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January 27, 2017

On January 27, 2017, a naming ceremony for the chemical element tennessine takes place in the United States. 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 27, 2017

  1. 2017 A naming ceremony for the chemical element tennessine takes place in the United States.

    Chemical element with atomic number 117 (Ts)

    Tennessine is a synthetic element; it has symbol Ts and atomic number 117. It has the second-highest atomic number, the joint-highest atomic mass of all known elements, and is the penultimate element of the 7th period of the periodic table. S.

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Emmanuelle Riva French actress (1927–2017)
Arthur H. Rosenfeld American physicist

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