1997 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1997?
- January 18, 1997 – Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided.
- January 19, 1997 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
- January 23, 1997 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
- February 7, 1997 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Ox in Chinese astrology.
- February 11, 1997 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
- May 8, 1997 – A China Southern Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people.
- May 11, 1997 – Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
- May 17, 1997 – Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- July 22, 1997 – The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
- September 3, 1997 – Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 (Tupolev TU-134) crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
- September 6, 1997 – Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Over a million people lined the streets and 2.5 billion watched around the world on television.
- September 11, 1997 – NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
- September 19, 1997 – Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed.
- November 12, 1997 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
- November 22, 1997 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
- December 16, 1997 – An episode of Pokémon, “Dennō Senshi Porygon”, aired in Japan induces seizures in 685 Japanese children.
- December 22, 1997 – Hussein Aidid relinquishes the disputed title of President of Somalia by signing the Cairo Declaration, in Cairo, Egypt. It is the first major step towards reconciliation in Somalia since 1991.
- December 27, 1997 – Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
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