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1997 (MCMXCVII) is the current year, and is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1997th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 997th year of the 2nd millennium, the 97th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1990s decade.
Events
[edit]January
[edit]- January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States.
- January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis.[1]
- January 16 – Murder of Ennis Cosby: Near Interstate 405 (California) on a Los Angeles freeway, Bill Cosby's son Ennis is shot in the head by 18-year-old Mikhail Markhasev in a failed robbery attempt.
- January 17 – A Delta II rocket carrying a military GPS payload explodes, shortly after liftoff from Cape Canaveral.
- January 18 – In northwest Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 6 Spanish aid workers and three soldiers, and seriously wound another.
- January 19 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years, and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.[2] (→ Hebron Agreement)
- January 23 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first female Secretary of State of the United States, after confirmation by the United States Senate.[3]
- January 26 – VJTI changes its name from Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute to Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute in Mumbai.
February
[edit]- February 4
- On their way to Lebanon, two Israeli troop-transport helicopters collide, killing all 73 on board.[4][5]
- After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
- A magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes North Khorasan province, Iran, killing 88 people and injuring 1,948.[6]
- February 10 – Sandline affair: Australian newspapers publish stories that the government of Papua New Guinea has brought mercenaries onto Bougainville Island.
- February 13 – STS-82: Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope is started by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery.[7]
- February 28 – North Hollywood shootout: Two robbers, wearing kevlar body armor, and armed with illegally modified Type 56 S rifles with high-capacity magazines and other weapons, injure 20 police officers and civilians in a gun battle. The incident sparks debate on the appropriate firepower for United States patrol officers to have available in similar situations in the future.[relevant?]
March
[edit]- March 4 – U.S. President Bill Clinton bans federal funding for any research on human cloning.
- March 7 – In Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers overrun a military base and kill over 100 Sri Lankan troops.
- March 9 – American rapper The Notorious B.I.G. is murdered in Los Angeles.
- March 13
- India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala, to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
- The National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China creates a new Chongqing Municipality, out of part of Sichuan.
- March 16 – Sandline affair: On Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea, soldiers of commander Jerry Singirok arrest Tim Spicer and his mercenaries of the Sandline International.
- March 18 – The tail of a Russian An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey, causing the plane to crash, killing all 50 on board, and resulting in the grounding of all An-24s.
- March 21 – In Zaire, Étienne Tshisekedi is appointed prime minister; he ejects supporters of Mobutu Sese Seko from his cabinet.
- March 22 – The Comet Hale–Bopp makes its closest approach to Earth.
- March 24 – The 69th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, with The English Patient winning Best Picture. During the event, the DVD format is launched in the United States.
- March 24–26 – In San Diego, 39 Heaven's Gate cultists commit mass suicide at their compound.
- March 26 – Julius Chan resigns as prime minister of Papua New Guinea, effectively ending the Sandline affair.[8]
April
[edit]- April 3 – The Thalit massacre in Algeria: all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.[9]
- April 14
- Fire breaks out in a pilgrim camp on the Plain of Mena, 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) from Mecca; 343 die.
- Former SS Captain Erich Priebke is retried; on July 22 he is sentenced to fifteen years in prison.[10]
- April 18 – The Red River of the North breaks through dikes and floods Grand Forks, North Dakota, and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, causing US$2 billion in damage.
Predicted & Scheduled Events
[edit]May
[edit]- May 1 – Tony Blair will become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- ^ "Turkey hints at strike on Cypriot missiles". The Independent. October 23, 2011. Archived from the original on May 1, 2022. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
- ^ "Arafat arrives in Hebron for 'victory' celebration". CNN World News. January 19, 1997. Archived from the original on December 29, 2021. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
- ^ "Biography: Madeleine Korbel Albright". Office of the US Secretary of State. Archived from the original on February 4, 2016. Retrieved July 9, 2010.
- ^ Miller, Marjorie (February 5, 1997). "Israeli Helicopters Collide in Midair; 73 Soldiers Killed". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Archived from the original on September 28, 2015. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
- ^ Amir, Noam; Hashavua, Maariv (February 5, 2016). "Israel remembers 73 soldiers who died in helicopter disaster 19 years ago". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on February 3, 2018. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
- ^ National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS): NCEI/WDS Global Significant Earthquake Database. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K Archived March 10, 2022, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Aeronautics and Space Report of the President ... Activities. National Aeronautics and Space Council. 1996. p. 1.
- ^ "Papua New Guinea Head Steps Down After Mutiny". New York Times. March 26, 1997. Archived from the original on March 8, 2016. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
- ^ "More than 80 Algerians killed in weekend massacres". CNN. April 6, 1997. Archived from the original on June 12, 2024. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
- ^ Lara Santoro (April 17, 1997). "Ex-Nazi's Trial Opens Up Italy's Fascist Past". Christian Science Monitor. Archived from the original on December 29, 2021. Retrieved December 29, 2021.