1994 Jun 1, President Clinton embarked on a European trip
that included commemorating the 50th anniversary of D-Day; his first stop
was Italy.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1994 Jun 1, Frances Heflin (Sep 20, 1922), Soap Actress, All My
Children's Mona Tyler; Van Heflin's sister, died at age 71.
(DTnet, 6/19/97)
1994 Jun 2, The International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. atomic
watchdog, reported it could no longer verify the status of North Korea's
nuclear program, prompting the United States to seek economic sanctions.
1994 Jun 2, President Clinton met at the Vatican with Pope John
Paul II.
(AP, 6/2/99)
1994 Jun 3, President Clinton, continuing his tour of Italy, visited
the graves of American soldiers killed in the Anzio landing during World
War II.
(AP, 6/3/99)
1994 Jun 3, The United States began consultations with South Korea,
Japan and Russia on how to retaliate for North Korea's removal of vital
evidence about its nuclear weapons capability.
(AP, 6/3/99)
1994 Jun 4, President Clinton and British Prime Minister John
Major paid tribute to the lost airmen of World War II at the American Cemetery
in Cambridge, England.
(AP, 6/4/99)
1994 Jun 4, Toto Bissainthe (59), voodoo poet, died.
(MC, 6/4/02)
1994 Jun 4, Sophie Winter (33), actress (She's a Good Fighter),
died.
(MC, 6/4/02)
1994 Jun 5, President Clinton headed across the English Channel
aboard the USS George Washington, en route to the 50th anniversary commemoration
of D-Day in Normandy.
(AP, 6/5/99)
1994 Jun 5, At least 264 Indonesian villagers in East Java were
killed by an earthquake.
(AP, 6/5/99)
1994 Jun 6, A China Northwest Airlines Tu-154 on a flight from
Xian to Guangzhou crashed 10 minutes after takeoff, and killed all 160
onboard.
(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1994 Jun 6, A 6.0 earthquake and avalanche destroyed Toez, Colombia.
Some 1000 people were killed. The earthquake hit the southern state of
Cauca.
(SFC, 2/2/99, p.A9)(MC, 6/6/02)
1994 Jun 7, President Clinton addressed the French National Assembly,
challenging his generation of Allied leaders to strive for greater European
unity or face "the grim alternative" of violence like that in Bosnia.
(AP, 6/7/99)
1994 Jun 7, Twelve-year-old Vicki Van Meter of Meadville, Pa.,
completed a trans-Atlantic flight, landing in Glasgow, Scotland.
(AP, 6/7/99)
1994 Jun 7, Dennis Potter, English playwright, died. His work
included over 40 plays of which "Lipstick on Your Collar," a 6-part TV
play was issued on videotape in 1996. He also did the TV dramas Pennies
from Heaven and The Singing Detective.
(WSJ, 9/24/96, p.A18)
1994 Jun 7, The Organization of African Unity formally admits
South Africa as its fifty-third member.
(HN, 6/7/00)
1994 Jun 8, President Clinton returned to Oxford University, where
he was a Rhodes scholar, to receive an honorary doctorate.
(AP, 6/8/99)
1994 Jun 8, Bosnia's warring factions agreed to a one-month cease-fire.
(AP, 6/8/99)
1994 Jun 9, In a bipartisan slap at President Clinton, the House
of Representatives voted 244-178 for the United States to defy the international
arms embargo on Bosnia.
(AP, 6/9/99)
1994 Jun 9, An earthquake of 8.2 magnitude hit Bolivia in 1994.
(HFA, '96, p.32)
1994 Jun 10, President Clinton intensified sanctions against Haiti's
military leaders, suspending U.S. commercial air travel and most financial
transactions between the two countries.
(AP, 6/10/99)
1994 Jun 11, The United States, South Korea and Japan agreed to
seek punitive steps against North Korea over its nuclear program.
(AP, 6/11/99)
1994 Jun 11, Jack Hannah (90), animator (The Flintstones), died.
(Internet)
1994 Jun 11, A car bomb blew up outside a luxury hotel in Guadalajara,
Mexico, killing five people in an apparently drug-related attack.
(AP, 6/11/99)
1994 Jun 12, At the Tony Awards, "Angels in America: Perestroika"
won best play while "Passion" won best musical.
(AP, 6/12/99)
1994 Jun 12, Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman were knifed to
death outside of Nicole’s Brentwood, Los Angeles, condominium. O.J. Simpson
was later acquitted of the killings in a criminal trial, but held liable
in a civil action. "The Run of His Life" by Jeffrey Toobin tells the story
of the O.J. Simpson trial.
(SFC, 5/26/96, p.A-15)(SFEC, 9/8/96, BR p.1)(AP, 6/12/97)
1994 Jun 12, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, the charismatic Orthodox
Jewish leader, died in New York at age 92.
(AP, 6/12/99)
1994 Jun 13, A jury in Anchorage, Alaska blamed recklessness by
Exxon Corp. and Capt. Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing
victims of the nation's worst oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
(AP, 6/13/99)
1994 Jun 13, O.J. Simpson was questioned for several hours by
Los Angeles police following the slashing deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole,
and Ronald Goldman.
(AP, 6/13/99)
1994 Jun 14, The New York Rangers won hockey's Stanley Cup for
the first time in 54 years, defeating the Vancouver Canucks.
(AP, 6/14/99)
1994 Jun 14, President Clinton unveiled a $9.3 billion welfare
reform plan.
(AP, 6/14/99)
1994 Jun 14, Henry Mancini (70), Academy Award-winning composer,
died in Beverly Hills, Calif.
(AP, 6/14/99)
1994 Jun 15, Disney's "Lion King," opened in theaters.
(MC, 6/15/02)
1994 Jun 15, Former President Jimmy Carter arrived in North Korea
on a private mission to try to reduce tensions with the communist nation.
(AP, 6/15/99)
1994 Jun 15, Israel and the Vatican established full diplomatic
relations.
(AP, 6/15/97)
1994 Jun 16, Former President Jimmy Carter, on a private visit
to North Korea, reported the Communist nation's leaders were eager to resume
talks with the United States on resolving disputes about Pyongyang's nuclear
program and improving relations.
(AP, 6/16/99)
1994 Jun 16, Boris Alexandrov (88), conductor (Red Army Song
and Dance Ensemble), died.
