* 1926 – Johnny Coles, American trumpeter ( d. 1997 )

* 1997 – A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.

* 1914 – Johnny Vander Meer, baseball player ( d. 1997 )

On May 25, 1997, a group of seventeen soldiers in the Sierra Leone army led by Corporal Tamba Gborie and loyal to the detained Major General Johnny Paul Koroma launched a military coup which sent President Kabbah into exile in Guinea and they established the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council ( AFRC ).

They include Last House on Dead End Street ( 1977 ), Paul Schrader's film Hardcore ( 1979 ), Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline ( 1979 ), the Ruggero Deodato film Cannibal Holocaust ( 1980 ), David Cronenberg's Videodrome ( 1983 ), the Nine Inch Nails film The Broken Movie ( 1993 ), the film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer ( 1986 ), the Alejandro Amenábar film Tesis ( 1996 ), the film Strange Days ( 1995 ), the Anthony Waller film Mute Witness ( 1994 ), the Johnny Depp film The Brave ( 1997 ), the Joel Schumacher film 8mm ( 1999 ), the John Ottman film, Urban Legends: Final Cut ( 2000 ), and Fred Vogel's film August Underground ( 2001 ) and its sequels.

Four players have won the Main Event multiple times: Johnny Moss ( 1970, 1971, and 1974 ), Doyle Brunson ( 1976 and 1977 ), Stu Ungar ( 1980, 1981, and 1997 ) and Johnny Chan ( 1987 and 1988 ).

* Most Main Event wins: Johnny Moss ( 1970 ( by vote ), 1971, 1974 ), Stu Ungar ( 1980, 1981, 1997 ) ( 3 )

* June 4 – Johnny Klein, American drummer ( d. 1997 )

* Johnny Bravo ( 1997 — 2002: co-production with Hanna-Barbera ; 2003 — 2004 )

In chronological order others include: " I've Been Everywhere " by Hank Snow ( 1962 ) ( album of the same title ) and Johnny Cash ( 1996 ) Unchained reworked from the original 1959 Geoff Mack Australian-place-names version made popular by the singer Lucky Starr ; " Down on the Corner " ( 1969 ) by Creedence Clearwater Revival on their fourth studio album, Willy and the Poor Boys covered by a dozen other groups ; " Kalamazoo " ( 1995 ) by Luna on Penthouse ; " Cold Rock a Party " ( 1997 ) by MC Lyte on Bad As I Wanna B ; " Kalamazoo " a song by the rock trio Primus on the 1997 Brown Album ; " Top of the World " by Rascalz ( 1999 ) on Global Warning ; " Kalamazoo ", a song by Ben Folds Five on the 2004 EP Super D ; " 65 Miles from Kalamazoo " ( 2008 ) by R. J. Miller ( a lament for a lost Gibson guitar and a metaphor about " an old girlfriend from Kalamazoo "); and " Kalamazoo " ( 2009 ) by Mike Craver on his album Shining Down.

* Johnny Bravo * ( 1997 – 2001, Cartoon Network )

* Johnny Vander Meer ( 1914 – 1997 ), the only player in MLB history to pitch two consecutive no-hitters.

After a tour in 1997, Slash approached Blues Ball bassist Johnny Griparic about forming a new lineup of Slash's Snakepit.

In 1997, Johnny appeared in the Mariah Carey music video Honey.

In 2007, Warner Bros. Records, which was American's home from 1992 to 1997, acquired the rights to the extensive American Recordings catalog, which included Johnny Cash, The Black Crowes, The Jayhawks, Slayer, and Danzig.

* This episode was also parodied in the 1997 Johnny Bravo episode " Johnny Real Good ", in which Johnny, in order to make money for a new car, babysits a young boy with godlike powers, and is tormented when he doesn't speak to the boy nicely, including being sent to a literal cornfield outside the boy's house whenever he tries to discipline him.

The term was originally coined in 1997 when members of the LVF carried out attacks on behalf of Johnny Adair's " UFF 2nd Battalion, ' C ' Company ( Shankill Road )" and vice-versa.

Although the two groups had previously agreed to work together under the umbrella of the Combined Loyalist Military Command, the body had crumbled by 1997 and tensions simmered between West Belfast UDA brigadier Johnny Adair, who had grown weary of the Northern Ireland peace process and the Good Friday Agreement, and the UVF leadership.

* Lifeline, 1997 film by Johnny To about firefighting

Ness currently lives in Newport Beach, California with his wife Christine and two sons Julian ( born 1992 ) and Johnny ( born 1997 ).

