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In 1993, the world population was approximately 5,591,544,797 people[â ]
1993Haruka Ishida, Japanese singer and actress[â ]
Haruka Ishida is a Japanese actress, voice actress and a former member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. She has been a co-host on the variety show Dream Creator on TV Tokyo. and has voiced on a handful of anime shows, including Nobunaga the Fool where she voiced Bianchi ÈepeĆ.
1993Kostas Stafylidis, Greek footballer[â ]
Konstantinos "Kostas" Stafylidis is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a left-back. He has represented the Greece national team.
1993Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (born 1949)[â ]
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a Colombian drug lord, narcoterrorist, and politician who was the founder and leader of the MedellĂn Cartel. Dubbed the "King of Cocaine", Escobar was one of the wealthiest criminals in history, having amassed an estimated net worth of US$30Â billion by his deathâequivalent to ~$80 billion as of 2025âwhile his drug cartel monopolized the cocaine trade into the US in the 1980s and early 1990s.
1993Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed by police in MedellĂn.[â ]
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Peru and Ecuador to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest. Colombia is divided into 32 departments. The Capital District of BogotĂĄ is also the country's largest city hosting the main financial and cultural hub. Other major urban areas include MedellĂn, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta, CĂșcuta, IbaguĂ©, Villavicencio and Bucaramanga. It covers an area of 1,141,748 square kilometers and has a population of around 52 million. Its rich cultural heritageâincluding language, religion, cuisine, and artâreflects its history as a colony, fusing cultural elements brought by immigration from Europe and the Middle East, with those brought by the African diaspora, as well as with those of the various Indigenous civilizations that predate colonization. Spanish is the official language, although Creole, English and 64 other languages are recognized regionally.
1993Space Shuttle program: STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.[â ]
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft where it was the only item funded for development, as a proposed nuclear shuttle in the plan was cancelled in 1972. It flew 135 missions and carried 355 astronauts from 16 countries, many on multiple trips.
The police said yesterday that they had arrested a 15-year-old boy and two 14-year-old boys in last week's killing of an employee of a Chinese takeout restaurant in the Bronx who was shot when she refused to surrender $19 during a robbery attempt. As residents of the area mulled over news of the shooting of Siew Kin Yeo last Wednesday, and rumors that her killers were young teen-agers, investigators began getting leads on suspects and came up with the names of three youths who were known to hang out in front of the restaurant, said Deputy Chief Edward Cappello, the commander of Bronx detectives.
Cuomo Picks Hispanic Judge Governor Cuomo plans to nominate a State Supreme Court justice to New York's top court who would be the first Hispanic there. Page B1. Pressing for Ulster Peace To generate moves for Northern Irish peace, British and Irish leaders will meet in Dublin on Friday. Page A10.
Gov. Mario M. Cuomo said today that he would nominate Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick, a state Supreme Court justice in Manhattan who grew up in Washington Heights, to be the first Hispanic judge on the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals. If approved by the State Senate, Justice Ciparick, 51 years old, will replace Associate Judge Stewart H. Hancock Jr., a Republican from the Syracuse area, who is required to step down at the end of the year because he has reached the mandatory retirement age of 70.
The white-naped crane was supposed to be the star of the show at the Bronx Zoo. Cameras clicked. Klieg lights glared. Birds preened and strutted and fluttered. All except the white-naped cranes, an endangered species not to be confused with the black- or the red-necked crane or the whooping crane or the construction crane towering above the nearest building site.
IN the "old days" of the 1960's, 50's and 40's, pregnant teen-agers were pariahs, banished from schools, ostracized by their peers or scurried out of town to give birth in secret. Today, pregnant teen-agers are even beginning to be viewed by some of their peers as role models. No longer are they shunned or ridiculed, but supported and embraced in their decisions to give birth, keep their babies, continue their educations and participate in school activities. Some adults, however, including many who in their youth considered the treatment of pregnant girls detestable, are nevertheless shocked by these attitudes.
GIULIANI NAMES A DEPUTY MAYOR In the first appointment to his administration, Mayor-elect Giuliani named as deputy mayor Ninfa Segarra, one of the four Board of Education members who had battled former Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez over his efforts to impose a curriculum that discussed homosexuality and AIDS. A1. Ninfa Segarra has gone from protester to political power. B8.
LIKE so many fireflies on a warm summer evening, the beams from thousands of flashlights danced excitedly over the frozen fields of the Newark Antiques Show, about 150 miles north of London. Dawn isn't even thinking about breaking at 5:30 on a cold October morning, but dealers from all over the world, along with knowledgeable collectors and amateurs, have joined the chase on the first day of England's largest antiques show, when the best stuff is there. Twelve thousand vendors, who had been lined up all night, sleeping in their cars and vans and trucks, had five more hours to wait before they could officially set up their booths in the fields of the county fairground.
For the paratroops of the 39th Air Assault Brigade, the hilltop compound here would have been the jump-off point for a Soviet invasion of Western Europe. Now it belongs to Ukraine, which is trying to shape remnants of the Soviet Army into a force it can truly call its own. Col. Mykhailo Koval, the commander of the base, wears the blue beret of Ukrainian air mobile troops. But the colonel concedes that this new army remains to be taught "that it is honorable to defend a Ukrainian motherland."
The leading militant Hindu political party in India has suffered a devastating setback in its attempt to harness anti-Muslim sentiment and take control of the Government, according to nearly complete returns from state elections held Sunday. The election results were a reversal of a trend widely assumed to be inexorable only six months ago, when the Bharatiya Janata Party appeared to be surging ahead in its effort to unite the Hindus in northern India around emotional religious issues. A Long Secular Tradition By basing its appeal on the centrality of one particular Hindu god, Ram, the party seemed to have found a way to wrest political power from the long-ruling Congress Party of Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao in the next national elections, which could have come as early as January.
"I think I'm the Picasso of mime," Marcel Marceau said between rehearsals for his new show, at the Espace Pierre Cardin off the Champs-Elysees. "At 80, Picasso was young. If I keep my fitness, I have at least another 10 years. It's an encouragement for all men in their 50's, 60's and 70's. I don't think of age. I think of life-force and creation." At 70, Mr. Marceau still has much to do. For the first time since his original mime company disbanded in 1964, a subsidy from France's Culture Ministry has enabled him to form a new troupe, this time made up of graduates of his own mime school. These young artists are his legacy. And they must succeed if his form of mime is to survive. Through them, his name can live on.
In the first appointment to his administration, Mayor-elect Rudolph W. Giuliani yesterday named as a deputy mayor Ninfa Segarra, one of the four Board of Education members who ousted Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez over his support for a curriculum that discussed homosexuality and AIDS. Mr. Giuliani praised Ms. Segarra as a "role model and a hero" who had been "able to stand up for what she believes in," referring to her defiance of Borough President Fernando Ferrer of the Bronx, who appointed her to the board. Both Mr. Ferrer and Mayor David N. Dinkins tried to force Ms. Segarra to resign after she aligned herself with the conservative majority of the board and became a political supporter of Mr. Giuliani.
An obituary yesterday about Marvin H. Bernstein, a businesman and philanthropist in New York, misspelled the name of the center for Holocaust studies based in Los Angeles for which he was a fund-raiser and contributor. It is the Simon Wiesenthal Center.