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.

Two years earlier, Hampton had won 22 games and finished second in voting for the Cy Young Award as a member of the Houston Astros, while Neagle had been a 20-game winner in 1997 for the Atlanta Braves and had won fifteen games in 2000.

At a summit in Aleppo, Syria, in 1997, the World Council of Churches ( WCC ) proposed a reform in the calculation of Easter which would have replaced the present divergent practices of calculating Easter with modern scientific knowledge taking into account actual astronomical instances of the spring equinox and full moon based on the meridian of Jerusalem, while also following the Council of Nicea position of Easter being on the Sunday following the full moon.

In 1997, Don Yannias, a long-time associate and investment advisor of Safra, became CEO of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. A new company, Britannica. com Inc. was spun off in 1999 to develop the digital versions of the Britannica ; Yannias assumed the role of CEO in the new company, while that of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. remained vacant for two years.

Nine years later ( 1997 ), while traveling to a three-way summit between the United States, the Soviet Union, and China, Air Force One is hijacked by a terrorist disguised as a stewardess.

The gun crime rate rose between 1997 and 2004 but has since slightly receded, while the number of murders from gun crime has largely remained static over the past decade.

Hong Kong's gross domestic product, between 1961 and 1997, has grown 180 times while per capita GDP rose by 87 times.

The US has become Hungary's sixth-largest export market, while Hungary is ranked as the 72nd largest export market for the U. S. Bilateral trade between the two countries increased 46 % in 1997 to more than $ 1 billion.

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Charles Taylor won the 1997 presidential elections with 75. 33 percent of the vote, while the runner-up, Unity Party leader Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, received a mere 9. 58 percent of the vote.

As of 2001 there was one television broadcast station plus four low-power repeaters, while as of 1997 there were 70, 000 television receivers.

* 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.

In 1997, his most successful year, Doohan won 12 out of 15 races, finished second in another two, and crashed out of the final race of the season at his home GP while leading by more than six seconds.

* 1997 – The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en-route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s.

The off-white pinstriped jersey, introduced as an alternate in 2010, becomes the primary home jersey while the plain-white jersey with blue placket and sleeve piping, first introduced in 1997, is now the home alternate.

Third baseman Scott Rolen brought home the honors in 1997, while Howard was the most recent Phillies winner in 2005.

Between 1990 and 2010, both Robinson and her successor President McAleese ( 1997 – 2011 ) visited the Palace on numerous occasions, while senior royals-the Prince of Wales, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh all visited both Presidents of Ireland at Áras an Uachtaráin.

Socratic Puzzles ( 1997 ) is a collection of papers that range in topic from Ayn Rand and Austrian economics to animal rights, while his last production, Invariances ( 2001 ), applies insights from physics and biology to questions of objectivity in such areas as the nature of necessity and moral value.

A Senegalese contingent deployed on a peacekeeping mission to the Central African Republic in 1997, while in 1994, a battalion-sized force was sent to Rwanda to participate in the UN peacekeeping mission there.

In 1997, IUPAC decided to give dubnium its current name honoring the city of Dubna where the Russian team made their discoveries since American-chosen names had already been used for many existing synthetic elements, while the name rutherfordium ( chosen by the American team ) was accepted for element 104.

She worked only two weeks on the film, early and late during the production that went from January to April 1997 while Sam Elliott was only on set for two days and did many takes of his final speech.

As a result, by 1997, external debt soared uncontrollably to USD109, 276 billion, 65 percent of which was short-term debts, while Thailand only had USD38, 700 billion as international reserves.

In 1997, the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs ( which is critical of United States and Israeli policies ), praised the Times ( along with The Christian Science Monitor owned by the Church of Christ, Scientist ), and the Times ’ sister publication The Middle East Times for their objective and informative coverage of Islam and the Middle East, while criticizing the Times generally pro-Israel editorial policy.

The 1997 Petersen blockbuster, Air Force One, did very well at the box office, while getting a mix of opinions from movie critics.

In 1997, Ono compared Lennon to Mozart while McCartney, she said, more closely resembled his less-talented rival Salieri.

A 1997 publication by Democratic Dialogue stated that " It is clear that many in Northern Ireland are willing to tolerate the Other's cultural identity only within the confines of their own core ideology ... most nationalists have extreme difficulty in accepting unionists ' Britishness or, even if they do, the idea that unionists do not constitute an Irish ethnic minority which can ultimately be accommodated within the Irish nation ...." The publication also stated that " Irishness is a highly contested identity, subject to fundamentally different nationalist and unionist perceptions which profoundly affect notions of allegiance and group membership ".

On February 15, 2007, the Journal reported that Gibbons was under federal investigation for allegedly accepting unreported gifts and / or payments from Trepp in exchange for official acts while he served in Congress ( 1997 – 2007 ).

He made a settlement with the State in early 1997 which included an agreement to publish a statement on the settlement, stating, inter alia, that the State had intercepted his telephone conversations for reasons of State security — Browne had written much about the IRA in the early-to mid-1970s — while accepting that Browne had himself never been involved in subversion or crime.

Townsville Institute and Seletar Institute stopped accepting new students after the 1995 school year and closed down after the last batch of students graduated in 1997.

In 1997, the authors gave away a free keyfile, which allowed anyone to use the registered version, as they had stopped work on the archiver and stopped accepting registrations.

At the time it was one of the largest acquisitions in banking history, and gave HSBC a major foothold in Europe, which it needed to complement its existing business in Asia and the Americas, when it had to move its Hong Kong-based headquarters to London in anticipation of the July 1, 1997 transfer of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China, accepting primary banking supervision by the Bank of England.

Although all charges were previously dismissed in March, 1997 by a Rhode Island Superior Court Judge who also found the Attorney General's office guilty of 10 findings of " egregious prosecutorial misconduct " ( all 10 upheld by the Rhode Island Supreme Court ), in December 1998, he pleaded guilty to state charges of bribery, extortion and racketeering, and was sentenced to a year in prison after he admitted ( in a plea bargain ) accepting $ 250, 000 in exchange for state contracts during his term as Governor.

According to a web site entitled " JusticeForWalt ": " On June 12, 2009 the Tax Court issued an ORDER accepting the IRS decision to conceded all the tax and penalty issue for 1995, 1996 and 1997.

He relinquished his head coaching duties after a mediocre tenure to operate as the general manager, until accepting the job of head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers in 1997.

In 1997, US Attorney Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island accused Luskin of " willful blindness " for accepting $ 505, 125 in gold bars as well as Swiss Wire transfers of $ 169, 000 from Stephen Saccoccia.

* The MTV Thanksgiving Special " Beavis and Butt-Head Do Thanksgiving " aired on November 27, 1997, the day before the series finale Beavis and Butt-Head Are Dead written by Andy Rheingold and Scott Sonneborn.

Their best known track is " Virtual Insanity ", which won four awards at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards.

At the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards, the creative music video for " Virtual Insanity " won four awards ; Best Video, Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography, and Breakthrough Video, and the band performed the song at the ceremony.

The film debuted on both MTV and VH1 in 1997

* MTV Video Music Awards 1997 short animation featuring Daria ( September 4, 1997 ) Transcript

In September 1997, Sting performed " I'll Be Missing You " with Puff Daddy at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards in tribute of the late Notorious B. I. G ..

Around the mid-1990s, with the success of the big beat-sound exemplified by The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy in the UK, and spurred by the attention from mainstream artists, including Madonna in her collaboration with William Orbit on her album Ray of Light and Australian singer Dannii Minogue with her 1997 album Girl, music of this period began to be produced with a higher budget, increased technical quality, and with more layers than most other forms of dance music, since it was backed by major record labels and MTV as the " next big thing ".

During this period, MTV launched channels around the world to show music videos produced in each local market: MTV Latin America in 1993, MTV India in 1996, and MTV Mandarin in 1997, among others.

* Oddville, MTV ( 1 episode, 1997 )

* MTV Video Music Awards Main article: 1997 MTV Video Music Awards

* Fantomas was the inspiration for the character Mr. Ixnay, who appears in The Chuckling Whatsit, a 1997 graphic novel by writer / artist Richard Sala, creator of Invisible Hands, an animated homage to old-fashioned mystery thrillers which aired on MTV.

In 1997, Viacom, MTV and MTV2's parent company, bought out the independent, viewer-requested " jukebox " music video channel known as The Box.

* 1997: MTV Award ( for the album Jaanam Samajha Karo ).

Hate has been optioned as a movie or TV series numerous times, and in development as an animated series at MTV, HBO and Fox at various times since 1997.

* 1997 MTV Movie Awards

* 1997 MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo-The Birdcage

The series ran from 1993 to 1997 and is currently running on MTV ( 2011-) and also spawned the feature-length film, Beavis and Butt-head Do America ( 1996 ).

* An Indian version called MTV Bakra was initiated by Cyrus Broacha airing from 1997.