This would make it a language family about as old as Indo-European ( 4000 to 7, 000 BC according to several hypotheses cited in Mallory 1997: 106 ) but considerably younger than Afroasiatic ( c. 10, 000 BC according to Diakonoff 1988: 33n, 11, 000 to 16, 000 BC according to Ehret 2002: 35 – 36 ).

Medical Hypotheses, 1997 ; 49: 303 – 306.

* 1912 – Frank Dilio, Canadian hockey administrator ( d. 1997 )

* 1908 – Frank Robert Miller, Canadian airman and politician ( d. 1997 )

* 1997 – Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes into the jungle on Guam on approach to airport, killing 228.

* 1908 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis player ( d. 1997 )

* 1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor ( d. 1997 )

* 1912 – Ben Hogan, American golfer ( d. 1997 )

After re-establishing its credibility in 1989, Australia underlined its superiority with victories in the 1990 – 91, 1993, 1994 – 95, 1997, 1998 – 99, 2001 and 2002 – 03 series, all by convincing margins.

Ashes series have generally been played over five Test matches, although there have been four-match series ( 1938 ; 1975 ) and six-match series ( 1970 – 71 ; 1974 – 75 ; 1978 – 79 ; 1981 ; 1985 ; 1989 ; 1993 and 1997 ).

* 1920 – Louis Pauwels, French journalist and writer ( d. 1997 )

* 1997 – Norman Carr, British conservationist ( b. 1912 )

* 1997 – Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria ; a total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.

* 1935 – Georgy Shonin, Soviet astronaut ( d. 1997 )

* 1997 – Pietro Rizzuto, Canadian politician ( b. 1934 )

* 1920 – Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer ( d. 1997 )

* 1930 – Terry Nation, Welsh novelist and screenwriter ( d. 1997 )

* 1912 – Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress ( d. 1997 )

* 1915 – Gerard McLarnon, Irish playwright ( d. 1997 )

In 1997, a team of researchers led by John Gustafson from Ames Laboratory ( located on the Iowa State campus ) finished building a working replica of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer at a cost of $ 350, 000.

At a Braveheart Convention in 1997, held in Stirling the day after the Scottish Devolution vote and attended by 200 delegates from around the world, Braveheart author Randall Wallace, Seoras Wallace of the Wallace Clan, Scottish historian David Ross and Bláithín FitzGerald from Ireland gave lectures on various aspects of the film.

At launch, Tim Orchard was Controller of News 24 from 1997 until 2000.

At the same time, Compaq, through its acquisitions of the Digital Equipment Corporation last year and Tandem Computer in 1997, has tried to become a major systems company, like I. B. M.

At the 1997 general election he became MP for Glasgow Anniesland, which was largely the same constituency with minor boundary changes.

At a summit in Aleppo, Syria, in 1997, the World Council of Churches ( WCC ) proposed a reform in the calculation of Easter which would have replaced the present divergent practices of calculating Easter with modern scientific knowledge taking into account actual astronomical instances of the spring equinox and full moon based on the meridian of Jerusalem, while also following the Council of Nicea position of Easter being on the Sunday following the full moon.

At the Bridgeport, California Mountain Warfare Training Center in March 1997, a test HMMWV drives through the snow, equipped with Mattracks treads.

At the 1997 ceremonies, a team of " cryogenic sex researchers " distributed a pamphlet titled " Safe Sex at Four Kelvin ".

At about noon on 2 May 1997, Major officially returned his seals of office as Prime Minister to The Queen.

At the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards, the creative music video for " Virtual Insanity " won four awards ; Best Video, Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography, and Breakthrough Video, and the band performed the song at the ceremony.

At the entrance to the sea, a flood protection system called Maeslantkering has been installed ( completed in 1997 ).

At around this point there was a change in the style of Lansky's music that made it sound slightly more modern, and 1997 heralded a one-hour computer opera titled Things She Carried, a musical portrait about an unnamed woman in a series of eight movements.

At the same time, Damon Albarn sought to distance Blur from Britpop with the band's fifth album, Blur ( 1997 ).

At one point the new songs were to be released as a studio album, but commercial considerations meant that the new tracks were eventually packaged with the remainder of the 1996 San Luis Obispo shows in November 1997 on Keys to Ascension 2.

In 1997, the Manzanar At Dusk program became a part of the Pilgrimage.

At the 1997 general election, Gabriel declared his support for the Labour Party, which won that election by a landslide after 18 years out of power, led by Tony Blair.

At the start of the 1997 season, the WNBA had television deals in place with NBC ( NBA rights holder ), and the Walt Disney Company and Hearst Corporation joint venture channels, ESPN and Lifetime Television Network, respectively.

At WRC-97 in 1997, the following bands were allocated for international broadcasting.

At the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Canada, Freeman won gold in both the 200 m and 400 m. She also won the silver medal in the 1996 Olympics and came first at the 1997 World Champion in the 400 m event.

At in height, it was believed to be, between 1997 and the date of its felling, the oldest and tallest Ulmus americana in New England.

At a 1997 ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the blacklist, Richard Masur, then President of the Screen Actors Guild, apologized for the union's participation in the ban, noting: " Only our sister union, Actors ' Equity Association, had the courage to stand behind its members and help them continue their creative lives in the theater.

At the time, Indiana conducted a single state basketball championship for all of its high schools, and continued to do so until 1997.

However, in 1997 after a highly contested mayoral election the City of Greensboro elected its first African American Mayor, John E. Owens Jr. At this time Greensboro appointed its first African American Police Chief, Claude E. Hamilton.

At the 1997 British Grand Prix | British GP, Hill scored his first point for the Arrows team.

At the start of the 1997 – 98 season, a new selection policy was announced: the Test and ODI teams became separate entities, with specialists in each form of the game selected accordingly.