1994 in History

Events in History

Events 1 - 100 of 553

• Jan 1 Carquest Bowl 4: Boston College beats Virginia, 32-13
• Jan 1 International Year of Family

• Jan 1 Jacobs Field opens with "Gateway's New Year's Eve Countdown to '94"
• Jan 1 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect
• Jan 1 The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican State of Chiapas.
• Jan 2 Battles between army & rebellious indians in South Mexico, kill 57
• Jan 3 100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt
• Jan 3 Tupolev-154M crashes at Irkutsk, Siberia: 122 killed
• Jan 3 35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo, trademark of Indians on top of Stadium since 1962, is taken down, to be moved to Jacob's Field

• Jan 6 Dow-Jones hits record 3803.88
• Jan 7 South Africa beat Australia in the Sydney Test by 5 runs
• Jan 7 United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5
• Jan 8 Rintje Ritsma skates world record 1500m (1:51.60)
• Jan 8 Russian manned space craft TM-18, launches into orbit
• Jan 8 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis


• Jan 9 14th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000
• Jan 9 Gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 pts)
• Jan 9 Rintje Ritsma skates world record (156.201 points)
• Jan 10 Trial of Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husband's penis, begins
• Jan 10 Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal
• Jan 10 Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs
• Jan 11 Hyderabad score 6 for 944 against Andhra Pradesh in Ranji Trophy
• Jan 11 Irish government announces end of a 20-year broadcasting ban on IRA

• Jan 13 Italian government of Carlo Ciampi resigns
• Jan 14 Russian manned space craft TM-17, lands
• Jan 14 The Duchess of Kent converts to Catholicism, the first member of the Royal Family to do so in more than 300 years
• Jan 15 15th ACE Cable Awards: Michael Fuchs wins the Golden CableACE for outstanding achievements in advancing the development of cable programming
• Jan 15 Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood, breaks Dutch record (.47%)
• Jan 15 Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse & breaks her left wrist
• Jan 16 Scott skates world record 1000m (1:12.54)
• Jan 17 6.6 Earthquake hits Los Angeles killing 60, $30B in damage
• Jan 18 The Cando event, a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute.
• Jan 19 -20°F (-29°C) (5:32 AM) coldest day ever recorded in Cleveland Ohio
• Jan 19 -36°F (-38°C) in New Whiteland, Indiana (state record)


• Jan 21 Dow Jones passes 3900 (record 3,914.20)
• Jan 21 Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane when she cut off her husband's penis
• Jan 22 5.5 magnitude earthquake strikes Sumatra
• Jan 23 Bernie Kosar is 2nd QB to throw TD passes in AFC & NFC Champ games
• Jan 23 Worldwide Day for peace in Bosnia-Hercegovina
• Jan 24 Dow Jones closes above 3,900 for 1st time (3,914.48)
• Jan 25 Mine fire at Asansol, India, kills 55
• Jan 25 US space probe Clementine launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
• Jan 27 Carlos Reina succeeds pres Callejas in Honduras
• Jan 27 Romanian social democrats form government with anti-Semites
• Jan 28 Helicopter crashes into office building in San Jose California, 1 dead
• Jan 28 Inna Lassovskaja jumps ladies world record (14.78m)
• Jan 31 Dow Jones hits a record 3,978.36
• Feb 1 Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean

• Feb 3 STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit
• Feb 4 20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartoum, Sudan
• Feb 4 Merlene Ottey runs world record 50 m indoor (6.00 sec)
• Feb 4 Russian team beats ladies world record 4x800 m indoor (8:18.71)
• Feb 5 Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson, Mississippi, 30 years after the crime
• Feb 5 68 killed and 200 wounded after a mortar bomb is set off in Sarajevo
• Feb 6 Jose Maria Figueres elected President of Costa Rica
• Feb 6 Martti Ahtisaari elected President of Finland

• Feb 11 Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands

• Feb 12 Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.90m
• Feb 13 Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.9m
• Feb 13 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5000m 6:34,96
• Feb 13 Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200
• Feb 15 US asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti
• Feb 16 6.5 earthquake strikes South East Sumatra, kills 200
• Feb 16 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 1500m (1:51.29)
• Feb 16 Premier Alfonso Bustamente ends government in Peru
• Feb 20 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage
• Feb 20 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55)

