Editing 1997

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==Events==
*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 - [[Evan Ramsey|Bethel Regional High School shooting]]
*February 23 - [[Ali Hassan Abu Kamal|Empire State Building mass shooting]]
*March 9 - American rapper The Notorious B.I.G. is assassinated by [[Blue Tuxedo Man|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-  [[Mohammad al-Nazari|Sana'a school shooting]].
*April 6 - [[Natasha Cornett|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 [[Kidnapping|kidnapped]] and [[murder]]ed 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 [[Justin Volpe|four]] [[Charles Schwarz|corrupt]] [[Thomas Bruder|NYPD]] [[Thomas Wiese|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 [[School Shooting|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 (South Africa)|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==

=== Villain births ===
*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 ===
* 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==
===Villain deaths===
*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===
*March 9 - The Notorious B.I.G.
*March 27 - [[Shinichiro Azuma|Ayaka Yamashita]]
*April 6 - Vidar, Delfina, and Tabitha Lillelid
*May 4 - Lee Miglin
*May 14 - [[Murder_of_Luk_Chi-wai|Luk Chi-wai]]
*May 25 - Sherrice Iverson 
*March 27 - [[Shinichiro Azuma|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