection with an apprehension attempt of a murder suspect. (CNN)

January 9, 2017, Clemson defeats Alabama 35–31 to win the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship. (ESPN)

January 10 2017, Series Premiere of Taboo

January 10 2017, Season 4 Premiere of Being Mary Jane

January 10 2017,

January 10 2017, American Dylann Roof is sentenced to death for the Charleston church shooting in which nine people were killed. (Fox News)

January 10 2017, President-elect Donald Trump appoints businessman and son-in-law Jared Kushner as his senior advisor in the White House. (Al Jazeera)

January 10 2017, The FIFA Council unanimously approves expansion of the World Cup from 32 to 48 teams starting in 2026. (ESPN)

January 10 2017, In U.S. college women's basketball, Connecticut wins its 90th consecutive game, tying the school's own record for the longest winning streak in NCAA Division I basketball for either sex. (ESPN)

January 11, 2017, President-elect of the United States Donald Trump holds his first post-election press conference in New York City. (CBS News)

January 11, 2017, Norway becomes the first country to start a complete switch-off of national FM radio stations. The change, from the analogue FM system to digital audio broadcasting, is expected to be completed by the end of the year. Some, such as the Norwegian Local Radio Association, are concerned about the impact on motorists and the elderly. (New Scientist)

January 12, 2017, The NFL's Chargers franchise officially announce plans to move from San Diego to Los Angeles and rename itself the Los Angeles Chargers. The team intends to play its next two seasons at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. (ESPN)

 

January 12, 2017, President Barack Obama announces the end of the wet feet, dry feet policy, which previously allowed undocumented immigrants from Cuba to become permanent residents. (CNN)

January 12, 2017, Two members of funk band Tower of Power are seriously injured after being struck by a train near Jack London Square in Oakland, California.(SF Gate)

January 12, 2017, 3,000 U.S. troops are deployed in Poland as part of NATO's Operation Atlantic Resolve. Poland says that the deployment is a necessary response to Russian military exercises near its border and its intervention in Ukraine while Russia condemns the move as a "threat to national interests and security". (BBC)

January 12, 2017, The President of the United States Barack Obama awards his Vice President Joe Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, the only time the president has awarded this particular honor during his tenure. (CNN)

January 13, 2017, Release of Hidden Figures

January 13, 2017, Release of Monster Trucks

January 13, 2017,

January 13, 2017, A UCLA research team, analyzing lunar minerals brought back during the Apollo program, reports that the moon is at least 4.51 billion years old, up to 150 million years older than previous estimates.(Sci Tech Daily)

January 14, 2017, SpaceX returns to flight by placing 10 Iridium NEXT satellites in orbit and successfully recovering the first stage of its Falcon 9 launcher on a droneship. (Ars Technica)

January 14, 2017, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announces it will cease operation in May after 146 years, due to lower attendance, higher operating costs and protests from animal rights activists. (CBS News - Baltimore)

January 14, 2017, In U.S. college women's basketball, Connecticut defeats SMU 88–48 for the Huskies' 91st straight win, breaking the school's own record for the longest winning streak in NCAA Division I basketball history for either sex. (AP via ESPN)

January 15, 2017,

January 15, 2017, Scientists have created a new form of hydrogen at temperature near absolute zero. These anions or clusters are formed by an electron addition to liquid helium nanodroplets doped with molecular hydrogen or deuterium. (Science Alert)

January 16, 2017,

January 16, 2017, Italian eyewear maker Luxottica and French corrective eyewear manufacturer Essilor agree to a €50 billion merger. (Reuters via Business Insider)

January 16, 2017, A Turkish Airlines cargo jet crashes near Kyrgyzstan's Manas International Airport resulting in the deaths of at least 38 people. (Belarusian Telegraph Agency)

January 16, 2017, Three hundred U.S. marines arrive in Norway for a six-month deployment, becoming the first foreign troops in Norway since World War II. The marines will be stationed at Værnes Air Station in Stjørdal. (Reuters)

January 17, 2017, The President of the United States Barack Obama commutes the bulk of the sentence for Chelsea Manning for leaking documents to WikiLeaks. Manning will now be released in 2017 instead of 2045. (BBC)

-President Obama also commutes the sentence of Puerto Rican independence activist Oscar López Rivera who was sentenced to 35 years imprisonment for seditious conspiracy. (The Guardian)

 
 
 

January 17, 2017,

January 17, 2017,

January 17, 2017, British American Tobacco agrees to take over the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company for $49.4 billion. (AFP by Yahoo)

