On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device
Clyde Haberman NYC column discusses clock on building at 43d Street and Sixth Avenue that tallies nation's annual budget deficit; clock, which was installed in 1989 by late Seymour Durst at cost of $150,000, needs $3,000 a year in maintencance (M)
Walt Disney Co and its former studio chief, Jeffrey Katzenberg, announce unexpected settlement that avoids legal battle in court but leaves open amount Katzenberg will receive to further negotiations; Katzenberg's suit sought at least $250 million from Disney from profits of several hit films while he ran Disney studio; Disney contends Katzenberg forfeited his share of profits by leaving company before his contract expired; trial had potential to open Disney's financial records, providing far greater details than in documents required by Securities and Exchange Commission; both sides agree to keep terms of settlement confidential; final setlement will be determined by mediating judge; photo (M)
Hilton Hotel Corp says it will not raise its cash-and-stock offer of $80 a share to acquire ITT Corp in face of Starwood Lodging Trust's bid of $85 in cash and stock; Hilton's decision to stand pat effectively ends bidding process before ITT shareholders vote on two competing slates of directors on Nov 12; Stephen F Bollenbach, Hilton president and chief executive, says Hilton's bid contains $3 billion more cash than Starwood's, and Starwood's bid is dependent on its much inflated stock; Barry S Sternlicht, Starwood's chairman and chief executive, takes issue with Bollenbach's warnings about worth of Starwood stock, and analysts seem to agree with Sternlicht (M)
Disney Settles Lawsuit The Walt Disney Company and its former studio chief, Jeffrey Katzenberg, will avoid a trial in his claim for millions in profits from hit films like ''The Lion King.'' Page D1.
Low-key musical version of famous chess match between Garry Kasparov and computer Deep Blue is held at University of Oregon, as audience judges musical entries composed by teacher Steve Larson, Johann Sebastian Bach and computer program called EMI; listeners mistake Larson's piece for one by computer, and then go on to conclude that EMI's piece is genuine Bach; cybernetic pretender, invented by David Cope at University of California-Santa Cruz, has been upsetting musical assumptions with its ability to scan pieces by famous composers, distill their essence and then churn out imitations; photo; Dr Douglas Hofstadter organizes Stanford symposium with live concerts of EMI's music; CD is also released (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 5, 1997, covering November 11, 1997.
Nas Escobar| Foxy Brown| AZ And Nature
LeAnn Rimes
Fleetwood Mac
Mariah Carey
Janet
1997Rod Milburn, American hurdler and coach (born 1950)[†]
Rodney "Rod" Milburn Jr. was an American athlete who won gold at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich in the 110 m hurdles.
1997William Alland, American film producer and writer (born 1916)[†]
William Alland was an American actor, film producer and writer, mainly of Western and science-fiction/monster films, including This Island Earth, It Came From Outer Space, Tarantula!, The Deadly Mantis, The Mole People, The Colossus of New York, The Space Children, and the three Creature from the Black Lagoon films. He worked frequently with director Jack Arnold. Alland is also remembered for his acting role as reporter Thompson, who investigates the meaning of "Rosebud" in Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941).
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]