Today in History for Year 1994 (Part 4)

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Historical Events

Results 301 - 400 of 1,007

Apr 14th - US F-15 accidentally shoots 2 US helicopters down over Iraq, 26 die
Apr 14th - Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender after completion of his Seven Seals manuscript
Apr 15th - Indians loses 1st game at Jacobs Field, KC wins 2-1
Apr 15th - Robert F Kennedy Jr (21 days after his divorce) weds Mary Richardson
Apr 15th - WMMS-FM's Jeff & Flash, & entire station staff, are fired
Apr 16th - Circus performers Marissa Young (24) & Matt Richardson (21) wed
Apr 16th - Singer Harry Connick Jr (26) weds model Jill Goodare (30)
Apr 17th - "Little More Magic" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 30 perfs
Apr 17th - "Twilight - Los Angeles 1992" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 72 perfs
Apr 17th - 55th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Lee Trevino wins
Apr 17th - Aruba govt of Oduber falls
Apr 17th - Jennie Garth weds Dan Clark
Apr 17th - Val Skinner wins LPGA Atlanta Women's Golf Championship
Apr 18th - "Beauty & the Beast" opens at Palace Theater NYC
Apr 18th - 23rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:21:45
Apr 18th - 98th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya in 2:07:15
Apr 18th - Arsenio Hall announces he will end his show in May 1994
Apr 18th - Brian Lara scores 375 for WI vs England to beat Sobers' record
Apr 18th - Cricketer Brian Lara hits 375 runs on 1 day (world record)
Apr 18th - Former President Nixon suffered a stroke & dies 4 days later
Apr 18th - Lebanon drops relations with Iran
Apr 18th - Roseanne Barr Arnold files for divorce from Tom Arnold
Apr 18th - STS-59 (Endeavour) lands [approx]
Apr 19th - 15th Emmy Sports Award presentation
Apr 19th - Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10km (11:25.88)
Apr 19th - Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election
Apr 19th - Rodney King award $3,800,000 in compensation of police beating
Apr 19th - Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender
Apr 20th - Danny Harold Rolling, sentenced to death in Florida, for killing 5
Apr 20th - Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed
Apr 20th - Sohail & Inzamam make world record ODI partnership of 263
Apr 20th - Space shuttle STS-59 (Endeavour 6), lands
Apr 21st - "Picnic" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
Apr 21st - Eddie Murray sets record for switch hit HRS in a games (11 times)
Apr 21st - Serbian army bombs distress clinic in Goradze Bosnia, 28 killed
Apr 21st - The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.
Apr 22nd - 7,000 Tutsi's slaughtered in stadium of Kibuye Rwanda
Apr 22nd - Borge Ousland reaches North pole
Apr 22nd - Ice skater Tonya Harding sues ex-husband Jeff Gillooly for $42,500
Apr 22nd - In Denmark the largest lollipop, weighing 3,011 pounds, made
Apr 22nd - Michael Moorer beats Evander Holyfield in 12 for heavywgt boxing title
Apr 22nd - Schelto Patijn appointed mayor of Amsterdam
Apr 23rd - Army shoots to death 23-40 fishermen in Gonaives Haiti
Apr 23rd - General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Norm Duke
Apr 23rd - Libertarian party nominates Howard Stern for Governor of NY
Apr 24th - "Broken Glass" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 73 performances
Apr 24th - "Flowering Peach" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 41 performances
Apr 24th - Actress Kelly Preston (26) weds actor Lou Diamond Phillips (32)
Apr 24th - Armando Calderon Sol wins El Salvador presidential election
Apr 24th - Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed
Apr 24th - David Robinson scores ties 7th highest total in the NBA - 71
Apr 24th - NY Rangers sweep NY Islanders in NHL playoffs
Apr 25th - 14" of snow in Southern Calif
Apr 25th - Bomb attack on taxi stand in Johannesburg, 10 killed
Apr 25th - Fishing boat with school children capsize at Lanaka Syria, 46 killed
Apr 25th - King Azlan Shah of Malaysia resigns
Apr 25th - Mexican businessman & billionaire Angel Losada kidnap
Apr 25th - Tsutomu Hata elected premier of Japan
Apr 26th - 26.9°C in Prestebakke Norway (Norwegian April high temp record)
Apr 26th - Mad About You actress Leila Kenzel (33) weds Neil Monaco (34)
Apr 26th - Taiwan Airbus A-300 crashes at Nagoya Japan, 262 killed
Apr 26th - 1st multi-racial election in South Africa begins [3 days] Dr Nomaza Paintin in NZ is 1st black South African to vote
Apr 26th - Physicists announce first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle.
Apr 27th - "Inspector Calls" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 454 performances
Apr 27th - 29.0°C in Genevad, Sweden (Swedish April high temperature record)
Apr 27th - 7th longest NHL game: NJ Devils beat Buffalo Sabres (125 min 43 sec)
Apr 27th - Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (52,713 km)
Apr 27th - President Nixon buried in Nixon Library in Calif
Apr 27th - Twins righty Scott Erickson no-hits Brewers 6-0
Apr 28th - 1st multi-racial election in South Africa ends [3 days]
Apr 28th - Aldrich Ames, former CIA officer & wife Rosario plead guilty to spying
Apr 28th - Freddy Thielemans sworn in as mayor of Brussels Belgium
Apr 28th - Lisa Marie Presley separates from Danny Keough
Apr 29th - Ferry boat smashes into Mombasa Harbor Kenya, kills over 300
Apr 29th - Israel & PLO sign economic accord
Apr 30th - Soccer great Pele (53) weds psychologist Assiria Seixas Lemos (36)
May 1st - "My Fair Lady" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 165 performances
May 1st - "Rise & Fall of Little Voice" opens at Neil Simon NYC for 9 perfs
May 1st - -3] Tornado & hail storms hit Jiangxi China, 95 killed
May 1st - Charles Kuralt, retires as CBS newsman (On the Road)
May 1st - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Sprint Senior Challenge Golf Tournament
May 1st - Sherri Steinhauer wins LPGA Sprint Golf Championship
May 2nd - Bus crashes into a tree at Gdansk Poland, 30 killed
May 2nd - Dr Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides
May 2nd - Michael Bolton found plagurized Isley Bros "Love is Wonderful Thing"
May 2nd - in Poland bus disaster 32 people died.
May 3rd - 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins
May 3rd - D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
May 3rd - US space probe Clementine launched
May 4th - Arsenal wins 34th Europe Cup II
May 4th - Courtney Love cleared of drug charges
May 5th - "Sally Marrand Her Escorts" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 50 perfs
May 5th - Labour beats Conservatives in British local elections
May 5th - North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen
May 6th - Chunnel linking England & France officially opens
May 6th - Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait sets fire to the couch on Tonight Show
May 6th - House passes the assault weapons ban
May 6th - Lennox Lewis TKOs Phil Jackson in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
May 6th - Nelson Mandela & his ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa
May 7th - 120th Kentucky Derby: Chris McCarron on Go For Gin wins in 2:03.6

