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

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.

At his press conference Mr. Kennedy said, `` All we want in Laos is peace not war a truly neutral government not a cold war pawn ''.

At the same time, another purpose of the conference will be to get certain low-wage countries to control textile exports -- especially dumping of specific products -- to high-wage textile-producing countries.

* 1852 – At a general conference of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young explains the Adam – God doctrine, an important part of the theology of Mormon fundamentalism.

* 1920 – At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class " A " League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.

At conference it was decided that Eugene would return with 28, 000 men to the Lines of Stollhofen on the Rhine to keep an eye on Villeroi and Tallard, and prevent them going to the aid of the Franco-Bavarian army on the Danube.

At a news conference following the letter's release, Bush said, " I make no excuses.

At the fourth conference, held in Lagos, Nigeria, in August 1979, the Lagos Accord was signed.

At the Labour Party conference at Southport in 1934, Attlee declared that " We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.

At its 1982 conference, the Labour Party adopted a policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament.

At the 19th Conference, the first party conference held since 1941, several delegates asked for the introduction of term limits, and an end to appointments of officials, and to introduce multi-candidate elections within the party.

At age 20, following his 1922 trip to Peking, China, for an international Christian conference, he started to doubt his religious convictions.

At the 2012 meeting in Vancouver, Canada, the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( the world's biggest science conference ), support was reiterated for a cetacean bill of rights, listing cetaceans as " non-human persons ".

At the end of the conference, the church " by a unanimous vote " agreed to accept the compilation as " the doctrine and covenants of their faith " and to make arrangements for its printing.

At the 1971 conference, Kameny grabbed the microphone and yelled, " Psychiatry is the enemy incarnate.

At a regional conference in July 2009, officials expressed increased concerns that water levels are dropping.

At a conference with them Sir William MacNaghten was killed, but in spite of this, the sirdars ' demands were agreed to by the British and they withdrew.

At one such conference, celebrating the 300th anniversary of George Berkeley ’ s birth, Mr. Pappas propounded a new approach to the relationship between Berkeley ’ s anti-abstractionism and " esse est percipi " principle.

At a press conference held later the same day, Hermann Göring was asked by foreign correspondents to respond to a hot rumour that General von Schleicher had been murdered in his home.

At the conference Peano met Bertrand Russell and gave him a copy of Formulario.

At the conference, the five countries signed the General Treaty of Peace and Amity of 1907, which established the Central American Court of Justice to resolve future disputes among the five nations.

At the conclusion of the regular Big Ten season, a tournament is held to determine the conference winner, who receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

At the beginning of the conference, Stalin repeated previous promises to Churchill that he would refrain from a " Sovietization " of Eastern Europe.

At a press conference, Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller announced that a Joint Jamaica / Haiti Commission would be convened later that year.

* 1962 – Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces Lunar Orbit Rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.

At this conference, she stated that she believes that the education system in the United States needs to be improved, as there is a link between the quality of education and the crime rate.