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1997 ( MCMXCVII) 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.
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 .
October 26 – 1997 World Series: The Florida Marlins defeat the Cleveland Indians. October 27 – Stock markets around the world crash due to a global economic crisis scare. The Dow Jones Industrial Average follows suit and plummets 554.26, or 7.18%, to 7,161.15. The points loss exceeds the loss from Black Monday.
17 May – Chelsea F.C. beat Middlesbrough F.C. 2–0 in the FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium to win their first major trophy for 26 years, while it is a personal triumph for their 34-year-old Dutch player-manager Ruud Gullit who becomes the first black manager and the first foreign manager to win a major trophy in England.
21 May – Serena Martin wins the 1997 series of Junior MasterChef on BBC1. 23 May – The long-running Channel 4 game show Countdown celebrates its 2000th edition with a special retrospective programme. [47] 24–26 May – Channel 4 dedicates the Spring Bank Holiday weekend to sitcoms.
HLN is an American basic cable network. Owned by CNN Worldwide, the network primarily carries true-crime programming, as well as 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 broadcast a looping, half-hour cycle of segments covering various ...
The 1997 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 1 May 1997. The governing Conservative Party led by Prime Minister John Major was defeated in a landslide by the Labour Party led by Tony Blair, achieving a 179-seat majority. The political backdrop of campaigning focused on public opinion towards a change in government.
The message was likely received during the top-of-the hour headlines, as the wide-shot in the opening featured multiple journalists running across the room. 2022. 10 January – A new 60-minute discussion-based programme Context is launched. It broadcasts from Mondays to Thursdays on BBC News and BBC World News and features two guests ...