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<span>November</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-November-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-December" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#December"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.12</span> <span>December</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-December-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Births_and_deaths" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Births_and_deaths"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>Births and deaths</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Births_and_deaths-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Nobel_Prizes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Nobel_Prizes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Nobel Prizes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Nobel_Prizes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div 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mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">1997</span></h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. 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Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-am mw-list-item"><a href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_%E1%8A%A5.%E1%8A%A4.%E1%8A%A0." title="1997 እ.ኤ.አ. – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="1997 እ.ኤ.አ." data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>አማርኛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-smn mw-list-item"><a href="https://smn.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Inari Sami" lang="smn" hreflang="smn" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Anarâškielâ" data-language-local-name="Inari Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Anarâškielâ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ab mw-list-item"><a href="https://ab.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Abkhazian" lang="ab" hreflang="ab" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Аԥсшәа" data-language-local-name="Abkhazian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Аԥсшәа</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hyw mw-list-item"><a href="https://hyw.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_%D5%A9%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%B6" title="1997 թուական – Western Armenian" lang="hyw" hreflang="hyw" data-title="1997 թուական" data-language-autonym="Արեւմտահայերէն" data-language-local-name="Western Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Արեւմտահայերէն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-roa-rup mw-list-item"><a href="https://roa-rup.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Aromanian" lang="rup" hreflang="rup" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Armãneashti" data-language-local-name="Aromanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Armãneashti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frp mw-list-item"><a href="https://frp.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Arpitan" lang="frp" hreflang="frp" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Arpetan" data-language-local-name="Arpitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Arpetan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gn mw-list-item"><a href="https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Guarani" lang="gn" hreflang="gn" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Avañe'ẽ" data-language-local-name="Guarani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Avañe'ẽ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-av mw-list-item"><a href="https://av.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD" title="1997 сон – Avaric" lang="av" hreflang="av" data-title="1997 сон" data-language-autonym="Авар" data-language-local-name="Avaric" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Авар</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%B1%DB%B9%DB%B9%DB%B7_(%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C)" title="۱۹۹۷ (میلادی) – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="۱۹۹۷ (میلادی)" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Bali</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%A7%E0%A7%AF%E0%A7%AF%E0%A7%AD" title="১৯৯৭ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="১৯৯৭" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bjn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bjn.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Banjar" lang="bjn" hreflang="bjn" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Banjar" data-language-local-name="Banjar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Banjar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_n%C3%AE" title="1997 nî – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="1997 nî" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-map-bms mw-list-item"><a href="https://map-bms.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Banyumasan" lang="jv-x-bms" hreflang="jv-x-bms" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Basa Banyumasan" data-language-local-name="Banyumasan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Basa Banyumasan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_%D0%B9%D1%8B%D0%BB" title="1997 йыл – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="1997 йыл" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bo mw-list-item"><a href="https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BC%A1%E0%BC%A9%E0%BC%A9%E0%BC%A7%E0%BD%A3%E0%BD%BC%E0%BC%8D" title="༡༩༩༧ལོ། – Tibetan" lang="bo" hreflang="bo" data-title="༡༩༩༧ལོ།" data-language-autonym="བོད་ཡིག" data-language-local-name="Tibetan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>བོད་ཡིག</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997." title="1997. – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="1997." data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cbk-zam mw-list-item"><a href="https://cbk-zam.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Chavacano" lang="cbk" hreflang="cbk" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Chavacano de Zamboanga" data-language-local-name="Chavacano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Chavacano de Zamboanga</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sn mw-list-item"><a href="https://sn.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Shona" lang="sn" hreflang="sn" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="ChiShona" data-language-local-name="Shona" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ChiShona</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tum mw-list-item"><a href="https://tum.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Tumbuka" lang="tum" hreflang="tum" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="ChiTumbuka" data-language-local-name="Tumbuka" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ChiTumbuka</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ary mw-list-item"><a href="https://ary.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Moroccan Arabic" lang="ary" hreflang="ary" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="الدارجة" data-language-local-name="Moroccan Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>الدارجة</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-se mw-list-item"><a href="https://se.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Northern Sami" lang="se" hreflang="se" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Davvisámegiella" data-language-local-name="Northern Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Davvisámegiella</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pdc mw-list-item"><a href="https://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Pennsylvania German" lang="pdc" hreflang="pdc" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Deitsch" data-language-local-name="Pennsylvania German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deitsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eml mw-list-item"><a href="https://eml.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Emiliano-Romagnolo" lang="egl" hreflang="egl" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Emiliàn e rumagnòl" data-language-local-name="Emiliano-Romagnolo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Emiliàn e rumagnòl</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-myv mw-list-item"><a href="https://myv.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_%D0%B8%D0%B5" title="1997 ие – Erzya" lang="myv" hreflang="myv" data-title="1997 ие" data-language-autonym="Эрзянь" data-language-local-name="Erzya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Эрзянь</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%B1%DB%B9%DB%B9%DB%B7" title="۱۹۹۷ – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="۱۹۹۷" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hif mw-list-item"><a href="https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Fiji Hindi" lang="hif" hreflang="hif" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Fiji Hindi" data-language-local-name="Fiji Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Fiji Hindi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fur mw-list-item"><a href="https://fur.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Friulian" lang="fur" hreflang="fur" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Furlan" data-language-local-name="Friulian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Furlan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaelg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gag mw-list-item"><a href="https://gag.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Gagauz" lang="gag" hreflang="gag" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Gagauz" data-language-local-name="Gagauz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gagauz</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-inh mw-list-item"><a href="https://inh.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_%D1%88%D1%83" title="1997 шу – Ingush" lang="inh" hreflang="inh" data-title="1997 шу" data-language-autonym="ГӀалгӀай" data-language-local-name="Ingush" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ГӀалгӀай</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gan mw-list-item"><a href="https://gan.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%E5%B9%B4" title="1997年 – Gan" lang="gan" hreflang="gan" data-title="1997年" data-language-autonym="贛語" data-language-local-name="Gan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>贛語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997-ngi%C3%A8n" title="1997-ngièn – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="1997-ngièn" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%EB%85%84" title="1997년 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="1997년" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hausa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%AF%E0%A5%AF%E0%A5%AD" title="१९९७ – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="१९९७" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Hornjoserbsce" data-language-local-name="Upper Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hornjoserbsce</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997." title="1997. – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="1997." data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ilokano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bpy mw-list-item"><a href="https://bpy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A7%A7%E0%A7%AF%E0%A7%AF%E0%A7%AD" title="মারি ১৯৯৭ – Bishnupriya" lang="bpy" hreflang="bpy" data-title="মারি ১৯৯৭" data-language-autonym="বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী" data-language-local-name="Bishnupriya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997-%C3%A6%D0%BC_%D0%B0%D0%B7" title="1997-æм аз – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="1997-æм аз" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kbp mw-list-item"><a href="https://kbp.