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In 1996, the world population was approximately 5,842,055,734 people[†]
1996Matt Renshaw, English-Australian cricketer[†]
Matthew Thomas Renshaw is an Australian international cricketer. He played eleven Tests for Australia between 2016 and 2018 as an opening batsman, and was recalled to the Test team in 2023. In domestic first-class cricket he plays for Queensland, and in the Big Bash League he has played for the Brisbane Heat and Adelaide Strikers.
1996Max Strus, American basketball player[†]
Max Strus is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) He played college basketball for the Lewis Flyers and the DePaul Blue Demons. Prior to the Cavaliers, Strus played two games for the Chicago Bulls in his rookie season before signing with the Miami Heat, with whom he reached the NBA Finals in 2023.
1996Shin Kanemaru, Japanese politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Japan (born 1914)[†]
Shin Kanemaru was a Japanese politician who was a significant figure in the political arena of Japan from the 1970s to the early 1990s. He was also Director General of the Japan Defense Agency from 1977 to 1978.
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YANKEES fans may not always find George Steinbrenner a bundle of laughs, but a hefty slice of America does. For the last two years, a character in the guise of the Yankees' principal owner has emerged as one of the funnier aspects of "Seinfeld," the hit sitcom.
Layoff notices went out yesterday to 149 engineers, scientists, clerks and machinists at Picatinny Arsenal as part of a $34 million budget cut by the United States Army. They will lose their jobs Aug. 3, said Peter J. Rowland, a spokesman for the military base. An additional 52 employees will be reassigned to lower-paying jobs. About 4,700 people work at the base, which is the second-largest employer in Morris County after AT&T.
The State Parole Board must reconsider a decision to extend a murderer's prison term for 10 years, a state appeals court ruled yesterday. William Tomaras, 37, who is serving a life sentence at the Southern State Correctional Facility for a 1975 fatal shooting, was denied parole in June 1994 because of what was described as his unruly behavior. The court said that 10 years was too long to wait for another parole hearing, The Associated Press reported.
A New Yorker's life is in many ways a balancing act between the city's glorious energy and its bruising intrusions, a hunt to snatch a private moment in busy Manhattan -- or indeed at home. Here are places to find privacy in the city -- and ways to create a sanctuary at home. By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF IT is a cautionary tale worthy of Edgar Allan Poe. Five years ago, Stewart Parr, a furniture dealer, moved into what many would consider the New York version of heaven -- a 3,500-square-foot loft on Vestry Street in Lower Manhattan. Its three windows, while small, had views clear to the Statue of Liberty.
In 1988, Miriam Nicole Sanders, James Gibbons and Glenn Haight worked side by side on an I.B.M. production line here, making computer chips and happy to be earning $7 an hour. Four years later, Miss Sanders was dead of cancer at the age of 24; Mr. Gibbons, now 28, had a testicular tumor and Mr. Haight, now 26, was fighting cancer.
Students from several science classes will be observers today when the State Health Department takes water samples from 23 Toms River schools. The water tests are part of a study examining the incidence of cancer in relation to Superfund toxic waste sites in the area.
Treasury Prices Fall On Strengthening Economy Treasury bond prices fell sharply on comments by Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, and a report on durable goods that both suggested that mounting economic growth could stave off further cuts in interest rates. Traders took the chance to sell, and the price of the 30-year bond dropped 1 8/32, to 91 8/32. Its yield rose to 6.68 percent, from 6.57 percent on Tuesday. [Page D20.]
The New Jersey Network announced yesterday that it had struck a deal with Atlantic Microsystems Inc. that could bring in as much as $3.6 million in revenue for the state's public broadcasting system. Under the agreement, NJN will lease its excess microwave transmission capacity to Atlantic Microsystems, which operates wireless cable television systems in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia. The arrangement comes at a time when Governor Whitman's proposed budget calls for state subsidies to the network to be cut to $3.8 million annually from the current $4.8 million. TERRY PRISTIN
Divorced parents seeking to move out of state confront judges in custody cases with a difficult decision, since granting the request often separates the remaining parent from the children. Now, the New York State Court of Appeals has returned to judges an extraordinary amount of discretion in deciding such cases, giving them several factors to consider in determining what is ultimately in the best interests of the child.
In late 1993, when Mayor-elect Rudolph W. Giuliani was interviewing candidates for police commissioner, he foretold a future moment after listening to a candidate named William J. Bratton make his pitch. "Rudy said that was the one who would get the job done," recalled Raymond B. Harding, the Liberal Party leader and one of the Mayor's top political advisers. "But he also joked that Bratton would never know who in fact was elected mayor."
Desmond Robinson said yesterday that he does not want a fellow police officer who was convicted on Tuesday of shooting him four times in the back to go to prison, adding that he plans to appeal for leniency at his sentencing. Mr. Robinson made the remarks after a jury found that the other officer, Peter Del-Debbio, was guilty of second-degree assault in the shooting. The verdict represented an extremely rare, and perhaps un precedented, instance of a police officer facing criminal penalties for shooting a fellow officer, and now Mr. Del-Debbio faces up to seven years in prison when sentenced on May 22. But Mr. Robinson said his fellow officer should be spared prison.
Yigal Amir, the man who shattered Israel when he assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, was sentenced to life imprisonment today after having been found guilty of murder. In a judgment laced with poetry and soaring prose, the presiding judge, Edmond Levy, brought two months of often technical proceedings to an emotional conclusion, grieving for the loss of a national leader and condemning Mr. Amir as someone who had "lost all semblance of humanity."