- Jan 1 Aleksandr Popov swims world record 100m free style (47.83)
Stern's Beauty Pageant
Jan 1Howard Stern's "New Year's Eve Beauty Pageant" pay -per-view special airs
- Jan 1 International Year of Family begins
- Jan 1 Jacobs Field opens with "Gateway's New Year's Eve Countdown to '94"
- Jan 1 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect
- Jan 1 The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican State of Chiapas
- Jan 2 Battles between the army and rebellious Indigenous people in southern Mexico kill 57
- Jan 3 100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt
- Jan 3 35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo, trademark of Indians on top of Stadium since 1962, is taken down, to be moved to Jacob's Field
Black Citizenship Restored
Jan 3 More than 7 million Black South Africans have their citizenship restored (announced on 15 December 1993 by parliament of PresidentF. W. de Klerk, effective four months before first non-racial polls 27 April, 1994)
Young's Record 3rd Passing Title
Jan 3Steve Young of the San Francisco 49ers becomes first quarterback to win 3 straight NFL passing titles despite a 37-34 OT loss to the Philadelphia Eagles; first to lodge 3 consecutive passer ratings of 100+
Nancy Kerrigan Attacked
Jan 6 US figure skating championNancy Kerrigan is attacked byTonya Harding's bodyguard at the US Championships in Detroit, Michigan
- Jan 7 South Africa beat Australia in the Sydney Test by 5 runs
- Jan 7 United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5
- Jan 8 Rintje Ritsma skates world record 1500m (1:51.60)
- Jan 8 Russian manned space craft TM-18, launches into orbit
- Jan 9 14th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000
- Jan 9 Gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 pts)
- Jan 9 Rintje Ritsma skates world record (156.201 points)
- Jan 10 Trial of Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husband's penis, begins
- Jan 10 Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal
- Jan 10 Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs
- Jan 11 Hyderabad score 6 for 944 against Andhra Pradesh in Ranji Trophy
- Jan 11 Irish government announces end of a 20-year broadcasting ban on IRA
- Jan 13 Italian government of Carlo Ciampi resigns
- Jan 13Tonya Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt & Derrick Brian Smith arrested & charged with conspiracy in attack of figure skater Nancy Kerrigan
- Jan 14 Inna Lassovskaya triple-jumps ladies world record (14.61m)
- Jan 14 Russian manned space craft TM-17, lands
- Jan 14 The Duchess of Kent converts to Catholicism, the first member of the Royal Family to do so in more than 300 years
- Jan 15 Dallas Mavericks drop a 104-87 decision to the San Antonio Spurs at Reunion Arena to set an unwanted NBA record with their 17th consecutive home defeat; break mark of 16 set by Orlando in 1990
- Jan 15 Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood, breaks Dutch record (.47%)
Lawrence Taylor Retires
Jan 15Lawrence Taylor announces his retirement from the NFL
Taylor Released From Hospital
Jan 17 ActressElizabeth Taylor released from the hospital after hip treatment
Ewing's 15,000 Points
Jan 17Patrick Ewing becomes first New York player to reach the 15,000-point mark in his NBA career; scores a game-high 34 points in the Knicks' 106-94 win over visiting Minnesota
9th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Jan 19 9th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: The Animals; The Band; Duane Eddy; The Grateful Dead;Elton John;John Lennon;Bob Marley;Rod Stewart; Willie Dixon; and Johnny Otis
- Jan 21 Dallas Mavericks suffer 19th straight loss at Reunion Arena, 91-87 to the Seattle SuperSonics; extends an unwanted NBA record for the most consecutive home defeats
- Jan 21 Dow Jones Industrial Average passes 3900 (record 3,914.20)
- Jan 21 Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane when she cut off her husband's penis
- Jan 22 5.5 magnitude earthquake strikes Sumatra
- Jan 23 Worldwide Day for Peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Jan 24 Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3,900 for 1st time (3,914.48)
Jackson Settles Lawsuit
Jan 25 Accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, King of PopMichael Jackson settles a civil lawsuit out of court
- Jan 25 Mine fire at Asansol, India, kills 55
- Jan 25 US space probe Clementine launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
- Jan 27 Carlos Reina succeeds pres Callejas in Honduras
- Jan 27 Romanian social democrats form government with anti-Semites
- Jan 28 Helicopter crashes into office building in San Jose California, 1 dead
- Jan 28 Inna Lassovskaja jumps ladies world record (14.78m)
- Jan 29 Frankie Randall beats Mexican boxing legend Julio César Chávez by split decision to win WBC super lightweight title at MGM Grand, Las Vegas; Chavez's 1st knockdown of career in 11th and 1st loss in 91 pro fights
World Record 500m
Jan 30Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.76)
Dev Equals Hadlee's Record
Jan 30Kapil Dev takes 2/41 as India beats Sri Lanka by an innings and 95 runs in 2nd Cricket Test in Bengaluru; equals SirRichard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wickets
- Jan 30 Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grand master.
