Sports                                            Super Bowl - Green Bay d. New England (35-21)

NBA Championship -  Chicago d. Utah (4-2)

World Series - Florida Marlins d. Cleveland (4-3)

Tiger Woods breaks multiple records in Masters golf tournament (April 13).

U.S. Statistics
President: William J. Clinton
Vice President: Albert Gore, Jr.
Population: 267,743,595
U.S. Events
US shuttle joins Russian space station (Jan. 17). 

US Appeals Court upholds California ban on affirmative action (April 8).

U.S. spacecraft transmits thousands of pictures from Mars (Aug. 8).

Princess Diana, 36, killed with two others in Paris car crash (Aug. 31).

President Clinton starts second term (Jan. 20).

Unemployment:   4.9%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.32
Gallon of gas: $1.27 (January)
Median Household Income
(current dollars):  $37,005

World Events
US shuttle joins Russian space station (Jan. 17).

Hong Kong returns to Chinese rule (June 30).

Israeli government approves establishment of Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem, a setback in Middle East peace process (Feb. 26).

World Statistics
Population: 5.840 billion
Nobel Peace Prize:
International Campaign to Ban Landmines and Jody Williams (US)
Titanic crashes into theaters. It is the most expensive film of all time, costing between $250 and $300 million to produce and market.

J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone is published in the U.K. It comes to U.S. in 1998 as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

Comet Hale-Bopp is the closest it will be to Earth until 4397 (March 22). Background: comets

A team led by Drs. Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell (UK) create the first sheep with a human gene in every cell of its body. The genetically engineered lamb is named Dolly.