Timeline 1994
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1994 Jan 1, The
North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect. Under the system
a complaint is referred to a panel of experts who debate it and render
a decision. The losing nation must then change its practices or offer
compensation to the injured nations. Members who refuse to comply can
be subjected to trade retaliation, such as tariffs to their exports. It
was run out of Geneva by Renato "Rocky" Ruggiero. GATT gave poorer
countries 10 years to strengthen their drug-patent laws and a similar
period for the US to lift its textile quotas. The World Trade
Organization (WTO), founded as the successor to the General Agreement
on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), a relatively weak regulator of int’l.
trade, was a product of the Uruguay Round of negotiations (1986-1994).
In 2000 John R. MacArthur authored "The Selling of "Free Trade:" NAFTA,
Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy." In 2004 David
Bacon authored "The Children NAFTA: Labor Wars on the US/Mexico Border.
(SFC, 10/17/96, A9)(WSJ, 12/3/96, p.A1)(WSJ,
12/13/96, p.A1)(AP, 1/1/98) (SFC, 11/24/99, p.A1)(SFEC, 7/2/00, BR
p.3)(SSFC, 4/4/04, p.M2)
1994 Jan 1, Actor Cesar Romero
died in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 86.
(AP, 1/1/99)
1994 Jan 1, In Mexico some 2,000
Zapatista guerrillas under the leadership of Subcommander Marcos rose
up against the government in the state of Chiapas. The Zapatista
National Liberation Army launched a rebellion to press for better
living conditions for Indian peasants in Chiapas.
(SFC, 7/2/96, p.A8)(SFC,12/18/97, p.C2)(AP, 1/1/99)
1994 Jan 1, Botswana, Germany,
Italy, Honduras, and Indonesia joined the Security Council.
(SFC, 1/1/97, p.C1)
1994 Jan 2, The new Republican
mayor of New York City, Rudolph Giuliani, delivered his inaugural
address in which he called for unity while promising to crack down on
crime and tackle the city's budget problems.
(AP, 1/2/99)
1994 Jan 3, The White House
promised a government-wide effort to learn the extent of human
radiation testing during the Cold War era.
(AP, 1/3/04)
1994 Jan 3, A Russian Tupolev-154
airplane operated by Baikal Air, crashed near Mamony in Siberia and
killed all 124 people onboard and one person on the ground.
(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)
1994 Jan 3, In Maracaibo,
Venezuela, a riot and fire at the Sabaneta Prison left 108 inmates dead.
(SFC, 10/24/96, p.C4)(AP, 1/3/04)
1994 Jan 4, US Treasury Secretary
Lloyd Bentsen announced a plan to drive most gun dealers out of
business by proposing sharp increases in the licensing fee and stricter
controls on people who buy and sell weapons.
(AP, 1/4/04)
1994 Jan 5, The Clinton
administration said North Korea had agreed to allow renewed
international inspections of seven nuclear sites.
(AP, 1/5/99)
1994 Jan 5, Thomas P. "Tip"
O'Neill, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, died in
Boston at age 81. In 2001 John A. Farrell authored "Tip O’Neill and the
Democratic Century."
(AP, 1/5/99)(WSJ, 3/15/00, p.A16)
1994 Jan 6, Figure skater Nancy
Kerrigan was clubbed on the right leg by an assailant at Cobo Arena in
Detroit. Four men, including Jeff Gillooly, the ex-husband of
Kerrigan's rival, Tonya Harding, were later sentenced to prison.
Harding, who denied advance knowledge, received probation after
pleading guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution.
(AP, 1/6/99)
1994 Jan 6, President Clinton's
mother, Virginia Kelley, died in Hot Springs, Ark., at age 70.
(AP, 1/6/99)
1994 Jan 7, The US government
reported the unemployment rate fell to a three-year low of 6.4 percent
in December 1993.
(AP, 1/7/99)
1994 Jan 7, Nancy Kerrigan
withdrew from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, a day
after her right leg was severely bruised in an attack after a practice
session.
(AP, 1/7/99)
1994 Jan 8, Tonya Harding won the
ladies' U.S. Figure Skating Championship in Detroit, a day after Nancy
Kerrigan dropped out because of a clubbing attack that injured her
right knee. The U.S. Figure Skating Assn. later stripped Harding of the
title because of her involvement in the attack.
(AP, 1/8/98)
1994 Jan 9, President Clinton
began the first European trip of his administration in Belgium, where
-- on the eve of a NATO summit -- he warned of a rising mood of
nationalism in Russia that he said threatened Eastern Europe's march of
democracy.
(AP, 1/9/99)
1994 Jan 10, On the first day of a
two-day NATO summit in Belgium, leaders signed a document inviting
nations of the former Warsaw Pact to join in a "partnership for peace."
(AP, 1/10/99)
1994 Jan 10, Talks between Israeli
and Palestinian negotiators resumed in Taba, Egypt.
(AP, 1/10/99)
1994 Jan 10, In Manassas, Va.,
Lorena Bobbitt went on trial, charged with malicious wounding of her
husband, John. She had cut off her husband's penis and was acquitted by
reason of temporary insanity.
(AP, 1/10/99)
1994 Jan 11, NATO leaders
concluded a summit in Belgium by warning Bosnian Serbs of their
willingness to order bombing raids in former Yugoslavia to relieve
embattled Muslim enclaves. President Clinton, who attended the summit,
then traveled to the Czech Republic for a short visit.
(AP, 1/11/99)
1994 Jan 11, John Bradley (70),
raised US flag at Iwo Jima (1945), died.
(www.iwojima.com/raising/raisingc.htm)
1994 Jan 12, Pres. Clinton bowed
to political pressure and asked that a special prosecutor be named to
investigate his 1980's Whitewater land dealings with Arkansas
businessman James B. McDougal.
(SFEC, 11/15/98, p.A3)(AP, 1/12/99)
1994 Jan 12, President Clinton, en
route to Russia, nailed down an agreement with Ukraine to eliminate the
country's nuclear arsenal, the third-largest in the world.
(AP, 1/12/99)
1994 Jan 12, In Mexico after an
initial hard line, the government agreed to a cease-fire with the
Zapatista rebels.
(SFC,12/18/97, p.C2)
1994 Jan 13, President Clinton
held talks in Moscow with Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
(AP, 1/13/99)
1994 Jan 13, In Los Angeles, the
judge in the Erik Menendez murder case declared a mistrial after jurors
could not reach a verdict.
(AP, 1/13/04)
1994 Jan 13, Authorities in
Portland, Ore., arrested Shawn Eckardt, a bodyguard for figure skater
Tonya Harding, and Derrick Smith in connection with the attack on Nancy
Kerrigan.
(AP, 1/13/99)
1994 Jan 14, In post-Cold War
breakthroughs, President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin
signed Kremlin accords to stop aiming missiles at any nation and to
dismantle the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine.
(AP, 1/14/99)
1994 Jan 14, In Phoenix, Ariz.,
Shane Stant, who admitted to being the "hit man" in the clubbing
assault on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, surrendered to authorities.
(AP, 1/14/99)
1994 Jan 15, President Clinton
paid solemn tribute to victims of Stalinist purges and German
occupation during a six-hour stop in the former Soviet republic of
Belarus before continuing on to Geneva.
(AP, 1/15/99)
1994 Jan 15, George Allen began
serving as Virginia’s 67th governor and served to 1998.
(Econ, 4/29/06,
p.34)(http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000121)
1994 Jan 15, Harry Nilsson (52),
singer-songwriter died in Agoura Hills, Calif.
(AP, 1/15/99)
1994 Jan 16, President Clinton
held marathon talks in Geneva with Syrian President Hafez Assad, who
offered Israel "normal, peaceful relations" in exchange for land.
(AP, 1/16/99)
1994 Jan 16, In Moscow, Yegor
Gaidar, first deputy prime minister and architect of Russia's market
reforms, announced his resignation.
(AP, 1/16/99)
1994 Jan 17, A 6.7 magnitude
earthquake struck Southern California, killing at least 61 people and
causing $20 billion worth of damage. Northridge quake hit the Los
Angeles area. It killed 72 people. Insurance losses totaled $17.8
billion.
(SFC, 4/28/97, p.A3)(SFC, 5/3/97, p.B1)(AP,
1/17/98)(Econ, 9/17/05, p.73)
1994 Jan 17, Allan Odell died at
age 90. He and his younger brother Leonard (d.1991) wrote some 7,000
Burma Shave poems beginning in 1925 in rural Minnesota. The Burma-Shave
phenomenon faded in 1963, when Phillip Morris bought Burma-Vita and the
signs began to come down.
(http://tinyurl.com/es9ab)(www.two-lane.com/burmashave.html)
1994 Jan 18, Retired Adm. Bobby
Inman withdrew his nomination to be US defense secretary, denouncing
what he called attacks on his character and reputation.
(AP, 1/18/99)
1994 Jan 18, Iran-Contra
prosecutor Lawrence Walsh released his final report in which he said
former President Reagan had acquiesced in a cover-up of the scandal.
Reagan called the accusation "baseless."
(AP, 1/18/99)
1994 Jan 19, President Clinton
visited quake-stricken Los Angeles, where he pledged fast and
aggressive federal help.
(AP, 1/19/99)
1994 Jan 19, Figure skater Tonya
Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, surrendered to authorities in
Portland, Ore., after being charged with conspiring to attack skater
Nancy Kerrigan.
(AP, 1/19/99)
1994 Jan 20, Robert B. Fiske Jr.
was appointed by Attorney General Janet Reno as the special Whitewater
prosecutor to investigate President and Mrs. Clinton's Arkansas land
deals.
(SFEC, 11/15/98, p.A3) (AP, 1/20/99)
1994 Jan 20, Shannon Faulkner
became the first woman to attend classes at The Citadel in South
Carolina. She joined the cadet corps in August 1995, under court order,
but soon dropped out, citing isolation and stress.
(AP, 1/20/99)
1994 Jan 21, A jury in Manassas,
Va., acquitted Lorena Bobbitt by reason of temporary insanity of
maliciously wounding her husband John, whom she'd accused of sexually
assaulting her.
(AP, 1/1/99)
1994 Jan 21, Dow Jones passed 3900
to a record 3,914.20.
(http://tinyurl.com/cphe5)
1994 Jan 21, In Argentina a fire
near Puerto Madryn killed 25 fire cadets.
(http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/tt/75ea/)
1994 Jan 21, Basil Assad (b.1961),
the son of Syria’s Pres. Hafez Assad, was killed in a car accident.
(SFEC, 6/11/00,
p.A12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_al-Assad)
1994 Jan 22, "Schindler's List,"
Steven Spielberg's drama about the Holocaust, won Golden Globes for
best dramatic picture and best director. It was based on the 1982 novel
by Thomas Keneally, who received his information from Leopold Page, No.
173 on Schindler’s list.
(AP, 1/22/99)(SFC, 3/14/01, p.C2)
1994 Jan 22, Jean-Louis Barrault
(83), French actor (La Ronde), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Barrault)
1994 Jan 22, Actor Telly Savalas
died in Universal City, Calif., a day after turning 70.
(AP, 1/22/99)
1994 Jan 23, Treasury Secretary
Lloyd Bentsen, visiting Japan, met with Prime Minister Morihiro
Hosokawa, who promised to go through with a scheduled summit with
President Clinton.
(AP, 1/23/99)
1994 Jan 23, The Dallas Cowboys
and the Buffalo Bills won their respective NFL conference playoffs to
set up a Super Bowl rematch.
(AP, 1/23/99)
1994 Jan 24, President Clinton
promoted William J. Perry, the Pentagon's second in command, to the
post of defense secretary.
(AP, 1/24/99)
1994 Jan 24, The Supreme Court
ruled unanimously that protesters who block access to abortion clinics
or in other ways conspire to stop women from having abortions may be
sued under federal anti-racketeering statutes.
(AP, 1/24/99)
1994 Jan 25, President Clinton
delivered his State of the Union address in which he challenged
Congress to pass comprehensive health care reforms.
(AP, 1/25/99)
1994 Jan 25, Singer Michael
Jackson settled a child molestation lawsuit against him; terms were
confidential, although one source put the monetary figure at least $10
million.
(AP, 1/25/04)
1994 Jan 25, The United States
launched Clementine I, an unmanned spacecraft that was to study the
moon before it was "lost and gone forever."
(AP, 1/25/99)
1994 Jan 26, A scare occurred
during a visit to Sydney, Australia, by Britain's Prince Charles as a
young man lunged at the prince, firing two blank shots from a starter's
pistol.
(AP, 1/26/99)
1994 Jan 26, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin accepted the resignation of Finance Minister Boris
Fyodorov, who warned of economic collapse and social unrest.
(AP, 1/26/99)
1994 Jan 27, The US Senate passed
a non-binding resolution, 62-38, calling on the Clinton administration
to lift the U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam.
(AP, 1/27/04)
1994 Jan 27, Figure skater Tonya
Harding appeared before reporters in Portland, Ore., to say that while
she'd had no prior knowledge of the attack on her rival, Nancy
Kerrigan, she had failed to report what she'd learned afterward.
(AP, 1/27/99)
1994 Jan 28, In Los Angeles,
Superior Court Judge Stanley Weisberg declared a mistrial in the case
of Lyle Menendez, just over two weeks after a mistrial was declared in
the case of Lyle's brother Erik; both juries deadlocked over whether
the brothers were guilty of murder in the shooting deaths of their
wealthy parents. They were later retried, convicted of murder and
sentenced to life in prison without parole.
(AP, 1/28/99)
1994 Jan 28, Helicopter crashed
into an office building in San Jose, Calif. 1 person was killed.
(http://tinyurl.com/8c32g)
1994 Jan 29, Japan's Parliament
approved watershed measures to stem political corruption.
(AP, 1/29/99)
1994 Jan 29, In South Africa,
Nelson Mandela kicked off his party's campaign for the country's first
multiracial elections.
(AP, 1/29/99)
1994 Jan 30, The Dallas Cowboys
repeated as NFL champions as they defeated the Buffalo Bills, 30-13, in
the Super Bowl. It was the fourth straight Super Bowl loss for the
Bills.
(AP, 1/30/99)
1994 Jan 30, Pierre Boulle
(b.1912), French writer (Executioner), died.
{Writer, France}
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Boulle)
1994 Jan 31, Barcelona opera
theater "Gran Teatro del Liceo" burned down.
(http://www.wyastone.co.uk/nrl/pvoce/7869c.html)
1994 Jan 31, In Somalia, a convoy
of U.S. soldiers opened fire on hundreds of Somali civilians outside a
food distribution center, killing at least eight.
(AP, 1/31/99)
1994 Jan 31, Sinn Fein president
Gerry Adams arrived in New York after being granted a 48-hour visa so
that he could take part in a conference on Northern Ireland.
(AP, 1/31/99)
1994 Jan, Garth Drabinsky acquired
the rights to "Ragtime" (1975) by E.L. Doctorow. It was a book of
intertwined stories of a ragtime pianist, an immigrant Jewish family
and a middle-class white Protestant family at the beginning of the 20th
century.
(WSJ, 12/3/96,
p.A20)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._L._Doctorow)
1994 Jan, US Pres. Clinton got
NATO to reach eastward with the Partnership for Peace program.
(WSJ, 10/20/97, p.A1)
1994 Jan, A synthetic bovine
growth hormone became available for use in US cows. The rBST hormone,
developed by Monsanto and marketed as Posilac, increased milk output in
cows. By 2004 consumers had begun demanding rBST-free milk as part of a
rising demand for products free of synthetic antibiotics and hormones.
(SSFC, 3/25/07, p.D6)
1994 Jan, Katharine Kuh (b.1904),
art curator, died in NYC. In 2006 Evis Burman edited Kuh’s memoir
titled: “My Love Affair with Modern Art: Behind the Scenes with a
Legendary Curator.
(Econ, 1/21/06, p.81)
1994 Jan, The Belarus Parliament
ousted its reform-minded leader, Stanislav Shushkevich, in protest
against his support for market economics.
(www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107325.html)
1994 Jan, Already holes for the
foundations of the VLT (Very Large Telescope) have been dug out of the
mountain, Cerro Paranal, in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
(NG, p.27, Jan, 94)
1994 Jan, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar left
as PM of Afghanistan and led forces of the Islamic Party
(Hezb-i-Islami) against Pres. Burhanuddin Rabbani. Dostum and Hekmatyar
continued to clash against Rabbani's government, and as a result Kabul
was reduced to rubble.
(SFC, 9/23/96, A12)(www.afghan, 5/25/98)
1994 Jan, In Honduras Liberal
Party leader Carlos Roberto Reina took over as President and promised
to prosecute corruption and end military influence over civil society.
(SFC,11/26/97, p.C5)
1994 Jan, In Mexico poor Maya
farmers staged an uprising at the Lancandon rain forest near Palenque.
(SFC, 5/19/96, T-9)
1994 Jan, In Rwanda Canadian Gen.
Romeo Dallaire was later reported to have faxed a warning to UN
headquarters that preparations for a mass killing were underway.
(SFC, 5/8/99, p.C14)
1994 Jan, Banco Latino failed and
sparked a run on the currency that put Venezuela into its worst
economic crises. Chairman Gomez Lopez left the country just before a
warrant for his arrest on charges of fraud was issued. Ricardo Cisneros
was on the board and fled after being charged with playing a role in
the bank’s failure. Victor Vargas, head of Banco Occidental de
Descuento, was able to snap up Banco Latino’s customers.
(WSJ, 7/31/96, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/18/96, p.A14)(WSJ,
1/29/08, p.A14)
1994 Feb 1, Jeff Gillooly, Tonya
Harding's ex-husband, pleaded guilty in Portland, Ore., to taking part
in the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. Gillooly struck a plea
bargain under which he confessed to racketeering charges in exchange
for testimony implicating Harding.
(AP, 2/1/99)
1994 Feb 2, The US Commerce
Department reported that its Index of Leading Economic Indicators rose
for the fifth straight month, with a 0.7 percent advance in December
1993.
(AP, 2/2/04)
1994 Feb 2, Marija
Alseika-Gimbutas (b.1921), Lithuanian-born archeologist and
pre-historian, died in LA, Ca.
(LHC, 1/23/03)
1994 Feb 3, President Clinton
lifted the 19-year-old U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam.
(AP, 2/3/99)
1994 Feb 3, The US Senate
confirmed William Perry to be defense secretary.
(AP, 2/3/99)
1994 Feb 3, Nation of Islam leader
Louis Farrakhan dismissed his aide, Khalid Abdul Muhammad, for making
anti-Semitic remarks.
(AP, 2/3/99)
1994 Feb 3, The space shuttle
Discovery lifted off, carrying Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian
cosmonaut to fly aboard a U.S. spacecraft.
(AP, 2/3/99)
1994 Feb 4, The Federal Reserve
increased interest rates for the first time in five years in a surprise
announcement that triggered a huge sell-off on Wall Street; the Fed
said the move was designed to head off any recurrence of high
inflation. Alan Greenspan later admitted that the Fed acted to "prick
the bubble in the equity markets."
(AP, 2/4/99)(WSJ, 3/2/00, p.B20)
1994 Feb 4, In Khartoum, Sudan,
five armed men attacked the mosque of Ansar al-Sunna during Friday
prayers, killing 19 and injuring 26 of the worshippers.
(www.africa.upenn.edu/Newsletters/SNV_2.html)
1994 Feb 5, White separatist Byron
De La Beckwith was convicted in Jackson, Miss., of murdering civil
rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963, and was immediately sentenced to
life in prison.
(AP, 2/5/99)
1994 Feb 5, Sixty-eight people
were killed when a mortar shell exploded in a marketplace in Sarajevo,
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)(AP,
2/5/99)
1994 Feb 6, A day after a mortar
shell killed 68 people in a Sarajevo marketplace, President Clinton
called for a United Nations probe.
(AP, 2/6/99)
1994 Feb 6, Actor Joseph Cotten
died in Los Angeles at age 88.
(AP, 2/6/99)
1994 Feb 6, Jack Kirby (76),
cartoonist (X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk), died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0456158/)
1994 Feb 7, President Clinton sent
Congress his $1.5 trillion budget plan, declaring cuts in hundreds of
programs would achieve a deficit-reduction record unequaled since
President Truman's administration.
(AP, 2/7/99)
1994 Feb 8, President Clinton's
health-care proposal suffered a blow as the Congressional Budget Office
released an analysis saying that the plan would not shrink federal
deficits, but instead drive them higher.
(AP, 2/8/99)
1994 Feb 9, PLO leader Yasser
Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres initialed an agreement
on security measures that had been blocking a peace accord.
(AP, 2/9/99)
1994 Feb 9, NATO delivered an
ultimatum to Bosnian Serbs to remove heavy guns encircling Sarajevo, or
face air strikes. Hours before the ultimatum was issued, the Bosnian
Serbs agreed to withdraw their artillery and mortars from around
Sarajevo.
(AP, 2/9/99)(www.fas.org/man/gao/nsiad-95-148.htm)
1994 Feb 9, Nelson Mandela became
the first black president of South Africa.
(HN, 2/9/99)
1994 Feb 9, Jarmila Novotna (86),
Czech-US soprano (Madame Butterfly), died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0637229/)
1994 Feb 10, The US Senate
approved $8.6 billion in relief for victims of the Jan 17 Los Angeles
earthquake. The House approved the measure the next day, and President
Clinton signed it the day after that.
(AP, 2/10/99)
1994 Feb 10, Jeannie Flynn
(b.1966)), the first female combat pilot in the US Air Force, finished
flight training in the F-15.
(http://tinyurl.com/n5ehhg)(NPub, 2002, p.26)
1994 Feb 11, President Clinton and
Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa, meeting at the White House,
failed to resolve key differences on trade.
(AP, 2/11/99)
1994 Feb 11, A judge in Fort
Worth, Texas, ordered Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison acquitted of ethics
charges after prosecutors refused to present their case.
(AP, 2/11/04)
1994 Feb 11, The space shuttle
"Discovery" returned from an eight-day mission.
(AP, 2/11/99)
1994 Feb 11, Actor William Conrad
died in Los Angeles at age 73.
(AP, 2/11/99)
1994 Feb 12, President Clinton
signed an $8.6 billion relief package for victims of the Jan 17
Northridge earthquake in Southern California.
(AP, 2/12/99)
1994 Feb 12, The XVII Winter
Olympic Games opened in Lillehammer, Norway. The official song was
"Fire in Your Heart."
(SFEC, 10/5/97, p.A17)(WSJ, 3/12/98, p.A16)(AP,
2/12/99)
1994 Feb 13, At the Winter Olympic
Games in Lillehammer, Norway, American Tommy Moe won the men's
downhill, defeating local hero Kjetil Andre Aamodt by 0.004 seconds.
(AP, 2/13/99)
1994 Feb 14, President Clinton
used his first annual economic report to proclaim his policies had put
the country on track for rising prosperity for years to come.
(AP, 2/14/99)
1994 Feb 14, At the Winter
Olympics in Norway, speedskater Dan Jansen slipped and fell during the
500 meters race.
(AP, 2/14/99)
1994 Feb 14, Andrei Tsjikatilo,
[Rostov Ripper], Russian mass murderer, was executed.
(http://andrei-chikatilo.iqnaut.net/)
1994 Feb 15, US asked Aristide to
adopt a peace plan for Haiti.
(http://tinyurl.com/bwfuh)
1994 Feb 15, US Navy chief Adm.
Frank Kelso II agreed to early retirement because of criticism over the
Tailhook sex abuse scandal.
(AP, 2/15/99)
1994 Feb 15, Drifter Danny Harold
Rolling entered a surprise guilty plea to the 1990 murders of five
college students in Gainesville, Fla. In all, Rolling confessed to
killing eight people, though there may have been more. As a result of
his murder convictions, Rolling was executed by lethal injection on
October 25, 2006.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Rolling#Execution)(AP, 2/15/04)
1994 Feb 15, Viacom won a
hard-fought victory to acquire Paramount Communications.
(AP, 2/15/99)
1994 Feb 16, Figure skaters Tonya
Harding and Nancy Kerrigan encountered each other at the Winter Olympic
Games in Norway before posing for the U.S. team photograph.
(AP, 2/16/99)
1994 Feb 16, At least 217 people
were killed when a powerful earthquake shook Indonesia's Sumatra island.
(AP, 2/16/99)
1994 Feb 17, The U.S. government
reported a record trade deficit with Japan the previous year.
(AP, 2/17/99)
1994 Feb 17, Bosnian Serbs began
large-scale withdrawal of its heavy guns from the hills around Sarajevo
under pressure from Russia.
(AP, 2/17/99)
1994 Feb 18, President Clinton
notified Congress he was prepared to order bombing by U.S. warplanes in
Bosnia.
(AP, 2/18/99)
1994 Feb 18, At the Winter Olympic
Games in Norway, speedskater Dan Jansen finally won a gold medal,
breaking the world record in the 1,000 meters.
(AP, 2/18/99)
1994 Feb 19, American speedskater
Bonnie Blair won the fourth Olympic gold medal of her career as she won
the 500-meter race in Lillehammer, Norway.
(AP, 2/19/99)
1994 Feb 19, With Bosnian Serbs
facing a NATO deadline to withdraw heavy weapons encircling Sarajevo or
face air strikes, President Clinton delivered an address from the Oval
Office reaffirming the ultimatum.
(AP, 2/19/99)
1994 Feb 20, Pope John Paul II
demanded juristic discrimination of homosexuals.
(www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/lgbcathbib11.html)
1994 Feb 20, Three armed Afghans
seized a school bus in Islamabad with some 70 passengers including
Pakistani children.
(http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9402c&L=pakistan&T=0&F=&S=&P=452)
1994 Feb 20, Bosnian Serbs, faced
with the threat of air strikes, pulled back most of their heavy guns
from around Sarajevo as a NATO deadline approached.
(AP, 2/20/99)
1994 Feb 21, With Bosnian Serbs
complying with a NATO ultimatum to remove heavy guns near Sarajevo,
President Clinton promised renewed efforts to help "reinvigorate the
peace process."
(AP, 2/21/99)
1994 Feb 22, The Justice
Department charged 31-year CIA counterintelligence veteran Aldrich H.
Ames and his wife, Rosario, with selling national security secrets to
the Soviet Union. He passed information from 1985 to 1994 that included
the names of US agents. Ames was later sentenced to life in prison; his
wife received a 5-year term. Ames’ disclosures led to the execution of
at least 10 FBI-recruited Soviet and Warsaw Pact agents.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.A17)(AP, 2/22/99)(SSFC, 4/7/02,
p.A14)
1994 Feb 23, Nancy Kerrigan led
the women's figure skating short program at the Winter Olympics in
Norway, while Tonya Harding placed tenth.
(AP, 2/23/99)
1994 Feb 23, Military chiefs of
Bosnia's Muslim-led government and their second-strongest foes,
Bosnia's Croats, signed a truce.
(AP, 2/23/99)
1994 Feb 23, In Egypt, an
explosion hit a train in Assiut. 6 foreign tourists were hurt. The
militant Islamic group Gama’a al-Islamiya claimed responsibility.
(WSJ, 10/11/04, p.A17)
1994 Feb 23, Russia's new
parliament took a swipe at President Boris Yeltsin by granting amnesty
to leaders of the 1991 Soviet coup and the hard-liners who'd fought him
in 1993.
(AP, 2/23/99)
1994 Feb 24, US Surgeon General
Joycelyn Elders labeled smoking an "adolescent addiction" and accused
the tobacco industry of trying to convince teen-agers that cigarettes
will make them sexy and successful.
(AP, 2/24/99)
1994 Feb 24, Entertainer Dinah
Shore died in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 76.
(AP, 2/24/99)
1994 Feb 24, Jean Sablon (87),
French crooner, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Sablon)
1994 Feb 25, In the Hebron
massacre, Jewish settler Dr. Baruch Goldstein opened fire on
Palestinians praying in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron and killed
29 people. Some 100 others were wounded. Surviving Palestinians killed
him before he could reload.
(SFC, 6/18/96, p.A12)(SFC, 6/20/96, p.A8)(MT,
Fall/03, p.15)
1994 Feb 25, At the Winter
Olympics in Norway, Oksana Baiul of Ukraine won the gold medal in
ladies' figure skating while Nancy Kerrigan won the silver and Chen Lu
of China the bronze; Tonya Harding came in eighth.
(AP, 2/25/99)
1994 Feb 25, Jersey Joe Walcott
(80), boxer, died.
(www.infoplease.com/ipsa/A0748619.html)
1994 Feb 26, A jury in San Antonio
acquitted 11 followers of David Koresh of murder, rejecting claims they
had ambushed federal agents; five were convicted of manslaughter.
(AP, 2/26/99)
1994 Feb 26, Bill Hicks (32),
writer and comedian, died in Little Rock, Ark.
(www.asifproductions.com/saints/bill.html)
1994 Feb 27, The Winter Olympic
Games ended in Lillehammer, Norway.
(AP, 2/27/99)
1994 Feb 27, A Maronite church
near Beirut was bombed and 10 people were killed.
(www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/data/lebchstchro.htm)
1994 Feb 28, Brady Law, imposing a
wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect. It amended a 1968 law
that prohibited felons from buying guns and imposed a 5-day waiting
period for handgun purchases to allow for a criminal record check.
(SFC, 12/4/96, p.A5)(www.bradycenter.org/about/)
1994 Feb 28, Two U.S. F-16 fighter
jets downed four Serb warplanes that U.N. officials said had bombed an
arms plant run by Bosnia's Muslim-led government. This was the first
NATO use of force in the troubled area.
(AP, 2/28/99)(HN, 2/28/99)
1994 Feb 28, Pu Chieh (87),
brother of last Chinese emperor, Pu Yi (d.1967), died.
(www.msu.edu/~daggy/cop/bkofdead/obits-pu.htm)
1994 Feb, The US Consumer Product
Safety Commission learned that a type of plastic flue pipe on
mid-efficiency gas furnaces, called "high temperature plastic vent" or
HTPV, had become associated with several deaths in the US.
(SFC, 6/19/96, z-1 p.5)
1994 Feb, Anthony Marceca, a
civilian Army investigator, returned to the Pentagon after working for
6 months at the White House under Craig Livingstone.
(SFC, 6/22/96, p.A3)
1994 Feb, Ethicon Corp. recalled
some 2,600 packages of its prolene and silk sutures. In Sept. the
company recalled its dissolving Vicryl sutures. The firm later made
settlement with at least 22 victims, who blamed the sutures for
infections.
(SFEC, 3/26/00, p.A17)
1994 Feb, Scientists at the Fermi
National Lab announced evidence for the top quark, which researchers
had been searching for since 1977. Based on a theory called the
Standard model, the existence of six types of quarks was postulated to
explain the origin and structure of matter. "the top quark has the mass
of an entire gold atom." (Prof. Dante Amidei). To produce a particle as
massive as the top quark, CDF physicists had to reproduce conditions
that existed shortly after the "big bang," which created the
original top quarks and everything else in the universe 18
billion years ago.
(LSA, Fall ‘94, p.40)
1994 Feb, Nigerian and Cameroon
forces clashed over the Bakassi region on the fishing and oil-rich Gulf
of Guinea.
(SFC, 5/7/96, p.A-10)
1994 Mar 1, At the 36th annual
Grammy Awards, Whitney Houston won best female pop vocalist and record
of the year for "I Will Always Love You"; "The Bodyguard" won album of
the year.
(AP, 3/1/99)
1994 Mar 1, Falling four votes shy
of a two-thirds majority, the US Senate rejected a balanced budget
amendment to the Constitution.
(AP, 3/1/99)
1994 Mar 1, Martti Ahtisaari was
inaugurated as President of Finland.
(SFC, 6/4/99, p.A10)(SC, 3/1/02)
1994 Mar 1, A Lebanese immigrant
opened fire on a van of Hasidic students on New York's Brooklyn Bridge,
killing one.
(AP, 3/1/99)
1994 Mar 2, The government of
Mexico and Indian rebels reached a tentative accord on most insurgent
demands for the ending the rebellion, including sweeping political
reforms.
(AP, 3/299)
1994 Mar 3, "Damn Yankees" opened
at Marquis Theater in NYC for 510 performances.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1994 Mar 3, "Philoktetes
Variations", with Ron Vawter, premiered in Brussels.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1994 Mar 3, Amid continuing trade
tensions with Japan, President Clinton issued an executive order
reviving an expired provision of U.S. trade law known as Super 301,
which provided a strict timetable for results.
(AP, 3/3/99)
1994 Mar 4, In New York, four
extremists were convicted of the World Trade Center bombing that killed
six people and injured more than a thousand.
(AP, 3/4/99)
1994 Mar 4, US Senate
Majority Leader George Mitchell announced he would not seek re-election.
(AP, 3/4/04)
1994 Mar 4, The space shuttle
STS-62, Columbia 16, blasted off on a two-week mission.
(AP, 3/4/99)
1994 Mar 4, John Candy (b.1950),
Canadian born actor and comedian, died in Durango, Mexico.
(AP, 3/4/99)(www.imdb.com/name/nm0001006/)
1994 Mar 4, In Egypt machine-gun
fire fatally wounded a German woman on a Nile cruise ship at Abu Tig.
(SFC,11/19/97, p.C2)
1994 Mar 5, White House Counsel
Bernard Nussbaum resigned in the wake of turmoil over the Clinton
administration's handling of questions related to Whitewater.
(AP, 3/5/99)
1994 Mar 5, A jury in Pensacola,
Fla., convicted anti-abortion activist Michael F. Griffin of
first-degree murder in the shooting death of Dr. David Gunn; Griffin
was sentenced to life in prison.