• Feb 25 Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres 30 Palestinians in Hebron
• Feb 25 Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31
• Feb 27 Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed
• Feb 28 Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand gun in the USA, comes into effect
• Mar 1 Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as president of Finland
• Mar 1 Senate rejectes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution
• Mar 2 William Natcher, (Rep-D-Ky), casts his 18,401 & last consecutive vote
• Mar 2 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcasted, it is, but he doesn't
• Mar 3 "Philoktetes Variations" with Ron Vawter premieres in Brussels
• Mar 4 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center
• Mar 4 Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit
• Mar 5 Largest milkshake made; 1,955 gallons of chocolate in Nelspruit, South Africa
• Mar 5 PBA National Championship won by David Traber
• Mar 6 United Arab Emirates beat Kenya by 2 wickets to win ICC Trophy
• Mar 6 Referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania.
• Mar 7 Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia
• Mar 7 David Platt appointed captain of English football team
• Mar 7 US Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship

• Mar 8 B737 collides with Ilyushin-86 in New Delhi, at least 8 killed
• Mar 8 US Defense Department announces smoking ban in workplaces
• Mar 8 Train accident at Pinetown, Natal, kills 47
• Mar 9 IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport
• Mar 11 Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as President of Chile
• Mar 12 The Church of England ordains its first ever 33 female priests
• Mar 13 33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right Freedom Party

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Birthdays in History

• Jan 14 Samir Patel, American spelling bee winner
• Feb 3 Tallulah Belle Willis, 3rd daughter of Bruce Willis & Demi Moore
• Apr 25 Samuel Carvalho, British activist and mental health advocate, born in Cambridge, England
• May 4 Pauline Ducruet, daughter of HSH Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, born in Princess Grace Hospital Centre, La Colle, Monaco
• Jun 8 Nicholas Joseph Mills, son of Chris Evert & Andy Mills
• Jun 10 Nicholas Santo Pietro, son of Vanna White
• Jun 28 Prince Hussein bin Al Abdullah II, Prince of Jordan and heir apparent of King Abdullah II of Jordan, born in Amman, Jordan
• Jul 18 Ricardo Dela Corte, Italian test tube baby born to oldest (62) mother
• Jul 27 Princess Mafalda-Ceceilia of Bulgaria
• Aug 20 Miracle the white buffalo, an extremely rare white, non-albino buffalo calf, born in Janesville Wisconsin
• Sep 17 Taylor Ware, American yodeler
• Nov 27 Shrek the sheep, New Zealand sheep that held world record for biggest shorn fleece, born at Bendigo Station, Otago (d. 2011)
• Dec 12 Otto Warmbier, American student detained in North Korea after stealing poster, born in Cincinnati, Ohio
• Dec 16 Stephen Sutton, English cancer blogger (Stephen's Story), born in Burntwood (d. 2014)
• Dec 29 Princess Kako of Akishino of Japan, born in Tokyo, Japan

Weddings in History

• Mar 13 Cuba Godding Jr (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26)
• Mar 26 Talk show hostess Ricki Lake weds Rob Sussman
• Mar 26 Half-brother of former President Bill Clinton and rodeo clown Roger Clinton (37) weds Molly Martin (25) in Dallas
• Apr 17 Jennie Garth weds Dan Clark
• May 7 Gary Hart's girlfriend Donna Rice (36) weds Jack Hughes (42)

• May 21 Burger King spokesman Dan Cortese (26) weds Dee Dee Hemby (26)

• Jul 16 Anna Nicole Smith (26) weds ½ billionaire J Howard Marshall II (89)
• Aug 27 TV executive Anthony Radziwill (35) weds Emmy Award-winning journalist Carole Di Falco (31) in East Hampton, New York
• Nov 20 Patti Davis weds Paul Hayeland
• Dec 26 President Clinton's brother Roger Clinton (37) weds 8-mo pregnant Molly Nartin (25)
• Dec 29 Billionaire J. Paul Getty Jr marries Victoria Holdsworth in Barbados

Divorces in History

• Jan 14 Kathleen Kinmont files for divorce from Lorenzo Lamas
• Mar 24 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. divorces Emily Black
• Apr 15 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (21 days after his divorce) weds Mary Richardson
• Sep 17 Princess Christina separates

