Today in History for Year 1994 (Part 10)
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Months in Year 1994: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 901 - 1,000 of 1,007
Nov 4th - San Francisco: First conference that focusses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
Nov 5th - Space probe Ulyssus completes 1st passage behind the Sun
Nov 5th - Tony Rominger bicycles world record time (55,291 km)
Nov 5th - Yak-40 accident in north of Peru, 8 killed
Nov 5th - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Barathea, Cherokee Run, Concern, Flanders, One Dreamer, Tikkanen, Timber Country
Nov 6th - 24th NYC Women's Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:27:37
Nov 6th - 25th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:11:21
Nov 6th - Emomali Rachmonov recognized as president of Tadzjikistan
Nov 6th - George Foreman (45) KOs Michael Moorer to win boxing HW championship
Nov 6th - Woo-Soon Ko wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Golf Cup
Nov 8th - Cleve Cavaliers 1st game at Gund Arena, lose to Hous Rockets, 100-98
Nov 8th - Haitian govt of Smarck Michel forms
Nov 9th - Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen 1st female president of Sri Lanka
Nov 9th - The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
Nov 11th - Bill Gates buys Leonardo da Vinci's "Codex" for $30,800,000
Nov 11th - Progress M-25 launched to space station Mir
Nov 13th - Sweden agrees to join European Union
Nov 14th - 1st trains for public run in Channel Tunnel under English Channel
Nov 14th - Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), lands
Nov 15th - "Glass Menagerie" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 57 performances
Nov 15th - 6.7-8.1 earthquake strikes Philippines, killing 45
Nov 15th - Helmut Kohl elected German chancellor (341-340 votes)
Nov 15th - Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election
Nov 17th - "Sunset Boulevard" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 977 performances
Nov 17th - 3rd Germany government of Kohl forms
Nov 17th - Irish government of Reynolds resigns
Nov 18th - "Star Trek VII - Generations," premieres
Nov 19th - Aishwarya Rai, 21, of India, crowned 44th Miss World
Nov 19th - Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson
Nov 20th - "Flying Karamzov Brothers..." opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 50 perfs
Nov 20th - "Shadow Box" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 49 performances
Nov 20th - Kosmos 2294/2295/2296 launches
Nov 20th - Patti Davis weds Paul Hayeland
Nov 20th - The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war (localized fighting resumed the next year).
Nov 21st - 1st-class cricket debut of Andrew Symonds (Queensland v NSW, SCG)
Nov 25th - Sony founder Akio Morita announces he will be stepping down as CEO of the company.
Nov 27th - 82nd CFL Grey Cup: British Columbia Lions defeat Balt Stallions, 26-23
Nov 27th - Fire in disco in Fuxin, North-China, 233 killed
Nov 27th - Julio Maria Sanguinetti elected president of Uruguay
Nov 28th - Norway votes against joining European Union
Nov 28th - In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by an inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium.
