Events in History in 1994 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 540

• May 2 Dr Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides
• May 2 Michael Bolton found to have plagiarized Isley Bros "Love is Wonderful Thing"

• May 3 D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
• May 5 Labour beats Conservatives in British local elections
• May 5 North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen

• May 6 US House of Representatives passes the Federal Assault Weapons Ban

• May 8 Erling Kagge becomes the first person to complete the Three Poles Challenge
• May 8 Ernesto Perez Balladares elected president of Panama
• May 8 Jose Maria Figueres becomes president of Costa Rica

• May 9 Mass murderer Joel Rifkin found guilty in New York
• May 10 Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president

• May 11 "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult" released in France
• May 11 6 white racists sentenced to death in South Africa
• May 12 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Anne Marie Duggan
• May 16 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Orlando, Florida on WTKS 104.1 FM
• May 16 Jacqueline Onassis admitted to hospital for cancer treatment
• May 16 Joaquín Balaguer (86) elected President of Dominican Republic
• May 17 Bakili Muluzi's UDF wins Malawi presidents/parliamentary election
• May 18 Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip
• May 18 Tropical Butterfly Garden at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens (Cleveland, Ohio)
• May 20 Bobcat Goldthwait charged with misdemeanors for fire on The Tonight Show
• May 21 South Yemen secedes from Yemen
• May 23 270 pilgrims die in the bustle round Mina, Saudi-Arabia
• May 23 Roman Herzog elected President of Germany

• May 29 Great iceball comet seen above North Sea
• May 29 Hungary's Socialist Party wins parliamentary election

• Jun 2 67th National Spelling Bee: Ned Andrews wins spelling antediluvian
• Jun 2 Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland (29 killed)
• Jun 3 5.9 earthquake/floods SE Java (150+ killed)
• Jun 3 WIIZ (98.7) FM goes off the air
• Jun 4 Haile Gebre Selassie runs world record 5 km (12:56.96)
• Jun 5 7th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
• Jun 6 6.0 earthquake/avalanche destroys Toez, Colombia (about 1000 killed)
• Jun 6 CD-councillor H Selhorst arrested for hard-drugs trade
• Jun 6 Tupolev-154M crashes at Xian China, 160 killed
• Jun 6 Warwickshire score 4 for 810 declared against Durham
• Jun 8 7.8 earthquake strikes North Bolivia
• Jun 8 Mass murderer Joel Rifkin sentenced to 27 years
• Jun 9 "Hudsucker Proxy" premieres in Germany
• Jun 9 5.6 earthquake strikes southern Mexico
• Jun 9 Angolan plane bombs school in Waku Kungo (89 killed)
• Jun 10 Biggest European clock ever (9100 kg/(237) 2.5 m) at Aarle-Rixtel
• Jun 10 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
• Jun 11 Cbox is 39'115 long, 20'85 wide, & 8' high in Jacksonville, Fl Largest popcorn container is 6,619.76 cubic feet full of popped corn
• Jun 11 Drunken police officer shoots 7 people dead in Falun, Sweden
• Jun 11 Moshood Abiola becomes President of Nigeria

• Jun 12 Moshood Abiola declares himself lawful President of Nigeria
• Jun 13 A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages
• Jun 18 Gay Games open in NYC
• Jun 19 Ernesto Samper elected president of Colombia
• Jun 19 Tigers tie record of hitting HRs in 25th consecutive games
• Jun 20 Bomb attack on Islamic temple in Mashad Iran (70 killed)
• Jun 20 US Fairchild Hospital Air Force Base massacre, former gunman kills 5 and injures 22
• Jun 22 Mets reliever John Franco sets lefty save mark at 253
• Jun 23 Moshood Abiola is accused of treason and arrested after declaring himself president of Nigeria
• Jun 23 Opération Turquoise: 2,500 French troops head into Rwanda to protect civilians under the mandate of the United Nations
• Jun 23 South Africa reclaims its seat in United Nations
• Jun 24 1st French "all news" TV (LCI) begins broadcasting
• Jun 25 105°F (40.5°C) at Albuquerque New Mexico
• Jun 25 111°F (43.9°C) at El Paso Texas
• Jun 25 Gay Games close in NYC
• Jun 25 Japanese premier Tsutomu Hata resigns
• Jun 26 104°F (40°C) at Denver, Colorado
• Jun 26 107°F (41.6°C) at Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Jun 26 112°F (44.4°C) at El Paso, Texas
• Jun 26 122°F (50°C) at Laughlin, Nevada
• Jun 26 126°F (52.2°C) in Death Valley, California
• Jun 26 Air Ivory Fokker-27 crashes at Abidjan (16 killed/1 lives)

