About the day » Monday May 5, 1997Calender converter

• Benjamin Harrison Bos (72), Butte, California, VS
• Baukje Broos (85), Burgum Tytsjerksteradiel Friesland NL
• Beitske de Graaf (86), -
• Alfred Anthony Coulloudon (74)
• Bryan Ranger Thomas CARROLL (72), Surrey Northern, Surrey, ENGLAND
• Anna Douwé (86), Almere
• Adriana Wilhelmina Suurland (90), Vlissingen, ZL.NL
• Anna Margaretha Eggen (90), Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adrianus Jacobus Guldemond (78)
• Aleida Anthonia Van Binsbergen (82), Auckland,, Nieuw-Zeeland

• 1988 » Adele, English singer-songwriter
• 1988 » Mervyn Westfield, English cricketer
• 1989 » Chris Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
• 1991 » Raúl Jiménez, Mexican footballer
• 1991 » Xenofon Fetsis, Greek footballer
• 1992 » Loïck Landre, French footballer
• 1994 » Celeste, English singer
• 1998 » Aryna Sabalenka, Belarusian tennis player
• 1999 » Justin Kluivert, Dutch footballer
• 1999 » Nathan Chen, American figure skater

• 1993 » Irving Howe, American literary and social critic (b. 1920)
• 1994 » Mário Quintana, Brazilian poet and translator (b. 1906)
• 1995 » Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and coach (b. 1911)
• 1999 » Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 2000 » Bill Musselman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1940)
• 2000 » Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914)
• 2001 » Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, created CliffsNotes (b. 1918)
• 2001 » Morris Graves, American painter and educator (b. 1910)
• 2002 » Hugo Banzer, Bolivian general and politician, 62nd President of Bolivia (b. 1926)
• 2002 » Paul Wilbur Klipsch, American engineer, founded Klipsch Audio Technologies (b. 1904)

• 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.
• April 1 » Comet Hale–Bopp is seen passing at perihelion.
• May 6 » The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history.
• May 11 » Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
• September 14 » Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India.
• October 12 » The Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria kills 43 people at a fake roadblock.
• October 25 » After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.

The temperature on May 5, 1997 was between 11.6 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 13.1 mm of rain during 5.1 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (23%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.