Historical Events In 1997

Mar 25 The Australian Senate votes to overturn the Northern Territory's Rights of the Terminally Ill law, the world's only law allowing terminally ill patients to commit suicide with a doctor's help

Mar 04 President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research

Mar 07 Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome &Stockholm are finalists for 2004 Olympics site

Mar 07 Expos scores 13 in 6th at Giants

Mar 31 "Daytime to Remember" a series showing old soaps premieres on ABC-TV

Mar 23 Wrestlemania XIII in Chicago, Undertaker beats Psycho Sid for title

Mar 11 San Francisco Giant J T Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch

Mar 18 Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die

Mar 19 Supreme Court hears Internet indecency arguments

Mar 31 Pioneer 10, ends its mission

Mar 17 CNN begins Spanish broadcasts

Mar 27 Martin Luther King's son meets with James Earl Ray

Mar 24 Australian parliament overturns world's first &only euthanasia law

Mar 21 World Ice Dance won by Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov (Russia)

Mar 24 69th Academy Awards "The English Patient", Tom Cruise &Frances McDormand win

Mar 22 Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth (1.315 AU)

Mar 02 Soyuz TM-24 returns to Earth (Russia)

Mar 14 Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80

Mar 19 Major League Baseball announces 5 year/$50M deal with Pepsi

Mar 20 Tobacco company Liggett admits cigarettes are addictive

Mar 16 Donna Andrews wins LPGA Welch's/Circle K Championship

Mar 23 17th Golden Raspberry Awards: Striptease wins

Mar 27 39 cult members in California commit mass suicide (Hale-Bopp)

Mar 04 Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia)

Mar 01 5th annual ESPY Awards shown on TV

Mar 07 5 sue Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life

Mar 11 Beatle Paul McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II

Mar 26 NHL announce Might Ducks &Vancouver Canucks to open 1998 in Japan

Mar 07 11th Soul Train Music Awards

Mar 04 Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks

Mar 24 69th Academy Awards: "The English Patient", Tom Cruise &Frances McDormand win

Mar 02 Saudi Arab billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal aquires 5% of Apple

Mar 23 17th Golden Raspberry Awards Striptease wins

Mar 29 A boat carrying dozens of Albanians seeking refuge in Italy strikes an Italian navy ship and sinks in Adriatic waters, killing at least 52 people.

Mar 27 "Young Man From Atlanta", opens at Longacre NYC for 85 performances

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