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United States Environmental Protection Agency reports that half of New Jersey's watersheds have serious water pollution problems, mainly because of runoff from factories, sewer plants and farms (S) (New Jersey Daily Briefing)
New York Rangers give Wayne Gretzky a raise and contract extension; Gretzky, who was scheduled to earn $3.97 million this year, will instead get guarantee of $7 million, and guaranteed $5.5 million next season; Gretzky's salary raises Rangers' payroll to estimated $40 million, highest in National Hockey League; Brian Leetch will be introduced as Rangers' captain tonight before team opens against New York Islanders at Madison Square Garden; changes on this year's Ranger team noted; photos (M)
New York City Opera to present Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride, directed by Francesca Zambello; Paul Kellogg, who directed production at Glimmerglass Opera this summer, expects audiences will again be disturbed by startling homoerotic images of passionate male bonding between characters stripped down to loincloths and chained together; photos (M)
Baltimore Orioles defeat Seattle Mariners, 9-3, in second game of American League playoff series; lead series, 2-0; photos (M)
Clyde Haberman NYC column notes that some Jews are marking holy days by visiting recently opened Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York City's first public memorial to Nazi holocaust (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 1, 1997, covering October 3, 1997.
Mariah Carey
LeAnn Rimes
Busta Rhymes
Master P
Puff Daddy & The Family
1997Jin Boyang, Chinese figure skater[†]
Jin Boyang is a Chinese figure skater. He is a two-time World bronze medalist (2016–2017), the 2018 Four Continents champion, a two-time Four Continents silver medalist, the 2017 Asian Winter Games silver medalist, a five-time Chinese national champion and a two-time Chinese national winter games champion. On the junior level, he is the 2015 World Junior silver medalist and the 2013 JGP Final champion. He is the first Chinese skater to medal in the men's singles event at a World Championships.
1997Jonathan Isaac, American basketball player[†]
Jonathan Judah Isaac is an American professional basketball player for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for one season for the Florida State Seminoles. Isaac was selected with the sixth overall pick by the Magic in the 2017 NBA draft.
1997Bang Chan, Australian singer and record producer based in South Korea[†]
Christopher Chahn Bahng, known professionally as Bang Chan (Korean: 방찬), is an Australian singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer based in South Korea. Signed to JYP Entertainment, he is the leader of the South Korean boy band Stray Kids and a member of 3Racha, an in-house production team and sub-unit of Stray Kids.
1997Michael Adekunle Ajasin, Nigerian politician, 3rd Governor of Ondo State (born 1908)[†]
Michael Adekunle Ajasin was a Nigerian politician who served as governor of Ondo State from 1979 to 1983 on the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) platform during the Nigerian Second Republic.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]