January 9 » Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
February 11 » Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
February 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
August 29 » The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
Day of death February 7, 1997
The temperature on February 7, 1997 was between 3.7 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (23%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
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March 26 » Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.
June 25 » The National Hockey League approved expansion franchises for Nashville (1998), Atlanta (1999), Columbus (2000), and Minneapolis-Saint Paul (2000).
August 7 » Space Shuttle Program: The Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-85 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
August 10 » Sixteen people are killed when Formosa Airlines Flight 7601 crashes near Beigan Airport in the Matsu Islands of Taiwan.
September 18 » The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted.
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.
Day of cremation February 12, 1997
The temperature on February 12, 1997 was between 5.8 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 17.0 mm of rain during 11.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
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.
May 17 » Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.
June 28 » Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.
August 3 » Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.
September 18 » United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1billion to the United Nations.
October 4 » The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina
November 3 » The United States imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and Eastern Africa.
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