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The bride and groom did not plan to be married in the chapel of Southern Ocean County Hospital. But then, neither did they expect that part of the house where their wedding was supposed to take place would collapse, injuring them and 12 guests.
Karl Malone caught the basketball as it swished through. The very same ball he could not get to go in from the foul line moments earlier, the one Michael Jordan ended the game with so suddenly. As if a thorn that had pricked him, Malone quickly discarded it -- much the same way he and the Utah Jazz discarded Game 1 of the National Basketball Association finals tonight.
After a third day without a verdict in the Oklahoma City bombing trial here, tensions among spectators were noticeably on the rise today. Many relatives and friends of the 168 people killed in the explosion at the Federal Building two years ago had predicted a swift guilty verdict for Timothy J. McVeigh, one of two men accused in the bombing and the first to go on trial.
It has been nearly 18 months since Cathleen P. Black took over as president of the Hearst Corporation's magazine division. And in that time, everyone in her orbit has become well acquainted with her strong suit: advertising, and the art of making people believe. Take the official photograph she chose, which shows Ms. Black in a pants suit, her legs slung over the arm of a modern chair in the manner of perhaps Harper's Bazaar on a calm day. It was an intentionally loud statement of how different she wants to be, despite the dowager-empress corporate culture of Hearst.
It was not just France's center-right Government that was swept out of office today by a remarkable Socialist resurgence. It was also the previously unassailable dignity of the presidential office as well as assumptions about France's need for market reforms and the coherence of the French right as a political movement. Lionel Jospin's Socialists are not Tony Blair's Labor Party. They have said that they would create 350,000 jobs in the state sector and have suggested that they would halt the country's privatizations. By voting this party back into office just four years after it suffered a crushing defeat, the French have expressed their deep reservations about the American-led economic reforms they see sweeping the world.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 28, 1997, covering June 2, 1997.
Spice Girls
Bob Carlisle
The Notorious B.I.G.
Mary J. Blige
George Strait
1997Scott Wozniak, American YouTuber[†]
Scott the Woz is a gaming comedy review web series created by American YouTuber Scott Wozniak. The series, starring Wozniak, covers video games and gaming history. Episodes are written and directed by Wozniak, with recurring characters played by his friends. Compilations of episodes were syndicated on the 2021–2022 revival of the TV network G4.
1997Doc Cheatham, American trumpet player, singer, and bandleader (born 1905)[†]
Adolphus Anthony Cheatham, better known as Doc Cheatham, was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader. He is also the grandfather of musician Theo Croker.
1997Helen Jacobs, American tennis champion (born 1908)[†]
Helen Hull Jacobs was an American tennis player who won nine Grand Slam titles. In 1936 she was ranked No. 1 in singles by A. Wallis Myers.
1997In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in which 168 people died. He was executed four years later.[†]
Denver is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Officially a consolidated city and county, it is located in the South Platte River valley on the western edge of the High Plains, just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Denver is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and fifth-most populous state capital, with a population of 715,522 at the 2020 census. The Denver metropolitan area has a population exceeding 3 million and functions as the economic and cultural center of the broader Front Range Urban Corridor, home to over 5 million people.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]