What happened onMarch 8, 2017Wednesday Week 10

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The World in 2017 the year the iPhone lost its home button

Bitcoin started 2017 near $1,000 and touched almost $20,000 in December. Money that grew that fast would have turned $50 into nearly $1,000 in a single year.

Life back then

Fidget spinners took over classrooms in the spring, and slime videos filled YouTube. The Nintendo Switch came out in March and stayed sold out for months. Millions of homes started talking to smart speakers like Alexa, and by fall it felt like every kid at school was playing Fortnite.

The year in 8 events

• 🏛️Jan 20 Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th US president.
• 🕯️May 22 A bomb explodes after an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England. 22 people die.
• 🕯️Jun 14 Fire sweeps through Grenfell Tower, a block of flats in west London. 72 people die.
• 🌑Aug 21 A total solar eclipse crosses the US from Oregon to South Carolina, the first coast-to-coast eclipse since 1918.
• 🕯️Aug 25 Myanmar's army begins a crackdown in Rakhine State. More than 600,000 Rohingya walk into Bangladesh in the months that follow.
• 🪐Sep 15 NASA's Cassini spacecraft ends 20 years in space by diving into Saturn on purpose.
• 📢Oct 15 The #MeToo hashtag goes viral as millions of women share stories of harassment.
• 📜Nov 21 Robert Mugabe resigns as president of Zimbabwe after 37 years in power.

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