The July 12, 1994 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♋. It was the 192 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 31 years old. Your last birthday was on the Saturday, July 12, 2025, 66 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, July 12, 2026, in 298 days. You have lived for 11,389 days, or about 273,358 hours, or about 16,401,505 minutes, or about 984,090,300 seconds.
12th of July 1994 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on July 12, 1994
NBC Asian Service
Date: 13 July 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The National Broadcasting Company, a unit of the General Electric Company, said today that it would begin an Asian business news satellite television service. NBC said its Asian business service, ANBC, will start broadcasting on Aug. 1 to 15 countries in Southeast Asia. It will feature business news programming from NBC's United States business news channel, CNBC. The NBC service will be competing with Asia Business News, a venture started eight months ago by Dow Jones & Company; Tele-Communications Inc., and Television New Zealand Ltd.
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Somali Kidnapping: Should Press Be Mum?
Date: 12 July 1994
By William Glaberson
William Glaberson
News organizations all over the world agreed not to report the kidnapping of a reporter for The Associated Press in Somalia during a 20-day captivity that ended on Friday. The kidnapping -- and the information that news organizations did not report it -- was first disclosed publicly in an Associated Press dispatch printed by many newspapers on Saturday. The reporter, Tina Susman, was released in good health on Friday.
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Public & Private; Order In The Court
Date: 13 July 1994
By Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen
Some years ago I stood behind a teacher with a gaggle of students who had approached a court officer at the Criminal Courts Building in lower Manhattan to ask how she could arrange to observe a trial. The officer told her what he later said many people failed to understand: that anyone can watch. It's that simple: the public usually has a right to be present at the process by which we find our fellows guilty or not of some infraction of law. Today, as the O. J. Simpson case has made clearer than ever before, we even have the right to watch from the comfort of our living rooms.
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Unisys in Link With Micron
Date: 12 July 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Unisys Corporation and Micron Technology Inc. said today that they were teaming up to develop products and services based on radio frequency identification technology. The products have potential applications in remote inventory tracking, personnel identification, commodity monitoring and toll collection for highways and rapid transit systems, the companies said in a statement.
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Marriott Hotels Bought
Date: 13 July 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Host Marriott Corporation said today that it had acquired three Marriott-brand hotels with 985 rooms for $45.2 million. The company, a Washington-based owner of hotel real estate and airport concessions, purchased hotels in South Bend, Ind.; Raleigh, N.C., and Tampa, Fla., that are managed by Marriott International Inc.
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AMERICAN BRANDS TO SELL DOLLOND & AITCHISON
Date: 13 July 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
American Brands Inc. said yesterday that it would sell Dollond & Aitchison Group P.L.C. to a management group led by CVC Capital Partners Ltd. for $146 million. Dolland & Aitchison, a unit of American Brands' Gallaher Ltd. group of companies, is the largest retail optical group in England and, with its operations in Italy, Spain and Ireland, is the second largest in the world. The agreement also includes the Keeler companies, which make optical instruments.
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DIGITAL TO ENTER VENTURE WITH GENERAL INSTRUMENT
Date: 12 July 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Digital Equipment Corporation and the General Instrument Corporation said yesterday that they had agreed to work together to create systems to provide television viewers with access to an array of information, including movies and home-shopping services. Digital Equipment, based in Maynard, Mass., will provide the server, or large computer, and the software for the system. General Instrument, one of the largest makers of equipment for cable television systems, will provide the set-top boxes that sit on television sets to allow access. General Instrument, based in Chicago, controls about 65 percent of the growing market for set-top boxes, a Digital spokeswoman said.
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ARCO TO SPEND $1 BILLION ON ALGERIAN OILFIELD
Date: 13 July 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Atlantic Richfield Company said yesterday that it had agreed to spend $1 billion over 25 years to develop a giant oilfield in Algeria. The agreement, expected to be made final by early 1995, would mark the first foreign investment for the country since it called for bids to develop its natural resources in 1991. For ARCO, the most domestically focused of the United States oil companies, developing the field about 450 southeast of Algiers would help shift its sources of oil abroad and away from the dwindling Prudhoe Bay field in Alaska.
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CHEVRON SAYS IT HAS A BUYER FOR HEADQUARTERS BUILDING
Date: 13 July 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Chevron Corporation said yesterday that it had found a buyer for its landmark headquarters building in San Francisco's financial district a year after putting the structure up for sale. Chevron declined to name the buyer or to provide terms of the sale, but it said it expects to complete the transaction in "the coming weeks." The company said it intended to continue to lease space at the building, at 225 Bush Street, for several years. Chevron also occupies space at two other buildings it owns on Market Street in San Francisco. Office property space in San Francisco was recently changing hands at an average price of $127.14 a square foot, according to the National Real Estate Index. At those prices, the 572,000-square-foot Chevron building, built 72 years ago, would be worth about $73 million.
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EASTMAN CHEMICAL TO INCREASE PLASTICS CAPACITY 45%
Date: 13 July 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Eastman Chemical Company of Kingsport, Tenn., said yesterday that it planned to increase its manufacturing capacity for plastic used in soda bottles by 45 percent by the end of 1998. The company, a maker of chemicals, plastics and fibers, said it planned to build a plant in North America that would make 260 million pounds a year of polyethylene terephthalate, or PET. Several sites are being considered, said Harry H. Holliman, vice president and general manager of Eastman's container plastics business unit. This is Eastman's third announcement of a new plant in three months. Shares of Eastman Chemical, which was spun off from the Eastman Kodak Company on Jan. 1, were down 87.5 cents yesterday at $46.625.
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