Historical Events In 1994

Mar 04 Toronto actor John Candy dies at 43 of a heart attack while filming Wagons East on location in Mexico

Mar 07 Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia

Mar 20 14th Golden Raspberry Awards Indecent Proposal wins

Mar 18 Zsa Zsa Gabor files for bankruptcy

Mar 28 Armed Zulus demonstrate in Johannesburg, over 53 killed

Mar 19 Largest omelet (1,383² ft) made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama Japan

Mar 14 Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped

Mar 20 Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa

Mar 02 Miami begins a latin walk of fame, first star for Gloria Estefan

Aug 29 The Windsor and Hantsport Railway commences operation in Nova Scotia.

Aug 01 NASDAQ computers crash - squirrel caused power outage

Aug 22 Canadian icebreaker Louis St-Laurent reaches the North Magnetic Pole.

Aug 11 History was made on August 11, 1994, when the first retail transaction on the Internet was carried out using a readily available version of powerful data encryption software designed to guarantee privacy.

Sep 03 China and Russia agree to a non-aggression pact.

Sep 08 A US Air 737 jetliner crashes during final approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, killing all 132 people on board.

Feb 13 Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200

Feb 06 Martti Ahtisaari elected President of Finland

Feb 08 Ottawa slashes tobacco taxes to reduce rampant cigarette smuggling; and they say crime doesn't pay?

Feb 11 Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands

Feb 01 Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean

Feb 04 10th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins

Feb 12 Edvard Munch's painting "The Cry" stolen (in Oslo)

Feb 06 José Maria Figueres elected President of Costa Rica

Feb 08 Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432

Feb 09 Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Yasser Arafat.

Feb 16 Over 200 people die as a powerful earthquake rocks the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

Feb 03 STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit

Feb 25 Baruch Goldstein shoots and kills 29 worshippers inside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank. He is later beaten to death by survivors.

Feb 27 Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed

Feb 26 Actor Dolph Lundgren (34) weds Anette Qviberg in Stockholm

Feb 25 Jersey Joe Walcott, world heavyweight boxing champ (1951-52), dies in Camden, NJ, at age 80.

Feb 16 Premier Alfonso Bustamente ends government in Peru

Feb 12 Rev. Victoria Matthews consecrated the first female Bishop in the Anglican Church of Canada

Feb 20 Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals

Feb 08 Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee charge with possession of loaded firearm

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