What happend in 1997

Events
DateEvent
August 01 1997 Berta Alves de Sousa Died
1997 Henry Barraud Died
November 13 1997 André Boucourechliev Died
1997 František Domažlický Died
1997 Robert Erickson Died
1997 Eric Fenby Died
1997 Ross Lee Finney Died
1997 Jean Françaix Died
1997 Roger Goeb Died
1997 Stéphane Grappelli Died
1997 Francisco Guerrero Marín Died
1997 Wilfred Josephs Died
1997 Toshiro Mayuzumi Died
1997 Conlon Nancarrow Died
1997 Robert Simpson Died
1997 Carlos Surinach Died
1997 Hugo Weisgall Died
January 01 1997 Zaire Joins The World Trade Organization
January 01 1997 Kofi Annan Appointed UN Secretary-General
January 03 1997 China Announces River Erosion, Pollution Fight
January 17 1997 Rocket Carrying A Satellite Explodes At Cape Canaveral
January 18 1997 Hutu Militia Kills Three Spanish Aid Workers
January 18 1997 Ousland, First Solo Trip Across Antarctica
January 19 1997 Return Of Yasser Arafat To Hebron Followed By Celebrations
January 21 1997 Gingrich Reprimanded For Ethics Violations, Disciplined
January 23 1997 Albright: 1st Female US Secretary Of State
January 23 1997 Greek Serial Killer Sentenced For Life
February 04 1997 Israeli Helicopters Collide Mid-air, 73 Dead
February 04 1997 Serbian President Milosevic Recognizes Opposition Victories
February 05 1997 Switzerland Creates $71m Holocaust Survivor Fund
February 11 1997 Discovery Launched On Mission To Hubble
February 22 1997 Scotland: Scientists Announce Successful Sheep Cloning
February 25 1997 South Korea: Han-Yong (N. Korean Defector) Murdered
February 28 1997 3,000 Dead In Northern Iran Earthquake
February 28 1997 North Hollywood - 19 Injured, 2 Dead Shooters
February 28 1997 GRB 970228 Strikes Earth For 80 Seconds
February 28 1997 Military Coup In Turkey
March 03 1997 Sky Tower In New Zealand Opens
March 09 1997 Comet Hale–Bopp And Their Treatment
March 13 1997 Mother Teresa Succeeded By Nirmala Of India
March 13 1997 Phoenix Lights Are Seen Over Phoenix
March 18 1997 Russian Antonov An-24 Charter Plane Crash
March 22 1997 Tara Lipinski, 14, Youngest Figure Skating Champion
March 22 1997 Comet Hale-Bopps Closest Earth Approach
March 26 1997 Heaven's Gate Mass Suicides: 39 Bodies
April 01 1997 Comet Hale-Bopp Is Spotted
April 03 1997 52 Killed In Thalit Massacre
April 13 1997 Woods: Youngest Golfer To Win Masters
April 19 1997 Flood Overwhelms Grand Forks
April 22 1997 93 Villagers Killed In Khemisti Massacre
April 22 1997 Peru: Japanese Embassy Hostage Crisis Ends
April 23 1997 Forty-two Villagers Killed In Algerian Massacre
April 29 1997 The Chemical Weapons Convention Of 1993 Outlaws Chemical Weapons
May 02 1997 End premiership of sir John Major
May 02 1997 Start premiership of Tony Blair
May 06 1997 Bank Of England Independent From Political Control
May 08 1997 Chinese 737 Crashes At Bao'an Airport
May 10 1997 Earthquake In Iran Leaves 50,000 Homeless
May 10 1997 Maeslantkering Opened By Queen Beatrix In Netherlands
May 11 1997 Computer Defeats Kasparov In Chess
May 15 1997 U.S. Government Acknowledges Laos ""Secret War.""
May 16 1997 Mobutu Sese Seko Flees Zaire
May 17 1997 Zaire Renamed Democratic Republic Of The Congo
May 19 1997 Sierra Gorda Biosphere Established
May 22 1997 First Female US Bomber Pilot Accepts Discharge
May 25 1997 Military Coup Replaces Ahmad In Sierra
May 27 1997 Unusual Tornado Occurs In Jarrell, Texas
May 27 1997 The Us Supreme Court Jones Pusue
June 02 1997 McVeigh Convicted In Colorado For Oklahoma City Bombing
June 06 1997 Melissa Drexler Gave Birth And Killed Baby At Prom
June 10 1997 Killing Ordered By Khmer Rouge Leader
June 12 1997 Queen Elizabeth II Reopens London Globe Theatre
June 13 1997 Oklahoma Bomber McVeigh Sentenced To Death
June 25 1997 Progress Spacecraft Collides With Space Station
June 26 1997 Communications Decency Act Violates Constitution Says Court
June 28 1997 Tyson Disqualified After Biting Holyfield's Ear Off!
