Today in History for August 1994

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 63 of 63

1st - 99.9°F (37.7°C) in Berlin-Dahlem: record
1st - The Rolling Stones begin Voodoo Lounge world tour
1st - Train crash in Havana Cuba, 6 killed
2nd - Congressional hearings begin on White Water
2nd - Explosion in lead/zinc mine in Guangxi China, 120+ killed
2nd - NY Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern's non financial disclosure
2nd - Noureddine Morceli runs world record 3000m (7:25.11)
3rd - 102.4°F (39.1°C) in Tokyo Japan: record
3rd - 1st Jordanian plane to fly over Israeli airspace (King Hussein pilot)
4th - Dwingeloo 1, near milky way system, discovered
4th - Howard Stern drops out of NY gubernatorial race
4th - Truck carrying millions of bees overturns on NY parkway
5th - Antonov-12 crash down at Boda, East-Siberia, 47 killed
5th - Rocker Billy Idol admitted to the hospital after drug overdose
6th - Algerian Moslem fundamentalists threaten school/Universities
7th - "Hedda Gabler" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 33 performances
7th - 1st telephone link between Israel & Jordan
7th - Carolyn Hill wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mountain
7th - Ernesto Samper sworn in as president of Colombia
Radio shock jock Howard Stern 9th - Phil Rizzuto Hall of Fame Night
9th - Stanley Betrian put in charge of Curacao
10th - Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841)
11th - Joao B "Nino" Vieira elected pres of Guinee-Bissau
12th - 1st NFL game on Fox network (exhibition - SF vs Denver)
12th - Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association strike
12th - Panic in church of Brazzaville: 142 killed
12th - Stephen G Breyer, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
13th - Train crash in Tbilisi Georgia, 24 killed
14th - 76th PGA Championship: Nick Price shoots a 269 at Southern Hills Tulsa
14th - Doc Gooden leaves Betty Ford Center
14th - Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
14th - Maggie Will wins Children's Medical Center LPGA Golf Classic
14th - Space telescope Hubble photographs Uranus with rings
14th - Terrorist "Carlos" arrested in Khartoum Sudan
Anti-apartheid activist/South African President Nelson Mandela 15th - South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning
15th - Terrorist Carlos the Jackal, captured in Khartoum Sudan
16th - Chandrika Kumaratungo's party wins Sri Lanka elections
16th - Shauna Gambill, 17, of California, crowned 12th Miss Teen USA
17th - Lesotho king Letsie II fires premier Ntsu Mokhehle
17th - NY Central park reservior officially named after Jackie Kennedy Onasis
18th - 5.6 earthquake in Algeria, kills 171
20th - 109.8°F (43.2°C) in Cordoba Spain
20th - Archbishop Quarracino wants all homosexuals to leave Argentina
20th - Ferry boat sinks at Chandpur Bangladesh, 300-350 killed
21st - -23] Typhoon Fred ravages Chinese county Zhejiang, 700+ killed
21st - Ernesto Zedillo wins Mexican presidential election
21st - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Chicago Golf Challenge
21st - Royal Air Maroc ATR-42 crash down at Agadir, 44 killed
22nd - DNA testing links OJ Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman
NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal OJ Simpson 22nd - Wim Cook government forms in Neth
24th - Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m free style (14:41.66)
24th - Kieren Perkins swims world record 800m free style (7:46.00)
24th - Israel & PLO initialed accord giving autonomy to Palestinians in West Bank in education, health, taxation, social welfare & tourism
27th - "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" closes at R Rodgers NYC after 320 perfs
28th - 1st Japanese gay pride parade
28th - 22nd du Maurier Golf Classic: Martha Nause
28th - 94th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
30th - Gund Arena in Cleve opens
30th - Largest US Tennis Open single session (total) 23,618
31st - Last Russian soldiers leave Estonia & Latvia
31st - Northern Ireland Sinn Fein proclaims ceases-fire
31st - Pentium computer beats world chess champ Gari Kasparov
31st - The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 5 of 5

7th - Jack Antonio, son of Virginia Madisen & Antonio Sabatto Jr
7th - Sara Grayson, daughter of actress Katey Sagal
18th - Jessie Flower, American actress
20th - White buffalo, Janesville Wisconsin
25th - Josh Flitter, American actor

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 3 of 3

4th - American rapper The Notorious B.I.G (22) weds Faith Evans
13th - Former "Growing Pains" patriarch actor Alan Thicke (48) weds former Miss World Gina Marie Tolleson (25) at his rolling Santa Barbara ranch
27th - TV executive Anthony Radziwill (35) weds Emmy Award-winning journalist Carole Di Falco (31) in East Hampton, New York

