May 1, 2017, A series of earthquakes, the largest registering 6.3, strike near Mosquito Lake, Alaska, near the Alaskan border with British Columbia, Canada. At least one office building and two schools were heavily damaged and evacuated in the Yukon. (USA Today)
May 1, 2017, Two Rockwell B-1B Lancer heavy bombers are flown over the Korean Peninsula by the United States, leading North Korea to accuse the US of preparing for nuclear warfare. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
May 1, 2017, A knife attack leaves one dead and three injured at the University of Texas at Austin. (CNN)
May 2, 2017, North Korea vows to accelerate its nuclear weapons programme to “maximum pace” and test a nuclear device “at any time” in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's aggressive stance towards the regime. (The Guardian)
May 2, 2017, Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen is accused of plagiarising a speech by François Fillon. (BBC)
May 3, 2017, Buckingham Palace announces that 95-year-old Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince consort of Queen Elizabeth II, will retire from royal duties in August. (BBC)
May 3, 2017, Plans for a Chicago-based presidential library in honour of the former U.S. president Obama are revealed. (NBC)
May 3, 2017, Puerto Rico files for the largest 'local government' bankruptcy in the United States. (Reuters)
May 3, 2017, Candidates Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron face off in a debate. (The Guardian)
May 4, 2017, The Republican-controlled United States House of Representatives votes in favor of the repeal of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and passage of the House's 2017 American Health Care Act, by a narrow, 217-213 vote. Twenty Republicans and all Democrats opposed the bill, which now heads to the United States Senate for its legislative action. (CNN)
May 4, 2017, Former U.S. President Barack Obama formally endorses French candidate Emmanuel Macron. (ABC News)
May 5, 2017, Release of Guardians of The Galaxy V.2
May 5, 2017, Release of The Lovers
May 5, 2017, Release of 3 Generations
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May 5, 2017, ISRO has successfully launched a new communications satellite for South Asia from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India. (BBC)
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May 12, 2017, Season 2 Premiere of Master of None
May 17, 2017, Series Premiere of Downward Dog
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May 19, 2017, Season 3 Premiere of 12 Monkeys
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May 21, 2017, Season 3 Premiere of Twin Peaks
May 22, 2017, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) report deadly explosions at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, at the end of Ariana Grande’s performance on her Dangerous Woman Tour. (BBC)
May 23, 2017, Campaigning in the United Kingdom general election is suspended after the bombing at the Manchester Arena. The death toll is 22 with 59 injured. ISIL claims responsibility. Singer and actress Ariana Grande suspends her Dangerous Woman Tour. (AP)
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May 12, 2017, Release of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
May 12, 2017, Release of Snatched
May 12, 2017, Release of Lowriders
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May 12, 2017, Release of Paris Can Wait
May 12, 2017, Series Premiere I Love Dick
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May 19, 2017, Release of Alien: Covenant
May 19, 2017, Release of Dairy of a Whimpy Kid: The Long Haul
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May 22, 2017, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) report deadly explosions at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, at the end of Ariana Grande’s performance on her Dangerous Woman Tour. (BBC)
May 22, 2017, According to sources familiar with his decision, former U.S. National Security Advisor Michael Flynn invokes his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination and declines to comply with a subpoena from the Senate Intelligence Committee investigating possible Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. (Reuters)
May 23, 2017, Campaigning in the United Kingdom general election is suspended after the bombing at the Manchester Arena. The death toll is 22 with 59 injured. ISIL claims responsibility. Singer and actress Ariana Grande suspends her Dangerous Woman Tour. (AP)
May 23, 2017, Sir Roger Moore, who played James Bond between 1973 and 1985, dies at age 89. (BBC)
May 23, 2017, The United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals rules that Wikimedia Foundation has the legal right to challenge the National Security Agency Upstream program of mass online surveillance. This decision reinstates the suit that had been dismissed by a Federal district judge in Baltimore, Maryland. Eight other organizations, including Amnesty International USA and the Global Fund for Women, are also plaintiffs in this case. (Reuters)
May 23, 2017, Scientists discover 7.2 million-year-old "pre-human" remains in the Balkans area near Bulgaria and Greece. (Phys.org)
May 24, 2017, As part of an ongoing investigation, British police
arrest six people in connection with Monday's deadly explosion,
including a 23-year-old man who was taken into custody Tuesday. (ABC News)
May 24, 2017, Four climbers are found dead on Mount Everest, bringing this season's death toll to 10. (BBC)
May 24, 2017, After the Supreme Court rules in favor, same-sex-marriage is on its way to being legalized in Taiwan, the first country in Asia to do so. (GMA News)
May 24, 2017, Fox News retracts their claims regarding the murder. (Fox News)
May 24, 2017, Vermont governor Phil Scott vetoes a bill legalizing marijuana in the state. (The Hill)
May 25, 2017, Jared Kushner, son-in-law of and Senior Advisor to the President of the United States, is identified as a main focus of investigations into Russian ties by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (The Washington Post)
May 25, 2017, Results of the Juno mission are announced by NASA researchers, revealing new and unexpected information concerning Jupiter's poles, meteorology, and magnetic and gravitational fields. (CNN)
May 25, 2017, Rocket Lab launches its 3D-printed Electron rocket on a test flight from Māhia Peninsula in New Zealand.
This is the first launch from New Zealand and the first from a private
facility. Electron is 17 meters high, is intended for frequent launches
of small payloads, and costs $5 million per liftoff. SpaceX's Falcon 9 stands at 70 meters, carries up to 22,800 kilograms to the ISS, and costs $62 million per launch. (BBC)
May 26, 2017, Release of Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
May 26, 2017, Release of Baywatch
May 26, 2017, Two men are stabbed to death in a train in Portland, Oregon, after they attempt to intervene while a man shouts racial slurs at two Muslim teenage girls. (CBS News)
May 27, 2017, The meeting of Group of 7 leaders in Taormina, Italy, concludes with a disagreement on whether to uphold the Paris Agreement; U.S. President Donald Trump is the only leader not to confirm commitment to the agreement, due to his climate change denial. (BBC)
May 28, 2017, Gregg Allman, co-founder, vocalist and keyboard player of the Allman Brothers, dies in Savannah, Georgia. (New York Times)
May 28, 2017, The Square, a Swedish film directed by Ruben Östlund, wins the Palme d'Or, the top award at the Cannes Film Festival. (Reuters)
May 28, 2017, Eight people, including a Lincoln County Sheriff's Department deputy, are fatally shot overnight at three locations in rural Mississippi. A suspect is in custody; he says he intended for it to be "suicide by cop." (NBC News and AP)
May 28, 2017, The Russian Irkut MC-21 airliner makes its maiden flight. (TASS)
May 28, 2017, Takuma Sato of Japan wins the 2017 Indianapolis 500 ahead of Helio Castroneves of Brazil. Sato is the first Japanese driver to win the event. (Yahoo! Sports)
May 29, 2017, Series Premiere of Still Star-Crossed
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