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State Casino Control Commission gives preliminary approval to rule authorizing certain casinos to segregate tips for poker dealers from tips given to other dealers (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
Roberta Flack will appear at concert at Newark Airport Marriott Hotel on June 26 to raise money for black Republican candidates in New Jersey (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
Article on small but influential group of architects, developers and artists embracing tensile structure as building of future; photo (M)
US Supreme Court rules, 6-3, that insider trading laws apply to people with confidential information even if they have no connection with company whose shares are being bought; ruling reinstates conviction of James H O'Hagan, Minneapolis attorney who made $4.3 million in Grand Metropolitan PLC's hostile takeover of Pillsbury Co, and is major victory for Federal prosecutors and securities regulators; majority opinion by Assoc Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg upholds misappropriation theory US Appeals Court had ruled invalid; establishes standard that anyone who gains inside information under conditions in which persons knows it is supposed to remain confidential may not use it for trading; covers anyone, from financial printer to law firm secretary, but not someone who obtained information by chance (M)
McKay Nursery Co, which hires Mexican migrant workers to sustain its operations in southeastern Wisconsin, has veered far from norm in agriculture, quietly evolving into employee-owned enterprise in which many workers not only play increasingly influential role, but annually receive chunks of stock; has been lauded by Pres Clinton and Business Enterprise Trust, California foundation that honors businesses that combine financial success with social vision; even though McKay's hourly wages are $6 per hour for new migrants, or below $7.50 average in Great Lakes region, its workers have other benefits and advancement opportunities that keep far more than 90 percent returning year after year; eligible migrants receive annual bonuses equal to 20 percent to 25 percent of wages in stock or cash--or at least $2,000 for lowest paid worker; company president Griff Mason comments; photo; charts and graphs on migrant farm workers, crops harvested by farm workers and average hourly wages (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 25, 1997, covering June 26, 1997.
Bob Carlisle
Wu-Tang Clan
Tim McGraw
Spice Girls
Hanson
1997Baek Ye-rin, South Korean singer[†]
Baek Ye-rin, anglicized as Yerin Baek, is a South Korean singer-songwriter. A former member of South Korean duo 15&, she debuted as a solo artist with her extended play, Frank, in 2015. Baek is credited with writing and composition for the majority of her songs, often touching on personal topics and real-life experiences. In addition to her solo career, she is also the lead vocalist and guitarist for the South Korean rock band The Volunteers and has been performing with them since 2018.
1997Jacob Elordi, Australian actor[†]
Jacob Elordi is an Australian actor. After moving to Los Angeles in 2017 to pursue an acting career, he gained prominence with his role as Noah Flynn, the bad boy love interest, in Netflix's The Kissing Booth film series (2018–2021). He also became known for his role as troubled high school football player Nate Jacobs in HBO's teen drama series Euphoria (2019–present). In 2023, he starred as Elvis Presley in the biographical film Priscilla and as a wealthy university student in Saltburn, which earned him a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
1997Callum Taylor, English cricketer[†]
Callum John Taylor is an English cricketer who played for Essex County Cricket Club. Primarily a right-handed batsman, he also bowls right-arm medium. He made his Twenty20 debut for Essex against Hampshire in May 2015. In December 2015 he was named in England's squad for the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.
1997Don Hutson, American football player and coach (born 1913)[†]
Donald Montgomery Hutson, nicknamed "the Alabama Antelope", was an American professional football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). In the era of the one-platoon football, he played as an end and spent his entire 11-year career with the Green Bay Packers. Under head coach Curly Lambeau, Hutson led the Packers to four NFL Championship Games, winning three in 1936, 1939, and 1944.
1997The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.[†]
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on questions of U.S. constitutional or federal law. It also has original jurisdiction over a narrow range of cases, specifically "all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party." In 1803, the Court asserted itself the power of judicial review, the ability to invalidate a statute for violating a provision of the Constitution via the landmark case Marbury v. Madison. It is also able to strike down presidential directives for violating either the Constitution or statutory law.
1997J. K. Rowling publishes the first of her Harry Potter novel series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in United Kingdom.[†]
Joanne Rowling, known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author and philanthropist. She is the author of Harry Potter, a seven-volume fantasy novel series published from 1997 to 2007. The series has sold over 600 million copies, has been translated into 84 languages, and has spawned a global media franchise including films and video games. She writes Cormoran Strike, an ongoing crime fiction series, under the alias Robert Galbraith.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]