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)