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 87 of 87

1st - George Dixon, trumpet/sax, dies at 85
1st - Gerard van de Groenekan, furniture maker/designer, dies at 90
2nd - Bhagwatpersad Ausan, commandant Suriname military police, dies at 38
3rd - Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter, dies at 77
3rd - Christy Henrich, US turnster, dies of anorexia nervosa at 22
3rd - Innokenti Smoktunovski, Russian actor (Hamlet), dies at 69
3rd - John Hidalgo Moya, architect, Designer of Skylon, dies at 74
3rd - John van Raay, [John Oradi], radio-imitator (Paul Flanders)
4th - Giovanni Spadolini, Italian historian/journalist, dies at 69
4th - Richard Du Cann, lawyer QC, dies at 65
4th - Sol Adler, economist Sinophile, dies at 85
5th - Amy Sacks, producer (ABC sports, Disney), dies of Lupus at 39
5th - Audrey Langford, sInging teacher, dies at 82
5th - Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot, dies at 84
5th - Terry Hibbitt, soccer star, dies at 47
6th - Domenico Modugno, Italian singer (Volare), dies at 66
7th - Robert Hutton, [Winne], US actor (Rocket), dies at 74
7th - Larry Martyn, comedy actor (b. 1934)
8th - Henriette Santer, clinical psychologist, dies at 62
8th - Leonid Leonov, Russian playwright (Russky Lesson), dies at 95
8th - Leonid Maksimovich Leonov, novelist/Playwright, dies at 94
8th - Robin Cavendish, disabled Campaigner, dies at 64
9th - Aartje W "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel, author, dies at 93
9th - Clarence Ford, sax player, dies at 64
9th - Toby Rowland, theatrical manager, dies at 77
10th - Bill Baker, singer, dies at 58
10th - Kay Petre, early racing driver, dies at 91
10th - Leendert-John Schalm, Dutch banker on Curacao, murdered at 58
11th - Dorothy Lousie Grenfell Williams, broadcaster, dies at 60
11th - Gordon Cullen, architect, dies at 80
11th - Mark "Red" Mitchell, actor (JFK, 8 Seconds, Want to Live), dies at 33
Actor Peter Cushing (11th) 11th - Peter Cushing, actor (Star Wars, Dr Who), dies of cancer at 81
12th - Gene Cherico, bassist, dies at 59
12th - Manfred Salzgeber, German film distributor/publicist, dies at about 51
13th - Manfred Worner, German general/sec-gen of NATO (1988-94), dies at 59
14th - Bill Cowley, creator (Lyke Wake Walk), dies at 78
14th - Elias Canetti, Bulgaria/British author (Nobel 1981), dies at 89
14th - Joan Harrison, English producer/Alfred Hitchcock's sect, dies at 83
14th - Patrick Meehan, petty Criminal, dies at 67
14th - Tom Greenshields, sculptor, dies at 79
15th - Shepherd Mead, London England, dies of stroke at 80
15th - Simon R Naoli, Tanzanian marathoner, dies in an accident at 28
15th - Wout Wagtmans, cyclist (Rome-Naples-Rome 1957), dies at 64
16th - Earnest Pawel, Polish/US author (Nightmare of Reason), dies at 74
16th - Frits de Knight, photographer, dies of AIDS at 40
16th - Henry Geldzahler, US critic, dies
16th - John Doucette, actor (Fighting Mad, Gang War), dies of cancer at 73
17th - Elias Canetti, buried next to James Joyce
17th - Joseph Paul Jack Sharkey Zukauskas, boxer, dies at 91
18th - Gottlob Frick, singer, dies at 88
18th - John Beavan, newspaper Editor, dies at 84
18th - Judy Ann Scott-Fox, agent, dies at 56
18th - Richard Lawrence Millington Synge, chromatographer, dies at 79
19th - John George Hughes, bishop of Kensington, dies at 59
Chemist & Peace Activist Linus Pauling (19th) 19th - Linus Pauling, Nobel prize scientist (Vitamin C advocate), dies at 93
19th - Nancy Keene Lancaster, US/British architect (Binnen House), dies at 96
19th - Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky, poet, dies at 64
19th - Walter Bartley, biochemist, dies at 78
20th - Aleksander Petrovic, film Director, dies at 65
20th - Kalman Kahana, Polish co-founder of state Israel, dies at 81
21st - Danitra Vance, comedienne (SNL), dies of breast cancer at 35
21st - Hein Fentener van Vlissingen, eccentric millionaire, dies at 73
22nd - Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine), dies at 80
22nd - Tom Quirke, journalist, dies at 42
23rd - Henri Rousselot, admiral, dies at 82
23rd - Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale), dies at 70
23rd - Rabah Stambouli, Algerian sociologist/politician, murdered at 65
23rd - Richard Jock Kinneir, graphic designer, dies at 77
24th - Jason McRoy, downhill MTB racer, dies at 23
24th - Wijnanda MC "Nan" Aberson, friend of Gerard Van de Reve Sr, dies at 82
25th - Ramdas Nayak, Indies hindu leader/politician, murdered at about 52
26th - Tariq Yunus, actor (Bollywood, Ashanti, Deceivers), dies at 54
27th - Roberto Goyeneche, [El Polaco], Argentine tango singer (Maria), dies
28th - David Wright, poet, dies at 74
28th - Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian pater, murdered
28th - Pieter de Cort, Belgian rock guitarist (Betty Goes Green), dies at 25
29th - Arthur Ernest Mourant, haematologist, dies at 90
29th - Gladys Marea Hartman, athletics Administrator, dies at 74
29th - Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian Catholic priest, shot dead
29th - Michael Peters, dies of complications due to AIDS at 46
29th - Phillip Gilmore, actress (Malcolm X), dies at 38
29th - Tushar Kanti Ghosh, longest serving newspaper editor, dies at 93
30th - Lindsay Anderson, British director/critic (If ...), dies at 71
30th - Michael Gribble, film animator (Mike & Spike Festival), dies at 42
31st - Artur Balsam, Polish/US pianist, dies at 88
31st - Barbara Hammer Avedon, scriptwriter, dies at 69
31st - Norman "Doc" Jones, bassist, dies at 68