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1997
1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Reef.
Events
January
February
March
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March 1
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March 4 - United States President Bill Clinton bars federal funding for any research on human cloning.
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March 6 - Picasso's Tete de Femme is stolen from a London gallery (it was recovered a week later).
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March 10 - The main office of Fuji TV moves from Kawadacho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan to Odaiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
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March 11 - An explosion at a nuclear waste reprocessing plant in Japan exposes 35 workers to low-level radioactive contamination in the worst nuclear accident in Japan's history.
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March 12 - Mikail Markhasev is arrested in Los Angeles, California and charged with shooting Bill Cosby's 27-year-old son, Ennis Cosby.
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March 13 - India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
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March 18 - The tail of a Russian An-24 charter plane breaks off while en-route to Turkey causing the plane to crash killing all 50 on board and later the grounding of all An-24s.
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March 22 - 14 year, 10 month old Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest champion of the women's world figure skating competition.
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March 24 - Roberto Sanchez Vilella, the second Democratically Elected Governor of Puerto Rico, dies at age 84.
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March 26
April
May
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May 1
- Tasmania becomes last state in Australia to decriminilize homosexuality
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May 2 - Tony Blair appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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May 10 - An earthquake near Ardekul in northeastern Iran kills at least 2,400
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May 11 - IBM's Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, the first time a computer beat a chess World champion in a match.
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May 12
- Barnes and Noble Inc. filed a lawsuit against Amazon.com, a day before Amazon launched its initial public offering.
- The Russian-Chechen Peace Treaty signed.
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May 14 - The Star Alliance is formed between Air Canada, Lufthansa, SAS, Thai Airways International and United Airlines
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May 16 - US President Bill Clinton issues a formal apology to the surviving victims of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and their families, 25 years after the 40 year "study" was exposed by reporter Jean Heller .
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May 22 - Women in the military : Kelly Flinn, US Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial
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May 25
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May 27 - A strong tornado hits in Jarrell, Texas killing 27 people. It was the second deadliest tornado of the 1990s (see Jarrell Tornado).
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May 29 - Jeff Buckley(b.1966), a musician and son of folk singer Tim Buckley drowns in Memphis, Tennesse
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
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December 1 - Michel Carneal fires at students in West Paducah , Ky - 3 dead, five wounded
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December 2 - Actress/model Anat Elimelech is murdered by her boyfriend, the hairstyler David Afuta
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December 3 - In Ottawa, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign a treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however
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December 19 - Astrophysicist David Schramm is killed in a plane crash near Denver, Colorado.
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December 24 - Sid El-Antri massacre in Algeria; 50-100 villagers killed.
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December 27 - Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland
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December 29 - Hong Kong begins to kill all the chickens within its territory (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain
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December 30 - In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres of December 30, 1997, 400 people are killed from four villages in the wilaya of Relizane: Khrouba (176 deaths), Sahnoun (113 deaths), El-Abadel (73 deaths), and Ouled-Tayeb (50 deaths). Six days later they would be followed by another set of local massacres.
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Miami police arrests Russian criminal who tries to sell a Russian submarine to the Columbian drug cartels
- The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger in December 1997.
Year in topic
Births
Deaths
January-May
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January 10 - Sheldon Leonard, producer, actor, director
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January 17 - Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer, discoverer of Pluto.
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January 19 - James Dickey, poet, novelist
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January 20 - Curt Flood, baseball star
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January 21 - Colonel Tom Parker , celebrity manager
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February 1 - Herb Caen, newspaper columnist
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February 2 - Chico Science, Brazillian musician.
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February 5 - Pamela Harriman, US Ambassador to France
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February 11 - Don Porter , actor.
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February 19 - Deng Xiaoping, Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China
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February 20 - Edmond Yu, medical student
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March 9 - The Notorious B.I.G., rap musician
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March 10 - La Vern Baker, singer
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March 14 - Fred Zinnemann, director
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March 19 - Willem de Kooning, artist
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March 20 - Tony Zale, Boxer
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April 5 - Allen Ginsberg, US poet
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April 7 - Georgi Shonin, cosmonaut
- April 7 - Witto Aloma, Major League Baseball player (b. 1923)
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April 16 - Doris Angleton, Houston, Texas socialite
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May 5 - Walter Gotell, actor
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May 14 - Harry Blackstone Jr., magician
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May 29 - Jeff Buckley, musician (accidental drowning)
June-August
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June 22 - Gérard Pelletier, French journalist, politician and diplomat (b. 1919)
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June 24 - Brian Keith, actor (b. 1921)
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June 26 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer
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June 28 - Mrs. Miller, singer
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July 2 - James Stewart
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July 4 - Charles Kuralt, television reporter
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July 15 - Gianni Versace, fashion designer
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July 20 - John Akii-Bua Ugandan hurdler
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July 23 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete
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July 24 - William J. Brennan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1906)
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August 2 - William S. Burroughs, US author
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August 2 - Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and political activist
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August 8 - Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian born pianist (b. 1915)
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August 10 - Conlon Nancarrow, composer
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August 10 - Selena Peart Taylor , daughter of Rush drummer Neil Peart, in an automobile accident
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August 12 - Luther Allison, blues musician
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August 24 - Louis Essen, physicist
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August 29 - Christopher Maier , student killed by Angel Maturino Resendiz
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August 31 - Diana, Princess of Wales
- August 31 - Dodi Al-Fayed
September-December
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September 2 - Rudolph Bing, opera manager (b. 1902)
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September 5 - Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (b. 1912)
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September 5 - Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa)
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September 9 - Burgess Meredith
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September 17 - Red Skelton
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September 19 - Rich Mullins, singer
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October 12 - John Denver - American musician
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October 24 - Don Messick, cartoon voice-over actor
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November 5 - Isaiah Berlin, historian of ideas
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November 11 - Rodney Milburn, American athlete
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November 22 - Michael Hutchence, musician, INXS frontman
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November 25 - Monique Serf, French singer
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November 30 - Kathy Acker, author
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December 19 - David Schramm, astrophysicist
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December 27 - Billy Wright, Irish paramilitary leader
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December 30 - Stephen Carls , scientist
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