(MC, 6/16/02)
1994 Jun 17, After leading police on a slow-speed chase on Southern
California freeways, that millions of Americans watched, OJ Simpson was
arrested for the murder of wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald
Goldman. The arrest took place after a prolonged slow-car chase where Al
A.C. Cowlings drove Simpson around in a white Ford Bronco and talked him
into giving up to the police. (Simpson was later acquitted in a criminal
trial, but held liable in a civil trial).
(WSJ, 10/4/95, p.A-1)(SFC, 6/30/96, p.B5)(AP, 6/17/97)(HN, 6/17/98)
1994 Jun 17, Johnnie Cochran, who was later hired as a defense
attorney for O.J. Simpson, was quoted off-camera during a break on ABC’s
Nightline saying: "he obviously did it."
(SFEC, 9/8/96, BR p.1)
1994 Jun 18, The presidents of North Korea and South Korea agreed
to hold a historic summit (Plans were disrupted by the death of North Korean
leader Kim Il Sung on July 8).
(AP, 6/18/99)
1994 Jun 19, Former President Jimmy Carter, just returned from
North Korea, said he believed the crisis with Pyongyang was over following
talks with North Korean President Kim Il Sung on how to resolve the nuclear
issue.
(AP, 6/19/99)
1994 Jun 20, O.J. Simpson pleaded innocent in Los Angeles to the
killing of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
(AP, 6/20/99)
1994 Jun 21, Summer solstice. The official beginning of summer.
(PacDis, Spring/'94, p. 40)
1994 Jun 21, President Clinton, addressing members of the Business
Roundtable, made an impassioned call for action on health care reform.
(AP, 6/21/99)
1994 Jun 21, Seven people died and more than 200 were sickened
by fumes from the lethal nerve gas sarin in Matsumoto in Central Japan.
The Aum Shinri Kyo (Kyi) cult (Supreme Truth) was later charged with the
attack.
(SFC, 4/24/96, p.A-8)(SFC, 9/29/97, p.A13)
1994 Jun 22, The Houston Rockets defeated the New York Knicks
90-84 to win the NBA championship.
(AP, 6/22/99)
1994 Jun 22, President Clinton announced North Korea had confirmed
its willingness to freeze its nuclear program.
(AP, 6/22/99)
1994 Jun 23, French marines and Foreign Legionnaires headed into
Rwanda to try to stem the country's ethnic slaughter.
(AP, 6/23/99)
1994 Jun 24, President Clinton struck out at his conservative
critics and the media, complaining in a speech in St. Louis that unfair
and negative reports about him were feeding a cynical mindset in America.
(AP, 6/24/99)
1994 Jun 25, Japanese Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata, faced with
certain defeat in a no-confidence vote, announced his intention to resign
after just two months in office.
(AP, 6/25/99)
1994 Jun 26, Hundreds of thousands of homosexuals gathered in
New York City to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn
riot, considered the birth of the gay-rights movement.
(AP, 6/26/99)
1994 Jun 26, PLO-leader Yasser Arafat returned to Gaza after
27 years. [see Jul 1]
(MC, 6/26/02)
1994 Jun 26, An Israeli commission found that a Jewish settler
had acted alone when he shot and killed 29 Muslims in a Hebron mosque,
rejecting Palestinian claims of a conspiracy.
(AP, 6/26/99)
1994 Jun 27, President Clinton replaced White House chief of staff
Mack McLarty with budget director Leon Panetta.
(AP, 6/27/99)
1994 Jun 27, U.S. Coast Guard cutters intercepted 1,330 Haitian
boat people on the high seas in one of the busiest days since refugees
began leaving Haiti following a 1991 military coup.
(AP, 6/27/99)
1994 Jun 28, President Clinton became the first chief executive
in U.S. history to set up a personal legal defense fund and ask Americans
to contribute to it.
(AP, 6/28/99)
1994 Jun 28, North and South Korea set July 25-27 as the dates
for a historic summit (derailed by the death of North Korean President
Kim Il Sung the following month).
(AP, 6/28/99)
1994 Jun 29, US reopened Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees.
(MC, 6/29/02)
1994 Jun 29, In a British TV documentary, Prince Charles said
he was faithful in his marriage to Princess Diana "until it became irretrievably
broken down."
(AP, 6/29/99)
1994 Jun 30, Pres. Clinton signed Public Law 103-270, the Independent
Council Reauthorization Act.
(WSJ, 1/29/98, p.A1)
1994 Jun 30, The Supreme Court ruled that judges can bar even
peaceful demonstrators from getting too close to abortion clinics.
(AP, 6/29/99)
1994 Jun 30, Pre-trial hearings opened in LA against OJ Simpson.
(MC, 6/30/02)
1994 Jun 30, The U.S. Figure Skating Association stripped Tonya
Harding of the 1994 national championship and banned her from the organization
for life for an attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan.
(AP, 6/29/99)
1994 Jun, Harold James Nicholson, former CIA station chief, started
passing information to Russia from Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, and collected
as much as $180,000. He was arrested on Nov 18, 1996 for espionage.
He pleaded guilty and drew a 23 1/2 year sentence in 1997.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.A1)(SFC, 11/22/96, p.A20)(WSJ, 6/6/97, p.A1)
1994 Jun, Massimo Troisi, Italian actor and director, died. He
had just finished working on the film Il Postino, (The Postman).
(SFEC, 11/17/96, Par p.24)
1994 Jun, An Israeli helicopter gunship at Ein Darbara, Lebanon,
killed at least 30 Hezbollah trainees.
(SFC, 12/5/96, p.C5)
1994 Summer, Alvin Straight (1920-1996) rode his John Deere lawn
mower 240 miles to visit his sick brother. He could not see well enough
to get a driver’s license. He left in early June and arrived in mid-August.
(SFC, 11/14/96, p.A22)
1994 Jul 1, Brazil adopted the Real Plan, named for a new currency
fixed to the US dollar with a "crawling peg."
(WSJ, 4/26/96, p.A-15)(WSJ, 6/12/97, p.A19)
1994 Jul 1, PLO chairman Yasser Arafat drove from Egypt into
Gaza, returning to Palestinian land after 27 years in exile.
(AP, 7/1/99)
1994 Jul 2, Conchita Martinez won the women's title at Wimbledon,
defeating Martina Navratilova 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.
