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| 1997 |
| | | Sojourner, a robot roving vehicle, detaches from Mars Pathfinder to analyse the surface of the planet | |
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| 1997 |
| | | The name of Zaire is changed once again, reverting to the Democratic Republic of Congo | |
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| 1997 |
| | | The Australian report Bringing Them Home confirms widespread forcible removal of Aboriginal children from their parents | |
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| 1997 |
| | | Diana, the Princess of Wales, and her friend Dodi Fayed die after a car crash in Paris | |
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| 1997 |
| | | The poems forming Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters describe his relationship with Sylvia Plath | |
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| 1997 |
| | | A schoolboy wizard performs his first tricks in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | |
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| 1997 |
| | | Mexico's ruling party, the PRI, loses control of the lower house for the first time in nearly seventy years | |
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| 1997 |
| | | In his first year as a professional, US golfer Tiger Woods wins both the British Open and the US Masters | |
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| 1997 |
| | | Frank Gehry wins world-wide attention with his design for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao | |
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| 1997 |
| | | Indian author Arundhati Roy publishes her first novel, The God of Small Things | |
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