Today in History for Year 1994 (Part 8)
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Historical Events
Results 701 - 800 of 1,007
Aug 1st - The Rolling Stones begin Voodoo Lounge world tour
Aug 1st - Train crash in Havana Cuba, 6 killed
Aug 2nd - Congressional hearings begin on White Water
Aug 2nd - Explosion in lead/zinc mine in Guangxi China, 120+ killed
Aug 2nd - NY Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern's non financial disclosure
Aug 2nd - Noureddine Morceli runs world record 3000m (7:25.11)
Aug 3rd - 102.4°F (39.1°C) in Tokyo Japan: record
Aug 3rd - 1st Jordanian plane to fly over Israeli airspace (King Hussein pilot)
Aug 4th - Dwingeloo 1, near milky way system, discovered
Aug 4th - Howard Stern drops out of NY gubernatorial race
Aug 4th - Truck carrying millions of bees overturns on NY parkway
Aug 5th - Antonov-12 crash down at Boda, East-Siberia, 47 killed
Aug 5th - Rocker Billy Idol admitted to the hospital after drug overdose
Aug 6th - Algerian Moslem fundamentalists threaten school/Universities
Aug 7th - "Hedda Gabler" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 33 performances
Aug 7th - 1st telephone link between Israel & Jordan
Aug 7th - Carolyn Hill wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain
Aug 7th - Ernesto Samper sworn in as president of Colombia
Aug 9th - Phil Rizzuto Hall of Fame Night
Aug 9th - Stanley Betrian put in charge of Curacao
Aug 10th - Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841)
Aug 11th - Joao B "Nino" Vieira elected pres of Guinee-Bissau
Aug 12th - 1st NFL game on Fox network (exhibition - SF vs Denver)
Aug 12th - Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association strike
Aug 12th - Panic in church of Brazzaville: 142 killed
Aug 12th - Stephen G Breyer, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
Aug 13th - Train crash in Tbilisi Georgia, 24 killed
Aug 14th - 76th PGA Championship: Nick Price shoots a 269 at Southern Hills Tulsa
Aug 14th - Doc Gooden leaves Betty Ford Center
Aug 14th - Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
Aug 14th - Maggie Will wins Children's Medical Center LPGA Golf Classic
Aug 14th - Space telescope Hubble photographs Uranus with rings
Aug 14th - Terrorist "Carlos" arrested in Khartoum Sudan
Aug 15th - S African Pres Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning
Aug 15th - Terrorist Carlos the Jackal, captured in Khartoum Sudan
Aug 16th - Chandrika Kumaratungo's party wins Sri Lanka elections
Aug 16th - Shauna Gambill, 17, of California, crowned 12th Miss Teen USA
Aug 17th - Lesotho king Letsie II fires premier Ntsu Mokhehle
Aug 17th - NY Central park reservior officially named after Jackie Kennedy Onasis
Aug 18th - 5.6 earthquake in Algeria, kills 171
Aug 20th - 109.8°F (43.2°C) in Cordoba Spain
Aug 20th - Archbishop Quarracino wants all homosexuals to leave Argentina
Aug 20th - Ferry boat sinks at Chandpur Bangladesh, 300-350 killed
Aug 21st - -23] Typhoon Fred ravages Chinese county Zhejiang, 700+ killed
Aug 21st - Ernesto Zedillo wins Mexican presidential election
Aug 21st - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Chicago Golf Challenge
Aug 21st - Royal Air Maroc ATR-42 crash down at Agadir, 44 killed
Aug 22nd - DNA testing links OJ Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman
Aug 22nd - Wim Cook govt forms in Neth