Deaths in History

Deaths 1 - 100 of 607

• Jan 1 Werner Schwab, Austrian playwright (Female Presidents) & artist, dies at 35
• Jan 2 Dixy Lee Ray, American politician (17th Governor of Washington) & chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), dies at 79
• Jan 2 Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, French director of IMF (1963-73), dies at 81
• Jan 2 Sammy Taft, Canadian businessman (coined term "hat trick"), dies at 81
• Jan 3 Roel Bazen, Dutch sound technician (Van Kooten & The Bie), dies at 48
• Jan 3 Frank Belknap Long, American writer (Rim of the Unknown), dies at 92
• Jan 4 Jim Booth, New Zealand producer (Heavenly Creatures), dies at 48
• Jan 4 Michiel P "Michael" Gorsira, Gov of Curacao (1951-67), dies at 80
• Jan 5 Louis R J Ridder van Rappard, Dutch mayor of Zoelen, dies at 87
• Jan 5 William Raynor, writer, dies at 73
• Jan 5 Tip O'Neill, American politician and 47th speaker of the house (D-Ma: 1977-86), dies of cancer at 81
• Jan 6 "Iron" Adriaan van Es, Dutch undersec of Navy (1963-72), dies at 80
• Jan 6 Gerardus J Sizoo, physicist/director of Dutch Free University, dies
• Jan 6 Morty the Moose, (Northern Exposure), dies at 6
• Jan 6 Virginia Kelley Clinton, Mother of President Clinton, dies at 70
• Jan 7 Lewis Boddington, aerospace Engineer, dies at 85
• Jan 7 Lynn Blessing, vibes player, dies at 65
• Jan 7 Phoumi Vongvichit, President of Laos (1986-91), dies
• Jan 8 Lady Caithness, wife of British undersecretary, commits suicide
• Jan 8 Sri Chandrashekhara Saraswathi, guru of Kanchi, dies at 99
• Jan 10 Catharina I "Ien" Dales, min of Internal affairs (1989-94), dies at 62
• Jan 11 John Bradley, United States Navy corpsman, one of six who raised flag on top of Mt. Suribachi (see Iwo Jima), dies of a stroke at 70
• Jan 11 Helmut Poppendick, Nazi physician (b. 1902)
• Jan 12 Bob Horen, dies of cancer at 67
• Jan 12 Samuel Bronston, Romanian/US producer (El Cid), dies at 85
• Jan 13 Johan J Holst, Norwegian min of defense/foreign affairs, dies at 56
• Jan 14 Federica Montseny, anarchist/Sp minister of Health (1936), dies at 80
• Jan 14 Zino Davidoff, Ukrainian businessman, dies at 87
• Jan 16 Stephen Kritsick, veterinarian (Good Morning America), dies at 42
• Jan 17 Allan G Odell, Ad exec (Burma Shave), dies at 90
• Jan 17 Chung Il Kwon, Prime Minister of South Korea (1964-70), dies
• Jan 17 Han Jansen, Dutch journalist (Volkskrant), dies at 61
• Jan 17 Yevgeny Ivanov, Soviet spy involved in the Profumo affair (b. 1926)
• Jan 20 Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenyan vice-pres (1963-66), dies at about 81
• Jan 21 Basel al-Assad, Syrian president Hafez al-Assad's son and chosen successor, dies in car accident at 31
• Jan 22 Frances Gifford, dies of emphysema, at 71
• Jan 22 Irving B. Kahn, American inventor of the teleprompter, dies at 76
• Jan 23 Nikolai Ogarkov, Russian marshal (Flight KAL 007), dies at 76
• Jan 23 Oliver Smith, US set designer (Guys & Dolls-7 Tony Awards), dies at 75
• Jan 23 Suzanne M Blum, French lawyer (Charlie Chaplin), dies at 95
• Jan 24 Michalis Vranopoulos, head of Greek state bank, murdered at 48
• Jan 24 Yves Navarre, French writer (Le Jardin d'acclimatation), dies at 53
• Jan 25 Stephen Cole Kleene, mathematician (Regular Expressions), dies at 85
• Jan 28 Hermanus P "Piet" Mulder, Dutch journalist (Het Parool), dies at 79
• Jan 28 William Levitt, builder (Levittown), dies of kidney failure at 86
• Jan 30 Bahjat Talhouni, Prime Minister of Jordan (1960-62, 64-65, 67-69, 69-70), dies
• Jan 30 Jan L N Schaefer, Dutch undersecretary of Housing (PvdA), dies at 53
• Jan 31 Pierre Boulle, French writer (Executioner), dies at 81
• Feb 1 Fouad Fram al-Boustani, Lebanese historian (Rawaeaa), dies at 88
• Feb 4 Han Jansen, Dutch painter, dies at 62
• Feb 4 Harold Schneider, US producer (5 Easy Pieces, War Games), dies at 55
• Feb 4 Justinus Darmojuwono, Indonesian archbishop/cardinal, dies at 79
• Feb 5 Hermann Abs, German banker to Adolf Hitler & Konrad Adenauer and director of Deutsche Bank (1938-45), dies at 92

