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 US warrant was
issued for the arrest of Isaac Amuah, a son-in-law of former South
Africa President Nelson Mandela. He was charged with raping a US
woman at his home in Connecticut in 1993. He went to South Africa
before trial and never went back to the United States. On Feb 11,
2011, A South African judge decided not to extradite Amuah.
(Reuters, 2/11/11)
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 5, Ben Enwonwu
(b.1921), Nigerian artist, died.
(Econ, 7/31/10, p.35)(http://tinyurl.com/25cc7co)
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 10, Sara Kruzan
(b.1978) of Riverside, Ca., killed her alleged pimp after she was
forced into prostitution. She was convicted of 1st-degree murder and
sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC, 8/18/10,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Kruzan)
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, The Israeli
Cabinet outlawed two Jewish extremist groups, Kach and Kahane Lives,
branding them terrorist organizations.
(AP, 3/13/99)
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 oil tanker
Nassia collided with an empty cargo ship at the entrance of the
Bosporus. 27-29 people lost their lives. 9,000 tons of petroleum
spilled and 20,000 tons burned for four days long affecting the
marine environment.
(www.bosphorusstrait.com/the-bosporus-strait/incidents/)(AP,
4/27/11)
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. In 2012 a French judge determined that the
missile fire that brought down the Rwandan president's plane and
sparked the country's genocide came from a military camp, and not
Tutsi rebels. This finding supported the theory that Habyarimana was
killed by extremist members of his own ethnic Hutu camp.
(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)(AFP, 1/11/12)
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, In Rwanda Augustin
Bizimungu made a speech, several days before he was made army chief,
in the northern district of Mukingo, calling for the killing of
Tutsis. Bizimungu was arrested in Angola in 2002. In 2011 he
received a 30-year jail term for his role in the mass killing of
Tutsis.
(AP, 5/17/11)
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 12, In Iraq Shiite
dissident Talib al-Suhail was assassinated by the Iraqi Intelligence
Service in Beirut.
(AP,
4/21/11)(www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Safia_Taleb_al-Suhail)
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 13, In Rwanda two
Tutsi mothers and their four children were killed. In 2011 an
appeals court in The Netherlands sentenced Joseph Mpambara (43) to
life in prison for torture causing the deaths of the 2 mothers and 4
children. Mpambara had already been convicted on March 23, 2009.
(AFP, 7/7/11)
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 15, Valerie
Niyitegeka, a Tutsi woman whose family farmed near Mount Nyakizu,
fled with her husband, Appolloni and their six children as mobs of
Hutu men burned Tutsi houses. The father and children were soon
killed. In 2011 she testified in Kansas, USA, against Lazare
Kobagaya as the US government sought to revoke his US citizenship
for allegedly lying to immigration authorities about his involvement
in the Rwanda genocide. A US federal jury found Kobagaya lied on
immigration forms and deadlocked on his involvement in the genocide.
In August, 2011, charges against Kobagaya (84) were dismissed after
the government failed to prove he took part in the atrocities.
(AP, 5/6/11)(SFC, 6/1/11, p.A8)(SFC, 8/26/11,
p.A5)
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
(TerreBlanche) 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. In Rwanda Tutsis were singled out, abducted
and massacred at a convent close to an army camp. In 2010 in
Tanzania the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda handed down
a life sentence to Ildephonse Hategekimana, a lieutenant from the
former Rwandan army, for ordering the massacre. He was found guilty
of genocide, murder and rape.
(AP, 4/30/99)(AFP, 12/6/10)
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, Jean-Damascene
Bizimana, Rwanda’s UN ambassador, blamed the killings in Rwanda
first on public anguish over the president's death, then on the
Tutsi-led RPF. He also called on the UN Security Council to persuade
the Tutsis to agree to a comprehensive cease-fire. Weeks later, he
wrote to the UN secretary general blaming the Tutsi "war machine"
for "large-scale massacres." At the end of the summer Bizimana ended
his tenure as ambassador and moved to Alabama. In 2010 Rwanda’s
government began an investigation of Bizimana (51) for possible
prosecution.
(AP, 4/24/10)
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 10, Dhirendra
Brahmachari (70), a spiritual leader and yoga instructor who became
a confidant of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, died today in a plane
crash. Brahmachari, aka known as the flying swami, was swept into
obscurity amid scandals over a personal arms factory and crooked
aircraft deals.
(http://tinyurl.com/3metw8l)(Econ, 6/11/11, p.44)
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, The last Mass at
San Francisco’s St. Brigid Church was held after it was ordered
closed along with 8 other city churches by Archbishop Quinn. In 2011
Julian Guthrie authored “The Grace of Everyday Saints: How a Band of
Believers Lost Their Church and Found Their Faith.”
(SFC, 6/30/99, p.A14)(SSFC, 8/14/11, p.F3)
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, VP Al Gore broke a
50-50 tie in the US Senate by voting in favor of an ethanol tax
credit. In 2009 the credit added almost $5 billion to the federal
deficit. In 2010 Gore admitted that first-generation ethanol was a
mistake.
(SFC, 11/30/10,
p.A16)(http://tinyurl.com/2c4xaup)
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, Stella Liebeck,
who spilled scalding coffee from McDonald’s on her lap, was awarded
$2.7 million in punitive damages. She ended up getting only
$480,000. The Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants product liability
lawsuit became a flashpoint in the debate in the US over tort
reform.
