July 1994 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Jul 5 Amazon.com founded in Bellevue, Washington by Jeff Bezos

Jul 5 The United States announces it will no longer accept unrestricted immigration from Haiti
Jul 6 Irina Privalova runs 100m European Record (10.77)
Jul 6 Lerou Burrell runs world record 100m (9.85)
Jul 7 North Yemenite troops occupy Aden
Jul 8 Sonia O'Sullivan runs female 2K world record (5:25.36)
Jul 8 Space shuttle STS-65 (Columbia 17), launches
Jul 8 St Maarten "Godfather" Claude Wathey sentenced to 1½ years
Jul 9 Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-18 lands after successful trip to Mir spacestation
Jul 9 Sonia O'Sullivan runs world record 2k (5:25.36)
Jul 10 Nepal premier Girija Prasadkoirala resigns
Jul 10 Sonia O'Sullivan runs female world record 2K (5:25.36)
Jul 11 Suriname guilder devalued to 1USD = SG180 during a period of high inflation
Jul 12 Nomination hearings for Steven Breyer for supreme court justice begins
Jul 14 Gas explosion at old age home in Milan, 27 killed
Jul 15 Gyula Horn sworn in as premier of Hungary

Rwandan Genocide

Jul 15 Hundreds of thousands of Hutus flee to Zaire in the Congo near the end of the Rwandan Genocide

Skulls of genocide victims at the Nyamata Memorial Site in Rwanda

Jul 15 Israel and Jordan agree to talks in Washington, D.C. on July 25th
Jul 15 Sonia O'Sullivan runs 3K (8:21.64)
Jul 16 Comet Shoemaker-Levy 1st collides with Jupiter (collisions continue until 22 July)
Jul 16 Spanish fishing boats sink a French fishing boat over fishing rights
Jul 17 French youngster (4) becomes Buddhist Lama Tulkou Kalou Rinpoche
Jul 18 Bomb attack on Jewish center AMIA in Buenos Aires, 86 killed
Jul 18 Comet Shoemaker-Levy's largest collision with Jupiter leaves black spot 12,000 km across
Jul 18 Crayola announces introduction of scented crayons
Jul 19 1st game ever cancelled at Seattle Kingdome (falling tiles)
Jul 19 Bomb explosion in Alas Airlines at Colon Panama, 21 killed
Jul 19 Leonid Kvetjsma sworn in as Ukraine president

Event of Interest

Jul 20 Alexander Lukashenko is inaugurated as the first president of Belarus

Jul 20 Major parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (July 16th-22nd)

Event of Interest

Jul 20 Supreme Leader of North-Korea, Kim Il-sung is placed in a public Mausoleum at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun

Election of Interest

Jul 21 Tony Blair is declared the winner of the leadership election of the British Labour Party, paving the way for him to become Prime Minister in 1997

Jul 22 23rd & last part of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (since July 16th)
Jul 22 Doc Gooden admitted to Betty Ford Center
Jul 22 Military coup in Gambia: President Dawda Jawara flees
Jul 22 William Sigei runs world record 10k (26:52.53)
Jul 23 All 40,000 ceiling tiles in Kingdome must be replaced
Jul 23 Amy Osmond of Utah, 17, crowned America's Junior Miss
Jul 23 Goodwill Games open in St Petersburg
Jul 23 Space shuttle STS-65: Columbia 17, lands after record 14 days 55 mins
Jul 24 Asociación de Estados del Caribe (AEC) forms
Jul 24 Bodo kills 37 Muslims in Bashbari NE India
Jul 25 Jordan and Israeli end 46 year state of war (Washington, D.C.)
Jul 26 Cambodia's Red Khmer surprise attack on train, kills 13
Jul 26 Turkish air force bombs Kurds, struggle in Iraq, 70 killed
Jul 28 Last steel beam is placed on Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum
Jul 29 200,000 Muslims demand the death of feminist writer Taslima Nasrin in Bangladesh
Jul 29 American minister and anti-abortionist Paul Jennings Hill murders Dr. John Britton and Britton's bodyguard, retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel James Barrett, outside of an abortion clinic in Pensacola, Florida
Jul 29 Corrupt Italian ex-premier Craxi gets 8½ year jail sentenced
Jul 29 Henny Eman's Aruban Peoples Party wins parliamentary election in Aruba
Jul 29 India army kills 27 Muslim militants
Jul 29 Jesse Timmedequas rapes and murders Megan Kanka, 7 (results in Megan's Law)
Jul 30 Record 103.8°F (39.9°C) in Preschen Lausitz Germany
Jul 31 102.7°F (39.3°C) in Pleschen, East-Germany
Jul 31 Arcen Limburg averages 71.6°F (22.0°C) in July: record
Jul 31 Netherlands' warmest July since 1783 - average 21.4°C
Jul 31 Sergei Bubka ploe vaults his 35th world record (6.14 m)
Jul 31 Stockholm averages 21.5°C; the warmest July since 1855
Jul 31 UN votes 12-0 (2 abstentions) to authorize use of force against Haiti

