2017 - Rewind

Well, 2017 has come and gone and we had many hopes for 2017, some became true and some were shattered. Many things happened this year. So many, that we might have forgotten some nice, bad, sad or amazing things.




Pictures of the year





The wrong direction

It’s the one thing that happened in Virginia on a sunny August day. Far-rights oppose the the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue. It ends up in violent confrontations with counter-demonstrators. A man drove into a crowd of people, kills one woman and injures 19 people.





The dark shadow over the country

The United Kingdom, the country of moderation, common sense and now: devastation. The Grenfell Tower burned down. The police corrected the amount of fatalities many times until the final number: 79. Police and fire services believe the fire started accidentally in a fridge-freezer on the fourth floor.





The Twitter king

The Tweets of President Donald Trump move through the year like a temperature chart. He has made use of Twitter in his campaign already – and even more after his inauguration. Here he gives insight into his head. The rough tone changes the politics in the US and the world.





Black days in Hamburg

On July 7th and 8th the world should look upon Hamburg with admiration – that is what Angela Merkel wanted. But things turned out quite differently. Cars were burned, rocks were thrown, shops were looted. Overchallenged police officers fought with violent protestors. And nobody wants tob e the offender.





The Times They Are a-Changin‘

2017 was the year of many losses and failures – and elections. Angela Merkel won the German election, but the formation of a government proves to be difficult. And then the „Jamaica-Coalition“ talks collapsed after a deadlock on migration and energy. The „Without-Any-Alternative“-Chancellor passes through stormy weather with her country.





The dead city with the will to live

The battle of Mossul leaves debris and rubble before freedom. It will take many months to get this desired thing named freedom for a city that was under ISIS‘ command for years. But now it’s free. But this is not the city of a new start – rather of revenge. And in the heads of the people grows the hate of tomorrow.





Peace is being threatened everywhere

Only one of many focuses of this year was the verbal dispute of Trump and Kim Jong-Un. He looks at a rocket test but their rockets don't fly far - "yet".




Attacks

January 1st: 39 people are killed in a night club in Istanbul.

March 22nd: A man kills 5 people and injures 40-50 people on the Westminster Bridge in London.

April 3rd: A suicide bomber kills 14 people in the Saint Petersburg Metro.

April 7th: A denied asylum seeker kills 4 people in Stockholm with a truck.

April 15th: An attack on a convoy of buses near Aleppo kills 120 people.

May 22nd: 22 people are killed at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester.

June 3rd: A delivery van kills 8 people on the London Bridge.

August 17th: A terrorist kills 14 people in Barcelona with a delivery van.

October 1st: 58 people are killed in the Las Vegas Strip Shooting.

October 14th: A car bomb detonated in Mogadishu, Somalia, claiming the lives of 358 people.

November 5th: A man kills 26 people in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.



Catastrophes

June 17th: Four deadly wildfires kill 65 people and injure 204 people in Central Portugal.

September 5th-11th: Hurricane Irma claims the lives of 134 people and does $66 billion of damage.

October 8th-31st: 43 people die and over 8900 residences are destroyed in wildfires in Northern California.



Sports

February 5th: The New England Patriots win the 51st Super Bowl.

March 26th: The 68th Formula 1 season begins.

June 3rd: Real Madrid wins the Champions League against Juventus Turin and successfully defended their title.

July 1st-23rd: 104th Tour de France.

July 2nd: Germany wins the FIFA Confederations Cup for the first time.

September 13th: The IOC announces Paris as host of the Olympic Games 2024 and Los Angeles of 2028.



Memorial Days

May 29th: 100th birthday of John F. Kennedy.

October 31st: 500th anniversary of the 95 Theses of Martin Luther.

November 7th: 100th anniversary of the October/Bolshevik Revolution.



Various

The official “Word of the Year” chosen by Oxford Dictionaries is “youthquake”.

The film “Running Man” (1987) is set in 2017.

A total solar eclipse on August 21st amazes people in the Atlantic, Northern Pazific and in Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia and South Carolina.

The Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg opens after 10 years of construction and 886 Million € spent.

Salvador Sobral from Portugal wins the 62nd Eurovision Song Contest.

Germany and Australia allow same-sex marriage.

Roaming fees are discontinued in the EU.

Women are allowed to drive cars next summer in Saudi Arabia.

90% of the Catalan voters (43% of the population) endorse the independence from Spain; 900 people are injured during protests.

On December 15th, net neutrality is repealed by the FCC and their chairman Ajit Pai.



Deaths

Malcolm Young, musician (AC/DC) (*1953, † November 18th)

John Hurt, actor (*1940, † January 25th)

Tom Petty, musician (*1950, † October 2nd)

Jonathan Demme, director (*1944, † April 26th)

Roger Moore, actor (*1927, † May 23rd)

Emma Morano, supercentenarian (*1899, † April 15th)

Helmut Kohl, German chancellor (1982-1998) (*1930, † June 16th)

Hugh Hefner, magazine publisher (Playboy) (*1926, † September 27th)

Fats Domino, musician (*1928, † October 24th)

Roman Herzog, German president (1994-1999) (*1934, † January 10th)

Chuck Berry, musician (*1926, † March 18th)

Jerry Lewis, comedian (*1926, † August 20th)

Chester Bennington, musician (Linkin Park) (*1976, † July 20th)

Bill Paxton, actor (*1955, † February 25th)

Johnny Hallyday, musician (*1943, † December 6th)

Jeanne Moreau, actress (*1928, † July 31st)

Chris Cornell, musician (Soundgarden) (*1964, † May 18th)

Adam West, actor (*1928, † June 9th)

David Cassidy, actor (*1950, † November 21st)




That was 2017. Cheers to a great, better 2018!

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I mean I enjoyed 2017

 

Spoiler: Minor point

I wouldn't say it was 90% of the population since there was only 43% turnout. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_independence_referendum,_2017

2017 was certainly an interesting year, but there is certainly room for improvement in 2018 to say the least.

 

Thanks, edited and corrected.

 

And let's not forget what started all of this:

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2017 wasn't bad. There were low points, and I feel like my family is going under some sectionalism (like the Civil War) right now, but otherwise it's litty titty.