Nov 29th - Seoul, Korea, celebrated the 600th anniversary of its founding
Nov 30th - Beatles' 1st album in 25 years, "Live at BBC," is released in Britain
Nov 30th - Cruiser Achille Lauro destroyed by fire at Somalia, 4 die
Nov 30th - Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as 1st communist premier of Nepal
Dec 1st - 3 Seattle Seahawks injured in a car accident
Dec 1st - Cindy Crawford & Richard Gere announce they are seperating
Dec 1st - Ernesto Zedillo innaugrated as president of Mexico
Dec 1st - PTL leader Jim Bakker released from jail
Dec 1st - Rober Schumanns 2nd Symphony premieres in London
Dec 2nd - "Cobb" premieres
Dec 2nd - Achille Lauro (Willem Ruys) sinks off the coast of Somalia
Dec 2nd - Andrew Lloyd Webber admitted to the hospital for ulcer treatment
Dec 2nd - Jury finds Heidi Fleiss guilty of running a call girl ring
Dec 4th - "Angels in America-Perestroika" closes at W Kerr NYC after 216 perfs
Dec 4th - "Angels in America-Millennium Approach" closes at Kerr after 367 perfs
Dec 4th - 83rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats Russia in Moscow (4-1)
Dec 4th - Marta Figueras-Dottie/Brad Bryant wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
Dec 6th - Maltese Falcon auctioned for $398,590
Dec 6th - Orange County Calif files for bankruptcy
Dec 6th - Warner Brothers announces a 5th TV network to begin on Jan 11, 1995
Dec 7th - 5th Billboard Music Awards
Dec 7th - Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide
Dec 8th - "What's Wrong With this Picture?" opens at Circle in Sq NYC for 12 per
Dec 8th - Darryl Strawberry indicted on tax evasion charges
Dec 8th - Fire in cinema in Karamay China, 310 killed
Dec 9th - 5m meteor 1994 XM1 passes within 100,000 km of Earth
Dec 9th - Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after masturbation comments
Dec 10th - 60th Heisman Trophy Award: Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (RB)
Dec 10th - European Campaign against Racism "All different, All equal" begins
Dec 10th - Nobel prize awarded to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres & Yasser Arafat
Dec 11th - Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
Dec 11th - Russian troops pull inside Tsjetsjenie
Dec 13th - American Eagle commuter plane crashes in NC, killing 15
Dec 15th - "Tuna Christmas" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 20 performances
Dec 15th - John Bruton becomes Ireland's premier
Dec 15th - Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia
Dec 15th - Palau becomes a member of the UN.
Dec 16th - Davy Jones (Monkees), charged with DWI
Dec 17th - KLM's last DC-10 goes out of service
Dec 18th - "Comedy Tonight" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 8 performances
Dec 18th - "What's Wrong With this Pic?" closes at Circle in Sq NYC after 12 perf
Dec 18th - Darryl Strawberry pleads not guilty on tax evasion charges
Dec 18th - General Hospital stars Kristina Malandro & Jack Wagner wed
Dec 18th - Norman, Couples & Azinger wins LPGA Wendy's 3-Tour Golf Challenge
Dec 18th - Socialist Party (ex-communist) wins Bulgaria parliamentary election
Dec 19th - Rolls-Royce announces its future cars will feature V12 engine which will be produced by BMW.
Dec 21st - Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street NYC
Dec 22nd - "Christmas Carol" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 18 perfs
Dec 22nd - Italian govt of Berlusconi resigns
Dec 23rd - Baseball owners impose salary cap, fiercely opposed by players
Dec 24th - 4 Moslem fundamentalists capture Air France pilot in Algiers
