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1997 Calendar

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•  February 7, 1997 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Ox in Chinese astrology.
•  February 22, 1997 – In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
•  March 22, 1997 – Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion women’s World Figure Skating Champion.
•  April 1, 1997 – Comet Hale-Bopp is seen passing over perihelion.
•  May 17, 1997 – Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.
•  June 16, 1997 – The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.
•  July 15, 1997 – In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.
•  July 22, 1997 – The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
•  October 4, 1997 – The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken.
•  December 30, 1997 – In the worst incident in Algeria’s insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people from four villages are killed.

•  January 24, 1997 – Dylan Riley Snyder, American film, television and theatre actor
•  March 18, 1997 – Ciara Bravo, American actress
•  May 1, 1997 – Ariel Gade, American actress
•  June 18, 1997 – Max Records, American Actor
•  June 20, 1997 – Maria Lark, Russian/American actress
•  August 16, 1997 – Greyson Chance, American singer
•  October 27, 1997 – Eden Taylor-Draper, English actress
•  November 19, 1997 – McCaughey septuplets, world’s first surviving set of septuplets
•  November 28, 1997 – Thor Salden, Belgian singer
•  December 18, 1997 – Kylie Fonacier, Maple Creek & Povedan Honor Student and Composer