* Sinnott, Roger W. and Perryman, Michael A. C. ( 1997 ) Millennium Star Atlas, Epoch 2000. 0, Sky Publishing Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U. S. A., and European Space Agency ( ESA ), ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

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.

* 1997 – Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.

Raël founded Clonaid ( originally Valiant Venture Ltd Corporation ) in 1997, but then handed it over to a Raëlian bishop, Brigitte Boisselier in 2000.

On 1 July 1997, in preparation for privatisation of the Public Transport Corporation, Melbourne's tram network was split into two businesses — Met Tram 1 ( later renamed Swanston Trams ) and Met Tram 2 ( later renamed Yarra Trams ).

Robertson sold the Family Channel to the News Corporation in 1997, which renamed it Fox Family.

The Uganda Posts and Telecommunications Corporation had a monopoly over Uganda's communications sector until the Uganda Communications Act was enacted in 1997.

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.

Fujitsu agreed to acquire the 58 percent of Amdahl Corporation ( including the Canada-based DMR consulting group ) that it did not already own for around $ 850 million in July 1997.

From 1991 – 1997 Marc Davis and his colleagues worked out of the Machine Understanding Group of the MIT Laboratory and the Interval Research Corporation to create their media streams program.

Established in 1997 as the Monroe Council of the Arts Corporation.

On March 11, 1997, National Semiconductor Corporation announced the US $ 550 million sale of a reconstituted Fairchild to the management of Fairchild with the backing of Sterling LLC, a unit of Citicorp Venture Capital.

The company was acquired by American Homestar Corporation of League City, Texas in 1997, due to the declining manufactured housing industry the plant was closed on April 15, 2000, American Homestar Corporation subsequently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy later in 2001.

This company, formed in 1997 from three well-known brand names in the marine industry — Sperry Marine, Decca, and C. Plath — is now part of Northrop Grumman Corporation.

The Woodlands Corporation was acquired on July 31, 1997, by a joint partnership between Morgan Stanley and Crescent Real Estate Equities.

In 1997 he joined Netscape Corporation where together with Tim Bray, he created a new version of MCF that used the XML language and which became the main technical precursor to W3C's Resource Description Framework ( RDF ) standard.

In 1997, an anime series was produced by Toei Animation and broadcasted by Asahi Broadcasting Corporation.

QuickTime Music Synthesizer licensed by Apple Inc. from Roland Corporation in 1997 is a synthesizer software.

" Alaska Pulp Corporation and Ketchikan Pulp Corporation closed down their mills in 1993 and 1997, respectively, and the Forest Service then cancelled the remainders of the two 50-year timber contracts.

* Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation ( 1997 ) International Folksongs

The two previously separate ski areas of Whistler and Blackcomb were integrated into one operation in 1997 after Intrawest merged with Whistler Mountain Ski Corporation.

On March 11, 1997, National Semiconductor Corporation announced the US $ 550 million sale of a reconstituted Fairchild to the management of Fairchild with the backing of Sterling LLC, a unit of Citicorp Venture Capital.

Along with the disappointing season, the principal owner and man who moved the team to Indianapolis, Robert Irsay, died in January 1997 after years of declining health.

Jim Irsay, Robert Irsay's son, entered the role of principal owner following his fathers death and quickly began to change the organization after 1997.

In 1997, owner Carl Pohlad almost sold the Twins to North Carolina businessman Don Beaver, who would have moved the team to the Piedmont Triad area.

** USA Networks ( also including what is now called Syfy ) – Paramount owned a stake starting in 1982, 50 % owner ( with Universal Studios ) from 1987 until 1997, when Paramount / Viacom sold their stake to Universal ( now part of NBCUniversal )

A 1997 incendiary bomb attack on a Jewish bookshop owner was found by police to have been committed with the same material PAGAD has used in other attacks.

On April 6, 1997, Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke died of congestive heart failure at the age of 84.

In 1997, 3Com merged with U. S. Robotics, a maker of dial-up modems, and owner of Palm, Inc .. U. S. Robotics was known for its Sportster line of consumer oriented modems, as well as its Courier business-class modem line.

The site was launched on April 21, 1997 by Scott Kurnit, owner of General Internet ; Bill Day ; and a group of other entrepreneurs in New York City.

After a 1997 – 1998 exhibit of Schiele's work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the painting was seized by order of the New York County District Attorney and had been tied up in litigation by heirs of its former owner who claim that the painting was Nazi plunder and should be returned to them.

Çetin Görgü, Turkish press attaché, shot in his car on 7 October 1991 ; Ömer Haluk Sipahioğlu, Turkish embassy counselor, shot on an Athens street on 4 July 1994 ; ship and shipyard owner Constantinos Peratikos, shot leaving his office on 28 May 1997 ; and Brigadier Stephen Saunders on 8 June 2000.

Despite assurances made when he purchased the team in 1994 that the Whalers would remain in Hartford at least through 1998, in March 1997 owner Peter Karmanos announced that the team would move elsewhere after the 1996 – 97 season because of the team's inability to negotiate a satisfactory construction and lease package for a new arena in Hartford.

Started out of the Sellersville basement of the owner, Greg Bencsik, Bux-Mont Awards moved into the building at 201 North Main Street owned by the Odd Fellows in 1997, and marked its 15th year in business by opening a second store and expanding its web presence.

The council had its first meeting on November 24 and selected Gilbert " Gil " Geiser ( 1919 – 1997 ), a 35-year-old hardware store owner, as Mountlake Terrace's first mayor.

Tricon Global, owner of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, adopted the symbol " YUM " to represent its corporate mission when the company was spun out of PepsiCo in 1997.

In December 1955 Burke was signed to Apollo, soon after gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, Apollo's primary star, had left for Columbia Records, accusing Apollo of cheating her out of her royalties, and the owner, Bessie " Bess " Berman ( born June 3, 1902 in New York ; died October 29, 1997 ), of " having a plantation attitude toward Negroes.

For the 1999 season, in the hope of attracting more investors to the underperforming team, Frank Williams agreed to a driver swap with CART team owner Chip Ganassi, in which Ganassi's 1997 and 1998 CART champion driver, Alessandro Zanardi, would return to Formula One and Montoya would take his place in the competitive American series.

Autry was also owner of a television station, several radio stations in Southern California, and the Los Angeles / California Angels Major League Baseball team from 1961 to 1997.

The band then signed with Columbia Records in 1996 ( although Dexter claims that Brett Gurewitz, owner of Epitaph and guitarist for Bad Religion, sold the contract to Columbia ) for whom they released their next six albums, Ixnay on the Hombre ( 1997 ), Americana ( 1998 ), Conspiracy of One ( 2000 ), Splinter ( 2003 ), Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace ( 2008 ), and their most recent, Days Go By ( 2012 ).

Infinity Broadcasting would then merge with CBS in 1997, and CBS retained the Infinity name for its radio division ; thus, ownership of this station would go from one network owner to another.

March 10, 1997 ); also known as " Itar-TASS II "), the court found Russian Kurier and its owner guilty of multiple copyright violations, committed willfully.

On June 7, 1997, Foyt ( as an owner ) was involved in an incident that helped shape the history of the Indy Racing League and added to his reputation as a man of little patience.

During the Asian financial crisis in 1997, Celcom's owner, Tan Sri Tajudin Ramli suffered a debt crunch, and his shareholding in Celcom was seized by Danaharta, the national asset restructuring company.

Minority owner Larry Tanenbaum hired Dryden to become the president of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey club in 1997.

* 1997 Jeff Moorad, former agent and partial owner of the San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks, contracted the disease in 1997.