January 17, 2017, Deutsche Bank agrees to a $7.2 billion settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over its sale and pooling of toxic mortgage securities in the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis. (Reuters)

January 17, 2017, After much speculation British Prime Minister Theresa May announces that the United Kingdom will be leaving the European Single Market. (Business Insider)

January 18, 2017, Four earthquakes of magnitude 5.1 or higher strike near Amatrice, Italy, forcing evacuation of some schools and the Rome Metro. No deaths are reported from the quakes. (CNN)

January 18, 2017, Global temperatures rose to the hottest level on record for 2016 for a third successive record according to NASA and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (Financial Times)

January 19, 2017, Season 5 Premiere of Scandal

January 19, 2017, Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is extradited to the United States, where he will face charges for his role as leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. (Business Insider)

January 19, 2017, Uber agrees to pay $20 million to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission claims the company exaggerated prospective earnings and downplayed the costs of buying/leasing a car when recruiting new drivers. (Reuters)

January 19, 2017, A small plane carrying Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Teori Zavascki crashes into the sea near the tourist town of Paraty in the state of Rio de Janeiro, killing the magistrate and two other people. Zavascki had been handling the politically-charged Operation Car Wash corruption trials. (Reuters)

January 19, 2017, The 17-story Plasco Building collapses after a blaze in Tehran, Iran. The building was evacuated but 30 firefighters have been killed in the collapse. (Deutsche Welle)

January 19, 2017, An Italian rescue official says a number of people have been killed by an avalanche, possibly connected to Wednesday's earthquakes, that buried a ski resort on a slope of the Gran Sasso mountain in Italy's Abruzzo region. About 30 guests and staff were at the hotel. The only survivors are two men who had been outside when the disaster struck. (BBC)

January 19, 2017, Former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue is named Secretary of Agriculture, the last open seat in Trump's cabinet. (CNN)

January 20, 2017, Donald Trump is officially sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. (The Telegraph)

January 20, 2017, The Woody Harrelson biopic Lost in London makes history as the first full-length feature film to be filmed and theatrically released simultaneously. (BBC)

January 20, 2017, Italian emergency crews rescue 10 people, including four children, from 16½ feet of snow and wreckage from the luxury Hotel Rigopiano following yesterday's Gran Sasso mountain avalanche. Searchers find four bodies, while families of at least 16 people still missing wait for news. (CBS News)

January 20, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump nominates New York Jets owner Woody Johnson to be the next United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. (Sky News)

January 20, 2017, Some protesters of the inauguration smash windows, damage cars, and clash with the police. Six police officers and at least one civilian are injured. DC police say 217 protesters have been arrested. (CNN)

January 20, 2017, The U.S. Senate confirms the first two members of President Donald Trump's Cabinet: retired Marine General James Mattis as Secretary of Defense, and retired Marine general John F. Kelly as Secretary of Homeland Security. (CNN)

January 21, 2017, A crowd of over 500,000 gather in Washington DC, U.S., to advocate for women's rights and address the inauguration of Donald Trump. (The New York Times)

-Marches occur across the U.S. and throughout the world, with 408 reported marches in the U.S. and 168 marches reported in other countries. (The New York Times)
-The Secret Service has reportedly said it will open an investigation into Madonna after the singer told the Women's March on Washington that she had thought about 'blowing up the White House'. (Daily Mail)

January 22, 2017,

January 22, 2017,

January 22, 2017, A 7.9 magnitude earthquake hits west of Panguna, Papua New Guinea, beneath Bougainville Island. No immediate reports of casualties or major damage. Tsunami alert for Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands is rescinded. (Reuters/AP via ABC)

January 22, 2017, Severe storms kill at least 11 people and injure 23 in the U.S. state of Georgia. (BBC)

January 23, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump issues executive orders to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and reinstates the Mexico City Policy, a policy banning U.S. aid to foreign organizations that use funds from other sources to perform or discuss abortions, which Barack Obama scrapped in 2009. (The Independent)

January 23, 2017, Following a joint police operation by Europol and Interpol last October and November across much of Europe, dubbed "Operation Pandora", more than 3,500 stolen artwork and artifacts are recovered, with 75 people arrested and 48,588 more being investigated. (BBC)

January 24, 2017, Season 2 Premiere of Outsiders

January 24, 2017, Israel approves the construction of 2,500 more new settlement homes in the West Bank, the most in years and the second time new homes were approved since Donald Trump was inaugurated as President of the United States. (The Guardian)

January 24, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump signs documents approving the construction of both the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines. (BBC)

