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As 1997 began, the world's eye was on the closed American/Mexican border. The Soviet Union's Mexican gambit worked, and this time it didn't start a new war for the Soviet Union. Infact, the Soviet Union began setting up military base around the country, started cross-excercises with the Mexican Army, and even sharing the each other's armed equipments. This would just foment more the rumors of the USSR's plan to modernize the army by the end of the millenium. But in a way, despite tensions from both sides, 1997 would be quite the calm year for the most part.
January 1: The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States and replaces the outdated Emergency Broadcast Sistem.
January 19: 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 20: Bill Clinton is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States.
January 23: Madeleine Albright becomes the first female Secretary of State of the United States, after confirmation by the United States Senate.
February 4: On their way to Lebanon, two Israeli troop-transport helicopters collide, killing all 73 on board.
February 10: Sandline affair: Australian newspapers publish stories that the government of Papua New Guinea has brought mercenaries onto Bougainville Island.
February 28: North Hollywood shootout: Two robbers, wearing kevlar body armor, and armed with illegally modified Type 56 S rifles with high-capacity magazines and other weapons, injure 20 police officers and civilians in a gun battle. The incident sparks debate on the appropriate firepower for United States patrol officers to have available in similar situations in the future.
March 4: U.S. President Bill Clinton bans federal funding for any research on human cloning.
March 7: In Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers overrun a military base and kill over 100 Sri Lankan troops. Meanwhile, in India, India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala, to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader, while the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China creates a new Chongqing Municipality, out of part of Sichuan.
March 16: Sandline affair: On Bougainville Island, soldiers of commander Jerry Singirok arrest Tim Spicer and his mercenaries of the Sandline International.
March 22: The Comet Hale–Bopp makes its closest approach to Earth.
March 24: The 69th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. During the event, the DVD format is launched in the United States.
March 24-26: In San Diego, 39 Heaven's Gate cultists commit mass suicide at their compound.
March 26: Julius Chan resigns as prime minister of Papua New Guinea, effectively ending the Sandline affair.
April 14: Fire breaks out in a pilgrim camp on the Plain of Mena, 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) from Mecca; 343 die. At the same time, former SS Captain Erich Priebke is retried; on July 22 he is sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
April 18: The Red River of the North breaks through dikes and floods Grand Forks, North Dakota, and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, causing US$2 billion in damage.
April 22: A 126-day hostage crisis at the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, Peru.
May 9: The first genetically modified three-parent baby is born.
May 10: The 7.3 Mw Qayen earthquake strikes eastern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). At least 1,567 were killed and 2,300 were injured.
May 11: IBM's Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, the first time a computer beats a chess World champion in a match.
May 12: An F1-rated tornado strikes downtown Miami, causing $525,000 in damages. Pictures and videos of this tornado made news headlines around the world.
May 15: The United States government acknowledges existence of the "Secret War" in Laos (1953–1975) during the Vietnam War, and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other "Secret War" veterans.
May 16: U.S. President Bill Clinton issues a formal apology to the surviving victims of the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male and their families.
May 27: The second-deadliest tornado of the 1990s hits in Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people.
May 31: The 13-kilometer Confederation Bridge, the world's longest bridge spanning ice-covered waters, opens between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, Canada.
June 1: Hugo Banzer wins the Presidential elections in Bolivia.
June 2: In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
June 10: Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief, Son Sen, and 11 of Sen's family members, before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold.
June 13: A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
June 21: The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) plays its first game at The Great Western Forum in Los Angeles.
July: The 1997 Central European flood occurs across Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic
July 2: The Bank of Thailand floats the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis.
July 4: NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
July 10: In London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neanderthal skeleton, which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
July 13: The remains of Che Guevara are returned to Cuba for burial, alongside some of his comrades. Guevara and his comrades were executed on October 9 1967 in Bolivia.
July 15: Spree killer Andrew Cunanan shoots fashion designer Gianni Versace dead outside Versace's Miami Beach residence.
July 17: The F. W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business.
July 25: K. R. Narayanan is sworn in as India's 10th president and the first member of the Dalit caste to hold this office.
August 1: Boeing and McDonnell Douglas complete a merger.
August 4: Jeanne Calment, the verified oldest person to have ever lived, dies at 122 years and 164 days.
August 13: Trey Parker and Matt Stone's South Park aired its first episode on Comedy Central; it would go on to become one of the most infamous and celebrated sitcoms ever made.
September 5: The International Olympic Committee picks Athens, Greece, to be the host city for the 2004 Summer Olympics.
September 26: Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 crashes while on approach to Medan, North Sumatra, during the 1997 Southeast Asian haze, killing all 234 people on board. This becomes the deadliest aviation accident in Indonesian history. Meanwhile, An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
October 2: British scientists Moira Bruce and John Collinge, with their colleagues, independently show that the new variant form of the Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease is the same disease as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
October 3: The President of Paraguay, Juan Carlos Wasmosy, orders the arrest of political opponent Lino Oviedo.
October 4: Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery: The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history ($17.3 million, mostly in small bills) occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina, office of Wells Fargo. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the stolen cash.
October 15: Andy Green sets the first supersonic land speed record for the ThrustSSC team, led by Richard Noble of the UK. ThrustSSC goes through the flying mile course at Black Rock Desert, Nevada at an average speed of 1,227.985 km/h (763.035 mph). All the while, NASA launches the Cassini–Huygens probe to Saturn.
October 16: The first color photograph appears on the front page of The New York Times.
October 17: The remains of Che Guevara are laid to rest with full military honours in a specially built mausoleum in the city of Santa Clara, Cuba, where he had won the decisive battle of the Cuban Revolution 39 years before. The funeral is attended many delegates of the Communist world, even China and the Soviet Union.
November 11: Telecom companies WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a US$37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom, the largest merger in U.S. history.
November 19: In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies are born alive, and the first in which all survive infancy.
November 27: NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission is launched, the start of the satellite component of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System.
December 1: In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacks the CPI(ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.
December 16: In Japan, over 700 children suffer epileptic attacks due to an episode of the Pokémon anime.
December 19: Janet Jagan (widow of Cheddi Jagan) takes office in Guyana. Meanwhile, James Cameron's Titanic, the then highest-grossing film of all time, premieres in the U.S.
December 21: Brazil beats Australia 6–0 in the Confederations Cup final.
December 29: In the Chinese region of Hong Kong, the killing of chickens begins to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
For the first time in a while, the world was at peace. A strange, surreal, but still relaxing peace. That wouldn't last long.
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