A car accident in Paris killed Diana, Princess of Wales. Nineteen million viewers watched the funeral coverage on BBC1.
Tony Blair lead Labour to election victory and began the Cool Britannia PR campaign.
The birth of Dolly the sheep, the World's first cloned mammal became the most memorable scientific event of 1997.
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Swampy battled to save the countryside, armed with a head torch. Brian Harvey's drug confessions meant he was dumped from boy band E17 and Tyson began biting off earlobes.
Tiger Woods became the youngest winner of the Masters Tournament, aged 21.
The country was tickled by the Budweiser frogs adverts and the media coined the term Road Rage, flooding the papers with related stories.
Welcome
to 1997
