The April 22, 1997 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 111 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 29 years old. Your last birthday was on the Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 60 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, April 22, 2027, in 304 days. You have lived for 10,652 days, or about 255,667 hours, or about 15,340,074 minutes, or about 920,404,440 seconds.
Date: 23 April 1997
By Dow Jones
Dow Jones
Newport News Shipbuilding Inc receives $72 million, one-year contract from US Navy; Newport News will provide continuing design and engineering support for Los Angeles and Seawolf class submarines (S)
Date: 23 April 1997
By Kevin Sack
Kevin Sack
House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who has faced heavy criticism in the press of this ethics record and his method of paying $300,000 fine, levels brief but blistering attack on news media and suggests that advertisers should use their financial clout to demand change, speech to Georgia Chamber of Commerce; photo (L)
Date: 23 April 1997
By Alessandra Stanley
Alessandra Stanley
Prime Minister Viktor S Cheronomyrdin of Russia is infuriated by an article in Izvestia contending that he has amassed private fortune worth $5 billion; article turns out to be based on erroneous information, and Izvestia's parent company, Lukoil, threatens to dismiss newspaper's top editors; conflict has unleashed uproar over cozy co-dependency of big business and government, causing debate about whether that arrangement is suppressing press freedom in Russia (M)
Date: 22 April 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Norsk Hydro AS surge after first-quarter profits fall less-than-expected 4 percent; profits fall to 3.202 billion kroner ($456 million) from 3.327 billion a year earlier (S)
Date: 23 April 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Green Street Financial Corp receives approval from Office of Thrift Supervision to buy back up to 5 percent of its common stock (S)
Date: 23 April 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Huffy Corp completes sale of its Gerry Baby Products Co unit to Evenflo Juvenile Furniture Co for $73 million (S)
Date: 22 April 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Urohealth Systems Inc agrees to buy Imagyn Medical Inc for $73 million in stock to expand its line of products used for minimally invasive gynecological surgery (S)
Date: 22 April 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hughes Information Technology Systems wins Federal Aviation Administration contract that could be worth as much as $100 million to integrate air traffic computer systems (S)
Date: 22 April 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Apartment Investment and Management Co agrees to buy NHP Inc in transaction valued at about $279 million; Apartment Investment would own or have stake in 34,842 apartment units and manage another 176,000 units (S)
Date: 23 April 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Simione Central Holdings plans to sell 2.8 million common shares, raising some $22.9 million after expenses (S)