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1997

By purple_goober1997
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    The year of 1997

  • A Christmas Carol

    A Christmas Carol

    Charles Dickens’ classic story “A Christmas Carol” is published.
  • 1st Hawaiian cavalry organized

    1st Hawaiian cavalry organized

  • Violent bread riots in Montreal

    Violent bread riots in Montreal

  • First issue of Vogue is published

    First issue of Vogue is published

  • First Airplane Flies

    First Airplane Flies

    Orville piloted the gasoline-powered, propeller-driven biplane, which stayed aloft for 12 seconds and covered 120 feet on its inaugural flight.
  • Russia and Turkey sign non-aggresion pact

    Russia and Turkey sign non-aggresion pact

  • Green Bay Packers win NFL championship

    Green Bay Packers win NFL championship

  • U.S. successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile

    U.S. successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile

  • Aristide wins Haiti’s first free election

    Aristide wins Haiti’s first free election

    Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a radical Roman Catholic priest and opponent of the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier, is elected president of Haiti in a landslide victory. It was the first free election in Haiti’s history.
  • Hall of Fame

    Hall of Fame

    It is announced that Linda Ronstadt, Peter Gabriel, Hall & Oates, Nirvana, KISS and Cat Stevens will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014