15 January 1997Accords of OsloWarren Christopher
The United States helps mediate the Hebron Protocol during the final phase of Christopher's tenure
Historical records for United States of America in 1997, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
The United States helps mediate the Hebron Protocol during the final phase of Christopher's tenure
Backs implementation of the Hebron redeployment agreement as the Clinton administration supports the Israeli Palestinian accord.
Backs implementation of the Hebron redeployment agreement.
Announces that Netanyahu and Arafat have reached agreement on Israeli redeployment in Hebron.
Mediates final understandings between Israeli and Palestinian leaders before the Hebron agreement is concluded.
Provides assurances linked to the Hebron Protocol as the United States supervises the final agreement.
Inaugurated as President of the USA, 2nd term
Death of Tom Parker
Hosty donated papers concerning the FBI, Lee and Marina Oswald, the Kennedy assassination, and his Bureau career to the National Archives.
Bowersox commands Discovery as the second Hubble servicing mission launches to install new instruments and maintain the observatory.
Hawley operates Discovery's robotic arm to capture Hubble and secure the telescope for Servicing Mission 2.
Smith helps install NICMOS, giving Hubble powerful new near-infrared imaging and spectroscopic capability.
Lee helps install the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, extending Hubble's ability to study spectra across a broad wavelength range.
Harbaugh helps replace a degraded Fine Guidance Sensor and upgrade Hubble's precision pointing capability.
Tanner helps replace a failed Engineering and Science Tape Recorder during the second servicing mission.
Lee helps replace a Data Interface Unit that routes commands and information between Hubble spacecraft systems.
Lee helps replace a reaction wheel assembly used to turn Hubble toward targets and maintain stable pointing.
Smith helps replace a reel-to-reel recorder with a digital solid-state recorder capable of simultaneous recording and playback.
Tanner helps replace electronics that control the positioning of Hubble's solar arrays.
Harbaugh installs new thermal blankets over degraded insulation around Hubble's light shield.
Smith attaches thermal insulation over key Hubble data-processing, electronics and instrument-telemetry areas during the final spacewalk.
Galileo passes within about 586 kilometres of Europa and images additional regions of its fractured icy surface.
Bowersox commands Discovery's return after Hubble is released as a more capable observatory following Servicing Mission 2.
Declared cancer-free
Death of Fred Zinnemann
Galileo conducts another Ganymede encounter, extending surface, plasma and magnetic observations.
Ratifies the Chemical Weapons Convention for the United States after Senate consent.
Galileo returns to Ganymede for another targeted encounter during its primary Jupiter tour.
Hubble spectroscopy maps rapidly moving gas in galaxy M84 and records a clear dynamical signature of a supermassive black hole.
Galileo results indicate Europa has a differentiated interior with a metallic core and rocky mantle.
Spencer leads Hubble observations of an enormous volcanic plume rising hundreds of kilometres above Jupiter's moon Io.
Galileo flies close to Callisto, adding detailed imaging and geophysical measurements of the heavily cratered moon.
Death of Robert Mitchum
Death of James Maitland Stewart
Death of James Stewart
Galileo performs another targeted Callisto encounter late in its primary mission.
Releases Time Out of Mind.
Iraq Expels US Weapons Inspectors, President Clinton denounces the action but refrains from military response
Iraq Expels US Weapons Inspectors, President Clinton denounces the action but refrains from military response
The US imposes sanctions on Sudan, Clinton orders stricter prohibitions for alleged sponsorship of terrorism and human rights abuses
The US imposes sanctions on Sudan, Clinton orders stricter prohibitions for alleged sponsorship of terrorism and human rights abuses
The US imposes sanctions on Sudan, Clinton orders stricter prohibitions for alleged sponsorship of terrorism and human rights abuses
Galileo returns to Europa for another close encounter near the end of the primary mission.
Clinton sends Carrier in Warning to Iraq, dispatches George Washington and four other ships to join the Nimitz in Persian Gulf as further sign that the US is prepared to act to prevent Iraq from developing ability to use chemical or biological weopons
Clinton sends carrier warning to Iraq, dispatches George Washington and four other ships to join the Nimitz in Persian Gulf as further sign that the US is prepared to act to prevent Iraq from developing ability to use chemical or biological weapons
Clinton welcomes Saddam Husseins decision to back down and allow United Nations inspectors to resume search for weapons of mass destruction
Clinton welcomes Saddam Hussein's decision to back down and allow United Nations inspectors to resume search for weapons of mass destruction
Nations sign a Treaty banning land mines, about 120 nations at the Ottawa conference agree to outlaw global production and use, the United States, China, and Russia attend but do not sign Treaty
Nations sign a Treaty banning land mines, about 120 nations at the Ottawa conference agree to outlaw global production and use, the United States, China, and Russia attend but do not sign Treaty
NASA approves an extended Galileo mission emphasizing repeated close encounters with Europa.
Galileo makes a close Europa flyby as the extended Galileo Europa Mission begins.
Clinton Extends Troops Bosnia Agreement, decides G.I.s should remain past scheduled departure in June as part of peacekeeping force
Directs and stars in Absolute Power, a political thriller about presidential corruption.
Fargo brings McDormand the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Uses radar to determine asteroid shapes, rotation and trajectories
Appointed Member of Beach Boys, 2nd term
Releases a box set collecting rarities and live material.
Publication of "Cold Mountain"
Galileo images reveal disrupted blocks of Europa's icy crust that appear to have rotated and shifted relative to surrounding terrain.
The scarcity of large impact craters in Galileo images indicates that Europa's visible surface is geologically young.
Perlmutter and the Supernova Cosmology Project publish cosmological constraints from an initial sample of seven high-redshift Type Ia supernovae.
Galileo measures evidence of Ganymede's magnetic field.
Successfully increases research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health. Along with Senators Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch, she is a force behind passage of the State Childrens Health Insurance Program
Galileo imaging documents major surface changes on Io caused by continuing volcanic eruptions.
Directs, Kundun
Along with Senators Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch, she is a force behind passage of the State Childrens Health Insurance Program
Weiss helps shape the laser interferometer design that becomes central to LIGO
Woody Allen marries Soon-Yi Previn
Stars in Men in Black
Directs Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, adapted from the nonfiction bestseller.
Sits on the Federal Advisery Committee on Gender-Integrated Training in the Military
Successfully increases research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health
Shares the Nobel Peace Prize for work toward banning and clearing anti-personnel landmines.
Clinton helps create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice
Clinton helps create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice.
Promotes nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses and encourages older women to seek a mammogram to detect breast cancer, with coverage provided by Medicare.
Promises to develop a plan to unite a nation divided by attitudes to race
Successfully increases research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health.
Along with Senators Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch, she is a force behind passage of the State Childrens Health Insurance Program.
Bowe retires from boxing, 42 fights, 40 wins, 1 draw & 1 defeat
Is inducted again as a member of Buffalo Springfield.
Along with Senators Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch, she is a force behind passage of the State Childrens Health Insurance Program
Publication of "Underworld"
Visconti produces the debut album of former Stone Roses member John Squires new band, The Seahorses
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