January 1997 was the first month of that common year. The month, which began on a Wednesday, ended on a Friday after 31 days.
This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from January 1997.
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- In northwest Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 6 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers, and seriously wound another.
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- Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years, and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
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- U.S. President Bill Clinton is inaugurated for his second term.
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- Mir Aimal Kasi is sentenced to death for a 1993 assault rifle attack outside CIA headquarters that killed 2 and wounded 3.
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- It is revealed that French museums had nearly 2,000 pieces of art that had been stolen by Nazis.
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