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New Jersey Fuel Merchants Assn says that price of home heating oil in New Jersey has stabilized, and unless weather remains cold for long time, should start to drop soon; average price put at about $1.12 a gallon, nearly 20 cents higher than it was this time last year (S) (New Jersey Daily Briefing)
Roberta Smith reviews exhibit Rrose Is a Rrose Is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography at Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan; photo (L)
United's Labor Rift Returns United Airlines' switch to employee ownership in 1994 was cheered as an example of worker-management cooperation. But now United finds itself in the familiar old pattern of a labor dispute. Page D1. Midwest Chill Causes Havoc A fierce storm followed by subzero temperatures and strong winds closed schools and highways and dusrupted commerce across the Midwest. Wind chills plunged to 70 and 80 degrees below zero. Page A16. A Scorecard May Help After placing the two expansion teams, Arizona and Tampa Bay, in different leagues, the baseball owners instructed a committee to study a plan in which teams could switch divisions or even leagues. Page B9.
Congressional Budget Office, in annual report on outlook for Government spending, radically reduces its estimate of future Medicaid costs, relieving pressure on Pres Clinton and Congress to cut benefits for the poor; its estimate of total Federal spending on Medicaid from 1997 through 2002 drops by $86 billion--more than all Medicaid savings that Republicans proposed for that period in their budget fight with Clinton in 1995 and 1996; CBO predicts that Federal spending on Medicaid will rise average of 7.8 percent a year, to $144 billion in 2002 from $92 billion in 1996; its estimate puts total Federal cost of Medicaid from 1997 through 2002 at $717 billion; its financial outlook for Medicare has improved only slightly (M)
Israeli Parliament approves Hebron agreement by vote of 87 to 17; Israeli commanders turn over military headquarters in Hebron to Palestinians, who take control of city after 30 years of Israeli occupation; photos (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 15, 1997, covering January 17, 1997.
No Doubt
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Celine Dion
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1997Jake Paul, American boxer, actor, rapper, and social media personality[†]
Jake Joseph Paul is an American professional boxer, influencer and actor. He began his career posting videos on Vine in September 2013 and had amassed 5.3 million followers and 2 billion views before the app was discontinued. He launched his YouTube channel Jake Paul in May 2014, and has ranked on the Forbes list as one of the highest paid YouTube creators in 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023 and 2025.
1997Kyle Tucker, American baseball player[†]
Kyle Daniel Tucker, nicknamed King Tuck is an American professional baseball right fielder for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Houston Astros. Internationally, Tucker represents the United States.
1997Bert Kelly, Australian farmer and politician, 20th Australian Minister for the Navy (born 1912)[†]
Charles Robert "Bert" Kelly was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party and was an influential campaigner for free trade and the elimination of tariffs. He held ministerial office under Harold Holt and John Gorton as Minister for Navy (1967–1968) and Minister for Works (1968–1969). He represented the South Australian seat of Wakefield in the House of Representatives from 1958 to 1977.
1997Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer and academic, discovered Pluto (born 1906)[†]
Clyde William Tombaugh was an American astronomer best known for discovering Pluto, the first object to be identified in what would later be recognized as the Kuiper belt, in 1930.
1997Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta II carrying the GPS IIR-1 satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.[†]
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]