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- Sep 4 Penn State University plays its first football game in the Big 10, beating Minnesota 38-20; quarterback John Sacca throws 4 touchdown passes to Bobby Engram
- Sep 4 New York Yankees pitcher Jim Abbott no-hits Cleveland Indians, 4-0 at Yankee Stadium
US Men's Tennis Open
Sep 4 Mats Wilander beats fellow Swede Mikael Pernfors in a US Open marathon 7-6, 3-6, 1-6, 7-6, 6-4 in 4 hours, 1 minute; match ends at 2:26am
Film & TV History
Sep 5 F. Murray Abraham released from hospital after car accident
- Sep 5 Noureddine Morceli runs world record mile (3:44,39)
Telethon
Sep 6 Jerry Lewis' 28th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $46,014,922
- Sep 7 Brazil votes over importing monarchy
- Sep 7 St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Mark Whiten hits 4 HRs & 12 RBIs in 15-2 win at Cincinnati Reds
- Sep 8 Baseball's proposed switch to a three-division format OKed in AL
- Sep 8 Wang Junxia creates a women's world record 10,000m (29:31.78) at the Chinese National Games
- Sep 8 Houston's Darryl Kile throws 3rd no-hitter of season in Astros' 7-1 win over NY Mets
- Sep 9 Croupier of casino in Bristol, England, shoots a 4 a record eight times
- Sep 9 Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization exchange letters of mutual recognition
- Sep 10 1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo plane produced
- Sep 10 "The X-Files", created by Chris Carter and starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson debuts on Fox
- Sep 11 Junxia Qu runs 1500m ladies' world record (3:50.46)
US Open Women's Tennis
Sep 11 US Open Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf wins 15th Grand Slam singles title, 3rd US title; beats Helena Suková 6-3, 6-3
- Sep 12 Wang Junxia runs a women's 3000 m world record (8:12.29) at the Chinese National Games
Sports History
Sep 12 Paul Molitor at 37 is oldest to reach 100 RBIs for 1st time in career
- Sep 12 STS-51 (Discovery) launches into orbit
US Men's Tennis Open
Sep 12 US Open Men's Tennis: Pete Sampras wins his second US title; beats Frenchman Cédric Pioline 6-4, 6-4, 6-3
Agreement of Interest
Sep 13 Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement initiated by Norway, signed by Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres and PLO official Mahmoud Abbas
- Sep 15 Liechtenstein prince Hans-Adam II disbands parliament
Music Single
Sep 15 Single "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" sung by Meat Loaf and composed by Jim Steinman is released. Goes on to be No. 1 in 28 countries.
Baseball Record
Sep 16 Minnesota Twins Dave Winfield is 19th to get 3,000 hits
Television Premiere
Sep 16 "Frasier" starring Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce premieres on NBC
- Sep 17 Last Russian troops leave Poland.
- Sep 18 Kimberly Clarice Aiken (SC), 18, crowned 67th Miss America 1994
- Sep 18 LA Mighty Ducks play their 1st NHL pre-season game against Penguins
- Sep 18 Trailing 3-1 with 2 outs in 9th, time is called prior to Mike Stanley pop out, gets a 2nd chance, & Yanks rally to beat Boston 4-3
- Sep 18 18th Toronto International Film Festival: "The Snapper" directed by Stephen Frears wins the People's Choice Award
Emmy Awards
Sep 19 45th Emmy Awards: Seinfeld, Picket Fences & Ted Danson win
Sports History
Sep 19 Tom Glavine wins 20 games in 3 straight years
Album Release
Sep 21 Melissa Etheridge releases her breakthrough second album "Yes I Am", featuring the single "I'm the Only One"
- Sep 22 Ukrainian Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma resigns due to the "slow pace of reform"
Sports History
Sep 22 Nolan Ryan, 46, pitches his last game
- Sep 22 STS-51 (Discovery) lands
Historic Event
Sep 22 Supreme Soviet dismisses President Boris Yeltsin
Historic Event
Sep 24 Norodom Sihanouk again installed as King of Cambodia
Ryder Cup
Sep 26 Ryder Cup Golf, The Belfry: US beats Europe, 15-13; Davis Love III secures victory for the US beating Costantino Rocca at the 18th, 1 up
Sports History
Sep 26 French Williams driver Alain Prost finishes 2nd in Portuguese Grand Prix at Estoril to clinch his 4th F1 World Drivers Championship; after race Prost announces his retirement at the end of the season
Television Debut
Sep 27 British crime series "Cracker" created by Jimmy McGovern starring Robbie Coltrane debuts on ITV in the UK
Sports History
Sep 28 Dennis Martínez is 7th to win 100 games in AL & NL
Music Awards
Sep 29 27th Country Music Association Award: Vince Gill wins
- Sep 30 6.4 earthquake at Latur, India, 28,000 killed
Historic Event
Sep 30 US General Colin Powell retires at 56
Boxing Title Fight
Oct 1 In his first World Boxing Council heavyweight title defence Lennox Lewis beats fellow Londoner Frank Bruno by TKO in 7 at the National Stadium in Cardiff, Wales
- Oct 3 "White Liars/Black Comedy" closes at Criterion NYC after 38 performances
Ostankino Tower
Oct 3 Battle at TV station Ostankino, Moscow townhall, about 25 killed
- Oct 3 Boris Yeltsin declares state of emergency in Moscow
- Oct 3 Harry Belafonte performs in Tivoli Copenhagen
- Oct 3 Cleveland Indians play their final MLB game at Cleveland Stadium; lose 4-0 to Chicago White Sox Chicago
- Oct 3 Somali General Aidids arm forces kill 18 US Rangers
- Oct 3 Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organization in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Soldiers and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting.
