Year 1997 in History - Important Historical Events of the year 1997

The year 1997 has a special significance of its own in India and world history. Let us know some such important events of the year 1997 such as: born famous people, death of famous people, war treaty, independence of a country, invention of new technology, change of power, important national and international day etc., knowing which your general Knowledge will increase.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
02 May	Tony Blair became the youngest Prime Minister in Britain's parliamentary history. The Labor Party came to power in Britain after 18 years.
06 May	Kristin Janin of France became the first woman in the world to reach the pole.
08 May	China's Southern Airlines flight 3456 crashed, killing 35 people.
12 May	Russia and Chechnya signed a peace deal after 400 years of conflict.
04 June	Telecom satellite reached 2D chamber. Communications satellite provides essential satellite based services to the country
13 June	As many as 59 people who had come to watch the film were killed in Delhi's Upaz cinema.
15 June	Formation of D-8 in Istanbul by 8 Muslim countries.
30 June	British rule ended in Hong Kong.
01 July	The first Science City of the country was established in Kolkata.
04 July	The American vehicle 'Sozner' reached Mars.
08 July	The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) invited Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic to join the organization.
15 July	Italy's famous fashion designer Gianni Versace was shot and killed.
05 September	Founder of Missionary of Charity and Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa died in Kolkata.
18 September	The United States conducted an underground nuclear test called 'holog'.
25 September	Britain's Andy Green set a record by flying a jet flying car at a speed of 714 mph.
15 October	Arundhati Roy was selected for Britain's most prestigious Booker Prize for her novel, "The God of Small Things".
13 November	The Security Council imposed a travel ban on Iraq.
17 November	In southern Egypt, 68 foreign tourists were killed when extremists attacked the bus of tourists.
22 November	Diana Hayden won the world beauty title.
28 November	The then Prime Minister Indra Kumar Gujral resigned.
04 August	Mo. Khatami was sworn in as the new president, winning the election in Iran.
16 August	Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan died.
21 August	Cyclone Vinny killed 140 people and injured three thousand people in eastern China.
23 August	US University of Mississippi Medical Center received turmeric patent four years ago.
25 August	Masuma was appointed the first woman Vice President of Ibtekar Iran.
31 August	Britain's Princess Diana and her lover Dodi al-Khana were killed in a car accident in Paris. His car crashed into a pavement. At that time, Diana was only 36 years old.
19 February	Deng Xiau Peng died at the age of 92, a senior Chinese leader and the foundation of economic reform in the country.
22 February	A team of researchers at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announced for the first time a 'clone' from a cell extracted from a mammalian organism.
05 March	North Korea and South Korea met for peace talks for the first time in 25 years.
18 March	50 people died in a Russian plane crash in Turkey.
01 April	Switzerland's Martina Hingis became the youngest number one female player in tennis history.
02 April	Sumita Sinha set a record by allowing her to cross a truck weighing over 3200 kg.
13 April	US golf player Aldrick Tiger Woods became the youngest player to win the US Masters Championship at the age of 21.
29 April	Ban on chemical weapons enforced.
01 January	Emergency Alert System was introduced, which was approved in 1994.
04 February	On the way to Lebanon, 43 people were killed when two Israeli army-transport helicopters collided.
04 March	US President Bill Clinton withheld federal funds for any research on human cloning.
22 April	Haushe Khemisi massacre: 93 villagers killed in Algeria.
16 May	US President Bill Clinton issued a formal apology to the surviving victims of the Tuskegee study of untreated syphilis in Negro men and their families.
01 June	Hugo Banzer won the presidential election in Bolivia.
11 July	90 people died in a fire at the worst hotel in the city of Pattaya, Thailand.
01 August	Steve Jobs rejoined Macworld, Apple Computer and Inc. of downtown Boston.
05 September	The Beni Messaus massacre in Algeria killed more than 87 people.
12 October	The massacre on the Falls Road block of Sidi Dawood city in Algeria killed 43 people.
13 November	Ramji Yousef was found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
12 December	The 1997 FIFA Confederation Cup began in Saudi Arabia.
02 January	The Howard Stern Rduio showed premiers in Columbus. Ohio is on WBZX 99.7 FM.
03 January	Eddo Brands of Zimbabwe takes ODI HAT-TRICKS vs. England at Harare.
05 January	An Ice Storm knocked out electricity in Quebec and Ontario.
06 January	The famous show “It's a slippery slope” finally ends at Vivian Beaumont Theatre New York city.
10 January	The 18th United Negro College raises its funds. This will be broadcasted on Jan 17th.
10 January	Arnoldo Aleman swears in as President of Nicaragua.
10 January	1000 lire new coin released by Italy shows divided Germany on map.
12 January	Tiger Woods wins Mercedes Championship and it was a good victory for him.
16 January	Anthony Stuart, the Australian cricketer took ODI hat-trick against Pakistan at MCG .
17 January	Dennis Rodman was suspended from NBA and charged a cash of $25000 as he kicked a cameraman.
20 January	The newly discovered comet Hale-Bopp crossed Mars orbit at 6:00 PM.
20 January	Pakistan defeated West Indies 2-0 thereby winning one-day Australian series.
21 January	The U.S. House of Representatives voted 395–28 to reprimand Newt Gingrich for ethics violations, making him the first Speaker of the House to be so disciplined.
23 January	Madeleine Albright was sworn in as the first female United States Secretary of State, the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government.
24 January	Toni Braxton and Alanis Morissette won the 24th American music award.
26 January	Pete Sampras beats Carlos Moya in 85th Australian Mens Tennis by 62, 63, 63.
27 January	Toni Braxton and Alanis Morissette won the 24th American Music Award.
02 February	Marko’ Meara won the award for pebble beach national golf pro - am.
03 February	Howard Stern Radio show premieres to be in Detroit, Michigan on WKRK 97.1 FM radio.
04 February	Margaret Albright, the secretary of US announced that she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish.
05 February	Brook Lee from Hawaii has been crowned as 46th miss USA.
06 February	O. J. Simpson found it liable in murders of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson.
07 February	US and Russia announced summit set on March 20 to 21 for Helsinki.
09 February	Deddue Reynold who was a renowned comedian was awarded the 11th American comedy award held in 1997.
10 February	5th Annual ESPY awards took place on this day.
11 February	Bill Paralls becomes the head coach of New York Jets.
13 February	The Hubble Telescope was captured by Discovery.
15 February	Todd Eldridge won the US Male Figure Skating Championship.
16 February	Paul Stokowski wins Hawaiian Golf Open.
17 February	Carl Sagan Public Memorial was inaugurated at Pasadena California.
19 February	FCC made available 311for non-emergency calls and 711 for hearing or speech- impaired emergency calls on February 19, 1997.
20 February	San Francisco Giants Barry Bonds signs record 22.9 million dollar two year contract on February 20, 1997.
22 February	LPGA Cup Noodles Hawaiian ladies Open was won by Annika Sorenstam.
22 February	Scientists at The Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the birth of a cloned sheep named Dolly, the first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell, seven months after the fact.
23 February	Ali Abu Kamal opens fire in Empire State Building and kills 1.
23 February	NBC TV shows 'Schindler's List,' completely uncensored, 65 million watch.
26 February	Change the world Babyface, Beck and LeAnn Rumis wins the 39th Grammy Awards.
27 February	The famous singer Sade (Helen Fosad) has been arrested in Jamaica for disobeying a cop.
28 February	Smokers must prove that they are above 18 years, only then they will be allowed to purchase cigarettes in US.
28 February	In what has been has viewed as a 'postmodern coup', the Turkish Military leadership issued a memorandum that eventually precipitated the retirement of Turkish Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan.
01 March	Mandy Patinkin in Concert,' has been opened at Lyceum Theater, New York City.
02 March	Prince al-Waleed bin Talal, the Saudi Arab billionaire acquires 5% of Apple Computer.
03 March	Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fayetteville. North Carolina is on WRCQ 103.5 FM.
03 March	The Sky Tower in Auckland, the tallest free-standing structurein the Southern Hemisphere at 328 m (1,076 ft), opened.
04 March	Brazil Senate has allowed women to wear slacks.
04 March	Scientists have stated that Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU).
04 March	Russia has launched Zeya Start-1.
11 March	San Francisco giant J.T. Snow suffers a fractured eye socket. His eye socket was fractured when he was hit by a pitch.
14 March	80 people were killed as Iranian military plane crashed.
14 March	Olympic gold medallist Michael Johnson wins the 67th James E. Sullivan Award.
14 March	President Clinton trips and tears up his knee requiring surgery.
16 March	New Jersey Devil’s Dave Andreychuk became the 26 player to score 500 goals in NHL. He created world history. He after that became a great legend of NHL.
16 March	Stuart Appleby wins Honda Golf Classic.
17 March	CNN began Spanish broad cart.
18 March	Russian AN-24 plane crashed. Around 50 died.
22 March	Comet Hale-Bopp is approaching Earth.
22 March	Tara Lipinski of the United States won the Ladies Figure Skating Championships in Lausanne.
23 March	Mandy Patinkin In Court kicks off at the Lycorn Theater in New York City.
24 March	The Australian Parliament overturned the world's first and only euthanasia law.
26 March	Police in Rancho Santa Fe, California, discovered the bodies of 39 members of Heaven's Gate who died in an apparent cult suicide.
27 March	Mass suicide in California, 39 cult members committed mass suicide.
31 March	The day of remembering the old soap on ABC-TV.
01 April	Gordi Howe began to play AHL game with Syracuse crunch at the age of 65.
03 April	Royal opened in New York City for Dream Johnny Mercer Record, ie 71–1.
04 April	The DMSP Titan 2 was launched in the year 1997.
09 April	NFL announced that it would give CFL $ 3m and a potential 'World Classic Bowl'.
13 April	The court theater opens D American Daughter in New York City. It was for 88 demonstrations.
13 April	In golf, twenty-one-year-old Tiger Woods became the youngest player to win the 1997 American Masters, breaking the record for the least four-goal scores (270 strokes, 18 under crosses) of the tournament.
19 April	Renny Slaughter was crowned as the 14th Miss Hawaii Tropic International.
20 April	The cub defeated New York Met's with the worst opening, losing 14 straight games.
21 April	Lamek Agula of Kenya won the 101st Baston Marathon.
24 April	Steel Peer is opened in Richard Theater in New York City. It was for 76 demonstrations.
27 April	Little Fox was opened for 56 demonstrations in Vivian Beomont New York City.
29 April	The 1993 chemical weapons conferences moved effectively, which increases the production, storage and use of chemical weapons of countries confirming arms control agreement.
30 April	London Assurance, the criteria for 72 demonstrations opens in the theater New York City.
30 April	Atlanta Braves won the record 19 games in April.
30 April	Tajik President Emomali was injured in an attempt to assassinate Rakhonov.
01 May	On May 1, 1997, Tasmania became Australia's last state to discourage homosexuality. Improvement in gay law in Tasmania is not remarkable for any other reason because it was so late to end an era.
06 May	The Central Bank of the United Kingdom, the bank of England, became independent after the 1997 general election, in which the Labor Government came to power for the first time since 1979. Chancellor of the Gord Brown announced the independence of Bank of England on 6 May 1997 on the official treasury.
10 May	Maeslantkering, a storm growth barrier, was inaugurated by Queen Beatrix on 10 May 1997. It is one of the largest moving structures on Earth, which can be closed automatically when needed because it is connected to weather and sea level data in a computer system and operates through software.
10 May	A 7.3 MW earthquake occurred in Iran's Khorasan province, killing 1,567 people, injured over 2,300, 50,000 homeless, and over 15,000 houses damaged Ordestering in more than 15,000 houses.
11 May	In the 6th game of the tournament played in New York on May 11, 1997, IBM Supercomputer defeated Deep Blue and defeated world chess champion Gary Kasparov. It was the first chess champion to lose a computer under tournament circumstances.
11 May	Deep Blue became the first computer that won the match against the strange chess champion, when he defeated Gary Kasparov in six matches.
12 May	The Australian marathon swimmer Susie Maroni, on 12 May 1997, became the first person to swim 180 km of Florida Straits from Cuba to the United States at the age of 22. She was the fastest floating woman in two ways, only 17 hours and 14 minutes at the age of 17 in English Channel Crossing 1991.
15 May	During the dedication of the Laos Memorial at the Arlington National Ceremony, the United States first publicly accepted its role in the Lotian civil war, which ended 22 years ago.
19 May	The Sierra Gorda Biosphere, which encompasses the most ecologically diverse regions in Mexico, was established as a result of grassroots efforts.
02 July	Mark Thai Thai rapidly lost half of his value due to the Asian financial crisis.
04 July	NASA's Path Finder Space Probe landed on the surface of Mars. The Mars Path Finder was an American spacecraft landed in 1997 at the base station with a mobile check on Mars. It consisted of a lander named Karl Sagan Memorial Station and a light -wheeled robotic Mars Rover named Sojorner.
06 July	In response to The Tributes-Dramacious dispute, a five-day journey began in the Irish Nationalist districts of Northern Ireland.
07 July	Iraqi Kurdish Civil War-The Turkish Armed Forces concluded Hammer, which successfully destroyed the Kurdistan Workers Party in Northern Iraq.
15 July	American spriy killer Andrew Quunnan shot fashion designer Gianni Vssee in Miami, Florida.
19 July	The provisional Irish Republican Army resumed its ceasefire permanently to end its 25 -year campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.
20 July	126th British Golf Open: Billy Ray Brown scored 271 runs on Royal Tron.
27 July	Candide, ”Gorswin Theater has been closed in New York City. It has been closed after 103 demonstrations. This was a huge success.
01 August	According to the material published by The National Cancer Institute, nuclear tests can be the root cause of thyroid cancer during the 1950s and resulted in 10,000 to 75,000 deaths, which can develop thyroid cancer.
06 August	Microsoft Apple purchases a small stake in a $ 150 million struggle and they decide to share technology. The deal assisted Apple on Wall Street, sent the company's stock to its highest price in a year.
05 September	The very tortured Catholic nun passed away in Mother Teresa, who was dedicated to her later years to the upliftment of the desi party; She was 87.
16 September	Steve Jobs Apple returns to the computer, which he installed to run the company temporarily while searching for a permanent leader.
15 October	On the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, the first supersonic landslide record was set by Royal Air Force Pilot Andy Green at Jet-Propeled Car ThrustSSC when it gained 1,228 km / h (763Mph).
16 November	After spending 17 the 17 The 18 years in jail, Chinese disgruntled Wei Jingsheng was released for 'medical reasons' and sent to the United States.
03 December	Representatives of 121 countries signed the Ottawa Treaty and signed the use of anti-workers land mines.
11 December	A conference held in Kyoto, Japan discussed and agreed by 50 countries to control greenhouse gas emissions and agreed. Its purpose is to get the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous anthropological intervention with the climate system.
15 December	President Clinton took the name of his Labrador, "" "" "Buddy" "" "" "" was discovered after being declared extinct in 1940.
16 December	An episode from the Japanese television series Pokémon, Danyo Senshi Porgon inspired epilepsy seizures in 685 children.
19 December	The Silkier Flight 185, which crashed into the Mushi River in Indonesia, was set for murder-suicide by the captain.
22 December	Hussain Farah Aidid abandoned the disputed title of Somalia's previous birth.
27 December	Billy Wright, leader of the loyal voluntary force, was killed by members of the Irish National Liberation Army.
29 December	To prevent the spread of the H5N1 flu virus, the Hong Kong government killed 1.3 million chickens.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
06 June	In Bangkok, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Thailand formed an economic cooperation group called Bistek.
10 July	The Indian community gained political authority with the approval of the new constitution in Fiji.
25 July	K. R. Narayanan became the 10th President of India.
19 November	Kalpana Chawla became the first Indian woman to go to space.
18 January	India's first electric car 'Reva' was launched in Bengaluru.
13 March	Sister Nirmala was selected by Mother Teresa at the Indian Missionaries of Charity as the leader.
04 April	The World Bank declared India as the fifth largest economy in the world in terms of purchasing power.
20 April	Shri Indra Kumar Gujral became the 12th Prime Minister of India.
13 June	Among the horrific fire tragedies in recent Indian history, 59 people were killed and 103 others were seriously injured during the film border premiere at UP Cinema in Green Park in Delhi.

Birth	Name/Category/Country
14 May	Manushi Chhillar / Actress / India
09 March	Darsheel Safary / Actor / India
12 April	Alka Gupta / Actress / India
14 May	Manushi Chhillar / Model / India
30 June	Avika Gor / Actress / India

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