• Jun 27 118°F (47.8°C) at Lakewood, New Mexico a state record
• Jun 27 NY Daily News increases prices to 50 cents
• Jun 29 128°F (53°C) Lake Havasu City, Arizona (state record, breaking previous set in 1905)
• Jun 29 Socialist, Tomiichi Murayama, elected premier of Japan
• Jun 29 US reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees
• Jun 30 Airbus A330 crash at Toulouse France (7 killed)
• Jul 1 Fokker's-28 crashes at Tidjikja, Mauritania (94 killed)
• Jul 1 Roman Herzog sworn in as German president
• Jul 1 Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-19 launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
• Jul 1 Yassar Arafat returns to Gaza strip
• Jul 2 John Wayne Bobbitt & Kristina Elliot arrested for domestic battery
• Jul 2 US Air DC-9 crash in North Carolina, 37 killed
• Jul 3 The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty six people killed in crashes.
• Jul 4 Rwandese Patriotic Front occupies Kigali

• 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

• 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

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

• 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
• Aug 1 99.9°F (37.7°C) in Berlin-Dahlem: record
• Aug 1 Train crash in Havana Cuba, 6 killed
• Aug 2 Congressional hearings begin on White Water
• Aug 2 Explosion in lead/zinc mine in Guangxi China, 120+ killed
• Aug 2 Noureddine Morceli runs world record 3000m (7:25.11)
• Aug 3 102.4°F (39.1°C) in Tokyo Japan: record
• Aug 3 1st Jordanian plane to fly over Israeli airspace (King Hussein pilot)
• Aug 4 Dwingeloo 1, near milky way system, discovered
• Aug 4 Truck carrying millions of bees overturns on NY parkway
• Aug 5 Antonov-12 crashes at Boda, Eastern Siberia, 47 killed
• Aug 6 Algerian Muslim fundamentalists threaten school/Universities
• Aug 7 1st telephone link between Israel & Jordan
• Aug 7 Ernesto Samper sworn in as president of Colombia
• Aug 9 Stanley Betrian put in charge of Curacao
• Aug 10 Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841)
• Aug 11 Joao B "Nino" Vieira elected President of Guinee-Bissau
• Aug 12 Panic in church of Brazzaville: 142 killed
• Aug 12 Stephen G Breyer, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
• Aug 13 Train crash in Tbilisi, Georgia, 24 killed
• Aug 14 Doc Gooden leaves Betty Ford Center
• Aug 14 Space telescope Hubble photographs Uranus with rings
• Aug 14 Terrorist "Carlos" arrested in Khartoum, Sudan
• Aug 15 South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning
• Aug 15 Terrorist Carlos the Jackal, captured in Khartoum Sudan
• Aug 16 Chandrika Kumaratungo's party wins Sri Lanka elections
• Aug 17 King Letsie II of Lesotho dismisses premier Ntsu Mokhehle
• Aug 17 NY Central park reservoir officially named after Jackie Kennedy Onasis
• Aug 18 15th Commonwealth Games open in Victoria, Canada
• Aug 18 5.6 earthquake in Algeria, kills 171
• Aug 20 109.8°F (43.2°C) in Cordoba Spain
• Aug 20 Archbishop Quarracino wants all homosexuals to leave Argentina
• Aug 20 Ferry boat sinks at Chandpur Bangladesh, 300-350 killed
• Aug 21 -23] Typhoon Fred ravages Chinese county Zhejiang, 700+ killed
• Aug 21 Ernesto Zedillo wins Mexican presidential election
• Aug 21 Royal Air Maroc ATR-42 crash down at Agadir, 44 killed
• Aug 21 The last French troops pull out of Rwanda, ending their highly controversial mission there
• Aug 22 Wim Cook government forms in Netherlands
• Aug 24 Israel & PLO initialed accord giving autonomy to Palestinians in West Bank in education, health, taxation, social welfare & tourism
• Aug 28 1st Japanese gay pride parade
• Aug 30 Gund Arena in Cleve opens
• Aug 31 Last Russian soldiers leave Estonia & Latvia
• Aug 31 The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Sinn Féin) declares a ceasefire in Northern Ireland
• Sep 3 Circulation of Neth Telegraph/News of the Day reaches 800,000
• Sep 4 Bulgarian government of Lyuben Berov falls
• Sep 4 Kansai International airport officially opens near Osaka, Japan
• Sep 5 Kirgizia government resigns
• Sep 6 Franziska van Almsick swims female record 200m freestyle (1:56.78)
• Sep 8 Last US, British & French troops leave West Berlin
• Sep 8 Man shoots another man on IRT #4 train at Grand Central Station
• Sep 8 USAir Boeing 737 crashes at Pitts Airport, killing all 132 on board

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