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.

Other television roles include Pamela Flitton in A Dance to the Music of Time ( 1997 ), Miss Gilchrist in St. Ives ( 1998 ), Bettina the obsessive-compulsive interior decorator in Absolutely Fabulous, the sadistic Queen Elspeth in Hallmark's Snow White: The Fairest Of Them All ( 2001 ), and the emotionally repressed Queen Mary in The Lost Prince ( 2003 ).

** Elspeth Huxley ( 1907 – 1997 ), British writer, daughter-in-law of Leonard

Elspeth Joscelin Huxley CBE ( née Grant ; 23 July 1907 – 10 January 1997 ) was a polymath, writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government advisor.

Four of the National Portrait Gallery paintings are currently ( December 1997 ) on display: John Burns, Sir William Huggins, Thomas Huxley ( the artist's father in law ) and Charles Darwin ( copies of the last two are also prominently displayed at the top of the staircase at the Athenaeum Club in London ).

Huxley died in a nursing home at age 89 on 10 January 1997 at Tetbury in Gloucestershire, England.

It lay hidden in a trunk on the Huxley estate for fifty years before being discovered by actress Sharon Stone in 1997.

Other honours include the 7th Wellcome Trust Award for Research in Biochemistry Related to Medicine ( 1994 ), the First Scientific Leadership Award of the Hepatitis B Foundation ( 1997 ), The Romanian Order of Merit ( 2000 ) and the Huxley Medal of the Institute of Biology ( 2007 ).

* 1934 – Brian Glover, British actor and wrestler ( d. 1997 )

British Railways ( BR ), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

It was formed from the nationalisation of the " Big Four " British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages between 1994 and 1997.

According to Blair ( 1997 ) British Steel faced serious problems at the time of its formation, including obsolescent plants ; plants operating under capacity and thus at low efficiency ; outdated technology ; price controls that reduced marketing flexibility ; soaring coal and oil costs ; lack of capital investment funds ; and increasing competition on the world market.

* Blair, Alasdair M. " The British iron and steel industry since 1945 ," Journal of European Economic History Winter 1997, Vol.

Until 1997, when the British Library ( previously centred on the Round Reading Room ) moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building.

The Government suggested a site at St Pancras for the new British Library but the books did not leave the museum until 1997.

The Reading Room closed in 1997 when the national library ( the British Library ) moved to a new building at St Pancras.

Probably more representative of British humour were the working class comedies Brassed Off ( 1996 ) and The Full Monty ( 1997 ).

The section of Route 3 between Wimbledon and West Croydon follows the old single-track British Rail route for the most part, which was closed on 31 May 1997 so that it could be converted for Tramlink.

* 1997 – Shirley Crabtree, British professional wrestler ( b. 1930 )

The book itself won the 1997 British Book of the Year award.

Incorporating experiments in British jungle and drum ' n ' bass, Earthling ( 1997 ) was a critical and commercial success in the UK and the US, and two singles from the album became UK top 40 hits.

In addition to performing for the Pope, the singer participated in a live broadcast on British television for Christmas Eve in 1997, before she flew home to County Donegal to join her family at midnight Mass.

Boztepe was romantically linked with British actress Jacqueline Bisset from 1997 until 2005.

Other notable British Asian films from this period include My Son the Fanatic ( 1997 ), Ae Fond Kiss ... ( 2004 ), Mischief Night ( 2006 ), Yasmin ( 2004 ) and Four Lions ( 2010 ).

* 1997 – Barry Evans, British actor ( b. 1943 )

Dupont and British Petroleum left in 1997, Shell Oil ( US ) in 1998, Ford in 1999, and DaimlerChrysler, General Motors, and Texaco in 2000.

* Jim Hillier, Howard Hawks: American Artist, Peter Wollen ( British Film Institute, 1997 )

On 1 July 1997, sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), ending over one and a half centuries of British rule.

Before 1997, it was the duty of the British Forces Overseas Hong Kong.