Historical Events In 1997
May 05 Iridium-1 Delta 2 Launch, Successful
May 28 Tornado in Jarrell TX kills at least 28
May 29 70th National Spelling Bee Rebecca Sealfon wins spelling euonym
May 12 Tornado narrowly misses downtown Miami
May 27 The first all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole
May 02 Republic of Texas security chief Robert Scheidt surrenders
May 24 Actor Tim Allen arrested for drunk driving in Michigan
May 10 In Northern Iran a 7.5 quake, At least 1,567 people killed, 2,300 injured, 50,000 homeless, 10,533 houses destroyed, 5,474 houses damaged and landslides in the Birjand-Qayen area
May 29 70th National Spelling Bee: Rebecca Sealfon wins spelling euonym
May 17 Sylvester Stallone weds Jennifer Flavin in London
May 16 Brandi Sherwood, (Idaho) replaces Brook Lee (Miss Universe) as Miss USA
May 05 "Married With Children" final episode on Fox TV
May 07 Expos scores 13 in 6th at Giants
May 02 Donald Trump &Marla Maples announce they are separating
May 12 Susie Maroney, 22, of Australia, is first to swim from Cuba to Florida
May 30 Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, set afire by 12 year old grandson
May 03 Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue
May 06 Army Staff Sergeant Delmar Simpson gets 25-year sentence for rape
May 28 Wallace Berg, 42, is 4th American to scale Mount Everest for 3rd time
May 12 Russia & Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict
May 28 Linda Finch completes Amelia Earhart attempted around-the-world flight
May 02 Mercury Mail announces its 1 millionth internet subscriber
May 23 Mel Karmazin replaces Peter Lund as CEO of CBS TV
May 27 Major league revenue sharing begins, New York Yankees pay out most $28 million
May 27 Marv Albert pleads innocent to charges of sexually assault
May 29 Scientists announce new human species in 780,000 year old fossil
May 06 Michael Jackson & Bee Gees inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
May 27 Judge finds Pamela Lee not guilty of breaking a contract
May 30 Ken Dryden becomes president of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs may311889 The Johnstown Flood kills 2,000 to 5,000 Pennsylvanians in a city of 30,000
May 09 The first US ambassador returns to Vietnam since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam
May 28 Bob Dylan hospitalized in England with histoplasmosis
May 29 Jesse Timmedequas, found guilty of rape/murder of Megan Kanka, 7
May 27 Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO
May 07 Galileo, 4th Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 8)
May 12 14 North Koreans defect to South Korea