(AP, 3/5/99)
1994 Mar 6, Two top Clinton
administration officials, Vice President Al Gore and White House
adviser George Stephanopoulos, appeared on the Sunday TV talk shows to
blame Republican sniping for much of the furor over Whitewater.
(AP, 3/6/99)
1994 Mar 6, In Arizona a 2nd
7-member crew entered the Biosphere 2. Their mission was cut short
under management problems and reorganization.
(SFC, 11/25/96, p.A3)
1994 Mar 6, Melina Mercouri
(b.1920), Greek born actress turned politician, died of lung cancer in
New York City.
(AP, 3/6/99)(www.imdb.com/name/nm0580479/)
1994 Mar 7, The Supreme Court
ruled that parodies that poke fun at an original work can be considered
"fair use" that doesn't require permission from the copyright holder.
(AP, 3/7/99)
1994 Mar 7, The U.S. Navy issued
its first permanent orders assigning women to regular duty on a combat
ship -- in this case, the USS Eisenhower.
(AP, 3/7/99)
1994 Mar 7, At San Quentin prison
officer Timothy Scott shot and killed inmate Mark Adams. In 1998 a
federal jury awarded the Adams family $2.3 million following a trial
based on wrongful death.
(SFC, 12/1/98, p.A15)
1994 Mar 8, President Clinton
announced the appointment of Washington attorney Lloyd Cutler as senior
counsel, replacing Bernard Nussbaum.
(AP, 3/8/99)
1994 Mar 8, The US Defense
Department announced a smoking ban for workplaces ranging from the
Pentagon to battle tanks.
(AP, 3/8/99)
1994 Mar 8, The IRA launch the 1st
of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army)
1994 Mar 9, The U.N. Human Rights
Commission condemned anti-Semitism, putting the world body on record
for the first time as opposing discrimination against Jews.
(AP, 3/9/99)
1994 Mar 9, Fernando Rey (b.1917),
Spanish actor (French Connection), died of cancer.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0721073/)
1994 Mar 10, White House officials
began testifying before a federal grand jury about the Whitewater
controversy.
(AP, 3/10/99)
1994 Mar 11, Secretary of State
Warren Christopher arrived in Beijing, the mood of his trip already
soured by a fresh government crackdown on Chinese dissidents.
(AP, 3/11/99)
1994 Mar 11, Eduardo Frei (b.1942)
began office as president of Chile.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Frei_Ruiz-Tagle)
1994 Mar 12, Secretary of State
Warren Christopher held discussions with Chinese leaders in Beijing
that were marked by blunt exchanges on human rights.
(AP, 3/12/99)
1994 Mar 12, The Anglican Church
of England ordained its first (33) women priests.
(AP, 3/12/98)(SFC, 5/19/00, p.D7)
1994 Mar 13, A South African
diplomat took over as leader of Bophuthatswana as the black homeland's
president, Lucas Mangope, was deposed.
(AP, 3/13/99)
1994 Mar 13, The Israeli Cabinet
outlawed two Jewish extremist groups, Kach and Kahane Lives, branding
them terrorist organizations.
(AP, 3/13/99)
1994 Mar 14, Associate Attorney
General Webster Hubbell, a longtime friend of President and Mrs.
Clinton, resigned because of controversy over billings he'd charged
while in private law practice.
(AP,
3/14/99)(www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/white_house/april97/hubbell_4-2.html)
1994 Mar 14, US Secretary of State
Warren Christopher wrapped up three days of meetings with Chinese
leaders, who rejected attempts to link their human rights record with
preferred trade status.
(AP, 3/14/99)
1994 Mar 15, Illinois Congressman
Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee,
defeated four Democratic primary challengers in his bid for
re-election.
(AP, 3/15/99)
1994 Mar 16, Figure skater Tonya
Harding pleaded guilty in Portland, Ore., to conspiracy to hinder
prosecution for covering up the attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan,
avoiding jail but drawing a $100,000 fine.
(AP, 3/16/99)
1994 Mar 16, Russia agreed to
phase out production of weapons-grade plutonium.
(AP, 3/16/99)
1994 Mar 17, Secretary of State
Warren Christopher, just back from China, told a House subcommittee
that reports the trip was a failure were "rather misleading," and said
Beijing had made "solid improvements" in areas of prison labor and
immigration.
(AP, 3/17/99)
1994 Mar 17, Mae Zetterling
(b.1925), Swedish director and actress (Night Games), died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0955195/)
1994 Mar 18, The space shuttle
Columbia returned from a two-week mission.
(AP, 3/18/99)
1994 Mar 18, Published reports
said first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton had made nearly $100,000 from
the commodities market in the late 1970's on an initial investment of
only $1,000.
(AP, 3/18/99)
1994 Mar 18, Zsa Zsa Gabor,
Hungarian-born actress, filed for bankruptcy.
(www.nndb.com/people/530/000025455/)
1994 Mar 18, Bosnian Muslims and
Croats agreed to a federation between them and confederation with
Croatia in an agreement brokered by the US. Pres. Tudjman of Croatia
approached US diplomats about possible arms shipments from Iran.
(AP, 3/18/04)(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)(SFC,10/16/97,
p.A12)
1994 Mar 18, Lithuania and
Poland signed an agreement in Warsaw on friendship and neighborly
cooperation.
(LHC, 3/18/03)
1994 Mar 18, The South Africa
Goldstone Commission published a report which finally confirmed that
senior South African Police (SAP) officials had been involved in
supplying Inkatha with weapons and financial support.
(www.hrw.org/reports/1995/WR95/AFRICA-09.htm)
1994 Mar 18, The U.N. Security
Council unanimously condemned the Hebron mosque massacre.
(AP, 3/18/04)
1994 Mar 19, In his weekly radio
address, President Clinton promised to tell people "all across America
about our health reform plan and what it really means."
(AP, 3/19/99)
1994 Mar 19, Cambodian government
seizes control of Pailin, the Khmer Rouge main stronghold.
(AP, 3/19/02)
1994 Mar 19, Giuseppe Diana,
Italian anti-mafia priest, was murdered.
(http://tinyurl.com/7plc8)
1994 Mar 19, Talks between North
Korea and South Korea collapsed, imperiling a U.S.-brokered deal to
resolve the North Korean nuclear dispute.
(AP, 3/19/99)
1994 Mar 20, El Salvador held its
first presidential election following the country's 12-year-old civil
war. Armando Calderon Sol of the ARENA party led the vote, but needed
to win a run-off to achieve the presidency.
(AP, 3/20/99)
1994 Mar 20, Ilaria Alpi (32),
Italian journalist, was shot and killed in Somalia along with her
cameraman, Miran Hrovatin, on the same day that Italian troops left the
country. She had collected evidence of brutality by Italian officers
against Somalis along with evidence of illegal gun-running.
(SFC, 1/26/98, p.A8)
1994 Mar 21, "Schindler's List"
won best picture at the 66th Academy Awards; Holly Hunter was named
best actress for "The Piano" while Tom Hanks was named best actor for
"Philadelphia."
(AP, 3/21/99)
1994 Mar 21, Actor Macdonald Carey
died in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 81.
(AP, 3/21/99)
1994 Mar 21, Lili Damita (b.1904),
French-born actress and first wife of Errol Flynn (Bridge of San Luis
Rey), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Damita)
1994 Mar 21, Bolivia’s Congress
approved a new capitalization program.
(WSJ, 2/14/97, p.A8)
1994 Mar 22, The US Federal
Reserve for fear of inflation announced it was raising short-term
interest rates from 3.25 to 3.5%, the second such boost of the year. By
Nov the 10-year bond rate rose to 8% from about 5.4% the previous
September.
(AP, 3/22/99)(SSFC, 7/6/03, p.I1)
1994 Mar 22, "Woody Woodpecker"
creator Walter Lantz died in Burbank, Calif., at age 93.
(AP, 3/22/99)
1994 Mar 23, Wayne Gretzky broke
Gordie Howe’s National Hockey League career record with his 802nd goal.
(AP, 3/23/99)
1994 Mar 23, Amy Fisher's lover,
Joey Buttafuoco, was released from jail after 4 months and 9 days. [see
NY, Nov 15, 1993]
(SS, 3/23/02)
1994 Mar 23, Twenty-three
paratroopers were killed when a F-16 fighter jet and C-130 transport
collided while landing at Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina and the
F-16 skidded into another transport on the ground.
(AP, 3/23/99)
1994 Mar 23, In Mexico Luis
Donaldo Colosio (44), the ruling party's pres. candidate, was murdered
while campaigning in Tijuana, Mexico. Mario Aburto later confessed to
shooting Colosio twice and was sentenced to a 45-year sentence. The
events were later examined by Sebastian Rotella in his book: "Twilight
on the Line: Underworlds and Politics at the US-Mexican Border."
(WSJ, 12/5/95, p.A-14)(SFC, 4/18/96, p.a-13)(SFC,
8/8/96, p.A8)(SFEC, 1/25/98, BR p.9)
1994 Mar 23, Actress Giulietta
Masina (b.1921 ), wife of Federico Felini, died in Rome.
(AP, 3/23/99)(www.imdb.com/name/nm0556399/)
1994 Mar 23, A Russian Airbus
A-310 crashed in Siberia and some 70 people were killed.
(www.nupi.no/cgi-win/Russland/krono.exe?6223)
1994 Mar 24, President Clinton
held a news conference in which he acknowledged he had significantly
overstated the loss in his Whitewater land investment and promised to
release late 1970's tax returns to answer questions on the land deal.
(AP, 3/24/99)
1994 Mar 25, The US Senate
approved a $1.51 trillion budget.
(AP, 3/25/04)
1994 Mar 25, American troops
completed their withdrawal from Somalia following a largely
unsuccessful fifteen-month mission. 20,000 U.N. troops were left behind
to keep the peace and facilitate "nation building."
(AP, 3/25/99)
1994 Mar 26, The Senate passed
President Clinton's education reform measure, the "Goals 2000" bill,
63-22.
(AP, 3/26/99)
1994 Mar 26, U.N. peacekeepers in
Bosnia-Herzegovina destroyed a Serb bunker following a seven-hour
exchange of fire.
(AP, 3/26/99)
1994 Mar 27, More than 40 people
were killed as violent thunderstorms tore across the Southeast. A
church in Piedmont, Alabama, collapsed in a tornado and 19 were killed.
(AP, 3/27/99)
1994 Mar 27, Italians went to the
polls in general elections that resulted in big gains for a right-wing
coalition. Silvio Berlusconi’s center-right grouping won the election.
(AP, 3/27/99)(Econ, 11/26/05, Survey p.10)
1994 Mar 27, Ukraine held its
first parliamentary elections since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
(AP, 3/27/99)
1994 Mar 28, In Johannesburg,
South Africa, ANC guards killed more than 50 people in violence that
erupted during a march by Zulu nationalists.
(AP, 3/28/99)(WSJ, 3/29/96, p.A-1)
1994 Mar 28, Absurdist playwright
Eugene Ionesco died in Paris at age 81.
(AP, 3/28/99)
1994 Mar 29, Dallas Cowboys coach
Jimmy Johnson resigned, capping a longstanding feud with team owner
Jerry Jones.
(AP, 3/29/04)
1994 Mar 29, Mexico's ruling party
picked Ernesto Zedillo to be its new presidential candidate, replacing
the assassinated Luis Donaldo Colosio.
(AP, 3/29/99)
1994 Mar 29, Bill Travers (72),
British actor (Trio, Gorgo, Born Free), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Travers)
1994 Mar 30, The Clinton
administration announced it was lifting virtually all export controls
on non-military products to China and the former Soviet bloc.
(AP, 3/30/99)
1994 Mar 30, Serbs and Croats
signed a cease-fire to end their war in Croatia while Bosnian Muslims
and Serbs continued to battle each other.
(AP, 3/30/99)
1994 Mar 31, The PLO and Israel
agreed to resume talks on Palestinian autonomy, more than a month after
the Hebron mosque massacre.
(AP, 3/31/99)
1994 Mar, Pres. Clinton tacitly
approved covert Iranian arms shipments to Bosnia despite a UN
arms embargo.
(SFC, 4/5/96, p.A-1)(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1994 Mar, Apple Corp. introduced
the Power Macintosh. It used the PowerPC chip co-developed with IBM. It
was able to run both Apple and Microsoft software.
(Hem, Mar. 95, p.89)(SFC, 1/24/04, p.A12)
1994 Mar, Two other neutrino
telescopes (Amanda, under construction in the deep ice of Antarctica,
and Nestor, in the planning stage for deployment in the Mediterranean
Sea), will complement DUMAND, the Hawaiian detector.
(PacDis, Spring/'94, p. 40)
1994 Mar, The China Development
Bank was founded to support state policies to implement disciplined
development and build harmonious society.
(Econ, 7/28/07,
p.75)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Development_Bank)
1994 Mar, ANC guards killed a
number of Zulus during a demonstration in South Africa.
(WSJ, 3/29/96, p.A-1)
1994 Mar, In Slovakia Pres. Kovac
called for and parliament approved the removal of prime minister
Vladimir Meciar. Later in the year Meciar’s party won a plurality and
he was renamed prime minister.
(SFC, 5/29/97, p.A13)
1994 Mar, In Turkey Recep Tayyip
Erdogan was elected mayor of Istanbul as candidate from Erbakan's
Welfare party.
(AP, 11/4/02)
1994 Apr 1, The US government
reported the nation's unemployment rate for March remained unchanged
from February, at 6.5 percent.
(AP, 4/1/04)
1994 Apr 1, In Guatemala Judge
Gonzalez Dubon was assassinated. He had recently signed an order to
extradite to the US former Army Lt. Col. Carlos Ochoa Ruiz on drug
trafficking charges.
(WSJ, 8/13/99, p.A11)
1994 Apr 1, Leon Degrelle
(b.1906), Belgium-born founder of the fascist Rexist party, died in
Malaga, Spain. He was a Walloon Belgian politician, who founded Rexism
and later joined the Nazi German Waffen SS (becoming a leader of its
Walloon contingent). After World War II, he was a prominent figure in
the neo-Nazi and Holocaust denial movements.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Degrelle)
1994 Apr 2, President Clinton
warned Americans against "demagogues of division" in his weekly radio
address, while calling for greater personal responsibility and
cooperation to overcome the nation's problems.
(AP, 4/2/99)
1994 Apr 2, In California Preston
Tate was shot and killed by guards during an allegedly staged fight at
the Corcoran State Prison.
(SFC, 11/22/96, p.A26)
1994 Apr 2, Consumer reporter
Betty Furness died in Hartsdale, N.Y., at age 78.
(AP, 4/2/99)
1994 Apr 3, Frank Wells, president
of the Walt Disney Co., died in helicopter crash while returning from a
ski trip in Nevada’s Ruby Mountains.
(www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Frank_Wells)
1994 Apr 3, In his Easter Sunday
address, Pope John Paul II expressed hope that the joy of Christianity
would overwhelm the din of violence and hate.
(AP, 4/3/99)
1994 Apr 4, The University of
Arkansas won the NCAA basketball championship, defeating Duke 76-72.
(AP, 4/4/99)
1994 Apr 4, On Wall Street, stocks
plummeted in violent spasms of selling that sent the Dow industrial
down more than 40 points to a six-month low.
(AP, 4/4/99)
1994 Apr 4, Jim Clark and Marc
Andreeson founded Mosaic Communications Corp., the predecessor of
Netscape Communications.
(WSJ, 11/25/98, p.B1)
1994 Apr 5, "Jackie Mason
Politically Incorrect" opened at the John Golden Theater in NYC for 347
performances.
(www.theatredb.com/QShow.php?sid=s0495)
1994 Apr 5, President Clinton
presided over a 90-minute town hall meeting in Charlotte, N.C., in
which he called himself the victim of "false charges" in connection
with the Whitewater controversy.
(AP, 4/5/99)
1994 Apr 5, Kurt Cobain (b.1967),
singer-musician for the grunge band Nirvana, committed suicide in
Seattle. [see Apr 8]
(NW, 10/28/02,
p.68)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_)
1994 Apr 5, Andre Victor
Tchelistcheff (b.1901), Russian-born winemaker, died in California. He
developed frost-prevention techniques and helped curb vine disease in
Napa Valley. Beside managing Beaulieu Vineyards in Napa for 35 years,
Tchelistcheff operated a private wine laboratory in St. Helena for 15
years. He also assembled a fabled library of wine literature.
(http://tinyurl.com/8kqmd)
1994 Apr 6, Supreme Court Justice
Harry A. Blackmun announced his retirement after 24 years. Two months
before his retirement he declared his opposition to capital punishment
because the system was fraught with discrimination and mistakes. He
stepped aside to allow Pres. Clinton to appoint his replacement. In
1999 David N. Atkinson published "Leaving the Bench," a historical look
At the conditions under which Supreme Court justices retire.
(AP, 4/6/97)(SFC, 3/5/99, p.A15)(WSJ, 8/11/99, p.A16)
1994 Apr 6, A car rigged with
explosives detonated next to a bus in Afula, Israel. 8 Israelis were
killed and 45 wounded in Hamas's 1st car bombing.
(WSJ, 3/6/96, p. A-15)(G&M, 7/31/97, p.A8)(AP,
4/6/99)(SFC, 3/23/04, p.A11)
1994 Apr 6, The presidents of
Rwanda and Burundi were killed on a return trip from Tanzania in a
mysterious plane crash near Kigali, Rwanda; widespread violence erupted
in Rwanda over claims the plane had been shot down: Agatha
Uwilingiyimana, Rwanda’s and Africa’s 1st female PM, Cyprian Niayamira
(Ntaryamira), president of Burundi (1993-94) and Juvenal Habyarimana,
president of Rwanda (1973) were killed. In Rwanda the Interhamwe, an
extremist organization, and the Rwandan armed forces, FAR, launched a
massacre of Tutsis and sympathizers that killed some 800,000. [see Aug
1, 1997] A French report in 2004 concluded that Paul Kagame, Tutsi
rebel leader, was behind the crash. In 2010 a Rwandan
government-commissioned inquiry said Rwandan Hutu soldiers shot down
the Hutu president's plane and sparked the slaughter of more than
500,000 people.
(WSJ, 11/15/96, p.A16)(SFC, 2/21/97, p.A26)(AP,
4/6/99)(SFC, 2/11/04, p.A8)(AP, 1/12/10)
1994 Apr 7, Angelus Gottfried
"Golo" Mann (85), German-US historian, died.
(www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/MannGolo/)
1994 Apr 7, Civil war erupted in
Rwanda, a day after a mysterious plane crash claimed the lives of the
presidents of Rwanda and Burundi. Former Defense Minister Colonel
Theoneste Bagosora reportedly instigated the killing spree by Hutu
militia. Within twenty-four hours fighting resulted in the deaths of
Agathe Uwilingiyimana, the prime minister of Rwanda, Joseph
Kavaruganda, the president of the Supreme Court and hundreds of others.
In the months that followed, hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsi
and Hutu intellectuals were slaughtered. In Kibeho thousands of Tutsis
gathered in a church where they were bombed, shot or hacked to death by
Hutu soldiers and militiamen.
(AP, 4/7/99)(SFC, 4/8/99, p.C3)(SSFC, 4/7/02,
p.A19)(MC, 4/7/02)
1994 Apr 7, UN officer Colonel Luc
Marchal ordered troops to escort Rwandan prime minister Agathe
Uwilingyimana to a radio station in Kigali. The party was ambushed, the
troops hacked to death, and the prime minister was raped and murdered.
Augustin Ndindiliyimana, head of the Gendarmerie Nationale, was later
charged in the killing of 10 Belgian peacekeepers charged with guarding
Uwilingyimana and for his role in the Tutsi extermination.
Ndindiliyimana was arrested in Belgium in 2000.
(SFC, 7/5/96, p.A16)
1994 Apr 7, Pope John Paul II made
remarks at the conclusion of a concert in commemoration of the Shoah
(holocaust), in which he acknowledged the Nazi Holocaust killing of
Jews.
(http://tinyurl.com/c9vt8)
1994 Apr 8, Smoking was banned in
Pentagon and all US military bases.
(www-tech.mit.edu/V114/N12/briefs1.12w.html)
1994 Apr 8, Kurt Cobain (b.1967),
singer-musician for the grunge band Nirvana, was found dead in Seattle
of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound; he was 27.
(AP, 4/8/97)(SFEC, 2/2/97, DB. p.52)
1994 Apr 8, Japanese Prime
Minister Morihiro Hosokawa announced his intention to resign in the
wake of an ever-widening financial scandal. In 1998 Hosokawa abandoned
politics and began studying ceramics. In 2006 his pieces fetched as
much as $10,000.
(AP, 4/8/99)(SSFC, 2/19/06, p.A21)
1994 Apr 8, About this time the
commander of UN forces in Rwanda warned Kofi Annan, head of the UN
Peacekeeping operations, that the Kigali government was planning to
slaughter Tutsis. Annan’s office ordered Gen’l. Romeo Dallaire of
Canada not to protect the informant or to confiscate arms stockpiles.
Annan later claimed that he lacked the military might and political
backing to stop the slaughter of more than 500,000 people.
(USAT, 5/4/98, p.9A)(USAT, 5/5/98, p.11A)
1994 Apr 8, In Rwanda Jean
Kambanda was appointed prime minister of the interim government. He
went on radio and urged fellow Hutus to abuse, hurt and kill Tutsis and
Hutu moderates. He pleaded guilty in 1998 to charges that he incited
the slaughter of over 800,000 Rwandans.
(SFC, 5/2/98, p.A8)
1994 Apr 8-1994 Jun 20, In 2007 a
prosecution indictment at the International Criminal Tribunal for
Rwanda (ICTR) in Tanzania said that during this period: “… at the Holy
Family parish, Father Wenceslas Munyeshyaka drew up a plan to rape
Tutsi women," and "designated several Tutsi civilians who were
kidnapped and murdered."
(AFP, 6/21/07)
1994 Apr 9, The space shuttle
Endeavour blasted off on an 11-day mission that included mapping the
Earth's surface in three dimensions.
(AP, 4/9/99)
1994 Apr 9, Secretary-General
Boutros Boutros-Ghali ordered U.N. troops to use "all available means"
to roll back Serb military gains in the Muslim enclave of Gorazde,
Bosnia.
(AP, 4/9/99)
1994 Apr 9, The Bosnian Serbs had
mounted an aggressive assault on Gorazde and pounded its 65,000
citizens with heavy artillery.
(SFC, 7/15/96, p.A10)
1994 Apr 9, In Kigali, Rwanda, a
crowd of neighbors tossed grenades and poured gasoline on the home of
the home of Thetime Nkaka and his pregnant wife Jeanette Mukantwali
(23). Matata Godefroid, a Hutu soldier, was later identified as the
ringleader. He was sentenced to life in prison in Jan 23, 2001.
(SFC, 4/8/02, p.A6)
1994 Apr 10, Two U.S. F-16
fighters bombed Bosnian Serb targets in Gorazde, which was under heavy
attack. This was NATO's first-ever attack on ground positions. A second
air strike took place the following day.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A12)(AP, 4/10/99)
1994 Apr 11, The White House
disclosed that President and Mrs. Clinton had failed to report $6,498
in income that the first lady made in commodities trading in 1980; the
couple wrote checks totaling $14,615 in back taxes and interest.
(AP, 4/11/99)
1994 Apr 12, Senate Majority
Leader George Mitchell declined to be nominated to the Supreme Court.
(AP, 4/12/99)
1994 Apr 12, Playwright Edward
Albee won his third Pulitzer prize for "Three Tall Women"; the Pulitzer
prize for fiction went to E. Annie Proulx for "The Shipping News"; the
gold-medal award for public service journalism went to the Akron
Beacon-Journal of Ohio.
(AP, 4/12/99)
1994 Apr 12, The US Operations
Distant Runner and Support Hope began in Rwanda and ended Sep 30, 1994.
They cost $147.8 billion.
(WSJ, 9/22/99, p.A8)
1994 Apr 13, A Palestinian blew
himself up on a bus in Hadera in central Israel. Six Israelis were
killed and 25 wounded. Hamas took responsibility. Islamic militants
bombed an Israeli bus, killing six people and wounding 28.
(WSJ, 3/6/96, p. A-15)(G&M, 7/31/97, p.A8)
1994 Apr 14, The chiefs of the
nation's seven largest tobacco companies spent more than six hours
being grilled by the House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee
about the effects of smoking.
(AP, 4/14/99)
1994 Apr 14, Two American F-15
warplanes inadvertently shot down two U.S. helicopters over northern
Iraq, killing 26 people, including 15 Americans.
(AP, 4/14/97)
1994 Apr 14-1994 Apr 15, In Rwanda
Tutsi refugees, gathered in the Nyange church, were burned to death or
killed as they tried to flee. In 2006 Roman Catholic priest Athanase
Seromba was convicted of ordering militiamen to set fire to the church
and then bulldoze it. He was sentenced to life in prison. In 2009
Gaspard Kanyarukiga, who was arrested in South Africa in July 2004,
pleaded innocent to the charges of killing around 2,000 Tutsis at the
Nyange Church. Prosecutor Holo Makwaia said Kanyarukiga had coaxed a
reluctant bulldozer driver to crush those sheltering in the church.
(www.ictr.org/ENGLISH/cases/Kanyarukiga/indictment/index.pdf)(AP,
8/31/09)
1994 Apr 15, Ministers from 109
countries signed a 26,000-page world trade agreement known as the
"Uruguay Round" accords in Marrakesh, Morocco.
(AP, 4/15/99)
1994 Apr 16, Ralph Ellison
(b.1914), author of "Invisible Man" (1952), died in NYC of pancreatic
cancer at age 80. His unfinished novel "Juneteenth" was published in
1999. His books also included "Living With Music." In 2002 Lawrence
Jackson authored "Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius." In 2007 Arnold
Rampersad authored “Ralph Ellison.”
(AP, 4/16/99)(WSJ, 6/18/99, p.W13)(WSJ, 6/14/02,
p.W11)(SFC, 5/14/07, p.C2)
1994 Apr 16, Bosnian Serbs downed
a British Sea Harrier jet near Gorazde; the pilot ejected and was
rescued by Bosnian government troops.
(AP, 4/16/99)
1994 Apr 16-1994 Apr 17, In Rwanda
at least 4,500 Tutsi, including women and children, were slaughtered in
the Kibuye Stadium. About 12,000 Tutsi were murdered at Kibuye’s
church, in the stadium, and in the surrounding countryside.
{Rwanda, Atrocities}
(http://tinyurl.com/73bs8)
1994 Apr 17, Joseph Jett, an
African-American bond trader, was fired from Kidder, Peabody & Co.,
who claimed that he'd recorded $350 million in phony profits and then
bilked them of $8 million in bogus bonuses. In 1999 Jett published his
memoir, "Black and White on Wall Street: The Untold Story of the Man
Wrongly Accused of Bringing Down Kidder Peabody." In July, 1998, the
SEC ruled that Jett did not commit securities fraud. But an SEC judge
did say Jett had intended to commit fraud, and charged him with a
lesser record-keeping violation.
(www.salon.com/books/int/1999/05/27/jett/)(www.sec.gov/litigation/opinions/33-8395.htm)
1994 Apr 17, Bosnian Serb tanks
entered the Muslim enclave of Gorazde; the UN Security Council issued a
nonbinding statement that condemned the Serbs' escalating military
activities, but made no threat of force to back its condemnation.
(AP, 4/17/99)
1994 Apr 18, Former President
Richard Nixon suffered a stroke at his home in Park Ridge, N.J., and
was taken to New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center; he died four
days later.
(AP, 4/18/99)
1994 Apr 19, A Los Angeles jury
awarded $3.8 million to beaten motorist Rodney King.
(AP, 4/19/99)
1994 Apr 19, The US Supreme Court
outlawed the practice of excluding people from juries because of their
gender.
(AP, 4/19/99)
1994 Apr 20, Israeli and PLO
negotiators wrapped up an agreement transferring civilian government
powers to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
(AP, 4/20/99)
1994 Apr 20, The Serbian army
bombed Gorazde, Bosnia, and the local hospital was hit.
(www.snd-us.com/history/dolecek/dolecek_accuse.htm)
1994 Apr 21, The U.S. House of
Representatives passed a $28 billion get-tough-on-crime bill.
(AP, 4/21/99)
1994 Apr 22, Richard M. Nixon
(81), the 37th president of the United States (1969-1975), died at New
York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, four days after suffering a
stroke. In 1990 Roger Morris wrote the biography: "Richard Milhous
Nixon." In 2000 Anthony Summers authored "The Arrogance of Power: The
Secret World of Richard Nixon." In 2008 Rick Perlstein authored
“Nixonland: The rise of a President and the Fracturing of America,” and
Conrad Black authored “Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full.”
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.A10)(SFEC, 2/23/97, BR p.3)(AP,
4/22/97)(SFEC, 8/27/00, p.A6)(SSFC, 5/18/08, Books p.4)(WSJ, 8/29/08,
p.A15)
1994 Apr 22, The Lyrid meteor
shower was on this day.
(PacDis, Spring/'94, p. 40)
1994 Apr 22, In Robateau, Haiti, a
shantytown of Gonaives city, soldiers and paramilitary burst into
dozens of homes and beat and killed a number of people. In 2000 16
ex-soldiers and cohorts were found guilty of the massacre. Another 38
people, charged with masterminding the killings and all living in
exile, were scheduled for a later trial. Another 37 defendants were
tried in absentia and sentenced to life in prison. Louis-Jodel
Chamblain was among those convicted in absentia for his role in the
murders.
(SFC, 11/11/00, p.A14)(SFC, 11/17/00, p.D6)(SFC,
3/24/04, p.A9)
1994 Apr 22, In Butare, Rwanda,
gasoline was used to set ablaze a building where 500 Tutsis were
hiding. In 2001 Benedictine Sister Maria Kisito stood trial in Belgium
for providing the gasoline.
(SFC, 4/18/01, p.A12)
1994 Apr 23, Mourners left red
roses, burning candles and cards at the Richard Nixon Library and
Birthplace in Yorba Linda, Calif., in memory of the 37th president of
the United States, who had died the day before at age 81.
(AP, 4/23/99)
1994 Apr 24, Bosnian Serbs,
threatened with NATO air strikes, grudgingly gave up their three-week
assault on Gorazde, burning houses and blowing up a water treatment
plant as they withdrew.
(AP, 4/24/99)
1994 Apr 25, Conservative Tsutomu
Hata, former foreign minister, became prime minister of Japan,
succeeding Morihiro Hosokawa as political infighting continued.
(Jap. Enc., BLDM, p. 217)(AP, 4/25/99)
1994 Apr 25, Two Catholic Hutu
Sisters in Rwanda ordered frightened Tutsis out of their Benedictine
compound into the hands of Hutu soldiers. In 1997 Sisters Gertrude
(Consolata Mukangango) and Sister Maria Kisito (Juliene Makubutera),
having escaped to Belgium, were accused by witnesses of aiding Hutu
soldiers who slaughtered some 600 Tutsis. In 2001 Sister Gertrude and
Maria Kisito were convicted. Gertrude was sentenced to 15 years in
prison. Kisito was sentenced to 12 years. Two others were also
convicted and sentenced. Alphonse Higaniro was sentenced to 20 years
and Vincent Ntezimana was jailed for 12 years.
(SFC, 4/18/97, p.A15)(SFC, 4/18/01, p.A12)(SFC,
6/8/01, p.A17)(SFC, 6/9/01, p.A5)
1994 Apr 25, In Rwanda Colonel
Ephrem Setako ordered the killings of 30 to 40 Tutsis at Mukamira
military camp in Ruhengeri prefecture. In 2010 Setako was convicted of
crimes against humanity and murder.
(Reuters, 2/25/10)
1994 Apr 25, Terrorist bombers
struck twice on the eve of South Africa's first all-race election,
killing about a dozen people. Car bombs near voting stations killed 20
people. Afrikaner Nationalists led by Eugene Terre’Blanche were
responsible. In 1997 Clifton Barnard and Abraham Myburgh were sentenced
to 50 years in prison for the bomb blasts that killed 21 people. [see
12/24/96]
(SFC, 12/25/96, p.A10)(SFC, 6/18/97,
p.A10)(SFC,10/24/97, p.D6) (AP, 4/25/99)
1994 Apr 26, Rachelle "Shelley"
Shannon, who admitted shooting and wounding an abortion provider
outside his clinic, was sentenced in Wichita, Kan., to nearly 11 years
in prison.
(AP, 4/26/99)
1994 Apr 26, A Taiwanese China
Airlines A300-600 Airbus crashed at the south end of Nagoya airport
west of Tokyo and killed 264 people. There were 7 survivors.
(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)(AP, 4/26/99)
1994 Apr 26, Voting began in South
Africa's first all-race elections. Nelson Mandela won the presidency.
(AP, 4/26/99)(HN, 4/26/01)
1994 Apr 27, Former President
Richard M. Nixon was remembered at an outdoor funeral service attended
by all five of his successors at the Nixon presidential library in
Yorba Linda, Calif.
(AP, 4/27/99)
1994 Apr 28, Former CIA official
Aldrich Ames, who had betrayed U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and
then Russia, pleaded guilty to espionage and tax evasion, and was
sentenced to life in prison without parole. His wife Rosario also
pleaded guilty.
(AP, 4/28/99)(MC, 4/28/02)
1994 Apr 29, Israel and the PLO
signed an agreement in Paris granting Palestinians broad authority to
set taxes, control trade and regulate banks under self-rule in the Gaza
Strip and Jericho.
(AP, 4/29/99)
1994 Apr 29, A ferry boat capsized
near Mombasa, Kenya, and 272 people were killed.
(http://65.18.147.106/archive/102002/msg00163.html)
1994 Apr 29, Hundreds of thousands
of refugees fleeing the terror of ethnic massacres in Rwanda were
pouring into Tanzania.