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Kabiye" lang="kbp" hreflang="kbp" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Kabɩyɛ" data-language-local-name="Kabiye" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kabɩyɛ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B3%A7%E0%B3%AF%E0%B3%AF%E0%B3%AD" title="೧೯೯೭ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="೧೯೯೭" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kapampangan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-krc mw-list-item"><a href="https://krc.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_%D0%B4%D0%B6%D1%8B%D0%BB" title="1997 джыл – Karachay-Balkar" lang="krc" hreflang="krc" data-title="1997 джыл" data-language-autonym="Къарачай-малкъар" data-language-local-name="Karachay-Balkar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Къарачай-малкъар</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-csb mw-list-item"><a href="https://csb.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Kashubian" lang="csb" hreflang="csb" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Kaszëbsczi" data-language-local-name="Kashubian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kaszëbsczi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_%D0%B6%D1%8B%D0%BB" title="1997 жыл – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="1997 жыл" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kv mw-list-item"><a href="https://kv.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997-%D3%A7%D0%B4_%D0%B2%D0%BE" title="1997-ӧд во – Komi" lang="kv" hreflang="kv" data-title="1997-ӧд во" data-language-autonym="Коми" data-language-local-name="Komi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Коми</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-avk mw-list-item"><a href="https://avk.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Kotava" lang="avk" hreflang="avk" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Kotava" data-language-local-name="Kotava" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kotava</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_(almanak_gregoryen)" title="1997 (almanak gregoryen) – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" data-title="1997 (almanak gregoryen)" data-language-autonym="Kreyòl ayisyen" data-language-local-name="Haitian Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kreyòl ayisyen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gcr mw-list-item"><a href="https://gcr.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Guianan Creole" lang="gcr" hreflang="gcr" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Kriyòl gwiyannen" data-language-local-name="Guianan Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kriyòl gwiyannen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mrj mw-list-item"><a href="https://mrj.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_%D0%B8" title="1997 и – Western Mari" lang="mrj" hreflang="mrj" data-title="1997 и" data-language-autonym="Кырык мары" data-language-local-name="Western Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кырык мары</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997._gads" title="1997. gads – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="1997. gads" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lez mw-list-item"><a href="https://lez.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_%D0%B9%D0%B8%D1%81" title="1997 йис – Lezghian" lang="lez" hreflang="lez" data-title="1997 йис" data-language-autonym="Лезги" data-language-local-name="Lezghian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Лезги</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_m." title="1997 m. – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="1997 m." data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lij mw-list-item"><a href="https://lij.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Ligurian" lang="lij" hreflang="lij" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Ligure" data-language-local-name="Ligurian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ligure</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Limburgs</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ln mw-list-item"><a href="https://ln.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Lingala" lang="ln" hreflang="ln" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Lingála" data-language-local-name="Lingala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lingála</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-olo mw-list-item"><a href="https://olo.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Livvi-Karelian" lang="olo" hreflang="olo" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Livvinkarjala" data-language-local-name="Livvi-Karelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Livvinkarjala</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jbo mw-list-item"><a href="https://jbo.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997moi" title="1997moi – Lojban" lang="jbo" hreflang="jbo" data-title="1997moi" data-language-autonym="La .lojban." data-language-local-name="Lojban" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>La .lojban.</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mai mw-list-item"><a href="https://mai.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%AF%E0%A5%AF%E0%A5%AD" title="१९९७ – Maithili" lang="mai" hreflang="mai" data-title="१९९७" data-language-autonym="मैथिली" data-language-local-name="Maithili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मैथिली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mi mw-list-item"><a href="https://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Māori" lang="mi" hreflang="mi" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Māori" data-language-local-name="Māori" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Māori</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%87.%E0%A4%B8._%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%AF%E0%A5%AF%E0%A5%AD" title="इ.स. १९९७ – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="इ.स. १९९७" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%B1%DB%B9%DB%B9%DB%B7" title="۱۹۹۷ – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="۱۹۹۷" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-min mw-list-item"><a href="https://min.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Minangkabau" lang="min" hreflang="min" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Minangkabau" data-language-local-name="Minangkabau" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Minangkabau</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_ni%C3%A8ng" title="1997 nièng – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="1997 nièng" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mdf mw-list-item"><a href="https://mdf.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Moksha" lang="mdf" hreflang="mdf" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Мокшень" data-language-local-name="Moksha" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Мокшень</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_%D0%BE%D0%BD" title="1997 он – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="1997 он" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%81%81%E1%81%89%E1%81%89%E1%81%87" title="၁၉၉၇ – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="၁၉၉၇" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nah mw-list-item"><a href="https://nah.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Nahuatl" lang="nah" hreflang="nah" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Nāhuatl" data-language-local-name="Nahuatl" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nāhuatl</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds-nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Low Saxon" lang="nds-NL" hreflang="nds-NL" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Nedersaksies" data-language-local-name="Low Saxon" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nedersaksies</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D_%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%AF%E0%A5%AF%E0%A5%AD" title="सन् १९९७ – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="सन् १९९७" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-new mw-list-item"><a href="https://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%88_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%82_%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%AF%E0%A5%AF%E0%A5%AD" title="ई सं १९९७ – Newari" lang="new" hreflang="new" data-title="ई सं १९९७" data-language-autonym="नेपाल भाषा" data-language-local-name="Newari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाल भाषा</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%E5%B9%B4" title="1997年 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="1997年" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nap mw-list-item"><a href="https://nap.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Neapolitan" lang="nap" hreflang="nap" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Napulitano" data-language-local-name="Neapolitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Napulitano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_%D1%88%D0%BE" title="1997 шо – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="1997 шо" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nrm mw-list-item"><a href="https://nrm.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Norman" lang="nrf" hreflang="nrf" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Nouormand" data-language-local-name="Norman" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nouormand</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mhr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mhr.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Eastern Mari" lang="mhr" hreflang="mhr" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Олык марий" data-language-local-name="Eastern Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Олык марий</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-or mw-list-item"><a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AD%A7%E0%AD%AF%E0%AD%AF%E0%AD%AD" title="୧୯୯୭ – Odia" lang="or" hreflang="or" data-title="୧୯୯୭" data-language-autonym="ଓଡ଼ିଆ" data-language-local-name="Odia" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ଓଡ଼ିଆ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pi mw-list-item"><a href="https://pi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%AF%E0%A5%AF%E0%A5%AD" title="१९९७ – Pali" lang="pi" hreflang="pi" data-title="१९९७" data-language-autonym="पालि" data-language-local-name="Pali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>पालि</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pag mw-list-item"><a href="https://pag.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Pangasinan" lang="pag" hreflang="pag" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Pangasinan" data-language-local-name="Pangasinan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Pangasinan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pap mw-list-item"><a href="https://pap.