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 1989 recording of Enya singing " Oíche Chiúin ", an Irish language version of " Silent Night ", has been reissued at least twice: on The Christmas EP ( which otherwise contains several non-holiday related previously issued recordings by Enya ) and the 1997 edition of the charity album A Very Special Christmas.

Experimentation with sound film technology, both for recording and playback, was virtually constant throughout the silent era, but the twin problems of accurate synchronization and sufficient amplification had been difficult to overcome ( Eyman, 1997 ).

Beginning in September 1997, Tripp began secretly recording their telephone conversations regarding the affair with Clinton.

Gary Smith, who produced the Pixies ' first recording, Come On Pilgrim, commented on the band's influence on alternative rock and their legacy in 1997:

" A recording of Johnson playing the song appears on the compact disc, James P. Johnson: Harlem Stride Piano ( Jazz Archives No. 111, EPM, Paris, 1997 ).

The American performer and recording artist Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, creating the largest public mourning since the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997.

), " Saverio Mercadante ( 1795-1870 )" Elena da Feltre ", in the booklet accompanying the 1997 recording of that opera at the Wexford Festival released on the Marco Polo label.

In recording their follow-up, Blur ( 1997 ), the band underwent another reinvention, showing influence from the lo-fi style of American indie rock groups.

In 1997, Jones did the soundtrack for the comedy film The Full Monty, recording " You Can Leave Your Hat On ".

* Amos performs " Me and a Gun " on the video Tori Amos: Live from New York, a recording of the 1997 RAINN benefit concert.

The Pistons finished the season 54 – 28, recording their best record since 1997.

In 1997, the group contributed to the film soundtrack of The Jackal, recording " Superpredators ( Metal Postcard )", a number containing a sample of Siouxsie and the Banshees ' " Mittageisen " and " Dissolved Girl ", a new song with vocals by Sarah Jay ( which was later remixed for the next album ).

A complete recording of the show was made, but not released until 1997.

The band signed a recording contract with Big Cat Records in 1997, and released Available In All Colours the following year.

On September 10, 1997, nine days before his death, he made a rough micro cassette recording of the album's songs in an abandoned church.

In 1997, the choir won a Gramophone Award in the Best-selling disc category for their album Agnus Dei, and in 2008, they won a Gramophone Award in the Early Music category for their recording of Nicholas Ludford's Missa Benedicta.

During the supposed hiatus, Hole released two retrospective albums: firstly, their second EP, titled The First Session ( 1997 ), which was composed of a complete version of the band's first recording session at Rudy's Rising Star in Los Angeles in March 1990, some of which had been bootlegged widely years prior.

In February 1997 Litton's recording of Walton's Belshazzar's Feast with the BSO, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and soloist Bryn Terfel won a Grammy Award.

The year 1997 saw Anderson recording and releasing a Celtic-influenced solo album called The Promise Ring, around the time he married Jane Luttenberger.

In 1997 EMI reissued Meredith Davies's 1976 recording of Fennimore and Gerda, which Richard Hickox conducted in German the same year for Chandos.

The show led to a recording at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London which was broadcast in 1997 on Channel 4 as a one-hour special called Bill Bailey Live.

Grofé conducted the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in his Grand Canyon Suite and his piano concerto ( with pianist Jesús Maria Sanromá ) for Everest Records in 1960 ; the recording was digitally remastered and issued on CD in 1997.

Bal-Sagoth spent much of 1997 writing and recording what would become the album Battle Magic.

Following a lengthy recording hiatus, An Evening with Harry Belafonte and Friends, a soundtrack and video of a televised concert were released in 1997 by Island Records.

During recording sessions in 1997, original PJ Harvey Trio drummer Rob Ellis rejoined Harvey's band and Flood was hired again as producer.