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The Yankees did not need sunglasses, they did not need earplugs, they did not need to be frustrated about being swept and they did not need to credit the Blue Jays for winning the division. It is inevitable and it will happen real soon, but the Yankees gladly snuck out of Toronto today and happily surrendered their front-row seats to the eventual clinching. The Yankees finally won.
Despite predictions that it would flower with the cold war's end, the United Nations is strapped for cash and racked by self-doubt. Page A8.
After seven years of negotiations, world trade talks are falling apart this autumn, which could hurt the world economy, damage confidence in the financial markets and provoke a crisis in the European Community. President Clinton and leaders of the world's other large industrial democracies contended in Tokyo in July that the talks were back on track, after their trade ministers agreed to lower tariffs on many manufactured goods. But with less than three months until President Clinton's special negotiating authority effectively expires, the talks have slowed to a crawl because of renewed squabbling over farm subsidies.
When the winner of New York City's mayoral race takes the oath of office on Jan. 1, he will face an immediate challenge: preventing a budget crisis. That is the consensus among experts on the city's fiscal affairs, who say that without major changes, there will be shortfalls of at least $2 billion a year in the next three budgets.
Seeking to shore up its eroding control of the market for the fastest computers, Cray Research Inc. will introduce its first massively parallel computer on Monday. Massively parallel processors are made by chaining together hundreds or thousands of inexpensive commercial microprocessors. They have been making inroads into the supercomputer business that Cray dominated in the 1980's.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 22, 1993, covering September 27, 1993.
Garth Brooks
Mariah Carey
Billy Joel
Blind Melon
Soundtrack
1993Lisandro Magallán, Argentinian footballer[†]
Lisandro Magallán is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a centre-back.
1993Ryan Murray, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Ryan James Murray is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who is currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Murray was drafted second overall by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft. Murray won the Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in 2022.
1993Monica Puig, Puerto Rican-American tennis player[†]
Monica Puig Marchán is a Puerto Rican former professional tennis player. She is the first Puerto Rican in history to win a gold medal at the Olympics while representing Puerto Rico, having done so in 2016 at the women's singles event. She is also a Central American and Caribbean champion and Pan American silver medalist.
1993Vinnie Sunseri, American football player[†]
Vincent Salvatore Sunseri is an American football coach and former player who is the safeties coach and co-defensive coordinator for the Florida Gators. He played professionally as a safety in the National Football League (NFL).
1993Jimmy Doolittle, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1896)[†]
James Harold Doolittle was an American military general and aviation pioneer who received the Medal of Honor for his raid on Japan during World War II, known as the Doolittle Raid in his honor. He made early coast-to-coast flights and record-breaking speed flights, won many flying races, and helped develop and flight-test instrument flying. According to the US FAA, he was the first pilot ever to perform a successful instrument flight.
1993Fraser MacPherson, Canadian saxophonist and educator (born 1928)[†]
John Fraser MacPherson CM was a Canadian jazz musician from Saint Boniface, Manitoba.
1993The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.[†]
The Fall of Sukhumi took place on 27 September 1993, at the hands of the separatists, in the course of the War in Abkhazia. The taking of the city came with a massacre of hundreds of Georgians, and it became part of a violent ethnic cleansing campaign carried out by the separatists. The massacre was perpetrated against Georgian civilians of Sukhumi, mainly by militia forces of Abkhaz separatists and North Caucasian allies.
In 1993, the world population was approximately 5,591,544,797 people[†]