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- 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.
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Dec 23 Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson is quickest to reach 500 wins (682 games)
Phil Jackson
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Dec 23 Colorado Avalanche Jari Kurri is 8th NHLer to score 600 career goals
Jari Kurri
Film Release
Dec 23 "As Good as It Gets" film released written and directed by James L. Brooks, starring Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt
Helen Hunt
Jack Nicholson
- 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
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Dec 25 Jerry Seinfeld announces the final season of his TV show "Seinfeld" will air the following year
Jerry Seinfeld
- 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 Marv Levy, retires as coach of Buffalo Bills
- 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