Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

An established Kyoto Isetan venue with a verified seasonal menu: Kyoto duck sukiyaki.

Kyoto Isetan’s tea / parfaits venue offers a verified, dated autumn menu: Shuka autumn parfait.

Mars launched Celebrations, a box of miniature versions of its countline brands, in Britain in the week before 25 September 1997, aiming for every adult to have seen the logo by Christmas.

Square released the tactical RPG Front Mission 2 for the PlayStation in Japan on 25 September 1997; it sold 496,200 copies and earned a Sony Gold Prize.

The 1997 TV adaptation of Kentaro Miura's dark fantasy manga Berserk begins airing, following mercenary swordsman Guts on a revenge-driven hunt for the corrupt king of Midland and the demonic Band of the Falcon that betrayed him.

Unit 1 enters long-term shutdown two years after Unit 2.

Frank Gehry's titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opened in October 1997, reviving a struggling industrial city and popularizing the aircraft-design software that made its curved form buildable.

Core Design's Tomb Raider II, starring Lara Croft in a hunt for the Dagger of Xian, was released on Windows and PlayStation on 21 November 1997 by Eidos Interactive.

Southwest Airlines became the first airline to take a Next-Generation 737-700 on December 17, 1997, at Boeing Field, four years after launching the program with an order for 63 aircraft.

Cantonese and regional dishes with local seafood at Shangri-La Qingdao.

Dalian seafood with Cantonese preparations, backed by a currently linked branch menu and signature photographs.

MV Solitaire, converted from a 1972 bulk carrier into a 300-metre pipelaying ship, entered service for Allseas in 1998 and became the world's largest and most powerful pipelay vessel.

Water begins flowing from the newly completed Katse Dam through the Lesotho Highlands Water Project to Johannesburg, the first payment on a 1986 treaty that turns Lesotho’s rainfall into its biggest export.

The stretched 70 to 78-seat Dash 8 Q400 flew for the first time on 31 January 1998, three years after the programme launch, with 5,071 shp PW150A engines and a 360-knot maximum cruise.

Artland releases the first episode of the Legend of the Galactic Heroes Gaiden OVA, a collection of side stories set before the main series that trace Reinhard von Lohengramm's rise through the Galactic Empire's command.

At the 40th Grammy Awards on 25 February 1998 at Radio City Music Hall, Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind won Album of the Year, Shawn Colvin won Record and Song of the Year and Paula Cole Best New Artist, in a show remembered for Aretha Franklin's last-minute "Nessun Dorma" and a shirtless "Soy Bomb" intruder on Dylan's performance.

Perfect Blue releases in Japanese theaters, Satoshi Kon's directorial debut for Madhouse, a psychological thriller about a retiring pop idol whose grip on reality frays as a stalker and an impersonator blur the line between her old and new selves.

Parasite Eve, Square's sequel to Hideaki Sena's novel starring New York police officer Aya Brea, released on PlayStation in Japan on 29 March 1998 and North America on 10 September 1998.

Andoni Luis Aduriz opened his Basque restaurant in Gipuzkoa in March 1998. Restaurant Magazine has counted it among the world's best since 2006, ranking it as high as fourth.

Sunrise's Cowboy Bebop begins airing, a genre-blending space-western following bounty hunters Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, and their crew aboard the ship Bebop.

On Monday 6 April 1998 Citicorp and Travelers Group announced a merger valued at about US$70 billion in stock, then the largest in history, creating the world's largest financial services company, Citigroup.

One day, Kinomoto Sakura, a 4th grader stumbles upon the mysterious book of Clow. Upon opening it and reading the name of The Windy aloud, Sakura scatters the cards to the winds.

Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page present Google, a search-engine prototype that ranks pages by the link structure of the web rather than by page text alone. The paper describes PageRank and a prototype indexing 24 million pages.

The 33rd Academy of Country Music Awards were held on 22 April 1998 at the Universal Amphitheatre on CBS; Garth Brooks took Entertainer of the Year and Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's "It's Your Love" won four awards.

Mulan is a 1998 American animated musical coming-of-age action-adventure film based on the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan, and produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. It reached US theaters on 19 June 1998.

Triangle Staff's Serial Experiments Lain begins airing, a psychological sci-fi series following withdrawn teenager Lain Iwakura as she is drawn into the Wired, a networked reality blurring into the physical world.

Enix and tri-Ace released Star Ocean: The Second Story for the PlayStation in Japan on 30 July 1998; it sold more than a million copies worldwide and was the first Star Ocean game released outside Japan.

The stretched Boeing 757-300 took off from Renton at 10:08 a.m. PDT on 2 August 1998 and flew for 2 hours 25 minutes, with the flight webcast live. Launch customer Condor had ordered 12 in September 1996.