When WWE ( then WWF ) unveiled its new " Attitude " era in 1997, the no-disqualification match was used as a centerpiece for this new design of wrestling, and a Hardcore Title was offered between 1998 and 2002.

With the introduction of the Titantron entrance screen in 1997, WWF / WWE wrestlers also had entrance videos made that would play along with the their entrance music.

This helped drive many WWF wrestlers to its only major competition, World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ), between 1994 and 1997.

The creative changes made by the WWF creative board saw wrestling take on a " street fighting ", " bad attitude " approach ; however, despite the revolutionary changes in sports-entertainment that the WWF founded, 1997 remains the lowest of the WWF's financial income and a heavy loss in fan interest to rival WCW.

Throughout 1996 and 1997, the WWF lost much of its leading talent to WCW, including Razor Ramon ( Scott Hall ), Diesel ( Kevin Nash ), Sycho Sid ( Sid Eudy ), Alundra Blayze ( Debrah Miceli ), and Rick Rude ( Richard Rood ).

1997 ended with McMahon facing real life controversy resulting in major ratings and financial losses after becoming widely despised by his employees, wrestling critics, and wrestling fans following Bret Hart's controversial departure from the WWF, later known as the Montreal Screwjob.

After a hiatus, he returned to WWF television on the August 4, 1997 episode of Raw is War to assume the role of on-air commissioner.

In 1997, Copeland signed a developmental deal with the WWF and began competing for the company later that year ; he made his televised debut the following June under the ring name Edge.

Canadian wrestler Bret Hart, who saw Copeland wrestle, put in a good word for Copeland, which ultimately resulted in Copeland receiving a developmental contract with the WWF in 1997.

Coincidentally, Copeland made his WWF wrestling debut as Sexton Hardcastle on November 10, 1997, the night after Hart left the company.

McMahon also did not expect two fans, Mani Mohtadi and Jason Cosmides in the audience to sneak a camcorder into the event and capture the entire incident on tape, which was later procured by the WWF and aired on the October 6, 1997 episode of Raw is War by Michaels and Levesque who, in storyline, used the footage to irritate McMahon.

He apparently became friends with Scott Hall who offered to mentor him and from there he ended up travelling with the rest of the group until he negotiated his WWF release in 1997.

In 1997, Lawler became heavily involved in the working relationship between the WWF and Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ).

Although Lawler was working for the WWF, he and Larry Burton ended up buying the USWA from Jarrett and immediately selling it to businessman Mark Selker's company XL Sports Ltd. in early 1997, and the USWA went out of business by November of that year, resulting in a nasty lawsuit between Burton, Selker, and Lawler.

The Montreal Screwjob was a controversial, purportedly real life professional wrestling event in which the owner of the World Wrestling Federation, Vince McMahon, double-crossed the defending WWF Champion, Bret Hart, during the main event match of the professional wrestling pay-per-view event Survivor Series held on November 9, 1997 at the Molson Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

In early 1997, Russo would eventually become head writer for the WWF and would write their flagship show Raw Is War as well as their monthly pay-per-views.

**" Nation of Domination " by J. Johnston ( WWF ; used while part of the nation of domination ; 1997 – 1998 )

They made their WWF debut on the June 28, 1997 of Shotgun Saturday Night.

Later that year Mason became manager of Faarooq and the two formed the Nation of Domination, a heel stable loosely based on the Nation of Islam and Black Panther Party, Mason still managed Owen & Bulldog while with The Nation, but got fired by the Bulldog in March 1997, In mid 1997, Faarooq " fired " Mason from the Nation of Domination, and Mason was written off television and released from his WWF contract.

He played an extremely prominent role in the inaugural The Main Event card in 1988, in which André the Giant controversially " defeated " Hulk Hogan for the WWF Championship, as well as the infamous " Montreal Screwjob " during the main event of the 1997 Survivor Series.

