June 1, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump confirms that the United States will withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation. (The Guardian)
June 1, 2017, The secretive Bilderberg Group meet in Chantilly, Virginia, for its annual conference. (BBC)
June 1, 2017, Elon Musk quits as an official advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump in protest at the United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. (The Hill)
June 1, 2017, Scientists announce that the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has made a third detection of gravitational waves, named GW170104. The signal beam, detected on 4 January 2017, apparently results from a merger of two black holes
of 19 and 31 solar masses. Such detections are said to be progressively
moving this emerging field in astronomy "from novelty to new
observational science". (BBC)
June 2, 2017, Release of Wonder Woman
June 2, 2017, Release of Captain Underpants: First Epic Movie
June 2, 2017, Release of Dean
June 2, 2017, Disney CEO Bob Iger joins Elon Musk in resigning from President Trump's advisory councils in response to Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement. (The Independent)
June 2, 2017, Two of Jupiter's moons, S/2003 J 18 and S/2011 J 2 are recovered, and a small 1.5-kilometer outer moon (S/2016 J 1) is discovered, the first moon discovered around a major planet in 6 years. (Minor Planet Center)
June 3, 2017, SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with a shipment of food and supplies in a refurbished Dragon cargo capsule for the International Space Station. The mission reuses a Dragon cargo vessel that was previously flown in a September 2014 mission. (Phys.org)
June 3, 2017, CNN denies authenticity of footage documenting employees manufacturing a protest using unrepresentative Muslim actors. (Washington Times)
June 4, 2017, Series Premiere of I'm Dying Up Here
June 4, 2017, A van travelling at approximately 50 mph ploughs into pedestrians on London Bridge; the three occupants then abandon the van and embark on a stabbing spree in Borough Market before being shot dead by officers of the Metropolitan Police. At least six civilians are killed. (BBC)
June 4, 2017, The charity concert organized by Ariana Grande in the wake of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing is held in Manchester, England. (Variety)
June 5, 2017, Season 3 Premiere of Stitchers
June 5, 2017, A discharged 45-year-old former employee shoots and kills five people at a manufacturing business in Orlando, Florida, United States. The shooter took his own life afterwards. Eight others inside the workplace survived. (CNN)
June 5, 2017, In Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, a gunman kills one man and holds one woman hostage before he is shot dead by Victoria Police. The incident is being treated as an act of terrorism. Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant has claimed responsibility for the attack but Victoria Police claim that there is little evidence to suggest a connection. (Aus. Broadcasting Corp.)
June 5, 2017, After The Intercept publishes a classified NSA document describing Russian efforts to launch cyberattacks on U.S. voting software suppliers, the United States Department of Justice announces it had brought charges upon Reality Winner, the alleged leaker. (Reuters)
June 5, 2017, Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launches communications satellite GSAT-19 through its heaviest rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III. (Times of India)
June 5, 2017, Another satellite of Jupiter is announced, S/2017 J 1, just 3 days after the announcement of S/2016 J 1. (Minor Planet Center)
June 5, 2017, Apple announces iOS 11 in WWDC 2017. (Bloomberg)
June 6, 2017, A man who was yelling "This is for Syria" while attacking a police officer with a hammer near Notre-Dame de Paris, France is shot and wounded by another officer. Prosecutors open a terrorism probe. (Reuters)
June 7, 2017, A childcare worker in London is reportedly stabbed by three Muslim women while on her way to work, suffering non life threatening injuries. (BBC News)
June 7, 2017, The oldest fossil records of Homo sapiens are discovered in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, dated at between 300,000 and 350,000 years old. The earliest Homo sapiens fossils had been dated as 200,000 years old. (Washington Post)
June 8, 2017, James Comey, the former FBI Director who was dismissed by President Donald Trump last month, appears before the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Comey says he believes he was fired because of the FBI investigation into the possible collusion between President Trump's campaign team and Russia's interference in the 2016 elections.(The Guardian)
