About the day » Saturday October 11, 1997Calender converter

• Cornelis Verwijs (87), Sint Philipsland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Cornelia Wouters (70)
• Adriaan de BORST (57), LIngewaal
• Cornelia (Corrie) Wouters (70)
• Cornelia Korving (86), Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anno Korvemaker (83), Oude Pekela
• Cornelia Decker (91), Wageningen,Gemeente Wageningen,Gelderland,Nederland
• Clasina Wilhelmina van Wouw (84)
• Anna Hendrika van Oosten (93), Noordwijk
• Catharina Cornelia Manders (88), Son en Breugel, Nederland

• 1991 » Kika van Es, Dutch footballer
• 1992 » Cardi B, American rapper
• 1992 » Christian Davis, English cricketer
• 1992 » Ligi Sao, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1992 » Riffi Mandanda, Congolese footballer
• 1993 » Hardik Pandya, Indian cricketer
• 1994 » Clésio Baúque, Mozambican footballer
• 1994 » T.J. Watt, American football player
• 1995 » Nicolás Jarry, Chilean tennis player
• 2001 » Daniel Maldini, Italian footballer

• 1993 » Andy Stewart, Scottish singer and entertainer (b. 1933)
• 1996 » Eleanor Cameron, Canadian-American author and critic (b. 1912)
• 1996 » Joe Morris, English-Canadian lieutenant and trade union leader (b. 1913)
• 1996 » Keith Boyce, Barbadian cricketer (b. 1943)
• 1996 » Renato Russo, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1960)
• 1998 » Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Leo Lionni, Dutch-American author and illustrator (b. 1910)
• 2000 » Donald Dewar, Scottish lawyer and politician, 1st First Minister of Scotland (b. 1937)
• 2000 » Luc-Marie Bayle, French historian, photographer, and painter (b. 1914)
• 2001 » Beni Montresor, Italian director, set designer, and illustrator (b. 1926)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
• February 4 » En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
• March 18 » The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board.
• July 10 » Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
• July 22 » The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
• October 10 » Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74.
• December 19 » SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.

The temperature on October 11, 1997 was between 8.3 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 6.1 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.