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1997 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1997th ... Pictures and videos of this tornado made news headlines around the world.
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.
1997–2001 CNN Headline News logo on a table in the food court at CNN Center. Tables like these have since been removed. In 1992, Headline News pioneered the use of a digital video "jukebox" to recycle segments of one newscast seamlessly into another. The new technology reduced the number of staffers needed by enabling news segments to be re ...
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.
The original BBC News 24 ident incorporated real-life flags. BBC News 24 was launched at 5.30pm on 9 November 1997 as a 24-hour domestic news channel but also the world's first 24-hour news channel. It acted as a sister channel to BBC World which had launched two years earlier. As a result of this partnership between the two channels, they ...
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 ...
February 13 – Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope is started by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery. February 27 – GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way. March 8 – Complete solar eclipse.
The 1997 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball 's (MLB) 1997 season. The 93rd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Cleveland Indians and the National League (NL) champion Florida Marlins. The Marlins, who were underdogs, defeated the Indians, four games ...