1997

From AmericolaWiki

Centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades:	1960s  1970s  1980s  - 1990s -  2000s  2010s  2020s
Years:	1994 1995 1996 - 1997 - 1998 1999 2000

1997 by topic:

Arts

Architecture - Art - Film - Home video - Literature Music (Country , Metal) - Television

Science and technology

Archaeology - Aviation Meteorology - Rail transport - Science

By country

Australia - Canada - India Ireland - Malaysia - New Zealand - Pakistan - Singapore - South Africa - UK - Wales - Zimbabwe

Other topics

Awards - Sport - Law - State leaders - Sovereign states - Religious leaders - Video gaming

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works v • d • e

1997 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1997 MCMXCVII
Ab urbe condita	2750
Armenian calendar	1446 ԹՎ ՌՆԽԶ
Bahá'í calendar	153 – 154
Buddhist calendar	2541
Chinese calendar	4633/4693-11-22 (丙子年十一月廿二日) — to — 4634/4694-12-2 (丁丑年十二月初二日)
Ethiopian calendar	1989 – 1990
Hebrew calendar	5757 – 5758
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2052 – 2053
- Shaka Samvat	1919 – 1920
- Kali Yuga	5098 – 5099
Holocene calendar	11997
Iranian calendar	1375 – 1376
Islamic calendar	1417 – 1418
Japanese calendar	Heisei 9 (平成9年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2657 (皇紀2657年)
- Jōmon Era	11997
Julian calendar	2042
Korean calendar	4330
Thai solar calendar	2540
v • d • e

1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Unknown Dates 2 Births 3 Deaths 3.1 January 3.2 February 3.3 March 3.4 April 3.5 May 3.6 June 3.7 July 3.8 August 3.9 September 3.10 October 3.11 November 3.12 December 3.13 Unknown date 4 Designations 5 Nobel prizes 6 Templeton Prize 7 1997 in fiction 7.1 Books 7.2 Computer and video games 7.3 Film 7.4 Television

[edit] Events

[edit] January

January
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31

• January 9 - Yachtsman Tony Bullimore is found alive, 5 days after his boat capsized in the Southern Ocean.
• January 10- Bulgarian Student strike vs government of Jan Videnov
• January 16 - Ennis Cosby, the only son of actor Bill Cosby, is killed by a gunman while changing a flat tire in Los Angeles, California.
• January 17 - A Delta II rocket carrying a military GPS payload explodes, shortly after liftoff from Cape Canaveral.
• January 18 - In northwest Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound another.
• January 19 - 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 20 - Bill Clinton starts his second term as President of the United States.
• January 21 - Newt Gingrich becomes the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct.
• January 22 - Madeleine Albright becomes the first female Secretary of State after confirmation by the United States Senate.
• January 23 - Mir Aimal Kasi receives the death sentence for a 1993 assault rifle attack outside CIA headquarters that killed 2 and wounded 3 others.
• January 26 - The Green Bay Packers defeat the New England Patriots, 35-21, in Super Bowl XXXI.
• January 27 - It is revealed that French museums had nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by Nazis.

[edit] February

February
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
					1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28

