Timeline January 2017

Events in January 2017 17

• 1922 – 2017 Barbara Hale (1922-2017) American actress, Della Street in Perry Mason.
• 1924 – 2017 Mário Soares Father of Democracy A pivotal figure in the transition to democracy and the first Prime Minister after the revolution.
• 1936 – 2017 Mary Tyler Moore (1936-2017) Died 25 January 2017, aged 80 American actress known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show, and a pioneering figure for independent working women on television. She won multiple Emmy Awards and received an Academy Award nomination for Ordinary People. She died of complications from pneumonia.
• 1940 – 2017 John Hurt (1940-2017) Died 25 January 2017, aged 77 British actor known for roles in Alien, The Elephant Man, and the Harry Potter films. He received Academy Award nominations for Midnight Express and The Elephant Man. He died of pancreatic cancer.
• 1949 – 2017 John Wetton (1949-2017) Died 31 January 2017, aged 67 English bassist and vocalist known for his work with King Crimson, Uriah Heep, and as a founding member of the band Asia. He co-wrote the hit single "Heat of the Moment." He died of colon cancer.
• 2009 – 2017 Obama presidency 44th President — 2009 to 2017 Barack Obama served as the 44th President from January 20, 2009 to January 20, 2017. He passed the Affordable Care Act, ordered the raid killing Osama bin Laden, and signed the Paris Climate Agreement.
• 2017 Australian Open 2017 Men: Roger Federer · Women: Serena Williams Federer won the Australian Open after a 5-year drought, defeating Nadal in five sets. Serena won while pregnant with her first child.
• 2017 2017: Lewis Hamilton Mercedes Hamilton won his fourth title, seeing off a strong challenge from Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel.
• 2017 Everest Rescue During a summit of Everest, abandoned his own climb to rescue a Malaysian climber stranded in the death zone at over 8,000 metres, carrying the man on his back to safety.
• 2017 Final Film Role Made her final film appearance in How to Be a Latin Lover.
• 2017 Infinity Mirrors at the Hirshhorn and Kusama Museum Opens A 50-year retrospective featuring six Infinity Mirror Rooms opened at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, generating 34,000 Instagram posts and 330 million social media impressions — making her the defining artist of the Instagram age. In Tokyo, the Yayoi Kusama Museum opened, dedicated to exhibiting her work.
• 2017 Killing Commendatore Published Killing Commendatore, a Gatsby-meets-Genji novel about a portrait painter who discovers a hidden painting in an attic. The book was another international bestseller.
• 2017 Meltdown and Spectre — fundamental CPU vulnerabilities Researchers reveal Meltdown and Spectre in January 2018 — fundamental security vulnerabilities in the speculative execution mechanisms used by virtually all modern processors, including Intel's. Meltdown is primarily an Intel problem; Spectre affects nearly all processor architectures. Patches for Meltdown reduce performance by up to 30% on some workloads. The vulnerabilities, present in processors manufactured since 1995, cannot be fully fixed in hardware without redesigning the processors. Intel faces class-action lawsuits and the revelation that its processors' security model is fundamentally flawed.
• 2017 – 2021 Trump 1st presidency 45th President — 2017 to 2021 Donald Trump served as the 45th President from January 20, 2017 to January 20, 2021. He was impeached twice, cut taxes, appointed three Supreme Court justices, and oversaw Operation Warp Speed producing COVID vaccines.
• 2017 Trump inaugurated 45th US President takes office Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States on January 20, 2017.
• 2017 Barbara Hale dies in Sherman Oaks Barbara Hale dies aged 94.
• 2017 The Turing Law Around fifty thousand men Provisions of the Policing and Crime Act come into force, posthumously pardoning all men convicted under the historical laws against homosexual acts and providing a route for the living to have convictions disregarded. It is named after him.