Historical Events in 1994 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 999

Film & TV History

Mar 18 Zsa Zsa Gabor files for bankruptcy

Mar 19 2,500 kilograms of cocaine intercepted in Zeewolde, Netherlands
Mar 19 Lara scores 167 for WI v England at Georgetown
Mar 19 Largest omelette (1,383sq ft) made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama, Japan
Mar 19 NJ Devils club record 41st win of the season
Mar 19 England beats Wales, 15-8 at Twickenham, London but the Welsh take the Five Nations Rugby Championship as title decided by using points difference for the first time
Mar 20 "Cyrano - The Musical" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 137 performances
Mar 20 "Flowering Peach" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 41 performances
Mar 20 "No Man's Land" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 performances
Mar 20 14th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Indecent Proposal" wins
Mar 20 WrestleMania X, Madison Square Garden, NYC: Bret Hart beats Yokozuna to win WWF Championship
Mar 20 El Salvador's 1st presidential election following 12-year-old civil war
Mar 20 Mashonaland U-24 beat Matabeleland on 1st inning to win Logan Cup
Mar 20 Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa

Academy Awards

Mar 21 66th Academy Awards: "Schindler's List", Tom Hanks & Holly Hunter win

Mar 21 Anne P Sidamon-Eristoff named chairwoman of Museum of National History

Music History

Mar 21 English actor Dudley Moore arrested for hitting his girlfriend

NHL Record

Mar 21 Wayne Gretzky ties Gordie Howe's NHL record of 801 goals

Mar 21 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) enters into force after being ratified by the required number of nations
Mar 22 Dutch Ambassador to US christens a new tulip (the Hillary Clinton)
Mar 22 Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.68 sec)
Mar 22 South African government and ANC take power in Ciskei homeland
Mar 22 Soyuz TM-21 lands

Album Release

Mar 22 "Not a Moment Too Soon" second studio album by Tim McGraw is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1994)

Mar 23 Amy Fisher's lover Joey Buttafuoco is released from jail after 4 months & 9 days
Mar 23 Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10 km (11:28)

Historic Event

Mar 23 Howard Stern formally announces his Libertarian run for NY governor

Sports History

Mar 23 Last day of Test cricket for Kapil Dev

Mar 23 Russian Airbus A-310 crashes in Siberia (74-75 killed)
Mar 23 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 802 goals scored
Mar 23 Richard Jacobs buys naming rights to Indians new ball park at Gateway for $13.8 million (renamed Jacobs Field)
Mar 24 "Carousel" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 322 performances
Mar 24 "Song of Jacob Zulu" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 53 performances
Mar 24 F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in NC, 120 die
Mar 25 Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3 km (4:09.32)
Mar 25 Yasunori Miyabe skates world record 1000 m (1:12.37)

World Record

Mar 26 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 m ladies (38.99 sec)

Mar 26 Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7:03.26)
Mar 26 Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14:22.60)
Mar 26 Yuka Sato of Japan wins world figure skating championship in Tokyo
Mar 27 Church in Piedmont Alabama collapses in tornado, 19 killed
Mar 27 Ice Dance Championship at Chiba Japan won by Gritschuk & Platov (RUS)
Mar 27 Ice Pairs Championship at Chiba won by Shishkova/Vadim Naumov (RUS)
Mar 27 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Yuka Sato (JPN)
Mar 27 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Elvis Stojko of Canada
Mar 27 The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany

PGA Players Championship

Mar 27 PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Australian Greg Norman sets scoring record of 264 (−24) to finish 4 strokes ahead of runner-up Fuzzy Zoeller

Golf Major

Mar 27 Nabisco Dinah Shore Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Donna Andrews wins her only major title by 1 over British runner-up Laura Davies; Andrews birdies final hole while Davies makes bogey.

