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Toyota pres Hiroshi Okuda aims for company to achieve ten percent share of world auto market; photos; Toyota already has nearly 9.5 percent, behind 17 percent for General Motors and 13 percent for Ford; Topyota's US market share rose to 5.7 percent for 1997 model year, up from 5.3 percent in 1996 (S)
Ben Brantley reviews new Broadway musical Triumph of Love, directed by Michael Mayer and based on Marivaux play, with music by Jeffrey Stock and lyrics of Susan Birkenhead; Betty Buckley, Susan Egan and F Murray Abraham star; photos (M)
Plunge in Hong Kong stock market on Oct 23, touched off by attack on local currency, shakes financial markets around world; stocks loose 10.4 percent of their value in Hong Kong, causing frantic selloff in Japan and on Europe's stock exchanges; Dow Jones industrial average finishes down 2.3 percent, or 186.88 points, at 7,847.77; some smaller stock markets, including those in Brazil and Mexico, come under even more pressure, falling 5 percent or more, as confidence is shaken in many emerging markets; selloff spread as investors learned that what appeared in July as isolated currency problem in Thailand had become full-blown crisis in Southeast Asia; there are signs on Oct 24 that Asian markets are stabilizing; photo (M)
Hong Kong Stock Drop Unnerves Global Markets Hong Kong stocks suffered the worst decline in nearly a decade, a 10.4 percent drop that caused painful selloffs in every major global market. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 186.88 points, or 2.3 percent.
Port Authority officials say that weekend PATH ridership increased 6 percent in 1996 and is growing at same rate this year, mainly because of new residential development along Jersey City and Hoboken waterfronts (S) (New Jersey Daily Briefing)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 22, 1997, covering October 24, 1997.
Janet
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LeAnn Rimes
Boyz II Men
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1997Bron Breakker, American wrestler[†]
Bronson Rechsteiner is an American professional wrestler and former football player. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Bron Breakker. He is a former two-time WWE Intercontinental Champion, two-time NXT Champion, and a one-time NXT Tag Team Champion.
1997Claudia Fragapane, English gymnast[†]
Claudia Fragapane is a retired British artistic gymnast. She came to prominence at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, where she was the first English woman to win four gold medals in a single Games since 1930. In 2015, Fragapane was part of the women's gymnastics team that won Great Britain's first-ever team medal, a bronze, at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, before winning an individual world championship bronze on floor two years later.
1997Raye, British singer-songwriter[†]
Rachel Agatha Keen, known professionally as Raye, is a British singer-songwriter. She first rose to prominence after signing with Polydor Records and subsequently releasing dance singles and extended plays (EPs). Raye then gained media attention with her departure from the record label, which allegedly refused to release her debut album.
1997Don Messick, American voice actor and singer (born 1926)[†]
Donald Earle Messick was an American voice actor, known for his performances in Hanna-Barbera cartoons.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]