Today in History for November 1994

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 53 of 53

1st - Moslem fundamentalists in Mostaganem Algeria murder 5 children
2nd - Benzine explosion in Dronka Egypt, 400+ killed
3rd - Atlantis 13 launched
3rd - Dutch & British astronomers find spiral nebula Dwingeloo 1
3rd - Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), launches
3rd - Susan Smith who claimed her 2 kids were carjacked arrested for murder
3rd - Total solar eclipse in South America (4m23s)
4th - Soyuz TM-20 lands in Kazahkstan
4th - United Center in Chicago opens - Bulls beat Charlotte Hornets, 89-83
4th - San Francisco: First conference that focusses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
5th - Space probe Ulyssus completes 1st passage behind the Sun
5th - Tony Rominger bicycles world record time (55,291 km)
5th - Yak-40 accident in north of Peru, 8 killed
5th - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Barathea, Cherokee Run, Concern, Flanders, One Dreamer, Tikkanen, Timber Country
5th - George Foreman (45) KOs Michael Moorer to win boxing HW championship
6th - 24th NYC Women's Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:27:37
6th - 25th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:11:21
6th - Emomali Rachmonov recognized as president of Tadzjikistan
6th - Woo-Soon Ko wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Golf Cup
Boxing Champ George Foreman 8th - Cleveland Cavaliers 1st game at Gund Arena, lose to Hous Rockets, 100-98
8th - Haitian government of Smarck Michel forms
9th - Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen 1st female president of Sri Lanka
9th - The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
11th - Bill Gates buys Leonardo da Vinci's "Codex" for $30,800,000
11th - Progress M-25 launched to space station Mir
13th - Sweden agrees to join European Union
14th - 1st trains for public run in Channel Tunnel under English Channel
14th - Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), lands
15th - "Glass Menagerie" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 57 performances
15th - 6.7-8.1 earthquake strikes Philippines, killing 45
15th - Helmut Kohl elected German chancellor (341-340 votes)
15th - Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election
17th - "Sunset Boulevard" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 977 performances
17th - 3rd Germany government of Kohl forms
Microsoft Founder Bill Gates 17th - Irish government of Reynolds resigns
18th - "Star Trek VII - Generations," premieres
19th - Aishwarya Rai, 21, of India, crowned 44th Miss World
19th - Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson
20th - "Flying Karamzov Brothers..." opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 50 perfs
20th - "Shadow Box" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 49 performances
20th - Kosmos 2294/2295/2296 launches
20th - The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war (localized fighting resumed the next year).
21st - 1st-class cricket debut of Andrew Symonds (Queensland v NSW, SCG)
25th - Sony founder Akio Morita announces he will be stepping down as CEO of the company.
27th - 82nd CFL Grey Cup: British Columbia Lions defeat Balt Stallions, 26-23
27th - Fire in disco in Fuxin, North-China, 233 killed
27th - Julio Maria Sanguinetti elected president of Uruguay
28th - Norway votes against joining European Union
28th - In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by an inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium.
29th - Seoul, Korea, celebrated the 600th anniversary of its founding
30th - Beatles' 1st album in 25 years, "Live at BBC," is released in Britain
30th - Cruiser Achille Lauro destroyed by fire at Somalia, 4 die
30th - Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as 1st communist premier of Nepal

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 3 of 3

17th - Raquel Castro, American actress
28th - Lola Sanchez, American actress
30th - Nyjah Huston, American skateboarder

