U. Press of Florida, 1997.

* Edgar Renteria ( 1996 – 1998 ) — Rentería is remembered for his 11th inning two-out RBI single in Game Seven of the 1997 World Series to give Florida a 3 – 2 triumph over the Cleveland Indians.

* 1997 – In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.

The year 1997 was a busy time for Voight in which he appeared in six films, beginning with Rosewood, based on the 1923 destruction of the primarily black town of Rosewood, Florida, by the white residents of nearby Sumner.

Manatee counts are highly variable without an accurate way to estimate numbers: in Florida in 1996, a winter survey found 2, 639 manatees ; in 1997, a January survey found 2, 229 ; and a February survey found 1, 706.

Population viability studies carried out in 1997 found that decreasing adult survival and eventual extinction is a probable future outcome for Florida manatees, without additional protection.

The third island propagation project introduced a population on St. Vincent Island, Florida offshore between Cape San Blas and Apalachicola, Florida in 1990, and in 1997 the fourth island propagation program introduced a population to Cape St. George Island, Florida south of Apalachicola, Florida.

Once again in the playoffs, and just like in 1997, the Giants faced the Florida Marlins in the NLDS.

While Sheffield led Florida to a World Championship in 1997, Hoffman would be the next franchise player behind Dave Winfield and Tony Gwynn.

In 1998, Henderson and Valenzuela were gone, but newly acquired ( from the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins ) pitcher Kevin Brown had a sensational year ( his only one with the Padres ) and outfielder / slugger Greg Vaughn bounced back after a poor 1997 season and hit 50 home runs ( overlooked in that season of the Mark McGwire-Sammy Sosa race ).

Since 1997, the United States Department of Justice has, through work with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, prosecuted six individuals in Florida on charges of slavery in the agricultural industry.

* November 27, 1997: West Palm Beach, Florida Conniston Middle School 14-year-old John Kamel was fatally shot in the chest at 8: 40 a. m. outside school on a sidewalk by 14-year-old Tronneal Mangum after an argument over an Adidas watch that Mangum had taken from Kamel.

The Florida Keys Council of the Arts, a non-profit, 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) corporation in a public-private partnership with local county government since 1997 serves 76, 329 local residents and three million visitors annually.

In 1997, the news division of WTVT ( Channel 13 ), a Fox – owned station in Tampa, Florida, planned to air an investigative report by Steve Wilson and Jane Akre on the health risks associated with Monsanto's bovine growth hormone product, Posilac.

Coincidentally, having won a championship while managing the Florida Marlins in 1997, Tigers manager Jim Leyland could have achieved this same feat had the Tigers defeated La Russa's Cardinals in the 2006 World Series.

* Bubba Watson – professional golfer who was born in nearby Bagdad, Florida, graduated from Milton High in 1997

On 1 April 1997 the 347th Wing added a combat search and rescue ( CSAR ) component with the addition of the 41st Rescue Squadron ( 41 RQS ) with HH-60G helicopters and the 71st Rescue Squadron ( 71 RQS ) with specialized HC-130P aircraft, both units transferring from Patrick AFB, Florida.

| Win || 34 – 1 – 2 || Marcela Acuña || Unanimous decision || 10 || December 5, 1997 || Pompano Beach, Florida, USA ||

On 15 March 1997, then U. S. president Bill Clinton fell down a flight of stairs at Norman's Florida home, tearing knee tendons which required surgery.

Boyd died of cancer in Florida on March 9, 1997 at age 70.

New Found Glory ( formerly A New Found Glory ) is an American rock band from Coral Springs, Florida, formed in 1997.

A liberal foreign investment law was approved in June 1994, and a Law on Privatization was adopted in 1997, as well as a program on state property privatization.

" In 1997 Ted Drozdowski of The Boston Phoenix described the 1997 Beavis and Butt-Head state as " reduced to self-parody of their self-parody.

In 1997, the state legislature created the Metropolitan Highway System and transferred responsibility for the Central Artery and Tunnel " CA / T " Project from the Massachusetts Highway Department and the Massachusetts Governor's Office to the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority ( MTA ).

1997 ) ( noting continued vitality of INS " hot news " tort under New York state law, but leaving open the question of whether it survives under federal law ).

* 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.

In 1997, the state filed suit to establish its jurisdiction, leading New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to remark dramatically that his father, an Italian who immigrated through Ellis Island, never intended to go to New Jersey.

* 1998 – Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U. S. state to abandon such a law.

The Coke bottles, installed in 1997, were also removed to return the light towers to their original state.

When Elizabeth II made a state visit to India marking the 50th anniversary of Independence in 1997, many Indians in India and Britain including several MPs demanded the return of the diamond.

Latvia's state budget was balanced in 1997 but the 1998 Russian financial crisis resulted in large deficits, which were reduced from 4 % of GDP in 1999 to 1. 8 % in 2003.

From 1997 to 2004, Michigan was listed as the only state to top the 10, 000 mark for the number of major new developments ; however, the effects of the late 2000s recession have slowed the state's economy.

President Taya, who won elections in 1992 and 1997, first became chief of state through a December 12, 1984 bloodless coup which made him chairman of the committee of military officers that governed Mauritania from July 1978 to April 1992.

After three years of consolidating his power, Kim Jong-il became Chairman of the NDC on October 8, 1997, a position described by the NDC as the nation's " highest administrative authority ," and thus North Korea's de facto head of state.

The party contested several federal and state elections between 1990 and 1997.

In the United States, following a series of landmark cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, persons diagnosed with paraphilias and a history of anti-social behavior, particularly pedophilia ( Kansas v. Hendricks, 1997 ) and exhibitionism ( Kansas v. Crane, 2002 ), can be held indefinitely in civil confinement under various state legislation generically known as Sexually violent predator laws and the federal Adam Walsh Act ( United States v. Comstock, 2010 ).

The US State Department at times labeled Serbia and Montenegro as a rogue state solely because Slobodan Milosevic, who served as President of Serbia between the years 1989 and 1997, had violated the rights of some of his nation's citizens.

An example of this would be that if a person is electrocuted by a wiring defect incorporated into a structure in, say, 1990, a state law may allow his heirs to sue only before 1997 in the case of an open ( patent ) defect, or before 2000 in the case of a hidden defect.

The new state also abandoned the collective presidency of the former SFRY and replaced it with the system consisting of a single president, who was initially appointed with the consent of the republics of Serbia and Montenegro until 1997 after which the president was democratically elected.

Mobile communication in Slovakia became first available in the early 90's with the first NMT network operator being EuroTel Bratislava, a. s., a subsidiary of the then state owned Slovenské Telekomunikácie a. s. EuroTel introduced the first GSM service to public in 1997.

Nick Xenophon was elected on an independent No Pokies ticket in the South Australian Legislative Council at the 1997 South Australian state election on 2. 9 percent, and re-elected at the 2006 election on 20. 5 percent, before being elected to the Australian Senate at the 2007 federal election on 14. 8 percent.

The team relocated from the Astrodome in Houston, Texas to the state of Tennessee in 1997.

The federal system limits the ability of the federal government to use state governments as an instrument of the national government, as held in Printz v. United States, 521 U. S. 898 ( 1997 ).

In 1997 the long-lost episode, " Alf's Dilemma ", was found in a private collection on a 21-minute 16mm telerecording ( some sources state that the episode is an edited version, others that it was just a short episode ).

Taco Bell later opened in 1997 in Australia with a store in the cinema district on George St in Sydney and a year later in 1998 within a few KFC stores in the state of New South Wales, but by 2005, the Taco Bell brand was pulled out of the country.