Originally the site of fishing villages, the island has been developed in recent years with the construction of Tung Chung New Town on its north-western coast and the completion of several major infrastructure projects, including Lantau Link ( 1997 ), Hong Kong International Airport ( 1998 ), Hong Kong Disneyland ( 2005 ) and Ngong Ping 360 ( 2006 ).

Nearing retirement, his father Chung Ju-yung named Mong-hun Hyundai group co-chair in late 1997.

This allowed cross platform interchange with the Tung Chung Line possible at Lai King and the new platforms were opened in 1997, nearly a year before the Tung Chung Line started service.

* 2 Jul 1997: To enable cross-platform interchange with the Tung Chung Line, the original platform 1 ( for westbound trains ) was removed and filled, becoming part of today ’ s wider low-level island platform, allowing interchange with the new platform 4 ( for Tung Chung Line eastbound trains ) further behind.

In 1997, Outback entered the South Korean market through a franchise agreement with Aussie Chung Inc. As of 2011, there are 103 Outback Steakhouse locations throughout South Korea.

* 1997: Myung-Whun Chung

In May 1997, with the Tsing Ma Bridge coming into operation and commencement of settlement in the Tung Chung new town, Citybus and Long Win Bus ( subsidiary of KMB ) started to operate new franchised routes serving Tung Chung.

1997 saw the return of Wang Chung, still consisting of Hues and Feldman, with a greatest hits collection entitled Everybody Wang Chung Tonight: Wang Chung's Greatest Hits.

* 1997: Everybody Wang Chung Tonight: Wang Chung's Greatest Hits

He left the show after the third season, but joined the writing staff of Millennium, writing and directing two episodes with extremely layered plots and humorous dialogue: " Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense " ( which revived the character of author Jose Chung, played by Charles Nelson Reilly, and was originally aired on November 21, 1997 ) and " Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me " ( May 1, 1998 ).

Chung Ling High School Butterworth ( From 1986 to 1997.

He drove inside the parking lot at the Apparel Mart and confronted Sung Chung in his 1997 Isuzu Trooper.

* Kwai Chung Estate, redeveloped between 1997 and 2008, it is the largest public housing estate in Hong Kong.

Among them are: the notable frequent full-frontal nudity of Hong Kong Chinese females and the brief but particularly notable full-frontal adult male nudity of a Hong Kong Chinese male actor, Chung Lin, who plays the robot version of Japanese scientist Ryuichi Yamamoto, in the 1991 science fiction / comedy film Robotrix ( perhaps the first time in Hong Kong cinema that a Chinese adult male's genitals have been fully revealed on camera in a film on general release ), the full-frontal appearance of Hong Kong Chinese actor Michael Lam, who was the lead in Bugis Street ( 1995 ), as his clothes and underwear are torn off by his lover, fully exposing his genitals ; a variety of East Asian actors in The Pillow Book ( 1996 ); of Hong Kong Chinese lead actor Sunny Chan in a bathroom scene as he enters a shower, fully revealing his genitals for a few moments, in Hold You Tight ( 1997 ); of mainland China lead actor Liu Ye in Lan Yu ( 2001 ), whose genitals are shown as he lies naked on a bed ; a variety of East Asian actors in Under One Roof ( 2002 ); of French Vietnamese actor Steve Tran whose genitals are shown as he walks naked in a high school locker room in Cold Showers ( 2005 ); of Singapore Chinese actor / director Zihan Loo, who removes all his clothes, uncovering his genitals, and while waiting to meet a prostitute, masturbates on camera, eventually revealing his fully erect penis, in Pleasure Factory ( 2007 ); a variety of Taiwanese Chinese actors who dare each other to skinnydip in Winds of September ( 2008 ), and of lead actor Ron Heung and the Hong Kong National Baseball Team, who are shown naked in City Without Baseball ( 2008 ), with their genitals fully revealed on camera.

Many famous violinists have recorded the work, including Jascha Heifetz ( 1947 and 1961 ), Michael Rabin ( 1957 ), David Oistrakh ( 1962 ), Kyung-wha Chung ( 1972 ), Arthur Grumiaux ( 1973 ), Salvatore Accardo ( 1977 ), Cho-Liang Lin ( 1986 ), Itzhak Perlman ( 1986 ), Vanessa-Mae ( 1996 ), Akiko Suwanai ( 1997 ), and Rachel Barton Pine ( 2004 ).