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

20th - Patti Davis weds Paul Hayeland

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 97 of 97

1st - Richard Krautheimer, art historian, dies at 97
1st - Syd Dernley, hangman, dies at 73
2nd - David Feinberg, AIDS activist/author, dies at 37
2nd - Egbert George "Pete" Pitterson, trumpeter, dies at 73
2nd - Noah Beery Jr, US actor (Gung Ho!, Heaven With a Gun), dies at 81
3rd - Dennis C Ott, US actor (Star Trek 3/4), dies of AIDs
3rd - Richard Krautheimer, US art historian, dies at 97
4th - Alexander Hardie Williamson, artist, dies at 87
4th - Fred "Sonic" Smith, guitarist, dies at 46
4th - Jan Wegter, actor (Pastorale 1943), dies at 64
4th - Sam Francis, US painter (Basel Mural), dies at about 71
4th - Samuel Lewis Francis, painter, dies at 71
5th - McHenry Boatwright, signer, dies at 66
7th - Michael O'Donoghue, comedian (SNL), dies at about 54
7th - Milton "Shorty" Rogers [Rajonsky], US jazz trumpeter, dies at 70
8th - Marianne Straub, weaver, dies at 85
8th - Michael O'Donoghue, comedy writer (SNL), dies at 54
9th - Milton M Shorty Rajonsky Rogers, trumpeter, dies at 70
9th - Priscilla Morrill, actress (Edie Grant-Mary Tyler Moore), dies at 67
9th - Ralph Champion Shotter Michael, actor, dies at 87
10th - Carmen McRae [Clark], US jazz singer/pianist, dies at about 73
10th - Louis Nizer, lawyer, dies at 92
11th - Elizabeth Lefanu Maconchy, Engl composer (My Dark Heart), dies at 87
11th - Ernest Clark, actor (Pope Must Die, Gandhi), dies at 82
11th - Frances Tustin, child Psychologist, dies at 81
11th - Pedro Zamora, aIDS Activist, dies at 22
11th - John A. Volpe, 61st and 63rd Governor of Massachusetts, 2nd United States Secretary of Transportation (b. 1908)
12th - Charles "Honi" Coles, dancer (1983 Tony award), dies at 81
12th - Katherine Elliots, doctor, dies at 75
12th - Michael John Innes Mackintosh Stewart Innes, writer, dies at 88
12th - Wilma Glodean Rudolph, US sprinter (Olympics-3 gold-60), dies at 54
13th - Frank Singleton, librarian, dies at 67
13th - Joseph H Hazen, US producer/VP (Warner Bros), dies at 96
13th - Lewis Bingham Keeble, town Planner, dies at 79
13th - Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (b. 1924)
14th - Ferdinand J Kranenburg, director of queen (North Holland), dies at 83
14th - Jake Dengel, US actor (Ragtime, Ironweed), dies at 61
14th - John F Hampe, pathologist (Fabric & Stoflongen), dies at 83
14th - John I M Stewart, detective writer (A Comedy of Terrors), dies at 88
14th - Michael Grierson Jarrett, archaeologist, dies at 60
14th - Tom Villard, American actor (b. 1953)
15th - Anthony Ward, writer, dies at 57
15th - James Winston Watts, developer of the Frontal Lobotomy, dies at 90
15th - Janet Ahlberg, illustrator, dies at 50
15th - Volodymyr Ivashko, Pres of Ukraine (1990-91), dies
15th - Elizabeth George Speare, American author (b. 1908)
16th - Chester Dino Powers Valenti, singer/Songwriter, dies at 57
16th - Dan Smith, harmonica/gospel singer, dies at 83
16th - David Rayner, cyclist, dies
16th - Doris Speed, actress (Annie-Coronation Street), dies at 95
16th - Harvey Watkins, gospel Singer, dies at 64
16th - John Boylan, US actor (Twin Peaks, Sleepless in Seattle), dies at 82
16th - Dino Valente, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b.1943)
17th - G Waller, German/Swiss movie journalist (NRC/Variety), dies at 82
18th - Cab[ell] Calloway, US band leader/actor (Missourians), dies at 86
18th - Chris Joyce, photographer, dies at 51
18th - Michael [George] Somes, English dancer (Royal Ballet), dies at 77
19th - Dedrick Gobert, US actor (Boyz 'n the Hood), shot to death at 22
19th - Julian Gustave Symons, writer, dies at 82
19th - Julian Symons, Br detective writer (Death's Darkest Face), dies at 82
19th - Li Yuan Artist-chia, , dies at 65
20th - John Lucarotti, scriptwriter, dies at 68
20th - Saeedi Sirjani, poet, dies at 64
21st - Manfred Longer, Austrian/Dutch gay disco owner, dies at 42
22nd - Charles Fortune, South African cricket commentator, dies
22nd - John Michael Grimes, set Designer, dies at 70
22nd - L V Johnson Singer, dies
22nd - Norma Donaldson, US singer/actress (Staying Alive), dies at 68
23rd - Eldero L D Williams, tenor saxophonist, dies at 70
23rd - Erick Frederick Hawkins, US dancer/wed to Martha Graham, dies at 85
23rd - Tommy Boyce, US songwriter (Be My Guest), commits suicide at 55
23rd - William Donald Campbell, diarist/Ornithologist, dies at 89
23rd - Art Barr, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
24th - Ivo Perilli, Italian screenplay/director (Ragazzo), dies at 92
24th - Jo Vis, Dutch resistance fighter (Yad Vashem), dies at 88
24th - Tommy Boyce, songwriter (Boyce & Hart), dies at 55
25th - Arthur Ballard, artist, dies at 79
25th - Gerard John Toorenaar, Amsterdam police commissar, dies at 69
26th - Arturo Rivera Damas, archbishop of El Salvador (1980-94), dies at 71
26th - David Bache, designer, dies at 69
26th - Nimrod Workman, folksinger, dies at 99
26th - Joey Stefano, American actor (b. 1968)
27th - Arthur Frank "Peter" Shore, egyptologist, dies at 70
27th - Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and musicologist (b. 1906)
28th - Al Levitt, US/French jazz drummer, dies at 63
28th - Franfo Fortini, poet, dies at 77
28th - Jeffrey Dahmer, [Butcher of Milwaukee], killer, killed in prison at 34
28th - Jerry Rubin, US anti-war activist (Youth Party), dies at 56
28th - Ronald "Buster" Edwards, Great Train Robber, commits suicide at 62
28th - Vicente Enrique y Tarancon, Spanish cardinal, dies at 87
29th - Muhammad Ali Araki, ayatollah of Iran, dies
29th - Ronald "Buster" Edwards, robber, dies at 63
29th - Sviatoslav S Stravinsky, French/US composer/son of Igor S, dies at 84
30th - Connie Conrad Henry Kirnon Kay, jazz Drummer, dies at 67
30th - Guy Debord, situationist, dies at 63
30th - Irwin Kostal, US arranger/conductor (Sound of Music), dies at 83
30th - Lionel Stander, US blacklisted actor (Hart to Hart), dies at 86