(AP, 4/29/99)
1994 Apr 30, The Eurovision Song
Contest was held in Dublin’s Point Theater. The first performance of
Riverdance was held there which featured a modern form of Irish
stepdancing.
(WSJ, 3/12/96, p. A-16)
1994 Apr 30, The counting of
ballots began in South Africa's first all-race elections.
(AP, 4/30/99)
1994 Apr 30, Some 100,000 men,
women and children fleeing ethnic slaughter in Rwanda crossed into
neighboring Tanzania.
(AP, 4/30/99)
1994 Apr, In South Carolina a
6-year-old boy was killed in an accident due to a defective rear latch
of a Chrysler minivan. In 1997 a jury in South
Carolina ordered Chrysler Corp. to pay $262.5 mil to the parents. $250
mil was for punitive damages.
(SFC, 10/9/97, p.A6)
1994 Apr, Anthony Lake, national
security advisor, approved a State Dept. proposal that Peter Galbraith,
US ambassador to Croatia, tell the Croatian government he had "no
instructions" on whether the US approved or disapproved the shipment of
arms to Bosnia through Croatia.
(SFEC, 12/15/96, p.A7)
1994 Apr, London-based Railtrack
took over infrastructure responsibilities from British Rail. Britain
completed the privatization of rail operations by 1997.
(www.siteselection.com/ssinsider/snapshot/sf000619.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/scnfa)
1994 Apr, Anthony E. Pratt, the
inventor of the game "Clue," died in England.
(SFEC, 12/1/96, p.C14)
1994 Apr, In Afghanistan about
this time Mohammed Omar (b.1959), former guerrilla commander against
Soviet forces, gathered a group of former guerrillas in the village of
Singesar and hung the mujahedeen responsible for the rape of 2 local
girls. He soon led the Taliban (The Students) as Amir-ul-Momineen
(Commander of the Faithful). The Taliban militia advanced rapidly
against the Islamic government.
(SFC, 1/1/97,
p.C2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban)
1994 Apr, In Rwanda a convoy
attacked Tutsis who were seeking refuge on a hill a few days after the
genocide began. About 1,000 people were killed and the convoy later
returned to attack survivors. In 2008 Protais Zigiranyirazo (70), the
brother-in-law of former President Juvenal Habyarimana, was convicted
of leading the convoy and the massacre. In 2009 a UN appeals court in
Tanzania overturned the conviction.
(AP, 11/16/09)
1994 Apr-1994 Jul, Some 500,000-1
Million people were killed in Rwanda by Hutu extremists. Most of those
killed were minority Tutsis and opponents of the ruling Hutu majority.
Perpetrators fled to refugee camps in Zaire.
(SFEC, 1/15/1995, A-10)(SFC, 10/22/96, p.B1)
1994 Apr-1994 Aug, The Rwanda
Patriotic Front (RPF) under Paul Kagame killed some 25-45,000 people
during this period. They then pursued the genocidaires into Zaire where
they killed some 200,000 more and in the process overthrew the
government of Zaire.
(Econ, 3/27/04, p.26)
1994 May 1, Israeli and PLO
delegates opened a final round of talks in Cairo, Egypt, on Palestinian
autonomy prior to the signing of an agreement on self-rule.
(AP, 5/1/99)
1994 May 1, South Africa's first
all-race elections ended.
(SFC, 11/30/96, p.A12)
1994 May 2, A jury in Detroit
acquitted Dr. Kevorkian of violating a 1992 law against assisted
suicide.
(SFC, 4/14/99,
p.A3)(www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kevorkian/chronology.html)
1994 May 2, Nelson Mandela claimed
victory in the wake of South Africa's first democratic elections;
President F.W. de Klerk acknowledged defeat.
(AP, 5/2/98)
1994 May 3, President Clinton
presided over a televised forum from Atlanta, during which he denied
suggestions he'd vacillated on foreign policy, but said global problems
were more difficult than he'd imagined.
(AP, 5/3/99)
1994 May 4, Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat signed a historic accord on
Palestinian autonomy that granted self-rule in the Gaza Strip and
Jericho.
(AP, 5/4/97)
1994 May 4, India made its 4th
developmental launch of ASLV. The 113 kg Stretched Rohini Satellite
Series (SROSS-C2) was launched by fourth developmental flight of
ASLV-D4 from Sriharikota.
(www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080048779)
1994 May 5, The US House passed
the assault weapons ban.
(www.csgv.org/research/votes/keyvotes103/103_assault_house.cfm)
1994 May 5, Labour beat the
Conservatives in British local elections.
(www.crest.ox.ac.uk/beps9297.htm)
1994 May 5, Singapore caned
American teenager Michael Fay for vandalism, a day after the sentence
was reduced from six lashes to four in response to an appeal by
President Clinton, who considered the punishment too harsh.
(AP, 5/5/99)
1994 May 5, The peak of the Eta
Aquarid meteor shower. It displayed 10-40 meteors per hour.
(PacDis, Spring/'94, p. 40)
1994 May 6, Paula Jones filed a
complaint of sexual harassment in US District Court in Little Rock,
Ark. against Pres. Bill Clinton. According to Jones, on May 8, 1991 at
the Third Annual Governor’s Quality Management Conference in Little
Rock, Ark., Gov. Bill Clinton invited Ms. Jones, a state employee
working at the registration desk, to a private meeting and
exposed his desire for her. Jones reached a settlement with Clinton in
November 1998.
(WSJ, 6/26/96, p.A18)(AP, 5/6/04)
1994 May 6, Britain's Queen
Elizabeth II and French President Francois Mitterrand formally opened
the Channel Tunnel between their countries.
(AP, 5/6/04)
1994 May 6, Nelson Mandela and his
ANC finally were confirmed winners in South Africa.
(www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/may96/bryant_5-6.html)
1994 May 7, Norway's most famous
painting, "The Scream," by Edvard Munch, was recovered almost three
months after it was stolen from an Oslo museum. Another version was
stolen in 2004.
(AP, 5/7/99)(WSJ, 8/24/04, p.A1)
1994 May 7, Go For Gin won the
120th Kentucky Derby.
(AP, 5/7/99)
1994 May 8, President Clinton
announced a shift in U.S. policy toward Haitian refugees, saying there
would be offshore screening of boat people seeking political asylum.
(AP, 5/8/99)
1994 May 8, Actor George Peppard
died at age 65.
(AP, 5/8/99)
1994 May 9, "Passion" opened at
Plymouth Theater in NYC for 280 performances.
(www.sjsondheim.com/passion.html)
1994 May 9, Comedian Bobcat
Goldthwait set fire to the couch on Tonight Show. A misdemeanor charge
soon followed and a fine of $3,888.
(www.courttv.com/news/flashback/May.html)
1994 May 9, Mass murderer Joel
Rifkin was found guilty in NY. By January 1996, Rifkin was scheduled to
serve at least 183 years for seven slayings, with 10 counts outstanding.
(www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/rifkin/9.html)
1994 May 9, South Africa's newly
elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country's first black
president. Mandela promised a South Africa for "all its people, black
and white."
(AP, 5/9/99)
1994 May 10, The state of Illinois
executed convicted serial killer John Wayne Gacy (52) for the murders
of 33 young men and boys. He was executed at Stateville Correctional
Center near Joliet. A search for more bodies was continued in 1998.
Gacy left behind some clown art that was auctioned and purchased for
$20,000 by Joe Roth, who burned all of it.
(AP, 5/10/97)(SFEC, 11/22/98, p.A2)(SFC, 2/6/99,
p.A13)
1994 May 10, An annular, or "ring"
eclipse, cast a moving shadow across the United States.
(AP, 5/10/99)
1994 May 10, Nelson Mandela was
sworn in as Prime Minister of South Africa. His party earmarked $4
billion to be spent over ten years to help correct the land imbalance
largely due to the forced abandonment by blacks between 1950-80 when
about 3.5 million blacks were forcibly trucked off to ethnic
territories, often abandoning land, houses and cattle. It was later
declared that crimes committed under apartheid up to this time would be
considered for pardon under an amnesty act.
(WSJ, 5/10/94)(WSJ, 5/17/96,p.A-10)(SFEC, 12/15/96,
p.C22)
1994 May 11, Arkansas put to death
two convicted murderers; it was the first time a state executed two
people on the same day since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to
restore the death penalty in 1976.
(AP, 5/11/99)
1994 May 11, In Rwanda Colonel
Ephrem Setako ordered the killings of 10 Tutsis at Mukamira military
camp in Ruhengeri prefecture. In 2010 Setako was convicted of crimes
against humanity and murder.
(Reuters, 2/25/10)
1994 May 11, In South Africa the
Rand Supreme Court sentenced to death six white rightwing extremists
for the murder of four blacks, including an 11-year-old child, at a
roadblock near Randfontein on December 12, 1993.
(http://tinyurl.com/c77m9)
1994 May 12, The US Senate joined
the House in passing a bill banning blockades, violence and threats
against clinics where abortions were being performed.
(AP, 5/12/99)
1994 May 12, British Labor Party
leader John Smith died unexpectedly at age 55.
(AP, 5/12/99)
1994 May 13, President Clinton
nominated federal appeals Judge Stephen G. Breyer to the U.S. Supreme
Court to replace retiring Justice Harry A. Blackmun.
(AP, 5/13/99)
1994 May 14, The West Bank town of
Jericho saw its first full day of Palestinian self-rule following the
withdrawal of Israeli troops, an event celebrated by Palestinians.
(AP, 5/14/99)
1994 May 15, Supreme Court nominee
Stephen G. Breyer arrived in Washington to spend the night at the White
House, while Republicans joined Democrats in predicting swift Senate
confirmation.
(AP, 5/15/99)
1994 May 16, Israel began its
final withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, shutting down the prison and
military headquarters where Israeli soldiers had been in charge since
the 1967 Middle East War.
(AP, 5/16/99)
1994 May 17, The U.N. Security
Council approved a peacekeeping force and an arms embargo for
violence-racked Rwanda.
(AP, 5/17/99)
1994 May 18, The Tropical
Butterfly Garden at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opened.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1994 May 18, Israel's three
decades of occupation in the Gaza Strip ended as Israeli troops
completed their withdrawal and Palestinian authorities took over.
(AP, 5/18/99)
1994 May 19, The final episode of
LA Law (b.1986) showed on TV after 8 year run.
(http://epguides.com/LALaw/)
1994 May 19, President Clinton
held a news conference in which he defended his foreign policy against
suggestions he improvises it from crisis to crisis, saying, "I continue
to look for new solutions."
(AP, 5/19/99)
1994 May 19, The US FDA approved
of the first genetically engineered tomato.
(www.bioline.org.br/request?nl94033)
1994 May 19, Former first lady
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis died of non-Hodgkins lymphoma
cancer in New York City at age 64.
(SFEC, 11/10/96, Par p.2)(SFEC, 5/4/97, p.A3)(AP,
5/19/97)
1994 May 20, Tributes poured in
following the death of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. President Clinton
said of the former first lady: "She captivated our nation and the world
with her intelligence, her elegance and her grace."
(AP, 5/20/99)
1994 May 21, Israeli commandos
swept into Lebanon’s eastern mountains and abducted Mustafa Dirani, a
Shiite Muslim guerrilla leader of the Believer's Resistance. In 2000
Dirani sued Israel with charges of torture and sodomy. Dirani was
released in Jan 2004, as part of a complex prisoner exchange between
Hezbollah and Israel.
(SFEC, 11/17/96, p.A14)(SFC, 3/14/00, p.A10)(AP,
5/21/04)
1994 May 21, South Yemen seceded
from Yemen.
(www.al-bab.com/yemen/chron/yem94b.htm)
1994 May 21, John Henry Weidner
(b.1912), Dutch-US resistance fighter, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Hendrik_Weidner)
1994 May 22, A worldwide trade
embargo against Haiti went into effect to punish Haiti's military
rulers for not reinstating the country's ousted elected leader,
Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
(AP, 5/22/99)
1994 May 23, "Pulp Fiction" by
American director Quentin Tarantino won the Golden Palm for best film
at the 47th Cannes Film Festival.
(AP, 5/23/99)
1994 May 23, Funeral services were
held at Arlington National Cemetery for former first lady Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis.
(AP, 5/23/97)
1994 May 23, Some 270 pilgrims,
most of them Indonesian, were killed in a stampede in Mecca as
worshippers surge toward cavern for symbolic ritual of "stoning the
devil."
(AP, 2/1/04)
1994 May 24, Four men convicted of
bombing New York's World Trade Center were each sentenced to 240 years
in prison.
(AP, 5/24/99)
1994 May 24, The United States and
Japan agreed to revive efforts to pry open Japanese markets to U.S.
goods.
(AP, 5/24/99)
1994 May 25, The UN Security
Council lifted a 10-year-old ban on weapons exports from South Africa,
scrapping the last of its apartheid-era embargoes.
(AP, 5/25/99)
1994 May 25, Eric Gale (b.1938),
rock guitarist, died.
(http://users.efortress.com/doc-rock/1995.html)
1994 May 26, President Clinton
renewed trade privileges for China, and announced his administration
would no longer link China's trade status with its human rights record.
1994 May 26, Michael Jackson and
Lisa Marie Presley were married in the Dominican Republic. The marriage
ended in 1996.
(AP, 5/26/99)
1994 May 27, A receipt of this
date for a disguise was found in OJ Simpson’s Bronco, 2 weeks before
the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
(WSJ, 7/23/96, p.A16)
1994 May 27, Nobel Prize-winning
author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia to the emotional
cheers of thousands after spending two decades in exile.
(AP, 5/27/99)
1994 May 28, US District Judge
Susan Weber Wright ruled that the Paula Jones case could not be tried
until Pres. Clinton left office.
(WSJ, 4/20/98, p.A20)
1994 May 28, Palestine Liberation
Organization officials announced that Yasser Arafat had named himself
interior minister of the autonomous zones as part of an interim
government; 14 other prominent Palestinians, mostly Arafat allies, were
appointed to other positions.
(AP, 5/28/99)
1994 May 29, "Joseph & the
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" closed at Minskoff Theater in NYC after
223 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?id=4581)
1994 May 29, "Picnic" closed at
Criterion Theater in NYC after 45 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4603)
1994 May 29, Khallid Abdul
Muhammad, a former spokesman for the Nation of Islam, was shot and
wounded after delivering a speech at the University of California,
Riverside; a defrocked Nation of Islam minister, James Edward Bess, was
charged. Bess was later convicted of attempted murder and assault and
sentenced to life in prison.
(AP, 5/29/04)
1994 May 29, A great comet iceball
was seen above the North Sea.
(www.imo.net/bib/auth_n.html)
1994 May 29, Hungary's Socialist
Party won parliamentary election. Socialist Prime Minister Gyula Horn
was elected to lead the Socialist-Free Democrat coalition. The
coalition slashed the communist welfare state and solidified
free-market democracy.
(SFC, 5/25/98, p.A10)(SC, 5/29/02)
1994 May 29, Jose Bohr (b.1901),
actor (El Traidor, Sueno de Amor), died.
(http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=7064&mod=bio)
1994 May 29, Joseph Janni
(b.1916), Italian-born producer, died in London, UK.
(www.a2zpeople.com/j/jo/joseph+janni.asp)
1994 May 29, Oliver "Bops Junior"
Jackson (b.1933), drummer, died.
(http://nfo.net/calendar/apr28.htm)
1994 May 29, Harry Levin (b.1912),
literary Scholar, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Levin)
1994 May 29, Erich Honecker (81),
former East German leader (1971-89), died of liver cancer in Chile.
(AP, 5/29/99) (SFC, 8/26/97, p.A17)
1994 May 30, Mormon Church
president Ezra Taft Benson died in Salt Lake City at age 94.
(AP, 5/30/99)
1994 May 30, The U.N. Security
Council warned North Korea to stop refueling a nuclear reactor and
allow U.N. monitors to perform full inspections.
(AP, 5/30/99)
1994 May 31, U.S. Rep. Dan
Rostenkowski, D-Ill., maintaining his innocence, was indicted on 17
felony counts alleging he'd plundered nearly $700,000 from the
government. He later pleaded guilty to two counts of misusing federal
funds and spent 451 days in federal custody.
(AP, 5/31/99)
1994 May 31, The United States
announced it was no longer aiming long-range nuclear missiles at
targets in the former Soviet Union.
(AP, 5/31/97)
1994 May, In Houston Elizabeth
Peavy, a 34-year-old dentist, stopped to buy gas and was shot to death.
Her assailant was a 17-year-old gunman who had been arrested on
burglary charges 6 months previously, and released under a pre-trial
release program.
(WSJ, 7/9/96, p.A1)
1994 May, A cease-fire was
declared between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan Pres. Geidar Aliyev
negotiated a cease-fire with Armenian forces in the conflict over
Nagorno-Karabakh. More than 35,000 people had died in 6 years of
fighting.
(WSJ, 5/14/97, p.A22)(WSJ, 3/18/98, p.A18)(SFC,
12/13/03, p.A20)
1994 May, Bosnian offensives
opened a road near Tuzla.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1994 May, In China two labor
organizers, Li Wenming and Guo Baosheng, were arrested but not charged
after they sought to form an independent labor union among the workers
of Shenzhen. In Nov 1996, the 2 men were charged with counterrevolution
and trying to overthrow the government.
(SFC, 12/31/96, p.A10)
1994 May, Francisco Chaviano,
president of the Cuban National Council for Civil Rights, was arrested.
He was sentenced behind closed doors by a military court about a year
later for allegedly revealing state secrets while documenting the cases
of rafters who disappeared or died trying to leave Cuba. Chaviano was
released in 2007, 2 years shy of his 15-year sentence.
(AP, 8/11/07)
1994 Jun 1, Fox Channel, Cable
Network, debuted.
(http://tviv.org/wiki/FX)
1994 Jun 1, President Clinton
embarked on a European trip that included commemorating the 50th
anniversary of D-Day; his first stop was Italy.
(www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1469.html)
1994 Jun 1, Frances Heflin
(b.1922), Soap Actress, All My Children's Mona Tyler; Van Heflin's
sister, died at age 71.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Heflin)
1994 Jun 2, The International
Atomic Energy Agency, the UN atomic watchdog, reported it could no
longer verify the status of North Korea's nuclear program, prompting
the United States to seek economic sanctions.
(AP, 6/2/99)
1994 Jun 2, President Clinton met
at the Vatican with Pope John Paul II.
(AP, 6/2/99)
1994 Jun 3, President Clinton,
continuing his tour of Italy, visited the graves of American soldiers
killed in the Anzio landing during World War II.
(AP, 6/3/99)
1994 Jun 3, The US began
consultations with South Korea, Japan and Russia on how to retaliate
for North Korea's removal of vital evidence about its nuclear weapons
capability.
(AP, 6/3/99)
1994 Jun 4, President Clinton and
British Prime Minister John Major paid tribute to the lost airmen of
World War II at the American Cemetery in Cambridge, England.
(AP, 6/4/99)
1994 Jun 4, Gregory Scarpa,
nicknamed The Grim Reaper, died in a Minnesota prison. He was a soldier
for the Colombo crime family and an informant for the FBI.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Scarpa_Sr.)
1994 Jun 4, Toto Bissainthe (59),
Haitian poet and singer, died.
(www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/world/guidehaitid.shtml)
1994 Jun 5, President Clinton
headed across the English Channel aboard the USS George Washington, en
route to the 50th anniversary commemoration of D-Day in Normandy.
(AP, 6/5/99)
1994 Jun 5, At least 264
Indonesian villagers in East Java were killed by an earthquake.
(AP, 6/5/99)
1994 Jun 5, In central Rwanda 13
Catholic clerics, including three bishops, were murdered at a church. 3
Catholic bishops, including Kigali Archbishop Vincent Nsengiyumva, were
among the clerics murdered. In 2008 two army officers pleaded guilty to
their role in the murders. In 2008 a military court in Kigali jailed
two Rwandan army captains for 8 years for the killings during the 1994
genocide, but acquitted their superiors of involvement in the slaughter.
(AFP, 6/18/08)(AFP, 10/24/08)
1994 Jun 6, President Clinton
joined leaders from America's World War II allies to mark the 50th
anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy.
(AP, 6/6/04)
1994 Jun 6, A China Northwest
Airlines Tu-154 on a flight from Xian to Guangzhou crashed 10 minutes
after takeoff, and killed all 160 onboard.
(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1994 Jun 6, A 6.0 earthquake and
avalanche destroyed Toez, Colombia. Some 1000 people were killed. The
earthquake hit the southern state of Cauca.
(SFC, 2/2/99,
p.A9)(http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Hazards/What/Lahars/HuilaLahar.html)
1994 Jun 7, President Clinton
addressed the French National Assembly, challenging his generation of
Allied leaders to strive for greater European unity or face "the grim
alternative" of violence like that in Bosnia.
(AP, 6/7/99)
1994 Jun 7, Vicki Van Meter 912)
of Meadville, Pa., completed a trans-Atlantic flight, landing in
Glasgow, Scotland. She was accompanied by her flight instructor.
(www.zinkle.com/p/articles/mi_m1590/is_n3_v51/ai_15823355)
1994 Jun 7, Dennis Potter, English
playwright, died. His work included over 40 plays of which "Lipstick on
Your Collar," a 6-part TV play was issued on videotape in 1996. He also
did the TV dramas Pennies from Heaven and The Singing Detective.
(WSJ, 9/24/96, p.A18)
1994 Jun 7, The Organization of
African Unity formally admits South Africa as its fifty-third member.
(HN, 6/7/00)
1994 Jun 8, President Clinton
returned to Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar, to
receive an honorary doctorate.
(AP, 6/8/99)
1994 Jun 8, Bosnia's warring
factions agreed to a one-month cease-fire.
(AP, 6/8/99)
1994 Jun 9, In a bipartisan slap
at President Clinton, the House of Representatives voted 244-178 for
the United States to defy the international arms embargo on Bosnia.
(AP, 6/9/99)
1994 Jun 9, An earthquake of 8.2
magnitude hit Bolivia in 1994.
(HFA, '96, p.32)
1994 Jun 10, President Clinton
intensified sanctions against Haiti's military leaders, suspending U.S.
commercial air travel and most financial transactions between the two
countries.
(AP, 6/10/99)
1994 Jun 11, The United States,
South Korea and Japan agreed to seek punitive steps against North Korea
over its nuclear program.
(AP, 6/11/99)
1994 Jun 11, Jack Hannah (90),
animator (The Flintstones), died.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0360286/)
1994 Jun 11, A car bomb blew up
outside a luxury hotel in Guadalajara, Mexico, killing five people in
an apparently drug-related attack.
(AP, 6/11/99)
1994 Jun 11, Mattias Flink
(b.1970), a Swedish army lieutenant went berserk and killed 7 people.
Flink was placed in the Norrköping prison but was subsequently
moved to Beateberg prison outside of Stockholm.
(SFEC, 8/23/98,
p.A26)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattias_Flink)
1994 Jun 12, At the Tony Awards,
"Angels in America: Perestroika" won best play while "Passion" won best
musical.
(AP, 6/12/99)
1994 Jun 12, Nicole Simpson and
Ronald Goldman were knifed to death outside of Nicole’s Brentwood, Los
Angeles, condominium. O.J. Simpson was later acquitted of the killings
in a criminal trial, but held liable in a civil action. "The Run of His
Life" by Jeffrey Toobin tells the story of the O.J. Simpson trial.
(SFC, 5/26/96, p.A-15)(SFEC, 9/8/96, BR p.1)(AP,
6/12/97)
1994 Jun 12, Rabbi Menachem
Schneerson, the charismatic Orthodox Jewish leader, died in New York at
age 92.
(AP, 6/12/99)
1994 Jun 13, A jury in Anchorage,
Alaska blamed recklessness by Exxon Corp. and Capt. Joseph Hazelwood
for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the nation's worst
oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
(AP, 6/13/99)
1994 Jun 13, O.J. Simpson was
questioned for several hours by Los Angeles police following the
slashing deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole, and Ronald Goldman.
(AP, 6/13/99)
1994 Jun 13, The Lithuanian
Ambassador to Italy, Stasys Lozoraitis Jr., died.
(Dr, 7/96, V1#1, p.4)
1994 Jun 14, The New York Rangers
won hockey's Stanley Cup for the first time in 54 years, defeating the
Vancouver Canucks.
(AP, 6/14/99)
1994 Jun 14, President Clinton
unveiled a $9.3 billion welfare reform plan.
(AP, 6/14/99)
1994 Jun 14, Henry Mancini (70),
Academy Award-winning composer, died in Beverly Hills, Calif. On Apr
14, 2004, the US Postal Service issued a stamp in his honor.
(AP, 6/14/99)(USAT, 3/23/04, p.1D)
1994 Jun 14, Marcel Mouloudji
(b.1922), Algeria-born French actor/chansonnier, died in Paris.
(www.inthe90s.com/generated/obit1994.shtml)
1994 Jun 15, Disney's "Lion King,"
opened in US theaters.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0110357/releaseinfo)
1994 Jun 15, Former President
Jimmy Carter arrived in North Korea on a private mission to try to
reduce tensions with the communist nation.
(AP, 6/15/99)
1994 Jun 15, Israel and the
Vatican established full diplomatic relations.
(AP, 6/15/97)
1994 Jun 16, Former President
Jimmy Carter, on a private visit to North Korea, reported the Communist
nation's leaders were eager to resume talks with the United States on
resolving disputes about Pyongyang's nuclear program and improving
relations.
(AP, 6/16/99)
1994 Jun 16, Boris Alexandrov
(88), conductor (Red Army Song and Dance Ensemble), died.
(www.oconnormusic.org/month-jun.htm)
1994 Jun 17, After leading police
on a slow-speed chase on Southern California freeways, that millions of
Americans watched, OJ Simpson was arrested for the murder of wife
Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. The arrest took
place after a prolonged slow-car chase where Al A.C. Cowlings drove
Simpson around in a white Ford Bronco and talked him into giving up to
the police. Simpson was later acquitted in a criminal trial, but held
liable in a civil trial.
(WSJ, 10/4/95, p.A-1)(SFC, 6/30/96, p.B5)(AP,
6/17/97)(HN, 6/17/98)
1994 Jun 17, Johnnie Cochran, who
was later hired as a defense attorney for O.J. Simpson, was quoted
off-camera during a break on ABC’s Nightline saying: "he obviously did
it."
(SFEC, 9/8/96, BR p.1)
1994 Jun 18, The presidents of
North Korea and South Korea agreed to hold a historic summit. Plans
were disrupted by the death of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung on July
8.
(AP, 6/18/99)
1994 Jun 19, Former President
Jimmy Carter, just returned from North Korea, said he believed the
crisis with Pyongyang was over following talks with North Korean
President Kim Il Sung on how to resolve the nuclear issue.
(AP, 6/19/99)
1994 Jun 20, O.J. Simpson pleaded
innocent in Los Angeles to the killing of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her
friend, Ronald Goldman.
(AP, 6/20/99)
1994 Jun 20, Former airman Dean
Allen Mellberg went on a shooting rampage at Fairchild Air Force Base
near Spokane, Wash., killing four people and wounding 22 others before
being killed by a military police sharpshooter.
(AP, 6/20/04)
1994 Jun 21, Summer solstice. The
official beginning of summer.
(PacDis, Spring/'94, p. 40)
1994 Jun 21, President Clinton,
addressing members of the Business Roundtable, made an impassioned call
for action on health care reform.
(AP, 6/21/99)
1994 Jun 21, Seven people died and
more than 200 were sickened by fumes from the lethal nerve gas sarin in
Matsumoto in Central Japan. The Aum Shinri Kyo (Kyi) cult (Supreme
Truth) was later charged with the attack.
(SFC, 4/24/96, p.A-8)(SFC, 9/29/97, p.A13)
1994 Jun 21, American teenager
Michael Fay was released from a Singapore prison, where he'd been
flogged for vandalism.
(AP, 6/21/04)
1994 Jun 22, The Houston Rockets
defeated the New York Knicks 90-84 to win the NBA championship.
(AP, 6/22/99)
1994 Jun 22, President Clinton
announced North Korea had confirmed its willingness to freeze its
nuclear program.
(AP, 6/22/99)
1994 Jun 23, The United States and
Russia signed agreements in Washington on cooperating in space and
economic development.
(AP, 6/23/04)
1994 Jun 23, French marines and
Foreign Legionnaires headed into Rwanda to try to stem the country's
ethnic slaughter.
(AP, 6/23/99)
1994 Jun 24, President Clinton
struck out at his conservative critics and the media, complaining in a
speech in St. Louis that unfair and negative reports about him were
feeding a cynical mindset in America.
(AP, 6/24/99)
1994 Jun 24, The EU and Russia
signed a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA). It went into
force on Dec 1, 1997.
(www.eu-russiacentre.org/assets/files/Arbatova_article.pdf)
1994 Jun 25, Japanese Prime
Minister Tsutomu Hata, faced with certain defeat in a no-confidence
vote, announced his intention to resign after just two months in
office.
(AP, 6/25/99)
1994 Jun 26, Hundreds of thousands
of homosexuals gathered in New York City to commemorate the 25th
anniversary of the Stonewall Inn riot, considered the birth of the
gay-rights movement.
(AP, 6/26/99)
1994 Jun 26, An Israeli commission
found that a Jewish settler had acted alone when he shot and killed 29
Muslims in a Hebron mosque, rejecting Palestinian claims of a
conspiracy.
(AP, 6/26/99)
1994 Jun 27, President Clinton
replaced White House chief of staff Mack McLarty with budget director
Leon Panetta.
(AP, 6/27/99)
1994 Jun 27, U.S. Coast Guard
cutters intercepted 1,330 Haitian boat people on the high seas in one
of the busiest days since refugees began leaving Haiti following a 1991
military coup.
(AP, 6/27/99)
1994 Jun 28, President Clinton
became the first chief executive in U.S. history to set up a personal
legal defense fund and ask Americans to contribute to it.
(AP, 6/28/99)
1994 Jun 28, North and South Korea
set July 25-27 as the dates for a historic summit. The summit was
derailed by the death of North Korean President Kim Il Sung on Jul 8.
(AP, 6/28/99)
1994 Jun 29, US reopened
Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees.
(http://tinyurl.com/8j53m)
1994 Jun 29, In a British TV
documentary, Prince Charles said he was faithful in his marriage to
Princess Diana "until it became irretrievably broken down."
(AP, 6/29/99)
1994 Jun 29, Japan's parliament
chose Tomiichi Murayama to be the new prime minister, succeeding
Tsutoma Hata.
(AP, 6/29/04)
1994 Jun 30, Pres. Clinton signed
Public Law 103-270, the Independent Council Reauthorization Act.
(WSJ, 1/29/98, p.A1)
1994 Jun 30, The US Supreme Court
ruled that judges can bar even peaceful demonstrators from getting too
close to abortion clinics.
(AP, 6/29/99)
1994 Jun 30, The U.S. Figure
Skating Association stripped Tonya Harding of the 1994 national
championship and banned her from the organization for life for an
attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan.
(AP, 6/29/99)
1994 Jun, Harold James Nicholson,
former CIA station chief, started passing information to Russia from
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and collected as much as $180,000. He was
arrested on Nov 18, 1996 for espionage. He pleaded guilty and
drew a 23 1/2 year sentence in 1997.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.A1)(SFC, 11/22/96, p.A20)(WSJ,
6/6/97, p.A1)
1994 Jun, Massimo Troisi, Italian
actor and director, died. He had just finished working on the film Il
Postino, (The Postman).
(SFEC, 11/17/96, Par p.24)
1994 Jun, An Israeli helicopter
gunship at Ein Darbara, Lebanon, killed at least 30 Hezbollah trainees.
(SFC, 12/5/96, p.C5)
1994 Jun, In Tanzania 43 girls
died in a fire at Shauritanga school near Mount Kilimanjaro.
(AP,
8/24/09)(http://70.84.171.10/~etools/newsbrief/1994/news0620)
1994 Jun-1994 Aug, Alvin Straight
(1920-1996) rode his John Deere lawn mower 240 miles to visit his sick
brother. He could not see well enough to get a driver’s license. He
left Iowa in early June and arrived in Wisconsin in mid-August.
(SFC, 11/14/96, p.A22)
1994 Jul 1, Brazil under finance
minister Henrique Cardoso adopted the Real Plan, named for a new
currency fixed to the US dollar with a "crawling peg." Inflation had
hit 7,000% as Cardoso launched the new currency.
(WSJ, 12/15/95, p.A-1,13)(WSJ, 4/26/96, p.A-15)(WSJ,
6/12/97, p.A19)
1994 Jul 1, PLO chairman Yasser
Arafat drove from Egypt into Gaza, returning to Palestinian land after
27 years in exile.
(AP, 7/1/99)
1994 Jul 2, Conchita Martinez won
the women's title at Wimbledon, defeating Martina Navratilova 6-4, 3-6,
6-3.
(AP, 7/2/99)
1994 Jul 2, A US Air DC-9 crashed
in poor weather at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in North
Carolina, killing 37 of the 57 people aboard.
(AP, 7/2/97)
1994 Jul 2, Colombian soccer
player Andres Escobar was shot to death in Medellin, ten days after
accidentally scoring a goal against his own team in World Cup
competition.
(AP, 7/2/99)
1994 Jul 3, Pete Sampras defeated
Goran Ivanisevic to win the Wimbledon men's championship, 7-6, 7-6,
6-0.
(AP, 7/3/99)
1994 Jul 3, Thirty-one people died
in three separate crashes on Texas highways.
(AP, 7/3/99)
1994 Jul 4, The United States
opened its embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, with a Fourth of
July party.