Super Bowl XXVIII
Jan 30 Super Bowl XXVIII, Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 30-13; MVP:Emmitt Smith, Dallas, RB
- Jan 31 Barcelona opera theater "Gran Teatro del Liceo", built in 1847, burns down for the second time; re-built and re-opens in 1999
- Jan 31 Dow Jones Industrial Average hits a record 3,978.36
Marimar
Jan 31 Mexican telenovela "Marimar" starring Thalia and Eduardo Capetillo premieres
- Feb 1 Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his part in attack on American Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan; plea bargain, confesses to racketeering in exchange for testimony implicating ex-wifeTonya Harding
- Feb 1 Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean
- Feb 1 South African cricket fast bowler Fanie de Villiers bravely survives 197 minutes for 30 on last day of 3rd Test against Australia in Adelaide; Proteas finally all out 129; Australia win by 191, draw series
Vietnam Trade Embargo Lifts
Feb 3 PresidentBill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam
- Feb 3 STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit
- Feb 4 20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartoum, Sudan
- Feb 4 Merlene Ottey runs world record 50 m indoor (6.00 sec)
- Feb 4 Russian team beats ladies world record 4x800 m indoor (8:18.71)
- Feb 5 "Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego," debuts on Fox TV
- Feb 5 68 killed and 200 wounded after a mortar bomb is set off in Sarajevo
De La Beckwith Sentenced
Feb 5Medgar Evers' murdererByron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson, Mississippi, 30 years after the crime
- Feb 6 Jose Maria Figueres elected President of Costa Rica
- Feb 6 Martti Ahtisaari elected President of Finland
- Feb 7 American actor and singer Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle, USMC) undergoes a liver transplant
- Feb 7Howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge
- Feb 8 "Sátántangó", Hungarian film directed by Béla Tarr, starring Mihály Víg, Putyi Horváth, is released
Nicholson Attacks Car
Feb 8Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car
- Feb 8Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432
- Feb 11 Space Shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18) lands
The Scream
Feb 12 "The Scream" by Norwegian painterEdvard Munch (1893 pastel version) is stolen in Oslo
- Feb 12 20th century premiere of 6 restored Haydn sonatas takes place in Boston
- Feb 12 Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.90m
Film & TV History
Feb 12 ModelAnna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose
- Feb 12 XVII Winter Olympic Games opens in Lillehammer, Norway
- Feb 13 Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.9m
- Feb 13 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5000m 6:34,96
- Feb 13 Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200
ESPY Awards
Feb 14 2nd ESPY Awards:Barry Bonds, Julie Krone win
- Feb 15 Tom Barrasso becomes winningest US born goalie in NHL history, as the Pittsburgh Penguins win, 5-3 over visiting Winnipeg; passes record of 252 career wins set by Frank Brimsek
- Feb 15 US asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti
- Feb 16 6.5 earthquake strikes South East Sumatra, kills 200
- Feb 16 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 1500m (1:51.29)
- Feb 16 Premier Alfonso Bustamente ends government in Peru
- Feb 18Dan Jansen skates world record 1000m (1:12.43)
- Feb 18 Shreveport Pirates join Canadian Football League as 4th US-based team; fold 1995
- Feb 20 36th Daytona 500: Sterling Marlin wins his first NASCAR race; Neil Bonnett and Rodney Orr killed in separate practice incidents
- Feb 20 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55)
Event of Interest
Feb 20 PopeJohn Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals
- Feb 20 Three Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage
- Feb 23 Indians owner Richard Jacobs announces he will pay $10 million to name baseball field (Jacobs Field) at Gateway (becomes official 3/23)
- Feb 24 Scoreboard is unveiled at new Cleveland Indians' park (Jacobs Field)
- Feb 25 Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres at least 55 Palestinians at Hebron Ibrahimi Mosque, with an assault style rifle
Baseball Hall of Fame
Feb 25 New York Yankees shortstopPhil Rizzuto is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
- Feb 25 Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31
- Feb 26 St Louis Blues beat Ottawa Senators 11-1
- Feb 27 Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed
- Feb 27 XVII Winter Olympic Games close in Lillehammer, Norway
- Feb 28 Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand gun in the USA, comes into effect
Grammy Awards
Mar 1 36th Grammy Awards: "I Will Always Love You";Whitney Houston;Sting;Toni Braxton; Mary Chapin-Carpenter win
- Mar 1 Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as president of Finland
- Mar 1 Senate rejectes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution
- Mar 2 American politician William Natcher, (Rep-D-Ky), casts his 18,401 & last consecutive vote
Music History
Mar 2 Miami begins a Latin Walk of Fame, 1st star awarded is for singer-songwriterGloria Estefan
- Mar 3 "Philoktetes Variations" with Ron Vawter premieres in Brussels
Sports History
Mar 3 US Internal Revenue Service investigates baseball playerDarryl Strawberry
- Mar 4 Four Arab terrorists are found guilty of bombing the World Trade Center
- Mar 4 Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit
- Mar 5 Jefffesron Airplane/Starship singer Grace Slick arrested for pointing a gun at a cop
- Mar 5 Largest milkshake made; 1,955 gallons of chocolate in Nelspruit, South Africa
- Mar 5 PBA National Championship won by David Traber
- Mar 6 Colin Jackson runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.30 sec)
- Mar 6 Referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against potential reunification with Romania
Event of Interest
Mar 7 ANC chiefNelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa
Event of Interest
Mar 7Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia
- Mar 7 The United States Supreme Court rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use
- Mar 7 US Navy issues first permanent order assigning women to combat ships
- Mar 8 B737 collides with Ilyushin-86 in New Delhi, at least 8 killed
- Mar 8 Train accident at Pinetown, Natal, kills 47
- Mar 8 US Defense Department announces smoking ban in workplaces
- Mar 9 IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport
- Mar 10 1 million Greeks attend actress and activist Melina Mercouri's funeral
- Mar 11 Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as President of Chile
- Mar 12 The Church of England ordains its first 32 female priests at the Bristol Cathedral in Bristol, England[1]
- Mar 13 A third of voters in Austria vote for the far-right Freedom Party
- Mar 13 Oil tanker Nassia is hit by the cargo ship the Shipbroker in the Bosporus Strait, causing a huge fire, the deaths of 24 crew members, injuries to 29 and 10 missing
- Mar 13 President Mangope of Bophuthatswana deposed
- Mar 14 Mexican banker and billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped
- Mar 14 Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov & N Thagard
- Mar 14 Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released
- Mar 15 Experts from AL certify the Cleveland Indians Jacobs Field is properly lit
- Mar 16 American figure skaterTonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on former Olympic teammate Nancy Kerrigan
- Mar 16 Moravcik forms Slovakia government
- Mar 17 Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed)
- Mar 17 It is announced there is no smoking in Cleveland Indians new ballpark
