2017 Events, Highlights and Headlines
The Cleveland Browns become the 2nd team in the NFL history to finish with a no win season after losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers 24-28 on their final game of the 2017 season.
12/31/2017 – The Cleveland Browns become the 2nd team in ...
Heather Menzies-Urich was a Canadian-American model and actress, known for her roles as Louisa von Trapp in the 1965 film The Sound of Music ‘ and Jessica 6 in the TV series Logan’s Run. Wikipedia Born: December 3, 1949, Toronto, Canada Died: December 24, 2017, Park City, UT Children: Ryan Urich, Allison Grady Urich, Emily Urich Spouse: Robert Urich (m. […]
12/24/2017 – ‘Sound of Music’ star Heather Menzies Urich dies ...
Dick Enberg American sportscaster Richard Alan Enberg was an American sportscaster. He provided play-by-play for various sports on numerous radio and television networks, and for individual teams, over the course of an approximately 60-year career. Wikipedia Born: January 9, 1935, Mount Clemens, MI Died: December 21, 2017, La Jolla, CA Awards: Sports Lifetime Achievement Award, MORE Spouse: Barbara […]
11/21/2017 – Dick Enberg, 82, found dead at his Southern ...
Russia is banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang by the International Olympic Committee, following an investigation into state-sponsored doping.
12/5/2017 – Russia banned from Winter Olympics
James Thurston Nabors was an American actor, singer, and comedian. He was born and raised in Sylacauga, Alabama, but he moved to southern California because of his asthma. Wikipedia Born: June 12, 1930, Sylacauga, AL Died: November 30, 2017, Honolulu, HI Height: 6′ 0″ Spouse: Stan Cadwallader (m. 2013–2017) Albums: Jim Nabors’ Christmas Album, Songs of Inspiration, MORE
11/30/2017 – Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle) dies
Miss Universe 2017 was the 66th Miss Universe pageant, held on 26 November 2017 hosted again by Steve Harvey. The event was held at The AXIS at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Wikipedia
11/26/2017 – Miss South Africa wins the Miss Universe 2017
A mosque attack in Sinai, Egypt kills 305 worshippers and leaves hundreds more wounded.
11/24/2017 – Sinai mosque attack
David Bruce Cassidy was an American actor, singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was known for his role as Keith Partridge, the son of Shirley Partridge, in the 1970s musical-sitcom The Partridge Family, … Wikipedia Born: April 12, 1950, New York City, NY Died: November 21, 2017, Fort Lauderdale, FL Cause of death: Liver failure Children: Katie Cassidy, Beau […]
11/21/2017 – David Cassidy from the Partridge Family dies
Charles Manson American criminal Charles Milles Manson was an American criminal and cult leader. In the late 1960s, he formed what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune in California. Wikipedia Born: November 12, 1934, Cincinnati, OH Died: November 19, 2017, Bakersfield, CA Children: Charles Luther Manson, Valentine Michael Manson, Charles Manson, Jr. Spouse: Candy Stevens (m. 1959–1963), Rosalie Jean […]
11/19/2017 – Infamous Charles Manson dead
Malcolm Mitchell Young was an Australian musician and songwriter, best known as a co-founder, rhythm guitarist, backing vocalist and songwriter for the hard rock band AC/DC. Wikipedia Born: January 6, 1953, Glasgow, United Kingdom Died: November 18, 2017, Elizabeth Bay, Australia Height: 5′ 3″ Children: Cara Young, Ross Young
11/18/2017 – AC/DC’s guitarist Malcolm Young dies
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes the border region between Iraq and Iran leaving at least 530 dead and over 70,000 homeless.
11/12/2017 – Iraq/Iran Earthquake
On November 5, 2017, a mass shooting killing 26 people occurred at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) east of the city of San Antonio.
11/5/2017 – Sutherland Springs church shooting
Antoine Dominique “Fats” Domino Jr. was an American pianist and singer-songwriter of Louisiana Creole descent. One of the pioneers of rock and roll music, Domino sold more than 65 million records. Between 1955 and 1960, he had eleven Top 10 hits. Wikipedia Born: February 26, 1928, New Orleans, LA Died: October 24, 2017, Harvey, LA […]
10/24/2017 – Legendary Fats Domino dies
Thomas Earl Petty was an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor. Petty served as the lead singer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers formed in 1976. Wikipedia Born: October 20, 1950, Gainesville, FL Died: October 2, 2017, UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, CA Cause of death: Cardiac arrest Spouse: Dana York (m. 2001–2017), Jane Benyo (m. 1974–1996) Songs Free […]
10/2/2017 – Musician Tom Petty dies
On the night of October 1, 2017, a gunman opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada, leaving 58 people dead and 546 injured. The incident is the deadliest mass shooting committed by an individual in the United States.
10/1/2017 – Las Vegas mass shooting
Hugh Marston Hefner was an American businessman, magazine publisher and playboy. He was the founder of Playboy and editor-in-chief of the magazine, which he founded in 1953. Wikipedia Born: April 9, 1926, Chicago, IL Died: September 27, 2017, Playboy Mansion Buried: September 30, 2017, Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA Spouse: Crystal Harris (m. 2012–2017), Kimberley Conrad (m. 1989–2010), Millie […]
9/27/2017 – Hugh Hefner (founder of Playboy) passes away
Eleven days after another powerful earthquake, and on the 32nd anniversary of the deadly 1985 Mexico City earthquake, a Mw 7.1 earthquake strikes central Mexico, killing more than 350, leaving up to 6,000 injured and thousands more homeless.
9/19/2017 – Deadly earthquake hits Mexico City on 32nd anniversary ...
Cassini–Huygens ends its 13-year mission by plunging into Saturn, becoming the first spacecraft to enter the planet’s atmosphere.
9/15/2017 – Cassini–Huygens ends its 13-year mission by plunging into ...
Hurricane Harvey was the costliest tropical cyclone on record, inflicting nearly $200 billion in damage, primarily from widespread flooding in the Houston metropolitan area. Wikipedia
8/17/2017 – 9/3/2017 Hurricane Harvey was the costliest tropical cyclone ...
Monty Hall Canadian game show host Monty Hall OC, OM was a Canadian-American game show host, producer, and philanthropist. Hall was widely known as the long-running host of Let’s Make a Deal and for the puzzle named after him, the Monty Hall problem. Wikipedia Born: August 25, 1921, Winnipeg, Canada Died: September 30, […]
8/30/2017 – Monty Hall, Co-Creator and Host of ‘Let’s Make ...
Hurricane Irma was an extremely powerful and catastrophic Cape Verde-type hurricane, the strongest observed in the Atlantic since Wilma in 2005 in terms of maximum sustained winds. Wikipedia Total fatalities: 134 Highest wind speed: 183 mph Damage: > $66.77 billion (2017 USD); (Unofficially fifth-costliest hurricane on record) Date: August 30, 2017 – September 16, 2017 Lowest […]
8/30/2017 – 9/16/2017 Hurricane Irma levels Puerto Rico and other ...
Highly publicized boxing match between a boxer and a mixed martial artist. Mayweather TKO’s McGregor in the 10th round.
8/26/2017 – Mayweather against McGregor
Jerry Lewis was an American comedian, actor, singer, producer, director, screenwriter and humanitarian. He was known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio and was nicknamed the “King of Comedy”. Wikipedia Born: March 16, 1926, Newark, NJ Died: August 20, 2017, Las Vegas, NV Children: Gary Lewis, Suzan Lewis, Danielle Sarah Lewis, MORE Spouse: SanDee Pitnick (m. 1983–2017), Patti […]
8/20/2017 – Legendary comedian Jerry Lewis dies
Hurricane Harvey was an extremely destructive Atlantic hurricane which became the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States since Wilma in 2005. Harvey caused at least 83 confirmed deaths; 1 in Guyana, and 82 in the United States.Economic losses are preliminary estimated at between $70 to $200 billion, with a large portion of the losses sustained by uninsured homeowners. […]
8/17/2017-9/14/2018 – Two Hurricanes cripples hundreds of thousands from Texas ...
Sam Shepard American actor Samuel Shepard Rogers III, known professionally as Sam Shepard, was an American actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director whose career spanned half a century. He won ten Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most won by any writer or director. Wikipedia Born: November 5, 1943, Fort Sheridan, […]
7/27/2017 – Sam Shepard, Actor and Pulitzer-Winning Playwright, Is Dead ...
Otto Frederick Warmbier (December 12, 1994 – June 19, 2017) was an American university student who, while visiting North Korea as a tourist in January 2016, was arrested and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment with hard labor after being convicted for attempted theft of a propaganda poster from his hotel.
6/12/2017 – North Korean prisoner Otto Warmbier returned home in ...
