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1997
Tony Blair
Tony Blair is sworn in as British Prime Minister on May 2, 1997 .
Hale-Bopp taken in Pazin on the Istrian peninsula (Croatia) on March 29, 1997
Hale-Bopp , the Great Comet of 1997 , is visible to the unaided eye for several months.
Funeral of Princess Diana
Princess Diana died in a car accident in Paris on August 31, 1997. The funeral will take place in London on September 6, 1997 in front of a worldwide TV audience.
1997 in other calendars
Ab urbe condita 2750
Armenian calendar 1445-1446
Ethiopian calendar 1989-1990
Badi calendar 153-154
Bengali calendar 1403-1404
Berber calendar 2947
Buddhist calendar 2541
Burmese calendar 1359
Byzantine calendar 7505-7506
Chinese calendar
 - era 4693-4694 or
4633-4634
 – 60-year cycle

Fire Rat (丙子, 13) -
Fire Ox (丁丑, 14)

French
Revolutionary Calendar
CCV - CCVI
205-206
Hindu calendar
 – Vikram Sambat 2053-2054
 – Shaka Samvat 1919-1920
Iranian calendar 1375-1376
Islamic calendar 1417-1418
Japanese calendar
 – Nengō (era): heisei 9
 - Koki 2657
Jewish calendar 5757-5758
Coptic calendar 1713-1714
Korean calendar
 – Dangun era 4330
 – Juche era 86
Minguo calendar 86
Modern Olympics XXVI
Seleucid calendar 2308-2309
Thai solar calendar 2540

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events

politics and world affairs

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business

science and technology

OMEGA system on Reunion

Culture

music

See also: Number one hits 1997 in Australia , Austria , Belgium , Canada , Denmark , Finland , France , Germany , Hungary , Ireland , Italy , Japan , New Zealand , Netherlands , Norway , Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , United States States and the United Kingdom .

See also: Category:Music 1997

society

Logo of the student strike 1997/98 (traced)
Diana's funeral

religion

Ibrahim al-Ibrahim Mosque in Gibraltar

natural events

Sports

Entries of athletics world records see under the respective discipline under athletics .

disasters

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

CFIT – Korean Air Flight 801 on August 6, 1997 (228 people die, 26 survive)
  • February 24: A 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck Turkmenistan and Iran . 100 dead
  • February 28: A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck Armenia and Azerbaijan ; approx. 1,100 dead
  • February 28: North Hollywood shooting
  • March 28: During an attempt to intercept the refugee ship Kater i Rades by the Italian warship F 558 Sibilla , a collision occurs and over 80 people die.
  • May 10: A 7.5 magnitude earthquake hits Iran , killing 1,560
  • June 28: At an anniversary concert by Toten Hosen in Düsseldorf's Rheinstadion in front of 60,000 spectators, a sixteen-year-old girl dies in the crowd in front of the stage. The rock band interrupts the concert, but plays it to the end on the advice of the chief of operations of the professional fire brigade to prevent panic.
  • July–August: Oder floods in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic
  • August 6: Agana , Guam . Korean Air Boeing 747 crashed about three miles from the airport. 228 people die, 26 can be saved
  • 13 September: Off the coast of Namibia . Collision of a German Tupolev Tu-154M with a US Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter. All 24 occupants on board the Tupolev and the nine crew members of the C-141 are killed
  • September 26: near Medan , Sumatra , Indonesia . Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300 crash . All 234 people on board Flight 152 die

Born

January

Angelino (2020)

February

Benjamin Henrichs (2015)

March

Daniel DeSilva (2013)

April

May

Lana Condor (2015)
Ousmane Dembele (2018)

June

Rebecca Black (2014)

July

Malala Yousafzai (2013)

August

Greyson Chance (2011)
Renato Sanches (2016)

September

October

Bella Thorne (2014)

November

December

Zara Larson (2015)

day unknown

Died

This is a list of the most important people who died in 1997. For a more detailed list, see 1997 obituary .

January

February

  • 0February 1 Ed Danowski , American football player (b. 1911)
  • 0February 3: Bohumil Hrabal , Czech writer (b. 1914)
  • 0February 3: Johnny Rodríguez , Puerto Rican singer and composer (b. 1912)
  • 0February 4: Alberto Beltrán , Dominican singer (b. 1924)
  • 0February 4: Paul Kuën , German opera singer (born 1910)
  • 0February 5: Roland Adolph , German clergyman (b. 1946)
  • 0February 6: Roger Laurent , Belgian motorcycle and automobile racer (b. 1913)
  • 0February 6: Rolf Rodenstock , German entrepreneur, 1978–1984 Chairman of the Federation of German Industries (b. 1917)
  • 0February 7: Owen Stuart Aspinall , American politician (b. 1927)
  • 0February 7: Allan Edwall , Swedish actor, writer, director and musician (b. 1924)
  • 0February 9: Maria Anders , German historian (born 1926)
  • February 10 Brian Connolly , lead singer of British rock group The Sweet (b. 1945)
  • February 13: Carl Appel , Austrian architect (b. 1911)
  • February 16: Chien-Shiung Wu , Chinese-American physicist (b. 1912)
  • February 17: Darcy Ribeiro , Brazilian anthropologist, politician and writer (b. 1922)
  • February 19: Oswald Andrae , German writer (b. 1926)
  • February 19: Lois Marshall , Canadian singer and singing teacher (b. 1925)
Deng Xiaoping (died February 19)

March

April

Chaim Herzog († April 17)

May

June

July

  • 0July 1: Robert Mitchum , American actor (b. 1917)
  • 0July 1: Gerd Wiltfang , German show jumper, World Championship winner 1978 (b. 1946)

August

Diana Spencer (died August 31)
Julio Musimessi

September

Mother Teresa (died September 5)
Mobutu Sese Seko (died September 7)
  • 0September 7: Mobutu Sese Seko , President of Zaire (b. 1930)
  • 0September 9: Don Richard Ashburn , American baseball player (born 1927)
  • September 10: Walter Ohm , German radio play and theater director (b. 1915)
  • September 12: Stikkan Anderson , Swedish businessman, producer, music publisher and lyricist (born 1931)
  • September 14: Arno Wyzniewski , German actor (b. 1938)
  • September 17: Benjamin Atkins , American serial killer (b. 1968)
  • September 17: Red Skelton , American actor and comedian (b. 1913)
  • September 17: Jan Peder Syse , Norwegian Conservative politician (b. 1930)
  • September 19: Ludwig Kraus , German engineer (b. 1911)
  • September 20: Kurt Gloor , Swiss film director (b. 1942)
  • September 20: Gerhard Menzel , grandson of Carl Menzel and entrepreneur in the glass industry (b. 1911)
  • September 22: Joaquín Mendivel , Cuban pianist, arranger, composer, orchestra leader and music teacher (b. 1919)
  • September 25: Jean Françaix , French pianist and composer (born 1912)
  • September 25: Carl Heinz Löwen , German physician (b. 1912)
  • September 25: Egon Seefehlner , Austrian jurist, editor and artistic director (b. 1912)
  • September 27: Rolf Ulrici , German writer (b. 1922)

October

James A Michener, 1991

November

December

day unknown

Nobel prizes

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