Dec 25th - "Comedy Tonight" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 8 perfs
Dec 26th - Actor Jason Hervey (22) weds Kelley Patricia O'Neill (27)
Dec 26th - French commando's terminate Air France hijacking in Marseille
Dec 26th - President Clinton's brother Roger Clinton (37) weds 8-mo pregnant Molly Nartin (25)
Dec 28th - Billy Ray Cyrus (Achy Breaky Heart) weds Leticia Finley
Dec 28th - Boon completes his 20th Test Cricket century (131 v Eng, MCG)
Dec 28th - Tammy Wynette admitted to the hospital with bile duct infection
Dec 29th - B737-400 flies into a mountain at Edremit East Turkey, 54 killed
Famous Birthdays
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Famous Deaths
Results 901 - 1,000 of 1,097
Nov 1st - Syd Dernley, hangman, dies at 73
Nov 2nd - David Feinberg, AIDS activist/author, dies at 37
Nov 2nd - Egbert George "Pete" Pitterson, trumpeter, dies at 73
Nov 2nd - Noah Beery Jr, US actor (Gung Ho!, Heaven With a Gun), dies at 81
Nov 3rd - Dennis C Ott, US actor (Star Trek 3/4), dies of AIDs
Nov 3rd - Richard Krautheimer, US art historian, dies at 97
Nov 4th - Alexander Hardie Williamson, artist, dies at 87
Nov 4th - Fred "Sonic" Smith, guitarist, dies at 46
Nov 4th - Jan Wegter, actor (Pastorale 1943), dies at 64
Nov 4th - Sam Francis, US painter (Basel Mural), dies at about 71
Nov 4th - Samuel Lewis Francis, painter, dies at 71
Nov 5th - McHenry Boatwright, signer, dies at 66
Nov 7th - Michael O'Donoghue, comedian (SNL), dies at about 54
Nov 7th - Milton "Shorty" Rogers [Rajonsky], US jazz trumpeter, dies at 70
Nov 8th - Garson Romalis, abortion doctor, killed (no arrests)
Nov 8th - Marianne Straub, weaver, dies at 85
Nov 8th - Michael O'Donoghue, comedy writer (SNL), dies at 54
Nov 9th - Milton M Shorty Rajonsky Rogers, trumpeter, dies at 70
Nov 9th - Priscilla Morrill, actress (Edie Grant-Mary Tyler Moore), dies at 67
Nov 9th - Ralph Champion Shotter Michael, actor, dies at 87
Nov 10th - Carmen McRae [Clark], US jazz singer/pianist, dies at about 73
Nov 10th - Louis Nizer, lawyer, dies at 92
Nov 11th - Elizabeth Lefanu Maconchy, Engl composer (My Dark Heart), dies at 87
Nov 11th - Ernest Clark, actor (Pope Must Die, Gandhi), dies at 82
Nov 11th - Frances Tustin, child Psychologist, dies at 81
Nov 11th - Pedro Zamora, aIDS Activist, dies at 22
Nov 11th - John A. Volpe, 61st and 63rd Governor of Massachusetts, 2nd United States Secretary of Transportation (b. 1908)
Nov 12th - Charles "Honi" Coles, dancer (1983 Tony award), dies at 81
Nov 12th - Katherine Elliots, doctor, dies at 75
Nov 12th - Michael John Innes Mackintosh Stewart Innes, writer, dies at 88
Nov 12th - Wilma Glodean Rudolph, US sprinter (Olympics-3 gold-60), dies at 54
Nov 13th - Frank Singleton, librarian, dies at 67
Nov 13th - Joseph H Hazen, US producer/VP (Warner Bros), dies at 96
Nov 13th - Lewis Bingham Keeble, town Planner, dies at 79
Nov 13th - Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (b. 1924)
Nov 14th - Ferdinand J Kranenburg, director of queen (North Holland), dies at 83
Nov 14th - Jake Dengel, US actor (Ragtime, Ironweed), dies at 61
Nov 14th - John F Hampe, pathologist (Fabric & Stoflongen), dies at 83
Nov 14th - John I M Stewart, detective writer (A Comedy of Terrors), dies at 88
Nov 14th - Michael Grierson Jarrett, archaeologist, dies at 60
Nov 14th - Tom Villard, American actor (b. 1953)
Nov 15th - Anthony Ward, writer, dies at 57
Nov 15th - James Winston Watts, developer of the Frontal Lobotomy, dies at 90
Nov 15th - Janet Ahlberg, illustrator, dies at 50
Nov 15th - Volodymyr Ivashko, Pres of Ukraine (1990-91), dies
