Historical Events In 1997

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

Mar 14 President Clinton trips and tears up his knee requiring surgery

Mar 04 Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU)

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

Mar 11 Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space

Mar 19 Police fired tear gas and warning shots in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, to quell a protest against the government's plan to use foreign mercenaries to crush a separatist rebellion

Mar 07 Galileo, 4th Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 8)

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