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April 7, 1997Born on Tuesday April 8, 1997
- roy cuppen, venlo
- Bianca Maria Johanna Slegers, Maarheeze, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Abigail Cocco, Bryn Mawr PA
- Rimme Nijmeijer, Zutphen († 1997)
Died on Tuesday April 8, 1997
- Anna Wilhelmina Cornelia van Iersel (88), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Anna Jantina de Lange (81), Haaksbergen,Overijssel,Niederlande
- Cornelis Cornelsz Wijker (77), Gouda
- Beertje van den Hazel (69), Nunspeet, Gelderland, Nederland
- Adriaan Dekker (78)
- Antonius Adelbertus Elisabeth Min (64), Limmen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Beryl LEAVER (88)
- Diederik Emiel Verbeke (19), Moorslede,8890,West-Vlaanderen,België
- Charl Eddy Johan Hänggi (78), Amsterdam
- Anton Schwan Jr. (76), Havre South, Hill, Montana, Verenigde Staten
Born on April 8
- 1987 » Royston Drenthe, Dutch footballer
- 1988 » Jenni Asserholt, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1988 » Kim Myung-sung, South Korean baseball player
- 1990 » Kim Jong-hyun, South Korean singer († 2017)
- 1993 » Viktor Arvidsson, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1993 » Zac Santo, Australian rugby league player
- 1994 » Josh Chudleigh, Australian rugby league player
- 1995 » Cedi Osman, Turkish professional basketball player
- 1997 » Arno Verschueren, Belgian professional football player
- 1997 » Saygrace, Australian singer and songwriter
Died on April 8
- 1992 » Daniel Bovet, Swiss-Italian pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
- 1993 » Marian Anderson, American operatic singer (b. 1897)
- 1994 » François Rozet, French-Canadian actor (b. 1899)
- 1996 » Ben Johnson, American actor and stuntman (b. 1918)
- 1996 » León Klimovsky, Argentinian-Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
- 1996 » Mick Young, Australian politician (b. 1936)
- 1997 » Laura Nyro, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1947)
- 2000 » Claire Trevor, American actress (b. 1910)
- 2000 » František Šťastný, Czech motorcycle racer (b. 1927)
- 2002 » María Félix, Mexican actress (b. 1914)
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Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1997
- 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.
- January 19 » Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
- January 23 » Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
- August 25 » Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
- October 10 » Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74.
- December 11 » The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.
- December 22 » Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.
Weather April 8, 1997
The temperature on April 8, 1997 was between -2.0 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (88%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.