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Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 28, 1997, covering May 29, 1997.
Spice Girls
Bob Carlisle
The Notorious B.I.G.
Mary J. Blige
George Strait
Hanson
Soundtrack
Jewel
The Wallflowers
Erykah Badu
1997Tyler Nevin, American baseball player[†]
Tyler Joseph Nevin is an American professional baseball infielder for the Saitama Seibu Lions of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers, and Oakland Athletics.
1997Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1966)[†]
Jeffrey Scott Buckley was an American musician. After a decade as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, he attracted a cult following in the early 1990s performing at venues in the East Village, Manhattan. He signed with Columbia, recruited a band, and released his only studio album, Grace, in 1994. Buckley toured extensively to promote Grace, with concerts in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Australia.
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Interview with Hunter S Thompson, author of The Proud Highway; collection of letters, released by Villard Books, was written between 1955 and 1967, span of time taking him from late teens to age of 30; photos (M)
Theater owners, producers and union officials form unusual coalition in bid to bring serious dramas and small musicals back to Broadway; will propose $10-million-a-year fund to foster theater district revitalization; will form Broadway Initiative to provide grants or loans to bring in commercially promising works from Off Broadway and regional theaters; plan may depend on New York City's ability to provide industry financial incentives; graphs; photos (M)
Federal Trade Commission, 3-2, votes to bring administrative action charging R J Reynolds Tobacco Co illegally aims its Joe Camel advertising drive at minors; holds firm's internal papers will show Reynolds created cartoon-based drive in mid-1980's to increase its shrinking market share among young smokers; firm defends ads; chronology of events; photo (M)
German Government says it will use bookkeeping maneuver and amend its laws to insure that it will lead introduction of single European currency in 1999; central bank, in rare public clash between Government and powerful Bundesbank, says that it opposes Government's plan to virtually erase budget deficit this year by revaluing bank's gold reserves to book a quick profit; in unexpected setback for Chancellor Helmut Kohl, bank tells Government that its plan is intrusion on bank's independence and goes against practices of sound money management (L)
Prime Min Tony Blair's wife, high-powered London lawyer known professionally as Cherie Booth, returns to judicial post after serving as muted helpmate during election campaign; is first spouse of British Prime Minister to hold full-time job; photos (M)
Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist whose 40 years of work in Village Voice helped define alternative weekly, quits newspaper over salary dispute with the new editor, Donald H Forst; Feiffer, who made $75,000 a year at Village Voice, says he was told by Forst that paper wanted to discontinue Feiffer's fee but still run his syndicated column, paying Universal Press Syndicate some $200 a week; photo (M)
People who frequent Central Park, New York City, at night comment on park scene in wake of slaying of Michael McMorrow; describe vibrant, free-spirited night life that includes heavy drinking and some drug use; officials say killing was aberration and park's night life is generally safe and friendly; photos (M)
United States Attorney's office reports indictment of five members of Hasidic Jewish community in New Square, New York, and of Brooklyn Hasidic seminary aide on charges they systematically defrauded Federal and state governments of tens of millions of dollars in student loans, other aid; holds seminary, Toldos Yakov Yosef, was financed almost entirely by Federal Pell grants awarded to ineligible or nonexistent students; say defendants acted to enrich selves and benefit New Square community institutions and local yeshiva; New Square aide charges US Atty Mary Jo White has 'vendetta' against town; defendants are Chaim Berger, Kalmen Stern, David Goldstein, Jacob Elbaum, Benjamin Berger and Avrum D Friesel (M)
Officials say small balls of paraffin have been washing up on six-mile stretch of beach in Ocean County; say source of waxy balls is not known (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
State University of New York trustees appoint Donald G Dunn, first deputy secretary to Gov George E Pataki, as executive vice chancellor; SUNY has hired number of former officials and intimates of Pataki administration as top managers, stirring debate within university over whether 64-campus system is being politicized as never before (M)
New Jersey Assembly Speaker Jack Collins says he plans to introduce legislation to freeze property tax rates for estimated 212,000 low-income elderly and disabled homeowners (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
Market Place: AT&T Corp chairman Robert Allen's bid to merge AT&T with SBC Communications Inc is breathtaking gamble; some experts say if Allen does not engineer a deal in next few weeks, AT&T could be left with neither a strategy nor viable leader to enact it; that is because Allen has already made two tacit admissions: that AT&T needs local telephone partner to compete in deregulated market, and that his designated heir, John R Walter, need not run the combined company (L)