Unix Timestamp: 876614400
Sunday, October 12. 1997, 12:00:00 AM UTC

NASA launches the Cassini–Huygens probe to Saturn.

Andy Green sets the first supersonic land speed record for the ThrustSSC team, led by Richard Noble of the UK. ThrustSSC goes through the flying mile course at Black Rock Desert, Nevada at an average speed of 1,227.985 km/h (763.035 mph).

43 are killed at a false roadblock, in the Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria.