After the success of his next film, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, he co-founded Studio Ghibli where he continued to produce many feature films until his temporary retirement in 1997 following Princess Mononoke.

After the war he co-founded the Socialist Reich Party and remained a prominent Neo-Nazi and advocate of Holocaust Denial until his death in 1997.

In 1991, after a trip to the Killing Fields of Cambodia, VVAF co-founded and coordinated the global campaign to ban landmines, called Campaign for A Landmine Free World, which was awarded the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to persuade countries to sign a treaty eradicating the use of antipersonnel landmines.

In 1997, Olmos co-founded the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival with Marlene Dermer, George Hernandez and Kirk Whisler.

In 1997, he co-founded the Project for the New American Century ( PNAC ) with Robert Kagan.

Warren Saul Hitzig co-founded the Toronto Compassion Centre ( originally the ' Medical Marijuana Resource Centre ') in 1997 to provide high quality cannabis products to those with a documented medicinal need and to act as a medical marijuana information resource for the Canadian general public.

In 1997, Miller co-founded Click Health, a pioneering publisher of health education games for children with asthma and diabetes.

Gilbert also co-founded Cavedog Entertainment in 1996 to produce more mature games ; the company is known for the 1997 title Total Annihilation.

Klees also co-founded the Municipal Gas Corporation in 1990, and served as its executive vice-president until 1997.

In 1997, Grusin and Rosen co-founded N2K Encoded Music ( after renamed N-Coded Music ).

Williams co-founded the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, which won the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for its international campaign to ban landmines.

After completing the ' Race ' training and selection course at the Australian Film Television and Radio School ( NSW ) in 1997, Brettle co-founded the production company Wired Vision and made several short documentary films for television broadcast.

Upon his return to the private sector in 1997, Mr. Zed co-founded a very successful public policy and business advisory company in Ottawa, Summa Strategies Canada Inc., and served as its President for eight years representing some of the largest American and Canadian companies and their CEO's with offices in Ottawa, Washington and London.

In 1997 he co-founded a German film-magazine called Screenshot.

He attended Mather High School and then earned his bachelor in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997 and co-founded two companies that made Internet-tools, NetMeridian Software and SponsorNet New Media.

In 1997 he co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd, a venture capital company, and in 1998 he co-founded Cambridge Network Ltd with David Cleevely and Alec Broers.

In 1997, Foreman co-founded the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance.

In 1997 he co-founded and served as a director for the now-defunct Project for the New American Century.

The VVAF co-founded the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which won a 1997 Nobel Peace Prize.

After a year out of racing, he co-founded the 888 Racing team that took over the running of the works Vauxhall 1997 BTCC entry, as well as owning three car dealerships in Southampton and Jersey.

In 2008, he co-founded Biomimicry Technologies with biologist Janine Benyus, the author of Biomimicry, Innovation Inspired by Nature, HarperCollins, 1997.

In 1997 he co-founded the Institute for Public Affairs ( IVO ) where he served as its first president.

In Spring 1996, Furse and Congressman George Nethercutt ( R-WA ) co-founded the Congressional Diabetes Caucus and authored legislation which passed in 1997 to improve coverage of diabetes education and supplies in the Medicare program.

Thus, on January 16, 1997, the Diamondbacks were officially voted into the National League while their expansion counterparts in Tampa Bay were voted into the American League.

In the same suit, the Raiders challenged the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1997 uniform design, including the pirate logo.

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.

In early 1997, Major League Baseball decided to assign one new team to each league: Tampa Bay joined the American League and Arizona joined the National League.

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.

By 1997, Tampa Bay ranked 3rd in the league in total yards allowed, 2nd in 1998, and 3rd in 2000.

Since 1997, the team has played its home games in the Tampa Bay Times Forum ( previously the Ice Palace and the St. Pete Times Forum ) which is located in Tampa.

* Tampa Bay Xtreme ( 1997 – 2002 )

The stadium is most closely associated with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers National Football League franchise, which played all of their home games in the stadium from 1976 through 1997.

Left unprotected in the 1997 MLB Expansion Draft when Astros decided to keep fellow Venezuelan outfielder Richard Hidalgo, Abreu was selected by the then Tampa Bay Devil Rays, but hours later was traded to the Phillies for shortstop Kevin Stocker.

Following his departure from Buffalo, Nolan was offered NHL coaching jobs in 1997 by the Tampa Bay Lightning ( head coach ) and in 1998 by the New York Islanders ( assistant coach ).

Greenwald began training as a wrestler under Dean Malenko in Tampa, Florida in 1997.

* Julio Franco, SS / 2B, Philadelphia ( 1982 ), Cleveland ( 1983 – 88 ; 1996 – 97 ), Texas ( 1989 – 93 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1994 ), Milwaukee ( 1997 ), Tampa Bay ( 1999 ), Atlanta ( 2001 – 05 ; 2007 ), New York Mets ( 2006 – 07 ), played 139 games for Reading in 1981

Ordaz played for the St. Louis Cardinals ( 1997 – 1999 ), Kansas City Royals ( 2000 – 2002 ) and Tampa Bay Devil Rays ( 2006 ).

The Tampa Bay Devil Rays selected Cairo with the eighth pick in the 1997 MLB expansion draft.

During a thirteen-year baseball career, he pitched for the Texas Rangers ( 1989 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1991 – 1997 ), San Francisco Giants ( 1997 ), Tampa Bay Devil Rays ( 1998 – 2002 ) and Los Angeles Dodgers ( 2003 – 2005 ).

Velandia played with the San Diego Padres ( 1997 ), Oakland Athletics ( 1998 – 2000 ), New York Mets ( 2000 – 2003 ), Tampa Bay Devil Rays ( 2007 ), Toronto Blue Jays ( 2008 ), and Cleveland Indians ( 2008 ).

Mahovlich was a scout for the Edmonton Oilers from 1995 to 1997 before joining the Tampa Bay Lightning.

In 1997, the Buccaneers finished second in the NFC Central division, Tampa Bay's first winning season since 1982 after starting the season 5-0 matching the only time the Bucs were ever undefeated with as many wins in the 1979 season.

The blackouts officially became reality first when the Bucs confirmed well before the 72-hour blackout deadline that the team's preseason opener against the Kansas City Chiefs would be blacked out marking the first ever blackout at Raymond James Stadium and the first blackout of any kind overall since an October 26, 1997 game against the Minnesota Vikings at Tampa Stadium failed to sell out before the deadline.

Quill was allocated to the Tampa Bay Mutiny for the 1997 season, but saw little playing time.

His Pistons won the 1989, 1990, and 2004 NBA Finals ; his Shock won the 2003, 2006 and 2008 WNBA Finals ; his Vipers won the 1997 Turner Cup ; Tampa Bay Lightning won the 2004 Stanley Cup, making him the only owner in professional sports history whose teams have won an NBA Championship and a Stanley Cup in the same year.