Historical Events In 1997
Sunday, 14 December 2025
Jan 02 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Columbus OH on WBZX 99.7 FM in the year 1997. 


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


Jan 02 On this day in history residents of southern and eastern Ontario are digging out again this morning after another round of snow. 


Jan 03 In the year 1997 bryant Gumbel co-hosted his final "Today" show on NBC-TV 


Jan 03 Eddo Brandes takes ODI hat-trick vs England at Harare on this day in history. 


Jan 03 Zimbabwe clean-sweep ODI series vs England 3-0 in the year 1997. 


Jan 04 Canada wins the World Junior Hockey title in Switzerland on this day in history. 


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 in the year 1997. 


Jan 05 In ocean racing, Montreal solo sailor Gerry Roufs disappears at sea while circumnavigating the Globe on this day in history. 


Jan 07 Newt Gingrich, narrowly re-elected speaker of the House in the year 1997. 


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 in the year 1997. 


Jan 09 In the year 1997 heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital 


Jan 09 In the year 1997 twenty-nine people are killed when a Comair commuter plane crashes 18 miles from the Detroit Metropolitan Airport. 


Jan 10 On this day in history 4,000th episode of "Entertainment Tonight" 


Jan 10 On this day in history dow Corning provides $295 billion to settle breast implant suits 


Jan 10 On this day in history italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map 


Jan 10 Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as President of Nicaragua on this day in history. 


Jan 11 On this day in history 23rd People's Choice Awards Bill Cosby wins 


Jan 11 On this day in history telstar 401 Satellite Fails 


Jan 12 On this day in history charles Huggins, surgeon/medical researcher, dies at 95 


Jan 12 Ice skater Oksana Baiul injured slightly whiled driving intoxicated on this day in history. 


Jan 12 On this day in history space Shuttle STS 81 (Atlantis 18), launches into space 


Jan 12 In the year 1997 tiger Woods wins Mercedes Championships 


Jan 15 In the year 1997 american space shuttle Atlantis docks with Russian Mir space station for the first time 


Jan 15 On this day in history chicago Bull Dennis Rodman kicks cameraman, Eugene Amosin the groin 


Jan 15 On this day in history jose Ignacio Domecq, wine maker, dies at 82 


Jan 15 Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station in the year 1997. 


Jan 16 On this day in history 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 In the year 1997 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 in the year 1997. 


Jan 18 Norway's Boerge Ousland emerges on the Pacific edge of Antarctica to become the first person to cross the continent alone and unaided on this day in history. 


Jan 18 Norwegian Borge Ousland completed a 1,675-mile trek across Antarctica, the first time anyone transversed the continent alone on this day in history. 


Jan 19 Adriana Caseloti, voice (Snow White), dies at 70 on this day in history. 


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


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