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1994




International year of the Family

Events

   * January 1 - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into
     effect
   * January 6 - Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant
     under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding.
   * January 10 - Lorena Bobbitt goes on trial for severing the penis of her
     husband John (Manassas, Virginia).
   * January 14 - President of the United States Bill Clinton and Russian
     President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords which stop the
     preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles to targets and also provide
     for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in the Ukraine.
   * January 20 - In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first
     female student to attend The Citadel but soon drops out.
   * January 21 - Lorena Bobbitt is found not-guilty by reason of temporary
     insanity for severing the penis of her husband John.
   * January 26 - A man fires two blank shots at Charles, Prince of Wales in
     Sydney, Australia.
   * January 28 - The first trial of accused murderer Lyle Menendez ends in
     a mistrial. He and his brother Erik are later found guilty and
     sentenced to life in prison without parole.
   * February 1 - In Portland, Oregon Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff
     Gillooly pleads guilty for his role in attacking figure skater Nancy
     Kerrigan. He accepts a plea bargain admitting to racketeering charges
     in exchange for testimony against Harding.
   * February 3 - William J. Perry was sworn in as the 19th Secretary of
     Defense of United States
   * February 5 - Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of
     civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
   * February 9 - Peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina announced (so called
     Vance-Owen peace plan)
   * February 22 - Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged with spying for the
     Soviet Union by the United States Department of Justice. Ames would
     later be convicted to life imprisonment and his wife would receive a
     5-years in prison.
   * March 4 - Four terrorists are convicted for their roles in the World
     Trade Center bombing which killed six and injured more than a thousand.
   * March 7 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Campbell v.
     Acuff-Rose Music that parodies of an original work are generally
     covered by the doctrine of fair use.
   * March 12 - A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as 'proof'
     of the Loch Ness monster, is confirmed to be a hoax.
   * March 12 - The Church of England ordains its first female priests
   * March 16 - In Portland, Oregon Tonya Harding pleads guilty to
     conspiracy to hinder prosecution for trying to cover-up an attack on
     figure skating rival Nancy Kerrigan. She is fined $100,000 and banned
     from the sport.
   * March 23 - "Shock jock" Howard Stern formally announces his candidacy
     for the New York governorship under the Libertarian Party ticket.
   * March 24 - At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential
     candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated. Mario Aburto Martinez
     is arrested for the crime and confesses on the same day.
   * March 28 - In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress
     supporters battle in central Johannesburg killing 18.
   * March 31 - The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the
     first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull (see Human evolution).
   * April 7 - Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
   * April 26 - South Africa holds its first multiracial elections.
   * May 6 - The Chunnel, which took 15,000 workers over seven years to
     complete, opens between England and France. Travelers can now travel
     between the two countries in 35 minutes.
   * May 9 - Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black
     president.
   * May 10 - Illinois executes serial killer John Wayne Gacy for the murder
     of 33 young men and boys.
   * June - Iraq disarmement crisis: UN weapons inspectors Ritter and
     Smidovitch learn, through Israeli intelligence reports, that Qusay
     Hussein, Saddam Hussein's son, is the key player in efforts by the
     Iraqi government to hide the country's alledged illegal weapons.
   * June 13 - NFL star OJ Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her
     friend Ronald Goldman were murdered outside Nicole's house in
     Brentwood, California
   * June 17 - NFL star OJ Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from
     police in his white Ford Bronco. The low speed chase, which unfolds
     live on television, ends up at Simpson's mansion in Brentwood,
     California, where he then surrendered to police.
   * July - The planet Jupiter is pelted by 21 large fragments of a comet
     over the course of 6 days.
   * July 7 - Aden is occupied by troops from North Yemen.
   * July 18 - In Buenos Aires, an explosion destroys a building housing
     several Jewish organizations killing 96 and injuring many more.
   * July 25 - Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration which
     formally ends the state of war that has existed between the nations
     since 1948.
   * September-October - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to stop
     cooperating with UNSCOM inspectors and begins to once again deploy
     troops near its border with Kuwait. In response, the U.S. begins to
     deploy troops to Kuwait.
   * October 8 - Iraq disarmament crisis: President of the UN Security
     Council says that Iraq must withdraw its troops from the Kuwait border
     and immediately cooperate with weapons inspectors.
   * October 15 - After three years of exile in the US, Haiti's president
     Aristide returned to his country.
   * October 15 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Following threats by the U.N.
     Security Council and the U.S., Iraq withdraws troops from its border
     with Kuwait
   * November - Republicans take control of the US congress and Senate.

