November 1994 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Nov 11 Bill Gates buys Leonardo da Vinci's "Codex" for $30,800,000

Nov 13 Sweden agrees to join European Union

Latest Wonder of the World

Nov 14 1st public trains run through the Channel Tunnel linking England and France under the English Channel

Tunnel diggers from France and England meet half way. Photo: Rex Features

Nov 14 Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), lands
Nov 15 6.7-8.1 earthquake strikes Philippines, killing 45

Election of Interest

Nov 15 German Bundestag officially elects Helmut Kohl as Chancellor by a single vote (341-340)

Nov 15 Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election
Nov 17 3rd Germany government of Kohl forms
Nov 17 Irish government of Reynolds resigns
Nov 20 Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war
Nov 20 Russian Kosmos satellites 2294, 2295 and 2296 launch
Nov 25 Sony founder Akio Morita announces he will be stepping down as CEO of the company
Nov 27 Fire in disco in Fuxin, North-China, 233 killed
Nov 27 Julio Maria Sanguinetti elected president of Uruguay

Event of Interest

Nov 28 Convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium in Portage, Wisconsin

Nov 28 Norway votes against joining European Union
Nov 29 Seoul, Korea, celebrated the 600th anniversary of its founding
Nov 30 Cruise ship Achille Lauro destroyed by fire at Somalia, 4 die
Nov 30 Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as 1st communist premier of Nepal

Birthdays in History

Nov 27 Shrek the sheep, New Zealand sheep that held world record for biggest shorn fleece, born at Bendigo Station, Otago (d. 2011)

Weddings in History

Nov 20 Patti Davis weds Paul Hayeland

Deaths in History

Nov 1 Richard Krautheimer, art historian, dies at 97
Nov 1 Syd Dernley, British hangman (1949-54), dies at 73
Nov 2 David Feinberg, American AIDS activist and author, dies at 37
Nov 3 Ralph Wyckoff, American scientist and pioneer of X-ray crystallography, dies at 97
Nov 3 Richard Krautheimer, US art historian, dies at 97
Nov 4 Alexander Hardie Williamson, British artist, dies at 87
Nov 4 Sam Francis, American painter (Basel Mural), dies at 71
Nov 6 Dean Gallo, American politician (Rep-R-NJ, 1985-94), dies of cancer at 58
Nov 8 Marianne Straub, Swiss born English weaver (Festival of Britain), dies at 85
Nov 10 Louis Nizer, Jewish-American lawyer ("highest-paid lawyer in the world"), dies at 92
Nov 10 William Higinbotham, American physicist (member of team who developed first nuclear bomb), dies at 84
Nov 11 Frances Tustin, English child psychologist, dies at 81
Nov 11 John Volpe, American politician (61st and 63rd Governor of Massachusetts) and U.S. Secretary of Treasury (1969-73), dies at 85
Nov 11 Pedro Zamora, Cuban American AIDS Activist, dies at 22
Nov 12 Katherine Elliott, British physician (oral rehydration therapy), dies at 75
Nov 12 Michael John Innes Mackintosh Stewart Innes, writer, dies at 88

Nov 13 Frank Singleton, librarian, dies at 67
Nov 13 Joseph H. Hazen, US Lawyer/producer/VP (Warner Bros), dies at 96
Nov 13 Lewis Bingham Keeble, British-born town planner, dies at 79
Nov 13 Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist, dies at 70
Nov 14 John F Hampe, pathologist (Fabric & Stoflongen), dies at 83
Nov 14 Michael Grierson Jarrett, archaeologist, dies at 60
Nov 15 Elizabeth George Speare, American author (The Witch of Blackbird Pond), dies at 85
Nov 15 James W. Watts, American neurosurgeon, developer of the Frontal Lobotomy, dies at 90
Nov 15 Janet Ahlberg, illustrator, dies at 50
Nov 15 Volodymyr Ivashko, President of Ukraine (1990-91), dies
Nov 17 G Waller, German/Swiss movie journalist (NRC/Variety), dies at 82
Nov 18 Christopher Joyce, British photographer, dies at 51
Nov 19 Julian Symons, British crime writer and poet, dies at 82
Nov 19 Li Yuan-chia, Chinese artist, dies at 65
Nov 20 Ali-Akbar Sa'idi Sirjani, Iranian poet and journalist, dies at 64
Nov 20 John Lucarotti, British Canadian scriptwriter (Doctor Who), dies at 68
Nov 21 Manfred Longer, Austrian/Dutch gay disco owner, dies at 42
Nov 22 John Michael Grimes, British set designer (Philby, Burgess and MacLean), dies at 70
Nov 24 Jo Vis, Dutch resistance fighter (Yad Vashem), dies at 88
Nov 25 Arthur Ballard, English artist, dies at 79

Nov 25 Gerard John Toorenaar, Amsterdam police commissar, dies at 69
Nov 26 Arturo Rivera Damas, archbishop of El Salvador (1980-94), dies at 71
Nov 26 David Bache, British car designer (Rover), dies at 69
Nov 26 Omer Vanaudenhoven, Flemish politician and resistance fighter, dies at 80
Nov 27 Arthur Frank "Peter" Shore, egyptologist, dies at 70
Nov 28 Franfo Fortini [Franco Lattes], Italian poet, dies at 77
Nov 28 Ian Serraillier, English children's books author (The Silver Sword), dies at 82

Jeffrey Dahmer (1960-1994)

Nov 28 American serial killer (Milwaukee Cannibal), killed in prison at 34

Nov 28 Jerry Rubin, US anti-war activist (Youth Party) and businessman, dies at 56
Nov 28 Vicente Enrique y Tarancon, Spanish cardinal, dies at 87
Nov 29 Muhammad Ali Araki, Iranian grand ayatollah (Marja'), dies at 99
Nov 29 Ronald "Buster" Edwards, British Great Train Robber turned flower-seller, found hanged at 63
Nov 30 Guy Debord, situationist, dies at 63