Nov 15th - Elizabeth George Speare, American author (b. 1908)
Nov 16th - Chester Dino Powers Valenti, singer/Songwriter, dies at 57
Nov 16th - Dan Smith, harmonica/gospel singer, dies at 83
Nov 16th - David Rayner, cyclist, dies
Nov 16th - Doris Speed, actress (Annie-Coronation Street), dies at 95
Nov 16th - Harvey Watkins, gospel Singer, dies at 64
Nov 16th - John Boylan, US actor (Twin Peaks, Sleepless in Seattle), dies at 82
Nov 16th - Dino Valente, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b.1943)
Nov 17th - G Waller, German/Swiss movie journalist (NRC/Variety), dies at 82
Nov 18th - Cab[ell] Calloway, US band leader/actor (Missourians), dies at 86
Nov 18th - Chris Joyce, photographer, dies at 51
Nov 18th - Michael [George] Somes, English dancer (Royal Ballet), dies at 77
Nov 19th - Dedrick Gobert, US actor (Boyz 'n the Hood), shot to death at 22
Nov 19th - Julian Gustave Symons, writer, dies at 82
Nov 19th - Julian Symons, Br detective writer (Death's Darkest Face), dies at 82
Nov 19th - Li Yuan Artist-chia, , dies at 65
Nov 20th - John Lucarotti, scriptwriter, dies at 68
Nov 20th - Saeedi Sirjani, poet, dies at 64
Nov 21st - Manfred Longer, Austrian/Dutch gay disco owner, dies at 42
Nov 22nd - Charles Fortune, South African cricket commentator, dies
Nov 22nd - John Michael Grimes, set Designer, dies at 70
Nov 22nd - L V Johnson Singer, dies
Nov 22nd - Norma Donaldson, US singer/actress (Staying Alive), dies at 68
Nov 23rd - Eldero L D Williams, tenor saxophonist, dies at 70
Nov 23rd - Erick Frederick Hawkins, US dancer/wed to Martha Graham, dies at 85
Nov 23rd - Tommy Boyce, US songwriter (Be My Guest), commits suicide at 55
Nov 23rd - William Donald Campbell, diarist/Ornithologist, dies at 89
Nov 23rd - Art Barr, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
Nov 24th - Ivo Perilli, Italian screenplay/director (Ragazzo), dies at 92
Nov 24th - Jo Vis, Dutch resistance fighter (Yad Vashem), dies at 88
Nov 24th - Tommy Boyce, songwriter (Boyce & Hart), dies at 55
Nov 25th - Arthur Ballard, artist, dies at 79
Nov 25th - Gerard John Toorenaar, Amsterdam police commissar, dies at 69
Nov 26th - Arturo Rivera Damas, archbishop of El Salvador (1980-94), dies at 71
Nov 26th - David Bache, designer, dies at 69
Nov 26th - Nimrod Workman, folksinger, dies at 99
Nov 26th - Joey Stefano, American actor (b. 1968)
Nov 27th - Arthur Frank "Peter" Shore, egyptologist, dies at 70
Nov 27th - Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and musicologist (b. 1906)
Nov 28th - Al Levitt, US/French jazz drummer, dies at 63
Nov 28th - Franfo Fortini, poet, dies at 77
Nov 28th - Jeffrey Dahmer, [Butcher of Milwaukee], killer, killed in prison at 34
Nov 28th - Jerry Rubin, US anti-war activist (Youth Party), dies at 56
Nov 28th - Ronald "Buster" Edwards, Great Train Robber, commits suicide at 62
Nov 28th - Vicente Enrique y Tarancon, Spanish cardinal, dies at 87
Nov 29th - Muhammad Ali Araki, ayatollah of Iran, dies
Nov 29th - Ronald "Buster" Edwards, robber, dies at 63
Nov 29th - Sviatoslav S Stravinsky, French/US composer/son of Igor S, dies at 84
Nov 30th - Connie Conrad Henry Kirnon Kay, jazz Drummer, dies at 67
Nov 30th - Guy Debord, situationist, dies at 63
Nov 30th - Irwin Kostal, US arranger/conductor (Sound of Music), dies at 83
Nov 30th - Lionel Stander, US blacklisted actor (Hart to Hart), dies at 86
Dec 1st - Hugh Chilvers, cricketer (151 wickets leg-spin for NSW 1928-37), dies
Dec 1st - Lionel Stander, actor (Max-Hart to Hart), dies at 86
Dec 2nd - Donald John Urquhart, librarian, dies at 85