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Papiamento" lang="pap" hreflang="pap" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Papiamentu" data-language-local-name="Papiamento" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Papiamentu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tpi mw-list-item"><a href="https://tpi.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Tok Pisin" lang="tpi" hreflang="tpi" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Tok Pisin" data-language-local-name="Tok Pisin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tok Pisin</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kaa mw-list-item"><a href="https://kaa.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Kara-Kalpak" lang="kaa" hreflang="kaa" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Qaraqalpaqsha" data-language-local-name="Kara-Kalpak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Qaraqalpaqsha</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-crh mw-list-item"><a href="https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Crimean Tatar" lang="crh" hreflang="crh" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Qırımtatarca" data-language-local-name="Crimean Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Qırımtatarca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ty mw-list-item"><a href="https://ty.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Tahitian" lang="ty" hreflang="ty" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Reo tahiti" data-language-local-name="Tahitian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Reo tahiti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ksh mw-list-item"><a href="https://ksh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joohr_1997" title="Joohr 1997 – Colognian" lang="ksh" hreflang="ksh" data-title="Joohr 1997" data-language-autonym="Ripoarisch" data-language-local-name="Colognian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ripoarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rue mw-list-item"><a href="https://rue.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Rusyn" lang="rue" hreflang="rue" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Русиньскый" data-language-local-name="Rusyn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русиньскый</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4" title="1997 год – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="1997 год" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_%D1%81%D1%8B%D0%BB" title="1997 сыл – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="1997 сыл" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Саха тыла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sc mw-list-item"><a href="https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Sardinian" lang="sc" hreflang="sc" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Sardu" data-language-local-name="Sardinian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sardu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-stq mw-list-item"><a href="https://stq.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Saterland Frisian" lang="stq" hreflang="stq" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Seeltersk" data-language-local-name="Saterland Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Seeltersk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nso mw-list-item"><a href="https://nso.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Northern Sotho" lang="nso" hreflang="nso" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Sesotho sa Leboa" data-language-local-name="Northern Sotho" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sesotho sa Leboa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%D8%B9" title="1997ع – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="1997ع" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سنڌي</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ślůnski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-so mw-list-item"><a href="https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Somali" lang="so" hreflang="so" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Soomaaliga" data-language-local-name="Somali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Soomaaliga</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%A1%D9%A9%D9%A9%D9%A7" title="١٩٩٧ – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="١٩٩٧" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997." title="1997. – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="1997." data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su mw-list-item"><a href="https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Sunda" data-language-local-name="Sundanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sunda</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="1997" 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Тоҷикӣ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tk mw-list-item"><a href="https://tk.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Turkmen" lang="tk" hreflang="tk" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Türkmençe" data-language-local-name="Turkmen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkmençe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-udm mw-list-item"><a href="https://udm.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_%D0%B0%D1%80" title="1997 ар – Udmurt" lang="udm" hreflang="udm" data-title="1997 ар" data-language-autonym="Удмурт" data-language-local-name="Udmurt" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Удмурт</span></a></li><li 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mw-list-item"><a href="https://za.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_nienz" title="1997 nienz – Zhuang" lang="za" hreflang="za" data-title="1997 nienz" data-language-autonym="Vahcuengh" data-language-local-name="Zhuang" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Vahcuengh</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vec mw-list-item"><a href="https://vec.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Venetian" lang="vec" hreflang="vec" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Vèneto" data-language-local-name="Venetian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Vèneto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="1997" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vo mw-list-item"><a href="https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997 – 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1997">October</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/November_1997" class="mw-redirect" title="November 1997">November</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/December_1997" class="mw-redirect" title="December 1997">December</a></dd></dl> </div></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the year 1997. For the band, see <a href="/wiki/1997_(band)" title="1997 (band)">1997 (band)</a>. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/1997_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="1997 (disambiguation)">1997 (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1997_Events_Collage.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/1997_Events_Collage.png/330px-1997_Events_Collage.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="271" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/1997_Events_Collage.png/500px-1997_Events_Collage.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/1997_Events_Collage.png/600px-1997_Events_Collage.png 2x" data-file-width="930" data-file-height="840" /></a><figcaption>From left, clockwise: the <a href="/wiki/Movie_set" class="mw-redirect" title="Movie set">movie set</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/Titanic_(1997_film)" title="Titanic (1997 film)">Titanic</a></i>, the <a href="/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films" title="List 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<li><a href="/wiki/1997_in_South_Korea" title="1997 in South Korea">South Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_in_Spain" title="1997 in Spain">Spain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_in_Sweden" title="1997 in Sweden">Sweden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_in_Switzerland" title="1997 in Switzerland">Switzerland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_in_Thailand" title="1997 in Thailand">Thailand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_in_Turkey" title="1997 in Turkey">Turkey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_in_Ukraine" title="1997 in Ukraine">Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="1997 in the United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_in_the_United_States" title="1997 in the United States">United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_in_Zimbabwe" class="mw-redirect" title="1997 in Zimbabwe">Zimbabwe</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading" style="background-color: #f3f3f3"> Lists of leaders</th></tr><tr><td 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serif;"><i>MCMXCVII</i></span></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Ab_urbe_condita" title="Ab urbe condita">Ab urbe condita</a></td><td>2750</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Armenian_calendar" title="Armenian calendar">Armenian calendar</a></td><td>1446<br />ԹՎ ՌՆԽԶ</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Assyrian_calendar" title="Assyrian calendar">Assyrian calendar</a></td><td>6747</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD_calendar" title="Baháʼí calendar">Baháʼí calendar</a></td><td>153–154</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Balinese_saka_calendar" title="Balinese saka calendar">Balinese saka calendar</a></td><td>1918–1919</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Bengali_calendar" title="Bengali calendar">Bengali calendar</a></td><td>1403–1404</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Berber_calendar" title="Berber calendar">Berber calendar</a></td><td>2947</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Regnal_years_of_English_and_British_monarchs" title="Regnal years of English and British monarchs">British Regnal year</a></td><td>45 <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Eliz. 2</a> – 46 <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Eliz. 2</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_calendar" title="Buddhist calendar">Buddhist calendar</a></td><td>2541</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Burmese_calendar" title="Burmese calendar">Burmese calendar</a></td><td>1359</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Byzantine_calendar" title="Byzantine calendar">Byzantine calendar</a></td><td>7505–7506</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Chinese_calendar" title="Chinese calendar">Chinese calendar</a></td><td><a href="/wiki/Sexagenary_cycle" title="Sexagenary cycle">丙子</a>年 (Fire <a href="/wiki/Rat_(zodiac)" title="Rat (zodiac)">Rat</a>)<br />4694 or 4487<br />    <i>— to —</i><br />丁丑年 (Fire <a href="/wiki/Ox_(zodiac)" title="Ox (zodiac)">Ox</a>)<br />4695 or 4488</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Coptic_calendar" title="Coptic calendar">Coptic calendar</a></td><td>1713–1714</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Discordian_calendar" title="Discordian calendar">Discordian calendar</a></td><td>3163</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Ethiopian_calendar" title="Ethiopian calendar">Ethiopian calendar</a></td><td>1989–1990</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Hebrew_calendar" title="Hebrew calendar">Hebrew calendar</a></td><td>5757–5758</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Hindu_calendar" title="Hindu calendar">Hindu calendars</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td> - <i><a href="/wiki/Vikram_Samvat" title="Vikram Samvat">Vikram Samvat</a></i></td><td>2053–2054</td></tr><tr><td> - <i><a href="/wiki/Indian_national_calendar" title="Indian national calendar">Shaka Samvat</a></i></td><td>1918–1919</td></tr><tr><td> - <i><a href="/wiki/Kali_Yuga" title="Kali Yuga">Kali Yuga</a></i></td><td>5097–5098</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Holocene_calendar" title="Holocene calendar">Holocene calendar</a></td><td>11997</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/wiki/Igbo_calendar" title="Igbo calendar">Igbo 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century">20th century</a>, and the 8th year of the <a href="/wiki/1990s" title="1990s">1990s</a> decade. </p><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Calendar year</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886046785">.mw-parser-output .toclimit-2 .toclevel-1 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-3 .toclevel-2 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-4 .toclevel-3 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-5 .toclevel-4 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-6 .toclevel-5 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-7 .toclevel-6 ul{display:none}</style><div class="toclimit-2"><meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Events">Events</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Events"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="January">January</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: January"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_1" title="January 1">January 1</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Emergency_Alert_System" title="Emergency Alert System">Emergency Alert System</a> is introduced in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_11" title="January 11">January 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> threatens <a href="/wiki/Cyprus" title="Cyprus">Cyprus</a> on account of a deal to buy <a href="/wiki/S-300_missile_system" title="S-300 missile system">Russian S-300 missiles</a>, prompting the <a href="/wiki/Cypriot_S-300_crisis" title="Cypriot S-300 crisis">Cypriot Missile Crisis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_16" title="January 16">January 16</a> – <a href="/wiki/Murder_of_Ennis_Cosby" title="Murder of Ennis Cosby">Murder of Ennis Cosby</a>: Near <a href="/wiki/Interstate_405_(California)" title="Interstate 405 (California)">Interstate 405 (California)</a> on a <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a> freeway, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Cosby" title="Bill Cosby">Bill Cosby</a>'s son Ennis is shot in the head in a failed robbery attempt.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_17" title="January 17">January 17</a> – A <a href="/wiki/Delta_II" title="Delta II">Delta II</a> rocket carrying a military <a href="/wiki/GPS" class="mw-redirect" title="GPS">GPS</a> payload explodes, shortly after liftoff from <a href="/wiki/Cape_Canaveral" title="Cape Canaveral">Cape Canaveral</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_18" title="January 18">January 18</a> – In northwest <a href="/wiki/Rwanda" title="Rwanda">Rwanda</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hutu" title="Hutu">Hutu</a> militia members kill 6 Spanish aid workers and three soldiers, and seriously wound another.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_19" title="January 19">January 19</a> – <a href="/wiki/Yasser_Arafat" title="Yasser Arafat">Yasser Arafat</a> returns to <a href="/wiki/Hebron" title="Hebron">Hebron</a> after more than 30 years, and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled <a href="/wiki/West_Bank" title="West Bank">West Bank</a> city.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (→ <a href="/wiki/Hebron_Agreement" class="mw-redirect" title="Hebron Agreement">Hebron Agreement</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_23" title="January 23">January 23</a> – <a href="/wiki/Madeleine_Albright" title="Madeleine Albright">Madeleine Albright</a> becomes the first female Secretary of State of the United States, after confirmation by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_26" title="January 26">January 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/Veermata_Jijabai_Technological_Institute" title="Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute">VJTI</a> changes its name from Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute to Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute in Mumbai.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="February">February</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: February"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/February_4" title="February 4">February 4</a> <ul><li>On their way to <a href="/wiki/Lebanon" title="Lebanon">Lebanon</a>, two Israeli troop-transport helicopters <a href="/wiki/1997_Israeli_helicopter_disaster" title="1997 Israeli helicopter disaster">collide</a>, killing all 73 on board.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>After at first contesting the results, <a href="/wiki/Serbia" title="Serbia">Serbian</a> President <a href="/wiki/Slobodan_Milo%C5%A1evi%C4%87" title="Slobodan Milošević">Slobodan Milošević</a> recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.</li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/1997_Bojnurd_earthquake" title="1997 Bojnurd earthquake">magnitude 6.5 earthquake</a> strikes <a href="/wiki/North_Khorasan_province" title="North Khorasan province">North Khorasan province</a>, Iran, killing 88 people and injuring 1,948.<sup id="cite_ref-NGDC_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NGDC-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_10" title="February 10">February 10</a> – <a href="/wiki/Sandline_affair" title="Sandline affair">Sandline affair</a>: Australian newspapers publish stories that the government of <a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea" title="Papua New Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a> has brought mercenaries onto <a href="/wiki/Bougainville_Island" title="Bougainville Island">Bougainville Island</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_13" title="February 13">February 13</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/STS-82" title="STS-82">STS-82</a></i>: Tune-up and repair work on the <a href="/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope" title="Hubble Space Telescope">Hubble Space Telescope</a> is started by <a href="/wiki/Astronaut" title="Astronaut">astronauts</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Discovery" title="Space Shuttle Discovery">Space Shuttle <i>Discovery</i></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_28" title="February 28">February 28</a> – <a href="/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout" title="North Hollywood shootout">North Hollywood shootout</a>: Two robbers, wearing <a href="/wiki/Kevlar" title="Kevlar">kevlar</a> body armor, and armed with illegally modified <a href="/wiki/Type_56" class="mw-redirect" title="Type 56">Type 56 S rifles</a> 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.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_articles#Stay_on_topic" title="Wikipedia:Writing better articles"><span title="The material near this tag may contain information that is not relevant to the article's main topic. (April 2019)">relevant?</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="March">March</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: March"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/March_4" title="March 4">March 4</a> – U.S. President <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> bans federal funding for any research on <a href="/wiki/Human_cloning" title="Human cloning">human cloning</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_7" title="March 7">March 7</a> – In <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Tamil_Tigers" class="mw-redirect" title="Tamil Tigers">Tamil Tigers</a> <a href="/wiki/1997_Vavunathivu_Offensive" class="mw-redirect" title="1997 Vavunathivu Offensive">overrun a military base</a> and kill over 100 Sri Lankan troops.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_9" title="March 9">March 9</a> – American rapper <a href="/wiki/The_Notorious_B.I.G." title="The Notorious B.I.G.">The Notorious B.I.G.</a> is <a href="/wiki/Murder_of_the_Notorious_B.I.G." title="Murder of the Notorious B.I.G.">murdered</a> in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_13" title="March 13">March 13</a> <ul><li>India's Missionaries of Charity chooses <a href="/wiki/Sister_Nirmala" class="mw-redirect" title="Sister Nirmala">Sister Nirmala</a>, to succeed <a href="/wiki/Mother_Teresa" title="Mother Teresa">Mother Teresa</a> as its leader.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/National_People%27s_Congress" title="National People's Congress">National People's Congress</a> of the People's Republic of China creates a new <a href="/wiki/Chongqing" title="Chongqing">Chongqing</a> Municipality, out of part of <a href="/wiki/Sichuan" title="Sichuan">Sichuan</a>.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_16" title="March 16">March 16</a> – <a href="/wiki/Sandline_affair" title="Sandline affair">Sandline affair</a>: On <a href="/wiki/Bougainville_Island" title="Bougainville Island">Bougainville Island</a> in <a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea" title="Papua New Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a>, soldiers of commander <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Singirok" title="Jerry Singirok">Jerry Singirok</a> arrest <a href="/wiki/Tim_Spicer" title="Tim Spicer">Tim Spicer</a> and his <a href="/wiki/Mercenary" title="Mercenary">mercenaries</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Sandline_International" title="Sandline International">Sandline International</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_18" title="March 18">March 18</a> – The tail of a Russian <a href="/wiki/An-24" class="mw-redirect" title="An-24">An-24</a> charter plane <a href="/wiki/Stavropolskaya_Aktsionernaya_Avia_Flight_1023" title="Stavropolskaya Aktsionernaya Avia Flight 1023">breaks off while en route to Turkey</a>, causing the plane to crash, killing all 50 on board, and resulting in the grounding of all An-24s.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_21" title="March 21">March 21</a> – In <a href="/wiki/Zaire" title="Zaire">Zaire</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Tshisekedi" title="Étienne Tshisekedi">Étienne Tshisekedi</a> is appointed prime minister; he ejects supporters of <a href="/wiki/Mobutu_Sese_Seko" title="Mobutu Sese Seko">Mobutu Sese Seko</a> from his cabinet.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_22" title="March 22">March 22</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Comet_Hale%E2%80%93Bopp" title="Comet Hale–Bopp">Comet Hale–Bopp</a> makes its closest approach to Earth.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_24" title="March 24">March 24</a> – The <a href="/wiki/69th_Academy_Awards" title="69th Academy Awards">69th Academy Awards</a>, hosted by <a href="/wiki/Billy_Crystal" title="Billy Crystal">Billy Crystal</a>, are held at the <a href="/wiki/Shrine_Auditorium" class="mw-redirect" title="Shrine Auditorium">Shrine Auditorium</a> in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>, with <i><a href="/wiki/The_English_Patient_(film)" title="The English Patient (film)">The English Patient</a></i> winning <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture" title="Academy Award for Best Picture">Best Picture</a>. During the event, the <a href="/wiki/DVD" title="DVD">DVD</a> format is launched in the United States.