Historical Events in 1994 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 988

• Mar 17 Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed)
• Mar 17 It is announced there is no smoking in Cleveland Indians new ballpark

• Mar 18 South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police
• Mar 18 Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), lands

• 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

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

• 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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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

• 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

• 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 James Farentino pleads no contest to stalking ex-girl 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

• 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

• 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
• Apr 4 KLM Saab 340B crashes at Schiphol, 3 killed

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

• 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

• 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 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
• 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

• 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
• 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 "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

• Apr 18 Cricketer Brian Lara hits 375 runs on 1 day for WI vs England to beat Gary Sobers' world record
• Apr 18 Former President Nixon suffered a stroke & dies 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

• 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

• 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

• Apr 22 In Denmark the largest lollipop, weighing 3,011 pounds, made

• 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

• 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.
• 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 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

• 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 "Rise & Fall of Little Voice" opens at Neil Simon NYC 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)

• 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 plagurized Isley Bros "Love is Wonderful Thing"

• 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

• May 5 "Sally Marrand Her Escorts" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 50 performances
• May 5 Labour beats Conservatives in British local elections
• May 5 North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen

• May 6 Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait sets fire to the couch on The Tonight Show
• May 6 US House of Representatives passes the Federal Assault Weapons Ban

• May 7 120th Kentucky Derby: Chris McCarron on Go For Gin wins in 2:03.6
• May 7 Denver Nuggets become NBA's 1st #8 seed to beat a #1 seed (Seattle)

• May 8 "Rise & Fall of Little Voice" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 9 performances
• May 8 500th commentary by Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes

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