* 1946 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer ( d. 1997 )

In 1997, the state filed suit to establish its jurisdiction, leading New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to remark dramatically that his father, an Italian who immigrated through Ellis Island, never intended to go to New Jersey.

** Italian Delegation of Experts, from 1997 ( Albania ) – 28 soldiers

* 1928 – Marco Ferreri, Italian director and screenwriter ( d. 1997 )

* 1997 – Renzo Montagnani, Italian actor ( b. 1930 )

* 2010 – Yara Gambirasio an Italian teenager murdered ( b. 1997 )

The largest optical telescope in the world as of 2009 to use a non-segmented single-mirror as its primary mirror is the 8. 2 m ( 8. 7 yards ) Subaru telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, located in Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawaii since 1997 ; however, this is not the largest diameter single mirror in a telescope, the U. S ./ German / Italian Large Binocular Telescope has two 8. 4 m ( 9. 2 yards ) mirrors ( which can be used together for interferometric mode ).

* From May to July 1997, Slovenia contributed to Operation ALBA in Albania with a 25-person medical unit, which was well received and commended by the Italian commander.

* 1930 – Renzo Montagnani, Italian actor ( d. 1997 )

* October 6 – Ivan Graziani, Italian singer-songwriter ( d. 1997 )

* December 2 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer ( d. 1997 )

** Tina Lattanzi, Italian actress and voice actress ( d. 1997 )

** Renzo Montagnani, Italian actor ( d. 1997 )

The tensions reached a peak when an Italian coast guard ship allegedly rammed and sank an Albanian ship carrying 120 – 130, 75 of whom drowned, on 28 March 1997.

Among Besson's awards are the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film Critics Prize, Fantasporto Audience Jury Award-Special Mention, Best Director, and Best Film, for Le Dernier Combat in 1983 ; The Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon-Best Director-Foreign Film, for La Femme Nikita, 1990 ; the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film, Nil by Mouth, 1997 ; and the Best Director Cesar Award, for The Fifth Element, 1997.

It was founded in 1997 by the University of Pavia, the Borromeo College and the Ghislieri College, supported by the Italian Minister of Education.

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.

Aldo Rossi ( May 3, 1931 – September 4, 1997 ) was an Italian architect and designer who accomplished the unusual feat of achieving international recognition in four distinct areas: theory, drawing, architecture and product design.

In 1997, Italian prosecutors in Rome implicated a member of the Sicilian Mafia, Giuseppe Calò, in Calvi's murder, along with Flavio Carboni, a Sardinian businessman with wide ranging interests.

* Life Is Beautiful, Roberto Benigni's 1997 Italian film about a Jewish Italian, who uses his comical imagination to help his family during their internment in a Nazi concentration camp.

* Nirvana ( film ), a 1997 Italian science fiction movie

He established the small publishing house Spring Ast LIX in 1997, whose publications include: Braes Woodland Diary-the First Ten Years by Ann Chapman.

In 1997, Raven made an exclusive publishing deal with Activision and was subsequently acquired by them.

In spring of 1997, the postmodern philosopher Fred Newman responded to the Sokal Affair publishing hoax in the paper " Science Can Do Better than Sokal: A Commentary on the So-Called Science Wars ", which he presented at the Postmodernism and the Social Sciences conference at the New School for Social Research ; Alan Sokal was a participant.

He has been living in Kraków since 1997 where he runs the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation aimed at providing education to the small local Jewish community as well as local Gentiles, and where he set up Pardes Lauder, a Jewish religious publishing house which has so far published more than 20 books, including a prayer book and Haggada for Passover.

Wired Magazine began publishing a similar list in 1997.

In late 1996, Frontier 4. 1 had become " an integrated development environment that lends itself to the creation and maintenance of Web sites and management of Web pages sans much busywork ," and by the time Frontier 4. 2 was released in January 1997, the software was firmly established in the realms of website management and CGI scripting, allowing users to " taste the power of large-scale database publishing with free software.

After Disney Comics shut down in 1993, Gladstone regained the comics license for the classic Disney characters, which they resumed publishing until 1998, while Marvel Comics obtained the license for the modern Disney characters in 1994 and published them until they sold their rights to Acclaim in 1997.

In 1997 Townshend signed a deal with Little, Brown and Company publishing to write his autobiography, reportedly titled Pete Townshend: Who He?

In 1997 Rabbi David Golinkin wrote " As has been pointed out on numerous occasions, the Conservative rabbis of North America have written hundreds of teshuvot but have not succeeded in publishing them.

In 1997, a French court decision outlawed the publication of the original poem on the Internet, citing the Queneau estate and Gallimard publishing house's exclusive moral right.

Sole compositional credit for the " James Bond Theme " is attributed to Monty Norman, who was contracted as composer for Dr. No. Some 30 years later, in 2001, the disputed authorship of the theme was examined legally in the High Court in London after Norman sued The Sunday Times for publishing an article in 1997 in which Barry was named as the true composer ; Barry testified for the defence.

The books have been issued since 1997 by the publishing house Egmont.

' since publishing and article in the Permaculture International Journal in 1997.

Droemer Knaur dropped the project in early 1989, after the bankruptcy of the Schmidt Spiel & Freizeit GmbH in 1997, publishing was continued by Fantasy Productions ( Fuchs ' company, which had already done all the editorial work ).

Since 1997 The Milepost has been published by Morris Communications and currently shares publishing offices with Alaska magazine.

In November 1997, MicroProse was sued by both Avalon Hill ( who had the U. S. publishing rights to the name Civilization ) and Activision for copyright infringement.

Apogee Software announced on December 12, 1997 that they would be exclusively publishing FreeSpace for the first three months before handing the publishing rights back to Interplay Entertainment.

They began publishing their zine The Cubby Missalette in 1997.

On December 17, 1997, inspired by Dave Winer's Scripting News and running on Winer's Frontier publishing software, Barger began posting daily entries to his Robot Wisdom Weblog in the hope of finding " an audience who might see the connections between many interests.

By the late 1990s, ALP was coming under pressure from the growth of new publishing methods and technologies and the last known catalogue appeared in 1997.

Reed Elsevier sold off its trade publishing to Random House in 1997, and Methuen bought itself out in 1998.

The fledgling studio set up shop in Austin and for several years worked quietly, inking a publishing deal with Microsoft in 1997.

On August 25, 1996, ICE's role handling publishing and distribution was taken over by R. Talsorian Games, just before Iron Crown itself suffered financial difficulties in 1997.