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_24" title="March 24">March 24</a>–<a href="/wiki/March_26" title="March 26">26</a> – In <a href="/wiki/San_Diego" title="San Diego">San Diego</a>, 39 <a href="/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_group)" title="Heaven's Gate (religious group)">Heaven's Gate</a> cultists commit <a href="/wiki/Mass_suicide" title="Mass suicide">mass suicide</a> at their compound.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_26" title="March 26">March 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/Julius_Chan" title="Julius Chan">Julius Chan</a> resigns as prime minister of Papua New Guinea, effectively ending the <a href="/wiki/Sandline_affair" title="Sandline affair">Sandline affair</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="April">April</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: April"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/April_3" title="April 3">April 3</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Thalit_massacre" title="Thalit massacre">Thalit massacre</a> in <a href="/wiki/Algeria" title="Algeria">Algeria</a>: all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_14" title="April 14">April 14</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mecca_fire_of_1997" title="Mecca fire of 1997">Fire breaks out</a> in a pilgrim camp on the Plain of Mena, 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) from <a href="/wiki/Mecca" title="Mecca">Mecca</a>; 343 die.</li> <li>Former SS Captain <a href="/wiki/Erich_Priebke" title="Erich Priebke">Erich Priebke</a> is retried; on <a href="/wiki/July_22" title="July 22">July 22</a> he is sentenced to fifteen years in prison.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_18" title="April 18">April 18</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Red_River_of_the_North" title="Red River of the North">Red River of the North</a> breaks through dikes and <a href="/wiki/1997_Red_River_flood" title="1997 Red River flood">floods</a> <a href="/wiki/Grand_Forks,_North_Dakota" title="Grand Forks, North Dakota">Grand Forks, North Dakota</a>, and <a href="/wiki/East_Grand_Forks,_Minnesota" title="East Grand Forks, Minnesota">East Grand Forks, Minnesota</a>, causing US$2 billion in damage.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_21" title="April 21">April 21</a> – A <a href="/wiki/Pegasus_rocket" class="mw-redirect" title="Pegasus rocket">Pegasus rocket</a> carries the remains of 24 people into earth orbit, in the first <a href="/wiki/Space_burial" title="Space burial">space burial</a> by <a href="/wiki/Celestis" title="Celestis">Celestis</a> company.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_22" title="April 22">April 22</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Haouch_Khemisti_massacre" title="Haouch Khemisti massacre">Haouch Khemisti massacre</a>: 93 villagers are killed in <a href="/wiki/Algeria" title="Algeria">Algeria</a>.</li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/Japanese_embassy_hostage_crisis" title="Japanese embassy hostage crisis">126-day hostage crisis</a> at the residence of the Japanese ambassador in <a href="/wiki/Lima" title="Lima">Lima</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peru" title="Peru">Peru</a>.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_23" title="April 23">April 23</a> – 42 villagers are killed in the <a href="/wiki/Omaria_massacre" title="Omaria massacre">Omaria massacre</a> in Algeria.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_29" title="April 29">April 29</a> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Organisation_for_the_Prohibition_of_Chemical_Weapons" title="Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons">Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons</a> (OPCW), <a href="/wiki/Chemical_Weapons_Convention" title="Chemical Weapons Convention">CWC</a> treaty enters into force.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rongjiawan_train_disaster" title="Rongjiawan train disaster">Two trains crash</a> at <a href="/wiki/Hunan" title="Hunan">Hunan</a>, China; 126 are killed.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="May">May</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: May"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/May_1" title="May 1">May 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a> becomes <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister of the United Kingdom</a>, as the <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a> wins the <a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">1997 United Kingdom general election</a> and returns to government for the first time in 18 years.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_3" title="May 3">May 3</a> – <a href="/wiki/Katrina_and_the_Waves" title="Katrina and the Waves">Katrina and the Waves</a> win the <a href="/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1997" title="Eurovision Song Contest 1997">Eurovision Song Contest 1997</a> for the United Kingdom with "<a href="/wiki/Love_Shine_a_Light" title="Love Shine a Light">Love Shine a Light</a>".</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_9" title="May 9">May 9</a> – The first genetically modified three-parent baby is born.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_10" title="May 10">May 10</a> – The 7.3 M<sub>w</sub>  <a href="/wiki/1997_Qayen_earthquake" title="1997 Qayen earthquake">Qayen earthquake</a> strikes eastern <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> with a maximum <a href="/wiki/Mercalli_intensity_scale" class="mw-redirect" title="Mercalli intensity scale">Mercalli intensity</a> of X (<i>Extreme</i>). At least 1,567 were killed and 2,300 were injured.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_11" title="May 11">May 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/IBM" title="IBM">IBM</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Deep_Blue_(chess_computer)" title="Deep Blue (chess computer)">Deep Blue</a> defeats <a href="/wiki/Garry_Kasparov" title="Garry Kasparov">Garry Kasparov</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Deep_Blue_%E2%80%93_Kasparov,_1997,_Game_6" class="mw-redirect" title="Deep Blue – Kasparov, 1997, Game 6">last game</a> of the rematch, the first time a computer beats a <a href="/wiki/Chess" title="Chess">chess</a> World champion in a match.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_12" title="May 12">May 12</a> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Chechnya_Peace_Treaty" title="Russia–Chechnya Peace Treaty">Russia–Chechnya Peace Treaty</a> is signed.</li> <li>An <a href="/wiki/1997_Miami_tornado" title="1997 Miami tornado">F1-rated tornado strikes</a> downtown <a href="/wiki/Miami" title="Miami">Miami</a>, causing $525,000 in damages. Pictures and videos of this tornado made news headlines around the world.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_15" title="May 15">May 15</a> – The United States government acknowledges existence of the <a href="/wiki/Laotian_Civil_War" title="Laotian Civil War">"Secret War" in Laos</a> (<a href="/wiki/1953" title="1953">1953</a>–<a href="/wiki/1975" title="1975">1975</a>) during the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>, and dedicates the <a href="/wiki/Laos_Memorial" title="Laos Memorial">Laos Memorial</a> in honor of <a href="/wiki/Hmong_people" title="Hmong people">Hmong</a> and other "Secret War" veterans.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_16" title="May 16">May 16</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Congo_War" title="First Congo War">First Congo War</a> ends when president <a href="/wiki/Mobutu_Sese_Seko" title="Mobutu Sese Seko">Mobutu Sese Seko</a> is exiled from <a href="/wiki/Zaire" title="Zaire">Zaire</a>.</li> <li>U.S. President <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> issues a formal apology to the surviving victims of the <a href="/wiki/Tuskegee_Study_of_Untreated_Syphilis_in_the_Negro_Male" class="mw-redirect" title="Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male">Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male</a> and their families.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_17" title="May 17">May 17</a> – Troops of <a href="/wiki/Laurent-D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9_Kabila" title="Laurent-Désiré Kabila">Laurent Kabila</a> march into <a href="/wiki/Kinshasa" title="Kinshasa">Kinshasa</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_21" title="May 21">May 21</a> – <a href="/wiki/Radiohead" title="Radiohead">Radiohead</a> release <a href="/wiki/OK_Computer" title="OK Computer">OK Computer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_23" title="May 23">May 23</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Khatami" title="Mohammad Khatami">Mohammad Khatami</a> wins the <a href="/wiki/1997_Iranian_presidential_election" title="1997 Iranian presidential election">1997 Iranian presidential election</a> and becomes the first <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iranian</a> <a href="/wiki/Reformist" class="mw-redirect" title="Reformist">Reformist</a> <a href="/wiki/President_of_Iran" title="President of Iran">president</a>.</li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/1997_Banjarmasin_riot" title="1997 Banjarmasin riot">riot</a> in <a href="/wiki/Banjarmasin" title="Banjarmasin">Banjarmasin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a> breaks out, causing at least 137 deaths.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_25" title="May 25">May 25</a> – A <a href="/wiki/Military_coup" class="mw-redirect" title="Military coup">military coup</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sierra_Leone" title="Sierra Leone">Sierra Leone</a> replaces President <a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Tejan_Kabbah" title="Ahmad Tejan Kabbah">Ahmad Tejan Kabbah</a> with Major <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Paul_Koroma" title="Johnny Paul Koroma">Johnny Paul Koroma</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_27" title="May 27">May 27</a> – The <a href="/wiki/1997_Prairie_Dell-Jarrell_tornado" class="mw-redirect" title="1997 Prairie Dell-Jarrell tornado">fourth-deadliest tornado</a> of the 1990s hits in <a href="/wiki/Jarrell,_Texas" title="Jarrell, Texas">Jarrell, Texas</a>, killing 27 people and causing extreme damage in the Double Creek Estates.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_31" title="May 31">May 31</a> – The 13-kilometer <a href="/wiki/Confederation_Bridge" title="Confederation Bridge">Confederation Bridge</a>, the world's longest bridge spanning ice-covered waters, opens between <a href="/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island" title="Prince Edward Island">Prince Edward Island</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_Brunswick" title="New Brunswick">New Brunswick</a>, Canada.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="June">June</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: June"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/June_1" title="June 1">June 1</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Party_(France)" title="Socialist Party (France)">Socialist Party</a>-led Centre-left coalition won the second-round in <a href="/wiki/1997_French_legislative_elections" class="mw-redirect" title="1997 French legislative elections">1997 French legislative elections</a>, began with the third <a href="/wiki/Cohabitation_(government)" title="Cohabitation (government)">Cohabitation</a> (1997–2002).