June 8, 2017, At a United Nations-Oceans summit, delegates from China, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, four of the top polluters of plastic into the oceans, pledge to reduce their levels of oceanic plastic pollution. (BBC)
June 8, 2017, Yahoo shareholders officially approve its $4.48 billion sale to Verizon Wireless. Yahoo stock was up 8.5 percent shortly thereafter. (Business Insider)
June 9, 2017, Release of The Mummy
June 9, 2017, Release of It Comes at Night
June 9, 2017, Release of My Cousin Rachel
June 9, 2017, Release of Megan Leavey
June 9, 2017, Release of Beatriz at Dinner
June 9, 2017, Season 5 Premiere of Orange is the New Black
June 9, 2017, Results of yesterday's election are counted, revealing a hung parliament as the Conservative Party fails to retain its majority government, despite remaining the party with the most seats. Prime Minister Theresa May will seek permission from Buckingham Palace to form a minority government with the support of the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party. (BBC)
June 9, 2017, United Launch Alliance says it was not given an opportunity to bid against rival SpaceX for the upcoming launch of the U.S. Air Force miniature X-37B space plane. The Air Force declined to comment. (Reuters via New York Daily News)
June 9, 2017, President Donald Trump claims that James Comey committed perjury during his testimony yesterday, and offers to give his own testimony, "under oath," refuting that he requested Comey to drop the Flynn investigation and that he had asked for Comey's allegence. (The New York Times)
June 10, 2017,
June 10, 2017, Eight people are injured, two seriously, when a car drives into several people in front of the Amsterdam Centraal station in the Netherlands. Police say the driver may have taken ill; they are not treating this as terrorism-related. (DutchNews.NL)
June 10, 2017, Eight people are injured, two seriously, when a car drives into several people in front of the Amsterdam Centraal station in the Netherlands. Police say the driver may have taken ill; they are not treating this as terrorism-related. (DutchNews.NL)
June 10, 2017, In American horse racing, Tapwrit wins the 2017 Belmont Stakes. (AL.com)
June 11, 2017, Series Premiere of Claws
June 11, 2017, In ice hockey, the Pittsburgh Penguins win the 2017 Stanley Cup Finals defeating the Nashville Predators in six games. It is the Penguins' fifth overall and second successive Stanley Cup title. (Bleacher Report)
June 11, 2017, The Tony Awards are held in New York City with Dear Evan Hansen winning six awards including Best Musical and Oslo winning best play. (Daily Mirror)
June 11, 2017, With a turnout of 23% eligible voters, 97% of the voters in Puerto Rico request that the island become a U.S. state. (Reuters)
June 12, 2017, In basketball, the Golden State Warriors defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers in five games to win the 2017 NBA Finals for the second time in last three years. Kevin Durant is declared NBA Finals MVP. (NBC News)
June 12, 2017, An earthquake of 6.3 magnitude shakes the Aegean Sea, causing one death. Many houses were damaged in Plomari, Greece, and some collapsed. (AP)
June 12, 2017, A Ninth Circuit Appeals Court panel unanimously upholds the Hawaii district court decision to prevent implementation of revised Executive Order 13780. On May 25, the Fourth Circuit Appeals Court affirmed a similar ruling by the Maryland district court. (NBC News)
June 14, 2017, Series Premiere of Blood Drive
June 14, 2017, A large fire consumes the 24-storey Grenfell Tower apartment block in North Kensington, West London, with the entire building evacuated and over 40 fire engines and 200 firefighters battling the blaze. At least 17 people are dead and more people are treated for injuries, with more people possibly being trapped inside. (BBC)
June 14, 2017, A gunman opens fire at a Congressional Baseball practice, injuring five people, including United States Congressman Steve Scalise (R-LA-01) who is in critical condition. The suspected gunman later died from injuries after exchanging gunfire with Capitol Police. (WUSA)
June 16, 2017, Release of Cars 3
June 16, 2017, Release of Rough Night
June 16, 2017, Release of All Eyez on Me
June 16, 2017, Release of 47 Meters Down
June 16, 2017, Release of The Book of Henry
June 14, 2017, A large fire consumes the 24-storey Grenfell Tower apartment block in North Kensington, West London, with the entire building evacuated and over 40 fire engines and 200 firefighters battling the blaze. At least 17 people are dead and more people are treated for injuries, with more people possibly being trapped inside. (BBC)
June 14, 2017, A gunman opens fire at a Congressional Baseball practice, injuring five people, including United States Congressman Steve Scalise (R-LA-01) who is in critical condition. The suspected gunman later died from injuries after exchanging gunfire with Capitol Police. (WUSA)
June 14, 2017, At least six people are killed and seven injured by a 6.9 magnitude earthquake in western Guatemala. (AP via Yahoo! News)
June 14, 2017, Nearly 200 members of the Democratic Party in the United States Congress file a lawsuit in the federal court, claiming that U.S. President Trump profits from business dealings with foreign governments, in violation of the United States Constitution’s emolument clauses. This is the third such suit of its kind, following on the heels of the most recent suit by the Attorneys General of Maryland and the District of Columbia.(The New York Times)
June 14, 2017, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette charges five people, including the director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, with involuntary manslaughter for their roles in the Legionnaires' disease outbreak that led to 12 deaths. (The Washington Post)
June 14, 2017, Four people, including the gunman, are dead, and six injured, after a man opens fire at people in a UPS building in the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California. (Los Angeles Times)
June 15, 2017, Members of the U.S. Congress compete in the annual Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park. The Democrat team beats the Republican team 11–2, but lend the trophy to the Republicans until Rep. Steve Scalise recovers from wounds he received in a shooting the previous day. (Reuters)
June 16, 2017, Release of Cars 3
June 16, 2017, Release of Rough Night
June 16, 2017, Release of All Eyez on Me
June 16, 2017, Release of 47 Meters Down
June 16, 2017, Release of The Book of Henry
June 16, 2017, The USS Fitzgerald, a United States Navy destroyer, collides with a merchant ship MV ACX Crystal off the coast of Japan
at around 2:30 a.m. local time, with seven American sailors reported
missing. The ship was taking on water and able to operate at limited
propulsion. (CNN)
June 16, 2017, Amazon agrees to buy Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion. The takeover deal is expected to be completed in the second half of the year. (BBC)
June 16, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump announces new restrictions on travel and business with Cuba, reversing policies of Cuban Thaw, implemented during the tenure of President Barack Obama. (CNN)
June 16, 2017, Jeronimo Yanez, the police officer previously accused of manslaughter and reckless discharge of a firearm at Philando Castile, is acquitted of all charges. (NBC News)
June 16, 2017, The U.S. Office of Government Ethics certifies President Donald Trump's financial report
which discloses over $315.6 million in personal liabilities and
exceeding $1.4 billion in assets as of mid-2017, for revenues of more
than $594 million over 2016 and early 2017. (Reuters)
June 17, 2017,
June 17, 2017, The suspected death toll of the fire in North Kensington, London earlier in the week significantly increases, as the Metropolitan Police Service reports that a minimum of 58 people are missing and feared dead. (The Telegraph)
June 17, 2017, The suspected death toll of the fire in North Kensington, London earlier in the week significantly increases, as the Metropolitan Police Service reports that a minimum of 58 people are missing and feared dead. (The Telegraph)
June 17, 2017, The trial against comedian Bill Cosby at the Montgomery County Courthouse ends with a hung jury and the consequent declaration of a mistrial. (NBC News)
June 18, 2017,
June 18, 2017,
June 18, 2017, Rescuers find the bodies of seven United States Navy sailors who were missing after the prior day's collision between the USS Fitzgerald and the MV ACX Crystal off the coast of Yokosuka, Japan. (AP, Reuters via The Japan Times)
June 18, 2017, An earthquake and tsunami strike Greenland leaving at least 4 dead. (CBC)
June 19, 2017, The number of people displaced globally totals 65.6 million after an addition of 10.3 million people displaced in 2016. Syria, Colombia, Afghanistan, Iraq and South Sudan are the countries in the top five. (The Washington Post)
June 19, 2017, Brexit negotiations begin in Brussels. (The Guardian)
June 19, 2017, American student Otto Warmbier, who returned to the United States after serving 17 months in the North Korean prison system dies after returning from North Korea last week in a comatose state. His family has accused the Government of North Korea of torturing him. (AP via Aus. Broadcasting Corp.)