(Econ, 12/10/11,
p.38)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants)
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 30, Randolph Dial, a
sculptor and painter convicted of a 1981 murder, escaped from the
Oklahoma State Reformatory. On the same day Bobbi Parker disappeared
from staff housing at the reformatory, where her husband worked. On
Apr 4, 2005, she was found living with Randolph Dial on a chicken
farm in Texas. In 2011 Bobbi Parker was sentenced to a year in jail
for helping Dial escape.
(SFC, 4/6/05,
p.A2)(www.amw.com/fugitives/capture.cfm?id=23521)(SFC, 11/8/11,
p.A6)
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 Morocco a
guerrilla attack by members of the Fez cell on the Atlas Asni Hotel
in Marrakech left two Spanish tourists dead.
(www.start.umd.edu/start/data/tops/terrorist_organization_profile.asp?id=4330)
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, 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. In late 2010 Cuba's Supreme Court commuted the death
sentence against Humberto Real Suarez, the last person remaining on
death row in Cuba.
(SFC, 4/26/96, p.A-14)(AP, 12/28/10)
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, 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, In Indonesia the
Merapi volcano erupted. Pyroclastic flows and surges killed 43
people.
(http://dogeatdogma.com/merapi.htm)(Reuters,
10/26/10)
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 30, In Nepal Man Mohan
Adhikari (1920-1999) succeeded Girija Prasad Koirala as prime
minister. He represented the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified
Marxist-Leninist) and was the first democratically-elected Communist
Party member to be PM in Nepal.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girija_Prasad_Koirala)
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 3, Japan’s Sony Corp.
launched its PlayStation game console.
(WSJ, 3/7/05, p.A8)(Econ, 12/10/11, SR p.4)
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 Leonard Hayflick (b.1928)
authored “How and Why We Age.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Hayflick)
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 John Kerr authored “A Most
Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein.”
In 2011 it was turned into a film directed by David Cronenberg.
(Econ, 12/3/11, p.102)
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)(www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM)
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 WritersCorps began as an
AmeriCorps program, thus the name, in San Francisco, the Bronx, and
DC.
(SFC, 10/20/10, p.C2)(http://tinyurl.com/256lvpv)
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 Belarus gave up the
nuclear weapons it inherited in the breakup of the Soviet Union, but
it retained its highly enriched uranium stocks.
(AP, 12/1/10)
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 established a
unified official exchange rate and 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)(Econ, 9/25/10, p.87)
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 Kevin Gardiner of
Barclay’s Wealth coined the phrase “Celtic Tiger” to describe the
dramatic rise of Ireland’s economy.
(Econ, 2/19/11, p.28)
1994 Israel established the
elite squad, Egoz (walnut in Hebrew), to track Shiite guerrillas in
southern Lebanon.
(SFC, 12/5/96, p.C5)
1994 The Italian government
introduced instant lotteries.
(WSJ, 11/1/96, p.A1)
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 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 Roberto Pannunzi, Italian
mobster, was arrested in Colombia. He had forged links with
Colombian cartels for transatlantic trade in cocaine. He was
extradited to Italy and released when his detention expired. He was
rearrested in 2004 but disappeared in 2009 when sent to a private
clinic near Rome following a heart attack.
(Econ, 5/8/10, p.54)
1994 Jamaica's government
privatized its sugar factories. [see 1998]
(Econ, 8/30/03, p.26)
1994 In Jamaica Michael
Llewellyn was shot in the back when he tried to escape a beating by
police at his house. His right leg was amputated below the knee as a
result, and he was left unable use the remaining leg. In 2010 he was
awarded $230,000 in compensation.
(AP, 4/30/10)
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 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)
1994-1995 Haruki Murakami (b.1949) authored his
3-volume novel “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,” a surreal 600-page
exploration of fear. An English version was published in 1997. In
2011 a stage version premiered in Edinburgh.
(Econ, 8/27/11,
p.75)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami)
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 The Mexican 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 In Mexico the Union for
the Social Wellbeing of the Triqui Region (UBISORT) was set up by
the ruling PRI party to enforce its authority in the mountains of
Oaxaca. It fought the Movement for the Unification and Struggle
(MULT) resistance group.
(Econ, 8/7/10, p.36)
1994 In Mexico the Tlachinollan
Center was founded in the town of Tlapa de Comonfort by Abel Barrera
Hernandez to fight to give voice to members of the many indigenous
communities in Guerrero whose rights are often overlooked and
abused.
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworld/20101121/wl_oneworld/world3696671290379676)
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 In Myanmar the Kachin
Independent Army (KIA) agreed to stop fighting.
(Econ, 11/27/10, p.52)
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. PM Edouard
Balladur’s 1995 campaign for the French presidency was later
suspected of having been financed in part from kickbacks in the
submarine sale.
(AP,
6/25/09)(www.digitaljournal.com/article/274427)(Econ, 10/1/11, p.54)
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 In Puerto Rico the Federal
Death Penalty Act broadened the range of crimes punishable by death.
(AP, 8/1/03)
1994 In Puerto Rico a record
995 people were killed.
(AP, 11/12/11)
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 In South Africa public
schooling was desegregated.
(Econ, 1/15/11, p.52)
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)
1994-1999 In South Africa Mac Maharaj (b.1935)
served as transportation minister. In July 2011 he was appointed as
a spokesman for Pres. Zuma. In Nov 2011 it was reported that from
1997-1999 Maharaj was paid 1.2 million French francs, through an
offshore bank account registered in his wife's name, before French
weapons maker Thales was awarded a credit card license contract.
Zuma's former financial adviser and convicted fraudster Shabir
Shaik's Swiss bank account was allegedly used as a conduit by Thales
to channel the money into Maharaj's wife's bank account.
(AFP, 11/19/11)
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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