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1997 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2025. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1997 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1997

• January 3, 1997 – China announces it will spend US$27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow River valleys.
• January 18, 1997 – In northwest Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill three Spanish aid workers, three soldiers and seriously wound one other.
• February 7, 1997 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Ox in Chinese astrology.
• February 25, 1997 – Yi Han-yong, a North Korean defector, was murdered by unidentified assailants in Bundang, South Korea.
• March 26, 1997 – Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven’s Gate mass suicides.
• May 15, 1997 – The United States government acknowledges the existence of the “Secret War” in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other “Secret War” veterans.
• May 16, 1997 – Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country.
• October 25, 1997 – After a brief civil war which has driven President Pascal Lissouba out of Brazzaville, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself the President of the Republic of the Congo.
• December 1, 1997 – In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacked the CPI(ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.
• December 27, 1997 – Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Who Were Born On 1997?

• February 8, 1997 – Kathryn Newton, American actress
• March 2, 1997 – Becky G, American rapper
• March 15, 1997 – Yuina Kuroshima, Japanese model and actress
• May 7, 1997 – Darya Kasatkina, Russian tennis player
• May 30, 1997 – Jake Short, American actor
• July 12, 1997 – Daniel Lawrence, English cricketer
• August 5, 1997 – Adam Irigoyen, American actor, rapper, and dancer
• August 10, 1997 – Kylie Jenner, American model
• November 4, 1997 – Bea Binene, Filipino actress, singer, and dancer
• November 28, 1997 – Thor Salden, Belgian singer