Rachel Catherine Homan (born April 5, 1989) is a Canadian international curler and the reigning women's world champion. Homan is a former Canadian junior champion, a five-time Canadian national champion, and three-time World Champion, all as a skip. She was also the skip of the Canadian women's curling team at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
During her junior career, Homan competed in two Canadian Junior Curling Championships, placing second in 2009 and winning the championship in 2010. She also won a silver medal at the 2010 World Junior Curling Championships. Throughout her women's career, Homan has medalled at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the Canadian women's national curling championships, nine times, winning gold five times (2013, 2014, 2017, 2024, and 2025), silver three times (2019, 2020, and 2021), and bronze once (2015). She has competed in five World Women's Curling Championships, winning gold three times (2017, 2024, and 2025), silver in 2014, and bronze in 2013. She has also competed in three Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, finishing in third place in 2013, winning in 2017, and finishing last in 2021. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, her team finished in sixth place. In 2019, Homan was named the fourth-greatest Canadian female curler in history by The Sports Network (TSN).
Přečtěte si více...5. dubna 1989 bylo středa pod hvězdičkou ♈. Byl 94 den v roce. Prezidentem Spojených států byl George Bush.
Pokud jste se narodili v tento den, je vám 36 let. Vaše poslední narozeniny byly sobota 5. dubna 2025 před 213 dny. Vaše další narozeniny jsou neděle 5. dubna 2026, za 151 dní. Žili jste 13 362 dní nebo přibližně 320 690 hodin nebo přibližně 19 241 425 minut nebo přibližně 1 154 485 500 sekund.
Date: 06 April 1989
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-17 Solidarity leaders signed accords with Poland's Government, restoring the banned union's legal status and providing for the first free and open elections in this country since World War II. Page A1
Date: 05 April 1989
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-15 The Soviet Union has sold to Libya high-peformance bombers and an airborne tanker that would greatly enhance Tripoli's ability to hit targets in Israel and beyond, American officials say. Page A1
Date: 05 April 1989
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: A group of companies controlled by the Omaha investor Warren E. Buffett has lowered its stake in Handy & Harman to 6 percent, from 7.3 percent. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Mr. Buffett said he sold 180,000 Handy & Harman shares on the open market on March 27 for prices ranging from $19.50 to $19.82 a share.
Date: 05 April 1989
LEAD: The NCNB Corporation said there was ''no merit'' to assertions by the Citizens and Southern Corporation that a Government-assisted bank deal in Texas enabled NCNB to make a $2.4 billion bid for Citizens and Southern. NCNB said there was ''no regulatory issue'' over its operations in Texas that would prevent approval of its offer for Citizens and Southern.
Date: 05 April 1989
AP
LEAD: The Dow Chemical Company entered a joint venture with China's Zhejiang Chemical Factory to build a $50 million chemical plant in Ningbo, China. The new company, the Zhejiang Pacific Chemical Corporation, in Zhejiang Province on the East China Sea, will produce 20,000 metric tons a year of polyether polyol, Dow said.
Date: 05 April 1989
AP
LEAD: Piedmont Airlines has ordered three 767-200 extended-range jetliners in a deal valued at about $183 million, the Boeing Commercial Airplanes Company announced. Deliveries of two of the jets are scheduled in March 1990, and the third in September 1990. The planes will be powered by the General Electric Company's CF6-80C2B2 engines, as are six 767's already operated by Piedmont.
Date: 05 April 1989
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: Genentech Inc. said today that the United States Food and Drug Administration had granted it orphan drug status for CD-4, a genetically engineered drug for the treatment of AIDS. Genentech's shares rose $1.375 today, to $18.50, on the New York Stock Exchange. The decision appears to give
Date: 06 April 1989
Reuters
LEAD: The International Business Machines Corporation announced a series of software products that enable business enterprises to exchange standard-format business documents - like purchase orders, invoices and order acknowledgements - electronically.
Date: 05 April 1989
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: Noble Affiliates Inc. and the Apache Corporation, two independent oil and gas exploration and production companies, have agreed to acquire jointly Natural Gas Clearinghouse, a marketing company based in Houston, from Morgan Stanley Group Inc.
Date: 05 April 1989
AP
LEAD: The Du Pont Company and the Toyo Ink Manufacturing Company of Japan announced plans for a joint venture to market inks to commercial printers in North America. Du Pont plans to market inks manufactured at Toyo plants in Japan through Toyo-Du Pont International Ink. Du Pont is one of the world's largest manufacturers of image-making systems.