• February 4
  • O.J. Simpson is found liable in civil court for the death of Ron Goldman and for the battery of Nicole Brown Simpson. Simpson is ordered to pay $35,000,000 in damages to the families of the 2 victims.
  • On their way to Lebanon, 2 Israeli troop-transport helicopters collide, killing 73.
  • After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
  • Ipswich Town footballer Adam Tanner, who recently failed a drugs test, is banned from football for three months at an FA hearing. Tanner received a relatively lenient punishment as he had admitted taking drugs at the first attempt and shown remorse for his behaviour.
  • British Home Secretary Michael Howard informs Moors Murderer Myra Hindley that she will never be released from prison. Mr Howard made the decision in agreement with a recommendation made by his predecessor David Waddington in 1990.
• February 5
  • The so-called "Big Three" banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
  • Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter investment banks announce a $10 billion merger.
• February 9 - The Simpsons surpasses The Flintstones as the longest-running prime-time animated series.
• February 10
  • The United States Army suspends Sgt. Major Gene C. McKinney, its top-ranking enlisted soldier, after hearing allegations of sexual misconduct.
  • Sandline affair: Australian newspapers publish stories that the government of Papua New Guinea has brought mercenaries onto Bougainville Island.
• February 13
  • The Washington Post reports that U.S. Justice Department investigators found evidence the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC may have coordinated financial contributions to the Democratic party in violation of U.S. law. This brings a new dimension to the growing 1996 United States campaign finance controversy.
  • STS-82: Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope is started by astronauts from Space Shuttle Discovery.
  • The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 7,000 for the first time, gaining 60.81 to 7,022.44.
• February 19 - The last of the People's Republic of China's major revolutionaries, Deng Xiaoping, dies at 92 (this is followed by weeks of mourning).
• February 22 - In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned, and was born in July 1996.
• February 23 - A large fire occurs in the Russian space station Mir.
• February 28 - The North Hollywood shootout takes place between 2 heavily armed bank robbers and officers of the Los Angeles Police Department.

nothing

[edit] March

March
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
					1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	30
31

• March 1 - The Osaka Dome opens in Chiyozaki, Nishi-ku, Osaka, Japan.
• March 4 - U.S. President Bill Clinton bars federal funding for any research on human cloning.
• March 6
  • Picasso's Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery (recovered a week later).
  • In Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers overrun a military base and kill more than 200.
• March 10 - The main office of Fuji TV moves from Kawadacho, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan to Odaiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
• 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.
• March 12 - Mikail Markhasev is arrested in Los Angeles, California and charged with shooting Bill Cosby's 27-year-old son, Ennis Cosby.
• March 13 - India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
• The National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China creates a new Chongqing Municipality. It was formerly part of Sichuan.
• March 16 - Sandline affair - On Bougainville Island, soldiers of commander Jerry Singirok arrest Tim Spicer and his mercenaries of the Sandline International.
• 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 resulting in the grounding of all An-24s.
• March 21
  • In Zaire, Etienne Tshiksekedi is appointed new prime minister; he ejects supporters of Mobutu Sese Seko from his cabinet.
  • Mercenaries of Sandline International withdraw from Papua New Guinea.
  • The Movie Selena is first shown to public.
• March 22
  • Tara Lipinski, 14, becomes the youngest women's world figure skating champion.
  • The comet Hale-Bopp makes its closest approach to Earth.
• March 24 - Roberto Sanchez Vilella, the second democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico, dies at age 84.
• March 26
  • In San Diego, California, 39 Heaven's Gate cultists commit mass suicide at their compound.
  • The survey of a claimed gold site of Bre-X Minerals in Indonesia reveals it is worthless; Bre-X complains and accuses Internet rumours.
  • Julius Chan resigns as prime minister of Papua New Guinea, ending the Sandline affair.

[edit] April

April
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30

• April 1 - Comic strip switcheroo: Cartoonists of popularly syndicated comic strips swap cartoons for the day.
• April 3 - The Thalit massacre in Algeria: All but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
• April 11 - Fire damages the Turin Cathedral in Italy.
• April 14
  • Fire breaks out in a pilgrim camp on the Plain of Mena, 7 miles from Mecca; 343 die.
  • Former SS Captain Erich Priebke is retried; on July 22 he is sentenced to 5 years in prison.
• April 16 - Houston, Texas socialite Doris Angleton is murdered in her River Oaks home. Roger Angleton later admits to the crime in his suicide note. Despite being found innocent of the crime by a Texas jury, he is later arrested by the United States Department of Justice on similar charges.
• April 18 -Birth of Junaid Suhel Merchant The Red River of the North breaks through dikes and floods Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, causing US$2 billion in damage.
• April 21 - A Pegasus rocket carries the remains of 24 people into earth orbit, in the first space burial.
• April 22
  • Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria; 93 villagers killed.
  • A 126-day hostage crisis at the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, Peru ends after government commandos storm and capture the building, rescuing 71 hostages. One hostage dies of a heart attack, 2 soldiers are killed from rebel fire, and all 14 Tupac Amaru rebels are slain.
  • France supports the new transitional government in Zaire, withdrawing its support of Mobutu Sese Seko.
• April 23 - Omaria massacre in Algeria; 42 villagers killed.
• April 27 - Andrew Cunanan murders Jeffrey Trail, beginning a murder spree that will last until July and end with the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace.

