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 )

* 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.

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

The 150 metres, though rarely competed, has a star-studded history: Pietro Mennea set a world best in 1983, Olympic champions Michael Johnson and Donovan Bailey went head-to-head over the distance in 1997, and Usain Bolt improved Mennea's record in 2009.

* Sano di Pietro ( 1997 ), " Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome "

The 150 metres, though rarely competed, has a star-studded history: Pietro Mennea set a world best in 1983, Olympic champions Michael Johnson and Donovan Bailey went head-to-head over the distance in 1997, and Usain Bolt improved Mennea's record in 2009.

Since 1997, his sons, Giovanni Ferrero and Pietro Ferrero have led the company.

The main churches are S. Sebastiano, the 16th ‑ century parish church, damaged in the Umbrian earthquake of 1997 but almost immediately restored ; S. Pietro, the former parish church, medieval ; S. Benedetto, also medieval, with some frescoes ; and La Piaggiola, a small votive chapel of uncertain use, but likely belonging to a penitential confraternity: on its walls are to be found the best medieval frescoes in town.

In " The Pothole " ( 1997 ), a Phil Rizzuto key chain is featured that says " Holy Cow!

His books, which combine historical photographs with his own writing, include Wisconsin Death Trip ( 1973 ), Time Frames: The Meaning of Family Pictures ( 1980 ), Bearing Witness: A Photographic Chronicle of American Life ( 1982 ), Visible Light ( 1985 ), Dreamland: America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century ( 1997 ), ( with Angelo Rizzuto ) Angel's World: The New York Photographs of Angelo Rizzuto ( 2005 ), and Murder City ( 2007 ).

* 1946 – Kurt Winter, Canadian guitarist ( The Guess Who ) ( d. 1997 )

* 1916 – Hélène Baillargeon, Canadian singer ( d. 1997 )

In 2001, it achieved high rankings in the annual Maclean's University Rankings, including Best Overall for Primarily Undergraduate University in their opinion survey, and it received the Canadian Information Productivity Award in 1997 as it was praised as the first university in Canada to fully utilize information technology in the undergraduate curriculum.

* 1997 – Jean-Claude Lauzon, Canadian director ( b. 1953 )

Canadian media scholar Harold Innis had the theory that people use different types of media to communicate and which one they choose to use will offer different possibilities for the shape and durability of society ( Wark, McKenzie 1997 ).

Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).

The dictionaries have regularly been updated since: the Senior Dictionary was renamed Gage Canadian Dictionary and exists in what may be called its 5th edition from 1997.

In 1997, the ITP Nelson Dictionary of the Canadian English Language was another product, but has not been updated since.

In the 1997 federal election, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's Liberals endured a bitter defeat to the PCs and NDP in many ridings as a result of unpopular cuts to unemployment benefits for seasonal workers, as well as closures of several Canadian Forces Bases, the refusal to honour a promise to rescind the Goods and Services Tax, cutbacks to provincial equalization payments, health care, post-secondary education and regional transportation infrastructure such as airports, fishing harbours, seaports, and railways.

* 1997 – Michel Bélanger, French Canadian businessman and banker ( b. 1929 )

* 1937 – Hagood Hardy, Canadian musician and composer ( d. 1997 )

* 1997 – Georges Groulx, French Canadian actor ( b. 1922 )

In a famous Canadian Charter of Rights case, " Sandra Bell vs. City of Toronto ", 1997, the right to cultivate all native species, even most varieties deemed noxious or allergenic, was upheld as part of the right of free expression.

* 1997 – William Cuddy, Canadian actor

* 1908 – Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician ( d. 1997 )

* 1899 – Muriel McQueen Fergusson, Canadian politician ( d. 1997 )

In September 1997, The Gazette from Montreal reported that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) had arrested a Canadian gang operating a gun-running ring in Ontario and Quebec.

* 1983 – Reena Virk, Canadian murder victim ( d. 1997 )

* Phobos ( album ), a 1997 album by Canadian heavy metal band Voivod

* 1997 – Michelle Creber, Canadian voice actress and singer