12 January 2017Presidential Medal of FreedomJoseph Robinette Biden Jr
Receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction.
Historical records for United States of America in 2017, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction.
Is inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States.
Delivers unscripted remarks at CIA headquarters focusing on media coverage and crowd size.
Faces worldwide protests the day after his inauguration.
Faces first lawsuit alleging violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause.
Reinstates restrictions on U.S. funding to NGOs providing abortion counseling.
Reinstates the Mexico City Policy restricting abortion-related foreign aid.
Directs withdrawal of the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Invites resubmission of the Keystone XL pipeline application.
Signs Executive Order 13767 on border wall planning and construction.
Orders construction of a wall along the southern border.
Signs Executive Order 13768 expanding immigration enforcement.
Signs an executive order restricting entry from several Muslim-majority countries.
Nominates Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
Issues a revised travel ban after legal challenges.
Signs an order rolling back Obama-era climate and coal regulations.
New Horizons reaches the halfway point in distance between Pluto and its next Kuiper Belt target, 2014 MU69.
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Yes.
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Yes.
Orders missile strikes on a Syrian airbase after a chemical weapons attack.
Neil Gorsuch is sworn in as Supreme Court Justice.
Unveils outline of major tax cuts.
Fires FBI Director James Comey.
Delivers speech to leaders of Muslim-majority countries.
Juno microwave measurements reveal ammonia-rich structures extending far below Jupiter's visible cloud tops.
Juno measurements show Jupiter's magnetic field is stronger and more spatially irregular than expected.
Juno data reveal tightly packed giant cyclones surrounding central storms at Jupiter's poles.
Urges NATO allies to increase defense spending.
Announces U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement.
Holds first full Cabinet meeting praising administration achievements.
Attends G20 summit and meets world leaders.
Juno flies directly above the Great Red Spot to probe its structure.
Senate fails to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Faces criticism for saying there were “fine people on both sides” after a deadly rally.
During his leadership of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, LIGO and Virgo make their first three-detector observation of a binary black hole merger.
The International Astronomical Union approves the first official names for surface features discovered on Pluto by New Horizons.
Tombaugh Regio and Burney crater become official Pluto feature names honoring Clyde Tombaugh and Venetia Burney.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves from sources including merging black holes.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for decisive contributions to LIGO and gravitational-wave astronomy, inaugurated by the detection of a binary black hole merger.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for decisive contributions to LIGO and the observation of gravitational waves, first detected from a binary black hole merger.
Barish receives the Nobel Prize for leadership and decisive contributions to LIGO
Thorne receives the Nobel Prize for decisive contributions to LIGO and gravitational wave observation
Weiss receives the Nobel Prize for decisive contributions to LIGO and gravitational wave observation
Engineers successfully fire Voyager 1 trajectory-correction thrusters for the first time in thirty-seven years.
New Horizons photographs Kuiper Belt objects 2012 HZ84 and 2012 HE85 from farther from Earth than any previous spacecraft image location.
Recognises Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
The Act reduces the corporate tax rate and changes individual and business taxation.
Wins the Academy Award for Best Director for La La Land.
Shares the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay for Moonlight with Tarell Alvin McCraney.
Shares the Academy Award for Best Picture as a producer of Moonlight.
Buie helps lead stellar-occultation observations that constrain the size and shape of 2014 MU69 before the New Horizons flyby.
Frieman's Dark Energy Survey collaboration releases first-year multi-probe cosmology results that test matter clustering and the standard dark-energy model with unprecedented survey data.
Directs Detroit, a historical drama set during the 1967 Detroit uprising.
Makes his feature directing debut with Get Out, blending horror with social satire.
Issues archival footage from the Isle of Wight performance.
Makes her solo feature directing debut with Lady Bird, a coming-of-age story set in Sacramento.
Stars as poker entrepreneur Molly Bloom in Aaron Sorkin's directing debut Molly's Game.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.
Stars as Mildred Hayes in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
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