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1997 Calendar

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•  January 23, 1997 – Antonis Daglis, a 23-year-old Greek truck driver is sentenced to thirteen consecutive life sentences, plus 25 years for the serial slayings of three women and the attempted murder of six others.
•  February 7, 1997 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Ox in Chinese astrology.
•  February 11, 1997 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
•  March 22, 1997 – The Comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to Earth.
•  May 15, 1997 – The United States government acknowledges the existence of the “Secret War” in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other “Secret War” veterans.
•  July 10, 1997 – In London scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which support the “out of Africa theory” of human evolution placing an “African Eve” at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
•  August 6, 1997 – Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
•  October 27, 1997 – October 27, 1997 mini-crash: Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15.
•  November 16, 1997 – After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People’s Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.
•  December 30, 1997 – In the worst incident in Algeria’s insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people from four villages are killed.

•  January 17, 1997 – Jack Vidgen, Australian singer who won the Australia’s Got Talent in 2011.
•  January 24, 1997 – Dylan Riley Snyder, American film, television and theatre actor
•  February 25, 1997 – Isabelle Fuhrman, American actress
•  April 1, 1997 – Asa Butterfield, English actor
•  May 1, 1997 – Ariel Gade, American actress
•  June 20, 1997 – Maria Lark, Russian/American actress
•  June 21, 1997 – Rebecca Black, American pop star
•  July 31, 1997 – Barbie Forteza, Filipina child actress
•  October 27, 1997 – Eden Taylor-Draper, English actress
•  November 4, 1997 – Bea Binene, Filipina actress