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In 1995, the world population was approximately 5,758,878,982 people[†]
1995Bryce Alford, American basketball player[†]
Bryce Michael Alford is an American former professional basketball player who is an assistant coach for the Oklahoma City Blue of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins. He set school records for the most three-point field goals made in a game, season, and career. He earned first-team all-conference honors in the Pac-12 as a senior in 2016–17.
1995Leonard Fournette, American football player[†]
Leonard Joseph Fournette III is an American professional football running back. He played college football for the LSU Tigers, and was selected by the Jacksonville Jaguars with the fourth overall pick in the 2017 NFL draft.
1995Samu Castillejo, Spanish footballer[†]
Samuel "Samu" Castillejo Azuaga is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a winger for Malaysia Super League club Johor Darul Ta'zim.
1995Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)[†]
Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt was a German biochemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939 for his "work on sex hormones." He initially rejected the award in accordance with government policy, but accepted it in 1949 after World War II. He was President of the Max Planck Society from 1960 to 1972. He was also the first, in 1959, to discover the structure of the sex pheromone of silkworms, which he named bombykol.
1995Ron Luciano, American baseball player and umpire (born 1937)[†]
Ronald Michael Luciano was an American professional baseball umpire who worked in Major League Baseball's American League from 1969 to 1979. He was known for his flamboyant style, clever aphorisms, and a series of published collections of anecdotes from his colorful career.
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Rescue teams dug frantically through the rubble in western Japan today and contained huge fires that had raged out of control and darkened the skies with smoke, the aftermath of a catastrophic earthquake on Tuesday in which thousands of people were killed or injured. The earthquake lasted just 20 seconds but heaved trains on their sides, toppled elevated highways and knocked over buildings, some as cleanly as if they had been severed with a knife.
He is retired now -- no more of the murderous gangland mayhem the Federal Government says he used to mastermind. He is, his son says, "somewhat frail." But not too frail to put on a trimly tailored tuxedo and celebrate with 300 friends and relatives: Joseph Bonanno is 90 years old today. Actually, Mr. Bonanno had his revelry a few days early. On Saturday, Mr. Bonanno's three children rented a ballroom in Tucson, Ariz., 2,070 miles from the scenes of what the Government says were major crimes like attempted murder, gambling and narcotics trafficking.
The Kmart Corporation yesterday stripped its chairman, Joseph E. Antonini, of that title and gave it to one of the more outspoken board members, Donald S. Perkins. At a news conference at the company's headquarters in Troy, Mich., Mr. Perkins said that while he would spend about a third of his time on Kmart business, Mr. Antonini, who continues as the president and chief executive, would keep running Kmart's operations. Still, many analysts speculated that the events foreshadowed Mr. Antonini's eventual end at Kmart.
AS Maureen and Bob Gold proudly poured pale ale at a tailgate party at this year's Rose Bowl, their hospitality raised a few eyebrows when they told their guests that they had made the beer themselves. But by half time, they were rationing their concoction, which they called Victory Ale to commemorate Pennsylvania State University's winning football season. Both Mr. and Mrs. Gold are Penn State graduates.
American industry ran at its highest level in 15 years last month as an unexpectedly strong burst of year-end activity pushed capacity utilization to 85.4 percent, the Federal Reserve reported today. With output of the nation's factories, mines and utilities rising 1 percent, the biggest gain in two years, many analysts said the industrial sector now had such potential for reigniting inflation that the central bank could not avoid further increases in short-term interest rates.
Acknowledging for the first time that the city schools cannot handle further funding cuts before the summer, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said yesterday that the city would borrow money to help close its budget gap instead of turning to the Board of Education to find savings this school year. But the plan prompted a major credit-rating agency to put the city on a negative credit watch, which is one step short of lowering the city's credit rating. The agency, Standard & Poor's, said the city's intention to save $120 million by borrowing to pay off debt owed on Feb. 1 is a fiscal gimmick that simply shifts the cost to future years.
Martin Halpin and his family left the Bronx two decades ago and moved to this affluent riverfront village to take advantage of one of the most alluring trappings of suburbia: good public schools. But a few years ago, Mr. Halpin started feeling crushed under the weight of escalating school taxes. His last tax bill climbed to roughly $7,500, and he has had to put off expensive house repairs, like replacing the plumbing in the bathrooms of his modest split-level home.
Credit Warning for New York Mayor Giuliani's move to borrow to close a budget gap prompted a bond-rating agency to put the city's credit rating under watch. Page B1. Cease-Fire Possible Russia and a secessionist region agreed on the timing for a cease-fire, but as the fighting continued, few people expect it to happen. Page A10. Merrill Lynch Blamed The former treasurer of Orange County, Calif., blamed Merrill Lynch for an investment strategy that led to a $2 billion loss. Page D1. U.S. Industry's Strong Pace High production levels, and their inflationary impact, revived forecasts of an interest-rate rise. Page D1.
MANDY PATINKIN'S anger rises like the steam from a nice hot bowl of chicken soup. "They're trying to break our legs!" he yells, his deep-throated tenor bouncing off the walls of his favorite Upper West Side nova emporium, Barney Greengrass (the Sturgeon King), where the owners allow him to charge an onion bagel extra-well toasted with nova and fresh-squeezed orange juice to his personal account, a luxury afforded to few in this life.
Tamio Arima sat in the chilly hall of an elementary school and seemed overwhelmed, not by the debris of the buildings that had crumbled around him, but by the size of his losses. "All I can see in my future is darkness," said Mr. Arima, a 47-year-old businessman. "I've lost everything, and I must support my wife and daughter. I can't imagine what I'm going to do. I don't even have my own place to sleep in now."
In what Federal prosecutors called a major blow against Chinese organized crime, the powerful former president of a Chinatown fraternal and business organization was convicted of murder, extortion and racketeering. The authorities say such groups, known as tongs, often work with criminal gangs to protect and expand their businesses. Article, page B3.
THERE are chefs, like Francesco Antonucci, who say that very, very little kitchen equipment is required to turn out wonderful food. "All you really need," said Mr. Antonucci, the chef and a partner at Remi, an Italian restaurant in midtown Manhattan, "are two knives and two pots and pans."