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List of events
Events from the year 1994 in the United States .
Incumbents [ edit ] Federal government [ edit ] January [ edit ] January 17: Northridge earthquake January – The National Archives at College Park opens.[1]
January 6 – In Detroit , Michigan , Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant, under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding 's ex-husband.
January 11 – The Superhighway Summit UCLA 's Royce Hall. It is the first conference to discuss the growing information superhighway and is presided over by U.S. Vice President Al Gore .
January 14 – U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords , which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles toward each country's targets, and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine .
January 17 – The 6.5–6.7 Mw Northridge earthquake shakes the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent ), leaving 57 people dead and more than 8,700 injured.
January 19 – Record cold temperatures hit the eastern United States. The coldest temperature ever measured in Indiana state history, −36 °F (−38 °C), is recorded in New Whiteland, Indiana .
January 20 – In South Carolina , Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet to attend The Citadel , but soon drops out.
January 25 – U.S. President Bill Clinton delivers his first State of the Union address, calling for health care reform , a ban on assault weapons , and welfare reform .
January 30 – Super Bowl XXVIII : The Dallas Cowboys hand the Buffalo Bills their fourth consecutive Super Bowl loss, 30–13. February [ edit ] March 1
March 7 – Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. Supreme Court of the United States rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use .
March 15 – U.S. troops are withdrawn from Somalia .
March 16 – In Portland, Oregon , Tonya Harding pleads guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for trying to cover-up an attack on figure skating rival Nancy Kerrigan . She is fined $100,000 and banned from the sport.
March 17 – Serial killer Dana Sue Gray is arrested in California in connection with three murders and one attempted murder of elderly women.[6]
March 21 – The 66th Academy Awards , hosted by Whoopi Goldberg , are held at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles . Steven Spielberg 's Holocaust drama, Schindler's List Best Picture and Best Director . The telecast garners over 46.2 million viewers.
March 23 – Green Ramp disaster : Two military aircraft collide over Pope Air Force Base , North Carolina , causing 24 fatalities and over 100 injuries.
March 27 – The biggest tornado outbreak in 1994 occurs in the southeastern United States ; one tornado hits a Goshen United Methodist Church in Piedmont, Alabama , killing 22 people. April 22: Former President Richard Nixon dies at 81. April 7 – A deadheading Federal Express flight engineer attempts to hijack and intentionally crash Federal Express Flight 705 , a cargo flight from Memphis, Tennessee to San Jose, California .[7] [8]
April 8 – Kurt Cobain , songwriter and frontman for the band Nirvana , is found dead at his Lake Washington home. It would be later be confirmed that Cobain had committed suicide three days prior.[9]
April 14 – The heads of the major tobacco industries testify before a House subcommittee where they infamously state that tobacco is not addictive.
April 16 – A gunman shoots many people during a robbery at a Popeyes restaurant. The gunman is arrested and executed in 2017. (1994 Popeyes shooting )
April 22 – Former President Richard Nixon dies in New York City at 81. He is buried at his presidential library on April 26, following a state funeral .
April 25 – The largest high school arson ever in the United States is started at Burnsville High School , in Burnsville, Minnesota , resulting in over 15 million dollars in damages. The same arsonist also goes on to set fires at Edina High School and Minnetonka High School .[10] June 12 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside the Simpson home in Los Angeles . O. J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit .
June 14 – The New York Rangers defeat the Vancouver Canucks , 3–2, in Game 7 of the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals at Madison Square Garden to win their first championship in 54 years.
June 15 – Walt Disney Pictures ' 32nd feature film, The Lion King
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June 20 – Dean Mellberg kills four and injures 23 at Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane, Washington .
June 22 – The Houston Rockets defeat the New York Knicks at The Summit in Texas in Game 7 of the 1993–94 NBA season , to win their first NBA Championship.
June 24 – 1994 Fairchild Air Force Base B-52 crash : U.S. Air Force pilot Bud Holland crashes a B-52 in Fairchild Air Force Base , Washington as a result of pilot error.
June 30–July 10 – Tropical Storm Alberto causes heavy flooding, intense winds and extensive problems directly over the Southeastern United States and the Caribbean Islands . Thirty two individuals are directly killed by the storm, and property damage is assessed at $1 billion (1994 USD). August 3 – Stephen Breyer is sworn in as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court.
