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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