January 25, 2017, Season 2 Premiere of The Magicians

January 25, 2017,  Season 2 Premiere of The Path

January 25, 2017,

January 25, 2017, The Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks 20,000 for the first time ever. (CNBC)

January 25, 2017, United States President Donald Trump announces that he intends to seek an investigation into possible voter fraud from last year's election. (Reuters)

January 25, 2017, President Trump signs two executive orders related to immigration, one to take federal grant funding away from sanctuary cities, and another to build a wall along the U.S.–Mexico border. (CNN)

January 25, 2017, The International Olympic Committee says that sprinter Nesta Carter took the banned substance methylhexaneamine while competing in the 2008 Olympic 4 × 100 metres relay. As a result, the Jamaican team is disqualified and Usain Bolt loses his ninth Olympic gold medal. (ESPN)

January 26, 2017, Series Premiere of Riverdale

January 26, 2017, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto cancels the meeting scheduled for next week with U.S. President Donald Trump, citing his plan to build a border wall between the two countries. (The New York Times)

-Donald Trump calls for a 20% tariff on Mexican imports to pay for the cost of a wall on the U.S–Mexican border. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer says that this is one of the ideas that the administration is considering to make Mexico pay for the wall. (NBC News)

January 26, 2017, Patrick F. Kennedy, Joyce Anne Barr, Michele Thoren Bond and Gentry O. Smith resign from the United States Department of State, after Victoria Nuland and Gregory B. Starr had declined to stay on in the Donald Trump administration. (The Herald Scotland)

January 26, 2017, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moves the Doomsday Clock thirty seconds forward, to two and a half minutes before midnight. (The Washington Post)

January 27, 2017, Release of Gold

January 27, 2017, President Trump signs an executive order limiting refugees and immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The order also prioritizes the vetting of Christian refugees of the Syrian Civil War. (Reuters)

January 27, 2017, Yes California, the campaign to reinstate the independence of California launches its signature campaign. (New York magazine)

January 27, 2017, The clothing retailer Wet Seal announces the closing of all 148 of its brick-and-mortar stores after filing for bankruptcy in 2015. The news comes on the heels of recent announcements of the closings of other major clothing chains, such as The Limited. (WHIO-TV)

January 27, 2017, British actor Sir John Hurt dies at the age of 77. (Hollywood Reporter)

January 28, 2017, Serena Williams defeats her sister Venus Williams 6-4, 6-4 to win the women's singles and an Open era-record 23rd Grand Slam singles title. (The Guardian)

January 28, 2017,

January 28, 2017,

January 28, 2017, Travelers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen are blocked from entering the United States as the executive order takes effect. (The New York Times)

January 28, 2017, Pope Francis takes de facto control of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (the entity retains sovereignty under international law), forcing its leader Prince and Grand Master Matthew Festing to resign. (The New York Times)

January 29, 2017, Season 4 Premiere of Black Sails

January 29, 2017, A gunman opens fire at a mosque in Quebec City, Canada, during evening prayers. At least five people were killed. Two suspects were apprehended; one was later released. (CBC News)

January 29, 2017,

January 29, 2017, John Cena defeats AJ Styles to become a 16-time WWE Champion, tying Ric Flair with the most world championship reigns.

January 30, 2017, Sally Yates, the acting Attorney General of the United States, is fired after ordering employees of the United States Department of Justice not to enforce the President's ban due to personal doubts over its legality. Dana J. Boente becomes the new acting attorney general. (BBC)

January 30, 2017, The Iraqi Parliament votes in favour of a reciprocal travel ban on U.S. citizens if U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order barring citizens of Iraq and six other Muslim-majority countries is not reversed. The Iraqi travel ban will not be implemented while tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers and contractors are involved in the fight against ISIL. (AFP via Daily Mail)

January 30, 2017, Iris Mittenaere, winner of Miss France 2016, is crowned as the winner of Miss Universe 2016 at a ceremony in the Philippines. (AP)

January 31, 2017, Season 5 Premiere of Switched At Birth

January 31, 2017, President Donald Trump has nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court of the United States. Neil Gorsuch is the youngest nominee to the court in 25 years. (CNN)

 

January 31, 2017, The U.S. Senate confirms former U.S. labor secretary and deputy transportation secretary Elaine Chao as Secretary of Transportation. Chao is married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. (The Washington Post)

January 31, 2017, The United Kingdom posthumously pardons around 49,000 gay and bisexual men found guilty of decades-old sodomy laws in England and Wales. (BBC)