(AP, 7/4/99)
1994 Jul 4, Rwandan Tutsi rebels
seized control of most of their country's capital, Kigali, and
continued advancing on areas held by the Hutu-led government.
(AP, 7/4/99)
1994 Jul 5, In an attempt to halt
a surge of Haitian refugees, the Clinton administration announced it
was refusing entry to new Haitian boat people.
(AP, 7/5/99)
1994 Jul 5, President Clinton set
out on a four-nation European trip that included a Group of Seven
summit in Naples, Italy.
(AP, 7/5/99)
1994 Jul 6, President Clinton
stopped by Latvia, then traveled to Poland as part of a four-nation
European tour.
(AP, 7/6/04)
1994 Jul 6, Fourteen firefighters
were killed while battling a blaze on Storm King Mountain in Colorado.
(AP, 7/6/99)
1994 Jul 7, President Clinton,
visiting Poland, assured the parliament that the U.S. would "not let
the Iron Curtain be replaced by a veil of indifference."
(AP, 7/7/99)
1994 Jul 7, Panama withdrew its
offer to the United States to accept thousands of Haitian refugees.
(AP, 7/7/99)
1994 Jul 8, O.J. Simpson was
ordered to stand trial on charges of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole, and
her friend, Ronald Goldman.
(AP, 7/8/99)
1994 Jul 8, The space shuttle
"Columbia" blasted off on a two-week mission.
(AP, 7/8/99)
1994 Jul 8, Leaders of the Group
of Seven nations opened their 20th annual economic summit in Italy.
Silvio Berlusconi hosted the G-7 summit in Naples.
(SFC, 2/13/98, p.A12)(AP, 7/8/99)(Econ, 1/22/05,
p.46)
1994 Jul 8, Kim Il Sung ("Great
Leader"), North Korea's communist leader since 1948, died at age 82.
His son Kim Jong Il ("The Dear Leader") succeeded him.
(AP, 7/8/97)(WSJ, 6/26/97, p.A14)
1994 Jul 9, Members of the Group
of Seven (G-7) nations concluded their economic summit in Naples,
Italy.
(AP, 7/9/99)
1994 Jul 9, Planned talks between
North Korea and South Korea were put on hold following the death of
North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung.
(AP, 7/9/99)
1994 Jul 10, In the first meeting
of its kind, Russian President Boris Yeltsin joined leaders of the
Group of Seven nations for political talks following their annual
economic summit in Naples, Italy.
(AP, 7/10/99)
1994 Jul 11, President Clinton, on
his first official visit to Germany, urged his hosts to take on a
stronger leadership role in global affairs.
(AP, 7/11/99)
1994 Jul 11, Shawn Eckardt was
sentenced in Portland, Ore., to 18 months in prison for his role in the
attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
(AP, 7/11/99)
1994 Jul 11, Gary Kildall (52),
pioneer software writer, died in Monterey, Ca.
(www.maxframe.com/kildallr.htm)
1994 Jul 11, Haiti's army-backed
regime ordered the expulsion of international human rights observers.
(AP, 7/11/99)
1994 Jul 12, The National League
won the US baseball All-Star Game, defeating the American League 8-7.
(AP, 7/12/99)
1994 Jul 12, President Clinton,
visiting Germany, went to the eastern sector of Berlin, the first
president to do so since Harry Truman.
(AP, 7/12/99)
1994 Jul 12, US confirmation
hearings began for Supreme Court nominee Stephen G. Breyer.
(AP, 7/12/04)
1994 Jul 12, The shareholders and
employees of United Airlines approved a deal giving the majority
ownership to the employees (76,000+).
(Hem, Dec. 94, p.13)
1994 Jul 13, President Clinton
visited flood-stricken Georgia, where he announced more than $60
million in aid for Georgia, Alabama and Florida.
(AP, 7/13/99)
1994 Jul 13, Tonya Harding's
ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, was sentenced in Portland, Ore., to two
years in prison for his role in the attack on Nancy Kerrigan. He ended
up serving six months.
(AP, 7/13/99)
1994 Jul 14, A tidal wave of Hutu
refugees from Rwanda's civil war flooded across the border into Zaire,
swamping relief organizations.
(AP, 7/14/99)
1994 Jul 15, During a baseball
game between the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago White Sox in
Chicago's Comiskey Park, umpire Dave Phillips ordered the bat of Albert
Belle of the Indians to be removed from the game for later examination
for illegal cork. The bat was then stolen by pitcher Jason Grimsley,
who crawled through air ducts to take it. The Indians won the game 3-2
and later returned the bat under umpire threats and Belle was given a
10-game suspension that was reduced to 7 games.
(SFEC, 4/11/99, p.A3)
1994 Jul 15, Microsoft Corp.
reached a settlement with the Justice Department, promising to end
practices it used to corner the market for personal computer software
programs. In a consent decree with the Justice Dept. Microsoft agreed
to change contracts with PC makers and other software companies ending
the government's antitrust investigation.
(AP, 7/15/99)(WSJ, 4/4/00, p.A16)
1994 Jul 16, "Sisters Rosensweig"
closed at Barrymore Theater in NYC after 556 performances.
(www.theatredb.com/QShow.php?sid=s0449)
1994 Jul 16, The 3 tenors, Placid
Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti and Jose Carreras, performed in Los Angeles,
Ca.
(www.kviestore.org/vhthte19lan.html)
1994 Jul 16, The first of 21
pieces of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into Jupiter. The comet was
initially discovered by astronomer Eugene Shoemaker (d.1997 at 69).
(HFA, '96, p.34)(SFC, 7/19/97, p.A21)(AP, 7/16/99)
1994 Jul 17, Fragments of comet
Shoemaker-Levy continued to smash into Jupiter, sending up towering
fireballs.
(AP, 7/17/99)
1994 Jul 17, Brazil defeated Italy
to win its fourth World Cup title.
(AP, 7/17/99)
1994 Jul 17, Hutus left Rwanda for
refugee camps in Zaire.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.A16)
1994 Jul 18, Crayola announced the
introduction of scented crayons.
(www.nomenu.com/MDArchives/Vol17/m17d005.html)
1994 Jul 18, In Buenos Aires a
terrorist attack killed 85 people at the city’s Jewish Center, the
Argentine Israelite Mutual Aid Society (AMIA). Some 300 people were
injured. In 1996 three senior policemen and a retired officer were
charged in connection to the bombing. Iran denied any role. Police
inspector, Juan Jose Ribelli, accepted a $2.5 million several days
before the attack for providing the car in which the bomb exploded. It
was later revealed that he and his colleagues sold protection to car
thieves in return for stolen goods. In 2000 Ahmad Behbahani (32) told a
60 Minutes journalist from a refugee camp in Turkey that Iran was
behind the 1994 bombing in Argentina. In 2002 it was reported that Iran
paid Pres. Menem $10 million to cover up Iran’s involvement. In 2004 a
federal court acquitted 5 men of being accessories to the bombing. [see
Nov 9, 2005] In 2009 a court ruled that Carlos Alberto Telledin,
accused of loading the van with explosives, should be tried again for
his participation in the bombing.
(WSJ, 8/1/96 p.A1)(WSJ, 11/24/97, p.A1)(SFC,12/9/97,
p.B10)(HN, 7/18/98)(SFC, 6/6/00, p.A10)(SFC, 7/22/02, p.A1)(SFC,
9/3/04, p.A18)(NYT, 10/8/04, p.A12)(SSFC, 12/20/09, p.A31)
1994 Jul 18, In Rwanda the Tutsi
rebel movement (RPF) under Tutsi rebel leader Paul Kagame took power.
It promised to rebuild the courts and execute the guilty for the
slaughter of an estimated 500-800 thousand Tutsis. Two million
refugees, mostly Hutus, fled to refugee camps in Zaire and Tanzania.
Kagame studied at the US Army Command and General Staff College at Fort
Leavenworth in 1990. In 2005 Jean Hatzfeld, French journalist, authored
“Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak.”
(SFC, 417/96, p.A-9)(SFC, 8/9/96, p.A10)(SFC,
10/22/96, p.B1)(WSJ, 11/15/96, p.A16)(AP, 7/18/99)(SSFC, 6/26/05, p.C3)
1994 Jul 19, A bomb ripped apart a
Panama commuter plane, killing 21, including 12 Jews, a day after a car
bomb destroyed a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
killing 95 people.
(AP, 7/19/99)
1994 Jul 19, Funeral services were
held for North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung, who had died July 8 at age
82.
(AP, 7/19/99)
1994 Jul 19, Leonid Kuchma
(b.1938) took office as the 2nd president of Ukraine.
(Econ, 1/23/10,
p.48)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Kuchma)
1994 Jul 20, OJ Simpson offered a
$500,000 reward for evidence of ex-wife's killer.
(www.courttv.com/news/flashback/july.html)
1994 Jul 20, Bosnian Serbs
rejected an international peace plan sponsored by the United States,
Russia, France, Britain and Germany.
(AP, 7/20/99)
1994 Jul 21, Hugh Scott (93)
former US Senate Republican leader died in Falls Church, Va.
(AP, 7/21/99)
1994 Jul 21, Britain's Labor Party
elected Tony Blair its new leader, succeeding the late John Smith.
(AP, 7/21/99)
1994 Jul 22, O.J. Simpson pleaded
innocent to the slaying of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald
Goldman.
(AP, 7/22/99)
1994 Jul 23, Space shuttle
Columbia returned to Earth after a 15-day mission which included
experiments on the effects of weightlessness on aquatic animals.
(AP, 7/23/99)
1994 Jul 23, Gambian soldiers
proclaimed military government in Dakar, Senegal.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1994 Jul 23, The Goodwill Games
opened in St. Petersburg, Russia.
(www.goodwillgames.com/Past_games/past_1994_Summary.htm)
1994 Jul 24, Miguel Indurain won
his fourth consecutive Tour de France victory.
(AP, 7/24/99)
1994 Jul 24, S.F. Bailey walked
from the village of Mokwam in the Arfak Mountains of the Vogelkop
(Bird’s Head) Peninsula in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, to observe the
courtship performance of Bower bird number 4, Amblyornis inornatus.
(PacDisc. Spring/’96, p.41)
1994 Jul 24, Rwandan refugees
began trickling home after Zaire reopened the border between the two
countries; meanwhile, the first wave of a U.S. airlift arrived.
(AP, 7/24/99)
1994 Jul 25, Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a declaration
at the White House ending their countries' 46-year-old formal state of
war.
(AP, 7/25/97)
1994 Jul 26, The US House Banking
Committee opened limited hearings on the Whitewater controversy.
(AP, 7/26/99)
1994 Jul 26-1994 Jul 27, A car
bomb heavily damaged the Israeli embassy in London, injuring 14; hours
later, a second bomb exploded outside a building housing Jewish
organizations in north London.
(AP, 7/26/99)(NYT, 10/8/04, p.A12)
1994 Jul 26, In Cambodia 3 Western
backpackers were kidnapped from a train by the Khmer Rouge. The
surprise train attack left 13 dead. Frenchman Michel Braquet, Briton
Mark Slater, and Australian David Wilson were held at the base of Nuon
Paet, who later ordered them killed. Paet was convicted for the
killings in 1999 and sentenced to life in prison. Sam Bith and Chhouk
Rin, former Khmer Rouge guerrillas, were charged in connection with the
abduction and slayings in 1999. Col. Rin was arrested in 2000. Chhouk
Rin was acquitted in 2000 due to an amnesty for rebel defectors. In
2002 Bith was convicted and jailed for life.
(SFC, 6/8/99, p.A12)(SFC, 6/22/99, p.A12)(SFC,
6/22/99, p.A12)(SFC, 1/19/00, p.A16)(WSJ, 7/19/00, p.A1)(MC,
7/26/02)(AP, 12/23/02)
1994 Jul 26, The Turkish air force
bombed Kurds in Iraq and 79 people were killed.
(www.hrw.org/reports/1994/turkey2/)
1994 Jul 27, Bosnian Serbs
reimposed their blockade of Sarajevo and fired on a U.N. convoy,
killing one British soldier and wounding another.
(AP, 7/27/99)
1994 Jul 28, US Congressional
negotiators agreed on a crime-fighting package that included hiring
100,000 new police officers, banning assault-style weapons, vastly
expanding the death penalty and putting third-time felons behind bars
for life.
(AP, 7/28/99)
1994 Jul 28, In India 10 people
died in a seven-hour gun battle when Indian police raided a camp run by
Naga militants.
(http://listserv.indnet.org/cgi/wa.cgi?A2=ind9407e&L=india-d&T=0&F=&S=&P=196)
1994 Jul 29, US Supreme Court
nominee Stephen G. Breyer won Senate approval.
(AP, 7/29/99)
1994 Jul 29, Abortion opponent
Paul Hill (40) shot and killed Dr. John Bayard Britton (69) and
Britton's bodyguard, James H. Barrett, outside the Ladies Center clinic
in Pensacola, Fla. Hill was later convicted and sentenced to death.
Hill was executed Sep 3, 2003.
(AP, 7/29/99)(SFC, 9/2/03, p.A7)
1994 Jul 29, Jesse Timmendequas, a
convicted child molester, raped and strangled 7-year-old Megan Kanka in
New Jersey. The case spawned the 1996 "Megan’s Law," the
requirement that communities be informed of paroled sex offenders
living in their midst. A jury ordered the death penalty for
Timmendequas in 1997. He remained on New Jersey's Death Row until
December 17, 2007, when the New Jersey Legislature abolished the
state's death penalty. Timmendequas' sentence was then commuted to life
in prison without parole.
(SFC, 6/21/97,
p.A2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Timmendequas)
1994 Jul 30, The first U.S. troops
landed in the Rwandan capital of Kigali to secure the airport for an
expanded international aid effort.
(AP, 7/30/99)
1994 Jul 31, The U.N. Security
Council voted 12-0 with 2 abstentions to authorize member states to use
"all necessary means" to oust the military leadership in Haiti.
(AP, 7/31/99)(MC, 7/31/02)
1994 Jul, Key figures in a tax
dodging scheme called the Pilot Connection Society went on trial in San
Francisco. They were convicted for tax fraud in 1996 after failed
efforts by armed militia to arrest the judge. They had peddled
do-it-yourself tax evasion kits.
(SFC, 6/28/96, p.A4)
1994 Jul, The Chinese A share
index dropped 80% to 1,744.
(Hem. 1/95, p.49)
1994 Jul, Yahya Jammeh seized
power in Gambia and suspended the 1970 constitution.
(SFC, 8/10/96, p.A9)
1994 Aug 1, Michael Jackson and
Lisa Marie Presley confirmed they had secretly married eleven weeks
earlier.
(AP, 8/1/99)
1994 Aug 1, Supporters of Haiti's
military rulers declared their intention to fight back in the face of a
U.N. resolution paving the way for a U.S.-led invasion.
(AP, 8/1/99)
1994 Aug 2, US Congressional
hearings began on White Water.
(http://tinyurl.com/d8gu2)
1994 Aug 2, Serbia threatened to
cut all aid to the Bosnian Serbs if they didn't approve an
international peace plan.
(AP, 8/2/99)
1994 Aug 3, President Clinton told
a prime-time news conference he would sign either of two Democratic
health care plans before Congress.
(AP, 8/2/99)
1994 Aug 3, Stephen G. Breyer was
sworn in as the US Supreme Court's newest justice in a private ceremony
at Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's Vermont summer home.
(AP, 8/3/97)
1994 Aug 3, Arkansas carried out
the nation's first triple execution in 32 years.
(AP, 8/2/99)
1994 Aug 4, Howard Stern dropped
out of the NY gubernatorial race.
(MC, 8/4/02)
1994 Aug 4, Serb-dominated
Yugoslavia withdrew its support for Bosnian Serbs, sealing the 300-mile
border between Yugoslavia and Serb-held Bosnia.
(AP, 8/4/99)
1994 Aug 5, A three-judge panel of
the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington chose Kenneth W. Starr to take
over the Whitewater investigation from Robert Fiske.
(AP, 8/5/99)
1994 Aug 5, Some desperate Cubans
invaded foreign embassies to demand asylum. Others hijacked Havana
harbor ferries and tried to take them to the United States. Hundreds of
Cubans spilled onto Havana's seaside Malecon boulevard, picked up rocks
and debris from crumbling buildings and hurled them at police. Fidel
Castro arrived in an army jeep to quiet the disturbance. His appearance
prompted some demonstrators to drop their stones and applaud. In summer
of 1994, food and fuel were scarce and islanders sweated through
hours-long blackouts that stilled fans, air conditioners and water
pumps.
(AP, 8/5/09)
1994 Aug 6, In Wedowee, Ala., an
apparent arson fire destroyed Randolph County High School. It had been
the focus of tensions over the principal's stand against interracial
dating.
(AP, 8/6/99)
1994 Aug 7, The 10th International
Conference on AIDS opened in Yokohama, Japan.
(AP, 8/7/99)
1994 Aug 8, Israel and Jordan
opened the first road link between the two once warring countries.
(AP, 8/8/99)
1994 Aug 9, A divided US Senate
opened formal debate on legislation to provide health insurance for
millions of Americans without it.
(AP, 8/8/99)
1994 Aug 9, Sen. Manuel Cepeda was
gunned down on his way to work in Bogota. In 1999 Sgt. Justo Zuniga and
Sgt. Hernando Medina were found guilty of participating in the murder.
They acted on orders from Col. Rodolfo Herrera Luna, commander of the
Ninth Brigade, who died of a heart attack in 1996. In 2010 Colombia's
government acknowledged responsibility in the killing and asked
forgiveness.
(SFC, 12/21/99, p.C20)(AP, 1/29/10)
1994 Aug 10, President Clinton
claimed presidential immunity in asking a federal judge to dismiss, at
least for the time being, a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula
Corbin Jones, a former Arkansas state employee.
(AP, 8/10/99)
1994 Aug 11, A US federal jury
awarded $286.8 million to some 10,000 commercial fishermen for losses
as a result of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
(AP, 8/11/99)
1994 Aug 11, The Tenth
International Conference on AIDS concluded in Yokohama, Japan.
(AP, 8/11/99)
1994 Aug 12, Woodstock '94 opened
in Saugerties, N.Y.
(AP, 8/12/97)
1994 Aug 12, In baseball's eighth
work stoppage since 1972, players went on strike rather than allowing
team owners to limit their salaries. The season was effectively
cancelled and there was no World Series.
(AP, 8/12/99)(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.B8)
1994 Aug 12, Supreme Court Justice
Stephen G. Breyer, already sworn in during a private ceremony, took a
public oath at the White House.
(AP, 8/12/99)
1994 Aug 13, In his weekly radio
address, President Clinton put Congress on notice that he wouldn't give
up an assault weapons ban as the price to revive a crime bill stalled
on Capitol Hill.
(AP, 8/13/99)
1994 Aug 13, NATO
Secretary-General Manfred Woerner died at age 59.
(AP, 8/13/99)
1994 Aug 13, Elias Canetti
(b.1905), Bulgarian-born German novelist, playwright and Nobel Prize
winner (1981), died in Zurich. His books included “Auto-da-Fe” (1935)
and “Crowds and Power” (1960) and a memoir trilogy. In 2005 an assembly
of memoir manuscripts, collected after his death, was published
as “Party in the Blitz.”
(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ecanetti.htm)(WSJ, 9/24/05,
p.P12)
1994 Aug 14, Rain turned the final
full day of Woodstock '94 in Saugerties, N.Y., into a mudbath.
(AP, 8/14/04)
1994 Aug 14, Space telescope
Hubble photographed Uranus with rings.
(www.solarviews.com/eng/uranus.htm)
1994 Aug 14, Eight children who
were left alone died in an early morning house fire in Carbondale, Ill.
(AP, 8/14/99)
1994 Aug 14, Ilich Ramirez
Sanchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal," was captured in
Khartoum, Sudan. He was jailed in France the next day.
(SFC,12/17/97, p.A18)(AP, 8/15/97)
1994 Aug 15, Ilich Ramirez
Sanchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal," was jailed in
France after being captured in Sudan. By his own count he had killed 83
people before being captured. Bernard Violet is the author of
"Carlos - The Secret networks of Int’l. Terrorism."
(AP, 8/15/97)(SFC,12/11/97, p.C2,4)
1994 Aug 15, Shepherd Mead (80),
author, died of stroke In London, England. His 1951 novel “How to
Succeed at Business Without Really Trying” was made into a 1961
Broadway musical.
(www.inthe90s.com/generated/obit1994.shtml)
1994 Aug 16, President Clinton and
other top Democrats were scouring the House of Representatives for
converts in hopes of reviving a stalled anti-crime bill.
(AP, 8/16/99)
1994 Aug 16, In Sri Lanka the
People’s Alliance government came to power and promised to end the
civil war.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)
1994 Aug 17, Deputy Treasury
Secretary Roger Altman resigned under pressure, the latest Clinton
administration official felled by the Whitewater controversy.
(AP, 8/17/99)
1994 Aug 18, Florida Gov. Lawton
Chiles declared an immigration emergency and demanded federal help to
cope with the largest surge of Cuban refugees since the 1980 Mariel
boat-lift.
(AP, 8/18/99)
1994 Aug 18, Gottlob Frick
(b.1906), German operatic basso, died.
(www.iclassics.com/artistBio?contentId=304)
1994 Aug 19, President Clinton
abruptly halted the nation's three-decade open-door policy for Cuban
refugees.
(AP, 8/19/99)
1994 Aug 19, Linus Pauling
(b.1901), 2-time Nobel Prize winner, died. In 1954 he won the NP for
chemistry and in 1962 the NP for Peace.
(http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1962/pauling-bio.html)
1994 Aug 20, President Clinton
slapped new sanctions on Cuba that included prohibiting payments by
Cuban-Americans to their relatives in Cuba.
(AP, 8/21/04)
1994 Aug 20, Benjamin Chavis
Junior was fired as head of the NAACP after a turbulent 16-month
tenure.
(AP, 8/20/99)
1994 Aug 20, Buenos Aires
Archbishop Quarracino called for a zone of exclusion for all
homosexuals in Argentina.
(http://tinyurl.com/b87et)
1994 Aug 20, More than 250 killed
when a ferry sank in a storm on the River Meghna in Bangladesh.
(AP, 2/3/06)
1994 Aug 21, The US House, by a
vote of 235-195, passed a $30 billion crime bill that banned certain
assault-style firearms.
(AP, 8/21/99)
1994 Aug 21, Mexico held its
presidential election, which was won by Ernesto Zedillo.
(AP, 8/21/99)
1994 Aug 21, An Air Morocco
regional jet crashed and killed all 44 onboard. It was suspected that
the pilot steered the plane into the ground.
(WSJ, 3/10/98,
p.A1)(www.planecrashinfo.com/1994/1994-43.htm)
1994 Aug 22, DNA testing linked OJ
Simpson to the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman.
(www.usatoday.com/news/index/nns053.htm)
1994 Aug 22, A catacarb leak at
the Unocal facility in Rodeo, Ca., lasted 16 days. A suit by 6,000
residents settled in 1997 charged Unocal $80 million.
(SFC, 4/15/97, p.A10)
1994 Aug 22, Leo Lerman (b.1915),
writer and editor for Conde Nast, died. He left behind numerous
notebooks, which were published in 2007 under the title “The Grand
Surprise.”
(WSJ, 4/13/07, p.W6)(www.imdb.com/name/nm0503566/bio)
1994 Aug 22, Ernesto Zedillo of
Mexico's ruling party declared his victory as president, a day after
his leading opponents charged the election was unfair.
(AP, 8/22/99)
1994 Aug 23, Republican senators
threatened to thwart a $30 billion anti-crime bill unless Democrats
accepted changes in the House-passed measure; President Clinton
appealed for bipartisan cooperation.
(AP, 8/23/99)
1994 Aug 24, California executed
David Edwin Mason (36) in the gas chamber. Executions after Mason were
all by lethal injection.
(SFC, 12/13/05, p.A13)
1994 Aug 24, Israeli and PLO
negotiators agreed on an accord to give the Palestinians control of
health care, taxation, education and other services in West Bank areas
still controlled by Israel.
(AP, 8/24/99)
1994 Aug 25, The US Senate passed
a $30 billion crime bill, a major victory for Pres. Clinton.
(AP, 8/25/99)
1994 Aug 26, US Congressional
leaders and White House officials all but conceded that a health reform
bill was dead.
(AP, 8/26/99)
1994 Aug 26, In Egypt a
13-year-old Spanish boy was killed and 3 others injured in a tour bus
attack by Islamic extremists at Nag Hammadi.
(SFC,11/19/97, p.C2)
1994 Aug 27, The US State
Department said the US and Cuba had agreed to resume talks on Cuban
migration, with the hope of stemming the flow of refugees headed toward
Florida.
(AP, 8/27/99)
1994 Aug 28, A Drug Enforcement
Administration plane crashed in a remote area of Peru's
cocaine-producing jungle, killing five U.S. agents.
(AP, 8/28/99)
1994 Aug 29, At the end of a
weekend referendum, Bosnian Serbs overwhelmingly rejected what was
billed as a last-chance peace plan.
(AP, 8/29/99)
1994 Aug 30, Rosa Parks, who
helped touch off the civil rights movement in 1955 by refusing to give
up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., was robbed and
beaten in her Detroit apartment. Joseph Skipper later pleaded guilty to
assault and robbery and was sentenced to prison.
(AP, 8/30/99)
1994 Aug 31, In the London Intel
Speed Chess Grand Prix a Pentium computer beat world chess champ Gari
Kasparov.
(www.correspondencechess.com/campbell/apctcol/c9411.htm)
1994 Aug 31, The Irish Republican
Army (IRA) announces a "complete cessation of military operations,"
opening the way to a political settlement in Ireland for the first time
in a quarter of a century.
(SFC, 6/18/96, p.A8)(AP, 8/31/99)(HN, 8/31/99)
1994 Aug 31, Russia officially
ended its military presence in the former East Germany and the Baltics
after a half-century.
(AP, 8/31/99)
1994 Aug, In Mexico federal police
bodyguard Raul Macias passed 2 cash filled suitcases to the car trunk
of Mario Ruiz Massieu, a deputy attorney general. The drug money was
received from police commander Jesus David Grajeda Lara (d.12/95).
(SFC, 3/13/97, p.A14)
1994 Aug, In Taiwan the New Party
was established by former KMT legislators who refused to accept
Taiwanese separatism.
(SFC, 6/10/97, p.A9)
1994 Sep 1, Chicago police found
the body of 11-year-old Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, a suspect in a
gang-related killing who apparently became a victim of gang violence.
(AP, 9/1/99)
1994 Sep 1, Morocco established
low-level diplomatic relations with Israel.
(AP, 9/1/99)
1994 Sep 2, The US government
reported the nation's unemployment rate for August was unchanged from
July, at 6.1 percent.
(AP, 9/2/99)
1994 Sep 3, China and Russia
proclaimed an end to any lingering hostilities, pledging they would no
longer target nuclear missiles or use force against each other.
(AP, 9/3/99)
1994 Sep 4, On the eve of a
U.N.-sponsored conference on population in Cairo, Egypt, Vice President
Al Gore told NBC the United States was seeking a blueprint for world
population growth that rejected abortion as a family planning tool and
an international right.
(AP, 9/4/99)
1994 Sep 5, A U.N.-sponsored
population conference opened in Cairo, Egypt, where Norwegian Prime
Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland lashed out at the Vatican and at Muslim
fundamentalists by defending abortion rights and sex education. 179
nations signed a statement to ensure every woman’s right to education
and health care and to make choices about childbearing. In 2004 world
leaders of 85 nations endorsed the plan but the US refused because the
statement mentioned “sexual rights.”
(AP, 9/5/99)(SFC, 10/14/04, p.A9)
1994 Sep 6, Irish Prime Minister
Albert Reynolds and Gerry Adams, head of the IRA's political ally, Sinn
Fein, made a joint commitment to peace after their first face-to-face
meeting.
(AP, 9/6/99)
1994 Sep 6, James Clavell, author
and director (King Rat, Shogun), died at 69.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1994 Sep 7, U.S. Marines began
training on a Puerto Rican island amid talk in Washington of a U.S.-led
intervention in Haiti.
(AP, 9/7/99)
1994 Sep 7, After a brief meeting,
the United States and Cuba temporarily suspended talks on stemming the
Cuban refugee exodus.
(AP, 9/7/99)
1994 Sep 8, A US Air Boeing 737
from Chicago crashed near Pittsburgh Int’l. Airport and killed all 132
people onboard. USAir Flight 427 crashed 6 minutes before it was due to
land. In 2002 Bill Adair authored "The Mystery of Flight 427."
(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)(AP, 9/8/97)(SFC, 11/13/01,
p.A12)(WSJ, 5/23/02, p.D7)
1994 Sep 8, The last US, British
& French troops left West-Berlin.
(MC, 9/8/01)
1994 Sep 9, The United States
agreed to accept at least 20,000 Cuban immigrants a year in return for
Cuba's promise to halt the flight of refugees.
(AP, 9/9/99)
1994 Sep 9, Prosecutors in Los
Angeles said they would not seek the death penalty for O.J. Simpson.
(AP, 9/9/99)
1994 Sep 9, The space shuttle
Discovery blasted off on an 11-day mission.
(AP, 9/9/99)
1994 Sep 10, President Clinton,
Vice President Al Gore and top national security advisers met to
discuss intervention in Haiti, but made no final decisions.
(AP, 9/10/99)
1994 Sep 10, Amy Clampitt
(b.1920), American poet, died. Her books included “Kingfisher” (1983).
In 2005 Willard Spiegelman edited her selected letters: “Love, Amy: The
Selected Letters of Amy Clampitt.”
(WSJ, 7/22/05,
p.W7)(www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=890)
1994 Sep 11, In the 46th Annual
Primetime Emmy Awards the winners included Fraiser (comedy), Picket
Fences (best drama).
(AP, 9/11/04)
1994 Sep 11, Anthony Marceca
visited Craig Livingstone at the White House and secretly perused his
own personal FBI file. He obtained the names of 2 women, Lanny
Stephenson and Joyce L. Montag, who had provided the FBI background
information and sued them for slander.
(WSJ, 6/28/96,
p.A9)(www.judicialwatch.org/archive/ois/cases/filegate/SubCertBrief.htm)
1994 Sep 11, Frederick Rand
Weissman (b.1912, philanthropist, died. He funded a number of American
art galleries.
(www.radioislam.org/thetruth/26art.htm)(http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Obituary/1994/misc.html)
1994 Sep 11, Jessica Tandy (85),
actress (Driving Miss Daisy), died of cancer in Easton, Conn.
(AP, 9/11/99)
1994 Sep 12, A stolen,
single-engine Cessna crashed into the South Lawn of the White House,
coming to rest against the executive mansion; the pilot, Frank Corder,
was killed.
(AP, 9/12/99)
1994 Sep 12, Tom Ewell (S. Yewell
Tompkins), US actor (7 Year Itch), died at 85.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0263885/)
1994 Sep 12, In Canada the Parti
Quebecois won a parliamentary election.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_general_election,_1994)
1994 Sep 13 President Clinton
signed into law a $30 billion anticrime bill. It included a 10 year ban
on assault weapons, which expired in 2004.
(AP, 9/13/99)(SFC, 9/10/04, p.A1)
1994 Sep 13, Bob Blackbull,
Blackfoot Indian, received his first shipment of mustangs in Browning,
Montana, and revived a piece of their culture.
(SFC, 9/2/96, p.A3)
1994 Sep 13, In Cyprus 3 British
soldiers abducted tour guide Louise Jensen (23). Her body was found 2
days later. In 1996 they were sentenced to life imprisonment after
being convicted of abducting, conspiring to rape, and killing Louise
Jensen. In 2006 the former soldiers were released and deported to
Britain after serving only 12 years.
(www.hri.org/news/cyprus/cmnews/1998/98-06-17.cmnews.html)(AP, 8/22/06)
1994 Sep 13, Some 180 nations at a
U.N.-sponsored conference in Cairo, Egypt, adopted a 20-year blueprint
for slowing the world's population growth.
(AP, 9/13/99)
1994 Sep 14, On the 34th day of a
strike by players, Bud Selig, acting commissioner, announced the 1994
baseball season was over. All 28 baseball owners voted to cancel rest
of 1994 season.
(AP, 9/14/99)
1994 Sep 15, In a terse ultimatum
from the Oval Office, President Clinton told Haiti's military leaders
in a prime-time address: "Your time is up. Leave now or we will force
you from power."
(AP, 9/14/99)
1994 Sep 15, An Arab Charter on
Human Rights was adopted by the Council of the League of Arab States.
(www.al-bab.com/arab/docs/international/hr1994.htm)
1994 Sep 16, A federal jury
ordered Exxon Corp. to pay $5 billion in punitive damages to commercial
fishermen and others harmed in the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska. A
US Court of Appeals threw out the punitive damages in 2001.
(AP, 9/16/99)(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A17)
1994 Sep 16, Two astronauts from
the space shuttle Discovery went on the first untethered spacewalk in
10 years.
(AP, 9/16/99)
1994 Sep 17, Heather Whitestone of
Alabama was crowned "Miss America," the first deaf woman to win the
title.
(AP, 9/17/97)
1994 Sep 17, Fifty-six miners
confirmed killed in a gas blast at the Nanshan coal mine, northeastern
Heilongjiang province.
(www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/China/GB16Ad02.html)
1994 Sep 17, As some 20 warships
sat off the coast of Haiti, former President Jimmy Carter, Sen. Sam
Nunn (D-Ga.) and retired Gen. Colin Powell arrived in the Caribbean
nation in an 11th-hour bid to avert a U.S.-led invasion.
