Today in History for Year 1994 (Part 6)
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Historical Events
Results 501 - 600 of 1,007
Jun 9th - 5.6 earthquake strikes South-Mexico
Jun 9th - Angolan plane bombs school in Waku Kungo (89 killed)
Jun 10th - Biggest European clock ever (9100 kg/(237) 2.5 m) at Aarle-Rixtel
Jun 10th - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
Jun 10th - Jennifer Capriati, tennis ace, checks out of drug abuse clinic
Jun 11th - "Meet The Flintstones" by The BC 52's peaks to #33
Jun 11th - 126th Belmont: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 2:26.8
Jun 11th - Drunken officer shoots 7 people dead in Falun Sweden
Jun 11th - Moshood Abiola becomes pres of Nigeria
Jun 11th - 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 12th - -17] Pope John Paul II visits Spain
Jun 12th - 48th Tony Awards: Angels in America: Perestroika & Passion win
Jun 12th - Cab Calloway suffered massive stroke at his home in White Plaines NY
Jun 12th - Liselotte Neumann wins Minnesota LPGA Golf Classic
Jun 13th - Chicago Cub 2nd baseman Ryne Sandberg, retires due to poor play, he forfeits $15.7 million of his $25 million contract
Jun 13th - Don Mattingly plays 1st base 1,469 game for Yankees (2nd most)
Jun 13th - 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 14th - Stanley Cup: NY Rangers beat Vancouver Canucks, 4 games to 3
Jun 15th - Disney's "Lion King," opens in theaters with $42 million
Jun 15th - NY Giants cut quarterback Phil Simms
Jun 15th - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
Jun 16th - Martin Brodeur becomes 1st Devil to win Calder Trophy
Jun 17th - 1994 World Cup soccer match begin, Germany vs Bolivia in Chicago
Jun 17th - 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 18th - Aleksander Popov swims world record 100m free style (48.21 sec)
Jun 18th - Gay Games open in NYC
Jun 18th - US ties Switzerland 1-1 in their 1st game of 1994 soccer World Cup
Jun 19th - "Sally Marrand Her Escorts" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 50 perfs
Jun 19th - "She Loves Me" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC after 294 performances
Jun 19th - "Twilight - Los Angeles 1992" closes at Cort NYC after 72 perfs
Jun 19th - 94th US Golf Open: Ernie Els shoots a 279 at Oakmont CC in Oakmont Pa
Jun 19th - Ernesto Samper elected president of Colombia
Jun 19th - Lisa Kiggens wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament
Jun 19th - Tigers tie record of hitting HRs in 25th consecutive games
Jun 20th - Bomb attack on Islamic temple in Mashad Iran (70 killed)
Jun 20th - Ernie Els win's 1994 Golf US Open
Jun 20th - Howard Stern begins 30-minute (Radio) TV show on E! cable network
Jun 20th - OJ Simpson arraigned on murder of Nicole Simpson & Ronald Goldman
Jun 21st - Steffi Graf becomes 1st defending tennis champ to lose in 1st round of a major tournament (Wimbledon to Lorrie McNeal)
Jun 22nd - 48th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 3
Jun 22nd - Ken Griffey Jr breaks Ruth's record for most HRs by end of June (31)
Jun 22nd - Mets reliever John Franco sets lefty save mark at 253
Jun 22nd - US beats Colombia 2-1 in 1994 soccer world cup (1st win since 1950)
Jun 23rd - South Africa reclaims its seat in UN
Jun 23rd - 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 24th - 1st French "all news" TV (LCI) begins broadcasting
Jun 24th - Jeff Bagwell of Astros is 28th to hit 2 HRs in an inning
Jun 24th - Sally Fields files for divorce from 2nd husband Alan Greisman
Jun 25th - 1,500th goal in Soccer World Cup history scored by Caceres of Argentina
Jun 25th - 105°F (40.5°C) at Albuquerque New Mexico
Jun 25th - 111°F (43.9°C) at El Paso Texas
Jun 25th - Cleve Indians 18 game home win streak ends to Yanks 11-6
Jun 25th - Gay Games close in NYC
Jun 25th - Japanese premier Tsutomu Hata resigns
Jun 26th - "Broken Glass" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 73 performances
Jun 26th - "Medea" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 82 performances
Jun 26th - 104°F (40°C) at Denver Colorado
Jun 26th - 107°F (41.6°C) at Albuquerque New Mexico
Jun 26th - 112°F (44.4°C) at El Paso Texas
Jun 26th - 122°F (50°C) at Laughlin Nevada
Jun 26th - 126°F (52.2°C) in Death Valley Calif
Jun 26th - Actor Brandon Cruz (32) weds Elizabeth Finkelstein (26)
Jun 26th - Air Ivory Fokker's-27 crashes at Abidjan (16 killed/1 lives)
Jun 26th - Donna Andrews wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
Jun 26th - Kirby Puckett pass Rod Carew with 2,088 hit as Twin's top hit leader
Jun 26th - PLO-leader Yasser Arafat returns to Gaza after 27 years
Jun 26th - US loses to Romania 1-0 in 1994 soccer world cup
Jun 27th - "Gray's Anatomy" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 8 performances
Jun 27th - 118°F (47.8°C) at Lakewood New Mexico[dup]
Jun 27th - 118°F (47.8°C) at Lakewood New Mexico (state record)
Jun 27th - 12th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton
Jun 27th - NY Daily News increases prices to 50 cents
Jun 27th - Aerosmith become first major band to let fans download a full new track free from the internet
Jun 28th - NY Met Pitcher Dwight Gooden suspended for 60 days due to drug charges
Jun 29th - Socialist, Tomiichi Murayama, elected premier of Japan
Jun 29th - US reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees
Jun 30th - Airbus A330 crash at Toulouse France (7 killed)
Jun 30th - Giants outfielder Darren Lewis errors after record 392 flawless games
Jun 30th - Pre-trial hearings open in LA against OJ Simpson
Jun 30th - US Ice Skating Federation bars Tonya Harding for life
Jul 1st - Fokker's-28 crashes at Tidjikja, Mauritania (94 killed)
Jul 1st - Roman Herzog sworn in as German president
Jul 1st - Soyuz TM-19 launches
Jul 1st - Yassar Arafat returns to Gaza strip
Jul 2nd - 101st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: C Martinez beats Navratilova (64 36 63)
Jul 2nd - 37 dies in US Air DC-9 crash in NC
Jul 2nd - John Wayne Bobbitt & Kristina Elliot arrested for domestic battery
Jul 2nd - Richard Johnson takes 10-45 for Middlesex against Derbyshire
Jul 2nd - US Air DC-9 crash in NC, 37 killed
Jul 3rd - 108th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: P Sampras beats G Ivanisevic (76 76 60)
Jul 3rd - 15th US Seniors Golf Open: Simon Hobday
Jul 3rd - 30 die in 3 fatal auto accidents in Texas
Jul 3rd - Romania eliminates Argentina 3-2 in soccer world cup
Jul 3rd - Tammie Green wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
Jul 3rd - The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty six people were killed in crashes.
