Notable Historical Events - 1994
1994 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
"Flying Karamzov Brothers" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 50 perfs |
Jan 1 |
"Grand Night after Singing" closes at Criterion NYC after 52 perfs |
Jan 1 |
Aleksandr Popov swims world record 100m free style (47.83) |
Jan 1 |
Carquest Bowl 4: Boston College beats Virginia, 32-13 |
Jan 1 |
Howard Stern's New Year's Eve Beauty Pageant |
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 |
"Abe Lincoln in Illinois" closes at Beaumont NYC after 40 perfs |
Jan 2 |
"Shakespeare after My Father" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 266 perf |
Jan 2 |
Battles between army & rebellious indians in South Mexico, kill 57 |
Jan 3 |
"Gray's Anatomy" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 13 performances |
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 3 |
Restoration of South African citizenship, announced on 15 December 1993 by the South African parliament led by President F.W. de Klerk, becomes effective four months before the first South Africa non-racial polls of 27 April, 1994 |
Jan 4 |
10th largest wrestling crowd (58,000-Tokyo Dome) |
Jan 5 |
Aleksandr Popov swims world record 100m free style (47.82) |
Jan 5 |
Yat Weiju swims world record 100m butterfly stroke (58.71) |
Jan 5 |
Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool record (58.71) |
Jan 6 |
"Government Inspector" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 37 performances |
Jan 6 |
Dow-Jones hits record 3803.88 |
Jan 6 |
Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Harding's bodyguard |
Jan 6 |
Yat Weiju swims world record 50m butterfly stroke (26.44) |
Jan 6 |
Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool (26.44) |
Jan 7 |
South Africa beat Australia in the Sydney Test by 5 runs |
Jan 7 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding |
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 12 |
Malcolm X's daughter arrested for plotting Louis Farrakham's murder |
Jan 12 |
Steve Carlton (Phillies) elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
Jan 13 |
Italian government of Ciampi resigns |
Jan 13 |
Tonya Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt & Derrick Brian Smith arrested & charged with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan |
Jan 14 |
Inna Lassovskaya triple-jumps ladies world record (14.61m) |
Jan 14 |
Russian manned space craft TM-17, lands |
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 15 |
Lawrence Taylor announces his retirement from the NFL |
Jan 16 |
Scott skates world record 1000m (1:12.54) |
Jan 17 |
6.6 Earthquake hits Los Angeles killing 60, $30B in damage |
Jan 17 |
Actress Elizabeth Taylor released from the hospital after hip treatment |
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 |
45th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 9-8 at NY Rangers |
Jan 22 |
5.5 magnitude earthquake strikes Sumatra |
Jan 22 |
51st Golden Globes: Schlinder's List, Steven Speilberg |
Jan 22 |
East beats West 9-8 in 45th NHL All Star Game at Madison Square Garden in NYC |
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 |
Australia beat South Africa 2-1 to win the World Series Cup |
Jan 25 |
Mine fire at Asansol, India, kills 55 |
Jan 25 |
US space probe Clementine launched |
Jan 25 |
Accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, Michael Jackson settles a civil lawsuit out of court |
Jan 27 |
"No Man's Land" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 61 performances |
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 30 |
68th Australian Women's Tennis Open: S Graf beats A S Vicario (6-0 6-2) |
Jan 30 |
82nd Australian Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Todd Martin (76 64 64) |
Jan 30 |
Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.76) |
Jan 30 |
Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wkts |
Jan 30 |
Super Bowl XXVIII: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 30-13 in Atlanta Super Bowl MVP: Emmitt Smith, Dallas, RB |
Jan 30 |
Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grand master. |
Jan 31 |
Barcelona opera theater "Gran Teatro del Liceo" burns down |
Jan 31 |
Dow Jones hits a record 3,978.36 |
Feb 1 |
Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.03 sec) |
Feb 1 |
Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean |
Feb 3 |
"Les Miserables," opens at Kallang Theatre, Singapore |
Feb 3 |
President Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam |
Feb 3 |
STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit |
Feb 4 |