Famous Birthdays

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Famous Deaths

Results 301 - 400 of 1,097

Apr 16th - Samuel Selvon, author, dies at 70
Apr 17th - Peter Hacker, US journalist/actor (NBC, Broadcast News), dies at 69
Apr 18th - Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32
Apr 19th - Frederick Ferrari, crazy Gang Member, dies at 81
Apr 19th - Larry Davis, blues Singer/Guitarist, dies at 57
Apr 19th - Louis Simmonds, bookseller, dies at 87
Apr 19th - Michael Carreras, film Director, dies at 67
Apr 19th - Michel van Rooy, Dutch actor (Doctor Vlimmen, The Attack), dies at 43
Apr 20th - Jean Carmet, French actor (Merci la Vie, Le Sucre), dies at 72
Apr 21st - Clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at 93
Apr 22nd - D Nauta, theologist/church historian/lawyer, dies at 96
Apr 22nd - Denis Pitts, journalist, dies at 64
Apr 22nd - Jack Alexander Bently, trombonist, dies at 80
Apr 22nd - Richard Milhous Nixon, 37th President (1969-75), dies of stroke at 81
Apr 22nd - Schmidt Hans Burkhardt, artist, dies at 89
Apr 23rd - Cassidy Clinton Cremer, author (John Cremer), murdered at 30
Apr 23rd - Cecile Dreesmann, son of Anton Dreesmann, dies at 74
Apr 25th - David Langton, British actor (Upstairs Downstairs), dies at 82
Apr 25th - George Gennimatas, Greek minister of National Economy, dies at 55
Apr 25th - Talaat Yassin Hamman, militant Moslem leader, shot dead at 32
Apr 26th - Masutatsu Oyama, Founder of Japanese Kyokushin Karate (b. 1927)
Apr 27th - Jerome Lejeune, physiologist, dies at 69
Apr 27th - John Preston, US writer (Gay House, Big Gay Book), dies at 48
Apr 27th - Lynne Frederick Unger, actress (Trail of Pink Panther), dies at 39
Apr 29th - Bill Quinn, US actor (Quinn Brothers, Birds, Lucky Stiff), dies at 81
Apr 29th - Erik Erikson, anthropologist, dies at 53
Apr 29th - Oscar Sheldon A Williams, artist/critic, dies at 74
Apr 30th - David Langton, dies of a heart at 81
Apr 30th - Ferdinando Scarfiotti, Italian set designer (Last Emperor), dies at 53
Apr 30th - Geoffery Michael Roberts, vintner, dies at 46
Apr 30th - Richard McClure Scarry, US kid book illustrator/writer, dies at 74
Apr 30th - Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver, dies in crash at 31
May 1st - Ayrton Senna, Brazilian Grand prix driver, dies in crash at 34
May 2nd - Louis Calaferte, writer (Requiem of the Innocents), dies at 65
May 2nd - Wilson Charles Geoffery Baldwin, hero, dies at 75
May 3rd - Gustaaf AWC baron van Hemert Dingshof, mayor of Maarn, dies at 78
May 3rd - Haty Tegelaar-Boonacker, Dutch MP (CDA), dies at 63
May 3rd - Milford Dolliole, pioneer jazz drummer, dies at 90
May 3rd - Richard Scarry, author/illustrator of children's books, dies at 74
May 4th - Karl Francis Hettinger, onion Field survivor, dies at 59
May 5th - Hein Salomonson, architect, dies at about 83
May 5th - Joe Layton, director (Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip), dies at 63
May 6th - Fred Sadoff, actor (Quiet American), dies of AIDS at 67
May 6th - Haskell "Cool Papa" Sadler, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 59
May 6th - Helen Lessore, artist, dies at 86
May 6th - Montague Modlyn, broadcaster, dies at 72
May 6th - Moses Rosen, Romania's chief rabbi, dies at 81
May 7th - Clement Greenberg, US art critic (Art & Culture), dies at 85
May 7th - Margaret Skeete, oldest American, dies at 115
