Historical Events in 1997 (Part 5)

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• Dec 13 63rd Heisman Trophy Award: Charles Woodson, Michigan (CB)
• Dec 14 "View From the Bridge" opens at Criterion Theater, NYC
• Dec 14 Juli Inkster & Dottie Pepper win LPGA Diners Club Matches

• Dec 18 HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium
• Dec 19 MTV drops video "Smack My Bitch Up" by Prodigy
• Dec 21 Detroit Lions Barry Sanders is 3rd to run for 2,000 yards in a season
• Dec 21 Detroit Lions linebacker Reggie Brown, knocked unconscious in game
• Dec 22 Hunter Tylo awarded $4 million in Melrose Place breach of contract
• Dec 22 Merck baldness pill for men approved by FDA
• Dec 22 Nancy Kerrigan & Tonya Harding pre-record a show to air on FOX on Feb 5
• Dec 22 Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.

• Dec 23 Terry Nichols found guilty of manslaughter in Oklahoma bombing
• Dec 23 US Agriculture Department estimates it costs $149,820 to raise a child to 18

• Dec 23 Ballon d'Or: Barcelona/Inter's Brazilian striker Ronaldo wins his first of 2 best football player in Europe awards ahead of Real Madrid forward Predrag Mijatović and Juventus midfielder Zinedine Zidane
• Dec 24 1st time a Channukah candle is officially lit in Vatican City
• Dec 24 The Sid El-Antri massacre (or Sidi Lamri) in Algeria kills 50-100 people.
• Dec 24 The Dominican Republic becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
• Dec 25 For 1st time US movie box office receipts pass $6 billion

• Dec 26 The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami offshore.
• Dec 27 Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland.
• Dec 28 Sting beats Hollywood Hogan for WCW Championship
• Dec 29 Carquest Bowl 8: Georgia Tech beats West Virginia, 35-30
• Dec 29 Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu
• Dec 29 Orville Lynn Majors, 36, arrested for many deaths under his care
• Dec 29 Russia signs agreement to build a $3B nuclear power plant in China
• Dec 29 Cricket Women's World Cup: Australia defeats New Zealand by 5 wickets
• Dec 30 An abandoned building collapses on NY's 42nd St, no one hurt
• Dec 30 In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people are killed from four villages.
• Dec 31 Intel cuts price of Pentium II-233 MHz from $401 to $268
• Dec 31 72 year-old Marv Levy retires as coach of the NFL Buffalo Bills after 12 seasons, including 4 consecutive losing Super Bowl appearances
• Dec 31 Microsoft buys Hotmail email service for $400 million and re-launches it as MSN Hotmail
• Dec 31 More Swedes died than were born in 1997, 1st time since 1809
• Dec 31 Orlando Hernandez, half-brother of pitcher Livan, defects from Cuba
• Dec 31 South African & US surgeons separate Zambian Siamese twins joined at the head
• Dec 31 27th Fiesta Bowl: #10 Kansas State beats #14 Syracuse, 35-18
• Dec 31 Buffalo's Czech NHL goalie Dominik Hasek stops 36 shots for his 27th career shutout in Sabres' 3-0 win over Ottawa Senators; his 6th shutout in month of December; first since George Hainsworth in 1928-29 to achieve the feat

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