10th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins |
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 |
"Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego," debuts on Fox TV |
Feb 5 |
Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson Miss, 30 years after the crime |
Feb 6 |
"Government Inspector" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 37 perfs |
Feb 6 |
Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic |
Feb 6 |
Jose Maria Figueres elected president of Costa Rica |
Feb 6 |
Leonid Voloshin triple jumps world record 17.77m |
Feb 6 |
Martti Ahtisaari elected president of Finland |
Feb 6 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 17-3 |
Feb 7 |
21st American Music Award: Whitney Houston wins |
Feb 7 |
Howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge |
Feb 7 |
Jim Nabors undergoes a liver transplant |
Feb 8 |
Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car |
Feb 8 |
Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432 |
Feb 8 |
Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee charge with possession of loaded firearm |
Feb 9 |
Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat |
Feb 11 |
Lu Parker, (South Carolina), crowned 43rd Miss USA |
Feb 11 |
Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands |
Feb 12 |
17th Winter Olympic games opens in Lillehammer, Norway |
Feb 12 |
20th century premiere of 6 restored Haydn-sonatas in Boston |
Feb 12 |
Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" stolen (in Oslo) |
Feb 12 |
Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.90m |
Feb 12 |
Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose |
Feb 13 |
44th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 127-118 at Minneapolis |
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 14 |
Alexander Golubev skates Olympic record 500m (36.33) |
Feb 14 |
Andrei Chikatilo, a Russian serial killer is executed by shooting. |
Feb 14 |
2nd ESPY Awards: Barry Bonds, Julie Krone win |
Feb 15 |
US asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti |
Feb 16 |
6.5 earthquake strikes SE 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 18 |
Dan Jansen skates world record 1000m (1:12.43) |
Feb 18 |
Shreveport Pirates join CFL as 4th US team |
Feb 19 |
Marta Figueras-Dotti wins Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open |
Feb 20 |
3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage |
Feb 20 |
Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55) |
Feb 20 |
Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals |
Feb 22 |
"Les Miserables," opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya |
Feb 23 |
Indians owner Richard Jacobs announces he will pay $10 million to name baseball field (Jacobs Field) at Gateway (becomes official 3/23) |
Feb 24 |
Scoreboard is unveiled at new Cleve Indians' park (Jacobs Field) |
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 25 |
Phil Rizzuto elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
Feb 26 |
St Louis Blues beat Ottawa Senators 11-1 |
Feb 27 |
17th Winter Olympic games closes in Lillehammer, Norway |
Feb 27 |
Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed |
Feb 28 |
Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect |
Mar 1 |
36th Grammy Awards: I Will Always Love You, Toni Braxton wins |
Mar 1 |
Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as president of Finland |
Mar 1 |
Senate rejectes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution |
Mar 2 |
Miami begins a latin walk of fame, 1st star for Gloria Estefan |
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 |
"Damn Yankees" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 510 performances |
Mar 3 |
"Philoktetes Variations," with Ron Vawter, premieres in Brussels |
Mar 3 |
IRS investigates Darryl Strawberry |
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 |
Dottie Mochrie wins Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Championship |
Mar 5 |
Largest milkshake (1,955 gallons of chocolate-Nelspruit South Africa) |
Mar 5 |
PBA National Championship won by David Traber |
Mar 5 |
Singer Grace Slick arrested for pointing a gun at a cop |
Mar 6 |
Colin Jackson runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.30 sec) |
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 |
8th American Comedy Award: Carrot Top wins |
Mar 7 |
Charles Taylor resigns as pres 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 7 |
ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa |
Mar 7 |
The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use. |
Mar 8 |
20th People's Choice Awards: Tom Cruise & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Roseanne Arnold win (TV) |
Mar 8 |
B737 collides with Ilyushin-86 in New Dehli, 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 10 |
1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral |
Mar 11 |
Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as president of Chile |
Mar 12 |
Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests |
Mar 13 |
33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right Freedom Party |
Mar 13 |
Donna Andrews wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship |
Mar 13 |
Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed) |
Mar 13 |
President Mangope of Bophuthatswana deposed |
Mar 14 |
Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped |
Mar 14 |
Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov & N Thagard |
Mar 14 |
Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released. |
Mar 15 |
8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win |
Mar 15 |
Experts from AL certify Indian's Jacobs Field is properly lit |
Mar 16 |
Moravcik forms Slovakia government |
Mar 16 |
Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan |
Mar 17 |
"Little More Magic" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 30 performances |
Mar 17 |
Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed) |
Mar 17 |
It is announced there is no smoking in Cleve Indians new ballpark |
Mar 18 |
South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police |
Mar 18 |
Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), lands |
Mar 18 |
Zsa Zsa Gabor files for bankruptcy |
Mar 19 |
2500 kilograms of cocaine intercepted in Zeewolde, Netherlands |
Mar 19 |
Lara scores 167 for WI v England at Georgetown |
Mar 19 |
Largest omelet (1,383sq ft) made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama, Japan |
Mar 19 |
NJ Devils club record 41st win of the season |
Mar 20 |
"Cyrano - The Musical" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 137 perfs |
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 |
Brett Hart wins WWF championship at Wrestlemania X |
Mar 20 |
El Salvador's 1st pres election following 12-year-old civil war |
Mar 20 |
Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament |
Mar 20 |
Mashonaland U-24 beat Matabeleland on 1st inn to win Logan Cup |
Mar 20 |
Wrestlemania X at Madison Square Garden NY, Bret Hart pins Yokozuna |
Mar 20 |
Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa |
Mar 21 |
66th Academy Awards - "Schindler's List", Tom Hanks & Holly Hunter win |
Mar 21 |
Anne P Sidamon-Eristoff named chairwoman of Museum of Natl History |
Mar 21 |
Dudley Moore arrested for hitting girlfriend |
Mar 21 |
Wayne Gretzky ties Gordie Howe's NHL record of 801 goals |
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/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 |
Howard Stern formally announces his Libertarian run for NY governor |
Mar 23 |
Last day of Test cricket for Kapil Dev |
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 |
Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 m ladies (38.99 sec) |
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 |
23rd Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Donna Andrews |
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 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Elvis Stojko (CAN) |
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 29 |
Coach Jimmy Johnson quits Dallas Cowboys |
Mar 29 |
Last day of Test cricket for Allan Border |
Mar 29 |
Serbs & Croats signed a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia |
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 |
Human evolution: The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull. |
Apr 1 |
Bob Feller Statue on Indians Plaza dedicated |
Apr 2 |
1st exhibition game played at Jacobs Field, Pirates beat Indians, 6-4 |
Apr 3 |
13th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: NC beats Louisiana Tech 60-59 |
Apr 3 |
1st roster of Silver Bullets (all-female pro baseball team) announced |
Apr 3 |
6th Seniors Golf Tradition: Ray Floyd |
Apr 4 |
1st game played at Jacobs Field, Indians beat Mariners 4-3 in 11 inn |
Apr 4 |
56th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Ark Razorbacks beats Duke 76-72 |
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 |
LA Dodger Darryl Strawberry begins substance abuse treatment |
Apr 4 |
Largest Opening Day crowd at Yankee Stadium, 56,706 |
Apr 4 |
Netscape Communications founded as Mosaic Communications |
Apr 4 |
Tony Curtis undergoes heart-bypass surgery |
Apr 4 |
Day vs Mets starter Dwight Gooden |
