Today in History for April 1994
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Months in 1994: January February March May June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 100 of 120
1st - Bob Feller Statue on Indians Plaza, dedicated
2nd - 1st exhibition game played at Jacobs Field, Pirates beat Indians, 6-4
3rd - 13th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: NC beats Louisiana Tech 60-59
3rd - 1st roster of Silver Bullets (all-female pro baseball team) announced
3rd - 6th Seniors Golf Tradition: Ray Floyd
4th - 1st game played at Jacobs Field, Indians beat Mariners 4-3 in 11 inn
4th - 56th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Ark Razorbacks beats Duke 76-72
4th - Cubs Karl "Tuffy" Rhodes, hit 3 HRs in 1993 hits 3 HRs on opening
4th - KLM Saab 340B crashes at Schiphol, 3 killed
4th - LA Dodger Darryl Strawberry begins substance abuse treatment
4th - Largest Opening Day crowd at Yankee Stadium, 56,706
4th - Netscape Communications founded as Mosaic Communications
4th - Tony Curtis undergoes heart-bypass surgery
4th - Day vs Mets starter Dwight Gooden
5th - "Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect" opens at Golden NYC for 347 perfs
5th - Miami Heat beat NY Knicks ending 15 game NBA winning streak
6th - 1st scheduled Indians night game at Jacobs Field is rained out
6th - Chuck Jones found guilty of breaking into Marla Maples home
6th - Liberal Supreme Court Justice Blackmun (Roe v Wade) resigns
6th - Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 Israelis & himself
6th - Rockwell B-1B Lancers break 11 world speed records
6th - The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
7th - "Medea" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 82 performances
7th - 1st night game at Cleveland's Jacobs Field, Indians 6 Seattle 2
7th - NY Yankees beat Texas Rangers 18-6
7th - Shannen Doherty files for divorce from Ashley Hamilton
7th - Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion
7th - Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazis killing Jews) for 1st time
8th - Atlanta Brave Kent Mercker no-hits Dodgers, 6-0
8th - Darryl Strawberry enters Betty Ford clinic
8th - Japans premier Morihiro Hosokawa resigns
8th - Smoking banned in Pentagon & all US military bases
9th - BPAA US Open by Justin Hromek
9th - STS-59 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
9th - Singer Wayne Newton (52) weds attorney Kathleen McCrone (30)
10th - "Les Miserables," opens at Hiten Theatre, Osaka
10th - 58th Golf Masters Championship: Jose M Olazabal wins, shooting a 279
12th - Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.
13th - President guard at Kigali Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death
13th - Target date for Israeli complete withdrawal, doesn't occur
13th - United Arab Emirates' 1st official ODI, losing to India
14th - Billy Joel & Christie Brinkley announces plans to divorce
14th - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis operated on for a bleeding ulcer
14th - NJ Devils end best regular season, 47-25-12 record for 106 points
14th - US F-15 accidentally shoots 2 US helicopters down over Iraq, 26 die
14th - Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender after completion of his Seven Seals manuscript
15th - Indians loses 1st game at Jacobs Field, KC wins 2-1
15th - Robert F Kennedy Jr (21 days after his divorce) weds Mary Richardson
15th - WMMS-FM's Jeff & Flash, & entire station staff, are fired
16th - Circus performers Marissa Young (24) & Matt Richardson (21) wed
16th - Singer Harry Connick Jr (26) weds model Jill Goodare (30)
17th - "Little More Magic" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 30 perfs
17th - "Twilight - Los Angeles 1992" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 72 perfs
17th - 55th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Lee Trevino wins
17th - Aruba govt of Oduber falls
17th - Jennie Garth weds Dan Clark
17th - Val Skinner wins LPGA Atlanta Women's Golf Championship
18th - "Beauty & the Beast" opens at Palace Theater NYC
18th - 23rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:21:45
18th - 98th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya in 2:07:15
18th - Arsenio Hall announces he will end his show in May 1994
18th - Brian Lara scores 375 for WI vs England to beat Sobers' record
18th - Cricketer Brian Lara hits 375 runs on 1 day (world record)
18th - Former President Nixon suffered a stroke & dies 4 days later
18th - Lebanon drops relations with Iran
18th - Roseanne Barr Arnold files for divorce from Tom Arnold
18th - STS-59 (Endeavour) lands [approx]
19th - 15th Emmy Sports Award presentation
19th - Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10km (11:25.88)
19th - Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election
19th - Rodney King award $3,800,000 in compensation of police beating
19th - Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender
20th - Danny Harold Rolling, sentenced to death in Florida, for killing 5
20th - Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed
20th - Sohail & Inzamam make world record ODI partnership of 263
20th - Space shuttle STS-59 (Endeavour 6), lands
21st - "Picnic" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
21st - Eddie Murray sets record for switch hit HRS in a games (11 times)
21st - Serbian army bombs distress clinic in Goradze Bosnia, 28 killed
21st - The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.
22nd - 7,000 Tutsi's slaughtered in stadium of Kibuye Rwanda
22nd - Borge Ousland reaches North pole
22nd - Ice skater Tonya Harding sues ex-husband Jeff Gillooly for $42,500
22nd - In Denmark the largest lollipop, weighing 3,011 pounds, made
22nd - Michael Moorer beats Evander Holyfield in 12 for heavywgt boxing title
22nd - Schelto Patijn appointed mayor of Amsterdam
23rd - Army shoots to death 23-40 fishermen in Gonaives Haiti
23rd - General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Norm Duke
23rd - Libertarian party nominates Howard Stern for Governor of NY
24th - "Broken Glass" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 73 performances
24th - "Flowering Peach" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 41 performances
24th - Actress Kelly Preston (26) weds actor Lou Diamond Phillips (32)
24th - Armando Calderon Sol wins El Salvador presidential election
24th - Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed
24th - David Robinson scores ties 7th highest total in the NBA - 71
24th - NY Rangers sweep NY Islanders in NHL playoffs
25th - 14" of snow in Southern Calif
25th - Bomb attack on taxi stand in Johannesburg, 10 killed
25th - Fishing boat with school children capsize at Lanaka Syria, 46 killed
25th - King Azlan Shah of Malaysia resigns
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 7 of 7
4th - Risako Sugaya, Japanese singer
11th - Dakota Blue Richards, English actress
12th - Saoirse Ronan, Irish actress
12th - Airi Suzuki, Japanese singer
16th - Liliana Mumy, American actress
18th - Moises Arias, American Actor
24th - Austin Rogers, American actor
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 89 of 89
1st - Leon Degrelle, Belgium general, dies
1st - Robert Doisneau, French photographer (The Kiss), dies at 81
1st - Rosalind Laura Burke, aviatrix, dies at 86
1st - Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot, dies at 72
2nd - Richard Davies, actor (Pvt Buckaroo), dies of heart attack at 79
3rd - Betty Furness, actress/news consumer reporter (WNBC), dies at 78
3rd - Frank G Wells, US director (Walt Disney), dies at 62
3rd - Jerome Lejeune, French geneticist (Syndrome of Down), dies at 67
3rd - Pat Harper, NYC news anchor (WPIX, WNBC), dies
4th - Olga Lowina, Dutch yodeler (Edelweisskapel), dies at 69
4th - Virginia "Ginny" Simms, actress/singer (Kay Kyser Band), dies at 77
5th - Andre Victor Tchelistcheff, winemaker, dies at 92
5th - Aubrey J Watson Sr, bishop, dies at 65
5th - Marlon Riggs, US writer/director/producer (Ethnic notions), dies at 37
5th - Roy Smeck, guitarist/banjoist, dies at 94
5th - Kurt Cobain, grunge rocker (Nirvana), commits suicide by gun at 27 in Seattle, Washington
6th - Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Rwanda/1st female PM in Africa, assassinated
6th - Cyprian Niayamira, president of Burundi (1993-94), assassinated
6th - Dick Cary, jazz musician, dies at 77
6th - Patricia Louise Dalton, chair (Sherlock Holmes Society), dies at 75
6th - Theo Bosch, humanist/architect (Amsterdam), dies at 54
6th - Cyprien Ntaryamira, Burundian politician (b. 1956)
7th - Agathe Uwilingiyimana, PM of Rwanda, assassinated
7th - Angelus Gottfried "Golo" Mann, German/US historian, dies at 85
7th - Arthur Gordon Clough, journalist, dies at 59
7th - Evert Hartman, Dutch writer (War Without Friends), dies at 56
7th - Francois de Grossouvre, Pres Mitterrand advisor, suicide at 76
7th - Lee Brilleaux, British R&B-singer/guitarist (Stupidity), dies at 41
7th - Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (b. 1923)
8th - Frank Wells, president (Disney), dies in helicopter crash
8th - Irene Eisinger, singer, dies at 91
8th - Kurt Donald Cobain, musician (Nirvana), found dead aged 27
8th - Walter Arnold, Germ theologist (World council of Churches), dies at 64
8th - François Rozet, French Canadian actor (b. 1899)
9th - Cornelis N "Cor" van Dis Jr, Dutch MP (1971-94), dies at 71
9th - Keith Watson, British comic strip artist (Dan Dare), dies at 59
9th - Marcel Ichac, French alpinist/director (Karakoram), dies at 87
9th - Raouf Khayrat, Egyptian general-major, murdered
10th - James L Lyons, jazz promoter, dies at 77
10th - Victor Afanasiev, Rus editor-in-chief of Pravda (1976-89), dies at 71
10th - Sam B. Hall, American politician (b. 1924)
11th - Johan Block, Dutch aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia), dies at 64
12th - Harry la Fontaine, Danish/US resistance fighter/producer, dies at 81
12th - Jean Carmet, dies at 72
12th - Q T Macon, blues vocal/guitar, dies at 60
13th - Donald Benjamin Harden, archaeologist, dies at 92
13th - Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov, actor (Telegram), dies at 83
13th - Nikolai Krjoetsjkov, Russian actor (Ballad of Soldatje), dies at 83
13th - P J Engels, Dutch MP (KVP), dies at 70
13th - Rudolf Hrusinsky, Czech actor (Short Cut, Golden Eels), dies at 72
13th - Taleb Ali al-Suheil, Iran sheik, murdered in Lebanon at 64
14th - Selometsi Baholo, vice-premier of Lesotho, murdered
14th - Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (b. 1897)
15th - John Curry, English figure skater (Oly-gold-76), dies of AIDS at 44
16th - John McLiam, dies of Parkinson's disease at 75
16th - Ralph Waldo Ellison, US writer (Invisible Man), dies at 80
16th - Ron Vawter, US actor (Roy Cohn, Silence of the Lambs), dies at 45
16th - Samuel Selvon, author, dies at 70
17th - Peter Hacker, US journalist/actor (NBC, Broadcast News), dies at 69
18th - Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32
19th - Frederick Ferrari, crazy Gang Member, dies at 81
19th - Larry Davis, blues Singer/Guitarist, dies at 57
19th - Louis Simmonds, bookseller, dies at 87
19th - Michael Carreras, film Director, dies at 67
19th - Michel van Rooy, Dutch actor (Doctor Vlimmen, The Attack), dies at 43
20th - Jean Carmet, French actor (Merci la Vie, Le Sucre), dies at 72
21st - Clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at 93
22nd - D Nauta, theologist/church historian/lawyer, dies at 96
22nd - Denis Pitts, journalist, dies at 64
22nd - Jack Alexander Bently, trombonist, dies at 80
22nd - Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President (1969-75), dies of stroke at 81
22nd - Schmidt Hans Burkhardt, artist, dies at 89
23rd - Cassidy Clinton Cremer, author (John Cremer), murdered at 30
23rd - Cecile Dreesmann, son of Anton Dreesmann, dies at 74
25th - David Langton, British actor (Upstairs Downstairs), dies at 82
25th - George Gennimatas, Greek minister of National Economy, dies at 55
25th - Talaat Yassin Hamman, militant Moslem leader, shot dead at 32
26th - Masutatsu Oyama, Founder of Japanese Kyokushin Karate (b. 1927)
27th - Jerome Lejeune, physiologist, dies at 69
27th - John Preston, US writer (Gay House, Big Gay Book), dies at 48
27th - Lynne Frederick Unger, actress (Trail of Pink Panther), dies at 39
29th - Bill Quinn, US actor (Quinn Brothers, Birds, Lucky Stiff), dies at 81
29th - Erik Erikson, anthropologist, dies at 53
29th - Oscar Sheldon A Williams, artist/critic, dies at 74
30th - David Langton, dies of a heart at 81
30th - Ferdinando Scarfiotti, Italian set designer (Last Emperor), dies at 53
30th - Geoffery Michael Roberts, vintner, dies at 46
30th - Richard McClure Scarry, US kid book illustrator/writer, dies at 74
30th - Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver, dies in crash at 31
