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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 105

1st - FX Channel, Cable Network, debuts
1st - Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery
1st - Guns n Roses drummer Matthew Sorum files to divorce Kai
2nd - 67th National Spelling Bee: Ned Andrews wins spelling antediluvian
2nd - Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland (29 killed)
2nd - Indonesian censors ban Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List"
2nd - Sharon Stone files $12m lawsuit against her jeweler
3rd - 5.9 earthquake/floods SE Java (150+ killed)
3rd - WIIZ (98.7) FM goes off the air
4th - Haile Gebre Selassie runs world record 5 km (12:56.96)
5th - "Gray's Anatomy" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 8 performances
5th - 64th French Mens Tennis: S Bruguera beats A Berasategui (63 75 26 61)
5th - 64th French Womens Tennis: A Sanchez Vicario beats M Pierce (64 64)
5th - 7th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
5th - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic
6th - 28th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & Ray Stevens
6th - 6.0 earthquake/avalanche destroys Toez Colombia (about 1000 killed)
6th - Brian Lara scores 501 not out for Warwickshire vs Durham
6th - CD-councillor H Selhorst arrested for hard-drugs trade
Director Steven Spielberg 6th - Cricketer Brian Lara hits record 501 not out/390 runs in 1 day
6th - Tupolev-154M crashes at Xian China, 160 killed
6th - Warwickshire score 4 for 810 declared against Durham
7th - A's outfielder Rickey Henderson steals his 1,100th career base
8th - 7.8 earthquake strikes North Bolivia
8th - Mass murderer Joe Rifkind sentenced to 27 years
9th - "Hudsucker Proxy," premieres in Germany
9th - 5.6 earthquake strikes South-Mexico
9th - Angolan plane bombs school in Waku Kungo (89 killed)
10th - Biggest European clock ever (9100 kg/(237) 2.5 m) at Aarle-Rixtel
10th - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
10th - Jennifer Capriati, tennis ace, checks out of drug abuse clinic
11th - "Meet The Flintstones" by The BC 52's peaks to #33
11th - 126th Belmont: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 2:26.8
11th - Drunken officer shoots 7 people dead in Falun Sweden
11th - Moshood Abiola becomes pres of Nigeria
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
264th Pope John Paul II 12th - -17] Pope John Paul II visits Spain
12th - 48th Tony Awards: Angels in America: Perestroika & Passion win
12th - Cab Calloway suffered massive stroke at his home in White Plaines NY
12th - Liselotte Neumann wins Minnesota LPGA Golf Classic
13th - Chicago Cub 2nd baseman Ryne Sandberg, retires due to poor play, he forfeits $15.7 million of his $25 million contract
13th - Don Mattingly plays 1st base 1,469 game for Yankees (2nd most)
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.
14th - Stanley Cup: NY Rangers beat Vancouver Canucks, 4 games to 3
15th - Disney's "Lion King," opens in theaters with $42 million
15th - NY Giants cut quarterback Phil Simms
15th - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
16th - Martin Brodeur becomes 1st Devil to win Calder Trophy
17th - 1994 World Cup soccer match begin, Germany vs Bolivia in Chicago
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)
18th - Aleksander Popov swims world record 100m free style (48.21 sec)
NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal OJ Simpson 18th - Gay Games open in NYC
18th - US ties Switzerland 1-1 in their 1st game of 1994 soccer World Cup
19th - "Sally Marrand Her Escorts" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 50 perfs
19th - "She Loves Me" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC after 294 performances
19th - "Twilight - Los Angeles 1992" closes at Cort NYC after 72 perfs
19th - 94th US Golf Open: Ernie Els shoots a 279 at Oakmont CC in Oakmont Pa
19th - Ernesto Samper elected president of Colombia
19th - Lisa Kiggens wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament
19th - Tigers tie record of hitting HRs in 25th consecutive games
20th - Bomb attack on Islamic temple in Mashad Iran (70 killed)
20th - Ernie Els win's 1994 Golf US Open
20th - Howard Stern begins 30-minute (Radio) TV show on E! cable network
20th - OJ Simpson arraigned on murder of Nicole Simpson & Ronald Goldman
21st - Steffi Graf becomes 1st defending tennis champ to lose in 1st round of a major tournament (Wimbledon to Lorrie McNeal)
22nd - 48th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 3
Tennis Player Steffi Graf 22nd - Ken Griffey Jr breaks Ruth's record for most HRs by end of June (31)
22nd - Mets reliever John Franco sets lefty save mark at 253
22nd - US beats Colombia 2-1 in 1994 soccer world cup (1st win since 1950)
23rd - South Africa reclaims its seat in UN
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
24th - 1st French "all news" TV (LCI) begins broadcasting
24th - Jeff Bagwell of Astros is 28th to hit 2 HRs in an inning
24th - Sally Fields files for divorce from 2nd husband Alan Greisman
25th - 1,500th goal in Soccer World Cup history scored by Caceres of Argentina
25th - 105°F (40.5°C) at Albuquerque New Mexico
25th - 111°F (43.9°C) at El Paso Texas
25th - Cleve Indians 18 game home win streak ends to Yanks 11-6
25th - Gay Games close in NYC
25th - Japanese premier Tsutomu Hata resigns
26th - "Broken Glass" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 73 performances
26th - "Medea" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 82 performances
26th - 104°F (40°C) at Denver Colorado
26th - 107°F (41.6°C) at Albuquerque New Mexico
26th - 112°F (44.4°C) at El Paso Texas
26th - 122°F (50°C) at Laughlin Nevada
26th - 126°F (52.2°C) in Death Valley Calif
26th - Air Ivory Fokker's-27 crashes at Abidjan (16 killed/1 lives)
26th - Donna Andrews wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
26th - Kirby Puckett pass Rod Carew with 2,088 hit as Twin's top hit leader
Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat 26th - PLO-leader Yasser Arafat returns to Gaza after 27 years
26th - US loses to Romania 1-0 in 1994 soccer world cup
27th - "Gray's Anatomy" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 8 performances
27th - 118°F (47.8°C) at Lakewood New Mexico[dup]
27th - 118°F (47.8°C) at Lakewood New Mexico (state record)
27th - 12th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton
27th - NY Daily News increases prices to 50 cents
27th - Aerosmith become first major band to let fans download a full new track free from the internet
28th - NY Met Pitcher Dwight Gooden suspended for 60 days due to drug charges
29th - Socialist, Tomiichi Murayama, elected premier of Japan