August 12 – Major League Baseball players go on strike . The strike eventually results in the cancellation of the World Series for the first time since 1904. The strike lasts until April 1995, making it the longest labor dispute in MLB history.
August 20 – In Honolulu, Hawaii , during a circus international performance, an elephant named Tyke crushes her trainer Allen Campbell to death before hundreds of horrified spectators at the Neal Blaisdell Arena.
August 23 – Eugene Bullard is posthumously commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force, 33 years after his death, and 77 years to the day after his rejection for U.S. military service in 1917. September [ edit ] September – Trudy McFall and Nancy Rase found "Homes for America" in Annapolis, Maryland .
September 8 – USAir Flight 427 , a Boeing 737 with 132 people on board, crashes on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport ; there are no survivors.
September 10 – The Magic School Bus PBS .
September 12 – Frank Eugene Corder crashes a Cessna 150 into the South Lawn of the White House ; he is killed, and is the sole casualty.
September 13
President Bill Clinton signs the Federal Assault Weapons Ban , which bans the manufacture of new firearms with certain features for a period of 10 years.
President Bill Clinton signs the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA). The Act provided $1.6 billion toward investigation and prosecution of violent crimes against women, imposed automatic and mandatory restitution on those convicted, and allowed civil redress in cases prosecutors chose not to prosecute. The Act also established the Office on Violence Against Women within the Department of Justice.
September 14 – The World Series is cancelled for the first time in 90 years due to a strike by the MLB Players Association .September 15 –21 – Hurricane Gert crosses from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through Central America and Mexico.September 17 – Heather Whitestone becomes the first hearing impaired contestant to win the Miss America entitlement. Whitestone becomes Miss America 1995 .
September 19 – American troops stage a bloodless invasion of Haiti in order to restore the legitimate elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide , to power.
September 22 – The pilot episode of Friends NBC .
September 24 – The Marvel Action Hour Iron Man and the Fantastic Four , debuts in syndication .
September–October – Iraq disarmament crisis : Iraq threatens to stop cooperating with UNSCOM inspectors and begins to once again deploy troops near its border with Kuwait . In response, the U.S. begins to deploy troops to Kuwait . October [ edit ] November [ edit ] November 8: Republicans gain control of Congress (Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich pictured ) November 4 – The first conference devoted entirely to the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web opens in San Francisco. Featured speakers include Marc Andreessen of Netscape , Mark Graham of Pandora Systems, and Ken McCarthy of E-Media.
November 5 – Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces that he has Alzheimer's disease .
November 7 – WXYC , the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , provides the world's first internet radio broadcast .
November 8–21 – Hurricane Gordon strikes the Caribbean Islands and the Southeastern United States , causing 1,147 deaths (of which 1,122 are in Haiti ) and US$514M in damage (estimated, 1994 dollars).
November 8 – Republican Revolution : Georgia Representative Newt Gingrich leads the Republican Party in taking control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections, the first time in 40 years the Republicans secure control of both houses of Congress . George W. Bush is elected Governor of Texas .
November 16 – A federal judge issues a temporary restraining order prohibiting California from implementing Proposition 187 , which would have denied most public services to illegal aliens .
