* 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 ).

* Harry Helmsley ( 1909 – 1997 ), real estate mogul who built a company that became one of the biggest property holders in the United States, and his wife Leona Helmsley ( 1920 – 2007 ), in a mausoleum with a stained-glass panorama of the Manhattan skyline.

In 1997 a waterfall was created out of old drinking troughs gathered from fields on the estate.

RAF Stanmore Park closed in 1997 and is now a housing estate and RAF Bentley Priory closed in 2009.

The real estate implementation was privatized to Cyberview Sdn Bhd ( Cyberview ) in early 1997.

In August 1997 and 1998 the estate was the site of the V Festival but, after the success of the event, this was replaced by a new northern leg of the Reading and Leeds Festivals from 1999, taking place the weekend after the regular V festival slot in August.

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.

Bari died in 1997 of cancer, but her federal lawsuit against the FBI and Oakland, California police resulted in a 2002 jury verdict awarding her estate and Darryl Cherney a total of $ 4. 4 million.

The Golf Mk4 was first introduced in August 1997, followed by a notchback version ( VW Bora or, in North America, again VW Jetta ) in August 1998 and a new Golf Variant ( estate ) in March 1999.

It was demolished in 1997 and a housing estate built in its place.

Cunanan next drove to Chicago and killed 72-year-old Lee Miglin, a prominent real estate developer, on May 4, 1997.

The government bought it from Pérez Casas ' estate in 1997 for 130, 000, 000 pesetas (~ € 781, 316 ) to avoid future legal problems.

* Dodi Al-Fayed ( 1955 – 1997 ), film producer, ( original burial site, subsequently moved to the Al-Fayed estate in Surrey )

Helmsley-Spear stopped managing the building in 1997, when some of the investors sold their 52 % of the building to Newmark Knight-Frank, a large real estate firm, which took over management of the property.

About one third of this estate, generally the land considered most valuable, has been protected from mining since 1997 via being listed in Schedule 4 of the Crown Minerals Act 1991 ( though recent ( 2010 ) moves by the Fifth National Government have proposed exemption some areas from Schedule 4 ).

She was buried 14 February 1997 at Arden, the Harriman estate near New York.

Foreign direct investment in U. S. real estate has increased sharply from $ 38 billion in 1997 more than $ 50 billion in 2002 according to U. S. 2000 Census data.

The 405's replacement, the 406, was introduced in 1995, and the 405 saloon was discontinued in Europe, whilst the estate continued on sale in Europe until 1997.

1996 – 1997 range ( estate models only )

* On July 14, 1997 foreign citizens were granted permission to buy real estate in Slovenia as part of the convergence towards the European Union ; this decision was part of the so called Spanish compromise.

The accompanying music video ( released in October 1997 ) was directed by Chris Cunningham and filmed on the same council estate where Stanley Kubrick shot many scenes in A Clockwork Orange.

Situated in a new house on the Park Grange estate, built in 1997, it used to be housed in what is currently School House.

In 1997, Blackstone completed fundraising for its third private equity fund, with approximately $ 4 billion of investor commitments and a $ 1. 1 billion real estate investment fund.

He retired from politics in 1981 to concentrate on growing trees on his estate near Swaffham, and remained there until his death in 1997.

Davis attended Hampton Roads Business College and worked in real estate before she was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1997.