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In 1993, the world population was approximately 5,591,544,797 people[†]
1993PartyNextDoor, Canadian singer-songwriter and record producer[†]
Jahron Anthony Brathwaite, known professionally as PartyNextDoor, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, rapper and record producer. He was the first artist to sign with Drake's record label OVO Sound, an imprint of Warner Records in 2013. His self-titled debut mixtape was released through the label in July that year, and met with critical praise.
1993Don Drysdale, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1936)[†]
Donald Scott Drysdale, nicknamed "Big D", was an American professional baseball pitcher and broadcaster who played in Major League Baseball. He spent his entire 14-year career with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers. Known for being a fierce competitor, Drysdale won the Cy Young Award in 1962 and was a three-time World Series champion during his playing career.
The Federal Communications Commission voted 2 to 1 today to give television stations devoted to round-the-clock shopping the same right as regular broadcasters to demand that cable television systems carry their programs. The decision is a windfall for the Home Shopping Network, which pioneered the all-shopping format and is carried on a number of cable systems. The network also broadcasts by satellite to about 100 small stations around the country. Those stations, often situated just outside big cities, will enjoy a much broader reach if they are carried on cable.
Responding to pressure from fiscal monitors and Wall Street, Mayor David N. Dinkins yesterday took the unusual step of ordering significant new cuts in New York City's budget only two days into the new fiscal year. Mr. Dinkins said he was trimming the new budget and planning to make similar reductions in future budgets to head off a threat by Standard & Poor's, a major credit-rating agency, to lower the city's bond rating.
In what they described as a breakthrough in efforts to resolve the political crisis in Haiti, United Nations negotiators said yesterday that they had won the approval of Haiti's army commanders for a series of steps aimed at returning the ousted President, the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to power by Oct. 30. Father Aristide withheld agreement from the settlement proposed by the United Nations, however, holding out for a more rapid schedule for his return to power, the negotiators and aides to Father Aristide said.
The failure of a computer system to identify undesirable immigrants helped Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman enter the United States. Page 22.
Surrounded by chanting supporters, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the Islamic fundamentalist whose followers have been linked to two bombing conspiracies, emerged from a Brooklyn mosque and surrendered to Federal authorities last night, ending a months-long Federal debate over the danger he posed as a free man. Mr. Abdel Rahman walked on the arm of his lawyer shortly after 6 P.M. from the Abu Bakr Elseddique mosque across the street to a firehouse that had become a Federal command post, after a day of negotiations over his detention on immigration charges. He was greeted cordially by Federal agents and lightly frisked.
Jobless Rate Inches Up The nation's unemployment rate ticked up to 7 percent in June as job growth nearly vanished after two months of solid gains. Page 33. South Africans Meet Clinton President Clinton met separately with Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk, who both agreed on the need for U.S. aid to South Africa. Page 3. Yanks at Center Court Americans Pete Sampras and Jim Courier swept the men's semifinals at Wimbledon. In the women's final today, Steffi Graf, the defender, will face Jana Novotna. Page 27.
Pope John Paul II urged American bishops today to combat what he termed a "bitter, ideological" feminism among some American Catholic women, which he said had led to "forms of nature worship and the celebration of myths and symbols" usurping traditional celebrations of the Christian faith. The Pope's remarks were directed at small feminist fringe groups that have achieved some prominence in the United States, where they worship an earth goddess or "Mother Earth" and represent what church leaders have said is an extreme departure from normal liturgical practice.
The White House today issued a strikingly self-critical report that faulted the behavior of one of its authors and rebuked four other officials for the dismissals of the White House travel staff last May. The four were reprimanded for improperly dismissing the staff members, for appearing to pressure the F.B.I. and for permitting a friend of President Clinton's to become involved in a matter in which he had a financial stake.
The Islamic Group, whose spiritual leader surrendered to Federal authorities in New York, vowed today for the first time to start a concerted terrorist campaign against American targets in Egypt and the United States in retaliation. "We will hit American targets," a leader of the Islamic Group said in an interview late this evening in the sprawling slum and militant stronghold in Imbaba. "And not just American targets in Egypt, but throughout the Middle East, Europe and the United States."
A secondary headline for a dance review on Wednesday about the fourth New York International Ballet Competition misstated Hillary Rodham Clinton's role. Mrs. Clinton was honorary chairwoman of the event, held at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, but did not attend.
Because of an editing error, a front-page article and headline yesterday about the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation misidentified Judge Louis J. Freeh, who has emerged as a top candidate for the job. He is a Federal judge in Manhattan, not Brooklyn.
"The river won't stop coming, and people are really getting frustrated and depressed. I've seen a lot of eyes filled with tears." -- PAUL ARNOLD, flood coordinator in Grafton, Ill. [ 5:1. ]