Historical Events In 1994

Apr 05 Miami Heat beat New York Knicks ending 15 game NBA winning streak

Apr 03 13th NCAA Women Basketball Championship North Carolina beats Louisiana Tech 60-59

Apr 04 Tony Curtis undergoes heart-bypass surgery

Apr 05 "Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect" opens at Golden NYC for 347 performances

Apr 04 KLM Saab 340B crashes at Schiphol, 3 killed

Apr 03 1st roster of Silver Bullets (all-female pro baseball team) announced

Apr 04 Largest Opening Day crowd at Yankee Stadium, 56,706

Nov 07 Intel tells the world of a "Bug Problem" in their Pentium chips

Nov 29 Andrew Grove, CEO of Intel Corp., posted a message on an Internet chat group, apologizing for a bug in the recently-released Pentium chip. The problem, first

Nov 25 Thanks to an ill-fated decision to acquire Columbia Pictures, electronics giant Sony Corp. floundered through the early 1990s, and the company's woes threatened to grow worse when founderAkio Morita announced his decision to step down as CEO.

Nov 08 Republicans regain control of US Congress

Nov 19 First National Lottery draw in England

Dec 30 Two are killed and five wounded when a gunman opens fire at two Boston area abortion clinics.

Dec 06 Apple filed a lawsuit against a San Francisco software firm called Canyon Co., alleging the company had stolen thousands of lines of code from Apple's QuickTime for Windows.

Dec 30 US Army pilot Bobby Hall is free, some 13 days after his helicopter is downed (resulting in the death of his co-pilot David Hilemon) by North Korea. Dec 30, 1993 Israel and the Vatican agree to recognize each other.

Dec 17 North Korea shoots down a US Army helicopter when it strays north of the demilitarized zone.dec18

Dec 15 Diane Modahl banned from Athletics for Drug Use, in the UK

Dec 26 French commandos storm a hijacked Air France jet on the ground in Marseille, freeing 170 hostages and killing the Algerian hijackers.

Dec 19 Great Britain's prestigious Rolls-Royce, a luxury automobile maker, announced that its future cars would feature 12-cylinder motors manufactured by Germany's BMW

Dec 03 AIDS activist Elizabeth Glaser, infected with HIV from a blood transfusion, dies in Santa Monica, CA, at age 47.

Dec 22 Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi resigns dec23

Dec 01 the Société des chemins de fer du Québec commences operation over the former CN line from Limoilou to Clermont, Québec.

May 27 Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile

May 18 Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip

May 24 Poison singer Bret Michaels gets into a car crash

May 06 Chunnel linking England & France officially opens

May 10 Silvio Berlusconi forms Italian Government with 5 neo-fascists

May 06 Lennox Lewis TKOs Phil Jackson in 8 for heavyweight boxing title

May 01 Charles Kuralt retires as CBS newsman (On the Road)

May 08 President Clinton announces US will no longer repatriate boat people

May 19 Omar Sharif suffers a mild heart attack

May 08 500th commentary by Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes

May 07 The Channel Tunnel opened by the British Queen and French President Mitterand

May 20 Bobcat Goldthwait charged with misdemeanors for fire on Tonight Show

May 02 Bus crashes into a tree at Gdansk Poland, 30 killed

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