   * The MS Estonia sinks, killing 852.
   * The Whitewater Scandal investigation begins.
   * Homosexual marriages legal in Sweden

Art, Culture & Fashion

   * 1994 in film
        o October 3 - George Lucas begins writing the three Star Wars
          prequels.
        o Forrest Gump starring Tom Hanks
        o Pulp Fiction starring Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, John
          Travolta and Uma Thurman
        o Four Weddings and a Funeral
        o Quiz Show
        o The Shawshank Redemption
   * 1994 in sports
        o January - One month before the Winter Olympic Games, ice skater
          Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by fellow skater Tonya Harding's
          boyfriend. The man clubbed Kerrigan in the knee. Kerrigan and
          Harding both competed in the Olympics, but Harding stumbled
          through her routine. She was later banned from the professional
          skating world for her connection to the attack.
   * 1994 in television
        o January - Green Day premieres "Longview" on MTV.
        o March 31 - Madonna appears on The Late Show with David Letterman
          making headlines for her fowl mouthed, profanity laced interview.
          Robin Williams later described the segment as a "battle of wits
          with an unarmed woman."
        o June 17 - OJ Simpson's flees from police in a white Ford Bronco
          live on television. He later surrenders to police at his mansion
          in Brentwood, California.
        o September 10 - The first episode of the Magic School Bus cartoon
          series is released
        o Friends premieres on NBC.

Deaths

   * January 5 - Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill, Speaker of the House
   * January 15 - Harry Nilsson, musician
   * January 22 - Telly Savalas, actor
   * January 25 - Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician
   * January 27 - Claude Akins, actor
   * January 30 - Pierre Boulle, author
   * February 6 - Jack Kirby, comic book writer
   * February 6 - Joseph Cotten, actor
   * February 11 - Antonio Martin, Spanish cyclist
   * February 11 - Sorrell Brooke, actor
   * February 11 - William Conrad, actor
   * February 14 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (executed)
   * February 17 - Randy Shilts, author, AIDS activist
   * February 22 - Papa John Creach, musician
   * February 24 - Dinah Shore, actress, singer
   * February 25 - Jersey Joe Walcott, world champion boxer
   * March 4 - John Candy, comedian and actor
   * March 22 - Walter Lantz, cartoonist ("Woody Woodpecker")
   * March 28 - Eugene Ionesco, playwright
   * April 2 - Betty Furness, author
   * April 5 - Kurt Cobain (suicide) lead singer of the rock band Nirvana
   * April 22 - Richard Nixon, former President of the United States
   * April 30 - Roland Ratzenberger, Formula 1 driver
   * May 1 - Ayrton Senna, Formula 1 car racing champion
   * May 7- Clement Greenberg, art critic
   * May 8 - George Peppard, actor
   * May 10 - John Wayne Gacy, serial killer (executed)
   * May 15 - Gilbert Roland, actor
   * May 19 - Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, First Lady of the United States
   * May 29 - Erich Honecker, former leader of East Germany, while in exile
     in Chile
   * July 8 - Kim Il Sung, North Korea's leader
   * August 17 - Elias Canetti, buried next to James Joyce
   * September 11 - Jessica Tandy, actress
   * September 12 - Boris Yegorov, cosmonaut
   * September 15 - Alain Berdarin, founder/owner of "Le Crazy Horse Saloon"
     - Paris
   * October 20 - Burt Lancaster, actor
   * November 12 - Wilma Rudolph, American athlete
   * November 28 - Jeffrey Dahmer, serial killer

Nobel Prizes

   * Physics - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford G. Shull
   * Chemistry - George A Olah
   * Medicine - Alfred G Gilman, Martin Rodbell
   * Literature - Kenzaburo Oe
   * Peace- Yasser Arafat , Shimon Peres (Israel) and Yitzhak Rabin
   * Economics - Reinhard Selten, John Forbes Nash, John Harsanyi

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