At A Glance

15 July 1997 at a glance

Day of the week
15 July 1997 was a Tuesday.
UK Number One
The UK Number One single was “D'You Know What I Mean?” by Oasis.
Top Film of 1997
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1997 was Titanic.
Star sign
The star sign for 15 July is Cancer.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 15 July 1997 fell in the Year of the Ox.
Birthstone
The birthstone for July is Ruby.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 15 July 1997 was Waxing Gibbous.

On this day: 15 July

  • 1983 Nintendo and Sega enter the console market with the respective releases of the Famicom and SG-1000 in Japan.
  • 2002 "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
  • 2003 AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
  • 2006 Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched.
  • 2009 Space Shuttle program: Endeavour is launched on STS-127 to complete assembly of the International Space Station's Kibō module.

Famous people born on 15 July

  • Linda Ronstadt, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (born 1946)
  • Barry Melrose, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster (born 1956)
  • Diane Kruger, German actress and model (born 1976)
  • Brian Austin Green, American actor (born 1973)

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Events of 1997 in the United Kingdom

A selection from Wikipedia's '1997 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

  • 30 March – Channel 5, Britain's fifth terrestrial television channel and its first new one since the launch of Channel 4 in November 1982, is launched.
  • 31 March – BBC preschool children's television series Teletubbies first airs.
  • 26 June – Publication of J. K. Rowling's first Harry Potter fantasy novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in London by Bloomsbury Publishing, in an edition of 500 copies.
More events of 1997 →Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Life in 1997

Prime Minister

Tony Blair

Monarch

Elizabeth II

Pint of Beer

£1.60

Loaf of Bread

67p

Average House

£65,798

Weekly Wage

£385.00

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