WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO NOVEMBER 1997
Find out what all happened February to November 1997

GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way. (28. February 1997)

A 7.3 Mw earthquake strikes Iran's Khorasan Province, killing 1,567, injuring over 2,300, leaving 50,000 homeless, and damaging or destroying over 15,000 homes. (10. May 1997)

Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members. (10. June 1997)

Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris. (31. August 1997)

In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home. (15. July 1997)

The first supersonic land speed record is set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC (United Kingdom), exactly 50 years and 1 day after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in the Earth's atmosphere. (15. October 1997)

Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall. (25. August 1997)

The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane broke off while en route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s. (18. March 1997)

An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir. (25. June 1997)

The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people die. (16. June 1997)

Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; a total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara. (3. August 1997)

Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo. (17. May 1997)

The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland. (19. July 1997)

Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock. (12. October 1997)

The Soufrière Hills volcano in Montserrat erupts resulting in the death of 19 people. (25. June 1997)

In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned. (22. February 1997)

Communications are suddenly lost with the Mars Pathfinder space probe. (27. September 1997)

En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73. (4. February 1997)

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. (11. May 1997)

Holyfield–Tyson II – Mike Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear. (28. June 1997)