The Liberal Democrats could point to steady progress under Charles Kennedy, gaining more seats than the main two parties – albeit only six overall – and maintaining the performance of a pleasing 1997 election, where the party doubled its number of seats from 20 to 46.

The Orioles experienced their greatest success from 1964 – 1983, as well as 1996-1997, winning eight Division Championships ( 1969 – 1971, 1973 – 1974, 1979, 1983, 1997 ), six pennants ( 1966, 1969 – 1971, 1979, 1983 ), three World Series Championships ( 1966, 1970, 1983 ), one wild card berth ( 1996 ), and five Most Valuable Player awards ( 3B Brooks Robinson 1964, OF Frank Robinson 1966, 1B Boog Powell 1970 and SS Cal Ripken Jr. 1983 & 1991 ).

1997 — In November, Cyclone Martin in Manihiki kills at least six people ; 80 % of buildings are damaged and the black pearl industry suffered severe losses.

In July 1997, on the sidelines of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) summit in Madrid, Greek and Turkish leaders reached agreement on six principles to govern their bilateral relations.

Aside from the multitude of regional games held during the NCAA tournament, Indianapolis has hosted six men's NCAA Final Fours ( 1980, 1991, 1997, 2000, 2006, 2010 ) and two women's ( 2005, 2011 ).

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.

In 1997, his most successful year, Doohan won 12 out of 15 races, finished second in another two, and crashed out of the final race of the season at his home GP while leading by more than six seconds.

Within the six year stretch from 1997 – 2003, he also starred in two other best picture nominees, L. A.

In 1997, the Mateba company developed a type of recoil-operated automatic revolver, commercially named the Mateba Autorevolver, which uses the recoil energy to auto-rotate a normal revolver cylinder holding six or seven cartridges, depending on the model.

* Space Quest Collection Series ( 1997 ) – All six games, plus a preview of episode VII.

* Louder Than Words ( 1997, Dark Horse Comics ), six issue mini-series of wordless humor.

The individual chapters were collected and released in six individual volumes by Kadokawa under their " New Type Novels " label between June 1996 and August 1997.

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.

Praised by critics at the time of its release, All About Eve was nominated for 14 Academy Awards ( a feat unmatched until the 1997 film Titanic ) and won six, including Best Picture.

He is the author of six books for a general audience: The Language Instinct ( 1994 ), How the Mind Works ( 1997 ), Words and Rules ( 2000 ), The Blank Slate ( 2002 ), The Stuff of Thought ( 2007 ), and The Better Angels of Our Nature ( 2011 ).

After nearly six months of extreme volatility during which the Dow experienced its largest one day point loss, largest daily point gain, and largest intra-day range ( more than 1, 000 points ), the index closed at a new twelve-year low of 6, 547. 05 on March 9, 2009 ( after an intra-day low of 6, 469. 95 during the March 6 session ), its lowest close since April 1997, and had lost 20 % of its value in only six weeks.

Jason has won four British Academy Television Awards ( BAFTAs ), ( 1988, 1991, 1997, 2003 ), four British Comedy Awards ( 1990, 1992, 1997, 2001 ) and six National Television Awards ( 1997, 2001, 2002 twice, 2003, 2011 ).

She also guest starred in six episodes of Aaron Spelling's short lived prime time soap opera Pacific Palisades in 1997.

Perhaps even more radical was Ong Keng Sen's 1997 adaptation of King Lear, which featured six actors each performing in a separate Asian acting tradition and in their own separate languages.

In 1997, the six women who did most of the programming of ENIAC were inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame.

The six finalist team names for the new NHL franchise were Blue Ox, Freeze, Northern Lights, Voyageurs, White Bears, and Wild were announced on November 20, 1997 .< ref >

Series One comprised six episodes and was first aired from 25 September to 30 October, 1997 on Thursdays at 8. 30pm.

A part of the symphonic composition is also featured in As Good as It Gets, released in 1997.

The Council of the European Union decided against Belarus in 1997: The PCA was not concluded, nor was its trade-related part ; Belarusian membership in the Council of Europe was not supported ; bilateral relations at the ministerial level were suspended and EU technical assistance programs were frozen.

