Editing 1997 (section)

===August===
* [[August 3]] – Between 40 and 76 villagers are killed in the [[Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre]] in Algeria.
* [[August 3]]–[[August 11|11]] – Two of the three islands of the [[Union of the Comoros]] – [[Anjouan]] and [[Mohéli]] – attempt to revert to colonial rule by France. The plan fails when the French government of President [[Jacques Chirac]] refuses to recolonize them, resulting in the two islands being reintegrated into the Comoros over the next two years.
* [[August 4]] – [[Jeanne Calment]], the verified oldest person to have ever lived, dies at 122 years and 164 days.
* [[August 6]] – [[Korean Air Flight 801]] crash lands west of [[Guam International Airport]], resulting in the deaths of 228 people.
* [[August 13]] – [[Trey Parker]] and [[Matt Stone]]'s [[Animation|animated]] television comedy [[Television series|series]], [[South Park]], started broadcasting with the first episode, [[Cartman Gets an Anal Probe]], on [[Comedy Central]].
* [[August 20]] – More than 60 are killed, 15 kidnapped in the [[Souhane massacre]] in Algeria.
* [[August 26]]
** 60–100 are killed in the [[Beni Ali massacre]] in Algeria.
** The [[Independent International Commission on Decommissioning]] is set up in [[Northern Ireland]], as part of a [[Northern Ireland peace process|peace process]].
* [[August 29]]
** Over 98 (and possibly up to 400) are killed in the [[Rais massacre]] in Algeria. 
** [[Netflix, Inc.]] is founded as a DVD-by-mail rental service.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pogue |first=David |author-link=David Pogue |date=January 25, 2007 |title=A Stream of Movies, Sort of Free |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/25/technology/25pogue.html |url-status=live |url-access=limited |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322100820/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/25/technology/25pogue.html |archive-date=March 22, 2016 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[August 31]] – [[Death of Diana, Princess of Wales]]: [[Diana, Princess of Wales]], is taken to a hospital after a car accident shortly after midnight, in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris. She is pronounced dead at 4:00&nbsp;am.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.emergency.com/dianaded.htm |title=Series of Real-Time Reports involving the tragic death of Diana, Princess of Wales |publisher=Emergency |year=1997 |access-date=December 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080507233601/http://www.emergency.com/dianaded.htm |archive-date=May 7, 2008}}</ref>