2017
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- The shooting site of the Las Vegas shooting. Stephen Paddock shot and killed 60 and injured more than 400 attending a music festival from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel, making it the deadliest mass shooting in American history;
- images of the solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, dubbed the Great American Eclipse;
- an earthquake on the Iran-Iraq border kills 630;
- satellite image of Hurricane Harvey, which devastated Texas, killed 107, and is tied for the costliest hurricane in history;
- the 2017 Mocoa landslide, a catastrophic event that occurred in the town of Mocoa, Colombia that killed 336;
- an earthquake in Puebla was a 7.1 that struck central Mexico, devastated Mexico City, and killed 370;
- the Parliament of Catalonia declares the independence from Spain following Catalonia's referendum on independence, which was not recognized by any country and produced no legal effect;
- South Asian floods kill over a thousand people and affect over 40 million people;
- The Glade of Light, the memorial to a bombing following a Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, that killed 23 and injured over a thousand
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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.
2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly.