2. What Year Is It? Dannah Bradney

3. Important U.S Events U.S shuttle joins Russian space center Timothy McVeigh is sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.

4. More U.S Events Heavens gate cult commit mass suicide.

5. Science Drs. Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell create a sheep with a human gene in every cell of it’s body. They call her Dolly.

6. Hale-Bopp comet is the closest it will be to Earth until the year 4397

7. Sports Mike Tyson bites Evander Holyfield’s ear during a boxing match. Tyson Bite

8. Entertainment Titanic hits number one at the box office Other Movies: Full Monty Good Will Hunting As Good As It Gets

9. The “prince of pop” is born. Michael Jackson becomes a father to a baby boy named Prince. Ellen DeGeneres comes out on an episode of Ellen

10. Deaths John Denver dies in plane crashGianni Versace is shot on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion. Mother Teresa dies from health complications Christopher Wallace aka Notorious BIG is killed in drive by shooting

11. Princess Diana is killed in a car crash in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in Paris France. An estimated 3 million mourners and onlookers attended the public funeral in London. Candle in the Wind

12. What Year Is It? 1997