- Oct 4 Troops and tanks of President Boris Yeltsin shell and occupy the Russian White House in Moscow, the house of government of the Russian Federation
- Oct 5 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- Oct 6 Sydney Australia Stock Market index above 2000, for 1st time
Sports History
Oct 6 After 9 seasons & 3 Championships with the Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan announces his retirement from the NBA; returns on March 18, 1995 and leads Bulls to another 3 NBA titles
Nobel Prize
Oct 7 Nobel prize for literature awarded to American writer Toni Morrison
Historic Publication
Oct 8 Howard Stern releases his 1st book "Private Parts"
- Oct 8 UN lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa
- Oct 10 NFL Cleveland Browns' Najee Mustafaa sets club record for longest interception (97 yds)
- Oct 10 Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed
- Oct 11 Norwegian Rushdie publisher William Nygaard injured in attack
- Oct 11 US warship Harlan County anchors off Port-au-Prince Haiti
- Oct 12 "Mixed Emotions" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 48 performances
- Oct 12 MLB American League Championship: Toronto Blue Jays beat Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2
- Oct 13 Greek government of Papandreou forms
- Oct 13 Mighty Ducks win their 1st NHL game
- Oct 13 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Kary Mullis & Michael Smith
- Oct 13 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse & Joseph Taylor
- Oct 13 Captured American Pilot Mike Durant is filmed in an interview in captivity by a CNN camera crew.
- Oct 13 MLB National League Championship: Philadelphia Phillies beat Atlanta Braves, 4 games to 2
- Oct 15 Amstel brewery on Curacao produces 1,000,000,000th bottle
Nobel Prize
Oct 15 Nelson Mandela and South African President F. W. de Klerk awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Appointment of Interest
Oct 16 General Omar al-Bashir appointed Sudan president
- Oct 16 IRA bomb attack on fish & chips restaurant in Belfast, 10 killed
- Oct 16 Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching British National Party headquarters
- Oct 18 STS-58 (Columbia) launches into orbit
- Oct 19 UN authorizes arms, military and police supply embargo against Haiti
- Oct 20 Highest scoring, longest lasting World Series game - Toronto Blue Jays score 6 runs in 8th inning to defeat Philadelphia Phillies 15-14, in 4 hr-14 min slugfest at Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia
- Oct 21 "Twilight of the Golds" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 29 performances
- Oct 21 Failed military coup in Burundi, led by ex-President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, includes assassination President Ndadaye; 525,000 Hutus flee
- Oct 22 Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov makes record 9th space walk
- Oct 23 Seven people killed by IRA bomb attack in Belfast
- Oct 23 Paramilitia kills 22 demonstrators at Bijbihara in Indian-controlled Kashmir
- Oct 23 Baseball World Series: Defending champion Toronto Blue Jays beat Philadelphia Phillies, 8-6 at the SkyDome, Toronto to clinch series, 4-2; MVP: Blue Jays infielder Paul Molitor
- Oct 24 "Wonderful Tennessee" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 9 performances
- Oct 25 Airbus A310 of Air Nigeria hijacked, 1 dead
- Oct 25 Canada Liberal Party and Bloc Québécois wins parliamentary election
- Oct 25 Daryll Cullinan hits unbeaten 337 for Transvaal against Northern Transvaal, South African 1st-class cricket record score
- Oct 26 NFL announces new expansion team, Carolina Panthers in Charlotte
- Oct 26 NJ Devils lose 2-0 to Montreal, after winning 1st 7 games of 1993
- Oct 27 Howard Stern's radio show begins broadcasting in El Paso Texas
- Oct 28 Cleveland Metroparks lease Brookside Park from Cleveland for 99-years
- Oct 28 Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters resigns
- Oct 29 Dow Jones index reaches record 3687.86
- Oct 29 "The Sign" single released in Europe by Ace of Base
- Oct 30 Toronto Maple Leafs lose 1st game of season after going 10-0-0
- Oct 31 "Wonderful Tennessee" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 9 performances
- Oct 31 25 people killed during Ghana-Ivory Coast soccer match
- Oct 31 German unemployment hits national record of 3.5 million
Music History
Oct 31 Rapper Tupac Shakur charged with aggravated assault
- Nov 1 Atlantic Radio (20 radio stations) becomes American Radio Systems
- Nov 1 After playing 12 Tests for Australia, fast bowler Michael Whitney plays his final day in 1st class cricket for NSW in a tour match loss v New Zealand in Newcastle
- Nov 1 STS-58 (Columbia) lands
- Nov 1 The Maastricht Treaty, the Treaty on European Union comes into effect
Sports History
Nov 2 First commemorative bricks are laid at Bob Feller Memorial
Film & TV History
Nov 2 Actor Roger Moore (James Bond) has his enlarged prostate removed
Election of Interest
Nov 2 Rudy Giuliani wins the New York mayoral election, becomes 1st Republican mayor since 1965