(AP, 9/17/99)
1994 Sep 17, Sir Karl Popper
(b.1902), Austrian-born philosopher of science, died.
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper)
1994 Sep 18, Ken Burn's "Baseball"
premiered on PBS.
(www.npr.org/programs/npc/2002/020918.kburns.html)
1994 Sep 18, Tennis star Vitas
Gerulaitis, 40, was found dead in the guest cottage of a friend's home
in Southampton, N.Y., of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning.
(AP, 9/18/04)
1994 Sep 18, Haiti's military
leaders agreed to an Oct. 15 departure deadline, thereby averting a
U.S.-led invasion to force them from power.
(AP, 9/18/04)
1994 Sep 19, Some 3,000 U.S.
troops peacefully entered Haiti to enforce the return of exiled
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The US operation Uphold Democracy
began in Haiti and ended Mar 31, 1995. They cost $1.1 billion and left
4 US casualties with 3 wounded.
(AP,
9/19/99)(www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/haiti/haiti99.htm)
1994 Sep 20, Space shuttle
Discovery and its six astronauts landed at Edwards Air Force Base in
California after an 11-day mission.
(AP, 9/20/99)
1994 Sep 20, Jule Styne (88),
Broadway composer (Gypsy, Funny Girl), died in New York.
(AP, 9/20/99)
1994 Sep 21, Prosecutors from Los
Angeles and Santa Barbara counties announced that Michael Jackson would
not face child molestation charges; however, the case would remain open
until 1999.
(AP, 9/21/99)
1994 Sep 22, The United States
stepped up its military control of Haiti, breaking up heavy weapons,
guarding pro-democracy activists and giving U.S. troops more leeway to
use force.
(AP, 9/22/99)
1994 Sep 22, Pope John Paul II,
recovering from hip-replacement surgery, canceled his U.S. trip,
planned for October.
(AP, 9/22/99)
1994 Sep 22, In Tolunda, Angola,
faulty brakes caused a train to plunge into a ravine and some 300
people were killed.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A15)(AP, 2/18/04)
1994 Sep 23, The White House
announced a shakeup involving two dozen staff members.
(AP, 9/23/99)
1994 Sep 23, John van Damme (59),
Dutch businessman, was hanged in Singapore for drug trafficking.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_in_Singapore)
1994 Sep 23, The U.N. Security
Council rewarded Yugoslavia for sealing its border with Bosnia by
easing sanctions in sports, cultural exchanges and air traffic.
(AP, 9/23/99)
1994 Sep 24, A firefight erupted
between U.S. Marines and a group of armed Haitians outside a police
station in the northern coastal city of Cap-Haitien; 10 of the Haitians
were killed.
(AP, 9/24/99)
1994 Sep 25, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin began a five-day swing through the United States as he
arrived in New York, hoping to encourage American investment in his
country's struggling economy.
(AP, 9/25/99)
1994 Sep 25, Swiss voters approved
a ban on racist propaganda. The law became effective Jan 1,1995.
(http://natall.com/national-vanguard/114/freedom.html)(www.ihr.org/jhr/v17/v17n4p-2.html)
1994 Sep 26, Addressing the U.N.
General Assembly, President Clinton announced he had lifted most U.S.
sanctions against Haiti and urged other nations to follow suit.
(AP, 9/26/99)
1994 Sep 26, US Senate Majority
Leader George Mitchell declared health care reform dead for the
session.
(AP, 9/26/99)
1994 Sep 26, Jury selection began
in Los Angeles for the murder trial of O.J. Simpson.
(AP, 9/26/99)
1994 Sep 27, More than 350
Republican congressional candidates gathered on the steps of the
Capitol to sign the "Contract with America," a 10-point platform they
pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.
(AP, 9/27/99)
1994 Sep 27, In Egypt a German
tourist and 2 Egyptians were killed by Islamic extremists at Hurghada.
Two other Germans were injured in gunfire at a Red Sea resort city, and
one later died.
(SFC,11/19/97, p.C2)
1994 Sep 28, The film "Ed Wood"
premiered. A stranger-than-fiction true story of the early career of
Edward D. Wood, Jr., the undisputed "worst movie director of all time."
Director Ed Wood died in 1978.
(www.bestprices.com/cgi-bin/vlink/786936212501IE.html)
1994 Sep 28, CIA Director R. James
Woolsey announced reprimands of 11 senior officers in the wake of the
Aldrich Ames spy scandal.
(AP, 9/28/99)
1994 Sep 28, Harry Saltzman (78),
producer (Dr No, Nijinski), died.
(www.eofftv.com/names/s/sal/saltzman_harry_main.htm)
1994 Sep 28, More than 900 (909)
people died when the ferry Estonia capsized and sank off the Finnish
coast in the Baltic sea. 852 people of 989 onboard were killed. In 1999
evidence was reported that 3 explosive devices had been placed on the
ship's visor-like bow door.
(AP, 9/28/99)(SFC, 12/31/99, p.A16)
1994 Sep 28, In Mexico Jose
Francisco Ruiz Massieu, the No. 2 man of the governing Institutional
Revolutionary Party (PRI) was murdered. Raul Salinas de Gortari was
later arrested and accused of masterminding the murder. Manuel Munoz
Rocha, a federal congressman, disappeared after the 9/28/94 slaying of
Ruiz Massieu. Prosecutors later said that Salinas and Rocha conspired
to kill Massieu. Raul Salinas was convicted in 1999.
(WSJ, 4/15/96, p.A-15)(SFC, 10/10/96, p.A12)(SFC,
1/22/99, p.A10)
1994 Sep 29, The US House voted to
end the age-old practice of lobbyists buying meals and entertainment
for members of Congress.
(AP, 9/29/99)
1994 Sep 29, The first phase of
jury selection in the O.J. Simpson murder trial ended, with a pool of
304 potential jurors chosen.
(AP, 9/29/04)
1994 Sep 29, Gunmen in Italy fired
at the rental car of the Green family of Bodega Bay, Ca., and killed
their young boy, Nicholas Green. The parents donated his organs and
saved 7 lives in Italy. An appeals court in 1998 found 2 men guilty of
the botched highway robbery. Michelle Ianello was sentenced to life in
prison and Francesco Mesiano was sentenced to 20 years. In 1999 Reg
Green published "The Nicholas Effect, A Boy's Gift to the World."
(SFEC, 10/27/96, p.B8)(SFC, 6/6/98, p.A10)(SFEM,
6/13/99, p.27)
1994 Sep 30, The space shuttle
Endeavour and its six astronauts roared into orbit on an 11-day
mission.
(AP, 9/30/99)
1994 Sep 30, Roberto Viola
(b.1924), Argentine general and president (1981), died. In 1983 he was
arrested and sentenced to 17 years in prison for human rights
violations committed by the military junta during the Dirty War.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Viola)
1994 Sep, Pres. Clinton ordered
20,000 US troops into Haiti to restore a democratically elected
government and to stop the flow of boat people to Florida.
(SFC, 8/27/99, p.A14)
1994 Sep, A US District Court
assessed $5.3 billion in punitive damages on Exxon Corp. for the 1989
Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
(SFC, 3/27/99, p.A7)
1994 Sep, Apple Corp. announced
that it would allow other companies clone the Mac.
(SFC, 1/24/04, p.A12)
1994 Sep, SynOptics Corp. merged
with Wellfleet Communications and changed its name to Bay Networks Inc.
SynOptics developed a way to use telephone type wiring arrayed in
spokes from a connecting box called a hub. This lowered costs and
improved reliability for system networks.
(WSJ,11/14/94, p.R26)
1994 Sep, In Ohio at the
Oktoberfest in Cincinnati a record for the ‘World’s Largest Chicken
Dance" was set with 48,000 people dancing.
(WSJ, 9/21/98, p.B1)
1994 Sep, The Taliban was formed
in southern Afghanistan. Its fighters were initially trained by the
Frontier Constabulary, a paramilitary force of Pakistan’s Interior
Ministry. Taliban forces captured the southern town of Kandahar. 800
truckloads of arms and ammunition were gained from a Soviet cache. They
continued to gain land over the next 2 years.
(SFC, 9/28/96, p.A8)(SFC, 1/1/97,p.C3)(SSFC,
7/30/06, p.A10)
1994 Sep, In Algeria Lounes
Matoub, a popular Berber singer, was kidnapped by Islamic militants. He
was held for over 2 weeks and released after over 100,000 people
demonstrated for his freedom.
(SFC, 6/27/98, p.A13)
1994 Sep, In Guatemala a
440-member UN human rights mission was installed.
(SFC, 5/14/96, A-10)
1994 Sep, Naseerullah Baber,
Pakistan’s interior minister, arranged a peace convoy to run rice,
clothing and other gifts through Afghanistan to Turkmenistan.
(SFC, 1/1/97, C3)
1994 Oct 1, National Hockey League
team owners began a 103-day lockout of their players.
(AP, 10/1/99)
1994 Oct 1, The United States and
Japan reached a series of trade agreements, averting a threatened trade
war.
(AP, 10/1/99)
1994 Oct 2, U.S. soldiers in Haiti
detained several leaders of the country's pro-army militias as part of
an effort to dismantle armed opposition to restoration of elected rule.
(AP, 10/2/99)
1994 Oct 2, Harriet Nelson (85),
actress (The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet), died of heart failure
in Laguna Beach, Ca.
(AP, 10/2/04)
1994 Oct 3, U.S. soldiers in Haiti
raided the headquarters of a hated pro-army militia.
(AP, 10/3/99)
1994 Oct 3, US Agriculture
Secretary Mike Espy announced his resignation because of questions
about gifts he had received.
(AP, 10/3/99)
1994 Oct 3, South African
President Nelson Mandela addressed the United Nations, urging the world
to support his country's economy.
(AP, 10/3/99)
1994 Oct 4, President Clinton
welcomed South African President Nelson Mandela to the White House.
(AP, 10/4/99)
1994 Oct 4, In France Florence Rey
(19), a literature student, participated in a bungled holdup that left
3 police officers, a taxi driver, and her accomplice-lover dead
following a car chase. In 1998 she was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
(SFC, 10/2/98, p.B3)
1994 Oct 4, Exiled Haitian
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide vowed in an address to the U.N.
General Assembly to return to Haiti in 11 days.
(AP, 10/4/99)
1994 Oct 5, 48 members of a secret
religious doomsday cult were found dead in apparent murder-suicides
carried out simultaneously in two Swiss villages; five other bodies
were found in a sect apartment in Montreal, Canada.
(AP, 10/5/99)
1994 Oct 6, In an address to a
joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, South African President Nelson
Mandela warned against the lure of isolationism, saying the U.S.
post-Cold War focus should be on eliminating "tyranny, instability and
poverty" across the globe.
(AP, 10/6/99)
1994 Oct 7, At an East Room news
conference, Clinton expressed frustration over failures in his
legislative agenda, blaming Republicans for "trying to stop it, slow
it, kill it or just talk it to death."
(AP, 10/7/99)
1994 Oct 7, Iraqi troops moved
south toward Kuwait. Pres. Clinton dispatched a carrier group, 54,000
troops and warplanes to the gulf area after Iraqi troops were spotted
moving south toward Kuwait. The Iraqis pulled back.
(SFC, 9/4/96, p.A8)(AP, 10/7/99)
1994 Oct 8, President Clinton,
responding to the massing of Iraqi troops near the Kuwaiti border,
warned Saddam Hussein not to misjudge "American will or American power"
as he ordered additional U.S. forces to the region.
(AP, 10/8/99)
1994 Oct 9, The United States sent
troops and warships to the Persian Gulf after Saddam Hussein sent tens
of thousands of elite troops and hundreds of tanks toward the Kuwaiti
border.
(AP, 10/9/99)
1994 Oct 9, In the Austrian
parliamentary election 22.6% voted extreme-right. The ruling coalition
of the Social Democratic Party and the People’s Party retained a
legislative majority but lost 23 seats.
(www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-768.html)
1994 Oct 9, Israeli soldier
Nachshon Wachsman (19) was kidnapped in Lod by 4 members of Hamas.
Hamas demanded the release of a jailed Hamas leader and 200 other
fundamentalist prisoners by Oct 14.
(SFC, 3/28/09, p.A9)
1994 Oct 10, Alfred G. Gilman and
Martin Rodbell of the US won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their
discovery of G-proteins and how cells confuse messages and foster
diseases.
(SFEC, 10/8/96, A9)(AP, 10/10/99)
1994 Oct 10, Anna Hauptmann (95),
wife of Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno, died in New Holland,
Pennsylvania.
(www.lindberghkidnappinghoax.com/anna.html)
1994 Oct 10, Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras
resigned as commander-in-chief of Haiti's armed forces and pledged to
leave the country.
(AP, 10/10/99)
1994 Oct 10, Iraq announced it was
withdrawing its forces from the Kuwaiti border; seeing no signs of a
pullback, President Clinton dispatched 350 additional aircraft to the
region.
(AP, 10/10/99)
1994 Oct 11, U.S. troops in Haiti
took over the National Palace.
(AP, 10/11/99)
1994 Oct 11, The Colorado Supreme
Court declared the state's anti-gay rights measure unconstitutional.
(AP, 10/11/99)
1994 Oct 11, Iraqi troops began
moving north, away from the Kuwaiti border.
(AP, 10/11/99)
1994 Oct 12,
American Clifford G. Shull and Canadian Bertram N. Brockhouse won
the Nobel physics prize; American George A. Olah won the Nobel
chemistry prize.
(AP, 10/12/04)
1994 Oct 12, The Magellan space
probe ended its four-year mapping mission of Venus, plunging into the
planet's atmosphere.
(TV, 10/17/95) (AP, 10/12/99)
1994 Oct 12, Panama granted
political asylum to ousted Haitian military leader Raoul Cedras.
(AP, 10/12/99)
1994 Oct 13, Kenzabuto Oe,
Japanese novelist, won the Nobel prize for literature. His work
included "A Personal Matter" (1964) and "An Echo of Heaven."
(SFC, 7/7/96, BR p.9)(AP, 10/13/99)
1994 Oct 13, Pro-British
Protestant paramilitaries in Northern Ireland announced a cease-fire
matching the Irish Republican Army's six-week-old truce.
(AP, 10/13/99)
1994 Oct 13, In Sri Lanka peace
talks began in Jaffna.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)
1994 Oct 14, The Nobel Peace Prize
was awarded to PLO leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.
(SFC, 10/12/96, p.A13)(AP, 10/14/99)
1994 Oct 14, Nobel Prize-winning
writer Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) was stabbed several times in the neck
by a 21-year-old assailant on a Cairo street. Muslim militants were
blamed in the attack. The wound resulted in the paralysis of his
writing hand.
(WSJ, 2/20/98, p.A16)(AP, 10/14/04)
1994 Oct 14, Israeli soldier
Nachshon Wachsman, kidnapped on Oct 9, was killed when Israeli
commandos raided the hideout of Islamic militants in Jerusalem. An
Israeli soldier and 3 kidnappers were also killed in the ensuing
firefight. In 2006 his family files suit against Iran for providing
training and support to Hamas. In 2009 a US judge awarded a $25 million
settlement to the family.
(AP, 10/14/99)(SFC, 3/28/09, p.A9)
1994 Oct 15, Haitian President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide returned to his country, three years after being
overthrown by army rulers. The U.N. Security Council welcomed
Aristide's return by voting to lift stifling trade sanctions imposed
against Haiti. The US had led an invasion, Operation Restore Democracy,
to restore Pres. Aristide. Emmanuel "Toto" Constant left Haiti for the
US when Jean-Bertrand Aristide was reinstated as president. The US
invasion was described in 1999 by Bob Shacochis in "The Immaculate
Invasion." Shacochis served there for 18 months as a Special Forces
noncombatant.
(SFC, 7/15/96, p.A10)(SFC, 6/21/96, p.A14)(SFEC,
2/14/99, BR p.1)(WSJ, 2/18/99, p.A20)(AP, 10/15/99)
1994 Oct 16, Heavy rains began
drenching southeast Texas, resulting in floods that left 20 dead and
forced 14,000 from their homes in 35 counties.
(AP, 10/16/99)
1994 Oct 16, German Chancellor
Helmut Kohl was elected to a fourth term.
(AP, 10/16/99)
1994 Oct 17, Negotiators for the
Angolan government and rebels agreed to a peace treaty to end their
19-year civil war.
(AP, 10/17/99)
1994 Oct 17, Leaders of Israel and
Jordan initialed a draft peace treaty.
(AP, 10/17/99)
1994 Oct 18, US Defense Secretary
William Perry, nearing the end of a visit to China, said Beijing had
agreed to brief the Pentagon on its overall military strategy and
defense spending plans.
(AP, 10/18/99)
1994 Oct 19, Entertainer Martha
Raye died in Los Angeles at age 78.
(AP, 10/19/99)
1994 Oct 19, A Palestinian suicide
bomber killed 22 Israelis and wounded 48 in a bus explosion in the
heart of Tel Aviv's shopping district. Hamas took responsibility.
(WSJ, 3/6/96, p. A-15)(G&M, 7/31/97, p.A8)(AP,
10/19/99)
1994 Oct 20, The Pentagon
announced that more than 100,000 U.S. troops were being taken off alert
for possible movement to the Persian Gulf because the Iraqi threat to
Kuwait had abated.
(AP, 10/20/99)
1994 Oct 20, Actor Burt Lancaster
died in Los Angeles at age 80. In 2000 Kate Buford authored the
biography "Burt Lancaster: An American Life."
(AP, 10/20/99)(SFEC, 3/19/00, BR p.1)
1994 Oct 21, President Clinton
conceded in a news conference that Democrats would lose seats in the
upcoming election.
(AP, 10/21/04)
1994 Oct 21, The wife of CIA
turncoat Aldrich Ames, Rosario Ames, was sentenced to five years in
prison for her role in her husband's espionage.
(AP, 10/21/04)
1994 Oct 21, United States and
North Korea signed an agreement requiring the communist nation to halt
its nuclear program and agree to inspections. Fuel rods from North
Korea’s nuclear reactor were to be shipped out of the country, but that
did not happen.
(AP, 10/21/99)(Econ, 7/21/07, p.41)
1994 Oct 21, Thirty-two people
were killed when a section of bridge collapsed in Seoul, South Korea.
(AP, 10/21/99)
1994 Oct 22, President Clinton,
campaigning in San Francisco for California Democrats, demanded that
schools expel gun-toting students; he earlier accused Republicans of
plotting to gut his education package.
(AP, 10/22/99)
1994 Oct 22, Colorado Springs
opened a brand new airport with a 2.5 million annual passenger
capacity, or about 7,000 people per day.
(Hem, Dec. 94, p.138)
1994 Oct 22, Harold Horace Hopkins
(b.1918), inventor (Endoscope), died.
(www.photonics.cusat.edu/Article1.html)
1994 Oct 22, Rollo May (b.1909),
founder (Humanistic Psychology Movement), died.
(www.enpsychlopedia.com/psypsych/Rollo_May)
1994 Oct 23, Robert Lansing (66),
actor (Twelve O'Clock High, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Equalizer),
died of cancer.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0487108/)
1994 Oct 23, In Egypt a British
man was killed and 3 injured in an attack on a van by Islamic
extremists at Naqada.
(SFC,11/19/97, p.C2)
1994 Oct 23, A suicide bomber in
Colombo, Sri Lanka, killed 50 people including Gamini Dissanayake, the
opposition presidential candidate.
(AP, 10/23/99)
1994 Oct 24, The Clinton
administration announced that the U.S. budget deficit had fallen to
$203 billion in the just-completed fiscal year.
(AP, 10/24/04)
1994 Oct 24, Raul Julia (54),
actor (Addams Family), died of stroke in Manhasset, N.Y.
(AP, 10/24/04)
1994 Oct 24, John Lautner
(b.1911), American modernist architect, died. In 1999 Alan Hess
authored "The Architecture of John Lautner." Lautner’s houses included
Chemosphere (1960) at 7776 Torreyson Dr., LA, Ca. His Rawlins residence
is located on Balboa Island in Newport Beach, Ca.
(SSFC, 11/16/03,
p.E7)(http://pages.videotron.com/mdaoust/)
1994 Oct 25, President Clinton
began a five-day trip to the Mideast.
(AP, 10/25/99)
1994 Oct 25, Susan Smith drowned
her 2 sons when she let her car roll into John D. Long Lake in South
Carolina. Smith of Union, S.C., claimed that a black carjacker had
driven off with her two sons and later confessed to drowning the
children in John D. Long Lake. She was convicted of murder. On Aug 31,
1996 three adults and 4 children drowned at the same location when
their car rolled into lake by accident.
(SFC, 9/2/96, p.D5)(AP, 10/25/99)
1994 Oct 25, Three defendants were
convicted in South Africa of murdering American exchange student Amy
Biehl.
(AP, 10/25/99)
1994 Oct 26, Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan
signed a peace treaty during an extravagant ceremony at the
Israeli-Jordanian border attended by President Clinton.
(WSJ, 5/30/96, p.A4)(SFC, 6/15/96, p.A7)(SFC,
4/24/98, p.A17)(AP, 10/26/99)
1994 Oct 27, In the first trip to
Syria by an American president in 20 years, Pres. Clinton met with
Syrian President Hafez Assad before heading to Jerusalem to meet with
Israeli officials.
(AP, 10/27/99)
1994 Oct 28, President Clinton
visited Kuwait, where he praised U.S. ground forces sent in response to
an Iraqi threat, and all but promised the troops they'd be home by
Christmas.
(AP, 10/28/99)
1994 Oct 29, Francisco Martin
Duran of Colorado Springs, Colo., fired more than two dozen shots from
a semiautomatic rifle at the White House while standing on Pennsylvania
Avenue; Duran was later convicted of trying to assassinate President
Clinton and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
(AP, 10/29/99)
1994 Oct 30, The National Museum
of American Indian opened in NYC.
(http://tinyurl.com/a6f5y)
1994 Oct 30, Pope John Paul II
named 30 new cardinals, including the archbishops of Baltimore and
Detroit and the first-ever from Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina and two
former East-bloc states, Albania and Belarus.
(AP, 10/30/99)
1994 Oct 31, An American Eagle
French-built ATR-72, en route from Indianapolis to Chicago, crashed in
Roselawn, Ind., and killed 68 people. In 1997 American Airlines and 7
other companies settled a suit filed by relatives for $110 million.
(SFC, 9/23/97, p.A4)(AP, 10/31/97)
1994 Oct, The Clintons inaugurated
a sculpture garden at the White House.
(WSJ, 12/1/98, p.A20)
1994 Oct, R.I. Hernstein and C.
Murray published "The Bell Curve." The book asserted that the US is
fast becoming an "IQ meritocracy," in which bright people are channeled
into High-paying jobs while the very dull, including many from minority
groups, disproportionately become welfare recipients, unwed teenage
mothers, school dropouts and criminals.
(WSJ, 10/20/94, p.B1)
1994 Oct, The Nobel Prize in
Economics was awarded to John C. Harsanyi (d.2000 at 80) of UC
Berkeley, John F. Nash of Princeton and to Reinhard Selten of the Univ.
of Bonn for their groundbreaking work in game theory.
(SFC, 10/15/98, p.A2)(SFC, 8/12/00, p.A22)
1994 Oct, John Forbes Nash Jr.
(66) won the Nobel Prize for Economic Science based on his work in game
theory which proved that there is always one set of strategies in which
no player can improve his situation by switching to a different
strategy. Nash spent many years debilitated by paranoid schizophrenia.
In 1998 Sylvia Nasar published Nash’s biography: "A Beautiful Mind." In
2001 a film opened based on the book.
{Economics, Nobel Prize}
(WSJ, 6/19/98, p.W9)(NW, 1/14/02,
p.68)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash)
1994 Oct, Forbes magazine listed
Gordon Getty as America’s 49th richest person with $1.5 billion.
(SFC, 1/8/95, p.7)
1994 Oct, US Congress passed the
Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. It was intended to keep
the FDA’s hands off of vitamin and mineral supplements unless something
goes wrong. It relaxed rules on how herbs could be marketed by allowing
companies to advertise structure and function claims even if medical
evidence was sketchy.
(SFEC,10/26/97, p.A10)(WSJ, 12/3/97, p.A1)
1994 Oct, Dream Works, a film
studio venture, was formed by Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and
Jeffrey Katzenberg.
(SFC, 7/5/96, p.D3)
1994 Oct, Shuttle by United
Airlines began operating to compete with Southwest Airlines.
(WSJ, 1/16/98, p.A1)
1994 Oct, GE sold its Kidder,
Peabody investment house to Paine Webber for $670 million.
(www.strategyleader.com/Welch%20strategies.html)
1994 Oct, Seven Picasso paintings
worth an estimated $44 million are stolen from a gallery in Zurich.
They are recovered in 2000.
(AP, 2/11/08)
1994 Oct, Bosnian forces defeated
the Serbs near Bihac.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1994 Oct, Fernando Henrique
Cardoso was elected president of Brazil.
(USAT, OW, 4/22/96, p.1)
1994 Oct, A Cuban exile took part
in a commando raid during which Arcilio Rodriguez Garcia, a local
official, was shot dead. Humberto Real Suarez and six others were
captured several hours after landing by boat. He was sentenced to death
in 1996 and the others were sentenced to 30-years in prison.
(SFC, 4/26/96, p.A-14)
1994 Oct, Kim Jong Ryul, a North
Korean colonel who spent two decades going on European shopping sprees
for his country's rulers, faked his death at the end of one of his
trips and started a new, secret life in Austria in the hope that the
oppressive regime would crumble within years. He left behind a wife and
two children. In 2010 Austrian journalists Ingrid Steiner-Gashi and
Dardan Gashi authored an account of Ryul’s work for Kim Jong Il.
(AP, 3/5/10)
1994 Oct, In Northern Ireland the
Loyalist Volunteers were founded by hard-line dissidents opposed to the
truces called by the Ulster Defense Assoc. and the Ulster Volunteer
Force, the north’s 2 major pro-British gangs.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.A11)
1994 Oct, Russian Journalist
Dmitry Kholodov was killed by an exploding briefcase. He had been
investigating corruption in the military. He had targeted former
defense minister Gen’l. Pavel Grachev and former troop commander Gen’l.
Matvei Burlakov. In 1998 a prosecutor charged retired colonel Pavle
Popovskikh with organizing the killing. In 2004 a Russian court
acquitted 6 men for lack of evidence.
(SFC, 12/30/96, p.A8)(WSJ, 6/11/04, p.A1)
1994 Nov 1, The US Senate
Intelligence Committee released a report saying CIA Director R. James
Woolsey's response to the Aldrich Ames spy case was "seriously
inadequate," but that his predecessors were ultimately to blame for the
scandal.
(AP, 11/1/99)
1994 Nov 1, In Cherry Hill, Pa.,
Len Jenoff and Paul Daniels clubbed to death Carol Neulander (52), the
wife of Rabbi Fred J. Neulander (53), under a contract from Rabbi
Neulander. Neulander stood trial in 2001 in New Jersey. He was
convicted of murder Nov 20, 2002 and sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A18)(SFC, 11/21/02, p.A6)(SFC,
11/23/02, p.A4)
1994 Nov 1, Syd Dernley (73),
British hangman, died. In 1989 he authored “The Hangman's Tale: Memoirs
of a Public Executioner.”
(http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Obituary/1994/misc.html)(www.smsfx.com/author/Syd-Dernley/)
1994 Nov 2, A jury in Pensacola,
Fla., convicted Paul Hill of murder for the July 29 shotgun slayings of
an abortion provider and his bodyguard; Hill was sentenced to death. He
became the first person to be executed for killing an abortion provider
when he was killed by electrocution on September 3, 2003 at the age of
49 at the Florida State Prison in Raiford, Florida.
(AP,
11/2/99)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Jennings_Hill)
1994 Nov 2, In Durunka, Egypt,
more than 475 people were killed when fuel carried by floodwaters
ignited.
(AP, 11/2/99)
1994 Nov 3, Susan Smith of Union
(23), S.C., was arrested for drowning her two young sons, nine days
after claiming the children had been abducted by a black carjacker. She
was convicted on July 22, 1995, of murdering her two sons, aged 3 and
14 months, when she drove her car into a local lake. She was later
sentenced to life in prison. Smith will be eligible for parole on
November 4, 2024, after serving a minimum of thirty years. She is
currently incarcerated at Leath Correctional Institution, near
Greenwood, South Carolina.
(AP, 11/3/99)(http://tinyurl.com/3yhjlc)
1994 Nov 3, Twelve jurors were
seated at the O.J. Simpson trial in Los Angeles.
(AP, 11/3/99)
1994 Nov 3, The space shuttle
Atlantis blasted into orbit on a mission to survey Earth's ozone layer.
(AP, 11/3/99)
1994 Nov 3, There was a total
solar eclipse in South America (4m23s).
(www.mreclipse.com/SEphoto/SEgallery2.html)
1994 Nov 4, In Union, S.C.,
townspeople jeered as Susan Smith was led into court, a day after the
23-year-old secretary was arrested and charged with murder in the
drownings of her sons, 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander.
(AP, 11/4/99)
1994 Nov 5, Former President
Reagan disclosed he had Alzheimer's disease.
(AP, 11/5/97)
1994 Nov 5, George Foreman, 45,
became boxing's oldest heavyweight champion by knocking out Michael
Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas.
(AP, 11/5/99)
1994 Nov 5, Evelyna LeBlanc (15)
was raped and shot in the head in San Leandro, Ca. She died the next
day. In 2007 DNA evidence led police to Inani Charles Williams (27),
who had been indicted for a 2006 residential burglary in Portland, Ore.
(SFC, 5/4/07, p.B12)
1994 Nov 5, Space probe Ulysses
completed its 1st passage behind the Sun.
(http://directory.eoportal.org/pres_Ulysses.html)
1994 Nov 6, About 300 people
crowded a small church in Union, S.C., for the funeral of 3-year-old
Michael and 14-month-old Alex Smith, who'd been drowned by their
mother, Susan Smith.
(AP, 11/6/99)
1994 Nov 7, On the eve of Election
Day, President Clinton concluded an eight-day campaign odyssey with an
impassioned plea for embattled Democrats, saying, "We'll go forward, we
don't want to go back," even as he braced for expected Republican gains
in the House and Senate.
(AP, 11/7/99)
1994 Nov 7, James Winston Watts
(90), developer of the Frontal Lobotomy, died.
(www.answers.com/topic/1936)
1994 Nov 8, In midterm US
elections Republicans won a majority in the Senate. They gained control
of the House for the first time in 40 years.
(WSJ,11/9/94)(AP, 11/8/99)
1994 Nov 8, California voters
approved Proposition 187, designed to bar illegal aliens from
education, social services and non-emergency health care. It’s
co-author was Alan C. Nelson (d.1997) and Harold Ezell (d.1998 at 61).
Nelson had served as head of the federal INS (1982-1989). Prop. 187 was
later struck down by the courts.
(SFC, 2/1/97, p.A23)(Econ, 10/30/04, p.40)
1994 Nov 8, Bill Frist, M.D., was
elected Senator from Tennessee. His family founded the HCA hospital
chain. In 1989 Frist authored “Transplant, A Heart Surgeon's Account of
the Life-And-Death Dramas of the New Medicine.”
(Econ, 4/30/05, p.32)(http://frist.senate.gov/)
1994 Nov 8, The UN Security
Council established the Int’l. Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to
prosecute those responsible for the Rwanda genocide. By 2004 18 people
were convicted. In 2004 Sylvestre Gacumbitsi, a former Rwandan mayor,
was convicted for his role in the slaughter and sentenced to 30 years
in prison.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Tribunal_for_Rwanda)(SSFC,
4/7/02, p.A19)(SFC, 6/18/04, p.A3)
1994 Nov 8-1994 Nov 21, Hurricane
Gordon caused 1,137 deaths in the Caribbean and eight in the United
States. The storm hit Nicaragua, Cuba and Haiti before striking Florida.
(AP, 9/11/04)(www.wunderground.com)
1994 Nov 9, A day after
Republicans won majorities in both the House and Senate, President
Clinton and the GOP pledged cooperation, even as they started forming
battle lines over irreconcilable differences.
(AP, 11/9/99)
1994 Nov 10, Officials said the
United States would lift the arms embargo against the Bosnian
government, despite opposition of the U.N. Security Council.
(AP, 11/10/99)
1994 Nov 10, Louis Nizer (b.1902),
prominent London-born attorney, died in New York. Nizer is best known
for “My Life in Court,” a best seller describing some of his own cases.
(www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/rosenb/ROS_BNIZ.HTM)
1994 Nov 10, Iraq, hoping to win
an end to trade sanctions, recognized the independence and boundaries
of Kuwait.
(SFC, 2/24/98, p.A9)(AP, 11/10/99)
1994 Nov 10, In Russia Colonel
Mikhail Likhodey chairman of the Afghan War Invalids Fund was killed by
a bomb blast outside his apartment. The Fund had been granted lucrative
tax exemptions on the import and export of alcohol and tobacco with an
estimated value of $800 million.
(SFC, 11/11/96, p.A13)(SFC, 11/12/96, p.A11)
1994 Nov 11, President Clinton set
out for an Asian trade conference.
(AP, 11/11/04)
1994 Nov 11, Bill Gates, founder
of Microsoft Corp., purchased a 72-page document by Leonardo da Vinci
that he renamed the "Codex Leicester" for $30.8 million. The work was
written in backwards-mirror with illustrations of the author’s theories
on the movement of water and air.
