Historical Events In 1997

Jan 02   Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Columbus OH on WBZX 99.7 FM   

Jan 02   Jim Rodger, sports writer, dies at 75.   

Jan 02   Residents of southern and eastern Ontario are digging out again this morning after another round of snow.   

Jan 03   Bryant Gumbel co-hosted his final "Today" show on NBC-TV.   

Jan 03   Eddo Brandes takes ODI hat-trick vs England at Harare   

Jan 03   Zimbabwe clean-sweep ODI series vs England 3-0.   

Jan 04   In this year, Canada claims the World Junior Hockey title in Switzerland.   

Jan 05   French trains are diverted to pick up stranded skiers and German rail stations are converted into homeless shelters as the death toll from Europe's longest cold spell in a decade passes 230.   

Jan 05   In ocean racing, Montreal solo sailor Gerry Roufs disappears at sea while circumnavigating the Globe.   

Jan 07   Newt Gingrich, narrowly re-elected speaker of the House   

Jan 09   Former Toronto Argonauts and LA Kings owner Bruce McNall sentenced to five years, 10 months in prison and ordered to repay $5 million for bank fraud   

Jan 09   Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital.   

Jan 09   Twenty-nine people are killed when a Comair commuter plane crashes 18 miles from the Detroit Metropolitan Airport.   

Jan 10   4000th episode of "Entertainment Tonight"   

Jan 10   Dow Corning provides $295 billion to settle breast implant suits.   

Jan 10   Italy's new 1000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map.   

Jan 10   Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as President of Nicaragua   

Jan 11   23rd People's Choice Awards Bill Cosby claims   

Jan 11   Telstar 401 Satellite Fails.   

Jan 12   Charles Huggins, surgeon/medical researcher, dies at 95.   

Jan 12   Ice skater Oksana Baiul injured slightly whiled driving intoxicated   

Jan 12   In this year, Tiger Woods claims Mercedes Championships   

Jan 12   Space Shuttle STS 81 (Atlantis 18), launches into space.   

Jan 15   American space shuttle Atlantis docks with Russian Mir space station for the inaugural time   

Jan 15   Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman kicks cameraman, Eugene Amosin the groin.   

Jan 15   Jose Ignacio Domecq, wine maker, dies at 82   

Jan 15   Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station.   

Jan 16   A bomb exploded at an Atlanta building housing an abortion clinic. An hour later, after investigators and others had come to the scene, a second bomb went off, injuring six people   

Jan 16   Ennis Cosby, the son of entertainer Bill Cosby, was shot to death while changing a tire on a freeway exit ramp in Los Angeles.   

Jan 18   Myfanwy Piper, librettist, dies at 85   

Jan 18   Norway's Boerge Ousland emerges on the Pacific edge of Antarctica to become the inaugural person to cross the continent alone and unaided.   

Jan 18   Norwegian Borge Ousland completed a 1675-mile trek across Antarctica, the inaugural time anyone transversed the continent alone   

Jan 19   Adriana Caseloti, voice (Snow White), dies at 70   

Jan 19   Two bombs exploded at a Tulsa, Okla., abortion clinic that had been bombed two weeks earlier   

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Jan 01   Graham Kersey, cricket wicket keeper, dies in car crash in the year 1997.   

Jan 02   On this day in history jim Rodger, sports writer, dies at 75   

Jan 03   In the year 1997 burton Lane, composer, dies at 84   

Jan 04   Harry B Helmsley, owner (Empire State Building), dies at 87 on this day in history.   

Jan 05   Andre Franquin, cartoonist, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

Jan 06   Ian Peter Leslie Smith, journalist, dies at 52 in the year 1997.   

Jan 07   Desmond Flower, publisher, dies at 89 in the year 1997.   

Jan 08   Carole Carr, singer/actress (Down Among the Z Men), dies at 68 in the year 1997.