Apr 5 |
"Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect" opens at Golden NYC for 347 perfs |
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 |
Chuck Jones found guilty of breaking into Marla Maples home |
Apr 6 |
Liberal Supreme Court Justice 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 6 |
The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down. |
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 acknowledges Holocaust (Nazis killing Jews) for 1st time |
Apr 8 |
Atlanta Brave Kent Mercker no-hits Dodgers, 6-0 |
Apr 8 |
Darryl Strawberry enters Betty Ford clinic |
Apr 8 |
Japans premier 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 10 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Hiten Theatre, Osaka |
Apr 10 |
58th Golf Masters Championship: Jose M Olazabal wins, shooting a 279 |
Apr 12 |
Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam. |
Apr 13 |
President 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 |
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis operated on for a bleeding ulcer |
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 perfs |
Apr 17 |
"Twilight - Los Angeles 1992" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 72 perfs |
Apr 17 |
55th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Lee Trevino wins |
Apr 17 |
Aruba government of Oduber falls |
Apr 17 |
Val Skinner wins LPGA Atlanta Women's Golf Championship |
Apr 18 |
"Beauty & the Beast" opens at Palace Theater NYC |
Apr 18 |
23rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:21:45 |
Apr 18 |
98th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya in 2:07:15 |
Apr 18 |
Arsenio Hall announces he will end his show in May 1994 |
Apr 18 |
Brian Lara scores 375 for WI vs England to beat Sobers' record |
Apr 18 |
Cricketer Brian Lara hits 375 runs on 1 day (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 |
15th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
Apr 19 |
Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10km (11:25.88) |
Apr 19 |
Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election |
Apr 19 |
Rodney King award $3,800,000 in compensation for his police beating |
Apr 19 |
Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender |
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 |
Eddie Murray sets record for switch hit HRS in a games (11 times) |
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's slaughtered in stadium of Kibuye Rwanda |
Apr 22 |
Borge Ousland reaches North pole |
Apr 22 |
Ice skater Tonya Harding sues ex-husband Jeff Gillooly for $42,500 |
Apr 22 |
In Denmark the largest lollipop, weighing 3,011 pounds, made |
Apr 22 |
Michael Moorer beats Evander Holyfield in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
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 |
David Robinson scores ties 7th highest total in the NBA - 71 |
Apr 24 |
NY Rangers sweep NY Islanders in NHL playoffs |
Apr 25 |
14" of snow in Southern Calif |
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 kidnap |
Apr 25 |
Tsutomu Hata elected premier of Japan |
Apr 26 |
26.9°C in Prestebakke Norway (Norwegian April high temp record) |
Apr 26 |
Taiwan Airbus A-300 crashes at Nagoya Japan, 262 killed |
Apr 26 |
1st multi-racial election in South Africa begins [3 days] 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 |
"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: NJ Devils beat Buffalo Sabres (125 min 43 sec) |
Apr 27 |
Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (52,713 km) |
Apr 27 |
President Nixon buried in Nixon Library in Calif |
Apr 27 |
Twins righty Scott Erickson no-hits Brewers 6-0 |
Apr 28 |
1st multi-racial election in South Africa ends [3 days] |
Apr 28 |
Aldrich Ames, former CIA officer & wife Rosario plead guilty to spying |
Apr 28 |
Freddy Thielemans sworn in as mayor of Brussels Belgium |
Apr 29 |
Ferry boat smashes into Mombasa Harbor Kenya, kills over 300 |
Apr 29 |
Israel & PLO sign economic accord |
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 perfs |
May 1 |
-3] Tornado & hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed |
May 1 |
Charles Kuralt retires as CBS newsman (On the Road) |
May 1 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Sprint Senior Challenge Golf Tournament |
May 1 |
Sherri Steinhauer wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship |
May 2 |
Bus crashes into a tree at Gdansk Poland, 32 killed |
May 2 |
Dr Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides |
May 2 |
Michael Bolton found plagurized Isley Bros "Love is Wonderful Thing" |
May 3 |
