January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
March 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.
Day of death April 22, 1997
The temperature on April 22, 1997 was between -1 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
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March 26 » Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.
May 8 » China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people.
August 31 » Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
September 6 » The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 2⁄2 billion watched around the world on television.
September 7 » Maiden flight of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.
December 15 » Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183 crashes in the desert near Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, killing 85.
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