Aug 24th - Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m free style (14:41.66)
Aug 24th - Kieren Perkins swims world record 800m free style (7:46.00)
Aug 24th - Israel & PLO initialed accord giving autonomy to Palestinians in West Bank in education, health, taxation, social welfare & tourism
Aug 27th - "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" closes at R Rodgers NYC after 320 perfs
Aug 28th - 1st Japanese gay pride parade
Aug 28th - 22nd du Maurier Golf Classic: Martha Nause
Aug 28th - 94th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
Aug 30th - Gund Arena in Cleve opens
Aug 30th - Largest US Tennis Open single session (total) 23,618
Aug 31st - Last Russian soldiers leave Estonia & Latvia
Aug 31st - Northern Ireland Sinn Fein proclaims ceases-fire
Aug 31st - Pentium computer beats world chess champ Gari Kasparov
Aug 31st - The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
Sep 2nd - Miguel Indurain bicycles world record time (53,040 km)
Sep 3rd - Circulation of Neth Telegraph/News of the Day reaches 800,000
Sep 4th - Bulgarian govt of Berov falls
Sep 4th - Cleveland Browns is 1st team in NFL to score a 2-point conversion
Sep 4th - Kansai International airport officially opens
Sep 5th - Barb Mucha wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
Sep 5th - Jerry Lewis' 29th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,100,000
Sep 5th - Jingyi Le swims world record 100m women's freestyle (54.01 sec)
Sep 5th - Kirgizia govt resigns
Sep 5th - SF 49'er Jerry Rice catches NFL record 127th touchdown pass
Sep 6th - 11th MTV Awards: Aerosmith, Lisa Marie & Michael Jackson win
Sep 6th - Actor Jackson Pinckney awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded by Jean-Claude Van Damme during filming of "Cyborg"
Sep 6th - Franziska van Almsick swims female record 200m freestyle (1:56.78)
Sep 6th - Tom Dolan swims world record 400m medley (4:12.30)
Sep 7th - Jingyi Le/Ying Shan/Ying Le/Bin Lu swimming 4x100 freestyle (3:37.91)
Sep 8th - "Philadelphia, Here I Come" opens at Criterion NYC for 52 perfs
Sep 8th - Last US, British & French troops leave West-Berlin
Sep 8th - MTV awards feature newlyweds Michael Jackson & Lisa Marie Presley
Sep 8th - Man shoots another man on IRT #4 train at Grand Central Station
Sep 8th - USAir Boeing 737 crashes at Pitts Airport, killing all 132 on board
Sep 9th - Space shuttle STS 64 (Discovery 20), launches into orbit
Sep 9th - Tu-22 crashes into Aeroflot Tu-134a at Zhukovsky, 7 killed
Sep 10th - 108th US Womens Tennis: Aranxta S Vicario beats Steffi Graf (16 76 64)
Sep 10th - Chong Hey swims female record 400m medley (4:01.67)/100m backstroke
Sep 11th - 114th US Mens Tennis: Andre Agassi beats Michael Stich (61 76 75)
Sep 11th - 46th Emmy Awards: Fraiser, Picket Fences & Kelsey Grammer wins
Sep 11th - Jingyi Le swims female world record 50m freestyle
Sep 11th - Missie McGeorge wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
Sep 12th - Cessna crashes in White House front yard
Sep 12th - Country singer George Jones undergoes triple bypass surgery
Sep 12th - Parti Québécois wins parliamentary election
Sep 13th - George Burns, undergoes surgery to drain fluid from his brain
Sep 13th - Space probe Ulyssus passes south pole of Sun
Sep 14th - All 28 baseball owners vote to cancel rest of 1994 season
Sep 15th - "Sound of Motown," premieres in Rotterdam
Sep 15th - Dennis Richardson sworn in as head of St Maarten