29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins |
May 3 |
D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election |
May 3 |
US space probe Clementine launched |
May 4 |
Arsenal wins 34th Europe Cup II |
May 4 |
Singer Courtney Love cleared of drug charges |
May 5 |
"Sally Marrand Her Escorts" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 50 perfs |
May 5 |
Labour beats Conservatives in British local elections |
May 5 |
North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen |
May 6 |
Chunnel linking England & France officially opens |
May 6 |
Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait sets fire to the couch on Tonight Show |
May 6 |
US House of Representatives passes the Federal Assault Weapons Ban |
May 6 |
Lennox Lewis TKOs Phil Jackson in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
May 6 |
Nelson Mandela and the ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa's first post apartheid election |
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 7 |
Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" recovered 3 months after stolen |
May 8 |
"Rise & Fall of Little Voice" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 9 perfs |
May 8 |
500th commentary by Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes |
May 8 |
Colorado Silver Bullets (all-female pro baseball team) 1st game |
May 8 |
Ernesto Perez Balladares elected president of Panama |
May 8 |
Jose Maria Figueres becomes president of Costa Rica |
May 8 |
Laura Davies wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic |
May 8 |
President Clinton announces US will no longer repatriate boat people |
May 8 |
Erling Kagge becomes the first person to complete the Three Poles Challenge. |
May 9 |
"Passion" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 280 performances |
May 9 |
Mass murderer Joel Rifkind found guilty in NY |
May 10 |
"Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public" opens at Lunt-Font NYC for 16 per |
May 10 |
Barbra Striesand's begins 1st concert tour in 30 years |
May 10 |
Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president |
May 10 |
Silvio Berlusconi forms Italian government with 5 neo-fascists |
May 11 |
"Grease" opens at Eugene O' Neill Theater NYC for 1,503 performances |
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 11 |
Inter Milan wins 23rd UEFA Cup |
May 12 |
WIBC Bowling Queens won by Anne Marie Duggan |
May 13 |
Indians begin a 18 home game home win streak at Jacobs Field |
May 14 |
Dave Winfield passes Frank Robinson for 12th on RBI list with 1,617 |
May 14 |
FA cup final at Wembley Stadium London |
May 15 |
40th McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Laura Davies |
May 16 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Orlando FL 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 16 |
Tennis star Jennifer Capriati arrested on possession of marijuana |
May 17 |
Bakili Muluzi's UDF wins Malawi presidents/parliamentary election |
May 18 |
AC Milan wins Europe Cup 1: 4-0 against Barcelona |
May 18 |
Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip |
May 18 |
Tropical Butterfly Garden at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens |
May 19 |
Final Episode of LA Law after 8 year run |
May 19 |
Omar Sharif suffers a mild heart attack |
May 19 |
Tennis star Jennifer Capriati (18), checks into a drug rehab center |
May 20 |
Bobcat Goldthwait charged with misdemeanors for fire on Tonight Show |
May 20 |
Sushmita Sen from India is crowned the 43rd Miss Universe at 18 years old |
May 20 |
Sony Theaters & Cineplex (NYC) hike movie ticket prices to $8.00 |
May 21 |
"Best Little Whorehouse" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 16 perfs |
May 21 |
120th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 1:56.4 |
May 21 |
Reds bat out of order against Dodgers in 2nd inning |
May 21 |
South Yemen secedes from Yemen |
May 22 |
Elaine Crosby wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
May 22 |
Toronto NBA franchise unveils name "Raptors" & logo |
May 23 |
270 pilgrims dies in bustle round Mina Saudi-Arabia |
May 23 |
Roman Herzog elected president of Germany |
May 23 |
"Star Trek The Next Generation" finale airs this week in syndication |
May 24 |
Poison singer Bret Michaels gets into a car crash |
May 25 |
Emmy 21st Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci not nominated |
May 25 |
Mark Messier guarantees his New York Rangers will beat the New Jersey Devils in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals, which he would help deliver on by scoring a natural hat trick in the game |
May 27 |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile |
May 27 |
Final broadcast of Arsenio Hall talk show |
May 27 |
Flintstones live action movie opens |
May 27 |
Larry King ended his radio show |
May 28 |
"Cafe American" last airs on NBC-TV |
May 28 |
Twin's Dave Winfield passes Rod Carew into 15th hit list (3,054) |
May 29 |
"Joseph & the Amazing Dreamcoat" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 223 performances |
May 29 |
"Picnic" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances |
May 29 |
Indianapolis 500: Al Unser Jr.wins in 3:06:29.006 (255.89 kph) |
May 29 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
May 29 |
Great iceball comet seen above North Sea |
May 29 |
Hungary's Socialist Party wins parliamentary election |
May 29 |
Patty Sheehan wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Golf Game |
May 31 |
Padres scores 13 in 2nd vs Pirates |
Jun 1 |
FX Channel, Cable Network, debuts |
Jun 1 |
Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery |
Jun 2 |
67th National Spelling Bee: Ned Andrews wins spelling antediluvian |
Jun 2 |
Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland (29 killed) |
Jun 2 |
Indonesian censors ban Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List" |
Jun 2 |
Sharon Stone files $12m lawsuit against her jeweler |
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 |
"Gray's Anatomy" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 8 performances |
Jun 5 |
64th French Men's Tennis: S Bruguera beats A Berasategui (63 75 26 61) |
Jun 5 |
64th French Women's Tennis: A Sanchez Vicario beats M Pierce (6-4 6-4) |
Jun 5 |
7th Children's Miracle Network Telethon |
Jun 5 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic |
Jun 6 |
28th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & Ray Stevens |
Jun 6 |
6.0 earthquake/avalanche destroys Toez Colombia (about 1000 killed) |
Jun 6 |
Brian Lara scores 501 not out for Warwickshire vs Durham |
Jun 6 |
CD-councillor H Selhorst arrested for hard-drugs trade |
Jun 6 |
Cricketer Brian Lara hits record 501 not out/390 runs in 1 day |
Jun 6 |
Tupolev-154M crashes at Xian China, 160 killed |
Jun 6 |
Warwickshire score 4 for 810 declared against Durham |
Jun 7 |
A's outfielder Rickey Henderson steals his 1,100th career base |
Jun 8 |
7.8 earthquake strikes North Bolivia |
Jun 8 |
Mass murderer Joe Rifkind 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 10 |
Jennifer Capriati, tennis ace, checks out of drug abuse clinic |
Jun 11 |
"Meet The Flintstones" by The BC 52's peaks to #33 |
Jun 11 |
126th Belmont: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 2:26.8 |
Jun 11 |
Drunken police officer shoots 7 people dead in Falun, Sweden |
Jun 11 |
Moshood Abiola becomes pres of Nigeria |
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 12 |
-17] Pope John Paul II visits Spain |
Jun 12 |
48th Tony Awards: Angels in America: Perestroika & Passion win |
Jun 12 |
Cab Calloway suffered massive stroke at his home in White Plaines NY |
Jun 12 |
Liselotte Neumann wins Minnesota LPGA Golf Classic |
Jun 13 |
Chicago Cub 2nd baseman Ryne Sandberg, retires due to poor play, he forfeits $15.7 million of his $25 million contract |
Jun 13 |
Don Mattingly plays 1st base 1,469 game for Yankees (2nd most) |
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 14 |
Stanley Cup: NY Rangers beat Vancouver Canucks, 4 games to 3 |
Jun 15 |
Disney's "Lion King" opens in theaters with $42 million |
Jun 15 |
NY Giants cut quarterback Phil Simms |
Jun 15 |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
Jun 16 |
Martin Brodeur becomes 1st Devil to win Calder Trophy |
Jun 17 |
1994 World Cup soccer match begin, Germany vs Bolivia in Chicago |
Jun 17 |
OJ Simpson doesn't turn himself in on murder charges, LA cops chase his Ford Bronco for 1½ hours, eventually gives up (seen live on TV) |
Jun 18 |
Aleksander Popov swims world record 100m free style (48.21 sec) |
Jun 18 |
Gay Games open in NYC |
Jun 18 |
US ties Switzerland 1-1 in their 1st game of 1994 soccer World Cup |
Jun 19 |
"Sally Marrand Her Escorts" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 50 perfs |
Jun 19 |
"She Loves Me" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC after 294 performances |
Jun 19 |
"Twilight - Los Angeles 1992" closes at Cort NYC after 72 perfs |
Jun 19 |
94th US Golf Open: Ernie Els shoots a 279 at Oakmont CC in Oakmont Pa |
Jun 19 |
Ernesto Samper elected president of Colombia |
Jun 19 |
Lisa Kiggens wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament |
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 |
