The May 19, 1997 was a Monday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 138 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 Tuesday, May 19, 2026, 46 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, May 19, 2027, in 318 days. You have lived for 10,638 days, or about 255,328 hours, or about 15,319,733 minutes, or about 919,183,980 seconds.
Date: 20 May 1997
By Russell Baker
Russell Baker
Russell Baker Op-Ed column disputes assertions by columnists that American politics is dead and that there is no news from Washington; says Americans do not expect anything of consequence from Government and are therefore not expecting any news from Washington and do not want it (M)
Date: 20 May 1997
By Kenneth N. Gilpin
Kenneth Gilpin
E W Scripps Co agrees to acquire newspaper and broadcasting properties of Harte-Hanks Communications Inc for between $605 million and $775 million; deal involves six Texas newspapers--The Corpus Christi Caller-Times, The Abilene Reporter-News, The Wichita Falls Times Record News, The San Angelo Standard-Times, The Plano Star Courier and Anderson Independent-Mail in South Carolina--along with television stations KENS-TV and radio station KENS-AM, both in San Antonio, Tex (L)
Date: 20 May 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Advanced Technology Materials Inc agrees to buy Lawrence Semiconductor Laboratories for $78 million in stock (S)
Date: 20 May 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Panavision Inc agrees to buy film services unit of Visual Action Holdings PLC of Britain for 37.5 million pounds ($61 million) in cash (S)
Date: 20 May 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Metal Management Inc agrees to acquire Cozzi Iron and Metal Inc for about $111 million in cash and stock (S)
Date: 20 May 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Berkshire Hathaway Inc says it has sold 300,000 shares of Wells Fargo & Co, reducing its stake to 7.82 percent of outstanding stock; Wells Fargo's shares fall $14.125, to $265.50 a share (S)
Date: 20 May 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Singapore Airlines places orders with Airbus Industrie of Europe for eight narrow-body planes worth estimated $350 million and takes options to buy another 10 planes (S)
Date: 20 May 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Lonrho PLC of Britain and JCI Ltd of South Africa have confirmed that they are talking about possible $3 billion merger that would unite two prominent mining companies; merger would pool coal business of about equal size and give JCI access to platinum mining through Lonrho's facilities (S)
Date: 20 May 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Cariplo SpA, Italy's largest bank, accepts merger offer from Banco Ambrosiano Veneto SpA (S)
Date: 20 May 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dow Chemical Co says Federal appeals court rules that the company is not liable for injuries claimed by recipients of silicone jaw implants made by its Dow Corning Corp joint venture (S)