* Chung Tsu-Inner Chapters in collaboration with Gia-Fu Feng ( Random House 1974, Earth Heart 1997, Amber Lotus 2000 )

In May 1997, Kwai Chung Incineration Plant ceased to operate, the last of Hong Kong's four plants.

Meanwhile, Zhelyu Zhelev, a communist-era dissident from the new democratic party-Union of Democratic Forces, was elected President by the Assembly in 1990, and in 1992 won Bulgaria's first presidential elections and served as president until 1997.

In April 1997, the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) government won pre-term parliamentary elections and introduced an IMF currency board system which succeeded in stabilizing the economy.

* Democratic Republic of the Congo aka Congo-Kinshasa ( since 1997 ).

Petr Mach, an economist, a close associate of president Václav Klaus and a member of the Civic Democratic Party between 1997 and 2007, founded the Free Citizens Party in 2009.

In 1997, Zaire was renamed the Congo Democratic Republic and changed its currency to francs.

* 1997 – The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.

Bantubonke Holomisa, who was a general in the homeland of Transkei from 1987, has served as the president of the United Democratic Movement since 1997.

" Late Institutionalisation and Early Modernisation: The Emergence of Uruguay ’ s Liberal Democratic Political Order ", Journal of Latin American Studies ( 1997 ) v 29

** Mobutu Sese Seko, former President of Democratic Republic of the Congo ( d. 1997 )

He lost his seat to Joe Hendron of the Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ) in the 1992 general election, regaining it at the following 1997 election.

* Jim Tomlinson Democratic Socialism and Economic Policy: The Attlee Years, 1945-1951 Cambridge University Press, 1997 ISBN 0-521-55095-5

Among TRP prominent members are Emma Bonino, former Italian Member of the European Parliament and former European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, Marco Pannella, former Italian Member of the European Parliament, Wei Jingsheng, President of the Chinese Overseas Coalition for Democracy, Enver Can, President of the Eastern Turkistan National Congress, Oumar Khambiev, Chechen Health Minister-elect ( 1997 ), Vo Van Ai, President of the Vietnam Committee for Human Rights, Quan Nguyen, President of the International Committee for the Nonviolent in Vietnam, Kok Ksor, President of the Montagnard Foundation, Vanida Tephsouvan, Executive Director of the Lao Movement of Human Rights, Arben Xaferi, Chairman of the Albanian Democratic Party of Macedonia, Pandeli Majko, Minister of Defense of Albania, Prof. Arnold S. Trebach, President International Antiprohibitionist League, and David Borden, Executive Director of DRCNet.

Laurent-Désiré Kabila ( November 27, 1939 – January 18, 2001 ) was President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from May 17, 1997, when he overthrew Mobutu Sese Seko, until his assassination by one of his bodyguards on January 18, 2001.

In order to distinguish between the two African countries with " Congo " in their names, the Republic of the Congo is sometimes called Congo-Brazzaville, as opposed to Congo-Kinshasa ( the Democratic Republic of the Congo, known from 1971 to 1997 as Zaire, the capital of which is Kinshasa ).

A three-party minority coalition of the Centre, Christian Democratic, and Liberal parties, headed by Christian Democrat Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, moved into office in October 1997.

In the midst of this conflict, Kabila, whose primary intent had been to depose Mobutu, moved his forces to Kinshasa, and in 1997, the same year Mobutu Sese Seko died of prostate cancer, Kabila captured Kinshasa and then became president of Zaire, which he then renamed to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga ( born Joseph-Desiré Mobutu ; 14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997 ), commonly known as Mobutu or Mobutu Sese Seko (), was the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( also known as Zaire for much of his rule ) from 1965 to 1997.

On 12 May 1997, as Laurent-Désiré Kabila's Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo rebels were advancing on Gbadolite, Mobutu had the remains flown by cargo plane from his mausoleum to Kinshasa where they waited on the tarmac of N ' djili Airport for three days.

The classic case of a corrupt, exploitive dictator often given is the regime of Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( which he renamed Zaire ) from 1965 to 1997.

The county is a Democratic Party stronghold and the home of the Pryor family, which includes two U. S. senators, David Pryor ( 1978 – 1997 ) and his son Mark Pryor ( elected 2002 ).

A second high-profile and uniquely implemented filibuster in the Ontario Legislature occurred in April, 1997, where the New Democratic Party, then in opposition, tried to prevent the governing Progressive Conservatives ' Bill 103 from taking effect.

Between 1997 and 2001, there was a Ministerial Consultative Committee with the Liberal Democratic Party which included senior Liberal Democrats as well as Labour ministers.

( 1997 ) " Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy " ( James Bohman & William Rehg eds.