Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Chinese restaurant on the 43rd floor of Lotte Hotel Busan, currently serving a wild matsutake course and single dishes through 31 October 2026.

First-floor lounge and bar of Lotte Hotel Busan. It runs a weekend melon dessert buffet to 29 November and a Shine Muscat grape afternoon tea to 30 November.

In the year 2005, a race of alien monsters called Zonders emerge from underground and launch a series of attacks on the city of Tokyo.

British Airways introduced the extended-range Boeing 777-200ER into airline service on 9 February 1997, three days after taking the first delivery, making it the launch operator of the 777's long-haul B-market variant.

The Roslin Institute reveals that a Finn-Dorset lamb born the previous July was cloned from an adult mammary-gland cell by somatic cell nuclear transfer - the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell.

At the 39th Grammy Awards on 26 February 1997 at Madison Square Garden in New York, Celine Dion's Falling Into You won Album of the Year, Eric Clapton's "Change the World" won Record and Song of the Year and 14-year-old LeAnn Rimes won Best New Artist.

At the 32nd Academy of Country Music Awards on 23 April 1997, 14-year-old LeAnn Rimes won Single and Song of the Year for "Blue" and Top New Female Vocalist, Brooks & Dunn repeated as Entertainer of the Year, and George Strait took Album of the Year and Top Male Vocalist.

Christophe Gibert’s French restaurant serves seafood-focused tasting menus, with current lunches from ¥14,500 and dinners from ¥27,000 including tax and service. Separate Christmas and New Year menus are bookable.

Italian dining inspired by a Tuscan villa, with current à la carte menus, breakfast, seasonal buffets and dinner courses. Published online offers include a ¥5,000 weekday short lunch and ¥8,000 Serata dinner.

Hercules is a 1997 American animated musical fantasy comedy film loosely based on the legendary hero Heracles (known in the film by his Roman name, Hercules), a son of Zeus in Greek mythology. It reached US theaters on 27 June 1997.

Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke opens in Japan, Hayao Miyazaki's epic about a cursed prince caught between the spirits of an ancient forest and the humans of Iron Town.

Gainax's The End of Evangelion opens in Japan, a theatrical film providing an alternate, more conclusive ending to the TV series as NERV comes under full assault from SEELE while Shinji, Asuka, and the rest confront the Human Instrumentality Project.

The first 737-800, then the longest 737 at 129 ft 6 in, took off from Renton Municipal Airport at 9 a.m. PDT on 31 July 1997 and landed at Boeing Field after 3 hours 5 minutes.

Boeing and McDonnell Douglas merged at 12:01 a.m. EDT on 1 August 1997 in a US$16.3 billion stock deal, uniting the makers of the 737 and 747 with the DC-9, DC-10 and MD-11 line.

The shortened A330-200 made its maiden flight from Toulouse on 13 August 1997, a four-hour sortie that opened a 630-hour test programme. It was Airbus's answer to the Boeing 767-300ER, with 12,000 km of range.

Kyoto Isetan’s tofu / yuba venue offers a verified, dated autumn menu: Sesame-soymilk yuba shabu hotpot.

Kyoto Isetan’s chinese venue offers a verified, dated autumn menu: Shanghai crab-miso and mushroom braised noodles.

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.

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.

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.