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 6 of 6

2nd - Prima Sellecchia Tesh, daughter of John Tesh & Connie Sellecca
8th - Nicholas Joseph Mills, son of Chris Evert & Andy Mills
10th - Nicholas Santo Pietro, son of Vanna White
11th - Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress
28th - Madeline Duggan, English actress
28th - Prince Hussein bin Al Abdullah II, Prince of Jordan

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 2 of 2

3rd - Pearl Jam rocker Eddie Vedder (29) weds Beth Liebling (27) in the Eternal City
26th - Actor Brandon Cruz (32) weds Elizabeth Finkelstein (26)

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 2 of 2

1st - Guns n Roses drummer Matthew Sorum files to divorce Kai
24th - Sally Fields files for divorce from 2nd husband Alan Greisman

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 92 of 92

1st - Frances Heflin, actress (Mona Tyler-All My Children), dies at 70
1st - Juan J H Rovira, Spanish general, murdered
1st - Willem C L "Wim" van der Grinten, lawyer/KVP-politician, dies at 80
2nd - David Stove, Australian philosopher (b. 1927)
3rd - Hub Matthijsen, violinist/bandmaster, dies at 52
3rd - Jack Cowie, cricketer (9 Tests for NZ, 45 wkts at 21 53), dies
3rd - Parmeso Emekrasha, buddhist Monk, dies
3rd - Roger Wolcott Sperry, physicist, dies at 89
4th - Derek Lek Leckenby, rock guitarist (Herman's Hermits), dies at 48
4th - Earle Warren, alto Sax Player, dies at 79
4th - Horace "Stephen" McNally, attorney/actor (Johnny Belinda), dies at 80
4th - Massimo Troisi, Italian actor/director (Ricomincio da tre), dies at 41
4th - Roberto Burle Marx, landscape gardener, dies at 84
4th - Sophie Winter, actress (She's a Good Fighter), dies at 33
4th - Thomas Stuart Willan, historian, dies at 84
4th - Toto Bissainthe, voodoo poet, dies at 59
5th - Ish Kabbible, [Merwyn A Bogue], cornetist (Kay Kyser), dies at 86
5th - Thomas Millar, historian, dies at 67
6th - Barry Sullivan, actor (Great Gadsby), dies at 81
6th - John Morey Downs, actor/dancer/singer, dies at 80
6th - John Slot, mayor of Eethen/Hardenberg/Ede, dies
6th - Mark McManus, actor (Ned Kelly), dies of pneumonia at 59
6th - Peter Graves, English actor (Derby Day/Admirable Crichton), dies at 82
6th - Willie Humphrey, jazz clarinetist, dies at 93
7th - Barry Sullivan, actor (Streets of SF, Oh, God!), dies at 81
7th - Dennis Potter, British TV writer (Pennies from Heaven), dies at 59
7th - Joseph Ruzindana, Rwandian bishop of Bjumba, murdered
7th - Stuart Havelock Hollingdale, anthropologist, dies at 42
7th - Vincent Nsengijumva, Rwandan archbishop of Kigali, murdered
8th - William Marshall, actor/director (Santa Fe Trail), dies at 86
9th - Angela Lakeberg, siamese twin, dies at 11 months
9th - Dhirendra Bhramachari, [Flying Swami], hindu leader, dies at 70
9th - Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist (Plan of Labor, Nobel 1969), dies at 91
9th - Lloyd Lindroth, the Liberace of the Harp, dies at 63
10th - Edward Kienholz, US sculptor (Back seat of a '38 Dodge), dies at 66
10th - Mary Maxwell Gates, philanthropist/mother of Bill Gates, dies at 64
11th - Christopher Collins, actor (True Identity), dies after illness at 44
11th - Herbert Anderson, actor (Henry-Dennis The Menace), dies at 77
11th - Jack Hannah, animator, dies at 90