Sep 15th - Moslem fundamentalists kidnap & behead 16 citizens in Algeria
Sep 16th - Fire Dept puts out smokey electrical fire in White House
Famous Birthdays
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Famous Deaths
Results 701 - 800 of 1,097
Sep 1st - Wallis Mathias, cricketer (scored 783 in 21 Tests for Pakistan), dies
Sep 1st - Boris Malenko, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
Sep 2nd - Detlef Macha, German DR cyclist (5x world champ), dies at 35
Sep 2nd - Harry Vincent Kemp, poet, dies at 82
Sep 2nd - Mildred Mcafee Horton, US 1st head mistress of WAVES, dies
Sep 2nd - Richard M Major, US anti-terror specialist (CIA Red Book), dies at 72
Sep 2nd - Roy Castle, entertainer, dies at 62
Sep 3rd - Billy Wright, English soccer player (World Champion 1950), dies at 70
Sep 3rd - James Aubrey, actor (Riders of the Storm), dies of heart attack at 75
Sep 3rd - Major Lance, soul singer, dies at 55
Sep 3rd - Marijke Vetter, Dutch journalist, dies at 82
Sep 3rd - Nikos Ghika, artist, dies at 88
Sep 3rd - Roswell Gilbert, who mercy killed his ailing wife, dies at 85
Sep 3rd - William Ambrose Right, footballer, dies at 70
Sep 4th - Laurentius LM "Laurens" van Deenen, (pathed)physiologist, dies at 66
Sep 4th - Louis Myers, blues guitarist /harmonica player, dies at 64
Sep 5th - Billy Usselton, saxophonist, dies at 68
Sep 5th - Edgar Louis Vanderstegen Millington Drake, painter, dies at 62
Sep 5th - John Newman, Australian parlement member (Lab), murdered at 47
Sep 5th - William Usselton, US tenor saxophonist, dies at 68
Sep 6th - Duccio Tessari, Italian director, dies of cancer at 67
Sep 6th - James Clavell, author/director (King Rat, Shogun), dies at 69
Sep 6th - Max Kaminsky, trumpeter, dies at 85
Sep 6th - Nicky Hopkins, rock pianist (Rolling Stones), dies at 50
Sep 6th - Wolf Donner, Austrian movie historian/festival director, dies at 55
Sep 7th - Dennis Morgan, [Stanley], US actor (21 Beacon Street), dies at 83
Sep 7th - Eric John Crozier, producer/librettist, dies at 79
Sep 7th - Godfrey Quigley, actor (Barry Lyndon, Educating Rita), dies at 71
Sep 7th - James Clavell, author (Shogun, Tai-Pan), dies at 69
Sep 7th - Terence Young, British director (Thunderball), dies of at 79
Sep 8th - Arthur Rex Alston, British sports commentator, dies at 93
Sep 8th - Deborah Bear, Engl still photographer (Pasolini/Fellini), dies at 44
Sep 8th - Dennis Morgan, actor (Cattle Town, Canyon Pass), dies at 83
Sep 8th - Edna Manilow, mother of singer Barry Manilow, dies at 70 of cancer
Sep 8th - Michael Peters, choreographer, dies
Sep 8th - Rex Alston, cricketer (distinguished BBC commentator), dies
Sep 9th - Keith Davis, voice Tutor/Author, dies at 85
Sep 9th - Patrick O'Neal, US actor (King Rat, Night of the Iguana), dies at 66
Sep 9th - Roy Castle, actor (Dr Who & the Daleks), dies of lung Cancer
Sep 10th - Amy Clampitt, British poet (Silence Opens), dies at 74
Sep 11th - Frederick Rand Weissman, philanthropist, dies at 82
Sep 11th - Jessica Tandy, actress (Driving Miss Daisy), dies of cancer at 85
Sep 11th - Sara Taylor, mother of Elizabeth, dies at 62
Sep 11th - William Obanheim, actor (Officer Obie-Alice's Restaurant), dies at 69
Sep 12th - Boris B Yegorov, Russian doctor/cosmonaut (Voskhod I), dies at 56
Sep 12th - Douglas MacKenzie Davey, psychometrist, dies at 72
Sep 12th - Major Bill Smith, record producer, dies at 72
