1997 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1997?
- January 18, 1997 – In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.
- February 7, 1997 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Ox in Chinese astrology.
- February 28, 1997 – The North Hollywood shootout takes place, resulting in the injury of 19 people and the deaths of both perpetrators.
- March 13, 1997 – India’s Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
- April 1, 1997 – Comet Hale-Bopp is seen passing over perihelion.
- April 22, 1997 – Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria – 93 villagers killed.
- June 2, 1997 – In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
- July 7, 1997 – The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
- July 10, 1997 – Partido Popular (Spain) member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
- July 19, 1997 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.
- July 27, 1997 – About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.
- August 20, 1997 – Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.
- September 3, 1997 – Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 (Tupolev TU-134) crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
- September 27, 1997 – Communications are suddenly lost with the Mars Pathfinder space probe.
- October 12, 1997 – Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock.
- October 15, 1997 – The first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC (United Kingdom), exactly 50 years and 1 day after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in the Earth’s atmosphere.
- 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 24, 1997 – The Sid El-Antri massacre (or Sidi Lamri) in Algeria kills 50-100 people.
- December 26, 1997 – The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami offshore.
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