71 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…