Please list no more than 5 major things/events
2007-01-28 09:26:25 · 5 answers · asked by jflsdkjflsad 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Please answer from a global perspective not just U.S. Thanks
2007-01-28 09:42:10 · update #1
*Britain cedes Hong Kong (a British colony since 1841) back to China.
*Princess Diana dies in road accident in Paris, France.
*NASA's Mars Pathfinder probe lands on Mars.
*An unmanned Progress cargo-ship crashes into the Mir space station.
*Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
*Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial dedicated in Washington D.C.
*Tony Blair elected British Prime Minister
*Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess rematch
*President Clinton promoted the “Adoption and Safe Families Act
2007-01-28 09:56:58 · answer #1 · answered by ♥skiperdee1979♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ooh, easy!
*Dolly the cloned sheep was 'conceived'
*There was a huge fuss about Teletubbies as it wasn't 'educational' when it was first aired
*Teletubbies was first broadcast
*I turned 10
*General Teletubbies mania
Sorry, I know that only one of those answers is serious enough, but those were pretty big events I remember at the time.
EDIT: *slaps forehead* How could I have forgotten Lady Di died that year?! I'm so ashamed! ( :-O And the Pokemon seizure troubles.
Was it really 1997 the first Harry Potter came out? I thought it was 1998.
2007-01-28 17:36:20 · answer #2 · answered by swelwynemma 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wikipedia has some great insight into this.
Some that stood out to me:
-March 26 - In San Diego, California, 39 Heaven's Gate cultists commit mass suicide at their compound.
-September 14 - The domain Google was registered
-Two major school shootings; Paducha, Kentucky; Pearl, Mississippi
June 2 - In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
July 10 - In London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neanderthal skeleton, which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
August 31 - Diana, Princess of Wales is taken to a hospital after a car crash shortly after midnight in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris. She is pronounced dead at 4:00 a.m. that morning.
September 5 - Mother Theresa of Calcutta dies of heart failure in Kolkata, India.
-December 16 - An episode of Pokémon (called Electric Soldier Porygon) in Japan causes 685 children to have epileptic seizures. The majority of these seizures are later determined to be the result of collective hysteria.
-July 8 - Mayo Clinic researchers warn that the dieting drug "fen-phen" can cause severe heart and lung damage.
2007-01-28 17:51:27 · answer #3 · answered by Alli B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bill Cosbys son was murdered.
Gianni Versace was murdered
Timothy McVeigh was convicted for the bombing in OKC.
The first Harry Potter novel was published.
Princess Di was killed in a crash.
2007-01-28 17:38:55 · answer #4 · answered by ladyinredokla2002 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Asian Financial crisis.
2007-01-28 18:12:36 · answer #5 · answered by Walter 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