Ernie Els win's 1994 Golf US Open |
Jun 20 |
Howard Stern begins 30-minute (Radio) TV show on E! cable network |
Jun 20 |
OJ Simpson arraigned on murder of Nicole Simpson & Ronald Goldman |
Jun 21 |
Steffi Graf becomes 1st defending tennis champ to lose in 1st round of a major tournament (Wimbledon to Lorrie McNeal) |
Jun 22 |
48th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 3 |
Jun 22 |
Ken Griffey Jr breaks Ruth's record for most HRs by end of June (31) |
Jun 22 |
Mets reliever John Franco sets lefty save mark at 253 |
Jun 22 |
US beats Colombia 2-1 in 1994 soccer world cup (1st win since 1950) |
Jun 23 |
South Africa reclaims its seat in UN |
Jun 23 |
Replay shows A's Bobby Witt beat KC's Gagne to 1st in 6th but ump Gary Cedarstrom calls him safe, runing Witt's perfect game |
Jun 23 |
South Africa is readmitted to the United Nations Organisations (UNO) |
Jun 23 |
Some 2,500 French troops head into Rwanda to protect civilians, the first outside forces sent there since UN |
Jun 24 |
1st French "all news" TV (LCI) begins broadcasting |
Jun 24 |
Jeff Bagwell of Astros is 28th to hit 2 HRs in an inning |
Jun 25 |
1,500th goal in Soccer World Cup history scored by Caceres of Argentina |
Jun 25 |
105°F (40.5°C) at Albuquerque New Mexico |
Jun 25 |
111°F (43.9°C) at El Paso Texas |
Jun 25 |
Cleve Indians 18 game home win streak ends to Yanks 11-6 |
Jun 25 |
Gay Games close in NYC |
Jun 25 |
Japanese premier Tsutomu Hata resigns |
Jun 26 |
"Broken Glass" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 73 performances |
Jun 26 |
"Medea" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 82 performances |
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, Calif |
Jun 26 |
Air Ivory Fokker-27 crashes at Abidjan (16 killed/1 lives) |
Jun 26 |
Donna Andrews wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic |
Jun 26 |
Kirby Puckett pass Rod Carew with 2,088 hit as Twin's top hit leader |
Jun 26 |
PLO leader Yasser Arafat returns to Gaza after 27 years |
Jun 26 |
US loses to Romania 1-0 in 1994 soccer world cup |
Jun 27 |
"Gray's Anatomy" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 8 performances |
Jun 27 |
118°F (47.8°C) at Lakewood New Mexico[dup] |
Jun 27 |
118°F (47.8°C) at Lakewood New Mexico (state record) |
Jun 27 |
12th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton |
Jun 27 |
NY Daily News increases prices to 50 cents |
Jun 27 |
Aerosmith become first major band to let fans download a full new track free from the internet |
Jun 28 |
NY Met Pitcher Dwight Gooden suspended for 60 days due to drug charges |
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) |
Jun 30 |
Giants outfielder Darren Lewis errors after record 392 flawless games |
Jun 30 |
Pre-trial hearings open in LA against OJ Simpson |
Jun 30 |
US Ice Skating Federation bars Tonya Harding for life |
Jul 1 |
Fokker's-28 crashes at Tidjikja, Mauritania (94 killed) |
Jul 1 |
Roman Herzog sworn in as German president |
Jul 1 |
Soyuz TM-19 launches |
Jul 1 |
Yassar Arafat returns to Gaza strip |
Jul 2 |
101st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: C Martinez beats Navratilova (64 36 63) |
Jul 2 |
John Wayne Bobbitt & Kristina Elliot arrested for domestic battery |
Jul 2 |
Richard Johnson takes 10-45 for Middlesex against Derbyshire |
Jul 2 |
US Air DC-9 crash in North Carolina, 37 killed |
Jul 3 |
108th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: P Sampras beats G Ivanisevic (76 76 60) |
Jul 3 |
15th US Seniors Golf Open: Simon Hobday |
Jul 3 |
Romania eliminates Argentina 3-2 in soccer world cup |
Jul 3 |
Tammie Green wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic |
Jul 3 |
The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty six people were killed in crashes. |
Jul 4 |
Russian manned space craft TM-18 lands |
Jul 4 |
Rwandese Patriotic Front occupies Kigali |
Jul 4 |
USA loses to Brazil 1-0 in 1994 World Cup quarter finals |
Jul 5 |
Boxer Buster Douglas comes out of a diabetic coma |
Jul 5 |
US changes refugee policy, by sending Haitian boat people back |
Jul 5 |
The United States announced it would refuse further 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 6 |
Shreveport Pirates 1st CFL game (vs Ottawa) |
Jul 6 |
"Forrest Gump", starring Tom Hanks, robin wright, and Gary Sinise, is released |
Jul 7 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo |
Jul 7 |
North Yemenite troops occupy Aden |
Jul 8 |
Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try OJ Simpson |
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 |
11,000th HR in NY Yankees history (Matt Nokes) |
Jul 9 |
Sonia O'Sullivan runs world record 2k (5:25.36) |