(AP, 7/2/99)
1994 Jul 2, A US Air DC-9 crashed in poor weather at Charlotte-Douglas
International Airport in North Carolina, killing 37 of the 57 people aboard.
(AP, 7/2/97)
1994 Jul 2, Colombian soccer player Andres Escobar was shot to
death in Medellin, ten days after accidentally scoring a goal against his
own team in World Cup competition.
(AP, 7/2/99)
1994 Jul 3, Pete Sampras defeated Goran Ivanisevic to win the
Wimbledon men's championship, 7-6, 7-6, 6-0.
(AP, 7/3/99)
1994 Jul 3, Thirty-one people died in three separate crashes
on Texas highways.
(AP, 7/3/99)
1994 Jul 4, The United States opened its embassy in Sarajevo,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, with a Fourth of July party.
(AP, 7/4/99)
1994 Jul 4, Rwandan Tutsi rebels seized control of most of their
country's capital, Kigali, and continued advancing on areas held by the
Hutu-led government.
(AP, 7/4/99)
1994 Jul 5, In an attempt to halt a surge of Haitian refugees,
the Clinton administration announced it was refusing entry to new Haitian
boat people.
(AP, 7/5/99)
1994 Jul 5, President Clinton set out on a four-nation European
trip that included a Group of Seven summit in Naples, Italy.
(AP, 7/5/99)
1994 Jul 6, Fourteen firefighters were killed while battling a
blaze on Storm King Mountain in Colorado.
(AP, 7/6/99)
1994 Jul 7, President Clinton, visiting Poland, assured the parliament
that the U.S. would "not let the Iron Curtain be replaced by a veil of
indifference."
(AP, 7/7/99)
1994 Jul 7, Panama withdrew its offer to the United States to
accept thousands of Haitian refugees.
(AP, 7/7/99)
1994 Jul 8, O.J. Simpson was ordered to stand trial on charges
of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
(AP, 7/8/99)
1994 Jul 8, The space shuttle "Columbia" blasted off on a two-week
mission.
(AP, 7/8/99)
1994 Jul 8, Leaders of the Group of Seven nations opened their
20th annual economic summit, in Naples, Italy.
(AP, 7/8/99)
1994 Jul 8, Kim Il Sung ("Great Leader"), North Korea's communist
leader since 1948, died at age 82. His son Kim Jong Il ("The Dear Leader")
succeeded him. [WSJ said Jul 9]
(AP, 7/8/97)(WSJ, 6/26/97, p.A14)
1994 Jul 9, Members of the Group of Seven nations concluded their
economic summit in Naples, Italy.
(AP, 7/9/99)
1994 Jul 9, Planned talks between North Korea and South Korea
were put on hold following the death of North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung.
(AP, 7/9/99)
1994 Jul 10, In the first meeting of its kind, Russian President
Boris Yeltsin joined leaders of the Group of Seven nations for political
talks following their annual economic summit in Naples, Italy.
(AP, 7/10/99)
1994 Jul 11, President Clinton, on his first official visit to
Germany, urged his hosts to take on a stronger leadership role in global
affairs.
(AP, 7/11/99)
1994 Jul 11, Shawn Eckardt was sentenced in Portland, Ore., to
18 months in prison for his role in the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
(AP, 7/11/99)
1994 Jul 11, Haiti's army-backed regime ordered the expulsion
of international human rights observers.
(AP, 7/11/99)
1994 Jul 12, The National League won the All-Star Game, defeating
the American League 8-7.
(AP, 7/12/99)
1994 Jul 12, President Clinton, visiting Germany, went to the
eastern sector of Berlin, the first president to do so since Harry Truman.
(AP, 7/12/99)
1994 Jul 12, The shareholders and employees of United Airlines
approved a deal giving the majority ownership to the employees (76,000+).
(Hem, Dec. 94, p.13)
1994 Jul 13, President Clinton visited flood-stricken Georgia,
where he announced more than $60 million in aid for Georgia, Alabama and
Florida.
(AP, 7/13/99)
1994 Jul 13, Tonya Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, was sentenced
in Portland, Ore., to two years in prison for his role in the attack on
Nancy Kerrigan. He ended up serving six months.
(AP, 7/13/99)
1994 Jul 14, A tidal wave of Hutu refugees from Rwanda's civil
war flooded across the border into Zaire, swamping relief organizations.
(AP, 7/14/99)
1994 Jul 15, During a baseball game between the Cleveland Indians
and the Chicago White Sox in Chicago's Comiskey Park, umpire Dave Phillips
ordered the bat of Albert Belle of the Indians to be removed from the game
for later examination for illegal cork. The bat was then stolen by pitcher
Jason Grimsley, who crawled through air ducts to take it. The Indians won
the game 3-2 and later returned the bat under umpire threats and Belle
was given a 10-game suspension that was reduced to 7 games.
(SFEC, 4/11/99, p.A3)
1994 Jul 15, Microsoft Corp. reached a settlement with the Justice
Department, promising to end practices it used to corner the market for
personal computer software programs.
(AP, 7/15/99)
1994 Jul 16, The first of 21 pieces of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
slammed into Jupiter. It was discovered by astronomer Eugene Shoemaker
(d.1997 at 69).
(HFA, '96, p.34)(SFC, 7/19/97, p.A21)(AP, 7/16/99)
1994 Jul 17, Fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy continued to smash
into Jupiter, sending up towering fireballs.
(AP, 7/17/99)
1994 Jul 17, Brazil defeated Italy to win its fourth World Cup
title.
(AP, 7/17/99)
1994 Jul 17, Hutus left Rwanda for refugee camps in Zaire.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.A16)
1994 Jul 18, In Buenos Aires a terrorist attack killed 96 [86]
people at the city’s Jewish Center, the Argentine Israelite Mutual Aid
Society (AMIA). Some 300 people were injured. In 1996 three senior policemen
and a retired officer were charged in connection to the bombing that killed
86 people. Iran denied any role. Police inspector, Juan Jose Ribelli, accepted
a $2.5 million several days before the attack for providing the car in
which the bomb exploded. It was later revealed that he and his colleagues
sold protection to car thieves in return for stolen goods. In 2000 Ahmad
Behbahani (32) told a 60 Minutes journalist from a refugee camp in Turkey
that Iran was behind the 1994 bombing in Argentina that killed 86 people.
In 2002 it was reported that Iran paid Pres. Menem $10 million to cover
up Iran’s involvement.
(SFC, 7/15/96, p.A12) (WSJ, 8/1/96 p.A1)(WSJ, 11/24/97, p.A1)(SFC,12/9/97,
p.B10)(HN, 7/18/98)(SFC, 6/6/00, p.A10)(SFC, 7/22/02, p.A1)
1994 Jul 18, Tutsi rebels declared an end to Rwanda's 14-week-old
civil war. The Tutsi rebel movement (RPF) took power. It promised to rebuild
the courts and execute the guilty for the slaughter of an estimated 800,000
Tutsis. Two million refugees, mostly Hutus, fled to refugee camps in Zaire
and Tanzania.
(SFC, 4/17/96, p.A-9)(WSJ, 11/15/96, p.A16)(AP, 7/18/99)
1994 Jul 19, A bomb ripped apart a Panama commuter plane, killing
21, including 12 Jews, a day after a car bomb destroyed a Jewish community
center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 95 people.
(AP, 7/19/99)
1994 Jul 19, Funeral services were held for North Korean dictator
Kim Il Sung, who had died July 8 at age 82.
(AP, 7/19/99)
1994 Jul 20, Bosnian Serbs rejected an international peace plan
sponsored by the United States, Russia, France, Britain and Germany.
(AP, 7/20/99)
1994 Jul 21, Former Senate Republican leader Hugh Scott died in
Falls Church, Va., at age 93.
(AP, 7/21/99)
1994 Jul 21, Britain's Labor Party elected Tony Blair its new
leader, succeeding the late John Smith.
(AP, 7/21/99)
1994 Jul 22, O.J. Simpson pleaded innocent to the slaying of his
ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
(AP, 7/22/99)
1994 Jul 23, Space shuttle Columbia returned to Earth after a
15-day mission which included experiments on the effects of weightlessness
on aquatic animals.
(AP, 7/23/99)
1994 Jul 23, Gambian soldiers proclaimed military government
in Dakar, Senegal.
(AP, 7/23/97)
1994 Jul 24, Miguel Indurain won his fourth consecutive Tour de
France victory.
(AP, 7/24/99)
1994 Jul 24, S.F. Bailey walked from the village of Mokwam in
the Arfak Mountains of the Vogelkop (Bird’s Head) Peninsula in Irian Jaya,
Indonesia, to observe the courtship performance of Bower bird number 4,
Amblyornis inornatus.
(PacDisc. Spring/’96, p.41)
1994 Jul 24, Rwandan refugees began trickling home after Zaire
reopened the border between the two countries; meanwhile, the first wave
of a U.S. airlift arrived.
(AP, 7/24/99)
1994 Jul 24, Jesse Timmendequas, a convicted child molester, raped
and strangled 7-year-old Megan Kanka in New Jersey. The case spawned the
1996 "Megan’s Law," the requirement that communities be informed
of paroled sex offenders living in their midst. A jury ordered the death
penalty for Timmendequas in 1997.
(SFC, 5/6/97, p.A6)(SFC, 6/21/97, p.A2)
1994 Jul 25, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's
King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries'
46-year-old formal state of war.
(AP, 7/25/97)
1994 Jul 26, The House Banking Committee opened limited hearings
on the Whitewater controversy.
(AP, 7/26/99)
1994 Jul 26, A car bomb heavily damaged the Israeli embassy in
London, injuring 14; hours later, a second bomb exploded outside a building
housing Jewish organizations in north London.
(AP, 7/26/99)
1994 Jul 26, In Cambodia 3 Western backpackers were kidnapped
from a train by the Khmer Rouge. The surprise train attack left 13 dead.
Frenchman Michel Braquet, Briton Mark Slater, and Australian David Wilson
were held at the base of Nuon Paet, who later ordered them killed. Paet
was convicted for the killings in 1999 and sentenced to life in prison.
Sam Bith and Chhouk Rin, former Khmer Rouge guerrillas, were charged in
connection with the abduction and slayings in 1999. Col. Rin was arrested
in 2000. Chhouk Rin was acquitted in 2000 due to an amnesty for rebel defectors.
In 2002 Bith was convicted and jailed for life.
(SFC, 6/8/99, p.A12)(SFC, 6/22/99, p.A12)(SFC, 6/22/99, p.A12)(SFC,
1/19/00, p.A16)(WSJ, 7/19/00, p.A1)(MC, 7/26/02)(AP, 12/23/02)
1994 Jul 27, Bosnian Serbs reimposed their blockade of Sarajevo
and fired on a U.N. convoy, killing one British soldier and wounding another.
(AP, 7/27/99)
1994 Jul 28, Congressional negotiators agreed on a crime-fighting
package that included hiring 100,000 new police officers, banning assault-style
weapons, vastly expanding the death penalty and putting third-time felons
behind bars for life.
(AP, 7/28/99)
1994 Jul 29, Supreme Court nominee Stephen G. Breyer won Senate
approval.
(AP, 7/29/99)
1994 Jul 29, Abortion opponent Paul Hill shot and killed Dr.
John Bayard Britton and Britton's bodyguard, James H. Barrett, outside
the Ladies Center clinic in Pensacola, Fla. Hill was later convicted and
sentenced to death.
(AP, 7/29/99)
1994 Jul 30, The first U.S. troops landed in the Rwandan capital
of Kigali to secure the airport for an expanded international aid effort.
(AP, 7/30/99)
1994 Jul 31, The U.N. Security Council voted 12-0 with 2 abstentions
to authorize member states to use "all necessary means" to oust the military
leadership in Haiti.
(AP, 7/31/99)(MC, 7/31/02)
1994 Jul, Key figures in a tax dodging scheme called the Pilot
Connection Society went on trial in San Francisco. They were convicted
for tax fraud in 1996 after failed efforts by armed militia to arrest the
judge. They had peddled do-it-yourself tax evasion kits.
(SFC, 6/28/96, p.A4)
1994 Jul, The Chinese A share index dropped 80% to 1,744.
(Hem. 1/95, p.49)
1994 Jul, In Rwanda the Tutsi rebel movement (RPF) under Tutsi
rebel leader Paul Kagame took power. It promised to rebuild the courts
and execute the guilty for the slaughter of an estimated 800,000 Tutsis.