Jul 4th - Russian manned space craft TM-18, lands
Jul 4th - Rwandese Patriot Front occupies Kigali
Jul 4th - US loses to Brazil 1-0 in 1994 World Cup quarter finals
Jul 5th - Boxer Buster Douglas comes out of a diabetic coma
Jul 5th - US changes refugee policy, by sending Haitian boat people back
Famous Birthdays
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Famous Deaths
Results 501 - 600 of 1,097
Jun 20th - Charlotte Auerbach, computer pioneer/mathematician, dies at 84
Jun 20th - Emmanuel Bankole Timothy, journalist, dies at 70
Jun 20th - Louis Benjamin, showman, dies at 71
Jun 21st - Mark Robert Isfeld, combat Engineer, dies at 31
Jun 22nd - Jack Davies, screenwriter, dies at 80
Jun 23rd - Alan Frank, music publisher, dies at 83
Jun 23rd - Piet van Elk, cartoonist, dies at 74
Jun 23rd - Stanley Gebler Davies, journalist/drinker, dies at 50
Jun 24th - Leonarda da Vinci MacLaren, founder of the LSE, dies at 83
Jun 25th - Louis-Robert Casterman, Belgian publisher (Kuifje), dies at 74
Jun 25th - Robert Millar, journalist, dies at 72
Jun 26th - A "Bob" den Doolaard, author (Inn with the horseshoe), dies at 93
Jun 26th - Ian Board, barkeeper, dies at 64
Jun 26th - Jaharna Imam, Bangladeshi writer/political activist, dies at 65
Jun 26th - Roelof Kiers, VPRO-programmer/director (Macchiavelli), dies at 56
Jun 26th - Thomas henry Wait Armstrong, organist, dies at 96
Jun 27th - Jeremy Brooks, writer, dies at 67
Jun 28th - Fredericka Carolyn Washington, actress (Black & Tan), dies at 90
Jun 28th - William A Henry III, critic (Time Mag), dies of heart attack at 44
Jun 29th - Cameron Mitchell, actor (Man on Tightrope), dies of lung cancer at 76
Jun 29th - Kurt Eichhorn, conductor, dies at 85
Jun 29th - Ray Crane, trumpeter, dies at 63
Jun 30th - Nicholas Warner, test Pilot, dies at 51
Jul 1st - Johanna Ader-Appels, resistance fighter/author, dies
Jul 2nd - Andres Escobar, Colombia world cup soccer star, shot for losing to US
Jul 2nd - Marion Williams, gospel singer, dies of diabetes at 66
Jul 2nd - Maung Maung, premier of Burma (1988), dies at 69
Jul 2nd - Ralph C Rinzler, folklorist (Greenbriar Boys), dies at 59
Jul 3rd - Felix Kelly, artist, dies at 80
Jul 3rd - Harry Ebbeling, PC-corrector, dies at 54
Jul 3rd - Lewis A "Lew" Hoad, tennis star (Wimbledon 1953, 56), dies at 59
Jul 3rd - Pieter Hennipman, Dutch economist, dies at 85
Jul 4th - Arthur Berry, artist, dies at 69
Jul 4th - Juan Gil Poet-Albert, dies at 90
Jul 4th - Liesbeth Struppert, actress (Pipo the Clown, Anne Frank), dies at 55
Jul 4th - Rupert Davies, methodist scholar, dies at 84
Jul 4th - Tawfik Ziad, Palestinian communist/Israeli MP/mayor of Nazareth, dies
Jul 4th - Joey Marella, American professional wrestling referee (b. 1964)
Jul 5th - Ad Gang, Dutch Liberal Party asst sec of state, dies at 67
Jul 6th - Cameron Mitchell, actor (High Chapparral), dies of lung cancer at 75
Jul 6th - Geoffrey McQueen, TV writer, dies at 46
Jul 7th - Anita Garvin, US actress (Sailors Beware), dies at 80
Jul 7th - Rosa Chacel, spanish Novelist, dies at 96
Jul 7th - Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer (b. 1924)
Jul 8th - Christian-Jaque, French director (Babette s'and va-t-and guerre), dies
Jul 8th - Dick Sargent, actor (Darren-Bewitched), dies of cancer at 64
Jul 8th - Dominic Lucero, dancer/singer, dies of lymphatic cancer
Jul 8th - Kim Il Sung, president of North-Korea (1948-94), dies at 82