Jul 9 |
Soyuz TM-19 lands |
Jul 10 |
"Hedda Gabler" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 33 performances |
Jul 10 |
Kelly Robbins wins Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic by Owens-Corning |
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: NŸ1 = SŸ105 |
Jul 12 |
65th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 7-8 at 3 Rivers Stad, Pitts |
Jul 12 |
All star MVP: Fred McGriff (Atlanta Braves) |
Jul 12 |
Nomination hearings for Steven Breyer for supreme court justice begins |
Jul 13 |
Jeff Gillooly sentenced to 2 years for attack on Nancy Kerrigan |
Jul 13 |
OJ Simpson (charged with murder) gives hair samples for testing |
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 & Jordan agree to talks in Wash DC on July 25th |
Jul 15 |
NJ Nets Derrek Coleman accused of rape in Detroit |
Jul 15 |
Sonia O'Sullivan runs 3K (8:21.64) |
Jul 15 |
Hundreds of thousands of Hutus flee to Zaire in the Congo near the end of the the Rwandan Genocide |
Jul 16 |
"Sisters Rosensweig" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 556 perfs |
Jul 16 |
1st parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hits Jupiter (until July 22nd) |
Jul 16 |
3 tenors-Placid Domingo, Luciano Parvoti, Jose Carreras, perform in LA |
Jul 16 |
Baseball Night in America premieres (no Saturday day games) |
Jul 16 |
Comet Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter |
Jul 16 |
Shreveport Pirates 1st CFL home game (vs Toronto Argonauts) |
Jul 16 |
Spanish fishing boats sink a French fishing boat over fishing rights |
Jul 16 |
Sweden shuts out Bulgaria 4-0, to finish 3rd in the World Cup |
Jul 17 |
123rd British Golf Open: Nick Price shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland |
Jul 17 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
Jul 17 |
Brazil beats Italy in a shoot out, for their 4th soccer world cup |
Jul 17 |
French youngster (4) becomes Buddhist Lama Tulkou Kalou Rinpoche |
Jul 17 |
Hulk Hogan beats Ric Flair to win WCW wrestling championship |
Jul 18 |
Bomb attack on Jewish center AMIA in Buenos Aires, 86 killed |
Jul 18 |
Comet Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter |
Jul 18 |
Court upholds NBA salary cap and draft rights |
Jul 18 |
Crayola announces introduction of scented crayons |
Jul 18 |
Houston Astros tie NL comeback record, trailing 10-0, beat Cards 15-12 |
Jul 18 |
NY Jets sign USA soccer goalkeeper Tony Miola as a place kicker |
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 20 |
OJ Simpson offers $500,000 reward for evidence of ex-wife's klller |
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 |
Mariners play Red Sox as home team at Fenway, as Kingdome is repaired |
Jul 22 |
Military coup in Gambia: Pres Dawda Jawara flees |
Jul 22 |
OJ Simpson pleads "Absolutely 100% Not Guilty" of murder |
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 |
Dancer Gene Kelly suffers a mild stroke |
Jul 23 |
Don Mattingly becomes 6th NY Yankee to get 2,000 hits |
Jul 23 |
Goodwill Games open in St Petersburg |
Jul 23 |
Longest baseball rain delay (3:39) as Giants beat Mets 4-2 in NYC |
Jul 23 |
Space shuttle STS-65: Columbia 17, lands after record 14 days 55 mins |
Jul 24 |
32nd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Frankfurt Germany (3-0) |
Jul 24 |
49th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan |
Jul 24 |
Asociación de Estados del Caribe (AEC) forms |
Jul 24 |
Bodo kills 37 Moslems in Bashbari NE India |
Jul 24 |
Miguel Indurain wins Tour de France |
Jul 25 |
Jordan & Israeli end 46 year state of war (Wash DC) |
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 |
Baseball players decide to strike on Aug 12, 1994 |
Jul 28 |
Last steel beam is placed on Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame |
Jul 28 |
Texas Ranger Kenny Rogers pitches baseball's 14th perfect game |
Jul 29 |
200,000 Moslems demand death to feminist Taslima Nasrin |
Jul 29 |
Corrupt Italian ex-premier Craxi gets 8½ year jail sentenced |
Jul 29 |
H Emans Arubaanse Peoples Party wins parliamentary election |
Jul 29 |
India army kills 27 Moslem militants |
Jul 29 |
Jesse Timmedequas, rapes & murders Megan Kanka, 7 (Megan's Law) |
Jul 29 |
Parliamentary election in Aruba |
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 |
28th Curtis Cup: Draw, 9-9 |
Jul 31 |
Arcen Limburg averages 71.6°F (22.0°C) in July: record |
Jul 31 |
Helen Alfredss wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship |
Jul 31 |
Netherlands' warmest July since 1783 - average 21.4°C |
Jul 31 |
Phil Rizzuto (Yanks) & Steve Carlton (Phils) enter the Hall of Fame |