[edit] May

May
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

• May 1
  • Tasmania becomes the last state in Australia to decriminalize homosexuality.
  • United Kingdom general election, 1997: The United Kingdom's Labour Party ends 18 years of Conservative rule.
  • HM Prison Pentridge in Melbourne, Australia, is officially closed.
• May 2 - Tony Blair is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• May 3 - Katrina and the Waves win Eurovision 1997 for the UK with Love Shine A Light, the most successful Eurovision entry ever.
• May 10 - An earthquake near Ardekul, in northeastern Iran, kills at least 2,400.
• May 11 - IBM's Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, the first time a computer beat a chess World champion in a match.
• May 12 - The Russian-Chechen Peace Treaty is signed.
• May 14
  • The Star Alliance is formed between Air Canada, Lufthansa, SAS, Thai Airways International and United Airlines.
  • Laurent Kabila does not attend a second meeting with Mobutu.
• May 16
  • Mobutu Sese Seko leaves Kinshasa (eventually settles in Morocco).
  • U.S. 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.
• May 17 - Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa.
• May 22 - Women in the military: Kelly Flinn, the U.S. Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial.
• May 25
  • Strom Thurmond becomes the longest serving member in the history of the United States Senate (41 years and 10 months).
  • A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
• May 27 - Jarrell Tornado): The second deadliest tornado of the 1990s hits in Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people.
• May 31 - Official opening of the Confederation Bridge, the longest bridge spanning ice covered waters, between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.

[edit] June

June
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
						1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30

• June 1
  • Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi military escorts on board an UNSCOM helicopter try to physically prevent the UNSCOM pilot from flying the helicopter in the direction of its planned destination, threatening the safety of the aircraft and their crews.
  • Chivas wins their 10th Verano '97 championship 7-2 against Toros Neza.
• June 2 - In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
• June 5 - Kim Hyun Chul, son of Kim Young Sam, president of South Korea, is charged with bribery and corruption related to the awarding of government contracts.
• June 6 - In Lacey Township, New Jersey, high school senior Melissa Drexler kills her newborn baby in a toilet.
• June 7 - A computer user known as "_eci" publishes his Microsoft C source code on a Windows 95 and Windows NT exploit, which would later become WinNuke. The source code gets wide distribution across the internet, and Microsoft is forced to release a security patch.
• June 10 - Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief, Son Sen, and 11 of Sen's family members, before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold (the news does not reach outside Cambodia for 3 days).
• June 11 - The British House of Commons votes for a total ban on handguns.
• June 12 - The United States Department of the Treasury unveils a new $50 bill, meant to be more counterfeit-resistant.
• June 13 - A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to the death penalty for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
• June 16
  • Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; some 50 people killed.
  • Radiohead's landmark third album OK Computer is released.
• June 19 - The fast food chain McDonald's wins a partial victory in its libel trial, known as the McLibel case, against 2 environmental campaigners. The judge decides it was true that McDonald's targeted its advertising at children, who pestered their parents into visiting the company's restaurants.
• June 21 - French musician Jean Michel Jarre's "Oxygene Tour" concert is held in the Spodek Arena in Katowice, Poland, for deaf and poorly hearing European children.
• June 25 - An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian Space station, Mir.
• June 30 - The first book in the award winning Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling is published.

[edit] July

July
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31

• July 1 - The United Kingdom hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
• July 4 - NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
• July 5 - In Cambodia, Hun Sen of the Cambodian People's Party overthrows Norodom Ranariddh in a coup.
• July 6 - A major wildfire burns approximately 40% of Seich Sou, a forest just north of Thessaloniki, also posing a significant threat to several areas in the city.
• July 8
  • Mayo Clinic researchers warn that the dieting drug "fen-phen" can cause severe heart and lung damage.
  • NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999.
• July 10
  • In London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neanderthal skeleton, which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
  • Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in Ermua, Spain and murdered by the ETA. At this time the "Ermua spirit" is born.
• July 11 - 90 die in Thailand's worst hotel fire at Pattaya.
• July 13 - The remains of Che Guevara are returned to Cuba for burial, alongside some of his other comrades.
• July 15 - Serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan shoots fashion designer Gianni Versace to death outside Versace's Miami, Florida residence.
• July 16 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 63.17 to close at 8,038.88. It is the Dow's first close above 8,000. The Dow has doubled its value in 30 months.
• July 17 - The F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business.
• July 21 - The fully restored USS Constitution (aka "Old Ironsides") celebrates her 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
• July 22 - The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
• July 23
  • Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
  • Serial killer Andrew Cunanan commits suicide in a Miami, Florida houseboat.
• July 25 - K.R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India's 10th president and the first member of the Dalit caste to hold this office.
• July 27 - Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria; about 50 people killed.

[edit] August

August
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31

• August 1 - Boeing and McDonnell Douglas complete their merger.
• August 2 - Australian ski instructor Stuart Diver is rescued as the sole survivor from the Thredbo landslide in New South Wales, Australia, in which 18 lives were lost.
• August 3 - Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; 40-76 villagers killed.
• August 4 - 185,000 Teamsters Union UPS drivers walk off the job. Cyberdyne Systems goes online for the first time in the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day (fictional).
• August 6 - Microsoft buys a $150 million share of financially troubled Apple Computer.
  • Korean Air Flight 801 is Guam International Airport at Fail Landing,228 Deaths.(Korean Air Flight 801)
• August 13
  • In Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Cruzeiro wins Sporting Cristal of Peru by 1-0 and are Copa Libertadores de América champions by second time.
  • South Park premieres on Comedy Central.
• August 15 - India celebrates 50 years of independence from British rule.
• August 20 - Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people killed, 15 kidnapped.
• August 25 - Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy.
• August 26
  • Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
  • The Independent International Commission on Decommissioning is set up in Northern Ireland, as part of the peace process.
• August 29
  • Rais massacre in Algeria; over 98 (and possibly up to 400) people killed.
  • Christopher Maier of Lexington, Kentucky is bludgeoned to death by serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz. Angel also rapes and beats Christopher's girlfriend, who survives. This is the first of a string of murders that Angel commits.
• August 31 - Diana, Princess of Wales, is taken to a hospital after a car crash shortly after midnight in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris. She is pronounced dead at 4:00 a.m. that morning.

[edit] September

September
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30

• September 3 - Arizona Governor Fife Symington is convicted for various crimes tied to his real estate business, effectively forcing him out of office.
• September 4 - In Lorain, Ohio, the last Ford Thunderbird for three years rolls off the assembly line.
• September 5
  • Beni-Messous massacre in Algeria; over 87 killed.
  • The IOC picks Athens, Greece to be the host city for the 2004 Summer Olympics.
  • Mother Theresa of Calcutta dies of heart failure in Kolkata, India.
• September 6
  • The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place at Westminster Abbey, watched by over 1 billion people worldwide.
  • A Jean Michel Jarre Oxygene in Moscow concert, celebrating the city's 850th anniversary, draws 3.5 million people.
• September 7 - First test flight of the F-22 Raptor.
• September 11 - Scotland votes to create its own Parliament after 290 years of union with England.
• September 13 - Iraq disarmament crisis: An Iraqi military officer attacks an UNSCOM weapons inspector on board an UNSCOM helicopter while the inspector was attempting to take photographs of unauthorized movement of Iraqi vehicles inside a site designated for inspection
• September 14 - The domain Google was registered
• September 15 - Norwegian parliamentary election, 1997
• September 17 - Iraq disarmament crisis: While waiting for access to a site, UNSCOM inspectors witness and videotape Iraqi guards moving files, burning documents, and dumping waste cans into a nearby river.
• September 18 - Wales votes in favour of devolution and the formation of a National Assembly.
• September 19 - Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed.
• September 21 - The AIS, the FIS' armed wing, declares a unilateral ceasefire in Algeria.
• September 22 - Bentalha massacre in Algeria; over 200 villagers killed.
• September 25 - Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM inspector Dr. Diane Seaman catches several Iraqi men sneaking out the back door of an inspection site, with log books for the creation of prohibited bacteria and chemicals.
• September 26
  • An air crash in Indonesia kills 234 people (likely caused by smoke rising from numerous forest fires in the area).
  • An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
• September 27
  • The Požega Diocese (Catholic) is founded.
  • The Adelaide Crows Win the AFL Premiership for the First Time in their 7th season, beating St Kilda who have only ever won 1 premiership in their 100 year history.

[edit] October

October
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31

• October 1
  • The main office of Kansai TV moves from Nishi-Temma, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan to Ogimachi, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan.
  • Luke Woodham walks into Pearl High School in Pearl, Mississippi and opens fire, killing 2 girls, after killing his mother earlier that morning .
• October 2 - UK scientists Moira Bruce and John Collinge, with their colleagues, independently show that the new variant form of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is the same disease as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or "mad-cow disease".
• October 4 - One million men gather for Promise Keepers' "Stand in the Gap" event in Washington, DC.
• October 4 - The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history ($17.3 million, mostly in small bills) occurred at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. An FBI investigation eventually resulted in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the stolen cash.
• October 11 - The mixed martial arts organisation PRIDE Fighting Championships holds its inaugural event at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan. In the main event Rickson Gracie defeats Nobuhiko Takada by armbar.
• October 12 - Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria: 43 are killed at a fake roadblock.
• October 15 - Andy Green sets the first supersonic land speed record for the ThrustSSC team, led by Richard Noble of the United Kingdom. ThrustSSC goes through the flying mile course at Black Rock Desert, Nevada at an average speed of 1,227.985 km/h (763.035 mph).
• October 15 - NASA launches the Cassini-Huygens probe to Saturn.
• October 17 - The remains of Che Guevara are laid to rest with full military honours in a specially built mausoleum in the city of Santa Clara, Cuba, where he had won the decisive battle of the Cuban Revolution 39 years before.
• October 27
  • The Florida Marlins win Game 7 of the 1997 World Series against the Cleveland Indians 3-2 in 11 innings.
  • Stock markets around the world crash because of a global economic crisis scare. The Dow Jones Industrial Average follows suit and plummets 554.26, or 7.18%, to 7,161.15. The points loss exceeds the loss from Black Monday. Officials at the New York Stock Exchange for the first time invoke the "circuit breaker" rule to stop trading (this was a very controversial move and prompted a quick change in the rule; trading stops will only occur when the DJIA drops at least 10 or 20 percent) (see October 27, 1997 mini-crash).
• October 28 - The bulls come running back as the Dow Jones Industrial Average gains a record 337.17 to 7,498.32. One billion shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange for the first time ever.
• October 29 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq says it will begin shooting down U-2 surveillance planes being used by UNSCOM inspectors.
• October 30 - In Newton, Massachusetts, British au pair Louise Woodward is found guilty of the baby-shaking death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen.

