Historical Events In 1994

Jan 24 Dow Jones closes above 3,900 for first time (3,914.48)

Jan 30 Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wickets

Jan 09 Gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 points)

Jan 15 15th ACE Cable Awards HBO wins 34 awards, Showtime wins 10

Jan 31 German based BMW buys Rover cars from British Aerospace for 800 million

Jan 01 International Year of Family

Jan 07 United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5

Jan 01 Howard Stern's New Year's Eve Beauty Pageant

Jan 03 A Russian Tupolev-154M crashes at Irkutsk, Siberia 122 killed

Jan 06 Dow-Jones hits record 3803.88

Jan 27 Carlos Reina succeeds President Callejas in Honduras

Jan 15 Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse & breaks her left wrist

Jan 25 US space probe Clementine launched

Jan 05 The start of a horror spell of New South Wales bushfires; four die, more than 100 hospitalised in one day, scores of homes destroyed; more than15,000 Sydneysiders flee advancing flames.

Jan 02 "Shakespeare after My Father" closes at Helen Hayes New York City NY after 266 performances

Jan 12 Malcolm X's daughter arrested for plotting Louis Farrakhan's murder

Jan 10 Trial of Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husband's penis, begins

Jan 07 About 3.4 million litres of heating oil blacken beaches on Puerto Rico when a barge runs aground.

Jan 03 100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt

Jan 16 At a joint news conference in Geneva with President Clinton, Syrian President Hafez Assad indicated a willingness to negotiate a peace treaty with Israel.

Jan 10 Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs

Jan 25 Mine fire at Asansol India, kills 55

Jan 27 Carlos Reina succeeds President Callejas in Honduras

Jan 05 The start of a horror spell of New South Wales bushfires; four die, more than 100 hospitalised in one day, scores of homes destroyed; more than15,000 Sydneysiders flee advancing flames.

Jan 16 Syria declares its commitment to peace with Israel

Jan 20 Shannon Faulkner becomes the first woman to join the cadet corps at The Citadel military academy in South Carolina.

Jan 14 Russian manned space craft TM-17, lands

Jan 01 Microsoft CEO Bill Gates (38) marries Melinda French (29)

Jan 01 International Year of Family

Jan 01 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect

Jan 13 Italian government of Ciampi resigns

Jan 01 Microsoft CEO Bill Gates (38) marries Melinda French (29)

Jan 17 6.6 Earthquake hits Los Angeles killing 60, $30B in damage

Jan 21 Lorena Bobbitt was found innocent by reason of insanity in the June 1993 attack on her husband, John. She had cut off his penis while he slept. The organ was surgically reattached.

Jan 22 Twenty-one firefighters die after they are trapped in a brush fire in southern Argentina;

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