1997

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International Year of the Reef

Births

Deaths

February 11 - [Don Porter]?, actor.
February 19 - Xiaoping Deng
July 2 - James Stewart
August 2 - William S. Burroughs, US author
August 31 - Diana, English princess
September 5 - [Georg Solti]?
September 5 - [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu]? ([Mother Teresa]?)
September 9 - [Burgess Meredith]?
September 17 - [Red Skelton]?
December 3 - Kathy Acker, post-punk post-feminist and post-industrial author
Allen Ginsberg, US poet

Events

February 11 - [Bill Parcells]? becomes head coach of New York Jets.
May 1 - The UK's Labour Party end 18 years of Conservative rule in the 1997 UK general election
May 11 - IBM's [Deep Blue]? defeated Garry Kasparov, the first time a computer beat a chess grand master
September 11 - Scotland votes to create its own Parliament after 290 years of union with England.
South Korea suffers a severe economic crisis

Sport

January 26 - Super Bowl XXXI Green Bay Packers (35) def. New England Patriots (21)

Nobel Prizes

Physics - [Steven Chu]?, [Claude Cohen-Tannoudji]?, [William D. Phillips]?
Chemistry - [Paul D Boyer]?, [John E Walker]?, [Jens C Skou]?
Medicine - [Stanley B Prusiner]?
Literature - [Dario Fo]?
Peace - [International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)]? and [Jody Williams]?
Economics - [Robert Merton]?, [Myron Scholes]?