Birthdays in History

Jul 18 Ricardo Dela Corte, Italian test tube baby born to oldest (62) mother
Jul 27 Boyan Slat, Dutch inventor, environmentalist, and entrepreneur (The Ocean Cleanup), born in Delft, Netherlands
Jul 27 Princess Mafalda-Ceceilia of Bulgaria

Deaths in History

Jul 1 Johanna Ader-Appels, resistance fighter/author, dies
Jul 2 Maung Maung, premier of Burma (1988), dies at 69
Jul 2 Ralph C Rinzler, folklorist (Greenbriar Boys), dies at 59
Jul 3 Felix Kelly, New Zealand-born British artist, dies at 80
Jul 3 Pieter Hennipman, Dutch economist, dies at 85
Jul 4 Arthur Berry, English artist and playwright, dies at 69
Jul 4 Juan Gil-Albert, Spanish poet and writer, dies at 90
Jul 4 Rupert Davies, English methodist scholar, dies at 84
Jul 4 Tawfik Ziad, Palestinian communist/Israeli MP/mayor of Nazareth, dies
Jul 5 Ad Gang, Dutch Liberal Party Asst Secretary of State, dies at 67
Jul 7 Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer (b. 1924)
Jul 7 Rosa Chacel, spanish Novelist, dies at 96

Kim Il-sung (1912-1994)

Jul 8 Founder, dictator and Supreme Leader of North-Korea (1948-94), dies of a heart attack at 82

Jul 8 Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (b. 1927)
Jul 11 Alan David Melville, polymath, dies at 82

Gary Kildall (1942-1994)

Jul 11 American computer scientist and entrepreneur who created the CP/M operating system, dies at 52

Jul 11 James Topping, author of CP/M, dies at 52
Jul 11 Wim Jurg, corrector/chairman (Werelddambond FMJD), dies at 49
Jul 12 David Malcolm Lewis, English historian, expert in Greek Epigraphy, dies at 56
Jul 12 James Bysse Joll, British historian, dies at 76
Jul 13 Bob Payton, American pizza magnate (The Chicago Pizza Pie Factory), dies at 50
Jul 14 Robert Jungk, Austrian journalist and philosopher (Nuclear State), dies at 81
Jul 15 Jeanne Bieruma Oosting, Dutch painter/illustrator, dies
Jul 16 Julian Schwinger, American physicist (1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for quantum electrodynamics), dies at 76
Jul 16 M Vink, surgeon (1st Dutch kidney transplant), dies at 78
Jul 17 Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguist and writer (Poedjangga Baroe), dies at 86
Jul 18 Gottfried Reinhardt [Goldmann], German/American director, dies at 83
Jul 19 Frederik "Frits" van der More, archaeologist/art historian, dies at 87
Jul 19 Gottfried Reinhardt, theatre Producer, dies at 81
Jul 19 Nathan Susskind, Slovak-American linguist (Yiddish), dies at 87
Jul 19 Nick Banton, founder of Body Positive, dies at 37
Jul 20 Paul Delvaux, Belgian surrealist painter, dies at 96
Jul 20 Reginald Hall, English endocrinologist, dies at 83
Jul 21 Hugh Scott, American lawyer and politician (Senate Minority Leader 1969-77), dies at 93
Jul 21 John Ernest, American constructionist artist, dies at 72
Jul 23 Aad Ivens, Dutch checkers player, dies at 80
Jul 23 Henry William Collins, English artist, dies at 84
Jul 24 Grete Schickedanz, German head mistress, dies at 82
Jul 26 Marino Iandiorio, Italian canned tomato pioneer, dies at 64
Jul 26 Thomas Davis, US movie editor/son of MGM-chief Frank D, dies at 26
Jul 27 Kevin Carter, a South African photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize winner & member of the Bang-Bang Club, suicide at 33
Jul 27 Rosa Chacel, Spanish author, dies at 96
Jul 28 Bernard Delfont, Rus/British impresario (Thorn EMI), dies at 84
Jul 28 Colin Turnbull, British-American anthropologist (The Forest People), dies at 69
Jul 28 Selwyn Powell, British magazine editor (The Geographical Magazine; Night & Day), dies at 82

Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994)

Jul 29 British biochemist who developed protein crystallography to study molecular structure, including that of vitamin B12 (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1964), dies of a stroke at 84 [1]

Jul 29 Francisco Veguillas, Spanish general, murdered at 68
Jul 29 James Herman Barrett Jr, retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel killed by anti-abortion extremist Paul Hill at 74
Jul 29 John Bayard Britton, American doctor who performed abortions, and killed by anti-abortion extremist Paul Hill, in Pensacola, Florida
Jul 30 Enid Balint-Edmonds, British psychoanalyst, dies at 90
Jul 30 Henry Mackie, designer of the Belfast Calorimeter, dies at 73
Jul 31 Caitlin Thomas (née Macnamara), British author (Leftover Life to Kill) and the wife of the poet and writer Dylan Thomas, dies at 80
Jul 31 G de Ru, chairman of Dutch Reformed Synode, dies
Jul 31 Pieter C Buitendijk, co-founder (Free Netherlands), dies at 92