[edit] November

November
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
					1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	30

• November 3 - In France, striking truck drivers blockade ports during a pay dispute.
• November 9 - BBC News 24 is launched.
• November 10
  • Telcoms WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a US$37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom (the largest merger in US history).
  • A Fairfax, Virginia jury finds Mir Aimal Kasi guilty of murdering 2 CIA employees in 1993.
• November 11
  • Mary McAleese is elected the 8th President of Ireland.
  • The last Pentium 586 MMX cpu (233 MHz) is made (until the Pentium II).
• November 12 - Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
• November 16 - After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.
• November 17 - In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut (police kill the assailants).
• November 19 - In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey, a resident of the nearby town of Carlisle, gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all 7 babies were born alive.
• November 22 - Australian singer, and INXS frontman, Michael Hutchence, 37, is found hanged in a Sydney hotel room.
• November 27 - Second Souhane massacre in Algeria: 25 killed.

[edit] December

December
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	31

• December 1 - Heath High School shooting: Michael Carneal fires at his classmates at Heath High School in Paducah, Kentucky, leaving three dead and five wounded.
• December 3 - In Ottawa, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign a treaty prohibiting the manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel land mines. The United States, the People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.
• December 5 - John O'Shaugnessey, 32, admits the rape and murder of 9-year-old Kayleigh Ward at Chester Crown Court. The trial judge sentences O'Shaugnessey, of Blacon, Chester, to life imprisonment with a recommendation that he should serve at least 30 years before being considered for parole.
• December 8 - Moors Murderer Myra Hindley arrives at the High Court to contest a recent Home Secretary's decision that she should remain in prison until she dies.
• December 17 - The term "weblog" is coined by Jorn Barger.
• December 18 - Myra Hindley loses her High Court appeal against the government's decision to keep her behind bars for the rest of her life. Lord Bingham, the Lord Chief Justice, rules that current Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw and his Conservative predecessor Michael Howard were legally entitled to keep her in prison. However, the High Court has given Hindley permission to appeal against her sentence in a higher court.
• December 24 - Sid El-Antri massacre in Algeria: 50-100 villagers are killed.
• December 27 - Loyalist paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, inside Long Kesh prison.
• 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. Michael Corleone passes away at the age of 77
• December 30 - Wilaya of Relizane massacres of December 30, 1997: In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, 400 people are killed from 4 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 are followed by another set of local massacres.
• December 31 - After 26 years in operation, the Opryland USA theme park in Nashville, Tennessee closes permanently.

[edit] Unknown Dates

• Miami police arrests Russian criminal who tries to sell a Russian submarine to the Colombian drug cartels.
• The Toyota Prius comes to showrooms, only in Japan. The Prius was the first hybrid vehicle to go into full production. It would come to U.S. showrooms in 2000.

[edit] Births

• January 9 - Lauryn McClain, American actress and singer
• January 13 - Marius Borg Høiby, son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway
• January 14 - Nastya and Masha Tolmachevy (The Tolmachevy Twins), Russian singers
• January 24 - Jonah Bobo, American actor
• March 3 - Maria Francisca Isabel de Bragança, daughter of Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza
• March 27
  • Princess Aisha of Jordan
  • Princess Sara of Jordan
• April 13 - Sloane Momsen, American actress
• May 1 - Ariel Gade, American actress
• July 15 - Prince Lukás of Bulgaria
• July 20 - Billi Bruno, American actor
• October 8
  • Connor Carmody, American actor
  • Bella Thorne, American actress and model
• October 12 - Prince Boris of Bulgaria, 2nd in line to the Bulgarian throne
• November 13
  • Brent Kinsman, American actor
  • Shane Kinsman, American actor
• November 19 - McCaughey septuplets, the world's first surviving set of septuplets

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January

• January 6 - Catherine Scorsese,