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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 17, 1997 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta 2 carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
• February 7, 1997 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Ox in Chinese astrology.
• May 8, 1997 – A China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people.
• May 16, 1997 – Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country.
• June 13, 1997 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
• August 20, 1997 – Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.
• September 11, 1997 – After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament within the United Kingdom.
• September 18, 1997 – Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted.
• December 22, 1997 – 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.
• December 27, 1997 – Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Who Were Born On 1997?

• January 4, 1997 – Răzvan Popa, Romanian footballer
• January 21, 1997 – Jeremy Shada, American actor and singer
• February 8, 1997 – Kathryn Newton, American actress
• February 25, 1997 – Isabelle Fuhrman, American actress
• February 28, 1997 – Kyoko Yoshine, Japanese actress
• March 13, 1997 – Rúben Neves, Portuguese footballer
• March 15, 1997 – Yuina Kuroshima, Japanese model and actress
• May 3, 1997 – Ivana Jorović, Serbian tennis player
• October 24, 1997 – Raúl Chávez Sarmiento, Peruvian mathematician
• December 17, 1997 – Naiktha Bains, Australian tennis player