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The year of 1997
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens’ classic story “A Christmas Carol” is published. -
1st Hawaiian cavalry organized
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Violent bread riots in Montreal
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First issue of Vogue is published
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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
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Green Bay Packers win NFL championship
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U.S. successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile
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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
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
