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Significant Events and Figures of 1997

This quiz tests knowledge of key events, notable individuals, and significant occurrences in the year 1997.

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1 ________ – Luther Allison, American musician (b.

2 ________ – Boeing and McDonnell Douglas complete a merger.

3 In the book 2001: A Space Odyssey, the computer ________ was activated on January 17.

4 ________ – United Kingdom general election, 1997: The United Kingdom's Labour Party ends 18 years of Conservative rule by winning the historic general election with a landslide majority.

5 January 23 – Mir Aimal Kasi is sentenced to death for a 1993 assault rifle attack outside ________ headquarters that killed 2 and wounded 3.

6 ________ – Gérard Pelletier, French journalist, politician and diplomat (b.

7 ________ – George Wald, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.

8 ________ – Johnny Klein, American drummer (b.

9 November 30 – ________, American author (b.

10 May 11 – IBM's Deep Blue defeats ________ in the last game of the rematch, the first time a computer beats a chess World champion in a match.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Protmušis is a quizbowl competition that has been taking place in Vilnius, Lithuania since 1997.
  • the popular music artist Maarja-Liis Ilus has entered the Estonian Eurovision Song Contest pre-selection event Eurolaul a record three times, in 1996, 1997 and 2004.
  • the exhumation of Yagan's head in 1997 first required a sophisticated geophysical survey of the gravesite to ensure that the remains of 22 stillborn babies would not be disturbed.
  • PSUC viu was formed by a group of hardline communists in Catalonia, Spain in 1997, as the historical Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) became dormant.
  • Melissa McIntyre, best known for her role in Degrassi: The Next Generation made her television debut in the 1997 series, Timesweep, in which she played an extraterrestial being.
  • Doc Cheatham (1905–1997) has been described as the only jazz musician to create his best work after the age of 70.
  • Leonid Kadeniuk, the first astronaut of the independent Ukraine, made his first space flight on NASA's space shuttle Columbia in 1997, and had been training for such a mission since 1976.
  • Foreigner vocalist Lou Gramm survived a brain tumor in 1997 and completed a tour with his new band in 2004.
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