16 mei 1997 was een vrijdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♉. Het was de 135e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 29 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op zaterdag 16 mei 2026, 26 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op zondag 16 mei 2027, in 338 dagen. Je hebt 10.618 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 254.836 uur, of ongeveer 15.290.181 minuten, of ongeveer 917.410.860 seconden.
Date: 17 May 1997
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
Judge dismisses juror in Megan Kanka murder case for making exultant gesture as prosecutors present one of their strongest items of forensic evidence; juror swings his arms and appears on verge of raising fist into air as forensic dentist demonstrates his findings in trial of Jesse K Timmendequas (S)
Date: 17 May 1997
James McGorman, former business agent for Service Employees International Union, pleads guilty to accepting a bribe and agrees to serve year in prison; makes plea after Justice Rena K Ulviller of State Supreme Court rescinds plea bargain that had been reached in January; hundreds of union members had protested that McGorman was not going to serve any prison term under that plea; McGorman pleaded guilty after investigation uncovered many complaints that business agents were demanding bribes from workers seeking $30,000-a-year union jobs as janitors or doormen (S)
Date: 17 May 1997
By MONTE WILLIAMS
Rape trial of Alex Kelly continues as the defense lawyer Thomas Puccio continues his aggressive cross-examination of young woman who accuses Kelly of raping her 11 years ago; suggests that woman had tailored her testimony for retrial (M)
Date: 17 May 1997
By NEIL STRAUSS
Critic's Notebook comment on unsuccessful attempt by New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority to cancel Ozzfest '97 hard-rock concert at Giants Stadium because of planned performance by macabre group Marilyn Manson; photo; Ozzy Osbourne sues state on First Amendment grounds and event will be held, but furor over Marilyn Manson continues; concerts have been canceled elsewhereafter legislators offer resolutions barring band, which Sen Joseph Lieberman calls 'sickest group ever promoted' in mainstream (S)
Date: 17 May 1997
By JERRY GRAY
House Budget Commisttee votes 31-7 to approve resolution that will guide action on tax cuts and spending, first legislative step toward enactment of balanced-budget bill (S)
Date: 17 May 1997
By JOSEPH BERGER
Judge Jed S Rakoff declares that 21-member Rockland County (NY) Legislature is unconstitutional, finding that its unusual system of apportioning different number of legislators to each of county's five towns violates principle of one person, one vote; decision, if upheld on appeal, will mean that County Legislature will have to vote to increase number of legislators assigned to fast-growing towns like Ramapo and Clarkstown or else scrap its unusual system and create legislative districts that may not follow town boundaries; map; table (M)
Date: 17 May 1997
By DAVID GONZALEZ
Some New York City newsstand operators are worried that new city law governing sidewalk newsstands will threaten their livelihood; new law increases annual fee charged to city's 330 vendors from $538 to as much as $5,000, depending on location; law also provides for 100 more stands to be put out for competitive bids; law is part of initiative to replace current street furniture (newsstands and bus shelters) with new streamlined versions that will be built by company that wins 20-year contract (M) (About New York column)
Date: 17 May 1997
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
Paul W Eggers, Texas lawyer who served as General Counsel of Treasury Department during Nixon Administration, is arrested and accused of selling $8 million worth of fake investments; Eggers, 79, and three others are charged with defrauding investors by promising to use money to purchase 'nonexistent bank obligations' (M)
Date: 17 May 1997
By Peter Steinfels
Beliefs column on Roman Catholic Church's elaborate justification for marriage annulments, which church officials insist is not the same as divorce; issue surfaces with recent publication of book Shattered Lives, Sheila Rauch Kennedy's attack on procedures that have allowed her former husband, Repr Joseph P Kennedy 2d, to seek annulment of their 1979 marriage (S)
Date: 17 May 1997
Shareholders of Envirodyne Industries elect company's slate of directors and reject three nominees from Zapata Corp, which is trying to gain control of Envirodyne (S)