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The news release was copied and quickly distributed to reporters early this morning, establishing the guidelines for the return of George Steinbrenner to the Yankees on Monday. The release might as well have been gold-embossed: It "invited" the news media to chronicle the event and "encouraged" them to be at the spring training complex by 10:30 A.M.
As the trading deadline neared last Thursday, the talk in the Nets' locker room was that Chris Dudley would be sent to Utah for center Mike Brown. In fact, it was more than just talk. The Nets were only a heartbeat away from making the last-minute deal but had a change of heart. Dudley was both confused and angered when he heard about the proposed deal, saying to another player: "I don't understand. Why are they sending me to Utah? I want to stay here."
Officials announced yesterday that the twin towers of the World Trade Center would be closed for at least a week, and Gov. Mario M. Cuomo asked the Federal Government to make low-interest loans available to small businesses affected by the bombing in a center garage on Friday. In a race to prepare for the work week, executives and workers at the huge financial center in lower Manhattan yesterday turned their aplomb and ingenuity to finding ways to carry on business in temporary quarters.
Lillian Gish, the last of the great silent film stars, who performed for more than 85 years in movies, theater and television, died in her sleep on Saturday evening at her home in Manhattan. She was 99 years old. Her personal manager, James E. Frasher, said the cause was heart failure.
Where is Susie the casino waitress with the free helpings of Scotch and water now when Leonard H. Tose, one of American gambling's most fabulous losers, needs her most? Mr. Tose, a notoriously unsuccessful blackjack player with a penchant for playing seven $10,000 hands simultaneously and signing a million dollars in credit markers in a single night of ill fortune, lost most of his personal and corporate wealth of tens of millions during feverish years at the high-roller tables of Atlantic City.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 24, 1993, covering March 1, 1993.
Whitney Houston
Kenny G
Dr. Dre
Eric Clapton
Billy Ray Cyrus
1993Juan Bernat, Spanish footballer[†]
Juan Bernat Velasco is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for La Liga club Getafe.
1993Michael Conforto, American baseball player[†]
Michael Thomas Conforto, nicknamed "Scooter", is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the New York Mets and San Francisco Giants.
1993Josh McEachran, English footballer[†]
Joshua Mark McEachran is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for EFL Championship club Oxford United. He will leave the club after his contract expires on 30 June 2025.
1993Victor Rask, Swedish ice hockey player[†]
Victor Rask is a Swedish professional ice hockey center who is currently playing with the SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers of the National League (NL) after he spent eight years in the National Hockey League (NHL), playing for the Carolina Hurricanes, Minnesota Wild, and Seattle Kraken.
1993Jordan Veretout, French footballer[†]
Jordan Marcel Gilbert Veretout is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Lyon and the France national team.
1993Joseph Christopher, American schizophrenic serial killer (born 1955)[†]
Joseph Gerard Christopher was an American serial killer who gained infamy for a series of murders in the early 1980s. He is believed to have killed at least twelve African American men and boys and wounded numerous others.
In 1993, the world population was approximately 5,591,544,797 people[†]