The Grenfell Tower fire broke out on 14 June 2017 at the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block of public housing flats in North Kensington, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, West London. It caused 71 deaths, including one stillbirth, and over 70 injuries. Occupants of 23 of the 129 flats died, but 223 people escaped.
6/14/2017 – Grenfell Tower fire
Don Rickles was born May 8, 1926 in New York. After the Golden Era of Hollywood ended, Don Rickles was, until early 2017, one man still living to tell his tales. One of the most respected talents in entertainment, Rickles got his start in the night clubs, toiling for over […]
4/6/2017 – Don Rickles dies
The actor struggled to find work after the campy superhero series was canceled, but he rebounded with voiceover gigs, including one as the mayor of Quahog on ‘Family Guy.’ Adam West, the ardent actor who managed to keep his tongue in cheek while wearing the iconic cowl of the Caped […]
6/9/2017 – Adam West (Batman) dies
The Manchester Arena bombing was an Islamist terror attack in Manchester, United Kingdom. On 22 May 2017 a shrapnel-laden homemade bomb was detonated as people were leaving Manchester Arena following a concert by the American singer Ariana Grande. Twenty-three people were killed, including the attacker, and over 500 were injured. After initial suspicions of a terrorist network, police later said they believed the […]
5/22/2017 – 22 killed at the Ariana Grande concert in ...
Erin Marie Moran Fleischmann (October 18, 1960 – April 22, 2017) was an American actress, best known for playing Joanie Cunningham on the television sitcom Happy Days and its spin-off Joanie Loves Chachi Source: Erin Moran – Wikipedia
4/22/2017 – Erin Moran of Happy Days dies
Emma Morano, the world’s oldest person and the last one known to be born in the 1800s, has died. She was 117. The Italian was born on November 29, 1899. She held the Guinness World Record titles for oldest living person and oldest living woman. “She joined our celebrated hall […]
4/16/17 – Emma Morano, world’s oldest person, dies at age ...
J. Geils Band musician who appeared on rock radio hits “Centerfold,” “Freeze-Frame,” “Love Stinks” found dead at home.
4/12/2017 – Guitarist J. Geils Dead at 71
Chuck Berry, rock ‘n’ roll’s founding guitar hero and storyteller who defined the music’s joy and rebellion in such classics as “Johnny B. Goode,” ”Sweet Little Sixteen” and “Roll Over Beethoven,” died Saturday at his home in an unincorporated area west of St. Louis. He was 90. (more…)
3/18/2017 – Rock ‘n’ Roll legend Chuck Berry dead at ...
Lou Duva Promoter Louis “Lou” Duva was a boxing trainer and manager who handled nineteen world champions. The Duva family promoted boxing events in over twenty countries on six continents. Wikipedia Born: May 28, 1922, New York City, NY Died: March 8, 2017, Paterson, NJ Parents: Salvatore Duva Children: Dino Duva Trained: Evander Holyfield, Pernell Whitaker
3/8/2017 – Legendary Boxing Trainer Lou Duva dies
Actor Bill Paxton has died due to complications from surgery, People magazine reported. He was 61. “It is with heavy hearts we share the news that Bill Paxton has passed away due to complications from surgery,” a family representative said in a statement. “A loving husband and father, Bill […]
2/26/2017 – Actor Bill Paxton dead at 61
Joseph A. Wapner, a California judge who became a widely recognized symbol of tough but fair-minded American jurisprudence during the 12 years he sat on the bench of the syndicated television show “The People’s Court,” died on Sunday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 97.
2/26/2017 – Judge Joseph Wapner dies at the age of ...
Best Picture Moonlight – Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner Arrival – Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, Aaron Ryder, and David Linde Fences – Scott Rudin, Denzel Washington, and Todd Black Hacksaw Ridge – Bill Mechanic and David Permut Hell or High Water – Carla Hacken and Julie Yorn Hidden Figures – Donna Gigliotti, Peter Chernin, […]
2/26/2017 – 89th Academy Awards. Winners, Losers and Flops
Kim Jong-nam was attacked with VX nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia. Kim Jong-nam was the eldest son of deceased North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and the half-brother of current North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Four North Korean suspects left the airport shortly after the assassination and reached […]
2/13/2017 – Kim Jong-nam was attacked at Kuala Lumpur International ...
