* 1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.

In a 1997 open letter to Ms. magazine she expressed displeasure that what she considers a way to ensure her own artistic freedom was seen by others solely in terms of its financial success.

In 1997 Hill published her autobiography, Speaking Truth to Power, in which she chronicled her role in the Clarence Thomas confirmation controversy and wrote that creating a better society had been a motivating force in her life.

After finishing her first book, in 1997, Hesser was hired as a food reporter for The New York Times.

Senators Ted Kennedy – a Democrat – and Orrin Hatch – a Republican – teamed up with Hillary Rodham Clinton and her staff in 1997, and succeeded in passing legislation forming the State Children's Health Insurance Program ( SCHIP ), the largest ( successful ) health care reform in the years of the Clinton Presidency.

In 1997 the Linnean Society issued a posthumous apology to Potter for the sexism displayed in its handling of her research.

In 1996 – 1997, Campbell was a recurring guest star on the show Ellen as Ed Billik, who becomes Ellen's boss when she sells her bookstore in season four.

Further evidence of Chinese athletes ' drug use came in 1997 when Australian authorities confiscated 13 vials of Somatropin, a human growth hormone, from the bag of Chinese swimmer Yuan Yuan upon her arrival for the 1997 World Swimming Championships.

* In the funeral oration of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, her brother drew an analogy between the ancient goddess of hunting and his sister-' the most hunted person of the modern age '.

Dean ( August 16, 1926 – February 24, 1997 ) and Florine " Kay " Plato ( December 27, 1938 – January 2, 1988 ) adopted the child in June 1965 and raised her in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County.

In 1997 Enya released her greatest hits collection, Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya, again a top five smash in the UK and Germany, which featured two new songs: " Paint the Sky with Stars " and " Only If ..."; " Only If ..." later became a single.

In addition to performing for the Pope, the singer participated in a live broadcast on British television for Christmas Eve in 1997, before she flew home to County Donegal to join her family at midnight Mass.

Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film Hate ( La Haine ) received critical praise and made Vincent Cassel a star, and in 1997, Juliette Binoche won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The English Patient.

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 2004, Gaynor re-released her 1997 album The Answer ( also released under the title What a Life ) as a follow up to her successful album I Wish You Love.

Her films My Best Friend's Wedding ( 1997 ), Mystic Pizza ( 1988 ), Notting Hill ( 1999 ), Runaway Bride ( 1999 ), Valentine's Day ( 2010 ), The Pelican Brief ( 1993 ), Ocean's Eleven ( 2001 ), and Ocean's Twelve ( 2004 ) have collectively brought box office receipts of over $ 2. 4 billion, making her one of the most successful actresses in terms of box office receipts.

In one incident filmed near the Farallon Islands in October 1997, a female killed a long great white shark, apparently after swimming with it upside-down in her mouth and inducing tonic immobility in it.

Evelyn died in 1997 at the age of 87 ; Babs continued to live on the island until her death in 2004, at the age of 86.

* 1997 – The U. S. Supreme Court rules that Paula Jones can pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he is in office.

After a relatively low phase, she reinvented herself with the romance Dil To Pagal Hai ( 1997 ) and subsequently received critical acclaim for her work in films like Mrityudand ( 1997 ), Pukar ( 2000 ), Lajja ( 2001 ) and Devdas ( 2002 ).

A major programme of remedial work on the West Coast Main Line started in 1997 and finished in 2009, far over budget (£ 10bn ), many years late and still not bringing the line up to the standards originally proposed by Railtrack.

While there is not a large body of academic work examining the relationship, Hironaka's statistical study found a correlation that suggests that every major international anti-secessionist declaration increased the number of ongoing civil wars by + 10 %, or a total + 114 % from 1945 to 1997.

It was not until 1997, however, that a direct experiment, by S. Lamoreaux, described above, quantitatively measured the force ( to within 15 % of the value predicted by the theory ), although previous work van Blockland and Overbeek ( 1978 ) had observed the force qualitatively, and indirect validation of the predicted Casimir energy had been made by measuring the thickness of liquid Helium films by Sabisky and Anderson in 1972.

Adams has also received the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award and Newspaper Comic Strip Award in 1997 for his work on the strip.

In 1997 the Italian publishing house Editrice ComicArt published a lavish volume about Don Rosa's biography and work related to the Disney characters.

This work not only discusses all of Rosa's creative life up to 1997, but it also gives a comprehensive biography, lists up to that date his Disney work and presents an extensive interview with Rosa.

The design was considerably simplified, and in 1997 the " collect and distribute 1 bit " (" CoDi-1Bit ") model was published, and work began on a hardware implementation using Xilinx XC6264 FPGAs.

Alexander Luria's earlier work on neuropsychological processes lead to the PASS theory ( 1997 ).

In 1997, after many years of hard work, Berry released a solo album called Second Wave on One Way Records.

Sir John Carew Eccles, AC FRS FRACP FRSNZ FAAS ( 27 January 1903 – 2 May 1997 ) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse.

After a visit to Transmeta in late 1996, Torvalds accepted a position at the company in California, where he would work from February 1997 until June 2003.

After Clan Undead's 1997 work Operation Bayshield built on the earliest Quake movies by introducing narrative conventions of linear media and sketch comedy reminiscent of the television show Saturday Night Live, the New-York-based ILL Clan further developed the genre in machinima through works including Apartment Huntin ' and Hardly Workin '.

In summer of 1997, he was interviewed by Microsoft for a job in the Internet Explorer Unix team ( to work on a SPARC port ), but lacked the university degree required to obtain a work H-1B visa.

Three researchers at NIST have been awarded Nobel Prizes for their work in Physics: William D. Phillips in 1997, Eric A. Cornell in 2001, John L. Hall in 2005, which is the largest number for any US government laboratory.

" I was such an efficiency expert that the first morning on the job, I couldn't find the building where I was to report for work ", he said in 1997.

His early tracks are somewhat ambient, but already feature the rhythm pattern of his seminal 1997 work Modus Operandi, which embodies most of his mid-nineties style: atmospheric, but at the same time very cold and paranoid, consisting mostly of jazz-influenced, highly complex drum patterns and sequenced double bass lines, sometimes with minimalistic synth melodies on top.

This effort largely relies on earlier work carried out during the 1997 Aleppo conference.

Adams has received recognition for his work, including the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award and Newspaper Comic Strip Award for 1997 for his work on Dilbert.

In 1997, they began work on a feature CG film based on Final Fantasy and in 2000, the film was revealed as Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.

* In 1997, a compilation of Poe's work was released on a double CD entitled Closed on Account of Rabies, with various celebrities lending their voices to the tales.

In 1997, his autobiography and art book, I Want To Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now, was published.

In 1997, Devoto wrote the lyrics to the Mansun track, " Everyone Must Win ", which appeared on the Closed for Business EP.

A 1997 book in R. L. Stines ' Goosebumps series, The Blob that Ate Everyone, has a typewriter that writes things into existence.

Between 1996 – 2000, Hoffmann landed roles in several films including Everyone Says I Love You ( 1996 ), Volcano ( 1997 ), Snapped ( 1998 ), The Hairy Bird Hoffmann starred in All I Wanna Do, a comedy about an all-girls school during the early 1960s where the students protest at a proposed merger with an all-boys school.