1997 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1997?
- January 1, 1997 – Zaire officially joins the World Trade Organization.
- 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.
- March 9, 1997 – Comet Hale-Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.
- March 18, 1997 – The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en-route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s.
- March 21, 1997 – In a Tel Aviv, Israel coffee shop, a suicide bomber kills 3 and injures 49.
- April 22, 1997 – Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria – 93 villagers killed.
- May 22, 1997 – Kelly Flinn, US Air Force’s first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial.
- June 12, 1997 – Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
- August 25, 1997 – Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
- August 26, 1997 – Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
- 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 18, 1997 – United States media magnate Ted Turner donates USD 1 billion to the United Nations.
- November 22, 1997 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
- December 6, 1997 – A Russian Antonov An-124 cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.
- December 15, 1997 – A chartered Tupolev TU-154 from Tajikistan crashes in the desert near Sharja, United Arab Emirates airport killing 85.
- December 18, 1997 – HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium.
- December 19, 1997 – SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
- December 22, 1997 – Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.
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