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Senate committee, under pressure from Sen Frank R Lautenberg, agrees to add extra $20 million a year for New Jersey to pending transportation bill (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
Pres Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, is set to leave White House to attend Stamford University; Clinton comments; photo (M)
Dave Anderson Sports of The Times column on Major League baseball's controversial realignment proposal; notes that National Football League solved its realignment disputes in 1970; photo (M)
Federal officials say Young Women's Leadership School, experimental all-girls public academy that opened in East Harlem last fall, appears to violate civil rights laws by discriminating against boys, but compromise could keep it open; Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew balks at any suggestion of concessions and hints that he is willing to go to court to defend school (M)
Guitar once owned by rock legend Jimi Hendrix that was expected to fetch more than $280,000 fails to find buyer at Sotheby's auction in London; Germany says it will not follow Britain's lead and waive tax receipts on sales of Candle in the Wind, Elton John's vocal tribute to late Diana, Princess of Wales; new biography by Jorge Castaneda says Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara died during guerrilla insurrection in Bolivia because Cuban backers dropped their support under Soviet pressure; singer Dana is one of four women candidates seeking to succeed Mary Robinson as president of Ireland; work on Carl Sagan memorial enters final stages in Ithaca, NY, where he taught at Cornell University for nearly 30 years; photos (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 17, 1997, covering September 18, 1997.
Master P
Puff Daddy & The Family
Fleetwood Mac
Trisha Yearwood
Jewel
1997Viktor Hovland, Norwegian professional golfer[†]
Viktor Hovland is a Norwegian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and European Tour. He won the 2018 U.S. Amateur and reached number one in the World Amateur Golf Ranking in 2019.
1997Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer (born 1920)[†]
James Witherspoon was an American jump blues and jazz singer.
1997United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to the United Nations.[†]
Robert Edward Turner III is an American entrepreneur, television producer, media proprietor, and philanthropist. He founded the Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television, as well as television networks TBS and TNT.
1997The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted.[†]
The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction of 1997, known informally as the Ottawa Treaty, the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, or often simply the Mine Ban Treaty, aims at eliminating anti-personnel landmines (APLs) around the world.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]