Historical Events In 1994
Apr 04 Netscape Communications founded as Mosaic Communications
Apr 04 1st game played at Jacobs Field, Indians beat Mariners 4-3 in 11 innings
Apr 22 Former President Richard Nixon dies
Apr 03 6th Seniors Golf Tradition Ray Floyd
Apr 04 Los Angeles Dodger Darryl Strawberry begins substance abuse treatment
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
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.
Jun 06 In Colombia a 6.7 quake results in at least 295 people killed, 500 missing, 13,000 homeless and severe damage caused to houses, highways and bridges by the earthquake and ensuing landslides
Jun 06 A Chinese passenger jet crashes, killing all 160 people on board.
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.
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.
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