2017 Year in Review

January 20- _______ _______ is sworn in as the 45th President of the United States

March 3- Nintendo releases the _____ worldwide

March 30- _______ conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital-class rocket

April 7- In response to a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town, the U.S. military launches 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an airbase in _____

May 22- An ISIL terrorist bombing attack at an _______ _______ concert in Manchester, England, kills 22 people and injures more than 500

June 5- Montenegro joins ____ as the 29th member

June 21- The Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, ____, is destroyed by ISIL

July 4- Russia and China urge _____ _____ to halt its missile and nuclear programs after it successfully tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile

August 21- A total solar ______ is visible within a band across the entire contiguous United States

August 25-30- Hurricane ______ strikes the United States as a Category 4 hurricane, causing catastrophic damage to the Houston metropolitan area. At least 108 deaths are reported

October 1- 60 people are killed and 867 more injured when Stephen Paddock opens fire on a crowd in ___ ______, surpassing the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting as the deadliest mass shooting perpetrated by a lone gunman in U.S. history

November 2- A new species of _______ is identified in Indonesia, becoming the third known species of ________ to be described for almost a century

November 24- A mosque attack in _____, Egypt kills 305 worshippers and leaves hundreds more wounded

December 5- Russia is banned from the 2018 Winter ________ in Pyeongchang by the International _________ Committee

December 14- The ____ _______ Company announces that that it will acquire most of 21st Century Fox