What Happened in 1997
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1997 Ben Yehuda Street bombings
On September 4, 1997, three Hamas suicide bombers simultaneously blew themselves up on the pedestrian mall, killing 5 Israelis. The bombing was... Read more
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Mother Teresa Dies
Mother Teresa suffered a heart attack in Rome in 1983, while visiting Pope John Paul II. After a second attack in 1989, she received an artificial... Read more
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Princess Diana's Funeral
The public funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales started on 6 September 1997 at 9:08 a.m. in London, when the tenor bell sounded to signal the... Read more
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MST3K Ep. 817 - "The Horror of Party Beach"
A beach community is plagued by sea monsters created by radioactive waste dumped off the coast. Filmed around Stamford, Connecticut. Read more
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Final Fantasy VII Is Released in North America
Final Fantasy VII is a console role-playing game developed by Square (now Square Enix) and published by Sony Computer Entertainment as the seventh... Read more
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"Henry Fool" Is Released
Henry Fool is a 1997 seriocomic film directed, written, and produced by Hal Hartley, featuring Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, and Parker Posey.... Read more
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South Park Episode 105 - "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig"
"An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig" is the fifth episode of Comedy Central's animated series South Park. It originally aired on September 10, 1997.... Read more
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Museum of Jewish Heritage Opens in Manhattan
The Museum of Jewish Heritage, in lower Manhattan, was created as a living memorial to the Holocaust. The hexagonal shape and tiered roof of the... Read more
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Google Search is Launched
Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, a Ph.D. student at Stanford working on the Stanford Digital... Read more
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Savatage release The Wake of Magellan
The Wake of Magellan is a concept album by Savatage and is based on two real life events. The first, the Maersk Dubai incident, occurred less than... Read more
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Steve Jobs Rejoins Apple as Interim CEO
Jobs was initially reluctant to take a role at Apple. His other company, Pixar, had just released its first movie, Toy Story, to great acclaim. But... Read more
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Jay-Z releases "(Always Be My) Sunshine" single
"(Always Be My) Sunshine" is the second single from rapper Jay-Z's second album In My Lifetime, Vol. 1. It features vocals from Foxy Brown and... Read more
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South Park Episode 106 - "Death"
"Happy Birthday" to Stan's Grandpa Marsh who just turned 102. How does the wizened Mr. Marsh feel about his birthday? He sums it up in five words;... Read more
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"L.A. Confidential" Is Released
L.A. Confidential is a 1997 feature film based on the 1990 crime fiction novel of the same title by James Ellroy, the third in his L.A. Quartet... Read more
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The Bouncing Souls release their self-titled third album
The Bouncing Souls is the 3rd full-length album and first release on Epitaph Records for the New Jersey punk band, The Bouncing Souls. It contains... Read more
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Dream Theater Releases Falling into Infinity Album
Falling into Infinity is the fourth studio album by American progressive metal band Dream Theater, released in 1997. It was recorded in 1997 at... Read more
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Dream Theater Releases Falling Into Infinity
Falling into Infinity is the fourth studio album by American progressive metal band Dream Theater, released in 1997. It was recorded in 1997 at... Read more
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Ultima Online Launches
Ultima Online (UO) is a graphical massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), released on September 25, 1997, by Origin Systems. It... Read more
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Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 Crashes in Low Visibility
Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 (GA152, GIA152) was a scheduled domestic Indonesian passenger flight from Jakarta to Medan Sumatra operated by state... Read more
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FDA Approves AstraZeneca's Seroquel
Seroquel is prescribed for the treatment of schizophrenia, a mental disorder marked by delusions (false beliefs), hallucinations, disrupted... Read more
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FDA Approves ViiV Healthcare's Combivir
Combivir contains a combination of lamivudine and zidovudine. Lamivudine and zidovudine are antiviral medications. They are in a group of human... Read more
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The Rolling Stones Release 'Bridges to Babylon'
Bridges to Babylon is the 21st studio album by The Rolling Stones and was released in 1997. It would prove to be their final studio album of the... Read more
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"Fast, Cheap And Out Of Control" Is Released
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control is a 1997 film by documentary filmmaker Errol Morris. It profiles four subjects with extraordinary careers: a lion... Read more
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FDA Approves Bristol-Myers Squibb Sanofi-Synthelabo Partnership's Avapro to Lower Hypertension
Avapro is in a group of drugs called angiotensin II receptor antagonists. It keeps blood vessels from narrowing, which lowers blood pressure and... Read more
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Overkill releases From the Underground and Below
From the Underground and Below is the ninth studio album by the thrash metal band Overkill released in 1997 by CMC International. Two cover songs... Read more