20 stycznia 1996 roku była sobota pod znakiem zodiaku ♑. Był to 19 dzień roku. Prezydentem Stanów Zjednoczonych był William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Jeśli urodziłeś się w tym dniu, masz 30 lata. Twoje ostatnie urodziny upłynęły wtorek, 20 stycznia 2026 roku, 149 dni temu. Twoje następne urodziny przypadają na dzień środa, 20 stycznia 2027 roku, w 215 dni. Żyłeś przez 11 107 dni lub około 266 573 godzin lub około 15 994 389 minut lub około 959 663 340 sekund.
20th of January 1996 News
Wiadomości, które pojawiły się na pierwszej stronie New York Times 20 stycznia 1996 roku
The New Great Wall of China
Date: 20 January 1996
In yet another distressing effort to strengthen its authoritarian power, the Chinese Government has placed new and self-injuring curbs on the flow of information from the rest of the world. All news services providing economic data in China are now to be "supervised" by the official New China News Agency. A benign reading is that the agency is less interested in enforcing ideological conformity than in exacting a generous user fee from Western providers, chiefly Reuters and Dow Jones. But all too probably, the official "supervisors" will soon be blotting out unwelcome information. Such a backward leap would bode ill for China, and for its soon-to-be subjects in Hong Kong. In Beijing, the Foreign Ministry insists the "new administrative policy" will by no means influence economic reforms or China's opening to the outside world. But nobody yet knows how this policy will be carried out, especially under an aging leadership that seems oblivious to the information revolution that is reshaping the world.
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FIRST PERSON;Life in the War Zone: Bordom and Terror, Bullets and Hepatitis
Date: 21 January 1996
By Donatella Lorch
Donatella Lorch
JUST hours before he was killed, Dan Eldon, a 22-year-old American photographer for Reuters, crouched on the roof of the Sahafi Hotel in Mogadishu and watched American helicopter gunships swoop down on a nearby Somali house and blow it to bits. He joked with some other journalists about skipping the bombing and going to breakfast, but they headed directly for the site. The house was littered with scores of bodies, and the frenzied crowd surrounding it turned on Dan and three colleagues, beating and stoning them to death.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 20 January 1996
International 2-6
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 21 January 1996
International 3-11
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News About the Magazine
Date: 21 January 1996
Lives, a new weekly column of personal stories about topical subjects, will begin in next Sunday's Magazine. It will succeed the Hers and About Men columns, which have alternated in the Magazine since 1988, and which conclude with today's Hers column by Karen Stabiner about her friend Harry. The change reflects the evolution of an era. From the first Hers column, by the novelist Lois Gould, in the Home Section in March 1977, readers and writers have responded with passion and by the thousands. Hers offered a forum where women, and not a few men, could share the shocks and nuances of change set loose by the modern feminist tide: The bracing chill of autonomy brought by divorce or death. . . . Whether a bride should keep her maiden name. . . . What kind of toys to press on boys. . . . The unease felt by a lesbian couple registering together for a motel room. . . . Resentment toward mothers, or fathers, for failing to encourage girls. . . . Exploration of electric feelings about a father's incestuous touch or a savage rape.
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Egypt Downplays News Of Sheik's Sentencing
Date: 20 January 1996
By Douglas Jehl
Douglas Jehl
After years in which Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman was a symbol of this country's turbulence, the apparent end of the militant cleric's career has been met here with a satisfaction that is reflected in official silence. In not gloating at the life sentence given to the sheik in a New York courtroom on Wednesday for his role in an assassination and bombing plot, the Government may have been reluctant to inflame those who may sympathize with Mr. Abdel Rahman's view that the trial against him was part of a Western war against Islam.
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COMPANY NEWS;COMPANY'S SHARES RISE ON EARNINGS REPORT
Date: 20 January 1996
Bloomberg Business News
Bloomberg News
Shares of the Microsoft Corporation rose strongly yesterday after the software company reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings on strong sales of its Windows 95 operating system. Shares of the world's biggest personal computer software company gained $4.25, to $91.875, in Nasdaq trading of 14.2 million shares. Microsoft said its second-quarter profit from operations rose a better-than-expected 45 percent. The company also reported strong sales of its general business programs, consumer software and networking software. At least three Wall Street analysts raised their rating on Microsoft's stock because of bullish projections about the company's earning growth for the rest of the fiscal year.
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COMPANY NEWS;SHARES OF CEPHALON SINK ON F.D.A. MOVE
Date: 20 January 1996
Dow Jones
Dow Jones
Shares of Cephalon Inc. plunged 34 percent yesterday after the company said late on Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration had declined to permit expanded clinical tests of its treatment for Lou Gehrig's disease. The company's stock had risen sharply in expectation of speedy F.D.A. approval of broader trials for the drug, Myotrophin. The Chiron Corporation, which is Cephalon's marketing partner for Myotrophin, has also benefited from investor optimism. The F.D.A.'s concerns apparently are related to a trial in Europe, reported in November, in which the mortality rate of treated patients was nearly twice that of patients taking a placebo. Cephalon stock was down $12.50, to $23.375 a share, in Nasdaq trading. Chiron's shares were down $5.50, at $104 each. Lou Gehrig's disease is a progressive paralysis.
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COMPANY NEWS;EDISON BROTHERS SELLS ENTERTAINMENT UNITS
Date: 20 January 1996
Reuters
Edison Brothers Stores Inc. agreed yesterday to sell its Edison Brothers Mall Entertainment and Horizon Entertainment to a unit of Tokyo-based Namco Ltd. Edison, which filed for protection from creditors under bankruptcy law in November, said Namco Cybertainment Inc. submitted the higher of two bids for the subsidiaries at an auction held on Thursday. The deal is subject to approval by United States Bankruptcy Court in Delaware. The Edison subsidiaries operate about 128 game rooms and entertainment centers. Edison operates about 2,700 apparel, footwear and entertainment specialty stores and is closing about 500 stores by Jan. 31.
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COMPANY NEWS;QUORUM HEALTH SHARES RISE ON MERGER TALKS
Date: 20 January 1996
Dow Jones
Dow Jones
The shares of Quorum Health Group Inc. rose yesterday after the company said that it was in merger talks and that it expected to report second-quarter earnings that exceed Wall Street estimates. Quorum, a hospital operator, said the merger discussions were with an undis closed health care company. At yesterday's closing Nasdaq price of $27, up $1.125, Quorum has a market value of $1.29 billion. The company said it expected to post net income of $16.9 million, or 34 cents a share, for the quarter ended Dec. 31. That would be a 23 percent gain over the year-ago $13.8 million, or 28 cents a share.
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