Mar 28 Armed Zulus demonstrate in Johannesburg, over 53 killed
Mar 28 Italy's right-wing alliance under Silvio Berlusconi wins election
Mar 28 BBC Radio Five Live broadcasts for first time in United Kingdom

Sports History

Mar 29 Coach Jimmy Johnson quits Dallas Cowboys

Sports History

Mar 29 Last day of Test cricket for Allan Border

Historic Event

Mar 29 Serbs & Croats sign a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia

Mar 30 ABC Masters Tournament won by Hobo Boothe
Mar 30 Bombay beat Bengal by 8 wickets to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
Mar 30 England Cricket all out for 46 at Port-of-Spain
Mar 31 Actor James Farentino pleads no contest to stalking ex-girlfriend Tina Sinatra
Mar 31 Walkway from Cleveland's Tower City to Jacobs Field officially opens
Mar 31 The Journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull

Sports History

Mar 31 Chicago White Sox assigns former NBA superstar Michael Jordan to the Birmingham Barons of Class AA Southern League; returns to NBA after one season

Apr 3 13th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Louisiana Tech, 60-59; Tar Heels first NCAA title on 3-point shot by Charlotte Smith as time expires
Apr 3 1st roster of Silver Bullets (all-female pro baseball team) announced

Golf Tournament

Apr 3 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, GC at Desert Mountain: Ray Floyd wins first of 4 Champions Tour majors with birdie on first playoff hole against Dale Douglass

Apr 4 1st game played at Jacobs Field, Indians beat Mariners 4-3 in 11 inn
Apr 4 56th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Arkansas beats Duke, 76-72; Razorbacks' first title in first title game
Apr 4 Cubs Karl "Tuffy" Rhodes, hit 3 HRs in 1993 hits 3 HRs on Opening Day vs Mets starter Dwight "Doc" Gooden at Wrigley Field, Chicago
Apr 4 KLM Saab 340B crashes at Schiphol, 3 killed

Sports History

Apr 4 LA Dodger Darryl Strawberry begins substance abuse treatment

Apr 4 Largest Opening Day crowd at Yankee Stadium, 56,706
Apr 4 Netscape Communications founded as Mosaic Communications

Film & TV History

Apr 4 Tony Curtis undergoes heart-bypass surgery

Music History

Apr 5 "Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect" opens at Golden Theater, NYC; runs for 347 performances

Apr 5 Miami Heat beat NY Knicks ending 15 game NBA winning streak
Apr 6 1st scheduled Indians night game at Jacobs Field is rained out

Film & TV History

Apr 6 Chuck Jones found guilty of breaking into beauty queen Marla Maples' home

Apr 6 Liberal Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun (Roe v Wade) resigns
Apr 6 Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 Israelis & himself
Apr 6 Rockwell B-1B Lancers break 11 world speed records

Apr 6 Plane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down by surface-to-air missiles, abruptly ending peace negotiations and sparking the Rwandan Genocide. Those responsible have never been identified.

Skulls of genocide victims at the Nyamata Memorial Site in Rwanda

Apr 7 "Medea" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 82 performances
Apr 7 1st night game at Cleveland's Jacobs Field, Indians 6 Seattle 2
Apr 7 NY Yankees beat Texas Rangers 18-6
Apr 7 Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion
Apr 7 Vatican commemorates The Holocaust for the first time with an orchestral concert in the Sala Nervi
Apr 7 Beginning of the Rwandan Genocide; the Presidential Guard begins killing moderate politicians and public figures in Kigali, including Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana
Apr 8 Atlanta Brave Kent Mercker no-hits Dodgers, 6-0
Apr 8 Darryl Strawberry enters Betty Ford clinic
Apr 8 Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa resigns
Apr 8 Smoking banned in Pentagon & all US military bases
Apr 9 BPAA US Open by Justin Hromek
Apr 9 STS-59 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
Apr 9 147th Grand National: Jockey Richard Dunwoody wins his second GN aboard Irish 16/1 shot Miinnehoma by 1¼ lengths from Just So

