67 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.