1997

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s - 1990s - 2000s 2010s? 2020s? 2030s? 2040s?

Years: 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 - 1997 - 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002

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International Year of the Reef

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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]?