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2 March – New elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly are held. The Democratic Unionist Party loses ten seats, while Sinn Féin loses one seat. [30]5 March – Tens of thousands of people including NHS employees, campaigners and union representatives march in London to protest against "yet more austerity" in the health service.
2 January The government announces proposals to build seventeen new towns and villages across the English countryside. [2] Yassar Yaqub is killed in a police shooting during an operation on the M62 near Huddersfield. [3] 9 January – Seven year old Katie Rough is fatally asphyxiated and stabbed in the neck near her home in Woodthorpe, York.
Venezuelan Constitutional Assembly election, 2017. At a news briefing in London, the CEO of Smartmatic, the Venezuelan-owned multinational company that provided the election system used in Sunday's election, says the number of those participating in the poll was tampered with, off by at least one million. Immigration policy of Donald Trump
2 August – The Duke of Edinburgh carries out his final official engagement before retiring from public duties at age 96. [39] 21 August – The chimes of Big Ben fall silent as a four-year renovation of the building begins. [40] 29 August – Kezia Dugdale resigns as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party after two years in the role [41]
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1301 – King Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century.; 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (poster pictured), based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
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25 August – British YouTuber KSI gets a majority draw in his YouTube boxing match vs American YouTuber Logan Paul at the Manchester Arena. The fight went down as the biggest event in YouTube history. 29 August – Former SNP leader Alex Salmond resigns from the party to avoid internal division amid sexual misconduct claims, which he denies. [216]