Historical Events in February 1997

Feb 2 Scotty Bowman becomes first coach in NHL history to win 1,000 games

Feb 4 Mario Lemieux is 7th NHL player to score 600 goals

Feb 4 US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish
Feb 4 En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.

Feb 4 After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.

Feb 5 O.J. Simpson found liable in the deaths of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson in a civil court action

Feb 5 3 Swiss banks create $70 million Holocaust fund
Feb 5 Brook Lee from Hawaii, crowned 46th Miss USA (en route to Miss Universe)
Feb 5 Japan's Ministry of Finance announces plans to cut import tariffs on crude oil and most petroleum products
Feb 6 Diane Blood, 32, in England, won right to use her dead husband's sperm
Feb 7 US & Russia announce summit set for Helsinki, March 20-21

Feb 8 28th NAACP Image Awards: "A Time to Kill" wins Outstanding Motion Picture
Feb 9 11th American Comedy Award: Debbie Reynolds
Feb 9 47th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 132-120 at Cleveland
Feb 9 Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Diet Dr Pepper National Pro-Am
Feb 9 Mark O'Meara wins Buick golf invitational
Feb 9 Fox cartoon series "Simpsons" airs 167th episode the longest-running animated series in cartoon history
Feb 10 13th Soap Opera Digest Awards - General Hospital wins
Feb 10 5th ESPY Awards: Michael Johnson, Amy Van Dyken Lobo win
Feb 10 Comet Shoemaker-Holt 2 Closest Approach to Earth (1.9245 AU)
Feb 10 O.J. Simpson jury reaches decision on $25M in punitive damages
Feb 10 Soyuz TM-25 launches to the MIR
Feb 10 Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991

Feb 11 Bill Parcells becomes head coach of NY Jets

Feb 11 STS 82 (Discovery 22) launches
Feb 12 Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O.J. Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement
Feb 13 "Three Sisters" opens at Criterion Theater NYC
Feb 13 Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope

Feb 13 47th Berlin International Film Festival: "The People vs. Larry Flynt" wins the Golden Bear

Feb 13 Joseph Stiglitz becomes Chief Economist of the World Bank

Feb 15 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tara Lipinski
Feb 15 US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldridge
Feb 16 Paul Stankowski wins Hawaiian Golf Open
Feb 16 Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Los Angeles Women's Championship
Feb 16 39th Daytona 500: Jeff Gordon wins (148.295 MPH)
Feb 17 Weekly Standard shows evidence Larry Flint sexually abused his daughter

Feb 19 FCC makes available 311 for non-emergency calls & 711 for hearing or speech-impaired emergency calls
Feb 20 "Stanley" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC

Feb 20 San Francisco Giants Barry Bonds signs record $22.9M 2 year contract

Feb 22 Dolly the Sheep, world's first cloned mammal (from an adult cell) is announced by the Roslin Institute in Scotland

Feb 23 NBC TV shows "Schindler's List" completely uncensored, 65M watch

Feb 23 Scientists in Scotland announce they have cloned an adult mammal, producing a lamb named "Dolly"

Feb 24 Deng Xiaoping, leader of China, cremated (died Feb 19th)

Feb 24 South Africa announces it is constructing largest modern day blimp
Feb 24 Qatar inaugurates the world's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporting facility and formally launches Qatar Liquefied Gas Co.
Feb 26 39th Grammy Awards: Change the World Babyface, Beck & LeAnn Rimes wins
Feb 27 "Last Night of Ballyhoo" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC
Feb 27 Singer Sade (Helen Folasade) arrested in Jamaica for disobeying a police officer
Feb 28 Earthquake in Pakistan kills 45
Feb 28 FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia
Feb 28 Purchasers of cigarettes in US must prove they are over 18
Feb 28 The North Hollywood shootout takes place.