Events in History in 1997 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 352 of 352

• Jul 22 The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario
• Jul 23 The US State Department rules that Turkey's agreement to purchase $23 billion worth of natural gas from Iran does not violate the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act

• Jul 25 Carroll O'Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian
• Jul 25 Howard Stern is fired from radio station, KEGL Dallas
• Jul 25 K. R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India's 10th president and the first Dalit, formerly called "untouchable" to hold the office
• Jul 25 Scientists announce the first human stem cells to be cultured in a laboratory using tissue taken from aborted human embryos
• Jul 25 Vincent "The Chin" Gigante found guilty of racketeering in NYC
• Jul 27 Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria; about 50 people killed.
• Jul 28 Guatemala becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
• Jul 28 Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion
• Jul 30 Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia
• Jul 30 Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14
• Aug 3 Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; 40-76 villagers killed.
• Aug 3 Sky Tower opens in Auckland, New Zealand, at 328 metres (1,076 ft) the tallest freestanding structure in the Southern Hemisphere
• Aug 4 185,000 Teamsters union United Parcel Service drivers walk off the job.
• Aug 4 In Colombia, international oil company Occidental Petroleum declare force majeure on all oil exports from the Cano Limon field after a series of attacks knocked out a major oil pipeline

• Aug 5 Korean Air 747 with 331 aboard crashes in Guam, 29 survive
• Aug 5 Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of world trade center bombing goes on trial
• Aug 5 Soyuz TM-26 crew of Anatoly Solovyov & Pavel Vinogradov, launched
• Aug 6 Microsoft announces it will invest $150 million in Apple Computer Inc
• Aug 7 STS 85 (Discovery 23) launches into orbit
• Aug 7 Ung Huot appointed Cambodia's 1st premier
• Aug 8 The UN approves a sale-price formula for Iraqi crude oil sales under the oil-for-food plan
• Aug 9 Security guard Abner Louima, attacked by NYC police
• Aug 11 Benin legalizes Jan 10th as a voodoo holiday

• Aug 14 Soyuz TM-25 lands
• Aug 15 Dow Jones drops 247.37 pts
• Aug 19 STS 85 (Discovery 23) lands
• Aug 20 Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.
• Aug 21 Typhoon Winnie kills 140, injures 3,000 in East China
• Aug 21 US government forces closure of Hudson Foods due to E Coli break out
• Aug 24 Gordon Spence discovers 2^2976221 - 1 (36th known Mersenne prime)
• Aug 25 Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy.
• Aug 26 Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed
• Aug 28 Belgian amusement park riders were stuck upside down for 90 minutes
• Aug 29 At least 98 villagers are killed by the GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.

• Aug 31 Last episode of Rolanda airs
• Sep 2 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Montreal Canada on CHOM 97.7 FM and in Toronto Canada on CILQ 107.1 FM
• Sep 3 A Vietnam Airlines Tupolev TU-134 crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
• Sep 4 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Louisville, Kentucky on WTFX 100.5 FM
• Sep 6 Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales held at Westminster Abbey in London
• Sep 7 The first test flight of the F-22 Raptor takes place.
• Sep 9 Sinn Féin accepts Mitchell Principles on para-military disarmament
• Sep 10 Discovery buys Travel Channel for $20 million
• Sep 11 After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament, within the United Kingdom.
• Sep 12 The UN passes a resolution allowing Iraq to reach the $2.14 billion oil sales limit under its oil-for-food program

• Sep 14 Chicago Whites Sox retire Carlton Fisk's #72
• Sep 15 Edison Intl purchases Anaheim Stadium naming rights for $50M
• Sep 15 Google.com is registered as a domain name

• Sep 17 Dr Sam Sheppard's body (Fugitive) is exhumed for DNA test
• Sep 18 Controversial art exhibition "Sensation" featuring works by Young British Artists from the collection of Charles Saatchi opens at the Royal Academy in London

• Sep 18 Voters in Wales vote yes (50.3%) in a referendum on Welsh autonomy
• Sep 19 Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed.
• Sep 22 Bentalha massacre in Algeria; over 200 villagers killed
• Sep 24 Drug kingpin Ramon Arellano Felix placed on FBI's 10 most-wanted list
• Sep 25 Britain's Andy Green sets jet-powered car record (714 mph)
• Sep 25 STS 86 (Atlantis 20) launches into orbit
• Sep 26 An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse
• Sep 29 Jury selection in Terry Nichols Oklahoma bombing trial begins
• Sep 30 Hooters agrees to pay $2 million in discrimination suits

