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Joining the race to establish the nation's fifth broadcast television network, Warner Brothers announced yesterday that it was creating WB, to be headed by Jamie Kellner, the former president of the Fox Broadcasting Company. The network will be built around six independent stations owned by the Tribune Company, including WPIX, Channel 11 in New York, and KTLA in Los Angeles.
Rudolph William Giuliani, a tavern owner's son who challenged Wall Street, political corruption and the mob as one of the nation's fiercest prosecutors, edged out David N. Dinkins last night for the right to take on municipal government and become the 107th Mayor of New York City -- the first Republican to lead it in a generation.
Christine Todd Whitman harnessed lingering anger over taxes and scored an upset victory over Gov. Jim Florio last night to become the first woman to be Governor of New Jersey. "The people of New Jersey have spoken more eloquently than I can," Mrs. Whitman told a cheering crowd at her campaign headquarters near Princeton about 12:25 this morning, only moments after she received a telephone call from Mr. Florio in which he conceded defeat.
Mayor David N. Dinkins took his defeat for re-election with a warm expression of gratitude for his own place in city history and emphatic pleas to his supporters -- in the face of their own booing to the contrary -- that "we will help Rudy." "Our city is in his hands," Mr. Dinkins declared with finality in urging citywide support for Mayor-elect Rudolph W. Giuliani in a concession speech of grace and consolation before a crushed throng of his supporters.
BY day, Riva Rothman is a data processing manager at the Consolidated Edison Company in New York. Dressed in silk blouses and conservative suits, she supervises the installation of computer networks for the utility. After hours, though, she drums. "Drumming provides balance in my life," said Ms. Rothman, who in four years has acquired more than 40 percussion instruments, which fill her one-bedroom apartment in an East Side high-rise. "It helps me to concentrate, it clears my head and it connects me to rhythms of all kinds around me. The energies generated from drumming are very primal."
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 3, 1993, covering November 3, 1993.
Pearl Jam
Rush
Meat Loaf
Nirvana
Eazy-E
1993Kenny Golladay, American football player[†]
Kenny Golladay is an American former professional football wide receiver. He has previously played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Detroit Lions and New York Giants. He played college football for the North Dakota Fighting Hawks and Northern Illinois Huskies and was selected by the Lions in the third round of the 2017 NFL draft. He led the NFL in receiving touchdowns with the Lions in 2019.
1993Martina Trevisan, Italian tennis player[†]
Martina Trevisan is an Italian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of No. 18 by the WTA, achieved in May 2023, and a best doubles ranking of No. 138. For Italy, she was finalist in the 2023 Billie Jean King Cup and won the 2024 Billie Jean King Cup.
1993Léon Theremin, Russian physicist and engineer, invented the Theremin (born 1895)[†]
Lev Sergeyevich Termen, better known as Leon Theremin, was a Russian inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and the first to be mass-produced. He also worked on early television research. His secret listening device, "The Thing", hung for seven years in plain view in the United States ambassador's Moscow office and enabled Soviet agents to eavesdrop on secret conversations.
In 1993, the world population was approximately 5,591,544,797 people[†]