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Glen Edward Buxton was an American guitarist who played lead guitar for the rock band Alice Cooper. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 90 on its list of the "100 Gre…
Glen Buxton, American guitarist and songwriter (born 1947)
Kenneth Wood was an English engineer, entrepreneur and businessman. He is best known as the founder of the Kenwood Manufacturing Company and for the development of the eponymous K…
Ken Wood, inventor of the Kenwood Chef food mixer (born 1916)
Leonid Alekseyevich Amalrik was a Soviet animation director and animator. Honoured Worker of the Arts Industry of the RSFSR (1965).
Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator, director, and screenwriter (born 1905)
Albert Haanstra was a Dutch director of films and documentaries. His documentary Glass (1958) won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in 1959. His feature film Fanfare …
Bert Haanstra, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1916)
Donald Earle Messick was an American voice actor, known for his performances in Hanna-Barbera cartoons. His best-remembered voice roles include Scooby-Doo; Bamm-Bamm Rubble and Hop…
Don Messick, American voice actor and singer (born 1926)
Mahala Andrews was a British vertebrae palaeontologist who worked for the National Museum of Scotland.
Mahala Andrews, British vertebrae palaeontologist (born 1939)
Paul Jarrico was an Oscar-nominated American screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios during the era of McCarthyism.
Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter and producer (born 1915)
Anton Szandor LaVey was an American writer, musician, and Satanist. He was the founder of the Church of Satan, and the philosophy of LaVeyan Satanism. He authored several books, in…
Anton LaVey, American occultist, founded the Church of Satan (born 1930)
Dr. Andreas 'Andy' Gerasimos Michalitsianos was a Greek-American astronomer and a NASA astrophysicist, also known and published as Andrew G. Michalitsianos.
Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American astronomer and astrophysicist (born 1947)
Samuel Michael Fuller was an American film director, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, and actor. He was known for directing low-budget genre movies with controversial themes, of…
Samuel Fuller, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1912)
Joanne Rowling, better known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author, philanthropist, producer, and screenwriter. She is best known for writing Harry Potter, a seven-vol…
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Diana, Princess of Wales, was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles III and mother of Princes William and Harry. Her activism and glamour made her…
Diana, Princess of Wales (pictured), her partner Dodi Fayed, and their driver were killed in a car crash in Paris.
Andrew Phillip Cunanan was an American spree killer who murdered five people over three months from April 27 to July 15, 1997. His victims include Italian fashion designer Gianni V…
American spree killer Andrew Cunanan murdered Jeffrey Trail, a former friend and a Gulf War veteran, who became the firs
The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), officially the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction…
The Chemical Weapons Convention entered into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons in
Deep Blue was a customized IBM RS/6000 SP supercomputer for chess-playing designed by computer scientist Feng-hsiung Hsu. It was the first computer to win a game, and the first to …
Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in six games to become the first chess computer to win a match against a world champio
An earthquake struck northern Iran's Khorasan Province in the vicinity of Qaen on May 10, 1997, at 07:57 UTC. The largest in the area since 1990, the earthquake registered 7.3 on t…
An earthquake registering 7
The First Congo War, also known as Africa's First World War, was a civil and international military conflict that lasted from 24 October 1996 to 16 May 1997, primarily taking place…
The First Congo War came to an end when Laurent-Désiré Kabila proclaimed himself president of Zaire, which was also rena
The Sierra Gorda is an ecological region centered on the northern third of the Mexican state of Querétaro and extending into the neighboring states of Guanajuato, Hidalgo and San L…
The Sierra Gorda Biosphere, which encompasses the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, was established as a resul
In the afternoon hours of May 27, 1997, a large, slow-moving and intense F5 tornado caused extreme damage across portions of the Jarrell, Texas area. Known most frequently as the J…
A destructive F5-rated tornado tracked through a subdivision of homes northwest of Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people
Pascal Lissouba was a Congolese politician who was the first democratically elected President of the Republic of the Congo and served from 31 August 1992 until 25 October 1997. He …
Anticipating a coup attempt, President Pascal Lissouba of the Republic of the Congo ordered the detention of his rival D
Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985. The band members are Thom Yorke ; the brothers Jonny Greenwood and Colin Greenwood (bass); Ed O'Brien ;…
The English rock band Radiohead released their landmark third album OK Computer in the United Kingdom
The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland c…
The Troubles: In response to the Drumcree conflict, five days of unrest began in nationalist districts of Northern…
Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, and manga artist. He co-founded Studio Ghibli and serves as its honorary chairman. Throughout his career, Miyazaki has attained i…
Hayao Miyazaki's animated film Princess Mononoke is released, becoming the highest-grossing film in Japan for a few…
The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland c…
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army announced that it would resume its ceasefire, ending its 28-year…