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May 11 – IBM's Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, the first time a computer beats a chess World champion in a match. May 12. The Russia–Chechnya Peace Treaty is signed. An F1-rated tornado strikes downtown Miami, causing $525,000 in damages. Pictures and videos of this tornado made news headlines around the world.
World Superstars of Wrestling, Inc. partnered with software maker VDO and Webstar (ISP), under Scott Crompton and George Zhen, broadcasting one of the first video based websites. Shot on location in Tampa Bay, Florida, Matsuda and Brody produced six one hour episodes, dubbed the first webisodes with hosts Gordon Solie and Bruno Sammartino.
The 1997–98 El Niño Event had various effects on tropical cyclone activity around the world, with more tropical cyclones than average occurring in the Pacific basins. . This included the Southern Pacific basin between 160°E and 120°W, where 16 tropical cyclones in the South Pacific were observed during the 1997–98 season compared to an average of aroun
America Online CEO Stephen M. Case, left, and Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin listen to senators' opening statements during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the merger of the two ...
Timeline of events; 2005: July – Video HTML embedding: July – Top videos page: August – 5-star rating system: October – Playlists: October – Full-screen view: October – Subscriptions: 2006: January – Groups function: February – Personalized profiles: March – 10-minute video limit: April – Directors function: May – Video ...
The AOL.com video experience serves up the best video content from AOL and around the web, curating informative and entertaining snackable videos.
February 22 – In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned and was born in July 1996. [1]March 4 – United States President Bill Clinton bars federal funding for any research on human cloning.
1997 Southeast Asian haze was a large-scale air quality disaster which occurred during the second half of 1997. The Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context , a United Nations Economic Commission for Europe convention signed in Espoo, Finland, in 1991, entered into force.