Born in 1997

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

• February 28 – North Hollywood shootout: Two heavily armed bank robbers conflict with officers from the Los Angeles Police Department in a mass shootout.
• March 21 – Liar Liar is released in theaters nationwide, later going on to rank as the 7th highest grossing film of the year.
• March 24 – The 69th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, with Anthony Minghella's The English Patient winning nine awards out of 12 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. The telecast garners nearly 40.1 million viewers.
• June 27 – Walt Disney Pictures' 35th feature film, Hercules, loosely based on the legendary mythological hero of the same name, is released to positive reviews but underperforms at the box office in comparison to its most recent predecessors.
• July 2 – Men in Black is released in theaters.
• August 13 – Trey Parker and Matt Stone's South Park aired its first episode on Comedy Central; it would go on to become one of the most infamous and celebrated sitcoms ever made.
• August 29 – Netflix, Inc., a DVD-by-mail rental business, is founded by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings in Scotts Valley, California.
• December 19 – James Cameron's Titanic, the highest-grossing film of all time until Avatar (2009), premieres in the U.S.

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