Sep 12th - Tom Ewell, [S Yewell Tompkins], US actor (7 Year Itch), dies at 85
Sep 13th - John William Stevens, jazz drummer, dies at 54
Sep 13th - Kaleria Fadicheva, ballerina, dies at 58
Sep 13th - Pieter Zaanen, architect (Musical Trade scholarship, Amsterdam), dies
Sep 14th - David van Cup, sculptor/painter, dies at 57
Sep 15th - Alain Berdarin, founder/owner of "Crazy Horse Saloon," suicide at 78
Sep 15th - Haywood Frank Henry, sax player, dies at 81
Sep 15th - Michael Joyce, stage Manager, dies at 48
Sep 16th - Alain Bernardin, impressario of the Crazy Horse Saloon, dies at 78
Sep 16th - Albert de Courtray, French archbishop of Lyon/cardinal, dies at 71
Sep 16th - Bernie Lazaroff Leighton, pianist, dies at 73
Sep 16th - Dolly Hare, German/British actress (Broken Blossom), dies at 84
Sep 16th - Jack Dodson, actor (Howard Sprague-Andy Griffith Show), dies at 63
Sep 17th - Henk Figee, author/publisher (Shoes of the Sea), dies at 46
Sep 17th - John DeLaFose, zydeco musician, dies at 55
Sep 17th - Karl R Popper, philosopher (Poverty of Historianism), dies at 92
Sep 17th - Paul Nicholas Young, architect, dies at 47
Sep 18th - Franco Moschino, Italian fashion designer, dies at 44
Sep 18th - Vitas Gerulaitis, tennis star (Davis Cup 1979), dies at 40
Sep 19th - Frankie Kennedy, flute player, dies at 38
Sep 19th - Sandra Fisher, painter, dies at 47
Sep 20th - Jimmy Hamilton, saxophonist, dies at 77
Sep 20th - Jule Styne, Broadway composer (Gypsy, Funny Girl), dies at 88
Sep 21st - Arthur Krim, US director (United Artists, Orion Pictures), dies
Sep 21st - Oswald "Ossie" Stevens Nock, railway Writer, dies at 69
Sep 22nd - Forest Cowles Bud Forrest Sagendorf, cartoonist, dies at 79
Sep 22nd - John Edward Teddy Buckner, trumpeter, dies at 85
Sep 22nd - Leonard Geoffrey Feather, jazz critic/musician, dies at 80
Sep 22nd - Mattie Moss Clark, gospel Singer, dies at 69
Sep 23rd - Alec Dickson, founder of VSO, dies at 80
Sep 23rd - Ali Kouider Benyahia, [sheik Boualem], Alg Moslem leader, shot at 26
Sep 23rd - Cherif Gousmi, [kalief Abu Abdallah Ahmed], Alger Moslem leader, shot
Sep 23rd - Dalton Reed, singer, dies at 42
Sep 23rd - Georgi, Czar Nicholas II's brother, buried
Sep 23rd - John van Damme, businessman, hanged in Singapore at 59
Sep 23rd - Madeleine Renaud, French actress (Longest Day)/director, dies at 94
Sep 23rd - Robert Bloch, screenwriter (Psycho), dies of cancer at 77
Sep 23rd - Jerry Barber, American golfer (b. 1916)
Sep 24th - Colin Berry Haycraft, publisher, dies at 65
Sep 24th - David Napley, solicitor, dies at 79
Sep 24th - Otto F Walther, Swiss publisher/author (Der Stumme), dies at 66
Sep 25th - John Richard Ravensdale, historian, dies at 73
Sep 25th - Kitty Masters, actress, dies at 92
Sep 25th - Ludwig Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, Germ prince of Prussia, dies at 86
Sep 25th - Mark Alexander Abrams, market Researcher, dies at 88
Sep 26th - Jessie Kesson, author, dies at 77
Sep 26th - Maurice Ashley, historian, dies at 87
Sep 26th - Miguel Angel Martinez Soto, mariachi, dies at 22
Sep 27th - Gerald Bledsoe, DJ (Soul Alive, WWRL), dies of heart attack at 51
Sep 27th - Guiseppe Martelli, physicist, dies at 71
Sep 27th - Ruth Niehaus, dies
Sep 28th - Harry Saltzman, producer (Dr No, Nijinski), dies at 78
Sep 28th - Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican PRI-politician, murdered at 48

