Unix Timestamp: 863654400
Thursday, May 15. 1997, 12:00:00 AM UTC

U.S. President Bill Clinton issues a formal apology to the surviving victims of the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male and their families.

The United States government acknowledges existence of the Secret War in Laos, and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other Secret War veterans.

Mobutu Sese Seko leaves Kinshasa, eventually settling in Morocco.