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugo_Banzer" title="Hugo Banzer">Hugo Banzer</a> wins the <a href="/wiki/1997_Bolivian_general_election" title="1997 Bolivian general election">Presidential elections</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bolivia" title="Bolivia">Bolivia</a>.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_2" title="June 2">June 2</a> – In <a href="/wiki/Denver" title="Denver">Denver</a>, <a href="/wiki/Colorado" title="Colorado">Colorado</a>, <a href="/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh" title="Timothy McVeigh">Timothy McVeigh</a> is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing" title="Oklahoma City bombing">Oklahoma City bombing</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_10" title="June 10">June 10</a> – <a href="/wiki/Khmer_Rouge" title="Khmer Rouge">Khmer Rouge</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Pol_Pot" title="Pol Pot">Pol Pot</a> orders the killing of his defense chief, <a href="/wiki/Son_Sen" title="Son Sen">Son Sen</a>, and 11 of Sen's family members, before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_11" title="June 11">June 11</a> – In the United Kingdom, the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a> votes for a <a href="/wiki/Firearms_(Amendment)_(No._2)_Act_1997" title="Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997">total ban</a> on <a href="/wiki/Handgun" title="Handgun">handguns</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_13" title="June 13">June 13</a> – A jury sentences <a href="/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh" title="Timothy McVeigh">Timothy McVeigh</a> to <a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment" title="Capital punishment">death</a> for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_16" title="June 16">June 16</a> – About 50 people are killed in the <a href="/wiki/Da%C3%AFat_Labguer_(M%27sila)_massacre" title="Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre">Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre</a> in Algeria.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_21" title="June 21">June 21</a> – The Women's National Basketball Association (<a href="/wiki/WNBA" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBA">WNBA</a>) plays its first game at <a href="/wiki/The_Forum_(Inglewood,_California)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Forum (Inglewood, California)">The Great Western Forum</a> in Los Angeles.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_25" title="June 25">June 25</a> <ul><li>A massive eruption of the <a href="/wiki/Soufri%C3%A8re_Hills" title="Soufrière Hills">Soufrière Hills</a> volcano on the island of <a href="/wiki/Montserrat" title="Montserrat">Montserrat</a> leads to evacuation and eventual abandonment of the capital, <a href="/wiki/Plymouth,_Montserrat" title="Plymouth, Montserrat">Plymouth</a>.</li> <li>An uncrewed spacecraft <a href="/wiki/Progress_M-34" title="Progress M-34">Progress M-34</a> collides with the Russian space station Mir.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_26" title="June 26">June 26</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bertie_Ahern" title="Bertie Ahern">Bertie Ahern</a> is appointed as the 10th <a href="/wiki/Taoiseach" title="Taoiseach">Taoiseach</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Republic of Ireland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mary_Harney" title="Mary Harney">Mary Harney</a> is appointed as the 16th, and first female, <a href="/wiki/T%C3%A1naiste" title="Tánaiste">Tánaiste</a>, after their parties, <a href="/wiki/Fianna_F%C3%A1il" title="Fianna Fáil">Fianna Fáil</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Democrats" title="Progressive Democrats">Progressive Democrats</a> respectively, win the <a href="/wiki/1997_Irish_general_election" title="1997 Irish general election">1997 General Election</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="July">July</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: July"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/July" title="July">July</a> – The <a href="/wiki/1997_Central_European_flood" title="1997 Central European flood">1997 Central European flood</a> occurs across Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_1" title="July 1">July 1</a> – The United Kingdom <a href="/wiki/Transfer_of_sovereignty_over_Hong_Kong" class="mw-redirect" title="Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong">hands sovereignty</a> of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_2" title="July 2">July 2</a> – The Bank of Thailand floats the <a href="/wiki/Baht" class="mw-redirect" title="Baht">baht</a>, triggering the <a href="/wiki/1997_Asian_financial_crisis" title="1997 Asian financial crisis">Asian financial crisis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_4" title="July 4">July 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Mars_Pathfinder" title="Mars Pathfinder">Pathfinder</a> space probe lands on the surface of <a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_5" title="July 5">July 5</a> <ul><li>In Cambodia, <a href="/wiki/Hun_Sen" title="Hun Sen">Hun Sen</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Cambodian_People%27s_Party" title="Cambodian People's Party">Cambodian People's Party</a> overthrows <a href="/wiki/Norodom_Ranariddh" title="Norodom Ranariddh">Norodom Ranariddh</a> in a <a href="/wiki/1997_Cambodian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1997 Cambodian coup d'état">coup</a>.</li> <li>The Egyptian <a href="/wiki/Gamaa_Islamiya" class="mw-redirect" title="Gamaa Islamiya">Islamic Group</a> announces a <a href="/wiki/Al-Jama%27a_al-Islamiyya#Failed_nonviolence_initiative" title="Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya">cessation-of-violence initiative</a>.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_8" title="July 8">July 8</a> – <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> invites the <a href="/wiki/Czech_Republic" title="Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungary</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a> to <a href="/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO#Visegrád_Group" title="Enlargement of NATO">join the alliance</a> in <a href="/wiki/1999" title="1999">1999</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_10" title="July 10">July 10</a> – In London, scientists report their <a href="/wiki/DNA" title="DNA">DNA</a> analysis findings from a <a href="/wiki/Neanderthal" title="Neanderthal">Neanderthal</a> skeleton, which support the <a href="/wiki/Out_of_Africa_theory" class="mw-redirect" title="Out of Africa theory">out of Africa theory</a> of <a href="/wiki/Human_evolution" title="Human evolution">human evolution</a>, placing an "<a href="/wiki/African_Eve" class="mw-redirect" title="African Eve">African Eve</a>" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_11" title="July 11">July 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/Royal_Jomtien_Resort_Hotel_fire" title="Royal Jomtien Resort Hotel fire">Royal Jomtien Resort Hotel fire</a> at <a href="/wiki/Pattaya" title="Pattaya">Pattaya</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thailand</a>'s worst hotel fire, kills 90.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_13" title="July 13">July 13</a> – The remains of <a href="/wiki/Che_Guevara" title="Che Guevara">Che Guevara</a> are returned to <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a> for burial, alongside some of his comrades. <a href="/wiki/%C3%91ancahuaz%C3%BA_Guerrilla" title="Ñancahuazú Guerrilla">Guevara and his comrades</a> were executed on October 9 <a href="/wiki/1967" title="1967">1967</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bolivia" title="Bolivia">Bolivia</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_15" title="July 15">July 15</a> – <a href="/wiki/Spree_killer" title="Spree killer">Spree killer</a> <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Cunanan" title="Andrew Cunanan">Andrew Cunanan</a> shoots fashion designer <a href="/wiki/Gianni_Versace" title="Gianni Versace">Gianni Versace</a> dead outside Versace's <a href="/wiki/Miami_Beach" class="mw-redirect" title="Miami Beach">Miami Beach</a> residence.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_17" title="July 17">July 17</a> – The <a href="/wiki/F._W._Woolworth_Company" title="F. W. Woolworth Company">F. W. Woolworth Company</a> closes after 117 years in business.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_25" title="July 25">July 25</a> – <a href="/wiki/K._R._Narayanan" title="K. R. Narayanan">K. R. Narayanan</a> is sworn in as India's 10th president and the first member of the <a href="/wiki/Dalit" title="Dalit">Dalit</a> caste to hold this office.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_27" title="July 27">July 27</a> – About 50 are killed in the <a href="/wiki/Si_Zerrouk_massacre" title="Si Zerrouk massacre">Si Zerrouk massacre</a> in Algeria.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_30" title="July 30">July 30</a> – 18 people are killed in the <a href="/wiki/1997_Thredbo_landslide" title="1997 Thredbo landslide">Thredbo landslide</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Snowy_Mountains" title="Snowy Mountains">Snowy Mountains</a> resort in Australia.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="August">August</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: August"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/August_3" title="August 3">August 3</a> – Between 40 and 76 villagers are killed in the <a href="/wiki/Oued_El-Had_and_Mezouara_massacre" title="Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre">Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre</a> in Algeria.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_3" title="August 3">August 3</a>–<a href="/wiki/August_11" title="August 11">11</a> – Two of the three islands of the <a href="/wiki/Union_of_the_Comoros" class="mw-redirect" title="Union of the Comoros">Union of the Comoros</a> – <a href="/wiki/Anjouan" title="Anjouan">Anjouan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Moh%C3%A9li" title="Mohéli">Mohéli</a> – attempt to revert to colonial rule by France. The plan fails when the French government of President <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Chirac" title="Jacques Chirac">Jacques Chirac</a> refuses to recolonize them, resulting in the two islands being reintegrated into the Comoros over the next two years.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_4" title="August 4">August 4</a> – <a href="/wiki/Jeanne_Calment" title="Jeanne Calment">Jeanne Calment</a>, the verified oldest person to have ever lived, dies at 122 years and 164 days.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_6" title="August 6">August 6</a> – <a href="/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_801" title="Korean Air Flight 801">Korean Air Flight 801</a> crash lands west of <a href="/wiki/Guam_International_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Guam International Airport">Guam International Airport</a>, resulting in the deaths of 228 people.