The channel launched as BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 17: 30 as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989.

The Weston Gallery of Roman Britain, opened in 1997, displayed a number of recently discovered hoards which demonstrated the richness of what had been considered an unimportant part of the Roman Empire.

Following the IRA ceasefires between 1994 and 1996 and since 1997, demilitarisation has taken place as part of the peace process, reducing the military presence from 30, 000 to 5, 000 troops.

The country closed its military bases in Bangui and Bouar in 1997 as a part of its new Africa policy and relations with C. A. R.

The territory was created in 1969 by the Coral Sea Islands Act ( before, the area was considered part of Queensland ) and extended in 1997 to include Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs nearly 800 km further South, already in the Tasman Sea.

Hong Kong ceased to be part of the Commonwealth in 1997.

The section of Route 3 between Wimbledon and West Croydon follows the old single-track British Rail route for the most part, which was closed on 31 May 1997 so that it could be converted for Tramlink.

* Colonial ( Amtrak 1997 ), an Amtrak train that began running from Richmond, Virginia to New York train in 1977 and eventually became part of the Northeast Regional.

The current dome dates from 1870, although it was restored during 1994 – 1997, as part of extensive modern renovations to the church, which have been ongoing since 1959.

Her movie career included a bit part in It Happened One Night ( 1934 ) and roles in Outlaw Women ( 1952 ), Glen or Glenda ( 1953 ), Body Beautiful ( 1953 ), The Blue Gardenia ( 1953 ), Count the Hours ( 1953 ), Mesa of Lost Women ( 1953 ), College Capers ( 1954 ), Jail Bait ( 1954 ), The Raid ( 1954 ), This Is My Love ( 1954 ), The Opposite Sex ( 1956 ), The Ironbound Vampire ( 1997 ), and Dimensions in Fear ( 1998 ).

As the first part of a 10-year Road Sector Development Program, between 1997 and 2002 the Ethiopian government began a sustained effort to improve its infrastructure of roads.

She was approached by James Cameron to play the part of " Rose Dawson Calvert " for his 1997 blockbuster Titanic with Kate Winslet to play her younger self, but she turned down the role and the part of Rose was given to Gloria Stuart.

In a famous Canadian Charter of Rights case, " Sandra Bell vs. City of Toronto ", 1997, the right to cultivate all native species, even most varieties deemed noxious or allergenic, was upheld as part of the right of free expression.

On Monday 23 December 2011, in an interview on Turkish newspaper BirGün discussing secret budgets, former Turkish Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz admitted that Turkish secret agents intentionally started forest fires in Greece between 1995 and 1997 during the Prime Ministership of Tansu Ciller as part of state-sponsored sabotage, resulting in huge damage caused by major forest fires on the islands of the eastern Aegean and in Macedonia.

However, in the case of Hong Kong, irredentism was incidental: The New Territories part of the British colony were only on a lease expiring in 1997 anyway and, with their surrender, it was thought the Crown territory of Hong Kong itself would be nonviable as an entity independent of mainland China.

* 1997 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

The Court of Final Appeal now serves as the highest judicial authority in the jurisdiction, although, as confirmed by the Court of Appeal, decisions of the Privy Council before 1 July 1997 on appeals from Hong Kong ' continue to be binding since the resumption of sovereignty on all courts of Hong Kong, save for the Court of Final Appeal ' i. e. these decisions remain part of the common law of the Hong Kong SAR unless and until overturned by the Court of Final Appeal.

In the middle of this era, in 1997, the Royals declined the opportunity to switch to the National League as part of a realignment plan to introduce the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays as expansion teams.

Many people from Germany and abroad traveled to Berlin to take part in the Parade — over a million attended in the years 1997 through 2000 and 800, 000 in 2001.

Later, part of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Paul D. Boyer and John E. Walker for their clarification of the working mechanism of ATP synthase.

The Brewers were part of the American League from their creation as an expansion club in 1969 through the 1997 season, after which they moved to the National League Central Division.

* 1995 – 1997, The Clyde Auditorium, part of the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow, Scotland