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1997 Calendar

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•  January 18, 1997 – In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.
•  February 7, 1997 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Ox in Chinese astrology.
•  April 1, 1997 – Comet Hale-Bopp is seen passing over perihelion.
•  April 3, 1997 – The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
•  May 11, 1997 – Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
•  July 4, 1997 – NASA’s Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
•  July 27, 1997 – About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.
•  September 19, 1997 – Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed.
•  October 25, 1997 – After a brief civil war which has driven President Pascal Lissouba out of Brazzaville, Denis Sassou-Nguesso proclaims himself the President of the Republic of the Congo.
•  December 3, 1997 – In Ottawa, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign The Ottawa treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People’s Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.

•  February 25, 1997 – Isabelle Fuhrman, American actress
•  May 9, 1997 – Zane Huett, American actor
•  June 18, 1997 – Max Records, American Actor
•  June 20, 1997 – Maria Lark, Russian/American actress
•  July 20, 1997 – Billi Bruno, American actress
•  July 22, 1997 – Field Cate, American actor
•  September 8, 1997 – Kimberlea Berg, English actress
•  October 27, 1997 – Eden Taylor-Draper, English actress
•  November 1, 1997 – Alex Wolff, American singer and actor
•  November 4, 1997 – Bea Binene, Filipina actress