The July 25, 1997 was a Friday under the star sign of ♌. It was the 205 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 28 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, July 25, 2025, 348 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, July 25, 2026, in 16 days. You have lived for 10,575 days, or about 253,804 hours, or about 15,228,290 minutes, or about 913,697,400 seconds.
Date: 26 July 1997
By DAVID BARBOZA
Corporate America is once again showing robust earnings, three-fourths of way through second-quarter reporting season; winners are not just big players; even smaller companies are showing surprisingly strong earnings gains, creating first signs of earnings parity since first quarter of 1996; chart (M)
Date: 26 July 1997
By JOSEPH P. FRIED
Federal jury convicts alleged Genovese crime family leader Vincent Gigante of racketeering charges and conspiring in plots to kill other gangland figures; acquits him of ordering three gangland murders and fails to agree on charges he ordered four other murders; prosecutors, who battled for years to show he was mentally competent to stand trial, hail conviction; United States Atty Zachary W Carter sees devastating blow to Genovese family and organized crime; photo (M)
Date: 26 July 1997
By ALAN COWELL
Leading Italian insurance company that is seeking to expand its business in Israel offers to set up $12 million fund and investigate fate of policies that were issued by its Central European subsidiaries and confiscated by Nazi occupiers during World War II; company, Assicurazioni Generali, which is based in Trieste, is one of several big European insurance companies facing lawsuit in New York demanding compensation for confiscated policies (S)
Date: 26 July 1997
John O Pickett reaches agreement with Fleet Bank to restructure payments on an $80 million loan originally made with John Spano for his abortive purchase of New York Islanders in April (S)
Date: 26 July 1997
By BENJAMIN WEISER
Federal jury convicts Autumn Jackson of trying to extort $40 million from Bill Cosby, man she claimed was her father, and related charges; convicts co-defendant Jose Medina on all charges and Boris Sabas on other charges, but acquits him of extortion charge; photo (M)
Date: 26 July 1997
By NEIL STRAUSS
Artist formerly known as Prince performs at Jones Beach; Neil Strauss review; photo (M)
Date: 26 July 1997
Rosalind Ellis letter on abuse of deaf Mexican immigrants; deplores apathy of their neighbors
Date: 26 July 1997
By RICK BRAGG
Immigration and Naturalization Service agents raid two houses, Sanford, NC, and finds more than dozen illegal Mexican immigrants, most of them deaf; say 'bosses' held Mexicans in bondage and forced them to sell trinkets; prosecutors probe for link with similar New York City operation; Federal prosecutors arrest Frank Coenen on charges he helped bring illegal immigrants to NYC; he is former husband of Adriana Paoletti Lemus, whose family allegedly organized NYC operation; investigators probe for similar operations in Chicago, other cities; map; photo (M)
Date: 26 July 1997
By JOSEPH DURSO
Soviet Line wins in photo-finish in Fourstardave Stakes at Saratoga Springs (S)
Date: 26 July 1997
Barney's Inc says that it is postponing its selection of a buyer until next Friday, Aug 1, so it can negotiate higher bid (S)