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1997
 
    
A schoolboy wizard performs his first tricks in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone       
1997
 
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Mexico's ruling party, the PRI, loses control of the lower house for the first time in nearly seventy years      
1997
 
   
In his first year as a professional, US golfer Tiger Woods wins both the British Open and the US Masters      
1997
 
    
Frank Gehry wins world-wide attention with his design for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao       
1997
 
    
Indian author Arundhati Roy publishes her first novel, The God of Small Things       
1997
 
 
The British film The Full Monty follows six unemployed steel workers in their transformation into male strippers    
1997
 
    
Bertie Ahern, leader of Fianna Fáil, becomes the prime minister (Taoiseach) of the republic of Ireland       
1997
 
    
Bob Dylan produces one of his finest albums, Time out of Mind       
1997
 
     
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both Ph.D. students at Stanford University, register the domain name google.com        
1997
 
     
Elton John sings a revised version of Candle in the Wind in Westminster Abbey, as a tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales