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March 4 – U.S. President Bill Clinton bars federal funding for any research on human cloning. March 9 – 24-year-old Brooklyn rapper The Notorious B.I.G. is killed in a drive-by shooting shortly after leaving a Vibe magazine party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles before the release of his second album Life After Death.
1997–98 television season begins: September 22 ER: NBC 42.7 [citation needed] September 29 32.6 [citation needed] October 6 32.1 [citation needed] October 13 32.8 [citation needed] October 20 World Series (Game 7) 38.0 [citation needed] October 27 Cinderella: ABC 34.3 [citation needed] November 3 ER: NBC 32.0 [citation needed] November 10 34. ...
Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1997. This is a list of singles that charted in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1997. During this year, "How Do I Live" by LeAnn Rimes became the longest-running top-ten single, breaking a record for 32 weeks (a record that went unmatched for over nineteen years). Puff Daddy and Mase each had four top-ten ...
The longest running number-one single of 1997 is "Candle in the Wind 1997"/"Something About the Way You Look Tonight", which logged 14 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Two of those weeks were logged in 1998 while the remaining 12 were attained in 1997. With "Honey" becoming her 12th #1 single, Mariah Carey broke the record for most #1 ...
Woodson emerged as the winner in the 1997 Heisman Trophy voting, making history as the first primarily defensive player to receive the prestigious award. He received 1,815 total points, securing ...
In 1997, News Corporation it would launch a Fox Sports network in Michigan, and won a surprise bid for local cable television rights to Detroit Pistons games. Fox Sports Detroit then acquired broadcast rights to Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Tigers games from competitor Pro-Am Sports System , and launched on September 17 in the for the NHL and ...
YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, founded by three former PayPal employees— Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim —in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, since which it operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.
Eighty-five artists achieved their first top 10 single in 1997, either as a lead or featured artist. Of these, fourteen went on to record another hit single that year: All Saints, The Course, Daft Punk, DJ Quicksilver, Eels, Hanson, [26] Kavana, Mansun, No Doubt, No Mercy, The Notorious B.I.G., Orbital, The Seahorses and Shola Ama.