June 30 1997 England Gives Hong Kong Back To China
July 01 1997 China Takes Back Hong Kong From British
July 04 1997 NASA Pathfinder Probe Lands On Mars
July 06 1997 Northern Ireland's Drumcree Dispute Causes Mayhem
July 07 1997 Turkish Forces Withdraw From Iraq
July 10 1997 DNA Analysis Of Neanderthal Skeleton
July 10 1997 Miguel Blanco Is Kidnapped By ETA
July 15 1997 Versace Killed By Cananan In Miami
July 19 1997 Ceasefire In Northern Ireland
July 20 1997 USS Constitution Set Sail Again On 200th Birthday
July 22 1997 The Second Blue Water Bridge Opens
July 23 1997 Digital Equipment Corporation Charges Intel
August 03 1997 116 Villagers Killed In Algerian Massacre
August 06 1997 Korean Air 801 Crash In Guam
August 20 1997 60 Killed, 15 Kidnapped In Souhane, Algeria
August 25 1997 Krenz Convicted Of Shoot-to-kill Policy At Berlin Wall
August 26 1997 Algeria Massacre Kills 60 To 100
August 29 1997 An Islamic Group Kills 98 Villagers
August 31 1997 Princess Diana Dies In Paris Car Crash
September 01 1997 Buckingham Palance Annouced Death Of Princess Diana
September 03 1997 Vietnamese Plane Crashes At Phnom Penh
September 06 1997 Princess Diana's Funeral Attended By Millions
September 11 1997 NASA's Mars Surveyor Reaches Mars
September 11 1997 Scotland Votes To Establish Devolved Parliament
September 11 1997 Fourteen Estonian Soldiers Die Kurkse
September 18 1997 Ted Turner Donates US$1 Billion To UN
September 19 1997 53 People Killed In Algerian Massacre
September 26 1997 Indonesian Airplane Crashes Killing 234
September 26 1997 Earthquake Strikes Basilica Of St. Francis At Assisi
September 27 1997 Communications Lost With Mars Space Probe
October 02 1997 The Amsterdam Treaty Is Signed
October 04 1997 17.3 Million Stolen From Wells Fargo
October 10 1997 Uruguay: Austral Airlines Crash Kills 74
October 12 1997 43 Killed In Sidi Daoud Massacre
October 15 1997 Andy Green Break Supersonic Land Speed Record
October 15 1997 Saturn Probe Cassini Lauched From Cape Canaveral
October 25 1997 Nguesso Proclaims Himself President, Congo
October 27 1997 DJIA Plummets On Fears Of Global Meltdown
November 03 1997 U.S. Imposes Sanctions On Sudan
November 10 1997 WorldCom MCI Merger Largest In US History
November 12 1997 Yousef Guilty Of 1993 WTC Bombing
November 16 1997 Jailed Pro-democracy Dissident Released By PRC
November 17 1997 62 Killed In Luxor, Egypt By Islamic Militants
November 27 1997 Second Souhane Algeria Massacre: 25 Killed
December 01 1997 Bihar's Ranvir Sena Attacks Lakshmanpur-Bathe, Killing 63
December 03 1997 Big Three Refuse To Sign Landmine Ban
December 06 1997 Cardo Plane Crashes Into Apartments Killing 67
December 11 1997 The Kyoto Protocol Opens For Signature
December 15 1997 Tajikistan Airlines Crashes In UAE Killing 85
December 17 1997 British Ban Handguns
December 18 1997 HTML 4.0 Published By WWW Consortium
December 19 1997 SilkAir Flight 185 Crashes
December 22 1997 Roman Catholic Activists Massacred In Chiapas
December 22 1997 Aidid Surrenders His Title By Signing A Declaration
December 24 1997 50-100 Die In Sidi Lamri Massacre
December 26 1997 Monserrat Volcano Explodes Resulting In Tsunami
December 27 1997 Billy Wright Is Assassinated
December 29 1997 Hong Kong Kills 1.25 Million Chickens
December 30 1997 Wilaya Of Relizane Massacres




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