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.
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.
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.
5 February – Norbert Ketter, photographer
14 March – Nicolas Morn, cyclist
29 April – Will Reuland, writer
8 July – Joseph Probst, artist
5 December – Jim Kirchen, cyclist
1997 in Luxembourg Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA
