Today in History for October 1994
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Months in 1994: January February March April May June July August September November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 60 of 60
1st - Boon completes his 19th Test century (114 v Pak, Karachi)
1st - Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA GHP Heartland Golf Classic
1st - South African President Nelson Mandela visits US
1st - Stanley Betrian sworn in as leader of Curacao
2nd - "Show Boat," opens at Gershwin Theater NYC
2nd - Pakistan defeat Australia by one wicket in Karachi Test
3rd - Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president of Brazil
3rd - Gary Larson, announces he is retiring from doing "Far Side" cartoon
4th - 7.9 earthquake strikes Koerilen, flood kills 18+
4th - Keith Moore is charged with stealing $5,000,000 from Sting
4th - Soyuz TM-20 launches
5th - 28th Country Music Assn Award
5th - 52 members of Zonnetempel, murdered
6th - -9] European Campaign against Racism confers in Austria
6th - Ben Mokoena becomes 1st black mayor of Middelburg South Africa
7th - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
7th - Faud Guliyev appointed premier of Azerbijan
7th - Ingvar Carlsson forms Swedish govt
7th - Lu Bin swims female 200m medley world record (2:11.57)
8th - BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Aleta Sill
9th - Austrian parliamentary election (23% extreme-right)
9th - Darmstadt creates element 110
10th - Lt-general Raoul Cedras resigns as dictator of Haiti
10th - MPAA chief Jack Valenti holds meeting to determine new movie ratings
10th - NY Giants retire Lawrence Taylor's #56
10th - Nobel prize for physiology awarded to Alfred Gilman & Martin Rodbell
10th - Value of Russian ruble decreases, 3081 rubles per dollar
11th - Russian ruble decreases to 3,926 rubles per dollar
11th - Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), lands
12th - Contact with Venus orbitter Magellan broken
12th - Iranian Fokker's F28 explode between Isfahan & Teheran: 66 killed
13th - Earliest start of Sheffield Shield season (Queensland v Tasmania)
13th - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Kenzaburo Oe
14th - Nobel Prize awarded to Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin & Shimon Peres
14th - Space probe Magellan burns up in atmosphere of Venus
15th - Botswana Pres Ketumile Masires BDP wins parliamentary election
15th - Pres Jean-Baptiste Aristide returns to Haiti
16th - Raul Julia, actor (Addams Family), suffers a stroke
17th - Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championships of Women's Golf
17th - Billy Joel performs opening concert at Cleveland's Gund Arena
17th - Kapil Dev's final one-day international (v West Indies)
19th - 160 killed at battles in Tsjetsjenie
19th - Palestinian bomb attack on bus in Tel Aviv, kills 22
21st - Hana bridge is Seoul Korea crashes, 32+ die
21st - North Korea signs pact to end their nuclear projects
22nd - "Philadelphia, Here I Come" closes at Criterion NYC after 52 perfs
22nd - Statue of Sam Houston unveiled in Texas
22nd - Tony Rominger bicycles world record time (53,832 km)
23rd - 3rd Solheim Cup: US beats Europe, 13-7 at Greenbrier WV
24th - Bomb attack on opposition in Sri Lanka, 55+ killed
25th - Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjack (she actually killed them)
26th - Jordan & Israel sign peace accord
28th - Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth for 3rd time
29th - Antonov AN-12 having an accident at Ust-Ilimsk Kaluga, 21 killed
29th - NY Lotto pays $60 million+
29th - National Museum of American Indian opens (NYC)
30th - Leftist coalition wins Marcedonia parliamentary election
30th - Thomas Nicely reports bug in Intel's Pentium-processor on Internet
30th - US wins Nichirei LPGA Golf International
31st - American Eagle ATR-72 crash down at Gary, Indiana: 68 killed
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 2 of 2
9th - Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress
20th - Morgan Featherstone, Australian model
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 88 of 88
1st - Brad O'Hare, dies of complications due to AIDS at 43
1st - Carlos Lleras Restrepo, president of Colombia (1966-70), dies at 86
1st - Karoli Ruth Needles, painter, dies at 54
1st - Scott Dunbar, bluse vocalist/guitarist, dies at 90
1st - Paul Lorenzen, German philosopher (b. 1915)
2nd - Faith Davis, oldest triplets (Charity & Hope survive), dies at 95
2nd - Harriet Nelson, actress (Ozzie & Harriet), dies of heart failure at 80
2nd - Ronald James Herron, architect, dies at 64
3rd - Dennis Wolfberg, comedian (Quantum Leap), dies from cancer at 48
3rd - Dub Taylor, actor (Poor Pretty Eddie), dies of a heart attack at 87
3rd - Harriet Nelson, actress (Ozzie & Harriet), dies at 80
3rd - V, comedian/actor, dies at 48
3rd - Virginia Dale, US actress/dancer (Holiday Inn), dies at about 77
3rd - Walter C "Dub" Taylor II, US actor (You Can't Take it All), dies at 86
4th - Bill Challis, arranger/Pianist, dies at 90
4th - Daniel Wood Gatton, guitarist, dies at 49
4th - Heinz Rohmann, German actor/dir (Brave Soldier Schwejk), dies at 92
7th - James Hill, director, dies at 75
7th - Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82
7th - Paul Swift, US actor (Egg Man in Pink Flamingo), dies of AIDS at 60
8th - Brian Hartley, mathematician, dies at 55
8th - Diana Churchill, actress (Spider, Sally Bishop), dies at 81
8th - John the King, CDA-minister of Social Businesses, dies at 68
8th - Manual Pina, fashion Designer, dies at 50
9th - Fred Lebow, US founder of New York Marathon, dies of cancer
9th - James Hill, English director/screenwriter (Born Free), dies at 75
9th - Joan Dickson, cellist, dies at 72
9th - Raich Carter, footballer, dies at 80
10th - Anna Hauptmann, wife of Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno, dies at 95
10th - Chaim Raphael, writer, dies at 86
10th - Danny Gatton, US guitarist, commits suicide at 48
10th - Nikolai Karetnikov, composer, dies at 64
10th - Richard John Copeland Atkinson, archaeologist, dies at 74
11th - Maja Bulgakova, Ukranian actress (Krylja), dies in auto-accident at 62
11th - Nic Jonk, sculptor/painter (Nereus on Zeepaard), dies at 66
12th - Gérald Godin, Québécois poet and politician (b. 1938)
14th - Gioconda de Vito, violinist, dies at 87
15th - Hannes Wustinger, Austrian race car driver, dies at 29
15th - Karl Edward Wagner, writer, dies at 48
15th - Sarah Kofman, philosopher, dies at 60
15th - Wilhelmus HL "Willem" Tollenaar, actor/director (Elkerlyc), dies at 82
16th - William Henry Swinburne, music teacher, dies at 87
17th - Augustus John "Gus" Risman, rugby League Player, dies at 83
17th - Bernard Caulfield, judge, dies at 80
17th - Dmitri Cholodov, Russian journalist, murdered at 27
17th - Joan Barbara Grigor, artist, dies at 50
17th - Rik van Bentum, painter/art director of Paradiso, dies at 57
18th - Lee Allen, saxophonist, dies at 68
18th - Richard A Garland, artist photographer, dies at 60
18th - WIlliam Faure, producer, dies at 45
19th - Martha Raye, actress (Pin Up Girl), dies after illness at 78
19th - Munavarsjo Nazrijev, vice-president of Tadzjikistan, dies
19th - Oldrich Cernik, Czechoslovakia premier (1968-70), dies at 72
19th - Stanislaw Brunstein, artist, dies at 79
20th - Burt Lancaster, actor (Elmer Gantry), dies of heart attack at 80
20th - Charles Robert Owen Medley, dancer/Choreographer, dies at 88
20th - Eberhard Feik, German actor (Tatort), dies at 50
20th - Ivan Svitak, philosopher, dies at 69
20th - Sergei F Bondartsjoek, actor/director (Waterloo), dies at 74
21st - Edward Moss Hutchinson, educationalist, dies at 85
21st - Jerome Bert Weisner, military Scientist/Disarmer, dies at 79
22nd - Chester WIlliams, painter, dies at 73
22nd - David Buchan, ethno-Musicologist, dies at 55
22nd - Fabio Grobart, founder (Cuban Communist Party), dies
22nd - Harold Horace Hopkins, inventor (Endoscope), dies at 75
22nd - Rollo May, founder (Humanistic Psychology Movement), dies at 85
22nd - Sandy Horn, lesbian Activist, dies at 59
23rd - Robert Lansing, actor (Blade Runner, Equalizer), dies of cancer at 66
23rd - William Leonard, head (CBS News), dies of a stroke at 78
24th - Alexandr Nikolaievich Shelepin, dir of KGB (1958-61), dies
24th - Gamini Dissanayake, Sri Lankain presidential candidate, murdered
24th - Raul Julia, actor (Addams Family), dies of stroke at 54
25th - Anthony David Machell Cox, medievalist, dies at 81
25th - Mildred Natwick, US actress (Barefoot in Park), dies at 89
26th - Rudi van Vlaenderen, Flemish actor/dir/poet (Thyestes), dies at 64
26th - Tutta Rolf, actress (Whalers), dies at 87
26th - Wilbert Harrison, singer, dies at 65
27th - Robert White, guitarist, dies at 57
28th - Sjlomo Goren, Polish/Israeli supreme rabbi, dies
29th - Andrew Miller-Jones TV pioneer, dies at 84
29th - Evelyn Anderson, dancer, dies at 87
29th - Pearl Primus, dancer, dies at 44
30th - Martyn Wiley, writer/broadcaster, dies at 40
30th - Nyanaponika, [Siegmund Feniger), German scholar/author, dies at 93
31st - John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, English art historian, dies at 80
31st - Jole Silvani, [Niobe Quaiatti], Ital actress (La citta' Delle), dies
31st - Lester Sill, pioneer music publisher/record producer, dies at 76
31st - William John Readings, literary theorist, dies at 34