Jul 8th - Robert E Lee, dies of cancer at 75
Jul 8th - Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (b. 1927)
Jul 9th - Cornelius Boyson, bassist, dies at 57
Jul 9th - William "Sabby" Lewis, jazz Pianist/Arranger, dies at 79
Jul 9th - Bill Mosienko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
Jul 10th - Earl Strum, referee (NBA), dies of brain cancer at 66
Jul 10th - Otto Bonsema, soccer star/trainer (GVAV, Veendam), dies at 84
Jul 11th - Alan David Melville, polymath, dies at 82
Jul 11th - Bart Scheepens, actor/director, dies of AIDS at 50
Jul 11th - Charles "Lefty" Edwards, saxophonist, dies at 67
Jul 11th - Gary Kildall, creator of CP/M, dies at 52
Jul 11th - James Topping, author of CP/M, dies at 52
Jul 11th - Lex P Humphries, drummer, dies at 57
Jul 11th - Wim Jurg, corrector/chairman (Werelddambond FMJD), dies at 49
Jul 11th - Savannah, American porn star (b. 1970)
Jul 12th - David Malcolm Lewis, expert in Greek Epigraphy, dies at 56
Jul 12th - Henk Terlingen, radio/TV-host (Sport in Image), dies at 52
Jul 12th - James Bysse Joll, historian, dies at 76
Jul 13th - Eddie Boyd, blues vocal/pianist, dies at 79
Jul 13th - Robert Michael Payton, pizza magnate, dies at 50
Jul 14th - Patrick Crommelynck, Belgian pianist, commits suicide
Jul 14th - Robert Jungk, German/French/Us/Austrian philosopher/historian, dies
Jul 14th - Taeko Kuwata, Japanese/Belgian pianist, commits suicide
Jul 15th - Jeanne Bieruma Oosting, Dutch painter/illustrator, dies
Jul 16th - M Vink, surgeon (1st Dutch kidney transplant), dies at 78
Jul 16th - Madzy Rollin Couquerque, tennis star/international hockey, dies at 91
Jul 17th - Jean Borotra, [Flying Basque], Fr tennis star (Davis Cup), dies at 95
Jul 18th - Gottfried Reinhardt, [Goldmann], German/US director, dies at 83
Jul 19th - Christian-Jaque, [Christian Maudet], French director (Nana), dies
Jul 19th - Frederik "Frits" van der More, archaeologist/art historian, dies at 87
Jul 19th - Gottfried Reinhardt, theatre Producer, dies at 81
Jul 19th - Nathan Susskind, Slovak/US linguist (Yiddish), dies at 87
Jul 19th - Nick Banton, founder of Body Positive, dies at 37
Jul 20th - Kim II Sung, pres of North-Korea (1948-94), buried
Jul 20th - Paul Delvaux, Belgian surrealistisch painter, dies at 96
Jul 20th - Reginald Hall, endocrinologist, dies at 83
Jul 21st - Dorothy Collins, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 67
Jul 21st - John Ernest, constructionist Artist, dies at 72
Jul 21st - Marjorie Dorothy Chandler Collins, jazz singer, dies at 67
Jul 23rd - Aad Ivens, Dutch checkers player, dies at 80
Jul 23rd - Hans J Salter, Aust/US composer (Deanna-Durbin musicals), dies at 98
Jul 23rd - Henry William Collins, artist, dies at 84
Jul 24th - Grete Schickedanz, German head mistress, dies at 82
Jul 24th - Wangila Napunyi, welterweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1988), dies at 26
Jul 25th - John M Dengler, jazz Bass Sax/Trumpet/Trombone, dies at 67
Jul 26th - Marino Iandioro, canned tomato pioneer, dies at 64
Jul 26th - Thomas Davis, US movie editor/son of MGM-chief Frank D, dies at 26
Jul 27th - H Minderop, founder/chairman (TROS-radio/TV), dies
Jul 27th - Rosa Chacel, Spanish author, dies at 96
Jul 27th - Tatiana Tauer, harpist, dies at 48
Jul 28th - Bernard Delfont, Rus/Brit impresario (Thorn EMI), dies at 84
Jul 28th - Colin Turnbull, anthropologist, dies at 69

