One woman was killed and many more injured while protesting the white nationalist rally. The Charlottesville City Council voted to remove the statue and change the name of the space from Lee Park to Emancipation Park, sparking protests from white nationalists, neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and members of the 'alt-right.' (Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Ĭonfederate monuments fall: White supremacists marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August to protest the city’s plan to remove a statue of Confederate Army commander Robert E. Lee in the center of Emancipation Park the day after the Unite the Right rally devolved into violence Augin Charlottesville, Virginia. The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Women’s rights: In January, the Women’s March on Washington, which advocated for policies regarding women’s rights and other issues, became one of the largest single-day demonstrations in U.S. In July, ISIS troops were pushed out of the Iraqi city of Mosul. The defeat carried symbolic weight as the second major loss of territory for the Islamic State in three months. U.S.-backed forces take Raqqa: After a four-month fight, the ISIS “capital” of Raqqa fell to a U.S.-backed coalition of Syrian forces, ending three years of ISIS control in the Syrian city. territory of Guam, a small island in the Western Pacific home to two U.S. North Korean state media said the launch was a prelude to more military actions aimed at the U.S. North Korean missile launch: North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan in August, stepping up tensions between Pyongyang and Washington. An undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on Septemshows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspecting a launching drill of the medium-and-long range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 at an undisclosed location.
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