- Nov 3 Defenseman Ken Daneyko sets New Jersey Devils 'Ironman' record by playing 322nd consecutive NHL game in 2-3 loss at LA Kings
Sports History
Nov 3 Greg Maddux becomes first pitcher since Sandy Koufax to win the National League's Cy Young Award in successive MLB seasons and the first in successive seasons with different teams; Cubs 1992, Braves 1993
- Nov 4 "Timon of Athens" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 37 performances
Music History
Nov 4 Elton John awarded $518,700 from Sunday Mirror for a false report on his diet
- Nov 4 Bolivia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
Appointment of Interest
Nov 4 Jean Chretien is appointed the Prime Minister of Canada by Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn
Boxing Title Fight
Nov 6 Evander Holyfield beats Riddick Bowe in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
- Nov 6 Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Santa Anita Racetrack; winners: Arcangues, Brocco, Cardmania, Hollywood Wildcat, Kotashaan, Lure, Phone Chatter
Sports History
Nov 7 French Williams driver Alain Prost finishes 2nd in season ending Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide to claim his 4th F1 World Drivers Championship by 26 points from Ayrton Senna; Prost announces his retirement from F1 racing
- Nov 10 Slovakian government of Vladimír Mečiar forms
Historic Event
Nov 11 Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 2 days for fractured shoulder
- Nov 11 Krzysztof Penderecki conducts premiere of his revised version of "A Polish Requiem" in Stockholm, Sweden
- Nov 13 7.1 seaquake east of Kamchatka
- Nov 13 Chinese MD82 makes crash landing at Urumqi, 12 killed
- Nov 13 Pakistani minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president
- Nov 14 "Kentucky Cycle" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 34 performances
- Nov 14 "Twilight of the Golds" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 29 performances
- Nov 14 23rd NYC Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig in 2:26:24
- Nov 14 24th NYC Marathon won by Andres Espinosa in 2:10:04
- Nov 14 Puerto Rico votes against becoming the 51st US state
Sports History
Nov 14 43rd NASCAR Sprint Cup: Dale Earnhardt wins
- Nov 15 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Myrtle Beach SC on WYAV 104.1 FM
- Nov 15 Joe Buttafuoco sentence to 6 months for statutory rape of Amy Fisher
- Nov 15 13 Cuban refugees land in Florida after stealing a crop-duster in Cuba.
- Nov 16 "Any Given Day" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 32 performances
- Nov 16 Russian President Yeltsin shuts Lenin museum
- Nov 17 "Grand Night For Singing" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 52 performances
- Nov 17 Antonov AN-124 flies in South Iran against mountain: 17 killed
- Nov 17 US House of Representatives approve Nafta
Coup d'état
Nov 17 General Sani Abacha leads a military coup against Ernest Shonekan's transitional administration and returns the Nigerian government to military control
- Nov 18 27 killed at prison in Morazan, El Salvador
- Nov 18 Black and white leaders in South Africa approve new democratic constitution
- Nov 18 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) passes US House of Representatives
- Nov 18 North-Siberia record cold for November (-55°C)
- Nov 18 Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder arrested for public drunkiness
- Nov 18 WWF boss Vince McMahon charged with steroid distribution
- Nov 19 Algerian Muslim fundamentalists uprising, 27 killed
- Nov 19 Curacaose vote to remain part of Dutch Antilles
- Nov 20 Jakovlev-42 crashes into mountain at Ohrid Macedonia, 116 killed
Murder of Interest
Nov 20 Winnie Mandela's driver and bodyguard murdered in Johannesburg
- Nov 20 Savings and Loan scandal: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
- Nov 20 58th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 22-14 in Auburn
- Nov 20 5th College Football Holy War: Boston College beats Notre Dame 41-39 in South Bend (Boston College's first win in the series)
- Nov 21 "Cinderella" closes at New York State Theater, NYC after 14 performances
- Nov 21 "Cyrano - The Musical" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 137 performances
- Nov 21 Neo-fascist MSI wins 36% of municipal elections in Rome
- Nov 21 Top seeded German tennis player Steffi Graf wins WTA Tour Championship; beats Arantxa Sánchez Vicario of Spain 6–1, 6–4, 3–6, 6–1 at Madison Square Garden, NYC
- Nov 21 German tennis star Michael Stich scores a 7–6, 2–6, 7–6, 6–2 win over American Pete Sampras to win his first and only ATP Tour World Championship title in Frankfurt, Germany
Music History
Nov 22 Neil Simon's comedy "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater, NYC; runs for 320 performances
- Nov 23 "Angels in America-Perestroika" opens at Walter Kerr NYC for 216 performances
Album Release
Nov 23 "Doggystyle" debut album by Snoop Doggy Dogg is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1994)