11th - Kitty Rosalind Muggeridge, author, dies at 90
12th - Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lubavitcher leader (1950-94), dies at 92
12th - Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of OJ, murdered at 35 (probably by OJ)
12th - Otto Roesch, paleontologist, dies at 93
NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal OJ Simpson (12th) 12th - Ron Goldman, waiter, murdered with wife of OJ Simpson at 27
13th - Anne Aitken, student of Zen, dies at 83
13th - Igor Youskevitch, dancer, dies at 82
13th - James Pollack, US room designer, dies at 55
13th - Nadia Gray, actress (Naked Runner, Maniac, Candide), dies at 71
14th - Denys Hay, historian, dies at 78
14th - Harry "Little" Caesar, blues singer/actor (City Heat), dies at 66
14th - Henry Mancini, composer (Pink Panther, Moon River), dies at 70
14th - Lionel Grigson, professor of Jazz, dies at 52
14th - Marianne Kunvari, writer, dies at 81
14th - Mark Alexander Lees, rowing Coach, dies at 38
14th - Michel Vitold, Russian/French actor (Madame et le Mort), dies at 78
14th - Simon Prior, British auto maker, dies of injuries
15th - David Lawson, executed in NC (wanted execution shown on Donahue)
15th - Kristen Pfaff, US bass guitarist (Hole-Live through this), dies at 24
15th - Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer (Never on Sunday), dies at 68
15th - Nadia Gray, actress (La Dolce Vita, Naked Summer), dies at 70
16th - Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble, dies at 88
16th - Eileen Way, actress (Les Miserables, Rainbow, Vikings), dies at 82
16th - Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic, dies at 82
17th - Joeri Nagibin, Russian screenwriter (Babje Karstvo), dies at 74
18th - Jack Harkness, rose grower, dies at 75
19th - Christopher Clarkson, test Pilot, dies at 92
19th - Jocelyn Olaf Hambro, financier, dies at 75
19th - Ronald Batty, bookseller, dies at 82
20th - Bram Koopmans, cyclist/coach, dies at 78
20th - Charlotte Auerbach, computer pioneer/mathematician, dies at 84
20th - Emmanuel Bankole Timothy, journalist, dies at 70
20th - Louis Benjamin, showman, dies at 71
21st - Mark Robert Isfeld, combat Engineer, dies at 31
22nd - Jack Davies, screenwriter, dies at 80
23rd - Alan Frank, music publisher, dies at 83
23rd - Piet van Elk, cartoonist, dies at 74
23rd - Stanley Gebler Davies, journalist/drinker, dies at 50
24th - Leonarda da Vinci MacLaren, founder of the LSE, dies at 83
25th - Louis-Robert Casterman, Belgian publisher (Kuifje), dies at 74
25th - Robert Millar, journalist, dies at 72
26th - A "Bob" den Doolaard, author (Inn with the horseshoe), dies at 93
26th - Ian Board, barkeeper, dies at 64
26th - Jaharna Imam, Bangladeshi writer/political activist, dies at 65
26th - Roelof Kiers, VPRO-programmer/director (Macchiavelli), dies at 56
26th - Thomas henry Wait Armstrong, organist, dies at 96
27th - Jeremy Brooks, writer, dies at 67
28th - Fredericka Carolyn Washington, actress (Black & Tan), dies at 90
28th - William A Henry III, critic (Time Mag), dies of heart attack at 44
29th - Cameron Mitchell, actor (Man on Tightrope), dies of lung cancer at 76
29th - Kurt Eichhorn, conductor, dies at 85
29th - Ray Crane, trumpeter, dies at 63
30th - Nicholas Warner, test Pilot, dies at 51

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