On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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Rapidly growing number of doctors and patients are communicating by E-mail, restoring some of comforting and hand-holding bond that went out with house call; doctors and patients say electronic conversation has drawn them closer; photo (L)
Eduardo Delossantos, fast-food deliveryman illegally riding his bicycle on sidewalk on Upper West Side, strikes and kills Arthur Kaye, 68, as he is leaving restaurant; accident prompts Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani to order police to step up enforcement of traffic rules for bicyclists, and leads to renewed calls for stricter laws against reckless cyclists (M)
Calls to reconsider a foreign language measure for schools. PAGE B3 A New Jersey official is pressed on an education plan. PAGE B4
Antonio Fernandez, a k a King Tone, the supreme leader of the Latin Kings, claims to be transforming the gang from violent thuggery into community activism. But the question is: How much of this is for real? The police have their doubts. Article, page B1.
Jonathan Miller, stage director, talks about his new production of Stravinsky's Rake's Progress for Metropolitan Opera, which opens Nov 20; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 19, 1997, covering November 20, 1997.
Mase
Shania Twain
Jay-Z
Rakim
LeAnn Rimes
1997Levi Garcia, Trinidadian footballer[†]
Levi Samuel García is a Trinidadian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Russian Premier League club Spartak Moscow and the Trinidad and Tobago national team.
1997Dick Littlefield, American baseball player (born 1926)[†]
Richard Bernard Littlefield was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns / Baltimore Orioles, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, Chicago Cubs and the Milwaukee Braves between 1950 and 1958. He batted and threw left-handed, and was listed as 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and 180 pounds (82 kg). He was born and died in Detroit.
1997Robert Palmer, American saxophonist, producer, and author (born 1945)[†]
Robert Franklin Palmer Jr. was an American writer, musicologist, clarinetist, saxophonist, and blues producer. He is best known for his non-fictional writing on the field of music; his work as a music journalist for The New York Times and Rolling Stone magazine; his production work for blues recordings ; and his clarinet playing as a member of the 1960s jazz band the Insect Trust.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]