Portal:Current events/October 1997

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October 1997 was the tenth month of that common year. The month, which began on a Wednesday, ended on a Friday after 31 days.

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This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from October 1997.

October 1, 1997 (Wednesday)

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Luke Woodham walks into Pearl High School in Pearl, Mississippi, and opens fire, killing 2 girls, after killing his mother earlier that morning.

October 2, 1997 (Thursday)

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British scientists Moira Bruce and John Collinge, with their colleagues, independently show that the new variant form of the Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease is the same disease as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

October 4, 1997 (Saturday)

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One million men gather for Promise Keepers' "Stand in the Gap" event in Washington, D.C.
Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery: The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history ($17.3 million, mostly in small bills) occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Wells Fargo. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the stolen cash.

October 11, 1997 (Saturday)

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The mixed martial arts organization Pride Fighting Championships holds its inaugural event at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan. In the main event Rickson Gracie defeats Nobuhiko Takada by armbar.

October 12, 1997 (Sunday)

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43 are killed at a false roadblock, in the Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria.

October 15, 1997 (Wednesday)

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Andy Green sets the first supersonic land speed record for the ThrustSSC team, led by Richard Noble of the UK. ThrustSSC goes through the flying mile course at Black Rock Desert, Nevada at an average speed of 1,227.985 km/h (763.035 mph).
NASA launches the Cassini–Huygens probe to Saturn.

October 16, 1997 (Thursday)

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The first color photograph appears on the front page of The New York Times.

October 17, 1997 (Friday)

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The remains of Che Guevara are laid to rest with full military honours in a specially built mausoleum in the city of Santa Clara, Cuba, where he had won the decisive battle of the Cuban Revolution 39 years before.

October 27, 1997 (Monday)

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In the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average drops -554.26 points (-7.18%), closing at 7,161.14.

October 28, 1997 (Tuesday)

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In the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average gains a record 337.17 points (+4.71%), closing at 7,498.32. One billion shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange for the first time ever.

October 29, 1997 (Wednesday)

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