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Years in Luxembourg
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1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
Centuries
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The following lists events that happened during
1997 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
.
Contents
Incumbents
Events
January – March
April – June
July – September
October – December
Births
Deaths
References
Incumbents
Position
Incumbent
Grand Duke
Jean
[
1
]
Prime Minister
Jean-Claude Juncker
Deputy Prime Minister
Jacques Poos
President of the Chamber of Deputies
Jean Spautz
President of the Council of State
Paul Beghin
Mayor of Luxembourg City
Lydie Polfer
Events
January – March
April – June
17 April – The
weekly newspaper
Le Jeudi
is launched by
Editpress
.
17 May – The
Compagnie Grand-Ducale d'Électricité du Luxembourg
is renamed '
Cegedel
'.
31 May –
Jeunesse Esch
win the
Luxembourg Cup
, beating
Union Luxembourg
2–0 in the final.
15 June – Belgium's
Frank Vandenbroucke
wins the 1997
Tour de Luxembourg
.
July – September
1 July – Luxembourg assumes the rotating
Presidency of the Council of the European Union
for the following six months.
28 September – The first
Luxembourg Grand Prix
is held: not in Luxembourg, but at the
Nürburgring
, in the nearby
German
town of
Nürburg
.
Jacques Villeneuve
wins
the race
.
October – December
9 October –
Luxair
places an order for two
Embraer ERJ 145
regional jets
following the airline's decision to create an all-jet fleet.
2 December –
SES
launches its seventh satellite,
Astra 1G
.
Births
30 July –
Jessica Berscheid
, footballer
[
2
]
Deaths
14 March –
Nicolas Morn
, cyclist
8 July –
Joseph Probst
, artist
5 December –
Jim Kirchen
, cyclist
References
↑
East, Roger; Thomas, Richard J. (3 June 2014).
Profiles of People in Power: The World's Government Leaders
. Routledge. p.
359.
ISBN
978-1-317-63939-8
.
↑
"Women's World Cup - Jessica Berscheid"
.
UEFA
. Retrieved
17 September
2019
.
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