May 8th - Cobina W "Coby" Molenaar, peace activist, dies at 88
May 8th - George Peppard, actor (Breakfast at Tiffanys, A-Team), dies at 65
May 8th - Rupert Haselden, journalist/screenwriter, dies at 36
May 8th - Steven Keats, actor (Death Wish), dies of apparent suicide at 48
May 9th - Elias Motsoaledi, South African freedom fighter (b. 1924)
May 10th - John Wayne Gacy, mass murderer, executed in Illinois at 52
May 10th - Lucebert [J Swaanswijk], poet/cartoonist (PC Hooft 1967), dies at 69
May 10th - Phyllis Flowerdew, school Reading text author, dies at 81
May 11th - Alfred James Broomhall, methodist Missionary, dies at 82
May 11th - Danny Overbea, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 68
May 11th - Leonard Friedman, violinist, dies at 63
May 11th - Lewis B Puller, US writer (Pulitzer 1992), commits suicide at 48
May 11th - Timothy Carey, dies of stroke at 64
May 12th - Alfred Lane Beit, connoisseur, dies at 91
May 12th - David Brooks, psychologist, dies at 91
May 12th - Helen Lee Mai, Hong Kong actress, dies at 63
May 12th - John Smith, British Labour Party chairman (1992-94), dies at 55
May 12th - Xenophon Balaskas, cricketer (9 Tests for S Africa, 22 wkts), dies
May 13th - Arthur Basil Cotle, medievalist, dies at 77
May 13th - Duncan Hamilton, driver, dies at 74
May 13th - Ruth Gillette, actress (Wild Gold), dies of cancer at 88
May 14th - Leonard Teale, Australian actor/reciter (Homicide), dies
May 15th - Frederik baron van Pallandt, Danish singer (Nina & F), murdered at 61
May 15th - Gilbert Roland, Mexican/US actor (Armand in Camille), dies at 88
May 15th - Ronnie Potsdammer, singer/song/text writer/programmer, dies at 71
May 15th - Royal Dano, actor (Ghoulies 2), dies of a heart attack at 71
May 15th - [Henry] John Baker, resistance fighter/journalist (Slogan), dies at 79
May 16th - Alain Cuny, actor (Lovers, Emanuelle, Camille Claudel), dies
May 16th - Barbara Jean Jones, fictional character on General Hospital, dies at 7
May 16th - Phani Majumdar, film director, dies at 82
May 16th - Vasek Simek, Czech/US actor (Green Card, Mistress), dies at 66
May 17th - Alain Cuny, [René X Marie], French actor (La Dolce Vita), dies at 85
May 17th - Andrew Brown, film Producer, dies at 55
May 17th - Donald Keith Falkner, singer, dies at 94
May 17th - Willian Noel Moffat, architect, dies at 82
May 19th - Henry Morgan, TV panalist (To Tell the Truth), dies of cancer at 74
May 19th - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 1st lady (1961-63), dies of cancer at 64
May 19th - Jacques Cesar Ellul, writer, dies at 82
May 19th - Luis Ocana, Span cyclist (Tour de France 1973), commits suicide at 48
May 20th - Dallas Pratt, collector, dies at 79
May 20th - Ronald Russell, actor/manager (We Are Angels), dies at 83
May 20th - Vivien John, artist, dies at 79
May 21st - Cliff Wilson, snooker player, dies at 60
May 21st - Forsyth Hardy, documentary film pioneer, dies at 84
May 21st - Giovanni Goria, PM of Italy (1987-88), dies
May 21st - John Henry Weidner, Dutch/US resistance fighter, dies at 81
May 21st - John Weidner, war hero, dies at 71
May 22nd - Frederick Hemming McClintock, criminologist, dies at 68
May 22nd - Mitacq, [Michel Tacq], Belg comic strip artist (Beaver Patrol), dies
May 23rd - Carl Althoff, German circus director, dies at 82
May 23rd - Joe Pass, US jazz guitarist (The Trio), dies at 65


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