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In 1994, the world population was approximately 5,675,551,255 people[†]
1994Jessica Pegula, American tennis player[†]
Jessica Pegula is an American professional tennis player. She has career-high rankings in singles of world No. 3, achieved October 2022, and in doubles of world No. 1, set on 11 September 2023. Pegula reached the singles finals of the 2024 US Open and the 2023 WTA Finals. In doubles, she reached the final of the 2022 French Open, partnering with Coco Gauff, and the mixed doubles final of the 2023 US Open with Austin Krajicek.
1994Earl Sweatshirt, American rapper[†]
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile, known professionally as Earl Sweatshirt, is an American rapper and record producer. Kgositsile was originally known by the moniker Sly Tendencies when he began rapping in 2008, but changed his name when Tyler, the Creator invited him to join his alternative hip hop collective Odd Future in late 2009. He is the son of South African political poet Keorapetse Kgositsile.
1994Jean Sablon, French singer and actor (born 1906)[†]
Jean Sablon was a French singer, songwriter, composer and actor. He was one of the first French singers to immerse himself in jazz. The man behind several songs by big French and American names, he was the first to use a microphone on a French stage in 1936. Star of vinyl records and the radio, he left France in 1937 to take a contract with NBC in the United States. His radio and later televised shows made him a huge star in America. Henceforth the most international of French singers among his contemporaries, he became an ambassador of French songwriting and dedicated his career to touring internationally, occasionally returning to France to appear on stage. His sixty-one year career came to an end in 1984.
1994Dinah Shore, American actress and singer (born 1916)[†]
Dinah Shore was an American singer, actress, television personality, and the chart-topping female vocalist of the 1940s. She rose to prominence as a recording artist during the Big Band era. She achieved even greater success a decade later in television, mainly as the host of a series of variety programs for the Chevrolet automobile company.
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New evidence strongly suggests that the human race migrated from its African cradle to Asia nearly one million years earlier than most scientists believed. The discovery will force anthropologists to re-examine some long-held beliefs about how and where evolutionary turning points made mankind master of the world. In a paper presented yesterday at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco, Dr. Carl C. Swisher 3d of the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, Calif., reported that skull fragments of Homo erectus found some time ago on the Indonesian island of Java are up to 1.8 million years old -- as old as the oldest Homo erectus fossils ever found in Africa.
Now is the winter of our dislocated knee. And our broken arm and our separated shoulder and our unstable fracture of the fibula. Not to mention our intertrochanteric fracture and our cracking of the distal radius.
The F.B.I. is accusing Aldrich Hazen Ames, the Central Intelligence Agency officer arrested on espionage charges this week, of betraying at least 10 Soviet citizens working for American intelligence, Government officials said today. All were convicted of treason and executed in Moscow by the Soviet authorities, they said. The agents, reported to have been identified by Mr. Ames, included the first two intelligence officers the Federal Bureau of Investigation were able to recruit from the Soviet Embassy in Washington and a senior Soviet counterintelligence official in Moscow responsible for catching American spies.
NEW YORK CITY GIULIANI SEEKS NEW BUDGET POWERS Hoping to wield greater control of New York City's finances, Mayor Giuliani said that he would seek new powers to oversee the budgets of independent agencies that receive money from the city. B3. AN ORDER TO EXECUTE A JOURNALIST A confessed murder conspirator and drug trafficker testified that he relayed an order from Colombia to kill Manuel de Dios Unanue, the crusading antidrug journalist slain execution style in Queens two years ago. B3.
Bosnia's warring Muslims and Croats agreed tonight to a cease-fire aimed at restoring peace and order to wide areas of central and southern Bosnia and Herzegovina. The agreement, to take effect at noon Friday, is intended partly to break the siege that Croatian fighters have waged for nine months on the Muslim quarter in the ancient city of Mostar, where the toll of suffering, including an estimated 2,000 dead on the two sides, parallels the worst moments of the Serbian siege of Sarajevo.
WHAT do Michael Jordan, Hubert de Givenchy and the Russian space program have in common? All added value to the pedigrees of items auctioned last year at record prices. And while public sales have always thrived on the glamour derived from the names of owners past and present, collectors in 1993 found a wider range than ever of offbeat treasures on the block, from college basketball jerseys to space capsules. For this reason, the sober 90's auction scene became positively scintillating on occasion last year, and not just for items with august pedigrees. More than half the auction records were rewritten by items made in the 20th century. Fans of the flicks continue to buy the finest in Hollywood memorabilia: Oscars, for instance. At sports memorabilia sales, the feverish pitch of bidding seen in the late 1980's is gone. But uncommon items -- the college jerseys of basketball stars and documents relating to such ancient heros as Babe Ruth -- continue to rack up records.
In an unusually pointed rebuke of his own party's leader, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey charged today that President Clinton's hard line on Japan trade policy was "gratuitous brinkmanship" that puts the United States' long-term economic and strategic interests at risk in pursuit of domestic political gain. "I mean, it's kind of Japan-bashing for domestic constituency, without regard to the long-term strategic interests of the country, not even achieving the short-term objective, which is getting the bilateral trade deficit down," the Senator said in an interview in his office that he solicited to talk about Japanese trade.
The jurors began deliberations in the World Trade Center bombing case yesterday after the judge instructed them to put aside their political beliefs, their sympathies and prejudices and to decide the case solely on the basis of the evidence presented in the courtroom. "It is time to do our part in the administration of justice in this case," the judge, Kevin T. Duffy, said as he signaled the end of nearly five months of testimony and lawyers' arguments, during which the jury heard from 207 witnesses and watched as 1,003 exhibits were put into evidence.
A Federal court jury found the Microsoft Corporation guilty of patent infringement today and awarded $120 million in damages to a small California company that had accused Microsoft of appropriating its technology for increasing the storage capacity of computer disks. The judgment in favor of Stac Electronics Inc. came in the first patent infringement suit against Microsoft ever to reach a trial.
In a sharp rebuke to President Boris N. Yeltsin, the Russian Parliament approved a sweeping amnesty today that will probably free those accused of leading the armed insurrection against his Government in October. Mr. Yeltsin cannot veto the resolution or legally prevent the release of any of the prisoners covered. Thus Mr. Yeltsin's archenemies, former Vice President Aleksandr V. Rutskoi and the Speaker of the old Parliament, Ruslan I. Khasbulatov, could be back on the streets of Moscow as early as Thursday.
'Aladdin Takes the A Train'? New York subway officials are refusing to let producers film scenes in the subway that the Transit Authority thinks are too violent. Page B1. Microsoft Loses Patent Case Microsoft was found guilty in a patent infringement suit and ordered to pay $120 millionin damages to a small California company. Page D1. Jury Gets Trade Center Case The jurors began deliberations in the World TradeCenter bombing case after the judge instructed them to put aside their political beliefs. Page B1.
After months of frustrating negotiations, the Bell Atlantic Corporation and Tele-Communications Inc. said last night that they had terminated plans for the largest merger in history. The $33 billion transaction, announced four months ago, would have joined Bell's regional telephone business with the vast cable operations of Tele-Communications and those of a third company, the Liberty Media Corporation. The merger would have radically altered the landscape of the telecommunications industry by quickening the development of new technologies for home entertainment and information.