75 events found for 1997
Kurkse tragedy: Fourteen Estonian soldiers of the Baltic Battalion are drowned or die of hypothermia during a training…
After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament within the United Kingdom.
A German Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 and a United States Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter collide in mid-air near…
Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya…
United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.
The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted.
The Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria kills 53 people.
St. Olaf's Church, a stone church from the 16th century in Tyrvää, Finland, is burnt down by a burglar.
NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-86 to the Mir space station.
A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300 crashes near Medan airport, killing 234.
An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at…
The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina.
Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74.
The Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria kills 43 people at a fake roadblock.
The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.