(WSJ, 5/14/96, p.A-18)(NH, 5/97, p.11)
1994 Nov 11, Eddie Polec (16), a
Fox Chase high school student, died after being clubbed to death by
students of Abington High School. On March 20, 1996, Carlo Johnson (20)
and Bou Khathavong (18) – believed by prosecutors to be the ring
leaders in the assault, although neither beat Polec – received maximum
five- to 10-year sentences for conspiracy. Prosecutors believe the two
organized the rumble and provided the baseball bats. Anthony Rienzi and
Nick Pinero, both 18, were sentenced to the maximum 15- to 30-year
terms for third-degree murder and conspiracy. Thomas Crook (19) sobbed
and apologized to his family before receiving 14.5 years to 30 years on
the same charges. Dawan Alexander (18) who was convicted of
manslaughter for kicking Polec, received an eight- to 20-year term.
Seventh defendant Kevin Convey (19) had pleaded guilty earlier to
third-degree murder in exchange for testifying against the others. In
February he had been sentenced to five to 20 years. In 2000 Bryn
Freedman and William Knoedelseder authored "In Eddie’s Name: One
Family’s Triumph Over Tragedy."
(SFEC, 5/14/00, BR
p.12)(www.cnn.com/US/9603/teen_sentencing/)
1994 Nov 11, A suicide bomber
killed three soldiers at an Israeli military checkpoint in Gaza. [see
Nov 12]
(AP, 11/11/99)
1994 Nov 12, President Clinton
arrived in the Philippines to open a campaign for free trade in Asia
and to commemorate World War II Allied victories in the Pacific.
(AP, 11/12/99)
1994 Nov 12, Wilma Rudolph,
Olympic gold medalist in track and field, died in Nashville, Tenn., at
age 54.
(AP, 11/12/99)
1994 Nov 12, A Palestinian suicide
bomber killed three Israeli soldiers in Gaza Strip. The Islamic Jihad
took responsibility. [see Nov 11]
(WSJ, 3/6/96, p. A-15)(G&M, 7/31/97, p.A8)
1994 Nov 13, President Clinton,
visiting the Philippines, sought to assure world leaders that his
party's severe losses in midterm elections wouldn't undercut his
foreign policy.
(AP, 11/13/99)
1994 Nov 13, A heavily armed
gunman traded fire with San Francisco police, hitting two police
officers, a paramedic and another person before being killed.
(AP, 11/13/99)
1994 Nov 13, Sweden voted to join
the European Union.
(AP, 11/13/99)
1994 Nov 14, President Clinton, in
Indonesia, met one-on-one with the leaders of China, Japan and South
Korea, winning pledges to keep the pressure on North Korea to freeze
its nuclear weapons program.
(AP, 11/14/99)
1994 Nov 14, U.S. experts visited
North Korea's main nuclear complex for the first time under an accord
aimed at opening such sites to outside inspections.
(AP, 11/14/99)
1994 Nov 14, The 1st trains for
public ran in Channel Tunnel under the English Channel.
(www.eurotunnel.com/ukcP3Main/ukcCorporate/ukcMediaCentre/ukpPressPack.htm)
1994 Nov 14, In the Czech Republic
the TV station Nova began its first commercial broadcast in Eastern
Europe with the film "Sophie’s Choice."
(WSJ, 4/30/97, p.A1)
1994 Nov 14, Heavy rains and
flooding from Tropical Storm Gordon swept across Haiti, killing several
hundred people.
(AP, 11/14/99)
1994 Nov 15, The US Federal
Reserve increased key interest rates by 0.75%, the largest hike in 13
years.
(AP, 11/15/99)
1994 Nov 15, Helmut Kohl was
elected German chancellor (341-340 votes).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Kohl)
1994 Nov 15, The 18-member
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group concluded a two-day summit in
Indonesia by adopting a sweeping resolution to remove trade and
investment barriers in the region by 2020.
(AP, 11/15/99)
1994 Nov 16, The US government
reported consumer prices rose 0.1 percent in October.
(AP, 11/16/99)
1994 Nov 16, A US federal judge
issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting the state of
California from implementing most provisions of Proposition 187, the
voter-approved measure that would deny most public services to illegal
aliens.
(AP, 11/16/99)
1994 Nov 16, The UN Law of the
Sea, ratified in 1993, took effect. Arvid Pardo (d.1999 at 85), Maltese
delegate to the UN, proposed in 1967 that the bounty of the sea should
be considered "the common heritage of mankind" and asked that some of
the sea's wealth be used to bankroll a fund to help close the gap
between rich and poor nations. The International Seabed Authority came
into existence as the law took effect. The first Secretary-General of
the Authority, Satya Nandan (Fiji) was elected in March 1996, and the
Authority became fully operational as an autonomous international
organization in June 1996, when it took over the premises and
facilities in Kingston, Jamaica. The UN Law of the Sea treaty, which
extended internationally recognized territorial waters to 200 miles
offshore, came into force one year after the sixtieth state, Guyana,
signed it.
(http://tinyurl.com/2wsq9p)(SFC, 7/19/99, p.A22)
1994 Nov 17, The Andrew Lloyd
Webber musical "Sunset Boulevard" opened at Minskoff Theater on
Broadway with Glenn Close as faded movie star Norma Desmond. It ran for
977 performances.
(AP, 11/17/99)
1994 Nov 17, Francisco Martin
Duran, the Colorado man accused of an assault-rifle attack on the White
House, was indicted on a new charge of trying to assassinate President
Clinton.
(AP, 11/17/99)
1994 Nov 17, Irish Prime Minister
Albert Reynolds resigned.
(SFC, 6/18/96, p.A8)
1994 Nov 18, "Star Trek VII
Generations," premiered.
(MC, 11/18/01)
1994 Nov 18, The Commerce
Department reported that America's trade deficit worsened to $10.13
billion in September.
(AP, 11/18/99)
1994 Nov 18, Bandleader Cab
Calloway died in Hockessin, Del., at age 86.
(AP, 11/18/99)
1994 Nov 18, Fifteen people were
killed and more than 150 wounded when Palestinian police opened fire on
rioting worshippers outside a mosque in the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 11/18/99)
1994 Nov 19, The U.N. Security
Council, anxious to stop Serb attacks on the "safe area" of Bihac in
northwest Bosnia, authorized NATO to bomb rebel Serb forces striking
from neighboring Croatia.
(AP, 11/19/99)
1994 Nov 19, Julian Symons
(b.1912)), British detective writer (Death's Darkest Face), died.
(http://neptune.spaceports.com/~queen/Whodunit__writers.html)
1994 Nov 20, The Angolan
government under dos Santos and rebels under Savimbi signed a treaty in
Zambia to end 19 years of war, even as fighting continued in their
homeland.
(AP, 11/20/99)(SFC, 4/5/02, p.A11)
1994 Nov 20. The most heavily
mined country in the world was Afghanistan, with between 10 and 15
million deadly mines. In Angola, one third of the countryside was
strewn with mines and the toll of nearly 25 people a day who were
injured or killed by land mines has left 20,000 amputees. Cambodia’s 7
million mines amount to two for every single Cambodian child, and
between 200 and 250 people became victims every month. In Somalia, the
laying of mines rose to new heights of terror as civilian areas were
deliberately targeted. Truck loads of mines were scattered in houses,
wells, river-crossings, markets, and even cemeteries. Presently, the
area being mined most heavily is the war zone of the former Yugoslavia,
where 3 million mines have been laid in just a few years. The US State
Dept. estimated that 25,000 people are killed or maimed each year by
mines. About 1.5 to 2 million new mines go into the ground each year.
There is a British Rapid Antipersonnel Minefield Breaching System
(RAMBS) manufactured by Pains-Wessex Schermuly that is fired from a
rifle and clears a path 60 meters long and one meter wide in less than
a minute.
(UNICEFF Mailer,11/94)(WSJ, 5/17/96,p.A-1)(WSJ,
5/31/96, p.A13)
1994 Nov 21, Sen. Jesse Helms,
R-N.C., remarked in a newspaper interview that President Clinton
"better have a bodyguard" if he were to visit North Carolina; Helms
later called his comment a mistake.
(AP, 11/21/99)
1994 Nov 21, NATO retaliated for
repeated Serb attacks on a U.N. safe haven by bombing an airfield in a
Serb-controlled section of Croatia.
(AP, 11/21/02)
1994 Nov 22, A gunman opened fire
inside the District of Columbia's police headquarters; the ensuing
gunbattle left two FBI agents, a city detective and the gunman dead.
(AP, 11/22/99)
1994 Nov 22, Serb fighters in
northwest Bosnia set villages ablaze in response to a retaliatory
airstrike by NATO.
(AP, 11/22/99)
1994 Nov 22, The Merapi volcano in
Indonesia erupted. At least 24 people were killed.
(http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Vdap/Responses/Merapi94/merapi2.html)
1994 Nov 23, NATO warplanes
blasted Serb missile batteries in two air raids while Bosnian Serb
fighters, for the first time, broke into the U.N.-designated safe haven
of Bihac.
(AP, 11/23/99)
1994 Nov 23, A large cache of
bomb-grade uranium was transferred from Kazakhstan to the United States.
(AP, 11/23/02)
1994 Nov 24, Rebel Serbs refused
to withdraw from the U.N. designated safe area around Bihac and
continued to advance on the city, despite recent NATO air strikes.
(AP, 11/24/99)
1994 Nov 24, In Sri Lanka a Tiger
suicide bomber killed opposition pres. candidate Gamini Disanayake and
51 others.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)
1994 Nov 25, NATO warplanes buzzed
the besieged "safe haven" of Bihac in northwest Bosnia but did not
carry out airstrikes against rebel Serbs.
(AP, 11/25/99)
1994 Nov 25, Sony Corporation
co-founder Akio Morita retired as chairman of the electronics giant for
health reasons.
(AP, 11/25/04)
1994 Nov 26, Margaret Garrish, a
72-year-old Detroit woman, committed suicide in the presence of Dr.
Jack Kevorkian.
(AP, 11/26/99)
1994 Nov 26, Thirty clergymen were
elevated to the rank of cardinal in a Vatican ceremony presided over by
Pope John Paul II.
(AP, 11/26/99)(www.usccb.org/pope/dates.htm)
1994 Nov 26, A major offensive by
the Russian-backed opposition fails to wrest Grozny, the capital of
Chechnya from its government.
(AP, 11/26/02)
1994 Nov 28, Norwegian voters
rejected European Union membership.
(AP, 11/28/04)
1994 Nov 28, Jeffrey Dahmer (b.May
21, 1960), a serial killer who sexually abused, tortured, and
cannibalized murder victims during the 1980's, was clubbed to death in
prison by a fellow inmate while cleaning a prison toilet at the
Columbia Correctional Institute gymnasium in Portage, Wi. He was
serving several life terms for the killing of 17 young men and boys
over a 13-year rampage of necrophilia and dismemberment.
(SFC, 5/29/96, A4)(AP, 11/28/97)
1994 Nov 28, Ronald "Buster"
Edwards (b.1931), British Great Train Robber (1963), committed suicide
by hanging in Lambeth, London.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Edwards)
1994 Nov 28, Calvin Fuller (92),
chemist, died. In 1954 Bell scientists, Daryl Chapin and Calvin Fuller,
refined Gerald Pearson's 1953 discovery and came up with the first
solar cell capable of converting enough of the sun's energy into power
to run everyday electrical equipment.
(DT net,
11/28/97)(www.californiasolarcenter.org/history_pv.html)
1994 Nov 28, Jerry Rubin (56), US
political activist, died after being hit by car. He was a leading
anti-Vietnam War protester of the 1960s who later made headlines by his
enthusiastic embrace of capitalism.
(AP, 11/28/04)
1994 Nov 29, The US House passed,
288-146, the revised General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
(AP, 11/29/99)
1994 Nov 29, Fighter jets attacked
the capital of Chechnya and its airport hours after Russian President
Boris Yeltsin demanded the breakaway republic end its civil war.
(AP, 11/29/99)
1994 Nov 29, Seoul, Korea,
celebrated the 600th anniversary of its founding.
(http://english.seoul.go.kr/today/about/about_02top_0703.htm)
1994 Nov 30, Rapper and actor
Tupac Shakur (1971-1996) was shot five times during a robbery outside a
New York recording studio. Two days later a jury found him guilty of
sexually abusing a woman, but acquitted him of more serious sex and
weapons charges.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupac_Shakur#September_1996_shooting)(AP,
11/30/04)
1994 Nov 30, Two passengers died
and nearly 1,000 others and crew members fled the cruise ship "Achille
Lauro" after it caught fire off the coast of Somalia; the ship sank two
days later. The Achille Lauro had gained notoriety in 1985 when it was
hijacked by Palestinian extremists.
(AP, 11/30/99)
1994 Nov 30, Guy Debord (b.1931),
French political theorist and filmmaker, died. His books included
“Society of the Spectacle” (1967).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Debord)
1994 Nov, Jeffrey Seller and Kevin
McCollum bought the commercial rights to the Broadway show "Rent" for
$4,000. The composer of the show was Jonathon Larson who died just
after the productions final dress rehearsal.
(WSJ, 5/23/96, p.A-1,7)
1994 Nov, The Clinton
administration announced that it would stop enforcing the arms embargo
despite European objections.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1994 Nov, Oregon voters passed a
Death with Dignity Act. It allowed doctors to prescribe lethal drugs
for terminally ill patients with less than 6 months to live. The law
was upheld in 1997.
(SFC, 3/26/98, p.A4)
1994 Nov, The Bosnian forces were
on the offensive on three fronts and were joined by the Croat militias.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1994 Nov, In France the Var River
overflowed and washed away bridges and stretches of the Nice-Digne
railroad track. Rail service was not restored until Apr 1996 at a cost
of F50 Million (US$10 mil).
(Hem., 1/97, p.116)
1994 Nov, Abkhazia declared
independence from Georgia and set up its own government. No other
country gave recognition. Residents of the area numbered about 200,000
and spoke their own language. Vladislav Ardzinba became president.
(SSFC, 9/24/06,
p.A20)(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3261059.stm)
1994 Nov, In the tiny oil state of
Tabasco, Mexico, the government party spent $38.8 million to win the
elections. Roberto Madrazo won over leftist opponent Andres Lopez
Obrador. The money spent was 38 times the legal spending limit and $37
million more than the campaign declared. The population of Tabasco is
only 1.5 mil. Paul Karam, later identified as a money laundering
suspect with links to banker Carlos Cabal Peniche contributed some 12.4
million pesos to the ruling party trust fund.
(SFC, 6/8/96, p.A10)(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A12)
1994 Nov, The UN Security Council
established an Int’l. Criminal Tribunal to prosecute those responsible
for the Rwanda genocide. By 2004 18 people were convicted. In 2004
Sylvestre Gacumbitsi, a former Rwandan mayor, was convicted for his
role in the slaughter and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
(SSFC, 4/7/02, p.A19)(SFC, 6/18/04, p.A3)
1994 Dec 1, The US Senate gave
final congressional approval to a world trade agreement, passing the
124-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), 76-24.
(AP, 12/1/99)
1994 Dec 1, Former TV evangelist
Jim Bakker spent his first full day of freedom after time in prison, a
halfway house and house arrest for bilking followers of his PTL
ministry.
(AP, 12/1/04)
1994 Dec 1, Mexican Pres. Carlos
Salinas de Gortari left office. Within weeks speculators began to
attack the overvalued peso.
(SFEC, 6/13/99, p.A13)
1994 Dec 2, The US government
agreed not to seek a recall of allegedly fire-prone General Motors
pickup trucks. GM agreed to spend more than $51 million on safety and
research.
(AP, 12/2/99)
1994 Dec 2, Reputed "Hollywood
Madam" Heidi Fleiss was convicted in Los Angeles of three counts of
pandering.
(AP, 12/2/99)
1994 Dec 3, Elizabeth Glaser, who
became an AIDS activist after she and her two children were infected
with HIV via a blood transfusion, died in Santa Monica, Calif., at age
47.
(AP, 12/3/99)
1994 Dec 3, Rebel Serbs in Bosnia
failed to keep a pledge to release hundreds of U.N. peacekeepers, some
already held for more than a week.
(AP, 12/3/99)
1994 Dec 4, Bosnian Serbs released
53 of some 400 U.N. peacekeepers held as insurance against further NATO
airstrikes.
(AP, 12/4/99)
1994 Dec 5, President Clinton, on
a whirlwind visit to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in
Budapest, Hungary, urged European leaders to "prevent future Bosnias."
(AP, 12/5/99)
1994 Dec 5, Newt Gingrich was
elected the first Republican speaker of the US House in four decades.
(AP, 12/5/97)
1994 Dec 5, The Strategic Arms
Reduction Treaty (START I) went into effect and the United States and
Russia began to consider ratification of START II.
(www.fas.org/spp/starwars/crs/91-139.htm)
1994 Dec 5, In India’s Bihar state
a mob that pulled senior government official G. Krishnaiah out of his
car and beat him unconscious before shooting him to death because the
official's car had inadvertently crossed paths with the funeral
procession of a noted underworld don and aspiring politician, Chottan
Shukla. In 2007 Anand Mohan and two other politicians were sentenced to
hang for their role in the attack. Four others, including Mohan's wife,
Lovely Anand — also a former member of parliament — were sentenced to
life in prison by the court in Patna, the capital of Bihar state.
(AP, 10/4/07)(http://tinyurl.com/3yj99o)
1994 Dec 6, Former US Associate
Attorney General Webster Hubbell pleaded guilty to defrauding his
former law partners and clients of nearly $400,000.
(AP, 12/6/99)
1994 Dec 6, US Treasury Secretary
Lloyd Bentsen announced his resignation.
(AP, 12/6/99)
1994 Dec 6, The Maltese Falcon
film statuette was auctioned for $398,590.
(MC, 12/6/01)
1994 Dec 6, Orange County, Calif.,
filed for bankruptcy protection due to investment losses of about $2
billion. Orange County, Ca., filed bankruptcy after losing nearly $1.7
billion on risky investments [derivatives]. In 1997 a former ass’t.
treasurer, Matthew Raabe, was sentenced to 3 years in prison for
diverting $88.5 million in public funds to conceal investment schemes
that led to the nation’s biggest municipal bankruptcy.
(SFEC, 11/10/96, Z1 p.1)(SFC, 10/4/97, p.A7)(AP,
12/6/99)
1994 Dec 7, PLO chairman Yasser
Arafat, meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher in Gaza
City, pledged to protect Israelis from militant extremists.
(AP, 12/7/99)
1994 Dec 8, In Los Angeles, 12
alternate jurors were chosen for the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
(AP, 12/8/99)
1994 Dec 8, Bosnian Serbs released
dozens of hostage peacekeepers, but continued to detain about 300
others.
(AP, 12/8/99)
1994 Dec 8, Antonio Carlos Jobim
(b.1927), Brazil-born composer (Girl From Ipanema), died in NYC.
(http://musicbase.h1.ru/PPB/ppb1/Bio_102.htm)
1994 Dec 9, President Clinton
fired Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders after learning she'd told a
conference that masturbation should be discussed in school as a part of
human sexuality.
(AP, 12/9/99)
1994 Dec 9, It was recommended to
buy global resource stocks such as Dutch Royal Petroleum, British
Petroleum or South African Mining shares.
(WSJ, 12/9/94, p.R-14)
1994 Dec 9, Representatives of the
Irish Republican Army and the British government opened peace talks in
Northern Ireland.
(AP, 12/9/99)
1994 Dec 9-1994 Dec 11, Pres.
Clinton presided over the first Summit of the Americas held in Miami.
Topics included lower trade barriers and plans for a Free Trade Area of
the Americas (FTAA).
(SFC, 11/21/03,
p.A12)(www.summit-americas.org/miamiplan.htm)
1994 Dec 10, Yasser Arafat, Shimon
Peres and Yitzhak Rabin received the Nobel Peace Prize, pledging to
pursue their mission of healing the anguished Middle East.
(AP, 12/10/99)
1994 Dec 10, Advertising executive
Thomas Mosser was killed by a mail bomb attributed to the Unabomber at
his home in North Caldwell N.J.
(SFC, 4/4/96, p.A16)(SFEC,11/9/97, Z1 p.5)
1994 Dec 11, Leaders of 34 Western
Hemisphere nations signed a free-trade declaration in Miami.
(AP, 12/11/99)
1994 Dec 11, A Philippine Airlines
flight from Manila to Tokyo was bombed. A Japanese passenger was killed
and 10 people were injured. Later US prosecutors accused Ramzi Ahmed
Yousef of placing the bomb and of masterminding the 1993 bombing of the
World Trade Center. Yousef denied placing the airline bomb because he
was imprisoned at the time.
(SFC, 5/31/96, A4)
1994 Dec 11, Thousands of Russian
troops backed by armored columns and jets rolled into breakaway
republic of Chechnya in a bid to restore Moscow's control over the
region. Russia under Yeltsin sent in troops to put down the Chechnya
rebellion but met strong resistance and suffered heavy casualties.
There was no attempt by Pres. Yeltsin to legitimize the military action
in parliament.
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.A10)(SFC, 12/26/96, p.B1)(SFC,
5/13/97, p.A12)(SFC, 9/9/98, p.A10) (AP, 12/11/99)
1994 Dec 12, IBM stopped shipments
of personal computers with Intel's flawed Pentium chip, saying the
processor's problems were worse than earlier believed.
(AP, 12/12/99)
1994 Dec 12, The Brazilian Supreme
Court acquitted former President Fernando Collor de Mello of the
corruption charges that had forced him to resign in 1992.
(AP, 12/12/99)
1994 Dec 13, An American Eagle
commuter plane carrying 20 people crashed short of Raleigh-Durham
International Airport in North Carolina, killing 15.
(AP, 12/13/98)
1994 Dec 14, A US federal judge
granted a preliminary injunction blocking almost all of Proposition
187's bans affecting illegal immigrants in California.
(AP, 12/14/99)
1994 Dec 14, Bruce McNall,
memorabilia dealer and former owner of the Los Angeles Kings hockey
team, pleaded guilty to fraud and was sent away to prison. He served 4
of 6 years. In 2003 he and Michael D'Antonio authored "Fun While it
Lasted."
(WSJ, 7/11/03,
p.W14)(www.sportsbooks.com/news/sports_betting/78666.html)
1994 Dec 14, Former Arkansas
Governor Orval E. Faubus, died at age 84. His refusal to let nine black
students into Little Rock's Central High School in 1957 forced
President Eisenhower to send in federal troops.
(AP, 12/14/99)
1994 Dec 14, Bosnian Serb leader
Radovan Karadzic asked former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to mediate a
lasting peace in Bosnia.
(AP, 12/14/02)
1994 Dec 15, President Clinton, in
a 12-minute prime-time address, presented a package of tax cuts for
middle-income families raising children, and outlined deep reductions
in government programs to help pay for them.
(AP, 12/15/99)
1994 Dec 16, White House and
Republicans traded barbs over whose tax plan was fairer to the middle
class, a day after President Clinton presented a package of proposed
tax cuts.
(AP, 12/16/99)
1994 Dec 16, White House Press
Secretary Dee Dee Myers announced she was leaving her job at the end of
the year.
(AP, 12/16/99)
1994 Dec 17, Six shots were fired
at the White House by an unidentified gunman.
(AP, 12/17/99)
1994 Dec 17, In Bahrain Hani
al-Wasti (25) and Hani Khamees (26) were the first of more than 40
people killed in the political upheaval among the Shiites.
(AP, 12/17/02)
1994 Dec 17, North Korea shot down
a U.S. Army helicopter which had strayed north of the demilitarized
zone -- the co-pilot, Chief Warrant Officer David Hilemon, was killed;
the pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Bobby Hall, was captured and held for
nearly two weeks.
(AP, 12/17/99)
1994 Dec 18, Former U.S. president
Jimmy Carter arrived in Bosnia-Herzegovina on a private mission to seek
an end to 32 months of war.
(AP, 12/18/99)
1994 Dec 18, Bulgaria’s Socialist
Party (ex-communist) won a parliamentary election. Premier Zhan
Videnov’s Socialist government won a parliamentary majority.
(www.projects.v2.nl/~arns/Texts/Chrono/BG.html)(SFC,
6/6/96, p.C5)
1994 Dec 19, Former President
Jimmy Carter, on a peace mission to Bosnia-Herzegovina, met with
Bosnian Serb leaders, who offered a four-month cease-fire.
(AP, 12/18/99)
1994 Dec 19, CNN publicly
acknowledged it had disobeyed a judge's order in broadcasting former
Panamanian military ruler Manuel Noriega's prison telephone
conversations.
(AP, 12/18/99)
1994 Dec 20, Former President
Jimmy Carter succeeded in getting Bosnia's warring factions to agree to
a temporary cease-fire.
(AP, 12/20/99)
1994 Dec 20, Marcelino Corniel, a
homeless man, was shot and mortally wounded by White House security
officers as he brandished a knife near the executive mansion.
(AP, 12/20/99)
1994 Dec 20, Intel announced it
would replace all flawed Pentium computer chips.
(AP, 12/20/04)
1994 Dec 20, Former Secretary of
State Dean Rusk died in Athens, Ga., at age 85.
(AP, 12/20/99)
1994 Dec 21, A firebomb on the #4
train at Fulton St. New York City subway injured 48 people. Unemployed
computer programmer Edward Leary was later convicted of attempted
murder and sentenced to 94 years in prison.
(AP, 12/21/99)
1994 Dec 22, US House Democrats
chastised Speaker-to-be Newt Gingrich for accepting a $4.5 million book
advance from Rupert Murdoch's media empire.
(AP, 12/22/99)
1994 Dec 22, North Korea handed
over the body of American pilot David Hilemon, killed when his
helicopter was shot down over the communist country three days earlier.
(AP, 12/22/99)
1994 Dec 23, US Professional
baseball owners imposed a salary cap fiercely opposed by players.
(AP, 12/23/99)
1994 Dec 23, John Connolly, FBI
agent, came to the Winter Hill gang’s headquarters in a Boston liquor
store and warned Kevin Weeks of pending FBI arrests for mobsters James
Bulger, Stephen Flemmi and Francis Salemme. Connolly was convicted for
corruption in 2002 and sentenced to 121 months.
(SFC, 5/29/02, p.A3)(SFC, 9/17/02, p.A5)
1994 Dec 23, Bosnian Serbs and the
Muslim-led government agreed to a week-long truce beginning the next
day as they worked on details of a four-month cease-fire.
(AP, 12/23/99)
1994 Dec 24, Armed Islamic
fundamentalists hijacked an Air France Airbus A-300 carrying 227
passengers at the Algiers airport; three passengers were killed before
the hijackers were killed by French commandos in Marseille two days
later.
(SFC, 9/27/97, p.A10)(AP, 12/24/99)
1994 Dec 24, John Osborne
(b.1929), British playwright, died. His plays included “Look Back in
Anger” (1956) and “Inadmissible Evidence” (1964). In 2007 John Heilpern
authored “John Osborn: The Many Lives of the Angry Young Man.”
(AP, 12/24/99)(WSJ, 1/26/06, p.W6)
1994 Dec 25, Pope John Paul II, in
his traditional "Urbi et Orbi" message, bemoaned "selfishness and
violence" around the world.
(AP, 12/25/99)
1994 Dec 25, A Palestinian suicide
bomber blew himself up on a bus in Jerusalem and wounded 12 Israelis.
Hamas took responsibility.
(WSJ, 3/6/96, p. A-15)(G&M, 7/31/97, p.A8)(AP,
12/25/99)
1994 Dec 26, French commandos
stormed a hijacked Air France jetliner on the ground in Marseilles,
killing four Algerian hijackers and freeing 170 hostages. The Air
France plane was hijacked by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria Dec 24.
(SFC, 9/27/97, p.A10)(AP, 12/26/99)
1994 Dec 27, Four Roman Catholic
priests—three French and a Belgian—were shot to death in their rectory
in Algiers, a day after French commandos killed four radicals who had
hijacked an Air France jet from Algiers to Marseille.
(AP, 12/27/00)
1994 Dec 28, President Clinton
nominated Dan Glickman as agriculture secretary, succeeding Mike Espy.
(AP, 12/28/99)
1994 Dec 28, CIA Director R. James
Woolsey resigned, ending a tenure shadowed by the Aldrich Ames spy
scandal.
(AP, 12/28/99)
1994 Dec 29, U.S. officials
confirmed the release in North Korea of Army helicopter pilot Bobby
Hall, 12 days after he was captured in a shootdown in which co-pilot
David Hilemon was killed. Due to the time difference, it was Dec. 30 in
Korea when Hall crossed the demilitarized zone to freedom.
(AP, 12/29/04)
1994 Dec 29, In East Turkey a
B737-400 flew into a mountain at Edremit and 55 people were killed.
(http://tinyurl.com/98ytm)
1994 Dec 30, US Army helicopter
pilot Bobby Hall walked to freedom 13 days after he was captured by
North Korea in a shootdown that claimed the life of co-pilot David
Hilemon. [see Dec 29]
(AP, 12/30/04)
1994 Dec 30, John Salvi opened
fire at two abortion clinics in suburban Boston and killed 2 clinic
receptionists, Lee Ann Nichols and Shannon Lowney. He was convicted on
two accounts of first-degree murder in Mar, 1996. Salvi committed
suicide in prison on Nov 29, 1996. His conviction was voided in 1997
because he died before his appeal was heard.
(WSJ, 3/19/96, p.A-1)(SFC, 11/30/96, p.A1,15)(SFEC,
2/2/97, p.A3)(AP, 12/30/99)
1994 Dec 31, John C. Salvi III,
accused of killing two receptionists at two Boston-area abortion
clinics on Dec 30, was arrested in Norfolk, Va. Salvi, later convicted
of murder, committed suicide in prison.
(AP, 12/31/04)
1994 Dec 31, Bosnian government
officials and Bosnian Serb leaders signed a U.N.-brokered cease-fire
agreement.
(AP, 12/31/99)
1994 Dec 31, Russian ground forces
launched a ferocious assault on the Chechen capital of Grozny.
(AP, 12/31/99)
1994 Dec, In Menlo Park, Ca.,
Ernesto Anguiano, 23, cut open the chest of his 3-year old cousin and
tore the boy’s heart out. He then attempted to burn the body in a
fireplace and attempted to murder the 50-year-old mother when she found
him and tried to stop him. Anguiano later testified that he thought the
young boy was "becoming evil."
(SFC, 9/26/96, p.A16)
1994 Dec, Sun Microsystems first
gave out the source code for new software to a handful of outsiders
under the name Oak, later renamed to JAVA.
(SFEM, 12/8/96, p.44)
1994 Dec, Semiconductor leaders
agreed to convert to a 12-inch wafer for chip production in Tokyo.
(SFE, 10/1/95, p.D-5)
1994 Dec, Greek Archbishop Iakovos
convened a meeting for the North American branches of Eastern
Orthodoxy. It was recommended that all Orthodox churches in North
America be placed under one administrative umbrella while maintaining
ties to their separate mother churches.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.B7)
1994 Dec, In Japan Ichiro Ozawa
helped form the new opposition Shinshinto, New Freedom Party, through
an alliance of nine small parties opposed to the ruling Liberal
Democratic Party, LDP.
(SFC,12/27/97, p.A12)
1994 Dec, In Mexico new owners of
Radio 13 in Mexico City switched to an all-talk format. By 1997 there
were 7 AM stations on an all-talk format.
(SFEC, 4/20/97, p.A14)
1994 Dec, In Russia Bulat
Okudzhava (d.1997 at 74), dissident poet and singer, won the Russian
Booker literary prize.
(SFC, 6/14/97, p.C2)
1994 Dec, Russia under Yeltsin
sent in troops to put down the Chechnya rebellion but met strong
resistance and suffered heavy casualties. There was no attempt by Pres.
Yeltsin to legitimize the military action in parliament.
(SFC, 9/5/96, p.A10)(SFC, 12/26/96, p.B1)(SFC,
5/13/97, p.A12)(SFC, 9/9/98, p.A10)
1994 Dec, A Russian presidential
decree expropriated the property of Franz Sedelmayer, a German security
expert, as part of a St. Petersburg residence for Boris Yeltsin.
Sedelmayer lost his business and some $3 million in assets.
Sedelmayer fought for years to seize Russian assets in retaliation and
in 2006 won a judgement in Germany for control of a $40 million
Russian-owned apartment complex in Cologne.
(WSJ, 3/6/06, p.A1)
1994 Dec, Chandrika Bandaranaike
Kumaratunga was elected president of Sri Lanka on a platform of peace
and reconciliation.
(SSFC, 11/9/03, p.A12)
1994 Nelson Shanks, American
painter, painted portraits of Princess Di and Lady Thatcher.
(WSJ, 5/7/96, p.A-16)
1994 Jerome Witkins began his
painting "Her Argument With Nature." It was completed in 1995 and was
an allegory of ambivalence about procreation and hailed as one of the
great American paintings of the decade.
(SFC, 1/18/96, p.D4)
1994 Peter Ackerman, former
investment banker, authored “Strategic Nonviolent Conflict.” The book
acquired new life after Ackerman collaborated on 2000 PBS documentary
“A Force More Powerful.” This led to his creation of the Washington,
DC-based International Center on Non-Violent Conflict.
(Econ, 8/4/07,
p.51)(www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1385051/posts)
1994 Historian Stephen Ambrose
authored "D-Day." The book became the basis for the film "Saving
Private Ryan.
(SFC, 9/18/00, p.F1)
1994 Robert H. Bates (1911-2007,
mountaineer and former teacher at New Hampshire’s Phillips Exeter
Academy (1939-1976), authored his autobiography “The Love of Mountains
Is Best.”
(WSJ, 9/29/07, p.A6)
1994 John Berendt published
"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," his personal impressions on
the city of Savannah, Ga., which became a best-seller.
