Gabrielle Christina Victoria Douglas (born December 31, 1995) is an American artistic gymnast. She is the 2012 Olympic all-around champion and the 2015 World all-around silver medalist. She was a member of the gold-winning teams at both the 2012 and the 2016 Summer Olympics, dubbed the "Fierce Five" and the "Final Five" by the media, respectively. She was also a member of the gold-winning American teams at the 2011 and the 2015 World Championships. Additionally, she is the 2012 U.S. champion on the uneven bars and the 2016 American Cup all-around champion.
Douglas is the first African American to win an Olympic individual all-around title, and the first U.S. gymnast to win gold in both the individual all-around and team competitions at the same Olympic Games. With a total of six Olympic and World Championship medals, she is the 11th most decorated U.S. female gymnast of all time.
Douglas's gymnastics successes have led to her life story adaptation in the 2014 Lifetime biopic film, The Gabby Douglas Story, as well as her own reality television series, Douglas Family Gold. She is the author of two books: Grace, Gold, and Glory: My Leap of Faith and Raising the Bar. In 2021, she won the first season of The Masked Dancer.
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Date: 01 January 1996
Reuters
The office of a Nigerian magazine critical of the military Government was set on fire today, the third attack in two weeks on opposition news organizations. Nigeria has come under the international criticism for human rights and freedom of speech abuses, and the criticism increased after the execution last moth of nine minority rights activists.
Date: 01 January 1996
By Bloomberg Business News
Bloomberg News
Five banks led by the investment bank Istituto Mobiliare Italiano paid $233 million to acquire 5.49 percent of Mediaset S.p.A., the television company controlled by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, I.M.I. said today. The sale is part of a plan to reduce Mr. Berlusconi's stake in Mediaset, which owns three national television networks, to less than 50 percent.
Date: 01 January 1996
By Bloomberg Business News
Bloomberg News
The Federal Signal Corporation said last week that it had agreed to pay $6.7 million to settle a lawsuit by Duravision Inc. and the Manufacturers Product Research Group of North America. The settlement will result in a charge of $4.2 million, or 9 cents a share, in the fourth quarter, the Chicago-based maker of safety and industrial equipment said. The company had net income of $13.8 million, or 30 cents a share, in the 1994 fourth quarter.
Date: 01 January 1996
By Bloomberg Business News
Bloomberg News
The Netscape Communications Corporation has replaced the popular Yahoo! Internet directory in prominent positions on computer screens with two competing companies who paid for the top spots. Architext Software's Excite and a product from the Infoseek Corporation now occupy the locations that customers see first when they use Netscape's software. Netscape's Navigator is used by an estimated 15 million people to browse through the global computer network.
Date: 31 December 1995
Reuters
Four campaigners for democracy have been arrested in Nigeria, but were released on bail, newspapers reported today. Pressure on Nigeria's military rulers to restore democracy has increased since last month, when they executed nine minority rights activists despite appeals from around the world.
Date: 31 December 1995
Reuters
Sri Lankan guerrillas said today that they would resume peace talks with the Government if Sri Lankan troops would leave the rebels' longtime stronghold. The rebel Voice of Tigers radio said the offer by the leader of the Tamil Tigers guerrillas, Velupillai Prabhakaran, was made in a statement on Friday. The Government troops took the town of Jaffna, the rebels' longtime stronghold, in early December after a siege over several weeks.
Date: 31 December 1995
AP
South Korea today appeared to ease its conditions for resuming food aid to North Korea, calling on its Government to prove that it is facing a crisis and to guarantee that donated rice will not be for the military. The comments by Foreign Minister Gong Ro Myung could open the way for shipments of rice to North Korea by South Korea, Japan and possibly the United States.
Date: 01 January 1996
By Malcolm Moran
Malcolm Moran
The system worked. In the moneyed little world of college football, where makers of tortilla chips, weed eaters, cell phones and cars provide generous donations to the entertainment division of American higher education, that rarest of entities -- A Consensus! -- has declared the new bowl alliance a success. At least this once. The alliance has created Nebraska versus Florida, the type of No. 1 versus No. 2 meeting frustrated viewers were deprived of a year ago. For the first time, a new overtime format will guarantee that the 25th Fiesta Bowl on Tuesday evening, the conclusion of a less-than-electric season, will produce a winner and champion, even if Nebraska's Tommie Frazier runs options and Florida's Danny Wuerffel throws passes all the way to "CBS This Morning."