There is no love lost between the Farc and the US: Washington put the guerrilla group on its list of terrorist organizations in 1997 and poured billions of dollars of military aid into a campaign to defeat them.
When he gave up smoking after major heart surgery in 1997, all his ministers had to follow suit, and he banned smoking in public places.
But it was his 1997 production of Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company that really set the cat among the pigeons.
Joan Rivers - the questionnaire: way back in 1997, the Guardian's Weekend magazine quizzed the comedian on the Royal Family, Marlon Brando and silicone.
Apart from two years under the Liberals between 1916-18, the seat was represented by the Conservatives up until 1997, when Richard Allen won it for the Liberal Democrats, subsequently handing it to rising star Clegg in 2005.
In fact Morgan has said he suspects that Blair's account of what was said when he went to kiss hands with the Queen in 1997 – recalled in his recent memoir, The Journey – was actually taken from Morgan's film The Queen - although Blair has denied this.
For the first time since 1997 the market held alongside Mestalla was moved to Saturday so that Valencia could play on Sunday at noon and the place was packed, as it has been for most of the season.
In the 1997 general election, it secured 24.1% of the vote, which dropped to 22% in the assembly election, although the party topped the poll after a poor performance by the Ul ster Unionists.
Ms Rodgers, whose party pipped Mr Doherty to second place in 1997, is seen as the frontrunner.
As we know, 1997 was not the answer either.
By 1997, he won the unexpected promotion and stayed with Howard until 2006.
