1997

1. Israel and Palestine clinched Hebron deal (Jan 15)
2. World Economic Forum (WEF) Summit began in Davos, Switzerland (Jan 30)
3. Sri Lankan armed forces launched operation Edibola against LTTE (Feb 4)
4. Assembly Elections in Pakistan1, Nawaz Sharif becomes New Prime Minister (Feb 17)
5. China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping Dead (Feb 19)
6. 14-Member Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IORARC) inaugurated at Port Louis (March 5)
7. Lokendra Bahadur Chand heads the new Govt in Nepal (March 12)
8. Bill Clinton-Boris Yeltsin two-day summit at Helsinki (March 21)
9. UK scientists claimed a breakthrough in Cloning (Apr 3)
10. NAM foreign ministers meet in New Delhi (April 8)
11. Labour Party leader Tony Blair becomes youngest Prime Minister of Britain (May 2)
12. Ninth SAARC Summit at Male (May 12)
13. Russia and Chechnya sign peace treaty (May 12)
14. Russia declared not to join NATO (May 24)
15. Military coup in Sierra Leane (May 25)
16. Elections in Indonesia (May 29)
17. Iva Majoli won French Open women's title (June 7)
18. Gustavo Kuerten (Brazil) won mens French Open title (June 8)
19. 97 countries signed a treaty to ban landmines (June 28)
20. Hong Kong became part of China after 156 years of British rule (June 30
21. Martina Hingis became youngest Wimbledon Champion of the century (July 3)
22. US Spacecraft 'Pathfinder' landed on Mars (July 5)
23. US President Clinton outlaws smoking in federal buildings (Aug 10)
24. Diana, Princess of Wales, killed in a car crash in Paris (Aug 31)
25. Mother Teresa died in Calcutta (Sept 5)
26. US Space shuttle Atlantis docks with Russia's Mir space station (Sept 27
27. CHOGM meet ended in Edinburgh (Oct 27)
28. Parliament dissolved in Kenya (Nov 11)
29. Hungary decided to join NATO (Nov 16)
30. UN Weapons inspectors returned to Iraq (Nov 21)
31. Sweden bagged Davis Cup (Nov 30); Pakistan President F.A. Leghari bowed out of office (Dec 2)
32. Russia signed multi-billion dollar deal with China to build a nuclear power plant (Dec 29)
33. Rafiq Tarar is elected President of Pakistan (Dec 31).