February, 1, 2017, Season 2 Premiere of The Expanse
February, 1, 2017, Season 4 Premiere of The 100
February, 1, 2017,
February, 1, 2017,
February, 1, 2017, Israel announces it will build an entirely new settlement in the West Bank
for the first time in about twenty years. Many in the international
community believe that such settlements are illegal but Israel disputes
that. (CNN)
February, 1, 2017, The United Kingdom's House of Commons backs the Brexit bill by 498 votes to 114. (The Washington Post)
February, 1, 2017, A jury finds in favor of video game publisher ZeniMax Media after the trial of its copyright lawsuit against Oculus and Facebook, regarding virtual reality coding. (Reuters).
February, 1, 2017, The United States Senate, in a 56–43 vote, confirms Rex Tillerson's nomination as United States Secretary of State. (The Independent)
February, 2, 2017, Series Premiere of Powerless
February, 2, 2017, Series Premiere of Training Day
February, 2, 2017, Series Premiere of Superior Donuts
February, 2, 2017, Series Premiere of Training Day
February, 2, 2017, Series Premiere of Superior Donuts
February, 2, 2017, The Washington Post reported that US President Donald Trump berated Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull
during one of their first phone calls of the Trump administration.
Trump claimed it was the "the worst call by far" and accused Australia
of attempting to export the next Boston Bombers to the United States in regards to a refugee settlement deal organised between the Turnbull Government and the Obama administration in late 2016. (The Washington Post)
February, 2, 2017, The United States Department of the Treasury eases some sanctions on the Federal Security Service (FSB), allowing for limited transactions with the intelligence agency. The sanctions were put in place last year by Barack Obama over alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election. (Reuters)
February, 2, 2017, Former HBOS manager Lynden Scourfield and other bankers and consultants are found guilty of corruption and abuse of power in stealing £245
million from the bank and small businesses in a loans scam, which was
spent on personal luxuries. Scourfield was sentenced to 11 years in
prison. (The Guardian)
February, 3, 2017, Release of Rings
February, 3, 2017, Release of The Space Between Us
February, 3, 2017, Release of Youth In Oregon
February, 3, 2017, Release of War on Everyone
February, 3, 2017, A French Army soldier shoots and wounds a man armed with a knife who was trying to enter an underground shopping area near the Louvre in Paris. The museum was evacuated. (BBC)
February, 3, 2017, According to Tokyo Electric Power Company, radiations levels within one of the reactors of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, damaged by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011, are at its highest level since experiencing a meltdown, with a reading of 530 sieverts an hour. (The Guardian)
February, 3, 2017, United States federal judge James Robart temporarily blocks the so-called travel ban nationwide pending a legal challenge by the government. (Reuters)
February, 4, 2017,
February, 5, 2017, Series Premiere of 24: Legacy
February, 4, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, in a telephone call, discuss strengthening the two countries' strategic partnership with particular attention to the conflict in the Donbass, a Ukrainian region that borders Russia. (Reuters)
February, 4, 2017, The cave squeaker (Arthroleptis troglodytes), a critically endangered species of frog, is located and captured for the first time since 1962. Scientists announce plans to breed. (The New York Times)
February, 5, 2017, The New England Patriots defeat the Atlanta Falcons 34–28, in the first game in Super Bowl history to go into overtime. (The New York Times)
-Tom Brady, the quarterback for the New England Patriots, wins his fourth Most Valuable Player award, the most won by any player. Brady joins Charles Haley as the only players to be on five Super Bowl-winning teams. (NBC Sports)
February, 6, 2017, Series Premiere of APB
February, 7, 2017, Multiple tornadoes tear through New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and other parts of southeastern Louisiana, injuring at least 20 people; no deaths have been reported. The severe weather also delivers heavy rain and hail in Mississippi and Alabama. (AP)
-Tom Brady, the quarterback for the New England Patriots, wins his fourth Most Valuable Player award, the most won by any player. Brady joins Charles Haley as the only players to be on five Super Bowl-winning teams. (NBC Sports)
February, 5, 2017,
February, 5, 2017, Trump's travel ban remains suspended as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denies the Justice Department's request to stay the ruling which blocks major portions of the executive order. (NPR)
February, 5, 2017, The Obama Administration and Bush Administration had failed to publicly disclose up to thousands of lethal airstrikes the U.S. made in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria against ISIL, Al-Qaeda, and the Taliban via U.S. Army helicopters and drones. (Reuters)
February, 6, 2017, Series Premiere of Frontier
February, 6, 2017, Queen Elizabeth II marks her 65th anniversary as sovereign, making her the only British monarch to commemorate a Sapphire Jubilee. (Reuters)
February, 6, 2017, A herd of Plains bison are successfully reintroduced to the Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada, more than 100 years after they were nearly hunted out of existence. (BBC)
February, 7, 2017, Multiple tornadoes tear through New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and other parts of southeastern Louisiana, injuring at least 20 people; no deaths have been reported. The severe weather also delivers heavy rain and hail in Mississippi and Alabama. (AP)
February, 7, 2017, The U.S. Senate confirms, via Vice President Mike Pence's unprecedented tie-breaking vote, Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education. (NPR)
February, 8, 2017, Archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem announce the discovery of another cave that used to have Dead Sea Scrolls. (The Times of Israel)
February, 8, 2017, New strong evidence supporting the existence of an intermediate-mass black hole is announced. (Sky & Telescope)
February, 8, 2017, The United States Senate, in a 52 to 47 vote, confirms the nomination of Jeff Sessions as United States Attorney General. (The Guardian)
February, 10, 2017, Release of The Lego Batman Movie
February, 10, 2017, Release of Fifty Shades Darker
February, 10, 2017, Release of John Wick: Chapter 2
February, 10, 2017, British consumer goods company Reckitt Benckiser agrees to buy U.S. baby formula maker Mead Johnson Nutrition for $16.6 billion. (Reuters)
February, 10, 2017, A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes 14 kilometers (8 miles) northwest of Surigao City on the Philippines island of Mindanao and kills four people, injures more than 100 others, and damages multiple buildings. (AP)
February, 10, 2017, The United States Senate, in a 52 to 47 vote, confirms physician and U.S. Representative Tom Price to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. (CBS News)
February, 12, 2017, Season 6 Premiere of Girls
February, 15, 2017, The Indian Space Research Organisation launches a record 104 satellites in single mission. (BBC)
February, 16, 2017,
February, 16, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump names Florida International University College of Law Dean and former National Labor Relations Board member Alexander Acosta to be Secretary of Labor. The President's initial nominee, Andy Puzder, withdrew his nomination yesterday. (Politico)
February, 16, 2017, The U.S. Senate confirms, 51-49, Congressman Mick Mulvaney to head the Office of Management and Budget. (The Washington Post)
February, 16, 2017, Hundreds of restaurants and other businesses in U.S. cities close their doors after activists called on immigrants to stay home from work, avoid shopping or eating out, and skip classes Thursday for #ADayWithoutImmigrants, to protest the President's immigration reforms and highlight the immigrant community's contributions to the United States. (Reuters)
February, 17, 2017, Release of The Great Wall
February, 17, 2017, Release of A Cure of Wellness
February, 17, 2017, Release of American Fable
February, 18, 2017, SpaceX delays the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida due to a technical issue. The Falcon 9 will resupply the International Space Station. (CNBC)
February, 18, 2017, Omar Abdel-Rahman, convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, dies in his federal prison cell in Butner, North Carolina. (CNN)
February, 19, 2017, Series Premiere of
February, 19, 2017, Series Premiere of Crashing
February, 19, 2017, Season 2 Premiere of Billions
February, 21, 2017, British journalist Milo Yiannopoulos resigns from his post as technology editor at Breitbart news, after controversy around his statements regarding underage sex. (BBC)
February, 21, 2017, Verizon Communications agrees to buy the core business at Yahoo Inc. for $4.48 billion. Completion of this July 2016 deal had been delayed because of two data breaches Yahoo disclosed last year. (Reuters)
February, 21, 2017, The parent company of Burger King announces plans to purchase Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, operator of the Popeyes chicken restaurant chain in a US$1.8 billion deal. (USA Today)
February, 21, 2017, The Trump administration releases a new memo that sets the policy for the deportation of undocumented migrants accused of any crime. (NBC News)
February, 24, 2017, The Trump White House bars The New York Times, CNN, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Daily News, The Hill, the Daily Mail, BBC, Politico, and BuzzFeed from a Friday press "gaggle." Generally conservative, mostly new, outlets were permitted entry, such as Breitbart News, One America News Network, and The Washington Times. Also allowed in were ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, and Fox News. Time magazine and the Associated Press could have attended but chose not to in protest. The White House Correspondents’ Association, which represents the press corps, quickly rebuked the White House’s actions. (AP)