(SFEC, 3/23/97, p.T8)(SFEC, 3/15/98, p.T11)
1994 Louis de Bernieres authored
"Corelli’s Mandolin." It sold 2.5 million copies and won the Granta
Prize. In 2001 it was made into a film titled "Captain Corelli’s
Mandolin" with Nicolas Cage and Penelope Cruz.
(WSJ, 10/28/98, p.A20)(SFC, 8/17/01, p.C3)(SSFC,
8/15/04, p.M1)
1994 Harold Bloom published "The
Western Canon," a defense of the great books that were under attack due
to the current "political correctness."
(WSJ, 10/23/98, p.W8)
1994 Prof. Melvin Bradley (d.2203
at 83) authored his 2-volume "The Missouri Mule: His Origin and Times."
(SFC, 1/21/02, p.A16)
1994 Bill Bryson authored "Made in
America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United
States."
(SFEM, 11/15/98, p.28)
1994 "Rhinestone Cowboy" by Glenn
Campbell was published.
(SFC, 8/28/96, E10)
1994 Bert Cardullo wrote "Film
Chronicle: Critical Dispatches From a Forward Observer (1987-1992)."
(MT, Fall ‘96, p.14)
1994 Caleb Carr authored his best
seller “The Alienist.”
(www.salon.com/books/int/1997/10/cov_si_04carr.html)
1994 Prof. Scott M. Cutlip (d.2000
at 85) authored "The Unseen Power," a history of the public relations
profession in America.
(SFC, 8/22/00, p.A19)
1994 Rosie Daley published "In the
Kitchen with Rosie Daley," the highest selling nonfiction, hardback of
the year.
(WSJ, 5/24/99, p.R12)
1994 John Denver (d.1997 at 53)
wrote his autobiography "Take me Home."
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A10)
1994 J.P. Donleavy authored "The
History of the Gingerbread Man," a memoir on the composition of his
first novel.
(SFEC, 8/8/99, BR p.9)
1994 Neil Gabler wrote the
biography "Winchell," an account of Walter Winchell, the New York Daily
Mirror columnist. Rose Bigman (d.1997 at 87) was Winchell’s "girl
Friday" and spent 7-days-a-week working for him for 3 decades.
(SFC, 4/28/97, p.A18)
1994 Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian
novelist, had his work "Sophie’s World, A Novel About the History of
Philosophy," published.
(SFC, 6/16/96, BR p.3)
1994 Tom Gehrels edited "Hazards
Due to Comets and Asteroids."
(NH, 9/97, p.86)
1994 John Grisham published "The
Chamber," the highest selling fiction hardback of the year.
(WSJ, 5/24/99, p.R12)
1994 Paul R. Gross and Norman
Leavitt wrote "Higher Superstition," an analysis of the growing
antagonism to science by some left-wing intellectuals.
(PacDis, Winter ’97, p.34)
1994 Sheldon Harris (d.2002) wrote
"Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the
American Cover-Up." It was about Japanese medical units in Manchuria
that engaged in horrific warfare experiments on humans.
(SFEC, 12/1/96, p.C4)(SFC, 9/9/02, p.A22)
1994 Philip J. Haythornthwaite
published his "Invincible Generals."
(WSJ, 1/6/95, A-10)
1994 John Helyar wrote "Lords of
the Realm," a book that traces baseball’s labor problems from their
inception to the unsettled present. Together with "Creating the
National Pastime: Baseball Transforms Itself, 1903-1953," by Edward
White, the sport is fully covered.
(WSJ, 7/8/96, p.A8)
1994 Paul Ingrassia and Joseph B.
White authored "Comeback: The Fall and Rise of the American Automobile
Industry."
(Econ, 10/11/03, p.82)
1994 Anders Isaksson wrote "Always
More, Never Enough," a critique of the welfare system in Sweden.
(WSJ, 9/25/96, p.A1)
1994 Oleg Kalugin, the KGB’s
former chief of counterintelligence, published his memoir: "The First
Chief Directorate: My 32 Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against
the West." Russia convicted Kalugin of treason in absentia in 2002.
(WSJ, 11/21/96, p.B12)(SFC, 6/27/02, p.A14)
1994 Ormonde de Kay (d.1998 at 74)
authored "From the Age That Is Past," a history of the Harvard Club of
NYC.
(SFC, 10/24/98, p.A22)
1994 James Kelman won the Booker
Prize for his novel "How Late It Was, How Late." He was the first Scot
to be awarded the prize.
(SFEC, 11/10/96, p.C17)
1994 Adam Kufeld, photographer,
had his book "Cuba" published by Norton.
(SFEM,11/16/97, p.28)
1994 Deborah Lipstadt authored
"Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory."
(SFC, 4/12/00, p.A16)
1994 Noel Malcolm published
"Bosnia: A Short History."
(WSJ, 5/5/98, p.A20)
1994 Robert T. Michael and others
published the report "Sex in America: A Definitive Survey."
(WSJ, 4/17/98, p.W13)
1994 James Michener wrote
"Recessional."
(SFC,10/17/97, p.A17)
1994 Craig Packer wrote "Into
Africa." It won the 1995 John Burroughs Medal Award for nature writing.
(NH, 6/96, p.4)
1994 "The Great German Rieslings"
by Stuart Pigott was published.
(WSJ, 8/20/96, p.A1,4)
1994 Steven Pinker published "The
Language Instinct." In 1999 he published "Words and Rules."
(WSJ, 10/2/97, p.A16)(WSJ, 12/20/99, p.A24)
1994 C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel
authored “Competing for the Future.” It was later regarded as perhaps
the best business book of the 1990s
(Econ, 8/21/04, p.54)
1994 Richard Preston wrote "The
Hot Zone," a bestseller book about the deadly Ebola virus.
(SFEC,11/9/97, BR p.3)
1994 "The Rivals" by Arthur J.
Quinn was published. It narrated the struggles in SF and California on
the eve of the Civil War.
(SFC, 5/17/97, p.A20)
1994 "A New World: An Epic of
Colonial America from the Founding of Jamestown to the Fall of Quebec"
by Arthur J. Quinn (d.1997) was published.
(SFC, 5/17/97, p.A20)
1994 Frank Ragano (d.1998 at 75),
a lawyer who represented many Mafia figures, published "Mob Lawyer." It
was co-written with Selwyn Raab of the New York Times.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.A21)
1994 David Remick won a Pulitzer
Prize for his work "Lenin’s Tomb."
(SFEC, 11/15/98, BR p.3)
1994 "My Life" by Burt Reynolds
was published.
(SFC, 8/28/96, E10)
1994 R.J. Rummel wrote "Death by
Government."
(WSJ, 12/31/96, p.5)
1994 "Cambodian Culture Since
1975: Homeland and Exile," by Sam-Ang Sam was published. It included
information on Cambodian music.
(NH, 9/97, p.75)
1994 Dr. Laura Schlessinger, radio
show host and physiologist, published "Ten Stupid Things Women Do to
Mess Up Their Lives."
(SFEC, 9/28/97, Z1 p.3)
1994 "Greatness: Who Makes History
and Why" by Dean Keith Simonton was published.
(SFC, 6/16/96, PM p.4)
1994 Pavel Sudoplatov, Russian
spy, wrote "Special Tasks: The memoirs of an Unwanted Witness - A
Soviet Spymaster." He asserted in the book that during the development
of the atomic bomb lead US scientists passed secrets to Soviet agents
to help the USSR defeat Hitler and spread nuclear knowledge to promote
world peace. He said Oppenheimer, Bohr, Fermi and Szilard had helped
pass secrets.
(SFC, 9/28/96, p.A21)
1994 Bob Woodward authored "The
Agenda," an examination of the Clinton administration.
(SFC, 4/20/04, p.A1)
1994 Allen M. Young wrote "The
Chocolate Tree," a comprehensive book on cacao.
(NH, 5/97, p.54)
1994 Don Novello, aka Guido
Sardducci—“Vatican correspondent,” wrote the book, lyrics and musical
ideas for "Full Moon Over Tutti," a children’s musical.
(SFC, 9/2/97, p.E1)
1994 The ballet "Mango" by Fredric
Myrow (e.1998 at 59) premiered at the Los Angeles John Anson Ford
theater. It was choreographed by Naomi Goldberg.
(SFC, 1/18/99, p.A21)
1994 Mark Morris choreographed the
dance piece "Lucky Charms," set to Jacques Ibert’s "Divertissement."
(SFEC,10/26/97, DB p.11)
1994 Stephen Sondheim wrote the
score for "Passion."
(SFEC, 5/31/98, BR p.1)
1994 Gross film revenues for the
year were $5,396 million with 1,291 million admissions and average
ticket price of $4.18.
(WSJ, 4/24/95, p.R-5)(SFC, 7/12/96, p.D11)
1994 The TV documentary "Baseball"
was made by Ken Burns.
(SFEC, 4/12/98, p.T4)
1994 The opera "The Dangerous
Liaisons" by Conrad Susa and Philip Littell was made. It was based on
the Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 1782 novel "Les Liaison Dangereuses."
(WSJ, 3/25/98, p.A20)
1994 Ron Carter, bass player,
recorded his album "Ron Carter Meets Bach".
(WSJ, 2/26/97, p.A16)
1994 Toshiko Akiyoshi, jazz
pianist and composer, recorded solo "Live at Maybeck Hall."
(SFEM, 10/5/97, p.16)
1994 "Blood on the Fields," a 3-hr
oratorio about slavery composed by Wynton Marsalis, premiered. A
recording was released in 1995 and in 1997 it won a Pulitzer Prize,
after some changes in order to qualify.
(WSJ, 9/17/97, p.A21)
1994 Joni Mitchell released her CD
"Turbulent Indigo."
(SFEM, 11/1/98, p.6)
1994 Wayne Shorter and Herbie
Hancock reunited to record the Grammy winning album "A Tribute to
Miles."
(SFEC, 8/31/97, DB p.35)
1994 The Dave Matthews Band made
its major-label debut with "Under the Table and Dreaming," which sold
more than 3 million copies.
(SFC, 7/14/96, DB p.38)
1994 KKHI, San Francisco’s
classical music station, went off the air.
(SFC, 4/16/08, p.B11)
1994 Yanni, the Greek showman of
New Age music, produced his album and show: "Yanni: Live at the
Acropolis." It sold more than 7 million copies.
(WSJ, 3/20/97, p.B1)
1994 US Prof. Stanton L. Catlin
(d.1997 at 82) shared a Grammy Award for the book "Mexico: Its Culture
Life in Music and Art," that was accompanied by a Columbia Records
Legacy Collection on Mexican music.
(SFC, 11/29/97, p.A21)
1994 In Cactus Springs, Nv., a
small shrine to the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet was built. It was cared
for by Patricia Pearlman, a Crone Witch from New Jersey.
(SFC, 1/19/98, p.A3)
1994 Scott Thompson, aka Carrot
Top, was named the Stand-up Comedian of the Year.
(SFC, 7/14/96, DB p.51)
1994 Nauticus, the National
Maritime Center in Norfolk, Virginia opened.
(Hem., Oct. '95, p.84)
1994 The Andy Warhol Museum opened
in Pittsburgh.
(SFEC, 8/13/00, p.T11)
1994 In SF Carol Queen and Robert
Lawrence founded the Center for Sex and Culture, www.sexandculture.org.
In 2004 they acquired office space at 11th and Harrison.
(SFC, 12/29/04, p.E1)
1994 Dr. William Howell Masters
and Virginia Johnson Masters (Masters and Johnson) closed their sex
research institute in St. Louis. The couple had divorced in 1992 after
35 years together.
(SFEC,11/30/97, Par p.2)
1994 Jay Bakker, son of jailed
evangelist Jim and his wife Tammy Faye Bakker, co-founded his own
liberal ministry called “Revolution.” By 2007 the church had expanded
to include ministries in Georgia, New York, and North Carolina.
(Econ, 1/13/07, p.29)
1994 The League of the South, a
neo-Confederate organization first known as the Southern League, was
founded by J. Michael Hill and a group of 40 other people.
(www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=250)(Econ,
7/30/05, p.27)
1994 Steven Spielberg helped
establish the Righteous Persons Foundation. In 2008 $1 million from the
foundation was given toward establishing a new Museum of American
Jewish History in Philadelphia.
(SFC, 7/4/08, p.E15)
1994 Victoria’s Secrets introduced
the Miracle Bra, a bottom padded push up bra designed by Linda Wachner
of Warnaco.
(WSJ, 4/10/00, p.A1)
1994 Painter Dorothea Tanning
established the Tanning Prize for poetry with a $2 million endowment.
The first winner was W.S. Merwin.
(SFEC,11/10/97, p.E3)
1994 Jerome H. Lemelson, inventor,
and his wife Dorothy established the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for
innovation that strengthens the economy.
(WSJ, 4/12/96, p.B-5)
1994 Arthur Fleming (1905-1996)
was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest
civilian honor. He had served as Sec. of Health, Education and Welfare
(1958-19610, head of the US Commission on Aging (1973-1978) and chaired
the US Commission on Civil Rights (1974-1982).
(SFC, 9/9/96, p.A26)
1994 The Carolina Panthers and
Jacksonville Jaguars, expansion football teams, began playing. They
benefited from a newly established salary cap.
(WSJ, 1/10/97,
p.A1)(www.panthers.com/team/history.jsp)
1994 Feminist poet Adrienne Rich
won the $374,000 MacArthur Foundation "genius" award.
(SFC, 7/10/97, p.A10)
1994 John Forbes Nash Jr. (66) won
the Nobel Prize for Economic Science based on his work in game theory
which proved that there is always one set of strategies in which no
player can improve his situation by switching to a different strategy.
Nash spent many years debilitated by paranoid schizophrenia. In 1998
Sylvia Nasar published Nash’s biography: "A Beautiful Mind." In 2001 a
film opened based on the book.
(WSJ, 6/19/98, p.W9)(NW, 1/14/02, p.68)
1994 Alfred G. Gilman and Martin
Rodbell of the US won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their discovery
of G-proteins and how cells confuse messages and foster diseases.
(SFEC, 10/8/96, A9)
1994 Andre Weil (d.1998 at 92),
mathematician, won the Kyoto Prize in Basic Science from the Inamori
Foundation of Kyoto, Japan. His Weil conjectures provided the
principles for modern algebraic geometry.
(SFC, 8/12/98, p.C4)
1994 US Pres. Clinton assigned
Richard Holbrooke, ambassador in Germany, to be in charge of European
Affairs at the State Dept. This meant that he was to handle affairs
concerning Bosnia.
(SFEC, 8/16/98, BR p.9)
1994 Pres. Clinton signed the
General Aviation Revitalization Act, which gave aircraft manufacturers
broad immunity from liability suits. Cessna resumed production of
single-engine planes, which had stopped in 1983.
(WSJ, 4/30/01, p.A1)
1994 Webster L. Hubbell, a player
in the Whitewater-Madison land deal with Pres. Clinton, resigned from
the Justice Dept. and launched a private consulting practice in
Washington. He received substantial aide from important public and
private figures. He had been appointed by Bill Clinton as chief justice
of Arkansas when Clinton was governor. He was later sentenced to prison
for bilking his partners in the Little Rock law firm where he worked
with Hillary Clinton. Ind. Council Kenneth Starr asserted that Hubbell
accepted thousands of dollars in bogus consulting fees, and that the
payments were hush money to keep him talking about financial deals in
Arkansas.
(SFC, 9/12/98, p.A12)(SFC, 1/27/99, p.A3)
1994 The US government passed a
Violence Against Women Act. The first lawsuit under the act was
reinstated in 1997 in a case where a Virginia Tech student claimed to
have been raped by two football players.
(WSJ, 3/27/96, p.A-1)(WSJ, 12/24/97, p.A1)
1994 Congress passed the Desert
Protection Bill and Joshua Tree National Monument gained an additional
234,000 acres and was granted national park status. Pres. Clinton
signed the act which preserved much of the Mohave as wilderness and
added to Death Valley National Park. In 1999 Francis Millspaugh Wheat
(d.2000 at 79) authored "California Desert Miracle," which chronicled
the 27-year fight to preserve the Mohave Desert.
(Sp., 5/96, p.127)(SFC, 7/26/00, p.A21)
1994 The California Desert
Protection Act set aside 7 million acres of wilderness, mostly in the
Mojave Desert.
(SFC, 10/17/98, p.A17)
1994 The US Congress passed a law
barring the use of taxpayer money for international expositions.
(WSJ, 4/25/00, p.A24)
1994 The US Riegle-Neal act
allowed banks to branch out across state borders.
(Econ, 5/21/05, Survey p.8)
1994 The US Congress marked Jan
19, Martin Luther King Day, as a national day of service.
(SFEC,11/30/97, p.A3)
1994 Arizona toughened its
insanity defense law by replacing the plea phrase “not guilty by reason
of insanity” to “guilty except insane.”
(SFC, 4/20/06, p.A7)
1994 Mike Huckabee was elected as
lieutenant governor of Arkansas.
(Econ, 2/3/07, p.33)
1994 The 1990 theft of art work
from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston led Sen. Edward
Kennedy to sponsor the museum theft provision of the 1994 Omnibus Crime
Act.
(WSJ, 8/9/96, p.A8)
1994 The US federal Driver's
Privacy Protection Act forbade states to sell the addresses, phone
numbers and other motorist information collected for driver licenses.
(SFC, 11/11/99, p.A7)
1994 Trieu Viet Le and 5 other men
staged an armed robbery for microchips of the Cyrix Corp. in
Richardson, Texas. Le was indicted in 1999.
(SFC, 3/10/99, p.A20)
1994 The Russian Ministry of
Atomic Energy contracted with the US Energy Dept. to improve security
at nuclear facilities. $10 mil was allocated the first year, but by
1998 the Americans spent $150 million and the total was expected to
reach $1 billion by completion in 2002.
(SFC, 5/28/98, p.A5)
1994 US Congress banned assault
weapons and prohibited the importation of AK-47s. The TEC-DC9, made by
Navegar, was changed and renamed the AB-10.
(SFC, 5/23/96, p.A17)(SFEC, 5/2/99, p.A11)
1994 The US "nanny tax" was
simplified on the 1040 income tax form and required reporting wages of
household employees in excess of $1,100.
(SFEC, 4/5/98, p.A3)
1994 Former singer Sonny Bono was
elected to US Congress as a Republican from Palm Springs, where he
served as mayor from 1988-1992.
(SFC, 1/6/98, p.A11)
1994 US District Judge Marilyn
Hall Patel ruled that death by gas in San Quentin’s death chamber was
inhumane. An appeals court in 1998 gave prisoners the option of lethal
injection or gas.
(SFC, 7/8/98, p.A17)
1994 California passed its "three
strikes" sentencing law. A 2nd felony can be punished with a double
sentence. A 3rd felony may lead to 25 years in prison.
(SFC, 7/4/97, p.E2)
1994 California prohibited smoking
in enclosed workplaces.
(SFC, 12/27/99, p.A10)
1994 The California State Water
Resources Board ordered that diversions from Mono Lake be reduced.
(PacDis, Summer ’97, p.39)
1994 California adopted
legislation that exempted churches from landmark regulations and
allowed them to do what they wanted with their buildings.
(SFC, 5/5/05, p.B1)
1994 The California Dept. of Motor
Vehicles scrapped a $50 million computer system that was slower than
the one being replaced.
(SFEC, 8/8/99, Z1 p.6)
1994 Rena Weeks won a $3.5 million
sexual harassment suit against the world’s largest law firm, Baker
& McKenzie, of Palo Alto, Ca. She had worked there for 3 months in
1991.
(SFC, 8/27/98, p.C16)
1994 Univ. of California Regents
voted to limit paid administrative leave for senior managers to a
maximum of 3 months. In 2005 it was reported that 3 senior managers had
received paid furloughs of 12-15 months.
(SFC, 12/23/05, p.A1)
1994 The Bay Delta Accord was
signed. It promised to save the SF Bay and the delta of the Sacramento
and San Joaquin Rivers through cooperation and compromise rather than
litigation and political arm twisting.
(SFC, 6/25/99, p.A1)
1994 In Los Angeles the new $14
million downtown Pershing Square was opened.
(SFC, 7/24/97, p.A6)
1994 The first annual Napa Valley
Mustard Festival was held.
(SFEC, 1/24/99, DB p.20)
1994 A federal jury in Hawaii
awarded 9,539 victims and heirs $1.2 billion in "exemplary damages"
against the estate of former Philippine Pres. Ferdinand Marcos. In 1995
the same jury awarded the plaintiffs $766 million for injury
compensation. In 1996 an appeals court in San Francisco upheld the
verdict. In 1999 a $150 million settlement was reached with the funds
to come from Marcos funds in Swiss banks.
(SFC, 12/18/96, p.C4)(SFC, 2/25/99, p.A12)
1994 Lt. Gen’l. Panjaitan of
Indonesia was ordered by a US District court in Boston to pay $14
million in damages to the mother of a 20-year-old New Zealand man who
was among those killed in the Nov 1991 massacre in Dili, East Timor.
Panjaitan was in Boston for studies but never appeared in court.
(SFC, 6/19/98, p.B7)
1994 Kansas introduced the death
penalty.
(SSFC, 2/27/05, p.A3)
1994 Virginia passed legislation
to abolish parole and extend prison time for violent criminals
effective as of Jan 1, 1995.
(Econ, 4/4/09,
p.40)(www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3566617.html)
1994 The Winnebago nation gave
Lance Morgan $9.7 million from its Iowa casino to start a new venture.
Morgan formed Nebraska-based Ho-Chunk Inc.
(Econ, 4/5/08, p.71)
1994 In Hudson, New Hampshire, a
raid on an armored car left 2 men dead. Five men were caught after an
18 month search and in 1997 were convicted of 55 crimes in 4 states.
(SFC,12/23/97, p.A3)
1994 The gas chamber was last used
in North Carolina.
(SFC, 6/28/97, p.A2)
1994 Tennessee, facing a $250
million deficit in Medicaid administration, gave several managed-care
organizations the job of administering the program, TennCare. By the
end of 2004 costs rose to $8 billion.
(Econ, 1/22/05, p.33)
1994 Alcoa provided its extra
strong "C405" alloy, pioneered for use in the Boeing 777 airplane, to
the baseball industry for bat manufacture.
(WSJ, 4/30/96, p.A-1)
1994 American Express spun off
Lehman Brothers, which it had acquired in 1984.
(Econ, 5/19/07, SR
p.3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman_Brothers)
1994 Pop singer Gladys Knight
became a spokesperson for Aunt Jemima Lite syrup.
(http://tinyurl.com/o87jd)
1994 Gordon Bethune took over as
CEO of Continental Airlines. He turned the company around with a policy
of rewarding workers. In 1998 Scott Huler published "From Worst to
First," the story of the turnaround.
(WSJ, 7/2/98, p.A20)
1994 John Bowes (1928-2005), SF
businessman, and John Rosekrans sold the assets of their Kransco Group
Cos. to Mattel and netted over $350 million. Kransco had acquired
Wham-O and popularized such toys as Frisbee, Slip’N-Slide, and hula
hoop.
(SFC, 10/28/05, p.B7)
1994 Del Monte entered into an
ill-fated agreement to sell the company for $1 billion to an investment
group led by Mexican banker Carlos Cabal Peniche, who was later charged
with fraud by the Mexican government.
(SFC, 3/1/97, p.B1)
1994 DuPont quit the production of
Freon.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R46)
1994 Houston based Enron
Development Corp. was called in to help develop the Bolivian side of
the Bolivia-Brazil natural gas pipeline.
(WSJ, 2/14/97, p.A8)
1994 Hallmark Entertainment, a
unit of Hallmark Cards Inc., acquired the TV production business of
Robert Halmi, a Hungarian born TV producer.
(WSJ, 5/21/99, p.A1)
1994 Hearst opened the Hearst New
Media Center in NYC to orient employees and create digital products and
services. Hearst also acquired Associated Publ. Co., a publisher of
"yellow pages" directories in Texas.
(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A9)
1994 Thomas Kinkade, the "Painter
of Light," took his company, Media Arts Group, public.
(NW, 5/13/02, p.48)
1994 McDonald’s opened its first
Egypt restaurant in Cairo. The company also passed the 99 billion
burger mark this year.
(WSJ, 4/10/97, p.A12)(WSJ, 11/13/98, p.B1)
1994 Merck Corp. selected Ray
Gilmartin of Becton Dickinson to succeed P. Roy. Vagelos.
(WSJ, 10/30/03, p.B1)
1994 Jeff Taylor founded
Monster.com, an online job-search site.
(Econ, 3/27/04, p.66)
1994 PacTel Corp., a cellular
spin-off from Pacific Telesis, changed its name to AirTouch.
(Wired, 6/97, p.97)
1994 Quintiles, a medical contract
research organization, went public. It was founded by Prof. Dennis
Gillings of the Univ. of North Carolina.
(WSJ, 4/11/03, p.A2)
1994 Wal-Mart acquired 122 Woolco
stores in Canada.
(Econ, 2/26/05, p.37)
1994 Wal-Mart stopped selling
handguns in its stores after being sued by the family of a man who was
shot in a Texas courthouse by an assailant who had allegedly bought the
gun a Wal-Mart.
(SFC, 9/10/96, p.A3)
1994 The Big Three auto makers
netted a combined $13.92 billion on record revenues of $335.6 billion.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1994 In America 80 million
prescriptions were written for drugs that act as calcium channel
blockers (CCBs). They were used to treat high blood pressure, angina,
cardiac arrhythmias and migraine headaches.
(WSJ, 8/2/96, p.A12)
1994 Polly C.E. Matzinger,
immunologist, began challenging the self/nonself concept of immune
activation and proposed the "danger" theory where the immune system
lies quietly on guard until it receives a signal that tissues somewhere
in the body are dying unnatural deaths.
(WSJ, 3/22/96, p.B-5)
1994 The breast cancer gene,
BRCA1, was discovered. Its presence boosted the likelihood of
developing the disease to 87%.
(SFC, 6/26/96, p.A7)
1994 Researcher Janet Daling and a
team at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center found a 50%
increase in the risk of breast cancer for women who’s had abortions.
(WSJ, 2/28/97, p.A12)
1994 At the Mayo Clinic in
Minnesota the 1st successful heart-lung transplant was performed.
(SFC, 7/5/96, PM,
p.5)(www.mayoclinic.org/patientinfo/)
1994 Scientists at the Univ. of
Washington discovered that the drug, tenofovir, protected monkeys from
getting infected with AIDS.
(WSJ, 5/18/06, p.A1)
1994 Richard Lipton, Princeton
computer scientist, published a paper on molecular computing titled:
"Speeding to Computation via Molecular Biology."
(Wired, 8/95, p.166)
1994 John McAfee, founder of the
anti-viral firm McAfee Associates, sold his stake for over $100
million. Network Associates after 7 years renamed itself to McAfee Inc.
(WSJ, 4/21/07,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McAfee)
1994 Tribal Voice was founded by
the software millionaire John McAfee, founder of McAfee Associates. On
its website, the company described itself initially as a 'Native
American' company run by Native Americans. As the company grew, the
Native American references gradually disappeared. In 1999 McAfee sold
his stake for $17 million.
(WSJ, 4/21/07,
p.A10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McAfee)
1994 Vincent Connare designed the
Comic Sans typeface while working for Microsoft, which included it in
the Miscosoft Windows operating system.
(WSJ, 4/16/09, p.A10)
1994 Marvin Minsky wrote in a
Scientific American article that: "In the end we will find ways to
replace every part of the body and brain and thus repair all the
defects and injuries that make our lives so brief."
(Hem., 2/96, p.95)
1994 Sky Dayton founded EarthLink,
an Internet access provider.
(Econ, 3/10/07, TQ p.13)
1994 Lou Montulli, computer
programmer at Netscape, invented "cookies" to help enable purchasing
products from a Web site.
(WSJ, 2/28/00, p.B1)
1994 Scientists discovered the
special light effect they called an elf that is created in the
ionosphere by an electromagnetic pulse created above a thunderstorm
that makes nitrogen molecules glow momentarily red.
(SFC, 12/16/96, p.B1)
1994 Rudolph L. Leibel and Jeffrey
M. Friedman announced that they had identified and sequenced the gene
for the hormone leptin, which is produced by fat cells.
(NH, 2/05, p.35)
1994 Fresh water fish from Japan,
known as Medaka, became the first vertebrate creatures to successfully
mate in space.
(SFC, 9/15/00, p.A12)
1994 The Sagittarius Dwarf
Elliptical Galaxy (SagDEG) was recognized by astronomers as a galaxy
flying through the Milky Way.
(SFC, 2/14/98, p.A2)
1994 Judith Rodin (b.1944) began
serving as president of the Univ. of Pennsylvania. She served until
2004 and in 2005 became president of the Rockefeller Foundation.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Rodin)(Econ,
12/16/06, p.68)
1994 Yale Univ. lost a $20 million
Bass grant, given in 1991, when alumnus Lee Bass took back the money
after he saw no effort on the part of the Univ. to set up a Western
Civilization studies program under Prof. Donald Kagan. The governing
board of the Univ. ordered a review of the affair that was completed in
a year. The Cabranes-Schacht report was never made public.
(WSJ, 6/21/96, p.A14)
1994 Nearly 1.2 million American
marriages were dissolved by the courts, triple the 1960
figure.
(SFC, 5/27/96, p.A2)
1994 The educational Knowledge Is
Power Program (KIPP) was launched in Houston, Texas. Its main motto was
“Work Hard. Be Nice.”
(Econ, 7/11/09, SR p.6)(www.kipp.org/01/)
1994 Texas executed 14 inmates.
(SFC,12/26/97, p.A17)
1994 The nuclear power plant at
Shoreham, NY, begun in 1973, was decommissioned without ever providing
commercial service. It was completed and tested but never allowed to
start due to local opposition. Most of the $6 billion in costs were
passed to customers of the local utility.
(Econ, 9/8/07, p.71)
1994 In the US New Orleans was the
murder capital with 425 homicides.
(SFC, 6/16/96, Zone 1 p.1)
1994 In this year US consumers
spent about the same amount on PCs as on TVs (US$8.07 billion on PCs
vs. $8.4 billion on TVs).
(Wired, 8/95, p.178)
1994 The SF Chronicle newspaper
began its SFGate site on the Internet.
(SSFC, 6/7/09, p.W3)
1994 Metrolink, the regional rail
system that served LA, Riverside, San Bernadino and Orange Counties,
began.
(SFEC, 3/15/98, p.W3)
1994 Dan Wheeler and a group of
investors bought Lost Isle in California’s Sacramento Delta. The island
had a tradition for wild parties that went back to 1948.
(SFC, 6/11/99, p.A17)
1994 Tosco took over all the BP
service stations in Northern California.
(SFC, 4/5/00, p.A19)
1994 In northern California a
treatment plant was built near Iron Mountain by Rhone Poulenc under
orders by the EPA to remove up to 80% of the copper, zinc, cadmium and
acids in runoff water.
(SFEC,11/2/97, p.A13)
1994 Africanized honeybees, also
called killer bees, were first detected in California.
(SFC, 10/5/99, p.A15)
1994 The mitten crab was first
discovered in the San Francisco Bay.
(Pac. Disc., summer, ‘96, p.6)
1994 Mealybugs were first
discovered in California vineyards and by 2007 30-40 thousand acres
were infested. In 2007 experiments were begun were begun with dogs
trained to sniff out female mealybugs in heat.
(WSJ, 6/14/07, p.A1)
1994 Pike were discovered in Lake
Davis (b.1964) in Plumas County, Ca. Over the next 10 years some $15
million was spent in attempts to eradicate the fish.
(SFCM, 7/11/04, p.10)
1994 Sudden oak disease was first
reported in California. The specific pathogen responsible was
identified in 2000 as the Phytophthora ramorum microbe. Experts
believed that it arrived in the state via the nursery trade. By 2008 it
was the world’s most quarantined plant pathogen.
(SFC, 4/17/08, p.A1)
1994 California State Water
Resources Board ordered that diversions from Mono Lake be reduced. The
Los Angeles Water Dept. stopped diverting water from Mono Lake on an
order from the California Water Resources Control board. The lake was
down 40 feet from 1940 when diversion began.
(Pac. Disc., summer, ‘96, p.52)(PacDis, Summer ’97,
p.39)
1994 The Chinese Golden Hills
Memorial Park cemetery was established in Colma, Ca.
(www.colmahistory.org/History.htm)
1994 The California-based Save the
Redwoods League acquired 700 acres on Big Sur Coast, which became
Limekiln State Park.
(www.savetheredwoods.org/league/pdf/90th_timeline.pdf)
1994 In Chicago two boys aged 10
and 11 dropped 5-year-old Eric Morse 14 floors to his death in a
housing project after he refused to steal candy for them.
(SFC, 8/12/98, p.A3)
1994 A California Air National
Guard Learjet plowed into a Fresno, Calif., apartment complex. The
2-member crew was killed and 18 were injured on the ground.
(SFC, 8/8/96, p.A11)
1994 A collision between a jet
fighter and a troop transport killed 24 soldiers at Pope Air Force
Base, NC.
(SFC, 7/9/97, p.A3)
1994 In the Bosporus an oil tanker
collided with another vessel and 28 seamen died. A 15,000-ton oil
spillage also resulted that burst into a spectacular fire.
(SFEC, 1/11/98, p.A23)
1994 John Salvi shot and killed
two receptionists at abortion clinics in Boston. He was convicted on
two accounts of first-degree murder in Mar. 1996.
(WSJ, 3/19/96, p.A-1)
1994 Lindsay Anderson, British
theater and film director, died. In 2000 his friend Gavin Lambert
authored "Mainly About Lindsay Anderson."
