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.

* No You'd Better Watch Out — 1997

According to Human Rights Watch in 1997 Taliban soldiers were summarily executed in and around Mazar-i Sharif by Dostum's Junbish forces.

Following Operation Desert Storm, the 355 WG supported Operation Southern Watch during deployments to Al Jaber, Kuwait, in 1997 by deploying 24 A-10s, in 1998 by deploying 16 A-10s, and in 1999 by deploying 14 A-10s — all to ensure compliance of the 33rd parallel southern no-fly zone.

* Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out For ( 1997 )

* John C. Ryan & Alan T. Durning, Stuff: The Secret Life of Everyday Things ( Northwest Environmental Watch 1997 ).

The Black Watch was the last British military unit to leave Hong Kong in 1997, and it played a prominent role in the handover ceremony.

In 1997, a Black Watch soldier received wide press exposure, because of windy conditions during a military ceremony in Hong Kong.

Following Operation Provide Comfort, the United States continued to watch over the northern skies with the launching of Operation Northern Watch on 1 January 1997.

It was followed by Operation Northern Watch, which began on 1 January 1997 with the mission of enforcing the northern no-fly zone.

* The Night Watch ( album ), King Crimson's 1997 live album featuring " The Night Watch "

According to a 1997 Human Rights Watch report, this technique was " widely employed " by the security forces of Turkey, where it is " usually used together with high pressure water, electric shock, beating, or sexual harassment such as squeezing the testicles or breast or placing a nightstick against or in the vagina or anus.

His other television shows and one-off specials include Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch ( 1992 ), Dame Edna's Work Experience ( 1996 ), Dame Edna Kisses It Better ( 1997 ) and Dame Edna's Hollywood ( 1991 – 92 ), a series of three chat-show specials filmed in the US for the NBC and the Fox network.

Human Rights Watch has noted that arbitrary arrests, torture, and forced labor are rampant in the country, and that the Eritrean government refuses to implement a constitution approved in 1997 containing civil and human rights provisions.

Human Rights Watch reported Friday, February 27, 2004, that during Philippe's term as police chief of the Port-au-Prince suburb of Delmas from 1997 to 1999, international monitors " learned that dozens of suspected gang members were summarily executed, mainly by police under the command of Inspector Berthony Bazile, Philippe's deputy.

*" Anti-Semitism in the United Nations ", UN Watch, February 1998, originally published December 1997, retrieved March 6, 2005.

Burnett was honored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in 1997.

Since 1997, it has kept a Death Watch of media casualties.

Between 1997 and 2002 Judicial Watch received $ 7, 069, 500 ( unadjusted for inflation ) in 19 grants from a handful of foundations.

( 1989 ), Men at Arms ( 1993 ), Feet of Clay, ( 1996 ), Jingo ( 1997 ), The Fifth Elephant ( 1999 ), Night Watch ( 2002 ), Thud!

Released toward the end of 1996, " The Beckoning " in particular cemented Noel's name as One to Watch in the 9-7, and subsequent work ( including a jaw-dropping remix for Neotropic's Riz Maslen on her 15 Levels EP, as well as a pair of mixes on the Future Sound of London's " We Have Explosive " maxi and the first non-FSOL release on the latter's Electronic Brain Violence label ) proved as much ; Noel nailed a recording deal with Warner Bros. in 1997 and released his self-titled first album later that year.

The Scripps Research Institute was noted as a standout in the Science Watch survey of " high-impact " papers in chemistry published between 1997 and 2008, ranked number one worldwide by citations per paper.

*" The 1 2 Watch " ( 1993 – 1997 )

*" Montreal's 1 2 Watch, CFCF 12 " ( 1997 – 2001 )