• Sep 30 Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 4
• Oct 1 Spice Hot premieres on cable
• Oct 3 Gordie Howie, 69, plays in 7th decade, with IHL'S Detroit Vipers
• Oct 3 Japan's maglev train breaks world speed record at 280.3 mph
• Oct 4 Second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company with $17.3 million in cash taken
• Oct 5 STS 86 (Atlantis 20) lands
• Oct 9 ABL players allowed to own stock in the league
• Oct 9 Hurricane kills 123 in Acapulco Mexico
• Oct 9 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Italian playwright Dario Fo
• Oct 10 Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74
• Oct 12 Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock
• Oct 13 Andy Green's Jet-powered car reaches record 749.69 MPH
• Oct 15 Britain's Andy Green sets jet-powered car record (763.035 mph)
• Oct 15 Former US Representative Dan Rostenkowski released from custody for mail fraud
• Oct 15 Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Jens Christain Skou, Paul D. Boyer and John E. Walker for their work on enzymes in the body
• Oct 15 US launches nuclear powered Cassini to Saturn

• Oct 20 US accuses Microsoft of violating pact forcing IE browser on computers
• Oct 22 Compaq testifies Microsoft threaten to break Windows 95 agreement if they showcased a Netscape icon

• Oct 22 Yahoo completes purchase of Four11
• Oct 23 At 6:11 AM San Francisco experiences a power blackout due to sabotage
• Oct 23 Dow Jones drops 186.88 pts
• Oct 25 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.
• Oct 27 Dow Jones crashes record 554 pts to 7161

• Oct 27 Microsoft argues it should be "free from government interference"
• Oct 27 US releases a redesigned $50 bill
• Oct 29 Iraq's Revolution Command Council announces that it will no longer allow US citizens and US aircraft to serve with UN arms inspection teams
• Oct 30 Shirley Allen, 51, held Illinois police off for 39 days captured
• Oct 31 British au pair Louise Woodward, 19, sentenced to life for the death of Matthew Eappen 8½ months (judge changes to time served)
• Nov 2 Typhoon Linda kills at least 208 in southern Vietnam
• Nov 3 California law ends affirmative action
• Nov 5 2 hours after Davey Johnson resigns he is named AL Manager of Year

• Nov 10 Nanny Louise Woodward murder conviction downgraded to manslaughter
• Nov 13 UN pulls out arms inspection teams from Iraq
• Nov 14 Colo Rockie Larry Walker wins NL MVP
• Nov 15 19th ACE Cable Awards: Nickelodeon wins the Golden Cable ACE for "The Big Help"
• Nov 16 After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.
• Nov 17 In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants).
• Nov 18 FBI says no evidence of foul play in 1996 TWA 800 crash
• Nov 18 Rare black pearl necklace auctioned for record $902,000
• Nov 18 Willem de Kooning painting "Two Standing Women" sold for $4,182,500
• Nov 19 McCaughey septuplets born to Bobbi McCaughey in Des Moines, Iowa. First set of septuplets to survive infancy.
• Nov 19 STS 87 (Columbia 24) launches into orbit
• Nov 20 Iraq's Revolution Command Council formally endorses an agreement, arranged by Russia, that enables UN weapons inspection teams to resume operations in Iraq
• Nov 20 Yohannes Haile-Selassie discovers the partial skull of a 2.5 million year old human ancestor, confirming and establishing the new species Australopithecus garhi, in Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia
• Nov 25 US telephone technician Richard Bliss arrested for spying in Russia
• Nov 27 Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
• Nov 28 First public appearance of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ethnic Albanian guerrilla group that fought for the independence of Kosovo from Serbia.
• Nov 29 OPEC agrees to an increase in its production ceiling. OPEC has raised the ceiling to 27.5 million barrels per day for the first half of 1998
• Dec 1 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Davenport IA on KORB 93.5 FM
• Dec 2 For only the second time in English Football League history, 5 players are sent from the field; 4 Bristol Rovers players and 1 from Wigan are dismissed in the Division 2 match at JJB Stadium; four of the red cards come in 45th minute
• Dec 4 Nizar Hamdoon warns that Iraq will not allow oil to flow during a third six-month phase of the UN's oil-for-food sale until the UN approves an aid distribution plan
• Dec 5 STS 87 (Columbia 24) lands
• Dec 11 Delegates from 150 industrial nations attending a UN climate conference in Kyoto, Japan, reach agreement to control heat-trapping greenhouse gases
• Dec 11 Federal judge orders Microsoft not to bundle IE4 in Windows
• Dec 12 Carlos the Jackal, "professional revolutionary", goes on trial in Paris
• Dec 12 Florida releases Alex Arias, the last original Marlin
• Dec 12 Japanese train builders (Maglev) claim world speed record at 332 MPH
• Dec 12 SWAT team shoots John E Armstrong in Florida, freeing 2 young hostages
• Dec 12 TWA 800 hearings end

• Dec 18 HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium
• 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 22 Merck baldness pill for men approved by FDA
• Dec 23 A Channukah candle is officially lighted in Vatican City for the 1st time to celebrate Hanukkah and to reconcile Roman Catholics and Jews [1]
• 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 24 The Dominican Republic becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
• Dec 24 The Sid El-Antri massacre (or Sidi Lamri) in Algeria kills 50-100 people.
• 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 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 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

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