Two months later, at Wrestlepalooza, Taz won the World Television Championship from Shane Douglas to begin his second reign, In late 1997, Taz began feuding with the Wright Connection-Lance Wright's stable of WWF " invaders "-ultimately defeating WWF wrestler Brakkus in a title defence at CyberSlam on February 21, 1998.

Connor made his official WWF debut in 1997 as a member of Faarooq's Nation of Domination heel stable as one several non-descript people in suits that accompanied the group to the ring.

In 1997, a spin-off show based on their classmate Daria Morgendorffer, Daria, was created.

In 1997, the state legislature created the Metropolitan Highway System and transferred responsibility for the Central Artery and Tunnel " CA / T " Project from the Massachusetts Highway Department and the Massachusetts Governor's Office to the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority ( MTA ).

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.

Also in 1997, Black created real-time video manipulation software, VJamm.

The old entrance to the park was closed in 1997 when a new entrance was created at the intersection of Highway 20 and Cornet Bay road, improving access into and out of the park.

* King David ( musical ), 1997 musical created by Tim Rice and Alan Menken

Regulation: The National Communications Authority ( NCA ), an independent regulator, was created in 1997, deriving its statutory framework from the NCA Act 1996.

While the 1997 Labour government devolved power to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, it refused to created a devolved Assembly or parliament for England, planning instead to introduce eight regional assemblies around England to devolve power to the regions.

However, as Kwanzaa gained mainstream adherents, Karenga altered his position so that practicing Christians would not be alienated, then stating in the 1997 Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community, and Culture, " Kwanzaa was not created to give people an alternative to their own religion or religious holiday.

By 1997, the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications was created to formulate and implement policies regarding the development of the ICT sector.

* In Peter F. Hamilton's novel The Neutronium Alchemist ( 1997 ), neutronium is created by the " aggressive " setting of a superweapon.

O2EM, ( originally not open source ) was created in 1997 by computer programmer Daniel Boris and further enhanced by Andre Rodrigues de La Rocha.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was created following the end of minority rule and the apartheid system, reported in 1997 that five former members of the South African security forces who had admitted to killing Biko were applying for amnesty.

# The Kingdom of Artemisia was created in 1997 from the Kingdom of Atenveldt.

# The Kingdom of Æthelmearc was created in 1997 from the Kingdom of the East.

For the Sinhala readers, the newspaper Lanka Viththi ( Information on Lanka ) was created in 1997 to provide Sinhala reading materials for the Sinhalese UK community.

The standard " Olympic Distance " of 1. 5 / 40 / 10 km (. 93 / 24. 8 / 6. 2 miles ) was created by long time triathlon race director Jim Curl in the mid-1980s, after he and partner Carl Thomas produced the U. S. Triathlon Series ( USTS ) between 1982 and 1997.

The island and the surrounding waters are part of the Tavolara and Punta Coda Cavallo Marine Preserve created in 1997.

The Assembly was created by the Government of Wales Act 1998, which followed a referendum in 1997.

Starting in 1997, W3C created regional offices around the world ; as of September 2009, it has eighteen World Offices covering Australia, the Benelux countries ( Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium ), Brazil, China, Finland, Germany, Austria, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, South Korea, Morocco, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom and Ireland.

He first appeared in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery ( 1997 ) and is created and portrayed by Mike Myers.

Willow Danielle Rosenberg is a fictional character created for the fantasy television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( 1997 – 2003 ).

The TV show Expedition Robinson, created by TV producer Charlie Parsons, which first aired in 1997 in Sweden ( and was later produced in a large number of other countries as Survivor ), added to the Nummer 28 / Real World template the idea of competition and elimination, in which cast members / contestants battled against each other and were removed from the show until only one winner remained.

A large memorial to Ellington, created by sculptor Robert Graham, was dedicated in 1997 in New York's Central Park, near Fifth Avenue and 110th Street, an intersection named Duke Ellington Circle.

Albarn explained to the NME in January 1997 that " We created a movement: as far as the lineage of British bands goes, there'll always be a place for us ", but added, " We genuinely started to see that world in a slightly different way.