Music Concert

Apr 9 Rock for the Rainforest benefit concert held at Carnegie Hall, NYC; performers include: Sting, Elton John, James Taylor, Whitney Houston, Luciano Pavarotti, Aaron Neville, Tammy Wynette, Branford Marsalis, and Larry Adler

Singer-Songwriter and Guitarist James Taylor

Apr 10 "Les Miserables" opens at Hiten Theatre, Osaka
Apr 10 58th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: José María Olazábal wins the first of 2 Masters titles, 2 strokes ahead of Tom Lehman; 6th winner from Europe in the past 7 years
Apr 12 Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.
Apr 13 Presidential guard at Kigali, Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death
Apr 13 Target date for Israeli complete withdrawal, doesn't occur
Apr 13 United Arab Emirates' 1st official ODI, losing to India

Film & TV History

Apr 13 Asteroid 7373 Takei discovered and named after Star Trek actor George Takei

Historic Event

Apr 14 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis operated on for a bleeding ulcer

Apr 14 NJ Devils end best regular season, 47-25-12 record for 106 points
Apr 14 US F-15 accidentally shoots 2 US helicopters down over Iraq, 26 die
Apr 14 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender after completion of his Seven Seals manuscript
Apr 15 Indians loses 1st game at Jacobs Field, KC wins 2-1
Apr 15 WMMS-FM's Jeff & Flash, & entire station staff, are fired

Music History

Apr 15 Jazz singer Tony Bennett records a session for "MTV's Unplugged" series at Sony Studios, NYC, featuring the Ralph Sharon trio, and guest appearances by Elvis Costello, and k.d.lang; album release wins 2 Grammy Awards

Apr 16 Circus performers Marissa Young (24) & Matt Richardson (21) wed
Apr 17 "Little More Magic" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 30 performances
Apr 17 "Twilight - Los Angeles 1992" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 72 performances
Apr 17 PGA Seniors' Championship Men’s Golf, PGA National GC: Lee Trevino beats Jim Colbert by 1 stroke for his second title in the event
Apr 17 Aruba government of Oduber falls
Apr 18 Disney's stage adaptation of its animated musical "Beauty & the Beast" opens at Palace Theater, NYC
Apr 18 98th Boston Marathon: Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya wins 2nd straight title in 2:07:15; Uta Pippig of Germany claims women's race in 2:21:45

Film & TV History

Apr 18 Arsenio Hall announces he will end his late-night TV talk show in May 1994

World Record

Apr 18 Cricketer Brian Lara hits 375 runs on 1 day for WI vs England to beat Gary Sobers' world record

Historic Event

Apr 18 Former US President Richard Nixon suffers a stroke and passes away 4 days later

Apr 18 Lebanon drops relations with Iran
Apr 18 STS-59 (Endeavour) lands [approx]
Apr 19 Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10km (11:25.88)
Apr 19 Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election

Rodney King Riots

Apr 19 Rodney King awarded $3,800,000 compensation by the Los Angeles County for his police beating

Damage in Los Angeles after the 1992 riots, which killed 63 people and caused over $1 billion in damages

Apr 19 US Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender
Apr 19 "Illmatic" debut studio album by US rapper Nas is released
Apr 20 Danny Harold Rolling sentenced to death in Florida for killing 5
Apr 20 Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed
Apr 20 Sohail & Inzamam make world record ODI partnership of 263
Apr 20 Space shuttle STS-59 (Endeavour 6), lands
Apr 21 "Picnic" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances

Baseball Record

Apr 21 Eddie Murray sets record for switch hit HRs in a games (11 times)

Apr 21 Serbian army bombs distress clinic in Goradze Bosnia, 28 killed
Apr 21 The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan
Apr 22 7,000 Tutsi slaughtered by Hutus in the stadium at Kibuye, Rwanda
Apr 22 Borge Ousland is the 1st person on a solo and unsupported journey to reach the North Pole

Sports History

Apr 22 American figure skater Tonya Harding sues ex-husband Jeff Gillooly for $42,500

