Date in year · 2017 · The 2010s
January 25, 2017
January 25, 2017 — a day on which Stephen P. Cohen and Robert Garcia share the historical record. 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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- April 11 The tour bus of the German football team Borussia Dortmund is attacked with roadside bombs in Dortmund, Germany. Three bombs exploded as the bus ferried the team to the Westfalenstadion for the first leg of their quarter-final against Monaco.
- April 3 A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people.
- April 4 Syria conducts an air strike on Khan Shaykhun using chemical weapons, killing 89 civilians.
- April 6 U.S. military launches 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an air base in Syria. Russia describes the strikes as an "aggression", adding they significantly damage US-Russia ties.
- April 7 A man deliberately drives a hijacked truck into a crowd of people in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people and injuring fifteen others.
- April 7 U.S. President Donald Trump orders the 2017 Shayrat missile strike against Syria in retaliation for the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack.
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