1997

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Events edit

January 10 - Arnoldo Alemán is elected President of Nicaragua.
January 16 - Eric Rudolph bombs an abortion clinic in Sandy Springs, Georgia. No one is hurt in the attack.
February 19 - Bethel Regional High School shooting
February 23 - Empire State Building mass shooting
March 9 - American rapper The Notorious B.I.G. is assassinated by a mysterious assailant in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, California.
March 26 - The Heaven's Gate cult commits ritual mass suicide.
March 30- Sana'a school shooting.
April 6 - Lillelid murders
April 18 - The United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia are founded.
May 16 - End of the First Congo War. Laurent-Désiré Kabila declares himself President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
May 25 - Johnny Paul Koroma seizes power in Sierra Leone with help from the Revolutionary United Front.
June 5 - Beginning of the Second Republic of the Congo Civil War.
June 12 - Pol Pot is placed under house arrest.
June 27 - End of the Tajikistani Civil War.
July 10 - Spanish conservative politician Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped and murdered by the separatist group ETA.
July 15 to 20 - The Mapiripán Massacre is carried out by the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, resulting in 30 deaths.
July 23 - Slobodan Milošević is elected President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
August 2 - Charles Taylor is elected President of Liberia. End of the First Liberian Civil War.
August 6 - Former dictator Hugo Banzer is elected the constitutional president of Bolivia.
August 9 - Abner Louima was beaten and raped by four corrupt NYPD officers.
September 4 - Mercenaries carry out a series of terrorist attacks against hotels in Havana, Cuba, leaving an Italian tourist dead and 11 injured. These attacks would have been coordinated by Luis Posada Carriles.
October 1 - Luke Woodham kills his mother before committing a shooting at Pearl High School in Pearl, Mississippi, killing two students and wounding seven others.
October 8 - Kim Jong-il is named General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and Supreme Leader of North Korea three years after the death of his father Kim Il-sung.
October 13 - Shinichiro Azuma is sentenced to juvenile detention for 2 charges of murder.
October 25 - Denis Sassou Nguesso is restored as President of the Republic of the Congo.
November 9 - Chuan Leekpai elected Prime Minister of Thailand for the second time.
November 19 - James Patterson Smith is sentenced to life in prison for the gruesome torture and murder of Kelly Anne Bates.
December 1 - Arauco-Malleco Coordinator is founded.
December 16 - Earl Bramblett is found guilty of the 1994 murders of Blaine, Teresa, Winter, and Anah Hodges and is sentenced to death.
December 26 - Đỗ Mười steps down as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
Unknown - The National Party is dissolved.
Unknown - The last federally-funded Canadian Indian boarding school, Kivalliq Hall in Nunavut, is closed, officially discontinuing the Canadian Indian residential school system.

Births edit

Villain births edit

April 8 - Hashem Abedi
April 11 - Ethan Couch
April 26 - James Alex Fields Jr.
May 31 - Christopher Plaskon
June 17 - Jake Patterson
July 27 - Zachary Davis
June 29 - Jack Grummett
August 5 - Robert Gladden Jr
August 23 - Alexander Whipple
November 18 - Brian Laundrie
Unknown - William Riley Gaul
Unknown - Cassidy Goodson

Victim births edit

January 1 - Larrysa dos Santos Azevedo
January 20 - Jeffrey Baldwin
February 21 - Christina Edkins
March 21 - Jamey Rodemeyer and Quinton Robbins
March 30 - Daisy Coleman
April 9 - Brianna Kupfer
April 13 - Christine Dacera
April 15 - Bailey Schweitzer
April 26 - Samira Pires Ribeiro
May 2 - Laryssa Martins
May 4 - Juliana McCourt
May 13 - Oceane Ebem
May 15 - Erica Green
May 21 - Yara Gambirasio
May 25 - Julia Terryberry
May 27 - Audrie Pott and Kenneth Weishuhn
June 4 - Jadin Bell
June 19 - Hana Alemu
July 17 - Sharidyn Svebakk-Bohn
July 28 - Anthony Williams
August 16 - Maren Sanchez
August 27 - Noel Sparks
September 13 - Paul Yates
September 14 - Karine Lorraine Chagas de Oliveira
September 29 - Beau Schenecker
October 17 - Christian Adamek
October 24 - Hamza Ali Al-Khateeb and Catherine Parente
October 25 - Courtney Boyle
December 13 - Liam Curry
December 24 - Milena dos Santos Nascimento
Unknown - Mariana Rocha de Souza
Unknown - Ana Carolina Pacheco da Silva
Unknown - Rafael Pereira da Silva
Unknown - Bianca Rocha Tavares
Unknown - Igor Moraes da Silva

Deaths edit

Villain deaths edit

January 31 - Alexander Solonik
February 19 - Deng Xiaoping
February 23 - Ali Hassan Abu Kamal
March 26 - Marshall Applewhite
April 4 - Alparslan Türkeş
April 5 - Mohammad al-Nazari
April 13 - Bryant Bowles
May 4 - Varnado Simpson
May 22 - Genildo Ferreira de França
June 6 - Henry Francis Hayes
June 15 - Son Sen
July 4 - Amado Carrillo Fuentes
July 24 - Andrew Cunanan
July 30 - Bảo Đại
August 22 - Brendan Smyth
September 7 - Mobutu Sese Seko
September 17 - Benjamin Atkins
October 4 - Otto Ernst Remer
November 25 - Hastings Banda

Victim deaths edit

March 9 - The Notorious B.I.G.
March 27 - Ayaka Yamashita
April 6 - Vidar, Delfina, and Tabitha Lillelid
May 4 - Lee Miglin
May 14 - Luk Chi-wai
May 25 - Sherrice Iverson
March 27 - Jun Hase
July 10 - Miguel Ángel Blanco
July 15 - Gianni Versace
July 16 - Marijoy & Jacqueline Chiong
July 17 - Eliza Ward
October 1 - Mary Ann Woodham
October 26 - Brandon Armstrong, Austin, Brigham, & Matthew Eubanks
November 5 - Justin Dalton & Shelby Alexis Riggs