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1997 Calendar

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•  January 21, 1997 – Newt Gingrich becomes the first leader of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct.
•  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 18, 1997 – The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en-route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s.
•  April 13, 1997 – Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
•  June 25, 1997 – An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
•  July 4, 1997 – NASA’s Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
•  August 6, 1997 – Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.
•  December 18, 1997 – HTML 4.0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium.
•  December 26, 1997 – The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami offshore.

•  January 11, 1997 – Cody Simpson, Australian singer-songwriter
•  February 25, 1997 – Isabelle Fuhrman, American actress
•  March 18, 1997 – Ciara Bravo, American actress
•  April 1, 1997 – Asa Butterfield, English actor
•  May 9, 1997 – Zane Huett, American actor
•  July 20, 1997 – Billi Bruno, American actress
•  September 8, 1997 – Kimberlea Berg, English actress
•  October 27, 1997 – Eden Taylor-Draper, English actress
•  November 4, 1997 – Bea Binene, Filipina actress
•  December 18, 1997 – Kylie Fonacier, Maple Creek & Povedan Honor Student and Composer