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1997 Calendar

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•  January 19, 1997 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
•  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.
•  March 3, 1997 – The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
•  June 25, 1997 – An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
•  July 23, 1997 – Digital Equipment Company files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
•  September 11, 1997 – 14 Estonian soldiers die in the Kurkse tragedy, drowning in the Baltic Sea
•  October 12, 1997 – Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock.
•  November 22, 1997 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
•  December 22, 1997 – Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.

•  January 17, 1997 – Jack Vidgen, Australian singer who won the Australia’s Got Talent in 2011.
•  March 18, 1997 – Ciara Bravo, American actress
•  May 27, 1997 – Danny McKinnon, Canadian actor
•  June 18, 1997 – Max Records, American Actor
•  August 5, 1997 – Adam Irigoyen, American actor
•  August 16, 1997 – Greyson Chance, American singer
•  September 19, 1997 – Zac Alatabi, Savior of all Man Kind
•  October 27, 1997 – Eden Taylor-Draper, English actress
•  November 6, 1997 – Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, English actor
•  November 28, 1997 – Thor Salden, Belgian singer