january: Millions
march across the globe in protest to the
inauguration of Dear Leader, followed immediately by a federal hiring-freeze and a
controversial travel ban. Artificial intelligence surpasses humans at the ancient game of Go. Sadly, we had to say goodbye to
Mary Tyler Moore.
february: North Korea invites international censure for
testing a ballistic missile over the Sea of Japan and for the very public assassination of the country’s leader’s half-brother. Astronomers discover a solar system comprised of seven Earth-sized
exoplanets in our Goldilocks zone.
march: Millions face the prospect of starvation in northern Africa. Elon Musk successfully recovers and
reuses the booster stage of an orbital class rocket. The United Kingdom invokes
Article Fifty of the European Union Treaty, triggering its exit from the bloc.
april: US retaliatory action in Syria significantly damages the country’s relationship with Russia, then America drops the
largest conventional bomb in Afghanistan. Coral bleaching threatens the world’s reefs. A passenger was violently removed from a commercial airliner prior to take-off, setting off a trend of customer abuse. We had to bid farewell to comedian Don Rickles and actor Jonathan Demme.
may: A terrorist bombing at a concert in Manchester tragically killed twenty-two people and injured hundreds. A
ransomware virus holds computer systems around the world hostage.
French presidential elections put a stay on the spread of conservatism. Sadly, actor Roger Moore, musician Greg Allman and statesman Zbigniew Brzezinski passed away.
june: Amid resounding international criticism and pledges by others to redouble their commitment, the US
withdraws from the Paris Climate Agreement. A dread inferno engulfed an
apartment block in West London, killing seven-one and displacing hundreds. Terror attacks perpetrated by the Cosplay Caliphate ravage Tehran. Former West- and reunified German chancellor
Helmut Kohl passed away, as did actor Adam West.
july: North Korea continues to test more and more sophisticated, longer-range missiles. The Syrian city of Mosul is taken back from ISIL. Huge ice bergs break away from the Antarctic ice shelf. Researchers believe early human migrated out of Africa seventy thousand years sooner than previously thought. We bid farewell to actors Sam Shepard and Jeanne Moreau.
august: The detection of
gravitational waves is becoming a common occurrence. North America experienced a total
solar eclipse. Hurricane Harvey struck the Gulf Coast. The Burmese military carry out ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya people.
The Eagles’ Glen Campbell passed away as did Dick Gregory and Jerry Lewis.
september: Russia
expels hundreds of American diplomats over new sanctions. Hurricane Irma devastates the
Caribbean and
Puerto Rico, followed closely by Hurricane Maria. An earthquake strikes Mexico City. Actor Harry Dean Stanton, Monty Hall and playboy
Hugh Hefner pass away.
october: A gunman opens fire on an audience gathered for a concert in Las Vegas, Nevada from high atop a casino resort hotel and killed fifty-eight and injured hundreds, surpassing last year’s deadliest shooting at an Orlando, Florida nightclub, failing again to make Americans more willing to discuss
gun-control. The US withdraws in protest from
UNESCO, with Israel following immediately after. Austria elects a far-right coalition. Our Solar System gets an
interstellar visitor. German researchers discover that there has been a seventy-five percent drop in insect biomass over the past twenty-five years. Catalonia
declares independence from Spain.
Tom Petty dies.
november: A German newspaper publishes a tranche of documents leaked by an offshore law firm as an
encore to the
Panama Papers. A work attributed to
Da Vinci fetches the highest price ever paid at an auction for a piece of fine art. Many brave women come forward and confront their sexual harassers. Parliament will be given a final vote on the divorce deal before the UK leaves the EU. Actors David Cassidy and Jim Nabors pass away.
december: More
wildfires ravage California. The Trump regime provocatively recognises Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moves to eviscerate net neutrality and other
consumer protections. Russia is barred from the Olympics due to its sanctioned, systemic doping practises. Narrowly, Alabama elects a senator from Democratic party rather than a sexual predator, though there is still one in the White House. Entertainer Rose Marie and French rockstar Johnny Halliday pass away.
february: North Korea invites international censure for testing a ballistic missile over the Sea of Japan and for the very public assassination of the country’s leader’s half-brother. Astronomers discover a solar system comprised of seven Earth-sized exoplanets in our Goldilocks zone.
march: Millions face the prospect of starvation in northern Africa. Elon Musk successfully recovers and reuses the booster stage of an orbital class rocket. The United Kingdom invokes Article Fifty of the European Union Treaty, triggering its exit from the bloc.
april: US retaliatory action in Syria significantly damages the country’s relationship with Russia, then America drops the largest conventional bomb in Afghanistan. Coral bleaching threatens the world’s reefs. A passenger was violently removed from a commercial airliner prior to take-off, setting off a trend of customer abuse. We had to bid farewell to comedian Don Rickles and actor Jonathan Demme.
may: A terrorist bombing at a concert in Manchester tragically killed twenty-two people and injured hundreds. A ransomware virus holds computer systems around the world hostage. French presidential elections put a stay on the spread of conservatism. Sadly, actor Roger Moore, musician Greg Allman and statesman Zbigniew Brzezinski passed away.
july: North Korea continues to test more and more sophisticated, longer-range missiles. The Syrian city of Mosul is taken back from ISIL. Huge ice bergs break away from the Antarctic ice shelf. Researchers believe early human migrated out of Africa seventy thousand years sooner than previously thought. We bid farewell to actors Sam Shepard and Jeanne Moreau.
august: The detection of gravitational waves is becoming a common occurrence. North America experienced a total solar eclipse. Hurricane Harvey struck the Gulf Coast. The Burmese military carry out ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya people. The Eagles’ Glen Campbell passed away as did Dick Gregory and Jerry Lewis.
september: Russia expels hundreds of American diplomats over new sanctions. Hurricane Irma devastates the Caribbean and Puerto Rico, followed closely by Hurricane Maria. An earthquake strikes Mexico City. Actor Harry Dean Stanton, Monty Hall and playboy Hugh Hefner pass away.
october: A gunman opens fire on an audience gathered for a concert in Las Vegas, Nevada from high atop a casino resort hotel and killed fifty-eight and injured hundreds, surpassing last year’s deadliest shooting at an Orlando, Florida nightclub, failing again to make Americans more willing to discuss gun-control. The US withdraws in protest from UNESCO, with Israel following immediately after. Austria elects a far-right coalition. Our Solar System gets an interstellar visitor. German researchers discover that there has been a seventy-five percent drop in insect biomass over the past twenty-five years. Catalonia declares independence from Spain. Tom Petty dies.
november: A German newspaper publishes a tranche of documents leaked by an offshore law firm as an encore to the Panama Papers. A work attributed to Da Vinci fetches the highest price ever paid at an auction for a piece of fine art. Many brave women come forward and confront their sexual harassers. Parliament will be given a final vote on the divorce deal before the UK leaves the EU. Actors David Cassidy and Jim Nabors pass away.
december: More wildfires ravage California. The Trump regime provocatively recognises Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moves to eviscerate net neutrality and other consumer protections. Russia is barred from the Olympics due to its sanctioned, systemic doping practises. Narrowly, Alabama elects a senator from Democratic party rather than a sexual predator, though there is still one in the White House. Entertainer Rose Marie and French rockstar Johnny Halliday pass away.