February, 26, 2017, The 89th Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles, California. (ABC)
- Moonlight wins Best Picture, moments after La La Land was mistakenly announced as the winner. It also won Best Adapted Screenplay. (ABC News Australia)
February, 26, 2017,
February, 26, 2017,
February, 26, 2017, Kurt Busch wins his first Daytona 500, in the first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series event to contain stages within the race. (Orlando Sentinel)
February, 27, 2017, Series Premiere of When We Rise
February, 27, 2017, Series Premiere of Taken
February, 27, 2017, SpaceX announces that it will take two space tourists on an orbit of the Moon in 2018. (CNBC)
February, 27, 2017,
February, 8, 2017, New strong evidence supporting the existence of an intermediate-mass black hole is announced. (Sky & Telescope)
February, 8, 2017, The United States Senate, in a 52 to 47 vote, confirms the nomination of Jeff Sessions as United States Attorney General. (The Guardian)
February, 9, 2017, Donald Trump, the President of the United States, agrees to continue the One China Policy after a discussion with Chinese President Xi Jinping. (Washington Post)
February, 9, 2017, When Russian President Vladimir Putin, during the January telephone conversation with President Donald Trump, raised the possibility of extending the 2010 New START treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads, President Trump declined, stating that this treaty is a bad deal for the United States. (Reuters)
February, 9, 2017, The appeal of the Trump administration is denied as the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals said it would not block a lower-court ruling that brought the president's executive order to a halt. (BBC)
February, 10, 2017, Release of Fifty Shades Darker
February, 12, 2017, Adele wins the Record of the Year and Song of the Year for "Hello" and Album of the Year for 25. Chance the Rapper wins the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. David Bowie wins four posthumous awards, two for his final studio album Blackstar and two for its title track. (CNN)
February, 12, 2017, The California Department of Water Resources orders residents near Oroville Dam to evacuate, including low-lying levels of Oroville, after an emergency spillway severely eroded. (Fox News)
February, 13, 2017, Thousands of people are urged to evacuate in and around the vicinity of Yuba City due to the impending failure of an emergency spillway at Oroville Dam in Northern California. 188,000 people were reported to be evacuated. (CNN)
February, 13, 2017, Michael T. Flynn resigns as National Security Advisor following controversy over his alleged contacts with Russian officials. Retired United States Army general Keith Kellogg subsequently becomes acting National Security Advisor until a permanent replacement is appointed. (Reuters)
February, 13, 2017, The United States Senate, in a 53–47 vote, confirms Steven Mnuchin to be Treasury Secretary. (NBC News)
February, 14, 2017, The United States sanctions Vice President of Venezuela Tareck El Aissami
for allegedly "playing a significant role in international narcotics
trafficking". The sanctions freeze his assets in the U.S. and bar him
from entering the country. (BBC)
February, 15, 2017, Series Premiere of Doubt
February, 15, 2017, Venezuela bans CNN en Español, CNN's 24-hour Spanish language television channel, after accusing it of spreading propaganda. (BBC)
February, 16, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump names Florida International University College of Law Dean and former National Labor Relations Board member Alexander Acosta to be Secretary of Labor. The President's initial nominee, Andy Puzder, withdrew his nomination yesterday. (Politico)
February, 16, 2017, The U.S. Senate confirms, 51-49, Congressman Mick Mulvaney to head the Office of Management and Budget. (The Washington Post)
February, 16, 2017, Hundreds of restaurants and other businesses in U.S. cities close their doors after activists called on immigrants to stay home from work, avoid shopping or eating out, and skip classes Thursday for #ADayWithoutImmigrants, to protest the President's immigration reforms and highlight the immigrant community's contributions to the United States. (Reuters)
February, 17, 2017, Release of The Great Wall
February, 17, 2017, Release of A Cure of Wellness
February, 17, 2017, Release of Fist Fight
February, 17, 2017, Release of A United Kingdom
February, 17, 2017, Release of American Fable
February, 17, 2017, Mark Zuckerberg publishes a new mission statement for his website, Facebook, including the development of artificial intelligence to identify potential tragic events such as suicides before they occur. (Forbes)
February, 17, 2017, Princess Cristina of Spain is acquitted of fraud but her husband is convicted. (The New York Times)
February, 17, 2017, With a 52–46 vote, the U.S. Senate confirms Attorney General of Oklahoma Scott Pruitt as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Breaking with party lines, Republican Susan Collins opposed the nomination, while Democrats Heidi Heitkamp and Joe Manchin supported Pruitt, who has been described as a climate change denier with a history of criticizing the agency he now leads. (CNBC)