Apr 22 World's largest lollipop, weighing 3,011 pounds, made by BonBon, a candy factory in Home-Olstrup, Denmark; record later broken

Boxing Title Fight

Apr 22 Michael Moorer beats Evander Holyfield in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

Apr 22 Schelto Patijn appointed Mayor of Amsterdam
Apr 23 Army shoots to death 23-40 fishermen in Gonaives, Haiti
Apr 23 General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Norm Duke
Apr 23 Libertarian party nominates Howard Stern for Governor of NY
Apr 24 "Broken Glass" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 73 performances
Apr 24 "Flowering Peach" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 41 performances
Apr 24 Armando Calderon Sol wins El Salvador presidential election
Apr 24 Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed

Sports History

Apr 24 David Robinson scores ties 7th highest total in the NBA - 71

Apr 24 NY Rangers sweep NY Islanders in NHL playoffs
Apr 24 NFL Draft: Ohio State defensive tackle Dan Wilkinson first pick by Cincinnati Bengals
Apr 25 14" of snow in Southern California
Apr 25 Bomb attack on taxi stand in Johannesburg, 10 killed
Apr 25 Fishing boat with school children capsize at Lanaka Syria, 46 killed
Apr 25 King Azlan Shah of Malaysia resigns
Apr 25 Mexican businessman & billionaire Angel Losada kidnapped
Apr 25 Tsutomu Hata elected premier of Japan
Apr 26 26.9°C in Prestebakke Norway (Norwegian April high temperature record)
Apr 26 Taiwan Airbus A-300 crashes at Nagoya Japan, 262 killed
Apr 26 1st day of voting in first ever multi-racial elections in South Africa, Dr Nomaza Paintin in NZ is 1st black South African to vote
Apr 26 Physicists announce first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle.

Television Premiere

Apr 26 TV series "Due South" about Canadian Mounties starring Paul Gross premieres in Canada

Apr 27 "An Inspector Calls" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 454 performances
Apr 27 29.0°C in Genevad, Sweden (Swedish April high temperature record)
Apr 27 7th longest NHL game at 125 min 43 sec: Buffalo Sabres beat New Jersey Devils 1-0 on a goal by Dave Hannan
Apr 27 Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (52,713 km)
Apr 27 Former US President Richard Nixon buried in Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California
Apr 27 Twins righty Scott Erickson no-hits Brewers 6-0
Apr 27 Freedom Day: day 2 of South Africa's 1st multi-racial elections and day most voted - some queuing for 10 hours

Historic Event

Apr 28 Aldrich Ames, former CIA officer and his wife Rosario plead guilty to spying for the Soviet Union and Russia

Apr 28 Freddy Thielemans sworn in as Mayor of Brussels, Belgium
Apr 29 Last day of voting in 1st multi-racial elections in South Africa
Apr 29 Ferry boat smashes into Mombasa Harbor Kenya, kills over 300
Apr 29 Israel & PLO sign economic accord
Apr 30 39th Eurovision Song Contest: Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan for Ireland wins singing "Rock 'n' Roll Kids" in Dublin
May 1 "My Fair Lady" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 165 performances
May 1 Jim Cartwright's play "The Rise & Fall of Little Voice" opens at Neil Simon Theater, NYC; runs for 9 performances
May 1 -3] Tornado & hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed
May 1 Charles Kuralt retires as CBS newsman (On the Road)

Sports History

May 1 Three-time World Formula 1 Drivers champion Ayrton Senna of Brazil is killed in a 309 kmh crash whilst leading the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola in Italy

May 2 Bus crashes into a tree at Gdańsk Poland, 32 killed
May 2 Dr Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides
May 2 Michael Bolton found to have plagiarized Isley Bros "Love is Wonderful Thing"

Music Awards

May 3 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Vince Gill, and Wynonna win

May 3 D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
May 4 Arsenal of England win 34th European Cup Winner's Cup against Parma of Italy 1-0 in Copenhagen