- Mar 18 South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police
- Mar 18 Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), lands
Film & TV History
Mar 18Zsa Zsa Gabor files for bankruptcy
- Mar 19 2,500 kilograms of cocaine intercepted in Zeewolde, Netherlands
Sports History
Mar 19 Lara scores 167 for WI v England at Georgetown
- Mar 19 Largest omelette (1,383sq ft) made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama, Japan
- Mar 19 NJ Devils club record 41st win of the season
- Mar 20 El Salvador's 1st presidential election following 12-year-old civil war
- Mar 20 Mashonaland U-24 beat Matabeleland on 1st inning to win Logan Cup
- Mar 20 Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa
Academy Awards
Mar 21 66th Academy Awards: "Schindler's List",Tom Hanks &Holly Hunter win
- Mar 21 Anne P Sidamon-Eristoff named chairwoman of Museum of National History
Music History
Mar 21 English actorDudley Moore arrested for hitting his girlfriend
- Mar 21 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) enters into force after being ratified by the required number of nations
NHL Record
Mar 21Wayne Gretzky ties Gordie Howe's NHL record of 801 goals
Not a Moment Too Soon
Mar 22 "Not a Moment Too Soon" second studio album byTim McGraw is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1994)
- Mar 22 Dutch Ambassador to US christens a new tulip (the Hillary Clinton)
- Mar 22 Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid is the first woman to win architecture's Pritzker Prize[1]
- Mar 22 South African government and ANC take power in Ciskei homeland
- Mar 22 Soyuz TM-21 lands
Event of Interest
Mar 23Amy Fisher's lover Joey Buttafuoco is released from jail after 4 months & 9 days
- Mar 23 Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10 km (11:28)
- Mar 23 Green Ramp disaster: Mid-air collision of USAF F-16 fighter jet and USAF C-130 Hercules transport kills 24 and injures over 100 US Army paratroopers on the ground preparing for training at Pope AFB in Cumberland County, North Carolina
- Mar 23Howard Stern formally announces his Libertarian run for NY governor
- Mar 23 Richard Jacobs buys naming rights to Indians new ball park at Gateway for $13.8 million (renamed Jacobs Field)
- Mar 23 Russian Airbus A-310 crashes in Siberia (74-75 killed)
- Mar 23Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 802 goals scored
- Mar 25 Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3 km (4:09.32)
- Mar 25 Yasunori Miyabe skates world record 1000 m (1:12.37)
World Record
Mar 26 AmericanBonnie Blair skates world record 500 m ladies (38.99 sec) in Calgary, Alberta
- Mar 26 German Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14:22.60) in Calgary, Alberta
- Mar 26 German Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7:03.26) in Calgary, Alberta
- Mar 27 Church in Piedmont Alabama collapses in tornado, 19 killed
- Mar 27 Ice Dance Championship at Chiba Japan won by Gritschuk & Platov (RUS)
- Mar 27 Ice Pairs Championship at Chiba won by Shishkova/Vadim Naumov (RUS)
- Mar 27 The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany
- Mar 28 Armed Zulus demonstrate in Johannesburg, over 53 killed
- Mar 28 BBC Radio Five Live broadcasts for first time in United Kingdom
Election of Interest
Mar 28 Italy's right-wing alliance underSilvio Berlusconi wins election
Sports History
Mar 29 NFL coachJimmy Johnson quits the Dallas Cowboys
Event of Interest
Mar 29 Serbs & Croats sign a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia
Sports History
Mar 31 Chicago White Sox assigns former NBA superstarMichael Jordan to the Birmingham Barons of Class AA Southern League; returns to NBA after one season
- Mar 31 The Journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull
- Mar 31 Walkway from Cleveland's Tower City to Jacobs Field officially opens
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