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_13" title="August 13">August 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/Trey_Parker" title="Trey Parker">Trey Parker</a> and <a href="/wiki/Matt_Stone" title="Matt Stone">Matt Stone</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Animation" title="Animation">animated</a> television comedy <a href="/wiki/Television_series" class="mw-redirect" title="Television series">series</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Park" title="South Park">South Park</a>, started broadcasting with the first episode, <a href="/wiki/Cartman_Gets_an_Anal_Probe" title="Cartman Gets an Anal Probe">Cartman Gets an Anal Probe</a>, on <a href="/wiki/Comedy_Central" title="Comedy Central">Comedy Central</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_20" title="August 20">August 20</a> – More than 60 are killed, 15 kidnapped in the <a href="/wiki/Souhane_massacre" title="Souhane massacre">Souhane massacre</a> in Algeria.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_26" title="August 26">August 26</a> <ul><li>60–100 are killed in the <a href="/wiki/Beni_Ali_massacre" title="Beni Ali massacre">Beni Ali massacre</a> in Algeria.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Independent_International_Commission_on_Decommissioning" title="Independent International Commission on Decommissioning">Independent International Commission on Decommissioning</a> is set up in <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a>, as part of a <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_peace_process" title="Northern Ireland peace process">peace process</a>.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_29" title="August 29">August 29</a> <ul><li>Over 98 (and possibly up to 400) are killed in the <a href="/wiki/Rais_massacre" title="Rais massacre">Rais massacre</a> in Algeria.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Netflix,_Inc." title="Netflix, Inc.">Netflix, Inc.</a> is founded as a DVD-by-mail rental service.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_31" title="August 31">August 31</a> – <a href="/wiki/Death_of_Diana,_Princess_of_Wales" title="Death of Diana, Princess of Wales">Death of Diana, Princess of Wales</a>: <a href="/wiki/Diana,_Princess_of_Wales" title="Diana, Princess of Wales">Diana, Princess of Wales</a>, is taken to a hospital after a car accident shortly after midnight, in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris. She is pronounced dead at 4:00 am.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="September">September</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: September"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/September_1" title="September 1">September 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/Dublin_Regulation" title="Dublin Regulation">Dublin Regulation</a> on treatment of applications for <a href="/wiki/Right_of_asylum" title="Right of asylum">right of asylum</a> under <a href="/wiki/European_Union_law" class="mw-redirect" title="European Union law">European Union law</a> first comes into force.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_5" title="September 5">September 5</a> <ul><li>Over 87 are killed in the <a href="/wiki/Beni_Messous_massacre" title="Beni Messous massacre">Beni Messous massacre</a> in Algeria.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/International_Olympic_Committee" title="International Olympic Committee">International Olympic Committee</a> picks <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a>, Greece, to be the host city for the <a href="/wiki/2004_Summer_Olympics" title="2004 Summer Olympics">2004 Summer Olympics</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_6" title="September 6">September 6</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Funeral_of_Diana,_Princess_of_Wales" title="Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales">funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales</a>, takes place at <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" title="Westminster Abbey">Westminster Abbey</a>, London, UK, watched by over two billion people worldwide.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_11" title="September 11">September 11</a> – <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a> <a href="/wiki/1997_Scottish_devolution_referendum" title="1997 Scottish devolution referendum">votes</a> in favour of a <a href="/wiki/Scottish_devolution" title="Scottish devolution">devolved</a> Parliament, forming the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Parliament" title="Scottish Parliament">Scottish Parliament</a> less than two years later</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_15" title="September 15">September 15</a> – The <a href="/wiki/1997_Norwegian_parliamentary_election" title="1997 Norwegian parliamentary election">Norwegian parliamentary election</a> is held in <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_18" title="September 18">September 18</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">Al-Qaeda</a> carries out a <a href="/wiki/Mostar_car_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="Mostar car bombing">terrorist attack</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mostar" title="Mostar">Mostar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Bosnia and Herzegovina">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a> <a href="/wiki/1997_Welsh_devolution_referendum" title="1997 Welsh devolution referendum">votes</a> in favour of <a href="/wiki/Welsh_devolution" title="Welsh devolution">devolution</a> and the formation of a <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_for_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="National Assembly for Wales">National Assembly for Wales</a>.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_20" title="September 20">September 20</a> – 53 people are killed in the <a href="/wiki/Guelb_El-Kebir_massacre" title="Guelb El-Kebir massacre">Guelb El-Kebir massacre</a> in Algeria.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_21" title="September 21">September 21</a> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Salvation_Army" title="Islamic Salvation Army">Islamic Salvation Army</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Salvation_Front" title="Islamic Salvation Front">Islamic Salvation Fronts</a>' armed wing, declares a unilateral ceasefire in Algeria.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._Olaf%27s_Church,_Tyrv%C3%A4%C3%A4" title="St. Olaf's Church, Tyrvää">St. Olaf's Church</a>, a stone church from the 16th century in <a href="/wiki/Tyrv%C3%A4%C3%A4" title="Tyrvää">Tyrvää</a>, <a href="/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finland</a>, is burnt down.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_26" title="September 26">September 26</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Garuda_Indonesia_Flight_152" title="Garuda Indonesia Flight 152">Garuda Indonesia Flight 152</a> crashes while on approach to <a href="/wiki/Medan" title="Medan">Medan</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Sumatra" title="North Sumatra">North Sumatra</a>, during the <a href="/wiki/1997_Southeast_Asian_haze" title="1997 Southeast Asian haze">1997 Southeast Asian haze</a>, killing all 234 people on board. This becomes the deadliest aviation accident in Indonesian history.</li> <li>An <a href="/wiki/1997_Umbria_and_Marche_earthquake" title="1997 Umbria and Marche earthquake">earthquake</a> strikes the Italian regions of <a href="/wiki/Umbria" title="Umbria">Umbria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marche" title="Marche">Marche</a>, causing part of the <a href="/wiki/Basilica_of_San_Francesco_d%27Assisi" class="mw-redirect" title="Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi">Basilica of St. Francis</a> at <a href="/wiki/Assisi" title="Assisi">Assisi</a> to collapse.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="October">October</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: October"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/October_1" title="October 1">October 1</a> – <a href="/wiki/Luke_Woodham" class="mw-redirect" title="Luke Woodham">Luke Woodham</a> walks into Pearl High School in <a href="/wiki/Pearl,_Mississippi" title="Pearl, Mississippi">Pearl, Mississippi</a> and <a href="/wiki/1997_Pearl_High_School_shooting" title="1997 Pearl High School shooting">opens fire</a>, killing two girls, after killing his mother earlier that morning.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_2" title="October 2">October 2</a> – British scientists Moira Bruce and John Collinge, with their colleagues, independently show that the new variant form of the <a href="/wiki/Creutzfeldt%E2%80%93Jakob_disease" title="Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease">Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease</a> is the same disease as <a href="/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopathy" title="Bovine spongiform encephalopathy">Bovine spongiform encephalopathy</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_3" title="October 3">October 3</a> – The <a href="/wiki/President_of_Paraguay" title="President of Paraguay">President of Paraguay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Juan_Carlos_Wasmosy" title="Juan Carlos Wasmosy">Juan Carlos Wasmosy</a>, orders the arrest of political opponent <a href="/wiki/Lino_Oviedo" title="Lino Oviedo">Lino Oviedo</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_10" title="October 10">October 10</a> – Uruguay's worst air disaster occurs when <a href="/wiki/Austral_L%C3%ADneas_A%C3%A9reas_Flight_2553" title="Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553">Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553</a> crashes near <a href="/wiki/Nuevo_Berl%C3%ADn" title="Nuevo Berlín">Nuevo Berlín</a>, killing all 74 on board.<sup id="cite_ref-AviationSafety_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AviationSafety-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_12" title="October 12">October 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/Sidi_Daoud_massacre" class="mw-redirect" title="Sidi Daoud massacre">Sidi Daoud massacre</a>: 43 are killed at a false roadblock in Algeria.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_15" title="October 15">October 15</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andy_Green_(RAF_officer)" title="Andy Green (RAF officer)">Andy Green</a> sets the first supersonic <a href="/wiki/Land_speed_record" title="Land speed record">land speed record</a> for the <a href="/wiki/ThrustSSC" title="ThrustSSC">ThrustSSC</a> team, led by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Noble" title="Richard Noble">Richard Noble</a> of the UK. ThrustSSC goes through the flying mile course at Black Rock Desert, Nevada at an average speed of 1,227.985 km/h (763.035 mph).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> launches the <a href="/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens" title="Cassini–Huygens">Cassini–Huygens</a> probe to Saturn.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_16" title="October 16">October 16</a> – The first color photograph appears on the front page of <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_17" title="October 17">October 17</a> – The remains of <a href="/wiki/Che_Guevara" title="Che Guevara">Che Guevara</a> are laid to rest with full military honours in a specially built <a href="/wiki/Che_Guevara_Mausoleum" title="Che Guevara Mausoleum">mausoleum</a> in the city of Santa Clara, <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a>, where he had won the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Santa_Clara" title="Battle of Santa Clara">decisive battle</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Cuban_Revolution" title="Cuban Revolution">Cuban Revolution</a> <a href="/wiki/1959" title="1959">39 years</a> before.