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In 1996, the world population was approximately 5,842,055,734 people[â ]
1996Choi Yu-jin, South Korean singer and actress[â ]
Choi Yu-jin, known mononymously as Yujin, is a South Korean singer and actress. Originally debuting in 2015 as a member of the South Korean girl group CLC, she is a member and leader of Kep1er after finishing in third place in the final episode of the survival show Girls Planet 999. She began her acting career in 2016 in a supporting role in the Naver TV web drama, Nightmare High.
1996Julio UrĂas, Mexican baseball player[â ]
Julio CĂ©sar UrĂas Acosta, nicknamed "El Culichi", is a Mexican professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. The Los Angeles Dodgers signed him in 2012, and he made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut in 2016. UrĂas led the National League in wins in 2021 and earned run average in 2022. He was named to the All-MLB Second Team in 2021 and 2022. In September 2023, following his second arrest for domestic violence, UrĂas was placed on administrative leave by MLB. He has not pitched in MLB since and is currently a free agent.
1996Arthur Melo, Brazilian footballer[â ]
Arthur Henrique Ramos de Oliveira Melo, known as Arthur Melo or simply Arthur, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Juventus.
1996Samuel Moutoussamy, Congolese footballer[â ]
Samuel Albert Alain Arcade Moutoussamy is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for SĂŒper Lig club Sivasspor. Born in France, he plays for the DR Congo national team.
1996Victor Ambartsumian, Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist and academic (born 1908)[â ]
Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian was a Soviet and Armenian astrophysicist and science administrator. One of the 20th century's leading astronomers, he is widely regarded as the founder of theoretical astrophysics in the Soviet Union.
1996Mark Gruenwald, American author and illustrator (born 1953)[â ]
Mark Eugene Gruenwald was an American comic book writer, editor, and occasional penciler known for his long association with Marvel Comics.
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Problems besetting $354 million monorail at Newark International Airport discussed (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
Mark Brooks wins PGA Championship in one-hole playoff; photo (M)
New Jersey Historical Society is putting together exhibition of history of New Jersey teenagers at its museum being built in Newark(New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
Backlog in New Jersey's courts decreased for fifth year; number of civil cases more than a year old was 67,578, down from more than 81,000 three years ago (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
Former Colorado Gov Richard D Lamm, who is challenging Ross Perot for Reform Party's Presidential nomination, opens first stage of its bicoastal convention in Long Beach, Calif, with charge that major parties 'are recklessly driving this country into bankruptcy'; Perot calls for end to 'negative, mean-spirited, mud-slinging politics'; photos (M)
Bob Dole and his running mate, Jack Kemp, arrive in San Diego for Republican convention; Dole attacks Pres Clinton in speech that signals bruising fall campaign in which Republicans will appeal to anxiety of middle-class voters; Patrick J Buchanan, at rally near Escondido, proclaims 'truce of San Diego,' but does not endorse Dole; Kemp criticizes Clinton for opposing Dole's plan to cut taxes and balance budget; photo (M)
Russian troops fight desperately but in vain to regain control of Grozny in one of most violent days of 20-month war in Chechnya; Pres Boris N Yeltsin convenes meeting of his top advisers in Kremlin and sends his national security adviser Aleksandr I Lebed to region; Yeltsin orders Prime Min Viktor S Chernomyrdin to find cause of 'gross miscalculations' that led to succesful rebel offensive; map; photo (M) y
Guatemala's Maya majority is beginning to flex its muscles after five centuries of bitter repression; Maya leaders are taking advantage of political opening that has accompanied winding down of country's 35-year civil war; they are demanding new relationship with democratic Government that promises to end racial discrimination and that sees Mayas not as subversive force but as voting bloc to be courted; photo; map (M)
Minor league baseball is threatening to become major growth industry in New Jersey; new ball parks have opened in Trenton and Sussex County in last three years; Bridgewater Planning Board to hear proposal for new stadium (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
New York Times/CBS News Poll finds that almost one in five delegates to Republican convention in San Diego is millionaire; delegates are also more likely to call themselves 'very conservative' than were delegates to Republican convention eight years ago; they are even more conservative than their own candidate, Bob Dole; survey points up problem Dole has wrestled with all summer: how to sustain enthusiasm of party's core conservative activists, while still appealing to moderate Republicans, Democrats and independents to get enough votes to win in Nov (M)
Divers recover last of four luggage containers that Trans World Airlines Flight 800 was carrying in its forward cargo hold; investigators say that like others, it shows no visible evidence of damage from bomb; finding throws serious doubt into leading theory of investigators, that jetliner was brought down by bomb secreted in passengers' luggage; drawing; photo (M)
Signs have emerged of severe split in one of world's most brutal guerrilla groups, Khmer Rouge, blamed by some researchers for deaths of as many as two million Cambodians during their four-year rule in late 1970's; turmoil recently burst into open with flurry of clandestine radio broadcasts by guerrillas condemning some of their own leaders and statements by Government claiming that thousands of rebel soldiers are about to defect; apparent turmoil comes two months after still unconfirmed reports of death of Khmer Rouge leader, Pol Pot; map; photo (M)