5 juli 1997 was een zaterdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♋. Het was de 185e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 28 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op zaterdag 5 juli 2025, 342 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op zondag 5 juli 2026, in 22 dagen. Je hebt 10.569 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 253.671 uur, of ongeveer 15.220.318 minuten, of ongeveer 913.219.080 seconden.
Date: 06 July 1997
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
Local television news programs continue to focus on crime despite decline of crime rates across the country; critics say this is because crime is the easiest, cheapest, laziest news to cover; graph shows public's continuing appetite for crime news; photo (M)
Date: 06 July 1997
By Steven A. Holmes
Steven Holmes
Comment on disquieting episodes of shocking news reports that cause public outcry, but turn out to be based on shoddy research, misinterpretation of facts, superficial journalism or all three; examples are erroneous reports that many teen-age mothers have babies by adult men, danger of cancer from power lines and estimates that huge number of children are kidnapped each year; definition of group as victim also colors reports, as in arson fires at black churches, which were in fact often torched by blacks with other motives (S)
Date: 06 July 1997
By Diane Ketcham
Diane Ketcham
Russell Liebowitz, 5, of Mount Sinai, NY, invents board game involving map of world and coins; his parents, Diane and Ira, describe game, for which they have had local artist make prototype; Dr Howard Lebwith, dentist from East Hampton, NY, competes in Run to the Clouds up Mount Washington in New Hampshire; Roberto Tirado, former weatherman at News 12, embarks on singing career and is negotiating record deal; photo (M)
Date: 05 July 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Canal Plus SA says it will record one-time gain of $508 million from sale of its stake in German pay-TV channel Premiere; sale is to Kirch Group of Germany (S)
Date: 05 July 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Rover Group Ltd, British auto maker owned by BMW of Germany, says that it reached agreement on three-year pay package after almost week of talks with its joint trade unions (S)
Date: 05 July 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Munich Re, world's largest reinsurer, says it will merge two subsidiaries with Victoria Holding AG, creating primary insurance group that would compete with Allianz AG; merger would create Germany's second-largest seller of primary insurance (S)
Date: 05 July 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Colombia, world's second-largest coffee exporter, is reducing its domestic coffee price 10 percent in keeping with variations in international prices; beginning on July 5, National Coffee Growers' Federation will pay coffee growers $308.18 for each 275-pound bag of coffee, or about $1.12 a pound (S)
Date: 05 July 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
RWE AG, Germany's largest diversified utility, says that profit and sales each rose 8 percent in latest fiscal year, slightly higher than expectations; profit in fiscal year, which ended on June 30, rose to 1.3 billion marks, or $741.9 million (S)
Date: 05 July 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Fifteen of world's biggest electronics manufacturers, including Fujitsu Ltd of Japan, LSI Logic Corp of United States and Philips Electronics NV of Netherlands, say they have agreed on standards for powerful new computer disk (S)
Date: 05 July 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Goldman, Sachs Group LP hires Simon Robertson, one of London's top investment bankers, to be president of Goldman Sachs Europe (S)