Al Jarreau, a Grammy Award-winning singer whose versatile tenor voice and vibrant stage style blurred the lines between jazz, soul and pop music, died Feb. 12 at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 76.His publicist, Joe Gordon, announced the death, saying the singer had been treated for exhaustion. The cause […]
2/12/2017 – “We’re in This Love Together” singer, Al Jarreau ...
He launched a worldwide restaurant empire who’s “pizza, pizza” catchphrase became ubiquitous. Mike Ilitch, Little Caesars founder and owner of the Detroit Tigers and the Detroit Red Wings, died Friday at a hospital in the Motor City. He was 87. (more…)
2/10/2017 – Little Caesars founder dies at 87
Born in Santa Monica, California, USA, Richard Hatch was studying classical piano at the age of eight, and knew he wanted to carve out a career as a performer before he reached his teens. After attending Harbor College in San Pedro, he joined a Los Angeles repertory company with which […]
2/7/2017 – ‘Battlestar Galactica’ actor Richard Hatch dies at the ...
New England Patriots defeat the Atlanta Falcons 34-28 in overtime. It was a record-breaking performance for Brady, who crafted the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history and the greatest comeback of his illustrious career. Brady set a Super Bowl record with 43 completions on an absurd 62 attempts, and also […]
5/5/2017 – Patriots win their 5th title during the first ...
Amazing finish to the Australian Open, with Roger Federer finally taking out rival Rafael Nadal in a five-set classic. This a day after Serena Williams made history against sister Venus. (more…)
1/28/2017, 1/29/2017 – Serena Williams and Roger Federer (both 35 ...
Hosted again by Steve Harvey
1/28/2017 – Miss France, Iris Mittenaere, is crowned Miss Universe ...
TV icon Mary Tyler Moore died on Wednesday after being hospitalized in Connecticut, her rep confirmed to The Huffington Post. She was 80. “Today, beloved icon, Mary Tyler Moore, passed away at the age of 80 in the company of friends and her loving husband of over 33 years, Dr. […]
1/25/2017 – Mary Tyler Moore dies at the age of ...
When Masaya Nakamura founded his gaming company Namco in 1955 Tokyo, all he offered to entertain the public were two mechanical horse rides stationed atop a department store’s roof. Years later, he would earn the nickname “Father of Pac-Man,” after his company released the game, which has been played more […]
1/22/2017 – Father of Pac-Man has died at 91
Donald Trump became the 45th President of the United States on Friday, vowing to drain power from Washington elites and always put “America first” in its dealings with the world at a moment of transformative political change. He arrived at the White House for the first time as president just […]
1/20/2017 – Donald Trump sworn in as the 45th President ...
Eugene Andrew “Gene” Cernan (March 14, 1934 – January 16, 2017), (Captain, USN), was an American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot.He traveled into space three times: as Pilot of Gemini 9A in June 1966, as Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 10 in May 1969, and as […]
1/16/2017 – Eugene A. Cernan, the last astronaut to leave ...
Professional wrestler Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka died Sunday, shortly after the murder case over the 1983 killing of his mistress was dismissed. He was 73 and had been battling cancer. (NBC News)
1/15/2017 – Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka, former professional wrestler, dies at ...
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1/14/2017 – After 146 Years, Ringling Bros. And Barnum & ...
The musician famously lost a coin toss for a seat on the plane. His place was taken by teen star Ritchie Valens, who also perished when the plane crashed. Allsup went on to become a Grammy-winning musician, who played with Merle Haggard, Roy Orbison and Willie Nelson. He said he […]
1/13/2017 – Tommy Allsup (Guitarist who avoided Buddy Holly plane ...
Previously, the youngest head coach was Lane Kiffin, who was 31 when he was hired by the Oakland Raiders in 2007. “I am incredibly honored by this opportunity and I want to start by thanking Mr. Kroenke and Kevin Demoff for their faith in me to lead the Los Angeles […]
1/12/2017 – Sean McVay becomes the youngest head coach of ...
William Peter Blatty (January 7, 1928 – January 12, 2017) was an American writer and filmmaker best known for his 1971 novel The Exorcist (Wikipedia)
1/12/2017 – William Peter Blatty (wrote “The Exorcist”) dies at ...
(CNN)Four children died after someone at their home sprayed water on a previously applied pesticide, causing a reaction that produced toxic phosphine gas, officials in Amarillo, Texas, said. At least five other people were hospitalized in Monday’s incident. Fire Capt. Larry Davis said a family member had used water in […]