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HLN is an American basic cable network. Owned by CNN Worldwide, the network primarily carries true-crime programming, recently drifting away from limited live news programming. The channel was originally launched on January 1, 1982, by Turner Broadcasting as CNN2 (later renamed Headline News or CNN Headline News), a sister network to CNN that ...
October 27, 1997, mini-crash. On October 27, 1997, a global stock market crash was caused by an economic crisis in Asia, the "Asian contagion", or Tom Yum Goong crisis ( Thai: วิกฤตต้มยำกุ้ง ). The point loss that the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered on this day currently ranks as the 18th biggest percentage ...
June 4 – Ronnie Lane, English rock musician (b. 1946) June 6 – Magda Gabor, American actress (b. 1915) June 8 – Reid Shelton, American actor (b. 1924) June 14 – Richard Jaeckel, American actor (b. 1926) June 23. Betty Shabazz, American educator and activist (b. 1936) William Slater Brown, American novelist, biographer and translator (b ...
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 ...
Perpetrator. Ali Hassan Abu Kamal. Motive. Anti-Zionism. On February 23, 1997, Ali Hassan Abu Kamal, a 69-year-old Palestinian teacher, opened fire on the observation deck of the Empire State Building in New York City. The gunman killed one person and wounded six others before taking his own life with a gunshot to the head.
1997 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1997th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 997th year of the 2nd millennium, the 97th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1990s decade.
1997 in the United Kingdom. Events from the year 1997 in the United Kingdom. This year is noted for a landslide general election victory for the Labour Party under Tony Blair; the handover of Hong Kong, the largest remaining British colony, to China; and the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
In South Korea, the gold-collecting campaign was a national sacrificial movement in early 1998 to repay its debt to the International Monetary Fund. At the time, South Korea had about $304 billion in foreign-exchange debt. The campaign, involving about 3.51 million people nationwide, collected about 227 tons of gold [1] worth about $2.13 billion.