1997 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1997?
- January 3, 1997 – China announces it will spend US$27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow River valleys.
- February 7, 1997 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Ox in Chinese astrology.
- February 22, 1997 – In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
- February 28, 1997 – An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 in Armenia and Azerbaijan kills around 1,100 people
- March 3, 1997 – The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
- March 22, 1997 – The Comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to Earth.
- March 26, 1997 – Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven’s Gate cult suicides.
- June 16, 1997 – The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.
- June 25, 1997 – The Soufrière Hills volcano in Montserrat erupts resulting in the death of 19 people.
- June 30, 1997 – The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China.
- July 10, 1997 – Partido Popular (Spain) member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
- August 20, 1997 – Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.
- 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 26, 1997 – A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A-300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234.
- October 4, 1997 – The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken.
- October 12, 1997 – Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock.
- October 25, 1997 – After a brief civil war which has driven President Pascal Lissouba out of Brazzaville, Denis Sassou-Nguesso proclaims himself the President of the Republic of the Congo.
- November 3, 1997 – The United States of America imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and Eastern Africa.
- November 27, 1997 – Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
- December 6, 1997 – A Russian Antonov An-124 cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.
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