(SFEC, 10/8/00, BR p.6)
1994 David “Moses” Berg, founder
of the late 1960s evangelical sex cult called Children of God, died. In
2005 the movement lived on as “The Family.”
(SFC, 1/11/05, p.B8)
1994 Isobel English (June
Braybrooke), British writer, died. She was born in 1920 as June
Jolliffe and published just 4 books in her lifetime including “Every
Eye” (1956).
(WSJ, 7/8/06, p.P8)
1994 Ken Cory, California jewelry
designer, died.
(SFEC, 3/8/98, DB p.27)
1994 Edward J. DeBartolo Sr.,
shopping mall magnate, died. Edward Jr. and his sister Denise DeBartolo
York took over key executive positions in the family holdings.
(SFC, 12/3/97, p.A15)
1994 Ralph Ellison, author of the
classic novel "Invisible Man," died.
(SFEC, 2/9/97, BR p.2)
1994 Erik Erikson, psychologist,
died. He and his wife Joan (d.1997) developed the theory that one’s
sense of identity progresses through 8 distinct life cycles marked by
the resolution of successive emotional conflicts. Joan developed a 9th
stage described in her book "Life Cycle Completed."
(SFC, 8/9/97, p.A19)
1994 M.F.K. Fisher, food writer,
died in Glen Ellen, Ca. Her books included "As They Were" (1982),
"Dubious Honors" (1988), and "Long Ago in France" (1991). Her
books were reprinted by North Point Press publisher Jack Shoemaker. In
1997 Shoemaker’s new press, Counter Point, published "A Welcoming Life:
The M.F.K. Fisher Scrapbook."
(SFC, 7/4/97, p.D5)
1994 Ed Kienholz,
LA-Idaho-Berlin-based anarchist artist, died. Comments on his work
range from "salutary statements about the morally diseased condition of
the US and the democratic-capitalistic West" to "simplistic
socio-political cartooning.
(WSJ, 10/22/96, p.A20)
1994 Carmen McRae, Jazz vocalist,
died at the age of 74. Says Dick Katz in liner notes to a
collection of the young McRae: "Carmen has musical ears so good she
could hear paint dry."
(WSJ, 9/27/95, p.A-16)
1994 Dick O’Kane, WW II submarine
skipper, died at age 83. In 2001 William Tuohy authored "The Bravest
Man," a biography of O’Kane.
(WSJ, 12/31/01, p.A7)
1994 Linus Pauling, scientist and
1962 Nobel Peace Prize winner, died. In 1995 Barbara Marinacci edited
"Linus Pauling in His Own Words," and in 1998 published "Linus Pauling
on Peace."
(SFC, 9/16/98, p.E1)
1994 Raymond Scott, composer born
as Harry Warnow in Brooklyn, died. He mixed jazz, classical and klezmer
sounds as backdrop for cartoons in the 1930s. In 1991 the compilation
CD "The Music of Raymond Scott: Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights"
was produced.
(SSFC, 1/4/04, p.E3)
1994 Joey Stefano, a gay porn
star, died of a drug overdose at age 26. In 2000 the film "Homme
Fatale: The Joey Stefano Story" was directed by Hodgson.
(SFC, 3/29/00, p.E3)
1994 In Albania former president
Ramiz Alia, successor of Stalinist dictator Enver Hoxha, was sentenced
to 9 years in prison for abuse of power. He was later freed on amnesty
and then re-arrested on new charges. He fled the country in Mar, 1997.
(SFC,10/21/97, p.A13)
1994 Algeria closed its common
border with Morocco after Morocco claimed Algerian secret service
agents were behind an Islamist extremist attack in Marrakesh. Algiers
later set a global settlement of the conflict in Western Sahara as a
precondition for reopening the border.
(AFP, 7/30/08)
1994 In Angola the Lusaka
agreement halted the civil war between Unita and the government that
had run for 2 decades. The accord called for UNITA to disband its
70,000 man army and hand control of almost half the country to the
government.
(WSJ, 10/1/97, p.A16)(SFC, 12/26/98, p.A12)
1994 Lester Bird, head of the
Antigua Labor Party, was elected after his father, PM Vere Bird,
retired.
(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A11)
1994 The Mercosur Customs Union
was created among Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
(WSJ, 12/20/95, p.A-10)
1994 In Argentina the main postal
office was privatized. A proposed split for control was made between
Alfredo Yabran and Domingo Cavallo. Economy Minister Cavallo refused to
grant the concession to Yabran.
(SFC, 2/28/98, p.A7)
1994 In Argentina Economy Minister
Domingo Cavallo accused Alfredo Yabran, a courier company magnate, of
heading an organized crime ring.
(SFC, 10/2/97, p.A13)
1994 Argentina under conservative
Pres. Carlos Menem began to allow private retirement funds as an
alternative to state pension funds. As of 2008 the funds yielded an
average return of 13.9%. In 2008 the government proposed to nationalize
the private pensions in order to meet debt payments.
(WSJ, 7/30/02, p.A11)(WSJ, 10/22/08, p.A8)(Econ,
10/25/08, p.47)
1994 In Armenia Pres. Levon
Ter-Petrossian outlawed the Dashnaksitun political party.
(SFC, 12/11/96, p.C1)
1994 Australia’s Labor government
passed native title laws.
(SFC,12/18/97, p.C9)
1994 Australia’s foreign minister,
Gareth Evans, accused "freelance military personal and business spivs"
(shady dealers) in Thailand of providing refuge for Khmer Rouge leaders
and helping them get gems and timber out of Cambodia. The statement was
made after 2 Australians were murdered by the Khmer Rouge.
(SFC, 6/7/96, p.A12)
1994 Fires in Sydney, Australia,
killed 4 people and destroyed 1.9 million acres of forest.
(SFC, 12/4/97, p.A18)
1994 The Hendra virus was first
discovered and named for the Australian suburb where it was found in an
outbreak that killed a horse trainer and 13 horses. It causes flulike
symptoms that can lead to pneumonia or encephalitis. It is believed to
originate in fruit bats in Australia and mainly infects horses.
(AP, 9/2/09)
1994 Taslima Nasreen (32),
Bangladeshi writer, authored her novel "Lajja" or "Shame," which
depicts violence against minority Hindus by Muslim fundamentalists in
Bangladesh. Muslims soon called for her execution for that and other
works. Nasreen went into hiding in India after receiving threats from
Islamic groups.
(AP, 11/28/07)
1994 In Belarus Pres. Lukashenko
was elected over Prime Minister Viacheslav Kebich.
(SFC, 9/2/96, p.A14)
1994 Seven Rwandan refugee camps
were created in Burundi and held some 250,000 people.
(SFC, 8/28/96, p.A10)
1994 Brazil’s central bank
increased interest rates to nearly 50% in response to the Mexican debt
crises and devaluation.
(Econ, 11/14/09, SR p.5)
1994 Rev. Edward Dougherty, a
priest from New Orleans, became Brazil’s first Catholic television
preacher.
(SFC, 10/3/97, p.B14)
1994 In Brazil Marino Silva was
the first rubber-tapper to be elected to the federal senate. She was
elected on a platform opposing deforestation.
(USAT, 4/22/96, p.4-D)
1994 An investor group led by
Banco Bozano, Simonsen SA, bought the loss-ridden aircraft maker
Embraer SA from the Brazilian government.
(WSJ, 3/21/97, p.A17)(WSJ, 9/13/04, p.A8)
1994 In Brazil some 5,800 square
miles were cleared by fire for agriculture and ranching in this year.
(SFEC, 7/27/97, p.T5)
1994 Britain’s government
announced that it would not privatize the Forestry Commission.
(SFC, 6/16/96, p.A10)
1994 Britain under PM John Major
established a national lottery. Some of the funds were dedicated for
sports.
(Econ, 8/23/08, p.48)
1994 Arms exports from Bulgaria
generated about $250 mil., a three-fold increase over a year earlier.
(WSJ, 7/24/95, p.A-7c)
1994 Emil Kuylev (1956-2005), a
former police officer, founded the Bulgarian-Russian Rosexim bank and
acquired in 2002 the state insurance company DZI, making his business
into the largest banking and insurance firm in Bulgaria.
(AP, 10/26/05)
1994 In Canada an Ontario judge
ruled that lap dancing was not indecent under standards previously set
by the Supreme Court. The ruling was overturned in 1997.
(SFC, 6/28/97, p.E3)
1994 In Chile the giant
state-owned copper company, Codelco, lost more than $200 million in
dealings with the London Metal Exchange at the hands of rogue trader
Juan Pablo Davila.
(WSJ, 6/17/96, p.A6)
1994 Li Zhisui, Mao’s personal
doctor, authored “The Private Life of Chairman Mao.”
(Econ, 5/28/05, p.83)
1994 Harry Wu, Chinese human
rights activist and writer, published his "Bitter Winds: A Memoir of My
Years in China’s Gulags," with Carolyn Wakeman.
(SFC, 5/19/96, Z1, p.3)
1994 China’s foreign minister,
Qian Qichen, and US Sec. of State Warren Christopher, agreed to halt
sales of M-11 and other missiles to Pakistan.
(WSJ, 6/13/96, p.A4)
1994 China’s central government
changed the way it shared tax revenues with the provinces, leaving the
center with a much bigger portion.
(Econ, 6/3/06, p.37)
1994 China pegged the yuan, also
known as the renminbi (people's money), at about 8.28 to the US dollar.
(SFC, 7/5/03, p.B1)
1994 In China the guided-missile
destroyer ship Harbin was built with weapons and engineering systems
made in 40 countries.
(SFC, 3/22/97, p.A3)
1994 China accelerated its drive
to join GATT.
(WSJ, 11/16/99, p.A19)
1994 In China the Maternal Infant
Health Care Law was passed. It guaranteed pediatric health care to poor
women and stipulated that couples be informed of any genetic problems.
It also directed doctors to take steps to prevent childbearing in the
event of detected problems.
(SFEC, 8/16/98, p.A25)
1994 China passed rules that
permitted executed prisoners to donate organs with written consent by
the prisoner of relatives.
(SSFC, 3/11/01, p.D1)
1994 The Internet was introduced
to China.
(Wired, 2/99, p.127)
1994 China’s steel making capacity
was 11% of the world total. By 2006 it reached 25%.
(Econ, 12/10/05, p.67)
1994 China started a national
campaign to fortify all salt with iodine. Some 2,500 salt police
enforced the state monopoly.
(SFC, 11/15/02, p.J4)
1994 China’s government announced
plans to develop a stand-alone automobile industry.
(Econ, 2/24/07, p.79)
1994 Suzhou Industrial Park was
established west of Shanghai.
(WSJ, 11/30/01, p.A13)
1994 In China leaders in Tianjin
established the Binhai New Area for economic development. In 2005 the
central government backed the project as one of national importance.
(Econ, 6/24/06, p.47)
1994 Shengda Economics, Trade and
Management College was founded in Longhu, Henan province, China.
(Econ, 8/12/06, p.32)
1994 The World Journal, a
Chinese-language newspaper based in New York reported that blood
products in China were contaminated with the AIDS virus.
(SFC, 10/25/96, p.A14)
1994 A ferry and freighter slammed
into each other on China’s Yangtze River and 133 people died.
(SFC, 11/26/99, p.A23)
1994 In Colombia FARC rebels
killed the police chief of Cartagena del Chaira and blew up the police
station. For the next 9 years no police officer set foot on the streets
there.
(WSJ, 8/10/04, p.A1)
1994 Rene Ngongo of Congo DRC
founded the OCEAN environmental group, exposing the impact of
deforestation and monitoring the plunder of minerals by warring
factions during Congo's 1996-2002 civil wars.
(AP, 10/13/09)
1994 In the Dominican Republic
journalist Narciso Gonzalez disappeared outside air force headquarters.
He had accused Balaguer of fraud in the elections.
(SFC, 11/25/96, p.A9)
1994 Ali Salem, Egyptian
playwright, traveled across Israel and authored “My Drive to Israel.” I
sold some 60,000 copies and angered Egyptian intellectuals.
(SFC, 12/19/08, p.A24)
1994 In Egypt Youssef Chahine
(1926-2008), filmmaker, directed “The Emigrant.” The film, about
the Old Testament figure of Joseph, was denounced by militant Islamists
and banned.
(SFC, 7/29/08, p.B5)
1994 In Cairo a conference on
population called on improving the lot of women so that they would have
fewer children.
(SFC, 6/30/99, p.A12)
1994 The government of Egypt
decreed that schoolgirls may not wear the full length veil, niqab, that
covers everything but the eyes.
(SFC, 5/23/96, p. C2)
1994 In Egypt police Gen’l. Raouf
Khairat was killed. Four people were sentenced to death in 1997 for
crimes including the murder which they denied.
(SFC, 9/16/97, p.A12)
1994 In El Salvador there were
7,673 people murdered in this year according to the attorney general’s
office.
(SFC, 10/3/97, p.B5)
1994 In Estonia Pres. Meri
bypassed lawmakers when he signed a deal on the withdrawal of Russian
troops.
(SFC, 9/21/96, p.A10)
1994 Estonia became the 1st
European country to introduce a flat tax (26%) on personal and
corporate income. Latvia and Lithuania soon followed suit.
(Econ, 3/5/05, p.54)
1994 Ethiopia adopted a new
federal constitution with many powers devolved to the regions.
(Econ, 11/3/07, p.33)
1994 In France the Cartier
Foundation building at 261 Boulevard Raspail was opened. It was
designed by Jean Nouvel with 7 floors above ground and 8 below.
(SFEC, 1/4/98, p.T7)
1994 In France Baron Edmond
Adolphe Maurice Jules Jacques de Rothschild (d.1997 at 71) was named an
officer in the Legion of Honor.
(SFC,11/4/97, p.A19)
1994 Three French explorers
discovered the stone-age Chauvet Cave with paintings that dated back
more than 30,000 years. In 1996 they published "Chauvet Cave: The
Discovery of the World’s Oldest Paintings."
(NH, 7/96, p.73)
1994 France was the No. 1 supplier
of arms to the developing world.
(SFC, 8/21/96, p.A10)
1994 French legislator Yann Piat
of the UDF was shot to death in her car by 2 men on motorcycle. A 1997
book, "The Yann Piat Case" by Andre Rougeot and Jean-Michel Verne,"
says that she was killed by the French secret service to keep her from
revealing a plot to sell military land to the Mafia. The book was
suspended after its first printing sold out. Many believe the tale to
be disinformation.
(SFC,10/17/97, p.A25)
1994 Georgia reached a cease-fire
with Abkhazia.
(SFC, 11/24/03, p.A11)
1994 Guinea-Bissau held democratic
elections.
(AP, 10/6/03)
1994 Susie Scott Krabacher, Miss
Playboy for May 1983, organized the construction of a health-care
center and food-kitchen for abandoned children in Haiti.
(WSJ, 3/1/04, p.A1)
1994 In Hungary paprika stocks
were adulterated with minium, a red oxide of lead, and many people were
stricken lead poisoning. Once lead enters the biosphere, it is retained
and recycled indefinitely. Lead atoms combine with cysteine’s sulfur
atoms and disrupt the disulfide bridges of proteins. Thus many enzymes
will malfunction.
(NH, 7/96, p.52,53)
1994 The Indian Parliament
unanimously decided that its goal was to extend its rule to all of
"Pakistan-occupied Kashmir."
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.C2)
1994 Representatives of 14
tiger-range countries met in New Delhi and agreed to cooperate in
combating the trade in tigers.
(NG, 12/97, p.22)
1994 The Hindustan-Tibet Road was
opened to tourists. It linked the Kinnaur Valley, once and independent
Hindu kingdom, and the Spiti Valley, formerly part of the west Tibetan
kingdom of Guge.
(SFEC, 7/23/00, p.T1)
1994 In Iran a 2-hr pre-nuptial
class was made mandatory for all couples planning marriage.
(SFC, 5/15/98, p.D2)
1994 In Iraq Khidhir Abdul Abas
Hamza, a scientist who helped train younger scientists in the nation’s
atomic weapons program, fled the country. In 1998 he publicly described
a 3-decade effort by Iraq to build a nuclear bomb.
(SFC, 8/15/98, p.A13)
1994 Iraqi engineers worked to
build the Mother of Battles River. It helped divert water from the
Euphrates that would otherwise flow into the al Hammar marsh, a refuge
for Hussein opponents. The marshes were later drained and pesticides
used to kill the fish and wildlife. The 200,000 "Madan" (marsh Arabs)
were attacked and forced away.
(WSJ, 1/15/03, p.A6)(SFC, 4/7/03, p.A10)
1994 In Ireland the case against
Rev. Brendan Smyth (d.1997 at 70) led to the collapse of the government
of Prime Minister Albert Reynolds. The attorney general had delayed
processing requests from British authorities for the extradition of
Smyth, who was charged for 74 instances of sexual abuse of 20 young
people over 36 years. He was sentenced in 1997 to 12 years in Curragh
Prison.
(SFC, 7/26/97, p.A14)(SFEC, 8/24/97, p.A24)
1994 Israel established the elite
squad, Egoz (walnut in Hebrew), to track Shiite guerrillas in southern
Lebanon.
(SFC, 12/5/96, p.C5)
1994 Istria was the first region
of the former Yugoslavia to be officially designated as a "Region of
Europe". The Istria of 2005, alternatively called Istra and Istrija, is
politically divided into three separate countries: Croatia, Slovenia
and Italy.
(www.istrians.com/istria/maps/)
1994 The National Alliance was
created as a broad based successor to the Italian Social Movement
(MSI), which was created after WW II to keep alive the ideals of
Mussolini.
(Econ, 12/6/03, p.44)
1994 The 52-story Shinjuku Park
Tower in Tokyo, Japan, was completed. It was designed by Kenzo Tenge
and built for the Tokyo Gas Urban Development Company.
(www.tokyoarchitecture.info/Building/4035/Shinjuku_Park_Tower.php)
1994 In Japan Tomiicchi Murayama
of the Social Democrats became the head of the government coalition.
(SFEC, 5/31/98, p.A26)
1994 Aoyama, a Japanese-born North
Korean engineer, began spying for Japan. In 1997 as an industrial spy
in Beijing he confirmed that North Korea had developed a nuclear bomb.
(SFC, 11/28/02, p.F5)
1994 Japan posted a record trade
surplus of $120.9 billion.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R49)
1994 Japan’s Sony Corp. launched
PlayStation.
(WSJ, 3/7/05, p.A8)
1994 Japan introduced subsidies
for solar power technology. A typical system cost $16,000 per kilowatt,
of which the government paid half. The subsidies were phased out in
2005.
(Econ, 11/18/06, p.73)
1994 Kazakhstan’s Pres. Nursultan
Nazarbayev elevated Akezhan Kazhegeldin, a wealthy businessman, to
prime minister.
(WSJ, 7/5/00, p.A18)
1994 Ayisi Makatiani, a student at
MIT, co-founded Africa Online with 2 Kenyan friends. It was purchased
by Prodigy and in 1998 underwent a management buyout. In 2000 it was
purchased by African Lakes, an investment firm.
(Econ, 8/5/06, p.58)(http://tinyurl.com/j5nxk)
1994 Te Buroro Tito was elected
president of Kiribati.
(WSJ, 1/22/96, p.A-1)
1994 Laos signed a bilateral
Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation with Vietnam.
(AFP, 10/10/06)
1994 In Lesotho Letsie backed a
palace coup to reinstate his father as king. He ousted the first
government to be elected in a multiparty vote and temporarily assumed
the throne.
(LVRJ, 11/1/97, p.14A)
1994 In Liberia ULIMO split into
two factions: ULIMO-K and ULIMO-J. ULIMO-K was composed of members of
the Mandingo ethnic group. ULIMO-J was made up of ethnic Krahn led by
Roosevelt Johnson.
(SFC, 4/17/96, p.A-8)
1994 In Liberia Charles Taylor
enlisted Joshua Milton Blahyi, aka Gen’l. Butt Naked, into his force.
After the fighting Gen’. Naked resumed his birth name and turned into
an evangelical preacher.
(SFC, 8/4/97, p.A10)
1994 In Madagascar Pres. Albert
Zafy and Prime Minister Francisque Ravony balked at an economic
overhaul ordered by the Int’l. Monetary Fund and World Bank.
(SFC, 9/6.96, p.A14)
1994 The North-South Expressway of
Malaysia was completed. It spans the western side of the Malay
Peninsula from Singapore to the Thailand frontier for 520 miles.
(Hem., 1/96, p.97)
1994 Malaysia passed a Domestic
Violence Act. It made wife-beating unlawful but only after a
cease-and-desist order and went into effect in 1996. Women’s groups had
begun campaigning seven years
(SFC, 5/17/96, p.A-14)
1994 Malaysia under PM Mahathir
Mohamed awarded the Bakun Dam concession to Ekran Bhd. The government
took over the project following the financial crises of 1997-98.
(WSJ, 1/8/04, p.A14)
1994-1997 Malaysia engaged in a tight money policy as
the economy grew at a breakneck speed.
(WSJ, 11/22/05, p.A13)
1994 In Chiapas, Mexico, Maya
farmers organized into the Zapatista National Liberation Army.
(SFC, 5/19/96, T-10)
1994 In Mexico the government
started peace negotiations with the Zapatistas.
(SFC,12/18/97, p.C2)
1994 Mexico joined the
Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
(WSJ, 8/10/05, p.A9)
1994 Mexican banker Carlos Cabal
Peniche after being accused of an elaborate self-lending scheme
involving hundreds of million of dollars through his two banks, Banco
Union SA and Banca Cremi SA, fled the country. He was also a large
investor in southeastern Mexico and maintained a banana plantation in
Tabasco.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A12)
1994 Alfredo Harp Helu, president
of Banamex, was kidnapped. He was ransomed after 3 months for $30 mil.
Angel Losada Moreno, head of Mexico’s largest supermarket chain, was
also kidnapped and ransomed for a rumored similar amount. In 1996
authorities claimed to have recovered nearly $10 mil of the Helu ransom.
(SFC, 8/28/96, p.A10)
1994 In Mexico the cellular
license owned by Carlos Hank Rhon and BellSouth was sold to Grupo
Iusacell , owned by the Peralta family, for over $100 million.
(WSJ, 11/1/96, p.A6)
1994 Rigoberto Gaxiola Medina of
Mexico was indicted on marijuana trafficking charges by a federal grand
jury in Detroit. Some 183 million dollars were identified in his
banking accounts but by Jan 23, 1997 only 16.7 million was seized by
Mexican officials. The family had large legitimate holdings in Sonora.
(WSJ, 4/1/97, p.A15)
1994 A disease called Zebra chip,
which affected potatoes and caused potato chips to develop stripes, was
first noticed in Mexico. By 2000 it had spread to Texas. It was later
found that an insect called the potato psyllid served as a vector for
the disease.
(Econ, 8/2/08, p.81)
1994 In Mozambique in the first
multi-party elections, overseen by 7,000 UN troops, voters chose
Joaquim Alberto Chissano, head of Frelima, the formerly Marxist ruling
party, as president over Afonso Dhlakama of Renamo. Frelimo was based
in the southern port city of Maputo, while Renamo was based in the
northern city of Beira.
(WSJ, 3/21/96, p.A-11)(SFC, 10/14/97, p.A10)
1994 Myanmar leased the 2 Coco
Islands in the Indian Ocean to China. China proceeded to establish
surveillance stations there.
(www.fas.org/irp/world/china/facilities/coco.htm)(Econ, 7/23/05, p.25)
1994 In Namibian elections SWAPO
won over 72% of the vote.
(LVRJ, 11/1/97, p.20A)
1994 In Nigeria Moshood Abiola was
imprisoned by Sani Abacha on charges of treason for declaring himself
president.
(SFC, 6/5/96, p.C2)(SFEC, 7/19/98, p.A20)
1994 Nigerian opposition leader
Anthony Enahoro was detained for several months after the military
crushed a pro-democracy strike.
(SFC, 5/14/96, A-10)
1994 An accord called the Agreed
Framework was made in which North Korea pledged to give up its nuclear
weapons program in exchange for billions in Western aid.
(SFC, 8/17/98, p.A8)(SFEC, 12/6/98, p.A28)
1994 The OECD published its Jobs
Strategy, a list of recommended ways in which governments (mainly in
Europe) might reduce high and persistent unemployment rates. The
strategy was restated in 2006 in a much longer form.
(Econ, 6/17/06, p.84)
1994 Pakistan’s military purchased
three Agosta 90 B submarines from France.
(AP, 6/25/09)(www.digitaljournal.com/article/274427)
1994 Palau became an independent
nation.
(WSJ, 7/31/97, p.A1)
1994 In Panama Ernesto Perez
Balladares campaigned for the presidency at the head of the Democratic
Revolutionary Party (PRD) and was elected. He was later accused of
accepting $51,000 in drug money in the campaign.
(SFC, 6/25/96, p.A10)
1994 Palestinian leader Arafat
promised to turn the Gaza Strip and West Bank into a new Singapore.
(SFC, 6/10/97, p.A12)
1994 Former PM Julius Chan
(1980-1982) succeeded Paias Wingti as Prime Minister of Papua New
Guinea and continued to 1997.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbie_Namaliu)
1994 Lori Helene Berenson, an
American, arrived in Peru from El Salvador where she had worked as the
personal secretary to Leonel Gonzalez, top commander of the FMLN
guerrillas.
(WSJ, 12/27/96, p.A7)
1994 Alpacas from Peru began
arriving in the US after barriers with Peru were removed.
(WSJ, 4/5/07, p.A10)
1994 In the Philippines the death
penalty was restored.
(SFC, 1/19/99, p.A7)
1994 Alexander Solzhenitsyn
returned to Russia after living in the US. He had completed a 10-volume
novel-cycle about the Russian Revolution called "The Red Wheel." The
2nd volume, "November 1916," was to be published in 1999. In Russia he
wrote his political analysis "Russia in Collapse."
(WSJ, 12/11/98, p.W15)
1994 In Russia Yeltsin promoted
Anatoly Chubais to First Deputy Prime Minister.
(WSJ, 6/20/96, p.A10)
1994 In Russia Nikolai Yegerov
(d.1997 at 45) was appointed prime minister in charge of nationalities
and regional policy and a promotion put him in charge of the Chechnya
region. His policy endorsed sending troops to crush the rebellion
there. He was removed as nationalities minister in 1995.
(SFEC, 4/27/97, p.B8)
1994 Russian President Boris
Yeltsin wrote his memoirs: "The View From the Kremlin."
(WSJ, 5/30/96, p.A6)
1994 The Russian Army general
staff signed a deal with Orthodox Church leaders to start putting
chaplains in army units.
(WSJ, 6/4/96, p.A8)
1994 In Russia the single
independent newspaper of Kalmykia, Sovyetskaya Kalmykia, was shut down.
(SFC, 9/24/97, p.A12)
1994 Russian scientists detected a
large lake beneath 2½ miles of Antarctic ice. It was named Lake
Vostok and measured 250km long and 50km wide.
(SFC, 8/2/04, p.A6)(Econ, 3/31/07, p.87)
1994 Sofka Dolgorouky (b.1907),
Russian princess, died. She published an autobiography in 1968 called
“Sofka: the Autobiography of a Princess.” In 2007 Her granddaughter
authored the biography “Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life.”
(Econ, 2/3/07, p.86)(http://tinyurl.com/2e43hx)
1994 Juvenal Kajelijeli helped
orchestrate massacres in Ruhengeri, Rwanda. In 2003 the former mayor
was convicted by a UN tribunal in Tanzania and sentenced to life in
prison.
(SFC, 12/2/03, p.A3)
1994 In Saudi Arabia Osama Bin
Laden, the scion of a wealthy Saudi family, was stripped of his Saudi
citizenship. He financed a host of hard-line groups from Egypt to
Algeria. His fortune was estimated at $250 mil.
(SFC, 8/14/96, p.A10,12)
1994 The Saudi family of Osama bin
Laden disowned him. The Binladin Group later invested with the
Washington-based Carlyle Group, which also employed George Bush Sr.
(NW, 11/19/01, p.35)
1994 In Saudi Arabia Safar
al-Hawaly and Salman al-Awdeh, religious militants and critics of the
government, were jailed.
(SFC, 8/15/96, p.C3)
1994 Mary Benson authored the
biography: "Nelson Mandela: The Man and the Movement."
(SFC, 6/23/00, p.D5)
1994 South Africa’s government
adopted a plan to redistribute 30% of white-owned farmland to poor
blacks. At this time 87% of commercial farmland was owned by whites and
13% by blacks, the exact reverse of their proportion of the population.
This excluded the 4 million blacks making a bare living on subsistence
farms.
(Econ, 12/5/09, p.58)
1994 In South Africa King Goodwill
Zwelithini broke with Inkatha leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi and tension
between the Zulu royal family and Inkatha has since escalated.
(SFC, 4/28/96, A-13)
1994 South Africa’s Shoprite
supermarket began expanding across Africa. In 2005 it was Africa’s
largest retailer with 700 shops in 16 countries.
(Econ, 1/15/05, p.62)
1994 South African Breweries (SAB)
moved into the China market.
(Econ, 7/15/06, p.59)
1994 Osama bin Laden arrived in
Sudan from Afghanistan. He used his own money to finance road
construction projects in the desert north of Khartoum.
(SFEC, 8/23/98, p.A15)
1994 Sudan’s government began
funding the (LTA) Lord’s Resistance Army in retaliation for Uganda’s
support of the southern-based rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army.
(SFC, 5/25/98, p.A12)
1994 Switzerland began a
controversial 3-year experimental heroin distribution program. The
program led to a huge drop in crime and survived a ballot challenge in
1997.
(SFC, 7/11/97, p.A14)
1994 Emomali Rakhmonov was elected
president of Tajikistan.
(Econ, 11/11/06, p.50)
1994 In Thailand The Pak Mun Dam
along the Mun River, a major tributary of the Mekong, was completed
with money from the World Bank. It is a 56 foot high, 984 foot long
wall of concrete and severely impacted fish life on the river.
(WSJ, 3/12/96, p. A-15)(Econ, 1/3/04, p.30)
1994 The lower Mekong River was
spanned for the first time with a bridge between Nong Khai, Thailand
and Vientiane, Laos.
(SFC, 5/14/97, p.A22)(Econ, 1/3/04, p.29)
1994 In Togo legislative elections
were marked by army violence and intimidation.
(WSJ, 12/10/96, p.A22)
1994 In Turkey the $32 billion GAP
hydroelectric project opened its Ataturk Dam. The project planned 22
dams and 19 hydroelectric plants on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.
(SFC, 7/13/98, p.A6)
1994 In Turkmenistan a referendum
was passed to extend the rule of Niyazov, who had renamed himself
Turkmenbashi (Chieftain of the Turkmen), to 2002.
(SFC, 8/13/98, p.A10)
1994 In Abu Dhabi, UAR, 13 former
BCCI officials were tried and 12 were convicted and sentenced to jail
and terms with civil damages to $9 billion.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A9B)
1994 UNESCO introduced the Marti
prize on the initiative of Cuba to recognize an individual or
institution contributing to the unity and integration of countries of
Latin America and the Caribbean.
(AP, 2/3/06)
1994 In Vietnam worker strikes
were made legal.
(SFC, 6/23/97, p.A10)
1994 Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, was
named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
(SFEC, 7/18/99, p.T1)
1994 In Yemen a civil war broke
out in Mukalla, capital of the country’s oil producing province.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A1)
1994 Zimbabwe restored power to
local chiefs due to the corruption and inefficiency of appointed
officials.
(SFEC, 1/12/97, p.C16)
1994-1995 In Argentina it was alleged that IBM
offered government officials up to $21 million to win a contract with
the Banco de la Nacion.
(SFEC, 10/25/98, p.A24)
1994-1995 Depleted uranium shells were used by NATO
forces against Bosnian Serb positions around Sarajevo.
(WSJ, 1/11/00, p.A14)
1994-1995 China carved 4 big new commercial banks out
of the old communist banking system. The banks soon made 2 bad loans
for every three good ones. The government began cleaning them up in
1999 taking loans equivalent to 17% of GDP off their books.
(Econ, 5/20/06, Survey p.20)
1994-1995 South African Moses Sithole raped and
strangled 38 women in the Johannesburg area. He was sentenced in 1997
to more than 2,400 years in jail.
(AP,
1/13/04)(http://members.skcentral.com/html/articles.php?cat_id=13)
1994-1996 Russia’s Defense Minister, Pavel Grachev,
approved the transfer of more than $1 billion worth of weaponry to
Armenia.
(WSJ, 5/14/97, p.A22)
1994-1996 Philip Gourevitch in 1998 published "We
Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families."
The book covered the Rwanda Civil War of this period along with
background information.
(WSJ, 9/22/98, p.A20)
1994-1998 In Arkansas 59 bald eagles were found dead
at DeGray Lake and Lake Hamilton. Their deaths were associated with
dead coots and followed 10-20 days after heavy rains. Runoff containing
hazardous materials was suspected.
(SFEC, 2/1/98, p.A14)
1994-1998 At least 18 Palestinians died while under
detention by the Palestinian Authority.
(SFC, 1/9/98, p.A8)
1994-2000 On Indonesia’s island of New Guinea the
Meren Glacier on Puncak Jaya, a 3-mile high peak, vanished during this
period. Researchers later estimated that ice on the mountain covering 7
square miles had shrunk from 7 square miles in 1850 to 1 square mile in
2008.
(SSFC, 1/6/08, p.A11)
1994-2002 Tony Knowles served as governor of Alaska.
(Econ, 8/26/06, p.27)
1994-2004 Mass protests in China rose from 74,000 to
some 74,000.
(Econ, 12/17/05, p.41)
1994-2004 Gold production in Mali grew from 6.3
million tons to 39.3 million tons.
(SFC, 9/22/05, p.A14)
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