18 September 1997 September 17, 2021 Author: Staff The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted. Famous Words of Inspiration..."It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad." C.S. Lewis — Click here for more from C.S. Lewis Related posts: 11 December 1997 6 September 1997 19 September 1997 3 September 1997 20 August 1997 9 December 1948 11 May 1997 19 May 1997 16 December 1997 27 July 1997 Categories: History Tags: 18 September, 1997