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January 1, 2017

On January 1, 2017, an attack on a nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, during New Year's celebrations, kills 39 people and injures 79 others. The year's #1 song was "Shape of You" by Ed Sheeran.

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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.

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On January 1, 2017

  1. 2017 An attack on a nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, during New Year's celebrations, kills 39 people and injures 79 others.

    2017 nightclub shooting in Ortaköy, Istanbul, Turkey

    The Istanbul nightclub shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on 1 January 2017 around 01:15 local time, in which a terrorist shot and killed 39 people and wounded 79 others at the Reina nightclub in the Ortaköy neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey, where hundreds had been celebrating New Year's Day. Uzbekistan-born Abdulkadir Masharipov was arrested in Istanbul on 17 January 2017. Islamic State claimed credit for his actions.

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Tony Atkinson British economist (1944–2017)
Yvon Dupuis Canadian politician (1926–2017)

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