What Happened in Oct 1997

Raejean S. Bonham is Indicted for Mail Fraud and Money Laundering

Bonham owned and operated Atlantic Pacific Funding Corporation and World Plus, Inc., a business in Fairbanks selling to the public discounted... Read more

Street Fighter III 2nd Impact is Released

Released on October 1997, the second installment of Street Fighter III brought back all the characters from the first game and introduced two new... Read more

MST3K Ep. 818 - "Devil Doll"

A ventriloquist turns to hypnosis to transfer a person's soul into his dummy. Read more

"Boogie Nights" Is Released

Boogie Nights is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Set in Southern California in the late 1970s and early... Read more

MST3K Ep. 819 - "Invasion of the Neptune Men"

A costumed hero in a flying rocket-car saves Earth (Japan?) from robot aliens. Stars martial arts films star Sonny Chiba as Space Chief. Read more

Mortal Kombat 4 is Released

Mortal Kombat 4 is the fifth and final arcade game in the Mortal Kombat series of fighting video games. It was later ported to the PlayStation and... Read more

Judas Priest release Jugulator

Jugulator is the 13th studio album by British heavy metal band Judas Priest. It was released in Japan on October 16, 1997 and the rest of the world... Read more

UFC 15: Collision Course

UFC 15: Collision Course was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on October 17, 1997, in Bay St. Louis,... Read more

1997 World Series

1997 World Series The four year-old expansion team known as the Florida Marlins represented the best (and worst) of parody in Major League... Read more

U2 releases "Please" single

"Please" is the fourth single from U2's 1997 album, Pop. As "Sunday Bloody Sunday", the song is about The Troubles in Northern Ireland. The... Read more

"Mogwai Young Team" by Mogwai Is Released

Mogwai Young Team (also known as Young Team) is the debut studio album by Scottish post-rock band Mogwai. Mogwai Young Team was recorded in... Read more

Deftones release Around the Fur

Around the Fur is Deftones' second major label album, released in 1997. The songs "My Own Summer (Shove It)" and "Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)"... Read more

Kiss releases Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions

Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions is Kiss' last album produced before the reunion of the original Kiss members. Recorded and slated for release... Read more

South Park Episode 107 - "Pinkeye"

The first Halloween episode starts off with the failure of the Mir Space Station, which crashes right on Kenny. An ambulance comes and takes his... Read more