November 28 – At the Columbia Correctional Institution , serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and murderer Jesse Anderson are attacked by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver . Dahmer dies on the way to the hospital and Anderson dies two days later.[13] [14] [15]
November 30
December [ edit ] Ongoing [ edit ] Undated [ edit ] Rani Spas , a multi-channel Ayurvedic spa and retail product company is founded.[19] January [ edit ] Booboo Stewart February [ edit ] Earl Sweatshirt Christina Grimmie Paige VanZant Aminé Alexander Gould Celeste Lindsey Horan Camila Mendes Eugenia Cooney Cr1TiKaL Bobby Shmurda August 2
August 3 – Todd Gurley , American football playerAugust 4 – Bobby Shmurda , rapper/songwriterAugust 8 – Lauv , singer/songwriterAugust 9
August 11 – Alejandro Aranda , singerAugust 12 – Bex Taylor-Klaus , actressAugust 16 – Tippy Dos Santos , actress and singerAugust 17
August 18 – Madelaine Petsch , actress and YouTuberAugust 20 – Jonathon Lillis , freestyle skierAugust 21 – Jacqueline Emerson , actressAugust 22 – Israel Broussard , actorAugust 26 – Alex Collins , American football player (died 2023)August 27 – Ellar Coltrane , actorSeptember [ edit ] Cameron Dallas Halsey Ice Poseidon October [ edit ] November [ edit ] Nyjah Huston December [ edit ] Jake T. Austin December 2 – Aaron Jones , Amrrican football playerDecember 3 – Jake T. Austin , actorDecember 7
December 8 – Trevor Daniel , American football playerDecember 9 – Zach Veach , race car driverDecember 12 – Otto Warmbier , college student who was detained in North Korea (d. 2017 )December 16 – Christopher Bell , race car driverDecember 17 – Nat Wolff , actor[22] December 20
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December 22 – Calvin Tankman , pro wrestlerDecember 23 – Tajae Sharpe , American football playerDecember 24 – LaShawn Tináh Jefferies , actressDecember 26
January [ edit ] Cesar Romero Telly Savalas January 1 – Cesar Romero , American actor (born 1907 )January 3 – Frank Belknap Long , American writer (born 1901 )January 5 – Tip O'Neill , American politician (born 1912 )January 8 – Pat Buttram , American actor (born 1915 )January 9 – Johnny Temple , American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1927)January 12 – Samuel Bronston , American film producer and director (born 1908 )January 14 – Esther Ralston , American actress (born 1902 )January 15 – Harry Nilsson , American musician (born 1941 )January 17 – Helen Stephens , American athlete (born 1918 )January 22
January 25 – Stephen Cole Kleene , American mathematician (born 1909 )January 27 – Claude Akins , American actor (born 1926 )January 28 – Hal Smith , American actor (born 1916 )January 29 – Nick Cravat , American actor and acrobat (born 1912 )February [ edit ] Joseph Cotten Jack Kirby Dinah Shore Bill Hicks February 1 – Olan Soule , American actor (b. 1909 )February 2 – Marija Gimbutas , Lithuanian-American archeologist (b. 1921 )February 6
February 9
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February 12 – Donald Judd , American artist (b. 1928 )February 14 – Christopher Lasch , American historian, moralist, and social critic (b. 1932 )February 17 – Randy Shilts , journalist and author (b. 1951 )February 22 – Papa John Creach , blues violinistFebruary 24 – Dinah Shore , American actress and singer (b. 1917 )[25] February 25
February 26 – Bill Hicks , American comedian (b. 1961 )John Candy Richard Nixon George Peppard Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Barry Sullivan Menachem Mendel Schneerson June 1 – Frances Heflin , actress (b. 1923 )June 4 – Stephen McNally , American actor (b. 1911 )June 5 – Ish Kabibble , comedian and cornet playerJune 6 – Barry Sullivan , American actor (b. 1912 )June 8 – Dorothy Shoemaker McDiarmid , legislator from Virginia (b. 1906 )June 10
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June 13 – K. T. Stevens , American actress (b. 1919 )June 14 – Henry Mancini , American composer and arranger (b. 1924 )June 16 – Kristen Pfaff , American bassist (b. 1967 )June 20 – Jay Miner , American computer pioneer (b. 1932 )June 21 – William Wilson Morgan , American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1906 )June 23 – Marv Throneberry , American baseball player (b. 1933 )Dick Sargent Julian Schwinger September [ edit ] Raul Julia October [ edit ] November [ edit ] Wilma Rudolph Cab Calloway November 1 – Noah Beery Jr. , American actor (b. 1913 )November 4 – Sam Francis , American painter (b. 1923 )November 8 – Michael O' Donoghue , American writer and performer (b. 1940 )November 10 – Carmen McRae , American jazz singer (b. 1922 )November 11 – Pedro Zamora , Cuban-American educator and TV personality (b. 1972 )November 12 – Wilma Rudolph , American athlete (b. 1940 )November 13 – John Bailey , actor/screenwriter (b. 1947 )November 14 – Tom Villard , American actor (b. 1953 )November 18 – Cab Calloway , American jazz singer and bandleader (b. 1907 )November 21 – Willem Jacob Luyten , Dutch-American astronomer (b. 1899 )November 28
November 30 – Lionel Stander , American actor (b. 1908 )December [ edit ] See also [ edit ] References [ edit ]
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