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_22" title="October 22">October 22</a> – Danish escaped criminal <a href="/wiki/Steen_Christensen" title="Steen Christensen">Steen Christensen</a> robs the Hotel Palace in Helsinki, Finland, killing two police officers while evading capture.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_29" title="October 29">October 29</a> – <a href="/wiki/Iraq_disarmament_timeline_1990%E2%80%932003" title="Iraq disarmament timeline 1990–2003">Iraq disarmament crisis</a>: Iraq says it will begin shooting down <a href="/wiki/Lockheed_U-2" title="Lockheed U-2">Lockheed U-2</a> surveillance planes being used by UNSCOM inspectors.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="November">November</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: November"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/November_2" title="November 2">November 2</a> – <a href="/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Linda_(1997)" title="Tropical Storm Linda (1997)">Severe Tropical Storm Linda</a> devastates southern <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thailand</a>, killing 3,275 people.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_11" title="November 11">November 11</a> – Telecom companies <a href="/wiki/WorldCom" class="mw-redirect" title="WorldCom">WorldCom</a> and <a href="/wiki/MCI_Communications" title="MCI Communications">MCI Communications</a> announce a US$37 billion merger to form <a href="/wiki/MCI_WorldCom" class="mw-redirect" title="MCI WorldCom">MCI WorldCom</a>, the largest merger in U.S. history.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_12" title="November 12">November 12</a> – <a href="/wiki/Mary_McAleese" title="Mary McAleese">Mary McAleese</a> is elected the eighth <a href="/wiki/President_of_Ireland" title="President of Ireland">President of Ireland</a> in succession to <a href="/wiki/Mary_Robinson" title="Mary Robinson">Mary Robinson</a>, the first time in the world that one woman has succeeded another as elected <a href="/wiki/Head_of_state" title="Head of state">head of state</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_13" title="November 13">November 13</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ramzi_Yousef" title="Ramzi Yousef">Ramzi Yousef</a> is found guilty of masterminding the <a href="/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing" title="1993 World Trade Center bombing">1993 World Trade Center bombing</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_17" title="November 17">November 17</a> – In <a href="/wiki/Luxor" title="Luxor">Luxor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Luxor_massacre" title="Luxor massacre">62 people are killed</a> by 6 Islamic militants outside the <a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Hatshepsut" class="mw-redirect" title="Temple of Hatshepsut">Temple of Hatshepsut</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_19" title="November 19">November 19</a> – In <a href="/wiki/Des_Moines,_Iowa" title="Des Moines, Iowa">Des Moines, Iowa</a>, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to <a href="/wiki/McCaughey_septuplets" title="McCaughey septuplets">septuplets</a> in the second known case where all seven babies are born alive, and the first in which all survive infancy.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_27" title="November 27">November 27</a> – <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Tropical_Rainfall_Measuring_Mission" title="Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission">Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission</a> is launched, the start of the satellite component of the <a href="/wiki/Clouds_and_the_Earth%27s_Radiant_Energy_System" title="Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System">Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="December">December</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: December"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/December_1" title="December 1">December 1</a> – In the Indian state of <a href="/wiki/Bihar" title="Bihar">Bihar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ranvir_Sena" title="Ranvir Sena">Ranvir Sena</a> attacks the <a href="/wiki/Central_Organising_Committee,_Communist_Party_of_India_(Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist)_Party_Unity" title="Central Organising Committee, Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Party Unity">CPI(ML) Party Unity</a> stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, <a href="/wiki/Laxmanpur_Bathe_massacre" title="Laxmanpur Bathe massacre">killing 63 lower caste people</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_3" title="December 3">December 3</a> – In <a href="/wiki/Ottawa" title="Ottawa">Ottawa, Ontario</a>, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign a <a href="/wiki/Ottawa_Treaty" title="Ottawa Treaty">treaty</a> prohibiting the manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel <a href="/wiki/Land_mine" title="Land mine">land mines</a>. However, the United States, the People's Republic of China, Russia, South Korea and 32 other nations do not sign and/or ratify the treaty.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_10" title="December 10">December 10</a> – The capital of <a href="/wiki/Kazakhstan" title="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a> is moved from <a href="/wiki/Almaty" title="Almaty">Almaty</a> to <a href="/wiki/Astana" title="Astana">Astana</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_11" title="December 11">December 11</a> – The <a href="/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol" title="Kyoto Protocol">Kyoto Protocol</a> is adopted by a <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Climate_Change_conference#1997:_COP_3,_The_Kyoto_Protocol_on_Climate_Change" class="mw-redirect" title="United Nations Climate Change conference">committee</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_15" title="December 15">December 15</a> – Microsoft releases Windows 98 Beta 3</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_16" title="December 16">December 16</a> – In <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>, over 700 children suffer <a href="/wiki/Photosensitive_epilepsy" title="Photosensitive epilepsy">epileptic attacks</a> after watching <a href="/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Senshi_Porygon" title="Dennō Senshi Porygon">an episode</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_(TV_series)" title="Pokémon (TV series)">Pokémon</a> anime.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_19" title="December 19">December 19</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Janet_Jagan" title="Janet Jagan">Janet Jagan</a> (widow of <a href="/wiki/Cheddi_Jagan" title="Cheddi Jagan">Cheddi Jagan</a>) takes office in <a href="/wiki/Guyana" title="Guyana">Guyana</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SilkAir_Flight_185" title="SilkAir Flight 185">SilkAir Flight 185</a> crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_21" title="December 21">December 21</a> – <a href="/wiki/Brazil_national_football_team" title="Brazil national football team">Brazil</a> beats <a href="/wiki/Australia_men%27s_national_soccer_team" title="Australia men's national soccer team">Australia</a> 6–0 in the <a href="/wiki/1997_FIFA_Confederations_Cup" title="1997 FIFA Confederations Cup">Confederations Cup</a> <a href="/wiki/1997_FIFA_Confederations_Cup_Final" class="mw-redirect" title="1997 FIFA Confederations Cup Final">final</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_24" title="December 24">December 24</a> – 50–100 villagers are killed in the <a href="/wiki/Sid_El-Antri_massacre" title="Sid El-Antri massacre">Sid El-Antri massacre</a> in Algeria.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_27" title="December 27">December 27</a> – <a href="/wiki/Ulster_loyalism" title="Ulster loyalism">Ulster loyalist</a> <a href="/wiki/Paramilitary" title="Paramilitary">paramilitary</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Billy_Wright_(loyalist)" title="Billy Wright (loyalist)">Billy Wright</a> is assassinated in <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a>, inside <a href="/wiki/Long_Kesh" class="mw-redirect" title="Long Kesh">Long Kesh</a> prison.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_29" title="December 29">December 29</a> – Hong Kong begins to kill all the chickens within its territory (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly <a href="/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H5N1" title="Influenza A virus subtype H5N1">Influenza A virus subtype H5N1</a> strain.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_30" title="December 30">December 30</a> – <a href="/wiki/Wilaya_of_Relizane_massacres_of_December_30,_1997" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilaya of Relizane massacres of December 30, 1997">Wilaya of Relizane massacres of December 30, 1997</a>: In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, 400 people from four villages in the <a href="/wiki/Relizane_Province" title="Relizane Province"><i>wilaya</i> of Relizane</a> are killed.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Births_and_deaths">Births and deaths</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Births and deaths"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main pages: <a href="/wiki/Category:1997_births" title="Category:1997 births">Category:1997 births</a> and <a href="/wiki/Deaths_in_1997" class="mw-redirect" title="Deaths in 1997">Deaths in 1997</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Nobel_Prizes">Nobel Prizes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Nobel 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Boyer">Paul D. Boyer</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_E._Walker" title="John E. Walker">John E. Walker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jens_C._Skou" class="mw-redirect" title="Jens C. Skou">Jens C. Skou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economic_Sciences" title="Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences">Economics</a> – <a href="/wiki/Bank_of_Sweden" class="mw-redirect" title="Bank of Sweden">Bank of Sweden</a> – <a href="/wiki/Robert_C._Merton" title="Robert C. Merton">Robert C. Merton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Myron_Scholes" title="Myron Scholes">Myron Scholes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="Nobel Prize in Literature">Literature</a> – <a href="/wiki/Dario_Fo" title="Dario Fo">Dario Fo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize" title="Nobel Peace Prize">Peace</a> – <a href="/wiki/ICBL" class="mw-redirect" title="ICBL">International Campaign to Ban Landmines</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jody_Williams" title="Jody Williams">Jody Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics" title="Nobel Prize in Physics">Physics</a> – <a href="/wiki/Steven_Chu" title="Steven Chu">Steven Chu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Claude_Cohen-Tannoudji" title="Claude Cohen-Tannoudji">Claude Cohen-Tannoudji</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_D._Phillips" class="mw-redirect" title="William D. Phillips">William D. Phillips</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine" title="Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine">Medicine</a> – <a href="/wiki/Stanley_B._Prusiner" title="Stanley B. Prusiner">Stanley B. Prusiner</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1997&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/turkey-hints-strike-cypriot-missiles-1282572.html">"Turkey hints at strike on Cypriot missiles"</a>. <i>The Independent</i>. 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