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 )

* 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.

The Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre took place on 3 August 1997 in two villages near Arib in the wilaya of Ain Defla, Algeria.

* 1997 – Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria – 93 villagers killed.

* 1997 – At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.

* 1997 – Omaria massacre in Algeria: 42 villagers are killed.

* 1997 – The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria ; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.

* 1997 – The Sid El-Antri massacre ( or Sidi Lamri ) in Algeria kills 50-100 people.

* 1997 – Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.

* 1997 – About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.

* 1997 – The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria ; 50 people are killed.

* 1997 – Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.

* 1997 – In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre ( The police then kill the assailants ).

* 1997 – Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria ; 43 killed at a fake roadblock.

* 1997 – Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria ; 53 killed.

* In England, Wales and Scotland, the private ownership of most handguns was banned in 1997 following a gun massacre at a school in Dunblane and an earlier gun massacre in Hungerford in which the combined deaths was 35 and injured 30.

The group is responsible for many acts of violence, including the November 1997 Luxor massacre, in which 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptians were killed.

In 1997, members of his group Al-Gama ' a al-Islamiyya conducted two attacks against European visitors to Egypt, including the massacre of 58 tourists at Deir el-Bahri in Luxor.

Claims, since proven at best to be speculative, at worse outright media fabrication, relating to the Hungerford massacre and the murder of James Bulger ( the 1991 film Child's Play 3 was held up as influencing the perpetrators ) provided an additional impetus to restrict films and as late as December 1997, the Board claimed it " has never relaxed its guidelines on video violence, which remain the strictest in the world ".

The Dunblane massacre in Scotland in 1996 was followed by the Firearms ( Amendment ) Act 1997, which effectively banned all but. 22 pistols ; and then, after the Labour government led by Tony Blair came into power, the Firearms ( Amendment ) ( No. 2 ) Act 1997 was introduced, which effectively banned the private possession of all modern pistols, even for competitive sporting purposes.

Gray made his maiden speech on 11 June 1997, in which he spoke of his constituency's largest town of Chippenham, and of his sadness at the massacre in his childhood home town of Dunblane.

Following the Dunblane massacre, the government passed the Firearms ( Amendment ) ( No. 2 ) Act 1997, banning private ownership of handguns almost completely, although the official inquiry, known as the Cullen Inquiry, had not recommended this.

* 17 November 1997 – Luxor massacre at Deir el-Bahri, Luxor, Egypt.

In 1997 his tombstone was moved from Berlin to Nanjing ( as it is now ) where it received a place of honor at the massacre memorial site.

The massacre was the subject of a 1997 film directed by John Singleton.