• Feb 7 Maarten Vrolijk, Dutch soc-dem minister (CRM 1965-66), dies at 74
• Feb 7 Richard Bissell, US under director of CIA (Pig's Bay), dies at 84
• Feb 8 Jacob Firet, Dutch theologist (Agogic Moment), dies at 70
• Feb 9 Arnold Smith, British 1st Secretary-General of Commonwealth (1965-75), dies at 79
• Feb 9 Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist (Nobel 1975), dies at 59
• Feb 11 Vincent Wigglesworth, British entomologist (Metamorphosis hormones), dies at 94
• Feb 12 Donald Judd, US furniture maker/architect/artist, dies at 65
• Feb 12 Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate, dies at 43
• Feb 13 Michael Francis Morris Lindsay, orientalist, dies at 84
• Feb 13 Theo Bitter, Dutch painter/set designer, dies at 79
• Feb 14 Christopher Lasch, American historian and author (The Culture of Narcissism), dies of metastatic cancer at 61
• Feb 14 Andrei Chikatilo, Soviet-Russian serial killer who murdered at least 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990, executed by a single gunshot at 57
• Feb 15 Andrei Tsjikatilo [Rostov Ripper], Russian mass murdered, executed
• Feb 17 Randy Shilts, American journalist (& the band played on), dies of AIDs at 41
• Feb 18 Peter Caddy, founder of the Findhorn Community, dies at 76
• Feb 19 Georges Watin, Algerian/French officer (OAS), dies at 71
• Feb 20 Derek Jarman, English director (Last of England), dies at 52
• Feb 21 Frederick Edward Nicklin, architect, dies at 68
• Feb 21 William Elgin Swinton, child Psychiatrist, dies at 54
• Feb 23 Stuart Berger, doctor (Immune Power Diet), dies from obesity at 40
• Feb 24 Knut Anders Haukfield, SOE Operative, dies at 83
• Feb 24 Lores Bonney, Australian aviator, 1st female solo flight Australia to UK, dies at 96
• Feb 24 Eduard Pavlovich Kugno, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 58
• Feb 25 Baruch Goldstein, physician/murderer (53 in mosque), lynched at 42
• Feb 25 Yann Piat, French MP (FN/PR), murdered at 44
• Feb 26 Avery Fisher, US audio manufacturer (1st hi-fi), dies at 87
• Feb 26 Leopold "Hans" Kohr, Austrian social philosopher, dies at 84
• Feb 27 Harold Acton, English-Italian historian and art collector, dies at 84
• Feb 27 Karl I Pelgrom, Dutch sculptor, dies at 66
• Feb 27 Laurence "Bill" Craigie, jet pioneer, dies at 92
• Feb 27 Leopold "Hans" Kohr, Austria social philosopher/economist, dies at 84
• Feb 28 Aisin Giorro Pu Chieh, brother of Last Emperor of China, dies at 86
• Feb 28 Buster Holmes, American chef and New Orleans restaurateur, dies at 88
• Feb 28 G. O. Sayles, English historian, dies at 92
• Feb 28 Leopoldina Poldi Feichtegger Gerhard, dies at 90
• Feb 28 Pu Yi, brother of last Chinese emperor, Pu Yi, dies at 87
• Mar 1 Eliseo Diego, Cuban poet, dies at 74
• Mar 2 Donald M. MacKinnon, Scottish philosopher, dies at 80
• Mar 2 Charles Brink, German-born British classical scholar (Horace), dies at 86
• Mar 3 Mauritius van Haegendoren, Flemish historian and senator, dies at 90
• Mar 5 Abdullah Al-Sallal, President of Yemen (1962-67), dies
• Mar 5 Paul Vincze, Jewish-Hungarian designer of coins and medal, dies at 86
• Mar 6 Max Schubert, winemaker, dies at 89
• Mar 6 Tengis Abuladze, Georgia SSR MP (Penalty), dies at 71
• Mar 8 John Ewart, Sydney Australia, dies of cancer at 55

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