February, 18, 2017, Omar Abdel-Rahman, convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, dies in his federal prison cell in Butner, North Carolina. (CNN)
February, 19, 2017, Series Premiere of Big Little Lies
February, 19, 2017, Series Premiere of Crashing
February, 19, 2017, Season 2 Premiere of Billions
February, 19, 2017, SpaceX successfully launches a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center, placing a Dragon spacecraft in orbit and recovering the launcher's first stage. The spacecraft will resupply the International Space Station.(NPR)
February, 20, 2017, According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the global transfer of weapons between 2012 and 2016 has been higher than any other five-year period since the end of the Cold War, with the Middle East increasing its weapon imports by 212%, second only to India, who accounted for 13% of the world's imports. (The Guardian)
February, 20, 2017, President Donald Trump names United States Army Lt. General H. R. McMaster as National Security Advisor and says that USA Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, who has been the acting NSA, will remain as the NSC’s Chief of Staff. (Fox News)
February, 21, 2017, Verizon Communications agrees to buy the core business at Yahoo Inc. for $4.48 billion. Completion of this July 2016 deal had been delayed because of two data breaches Yahoo disclosed last year. (Reuters)
February, 21, 2017, The parent company of Burger King announces plans to purchase Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, operator of the Popeyes chicken restaurant chain in a US$1.8 billion deal. (USA Today)
February, 21, 2017, The Trump administration releases a new memo that sets the policy for the deportation of undocumented migrants accused of any crime. (NBC News)
February, 22, 2017, The Trump administration revokes Obama-era orders on protection of gender identity under Title IX. (BBC)
February, 22, 2017, NASA and the European Southern Observatory announce the discovery of four new Earth-like planets in the Goldilocks zone of the star TRAPPIST-1, in addition to the three discovered there last year. (The Atlantic)
February, 23, 2017, Series Premiere of Sun Records
February, 23, 2017, The protestors in the area of the Dakota Access Pipeline are evicted, clearing the way for the oil pipeline through Canada and the United States to be built. (The New York Times)
February, 24, 2017, Mexico states that it will reject third-country deportees. (ABC News)
February, 24, 2017, Malaysian police claim that Kim Jong-nam, half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was killed by VX nerve agent, a toxin used almost exclusively for chemical warfare. (The New York Times)
February, 25, 2017, German police shoot a man, who was trying to escape after apparently driving into a group of pedestrians in a central square in Heidelberg. A 73-year-old man was killed and two other people injured. Police do not believe terrorism is involved. (BBC)
February, 25, 2017, A suspected drunken driver plows his car into a crowd watching the Krewe of Endymion parade at the New Orleans Mardi Gras.
Dozens are injured, with 28 people, including a child and a police
officer, taken to seven hospitals, five in critical condition. (AP)
February, 25, 2017, Donald Trump announces he will not attend the 2017 White House Correspondents' Dinner, following recent friction between his administration and various news organizations. (BBC News)
- Moonlight wins Best Picture, moments after La La Land was mistakenly announced as the winner. It also won Best Adapted Screenplay. (ABC News Australia)
February, 26, 2017,
February, 26, 2017,
February, 26, 2017, Kurt Busch wins his first Daytona 500, in the first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series event to contain stages within the race. (Orlando Sentinel)
February, 27, 2017, Series Premiere of When We Rise
February, 27, 2017, Series Premiere of Taken
February, 27, 2017, SpaceX announces that it will take two space tourists on an orbit of the Moon in 2018. (CNBC)
February, 27, 2017,
February, 28, 2017, Twelve people are injured, four critically, after an SUV hits the Gulf Shores High School Band during the Gulf Shores, Alabama, Mardi Gras
parade. The vehicle, in the parade behind the band, accelerated when
the 73-year-old driver's foot slipped off the brake pedal onto the gas. (RT)
February, 28, 2017, A small plane crashes in a residential area of Riverside, California, killing at least three people, all of whom were passengers on the plane. No one on the ground was injured. (BBC)
February, 28, 2017, A police sniper accidentally fires his weapon while changing position and injures two people during a speech by French President François Hollande in Villognon. (BBC)
February, 28, 2017, The Royal Thai Government
has fired Police General Jumpol Manmai for "extremely evil" misconduct
and political interests which threatened national security. (Reuters)
February, 28, 2017, The Trump administration plans to increase the budget of the United States Armed Forces by more than 9%. (Reuters)
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