June 20, 2017, A secret collection of Nazi heritage is found in Argentina. (Reuters)
June 20, 2017, Uber founder and CEO Travis Kalanick
resigns amid pressure from investors due to allegations of sexual
harassment, gender discrimination, and corporate misconduct in the
company. (The New York Times)
June 21, 2017, Release of Transformers: The Last Night
June 21, 2017, The United Kingdom experiences its first early summer heat wave in
over 20 years, and the highest recorded June temperatures in over 40
years with a reading of 34.5C (94F) recorded at Heathrow Airport. (BBC)
June 21, 2017, The European Space Agency (ESA) approves the PLATO space observatory which will seek out Earth-like exoplanets. (Sky News)
June 22, 2017, Series Premiere of The Mist
June 22, 2017, A 6.8-magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Puerto San José, Guatemala. (CNN)
June 22, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump clarifies that he did not record any private conversations with former FBI Director James Comey. (Chicago Tribune)
June 22, 2017, Markelle Fultz of the University of Washington is selected first by the Philadelphia 76ers. (ESPN)
June 23, 2017, Release of The Beguilded
June 23, 2017, Release of The Big Sick
June 23, 2017, Release of The Bad Batch
June 23, 2017, Series Premiere of Glow
June 23, 2017, Release of The Big Sick
June 23, 2017, Release of The Bad Batch
June 23, 2017, Series Premiere of Glow
June 23, 2017, SpaceX launches BulgariaSat-1, Bulgaria's first ever geostationary communications satellite, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket, which successfully lands on an autonomous spaceport drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. (Orlando Sentinel)
June 23, 2017, ISRO's PSLV-C38 successfully launches Cartosat-2E and 30 other satellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. (The Times of India)
June 23, 2017, Turkey decides to stop teaching evolution to its students until their university level curriculum, deeming it controversial and too complex to understand. Critics say this undermines the secular foundation of the Turkish state. (Reuters)
June 23, 2017, Swiss ice hockey player Nico Hischier is selected first by the New Jersey Devils. (CBC)
June 26, 2017, The Supreme Court of the United States partially reinstates President Donald Trump's travel ban
and invalidates certain injunctions that were put on the order by two
federal appeals courts earlier. Final oral hearings concerning the
legality of the Executive Order 13780 will be held in October 2017 at the Supreme Court. (BBC News)
June 26, 2017, Three CNN journalists, Thomas Frank, Eric Lichtblau, and Lex Haris, resign after the publication of a Russia-related article involving President Donald Trump that was retracted. (ABC News)
June 27, 2017, The European Commission imposes a record €2.42bn antitrust fine on internet giant Google for allegedly manipulating its search engine results. (BBC News)
June 27, 2017, Facebook, Inc. announces that its social media service now has 2 billion regular users, more than a quarter of the world's population. Twitter, by comparison, has 328 million users as of April 2017. (Reuters)
June 28, 2017, Release of Baby Driver
June 28, 2017, Release of Okja
June 29, 2017, Season 3 Premiere of Zoo
June 29, 2017, The United States plans to sell Taiwan $1.42 billion in arms, the first such sale under the administration of Donald Trump. (Reuters)
June 29, 2017, Victoria Police charge Cardinal George Pell, the Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, and the third most senior official of the Catholic Church, with historic child sex offences. Pell will be required to attend hearings at the Melbourne Magistrates Court in Australia on July 19. (ABC News Australia)
June 29, 2017, ISRO launches communications satellite GSAT-17 from French Guiana. (The Indian Express)
June 30, 2017, Release of Despicable Me 3
June 30, 2017, Release of The House
June 30, 2017, Release of The Little Hours
June 30, 2017, Release of Inconceivable
June 30, 2017, Release of 2:22
June 30, 2017,
June 30, 2017,
June 30, 2017, A temperature of 53.7°C (128.7°F) is recorded during the 2017 heat wave in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, breaking Iran's previous record and becoming one of the highest temperatures ever recorded on Earth. (The Washington Post)
June 30, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order re-establishing the National Space Council, which was disbanded in 1993. (The Washington Post)
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