 Henkels & McCoy engineers travel to Kaposvar,
Hungary to survey US Army logistical bases for Sprint, prior to the
initiation of Project Commercialize, a project to help support US ground
troops in war-torn Bosnia (Shown at left: UN Peacekeepers and US troops
on patrol in Kosovo. Photo courtesy of US Dept. of Defense). The Hungarian bases have tied up tactical communications
equipment, which may be needed to use elsewhere should another international
crisis arise around the world. Project Commercialize will free the tactical
communications gear by installing a 700-user LAN telecommunications system…
Hurricane Fran sweeps through the Carolinas, pulling up over 4,000 utility
poles and temporarily knocks out 87 substations and downs about 1,000 miles
of power distribution lines and 730,000 homes are without power. H&M
dispatches men and equipment to Wallace, North Carolina (outside Raleigh) to
aid in the restoration of power in that area.
 January 16
US space shuttle joins Russian space station.
January 17
Newt Gingrich is found guilty of ethics violations by the congress.
January 20
President Bill Clinton is sworn in and begins his second term.
February 3
The US, UK and France agree to freeze Nazis' gold loot, stolen from victims
and hoarded in secret bank accounts. Swiss plan first payment to Holocaust
victims in September.
 February 5
OJ Simpson is found liable in civil suit.
February 19
Deng Xiaoping (right), Chinese leader, dies at 92. Deng helped to open
up the huge Chinese consumer market to the West.
February 26
Israeli government approves establishment of Jewish settlement in East
Jerusalem, a major setback in the Middle East peace process.
April 11
Tornadoes wreak havoc in Arkansas, Ohio, and Kentucky.
 June
26
Newcomer and golf sensation Tiger Woods (left) breaks multiple records in
the Masters tournament.
July 15
The British Union Jack is lowered and the red banner of the Peoples Republic
of China is raised as Hong Kong
returns to Chinese rule in a formal ceremony and celebration.
August 11
Khmer Rouge hold trial of longtime leader and mass murderer Pol Pot. During
his reign, millions of ordinary middle class and professional Cambodians
were "re-educated" and/or annihilated in remote concentration camps.
August 14
Timothy J. McVeigh sentenced to death for his role in the Oklahoma City
Murrah federal office building bombing.
 August 31
Britain’s Princess Diana, 36, is killed with her friend Dodi al-Fayed, and driver
Henri Paul in a mysterious Paris car crash
while evading carloads of camera-snapping paparazzi. A role model for women
everywhere, despite her very public divorce from Prince Charles, Diana is
mourned as the "People's Princess."
September 4
A new and deadly tactic is used by Palestinian extremists when three Islamic suicide
bombers kill four persons in Jerusalem as well as themselves.
 September 5
Mother Teresa of Calcutta is dead at 87. She gave up a life of comfort and
left her middle class European family to work among the world’s poorest and
most destitute, bringing temporal relief and spiritual love to millions.
October 29
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein expels all US members of UN arms-inspection
team.
November 4
GOP is victorious in off-year elections.
November 4
A
Pakistani national is convicted in the 1993 CIA headquarters killings.
November 12
Two Muslims living in Jersey City, N.J. are convicted in the New York World
Trade Center bombing.
 November 17
Islamic militants murder 62 foreign tourists at an ancient archeological
site and popular visitor destination at Luxor, Egypt (left).
November 18
FBI ends 16-month investigation of crash of Flight 800 off Long Island;
denies sabotage.
December 13
European Union plans to admit six new nations.
December 24
US company launches the world’s first commercial spy satellite. Paris court
convicts "Carlos the Jackal" of murder.
ALSO IN 1997:
What's on TV
Seinfeld and ER top the lists, with Veronica's
Closet, Friends, and Touched By An Angel also in the top
five...newcomer sitcom Just Shoot Me chronicles the wacky goings-on
at a fictional NYC magazine. Jerry Seinfeld, sensing that the time is right,
bows out gracefully while his show is still grabbing number one ratings. The
gang is still going strong in syndication, however, forever defeating the
soup Nazi, wrangling for parking spaces, close-talking, and talking about
nothing, in pre-9/11 New York City.
 That's Show Biz
At the movies it's LA Confidential, Good Will Hunting, The Ice Storm,
As Good As It Gets and the blockbusting Titanic.
Deaths
We say farewell to...
Jimmy Stewart, (left) actor, actual WWII hero, and quintessential nice guy
(Mister Smith Goes to Washington, It's a Wonderful Life, Harvey, The
Philadelphia Story, Vertigo, Rear Window)
John Denver, singer
Allen Ginsberg, poet
James A. Michener, novelist
Gianni Versace, fashion designer
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