Two million refugees, mostly Hutus, fled to refugee camps in Zaire and
Tanzania. Kagame studied at the US Army Command and General Staff College
at Fort Leavenworth in 1990.
(SFC, 4/17/96, p.A-9)(SFC, 8/9/96, p.A10)(WSJ, 11/15/96, p.A16)
1994 Aug 1, Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirmed they
had secretly married eleven weeks earlier.
(AP, 8/1/99)
1994 Aug 1, Supporters of Haiti's military rulers declared their
intention to fight back in the face of a U.N. resolution paving the way
for a U.S.-led invasion.
(AP, 8/1/99)
1994 Aug 2, Serbia threatened to cut all aid to the Bosnian Serbs
if they didn't approve an international peace plan.
(AP, 8/2/99)
1994 Aug 3, President Clinton told a prime-time news conference
he would sign either of two Democratic health care plans before Congress.
(AP, 8/2/99)
1994 Aug 3, Stephen G. Breyer was sworn in as the Supreme Court's
newest justice in a private ceremony at Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's
Vermont summer home.
(AP, 8/3/97)
1994 Aug 3, Arkansas carried out the nation's first triple execution
in 32 years.
(AP, 8/2/99)
1994 Aug 4, Serb-dominated Yugoslavia withdrew its support for
Bosnian Serbs, sealing the 300-mile border between Yugoslavia and Serb-held
Bosnia.
(AP, 8/4/99)
1994 Aug 5, A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in
Washington chose Kenneth W. Starr to take over the Whitewater investigation
from Robert Fiske.
(AP, 8/5/99)
1994 Aug 6, In Wedowee, Ala., an apparent arson fire destroyed
Randolph County High School, which had been the focus of tensions over
the principal's stand against interracial dating.
(AP, 8/6/99)
1994 Aug 7, The 10th International Conference on AIDS opened in
Yokohama, Japan.
(AP, 8/7/99)
1994 Aug 8, Israel and Jordan opened the first road link between
the two once-
warring countries.
(AP, 8/8/99)
1994 Aug 9, A divided Senate opened formal debate on legislation
to provide health insurance for millions of Americans without it.
(AP, 8/8/99)
1994 Aug 9, In Colombia Sen. Manuel Cepeda was gunned down on
his way to work in Bogota. In 1999 Sgt. Justo Zuniga and Sgt. Hernando
Medina were found guilty of participating in the murder. They acted on
orders from Col. Rodolfo Herrera Luna, commander of the Ninth Brigade,
who died of a heart attack in 1996.
(SFC, 12/21/99, p.C20)
1994 Aug 10, President Clinton claimed presidential immunity in
asking a federal judge to dismiss, at least for the time being, a sexual
harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones, a former Arkansas state
employee.
(AP, 8/10/99)
1994 Aug 11, A federal jury awarded $286.8 million to some 10,000
commercial fishermen for losses as a result of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil
spill.
(AP, 8/11/99)
1994 Aug 11, The Tenth International Conference on AIDS concluded
in Yokohama, Japan.
(AP, 8/11/99)
1994 Aug 12, Woodstock '94 opened in Saugerties, N.Y.
(AP, 8/12/97)
1994 Aug 12, In baseball's eighth work stoppage since 1972, players
went on strike rather than allowing team owners to limit their salaries.
The season was effectively cancelled and there was no World Series.
(AP, 8/12/99)(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.B8)
1994 Aug 12, Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, already
sworn in during a private ceremony, took a public oath at the White House.
(AP, 8/12/99)
1994 Aug 13, In his weekly radio address, President Clinton put
Congress on notice that he wouldn't give up an assault weapons ban as the
price to revive a crime bill stalled on Capitol Hill.
(AP, 8/13/99)
1994 Aug 13, NATO Secretary-General Manfred Woerner died at age
59.
(AP, 8/13/99)
1994 Aug 14, Eight children who were left alone died in an early
morning house fire in Carbondale, Ill.
(AP, 8/14/99)
1994 Aug 14, Carlos the Jackal was captured in Khartoum, Sudan.
(SFC,12/17/97, p.A18)
1994 Aug 15, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos
the Jackal," was jailed in France after being captured in Sudan. By his
own count he had killed 83 people before being captured. Bernard Violet
is the author of "Carlos - The Secret networks of Int’l. Terrorism."
(AP, 8/15/97)(SFC,12/11/97, p.C2,4)
1994 Aug 16, President Clinton and other top Democrats were scouring
the House of Representatives for converts in hopes of reviving a stalled
anti-crime bill.
(AP, 8/16/99)
1994 Aug 16, In Sri Lanka the People’s Alliance government came
to power and promised to end the civil war.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)
1994 Aug 17, Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman resigned under
pressure, the latest Clinton administration official felled by the Whitewater
controversy.
(AP, 8/17/99)
1994 Aug 18, Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles declared an immigration
emergency and demanded federal help to cope with the largest surge of Cuban
refugees since the 1980 Mariel boat-lift.
(AP, 8/18/99)
1994 Aug 19, President Clinton abruptly halted the nation's three-decade
open-door policy for Cuban refugees.
(AP, 8/19/99)
1994 Aug 20, Benjamin Chavis Junior was fired as head of the NAACP
after a turbulent 16-month tenure.
(AP, 8/20/99)
1994 Aug 21, The House, by a vote of 235-195, passed a $30 billion
crime bill that banned certain assault-style firearms.
(AP, 8/21/99)
1994 Aug 21, Mexico held its presidential election, which was
won by Ernesto Zedillo.
(AP, 8/21/99)
1994 Aug 22, A catacarb leak at the Unocal facility in Rodeo,
Ca., lasted 16 days. A suit by 6,000 residents settled in 1997 charged
Unocal $80 million.
(SFC, 4/15/97, p.A10)
1994 Aug 22, Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico's ruling party declared
his victory as president, a day after his leading opponents charged the
election was unfair.
(AP, 8/22/99)
1994 Aug 23, Republican senators threatened to thwart a $30 billion
anti-crime bill unless Democrats accepted changes in the House-passed measure;
President Clinton appealed for bipartisan cooperation.
(AP, 8/23/99)
1994 Aug 24, Israeli and PLO negotiators agreed on an accord to
give the Palestinians control of health care, taxation, education and other
services in West Bank areas still controlled by Israel.
(AP, 8/24/99)
1994 Aug 25, The Senate passed a $30 billion crime bill, a major
victory for President Clinton.
(AP, 8/25/99)
1994 Aug 26, Congressional leaders and White House officials all
but conceded that a health reform bill was dead.
(AP, 8/26/99)
1994 Aug 26, In Egypt a 13-year-old Spanish boy was killed and
3 others injured in a tour bus attack by Islamic extremists At Nag Hammadi.
(SFC,11/19/97, p.C2)
1994 Aug 27, The State Department said the United States and Cuba
had agreed to resume talks on Cuban migration, with the hope of stemming
the flow of refugees headed toward Florida.
(AP, 8/27/99)
1994 Aug 28, A Drug Enforcement Administration plane crashed in
a remote area of Peru's cocaine-producing jungle, killing five U.S. agents.
(AP, 8/28/99)
1994 Aug 29, At the end of a weekend referendum, Bosnian Serbs
overwhelmingly rejected what was billed as a last-chance peace plan.
(AP, 8/29/99)
1994 Aug 30, Rosa Parks, who helped touch off the civil rights
movement in 1955 by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in
Montgomery, Ala., was robbed and beaten in her Detroit apartment. Joseph
Skipper later pleaded guilty to assault and robbery and was sentenced to
prison.
(AP, 8/30/99)
1994 Aug 31, Pentium computer beat world chess champ Gari Kasparov.
(MC, 8/31/01)
1994 Aug 31, The Irish Republican Army (IRA) announces a "complete
cessation of military operations," opening the way to a political settlement
in Ireland for the first time in a quarter of a century.
(SFC, 6/18/96, p.A8)(AP, 8/31/99)(HN, 8/31/99)
1994 Aug 31, Russia officially ended its military presence in
the former East Germany and the Baltics after a half-century.
(AP, 8/31/99)
1994 Aug, In Mexico federal police bodyguard Raul Macias passed
2 cash filled suitcases to the car trunk of Mario Ruiz Massieu, a deputy
attorney general. The drug money was received from police commander Jesus
David Grajeda Lara (d.12/95).
(SFC, 3/13/97, p.A14)
1994 Aug, In Taiwan the New Party was established by former KMT
legislators who refused to accept Taiwanese separatism.
(SFC, 6/10/97, p.A9)
1994 Sep 1, Chicago police found the body of 11-year-old Robert
"Yummy" Sandifer, a suspect in a gang-related killing who apparently became
a victim of gang violence.
(AP, 9/1/99)
1994 Sep 1, Morocco established low-level diplomatic relations
with Israel.
(AP, 9/1/99)
1994 Sep 2, The US government reported the nation's unemployment
rate for August was unchanged from July, at 6.1 percent.
(AP, 9/2/99)
1994 Sep 3, China and Russia proclaimed an end to any lingering
hostilities, pledging they would no longer target nuclear missiles or use
force against each other.
(AP, 9/3/99)
1994 Sep 4, On the eve of a U.N.-sponsored conference on population
in Cairo, Egypt, Vice President Al Gore told NBC the United States was
seeking a blueprint for world population growth that rejected abortion
as a family planning tool and an international right.
(AP, 9/4/99)
1994 Sep 5, A U.N.-sponsored population conference opened in Egypt,
where Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland lashed out at the
Vatican and at Muslim fundamentalists by defending abortion rights and
sex education.
(AP, 9/5/99)
1994 Sep 6, Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds and Gerry Adams,
head of the IRA's political ally, Sinn Fein, made a joint commitment to
peace after their first face-to-face meeting.
(AP, 9/6/99)
1994 Sep 6, James Clavell, author and director (King Rat, Shogun),
died at 69.
(MC, 9/6/01)
1994 Sep 7, U.S. Marines began training on a Puerto Rican island
amid talk in Washington of a U.S.-led intervention in Haiti.
(AP, 9/7/99)
1994 Sep 7, After a brief meeting, the United States and Cuba
temporarily suspended talks on stemming the Cuban refugee exodus.
(AP, 9/7/99)
1994 Sep 8, A US Air Boeing 737 from Chicago crashed near Pittsburgh
Int’l. Airport and killed all 132 people onboard. USAir Flight 427 crashed
6 minutes before it was due to land. In 2002 Bill Adair authored "The Mystery
of Flight 427."
(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)(AP, 9/8/97)(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A12)(WSJ,
5/23/02, p.D7)
1994 Sep 8, The last US, British & French troops left West-Berlin.
(MC, 9/8/01)
1994 Sep 9, The United States agreed to accept at least 20,000
Cuban immigrants a year in return for Cuba's promise to halt the flight
of refugees.
(AP, 9/9/99)
1994 Sep 9, Prosecutors in Los Angeles said they would not seek
the death penalty for O.J. Simpson.
(AP, 9/9/99)
1994 Sep 9, The space shuttle Discovery blasted off on an 11-day
mission.
(AP, 9/9/99)
1994 Sep 10, President Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and top
national security advisers met to discuss intervention in Haiti, but made
no final decisions.
(AP, 9/10/99)
1994 Sep 11, In the 46th Emmy Awards the winners included Fraiser,
Picket Fences & Kelsey Grammer.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1994 Sep 11, (Sep 21) Anthony Marceca visited Craig Livingstone
at the White House and secretly perused his personal FBI file. He obtained
the names of 2 women, Lanny Stephenson and Joyce L. Montag, who had provided
the FBI background information and sued them for slander.
(WSJ, 6/28/96, p.A9)(WP, 6/29/96, p.A14)
1994 Sep 11, Frederick Rand Weissman, philanthropist, died at
82.
(MC, 9/11/01)
1994 Sep 11, Jessica Tandy, actress (Driving Miss Daisy), died
of cancer in Easton, Conn., at age 85.
(AP, 9/11/99)(MC, 9/11/01)
1994 Sep 12, A stolen, single-engine Cessna crashed into the South
Lawn of the White House, coming to rest against the executive mansion;
the pilot, Frank Corder, was killed.
(AP, 9/12/99)
1994 Sep 12, Tom Ewell (S. Yewell Tompkins), US actor (7 Year
Itch), died at 85.
(MC, 9/12/01)
1994 Sep 12, In Canada the Parti Quebecois won a parliamentary
election.
(MC, 9/12/01)
1994 Sep 13 President Clinton signed into law a $30 billion anticrime
bill.
(AP, 9/13/99)
1994 Sep 13, Bob Blackbull, Blackfoot Indian, received his first
shipment of mustangs in Browning, Montana, and revived a piece of their
culture.
(SFC, 9/2/96, p.A3)
1994 Sep 13, Some 180 nations at a U.N.-sponsored conference
in Cairo, Egypt, adopted a 20-year blueprint for slowing the world's population
growth.
(AP, 9/13/99)
1994 Sep 14, On the 34th day of a strike by players, But Selig,
acting commissioner, announced the 1994 baseball season was over. All 28
baseball owners voted to cancel rest of 1994 season.
(AP, 9/14/99)(MC, 9/14/01)
1994 Sep 15, In a terse ultimatum from the Oval Office, President
Clinton told Haiti's military leaders in a prime-time address: "Your time
is up. Leave now or we will force you from power."
(AP, 9/14/99)
1994 Sep 15, Moslem fundamentalists kidnapped and beheaded 16
citizens in Algeria.
(MC, 9/15/01)
1994 Sep 16, A federal jury ordered Exxon Corp. to pay $5 billion
in punitive damages to commercial fishermen and others harmed in the 1989
Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska. A US Court of Appeals threw out the punitive
damages in 2001.
(AP, 9/16/99)(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A17)
1994 Sep 16, Two astronauts from the space shuttle Discovery
went on the first untethered spacewalk in 10 years.
(AP, 9/16/99)
1994 Sep 17, Heather Whitestone of Alabama was crowned "Miss America,"
the first deaf woman to win the title.
(AP, 9/17/97)
1994 Sep 17, As some 20 warships sat off the coast of Haiti,
former President Jimmy Carter, Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and retired Gen. Colin
Powell arrived in the Caribbean nation in an 11th-hour bid to avert a U.S.-led
invasion.
(AP, 9/17/99)
1994 Sep 18, Ken Burn's "Baseball" premiered on PBS.
(MC, 9/18/01)
1994 Sep 19, Some 3,000 U.S. troops peacefully entered Haiti to
enforce the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
(AP, 9/19/99)(MC, 9/19/01)
1994 Sep 20, Space shuttle Discovery and its six astronauts landed
at Edwards Air Force Base in California after an 11-day mission.
(AP, 9/20/99)
1994 Sep 20, Broadway composer Jule Styne (Gypsy, Funny Girl)
died in New York at age 88.
(AP, 9/20/99)(MC, 9/20/01)
1994 Sep 21, Prosecutors from Los Angeles and Santa Barbara counties
announced that Michael Jackson would not face child molestation charges;
however, the case would remain open until 1999.
(AP, 9/21/99)
1994 Sep 22, The United States stepped up its military control
of Haiti, breaking up heavy weapons, guarding pro-democracy activists and
giving U.S. troops more leeway to use force.
(AP, 9/22/99)
1994 Sep 22, Pope John Paul II, recovering from hip-replacement
surgery, canceled his U.S. trip, planned for October.
(AP, 9/22/99)
1994 Sep 22, A train disaster killed 300 people in Tolunda, Angola.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A15)
1994 Sep 23, The White House announced a shakeup involving two
dozen staff members.
(AP, 9/23/99)
1994 Sep 23, John van Damme (59), businessman, hanged in Singapore.
(MC, 9/23/01)
1994 Sep 23, The U.N. Security Council rewarded Yugoslavia for
sealing its border with Bosnia by easing sanctions in sports, cultural
exchanges and air traffic.
(AP, 9/23/99)
1994 Sep 24, A firefight erupted between U.S. Marines and a group
of armed Haitians outside a police station in the northern coastal city
of Cap-Haitien; 10 of the Haitians were killed.
(AP, 9/24/99)
1994 Sep 25, Russian President Boris Yeltsin began a five-day
swing through the United States as he arrived in New York, hoping to encourage
American investment in his country's struggling economy.
(AP, 9/25/99)
1994 Sep 26, Addressing the U.N. General Assembly, President Clinton
announced he had lifted most U.S. sanctions against Haiti and urged other
nations to follow suit.
(AP, 9/26/99)
1994 Sep 26, Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell declared
health care reform dead for the session.
(AP, 9/26/99)
1994 Sep 26, Jury selection began in Los Angeles for the murder
trial of O.J. Simpson.
(AP, 9/26/99)
1994 Sep 26, Switzerland banned racist propaganda.
(MC, 9/26/01)
1994 Sep 27, More than 350 Republican congressional candidates
gathered on the steps of the Capitol to sign the "Contract with America,"
a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority
to the House.
(AP, 9/27/99)
1994 Sep 27, In Egypt a German tourist and 2 Egyptians were killed
by Islamic extremists at Hurghada. Two other Germans were injured in gunfire
at a Red Sea resort city, and one later died.
(SFC,11/19/97, p.C2)
1994 Sep 28, "Cats" completed its 5,000th Broadway performance.
Joined Chorus Line and Oh! Calcutta!
(MC, 9/28/01)
1994 Sep 28, "Ed Wood" premiered.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1994 Sep 28, CIA Director R. James Woolsey announced reprimands
of 11 senior officers in the wake of the Aldrich Ames spy scandal.
(AP, 9/28/99)
1994 Sep 28, Harry Saltzman, producer (Dr No, Nijinski), died
at 78.
(MC, 9/28/01)
1994 Sep 28, More than 900 (909) people died when the ferry Estonia
capsized and sank off the Finnish coast in the Baltic sea. 852 people of
989 onboard were killed. In 1999 evidence was reported that 3 explosive
devices had been placed on the ship's visor-like bow door.
(AP, 9/28/99)(SFC, 12/31/99, p.A16)(MC, 9/28/01)
1994 Sep 28, Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, the No. 2 man of the
governing Institutional Revolutionary Party was murdered. Raul Salinas
de Gortari was later arrested and accused of masterminding the murder.
Manuel Munoz Rocha, a federal congressman, disappeared after the 9/28/94
slaying of Ruiz Massieu. Prosecutors later said that Salinas and Rocha
conspired to kill Massieu. Raul Salinas was convicted in 1999.
(WSJ, 4/15/96, p.A-15)(SFC, 10/10/96, p.A12)(SFC, 1/22/99, p.A10)
1994 Sep 29, The House voted to end the age-old practice of lobbyists
buying meals and entertainment for members of Congress.
(AP, 9/29/99)
1994 Sep 29, Gunmen in Italy fired at the rental car of the Green
family of Bodega Bay, Ca., and killed their young boy, Nicholas Green.
The parents donated his organs and saved 7 lives in Italy. An appeals court
in 1998 found 2 men guilty of the botched highway robbery. Michelle Ianello
was sentenced to life in prison and Francesco Mesiano was sentenced to
20 years. In 1999 Reg Green published "The Nicholas Effect, A Boy's Gift
to the World."
(SFEC, 10/27/96, p.B8)(SFC, 6/6/98, p.A10)(SFEM, 6/13/99, p.27)
1994 Sep 30, The space shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts
roared into orbit on an 11-day mission.
(AP, 9/30/99)
1994 Sep 30, Roberto Viola, Argentine general and president (1981),
died at 69.
(MC, 9/30/01)
1994 Sep, Pres. Clinton ordered 20,000 US troops into Haiti to
restore a democratically elected government and to stop the flow of boat
people to Florida.
(SFC, 8/27/99, p.A14)
1994 Sep, A US District Court assessed $5.3 billion in punitive
damages on Exxon Corp. for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
(SFC, 3/27/99, p.A7)
1994 Sep, SynOptics Corp. merged with Wellfleet Communications
and changed its name to Bay Networks Inc. SynOptics developed a way to
use telephone type wiring arrayed in spokes from a connecting box called
a hub. This lowered costs and improved reliability for system networks.
(WSJ,11/14/94, p.R26)
1994 Sep, In Ohio at the Oktoberfest in Cincinnati a record for
the ‘World’s Largest Chicken Dance" was set with 48,000 people dancing.
(WSJ, 9/21/98, p.B1)
1994 Sep, In Afghanistan Taliban forces captured the southern
town of Kandahar. 800 truckloads of arms and ammunition were gained from
a Soviet cache. They continued to gain land over the next 2 years.
(SFC, 9/28/96, p.A8)(SFC, 1/1/97,p.C3)
1994 Sep, In Algeria Lounes Matoub, a popular Berber singer,
was kidnapped by Islamic militants. He was held for over 2 weeks and released
after over 100,000 people demonstrated for his freedom.
(SFC, 6/27/98, p.A13)
1994 Sep, In Guatemala a 440-member UN human rights mission was
installed.
(SFC, 5/14/96, A-10)
1994 Sep, Naseerullah Baber, Pakistan’s interior minister, arranged
a peace convoy to run rice, clothing and other gifts through Afghanistan
to Turkmenistan.
(SFC, 1/1/97, C3)
1994 Oct 1, National Hockey League team owners began a 103-day
lockout of their players.
(AP, 10/1/99)
1994 Oct 1, The United States and Japan reached a series of trade
agreements, averting a threatened trade war.
(AP, 10/1/99)
1994 Oct 2, U.S. soldiers in Haiti detained several leaders of
the country's pro-army militias as part of an effort to dismantle armed
opposition to restoration of elected rule.
(AP, 10/2/99)
1994 Oct 2, Harriet Nelson, actress (Ozzie & Harriet), died
of heart failure at 80.
(MC, 10/2/01)
1994 Oct 3, Gary Larson, announced he was retiring from doing
"Far Side" cartoon.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1994 Oct 3, U.S. soldiers in Haiti raided the headquarters of
a hated pro-army militia.
(AP, 10/3/99)
1994 Oct 3, Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy announced his resignation
because of questions about gifts he had received.
(AP, 10/3/99)
1994 Oct 3, South African President Nelson Mandela addressed
the United Nations, urging the world to support his country's economy.
(AP, 10/3/99)
1994 Oct 4, President Clinton welcomed South African President
Nelson Mandela to the White House.
(AP, 10/4/99)
1994 Oct 4, In France Florence Rey (19), a literature student,
participated in a bungled holdup that left 3 police officers, a taxi driver,
and her accomplice-lover dead following a car chase. In 1998 she was sentenced
to 20 years in prison.
(SFC, 10/2/98, p.B3)
1994 Oct 4, Exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide vowed
in an address to the U.N. General Assembly to return to Haiti in 11 days.
(AP, 10/4/99)
1994 Oct 5, 48 members of a secret religious doomsday cult were
found dead in apparent murder-suicides carried out simultaneously in two
Swiss villages; five other bodies were found in a sect apartment in Montreal,
Canada.
(AP, 10/5/99)
1994 Oct 6, In an address to a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress,
South African President Nelson Mandela warned against the lure of isolationism,
saying the U.S. post-Cold War focus should be on eliminating "tyranny,
instability and poverty" across the globe.
(AP, 10/6/99)
1994 Oct 7, At an East Room news conference, Clinton expressed
frustration over failures in his legislative agenda, blaming Republicans
for "trying to stop it, slow it, kill it or just talk it to death."
(AP, 10/7/99)
1994 Oct 7, Iraqi troops moved south toward Kuwait. Pres. Clinton
dispatched a carrier group, 54,000 troops and warplanes to the gulf area
after Iraqi troops were spotted moving south toward Kuwait. The Iraqis
pulled back.
(SFC, 9/4/96, p.A8)(AP, 10/7/99)
1994 Oct 8, President Clinton, responding to the massing of Iraqi
troops near the Kuwaiti border, warned Saddam Hussein not to misjudge "American
will or American power" as he ordered additional U.S. forces to the region.
(AP, 10/8/99)
1994 Oct 9, The United States sent troops and warships to the
Persian Gulf after Saddam Hussein sent tens of thousands of elite troops
and hundreds of tanks toward the Kuwaiti border.
(AP, 10/9/99)
1994 Oct 9, In the Austrian parliamentary election 23% voted
extreme-right.
(MC, 10/9/01)
1994 Oct 10, Americans Alfred G. Gilman and Martin Rodbell won
the Nobel Prize in medicine.
(AP, 10/10/99)
1994 Oct 10, Anna Hauptmann, wife of Lindbergh baby kidnapper
Bruno, died at 95.
(MC, 10/10/01)
1994 Oct 10, Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras resigned as commander-in-chief
of Haiti's armed forces and pledged to leave the country.
(AP, 10/10/99)
1994 Oct 10, Iraq announced it was withdrawing its forces from
the Kuwaiti border; seeing no signs of a pullback, President Clinton dispatched
350 additional aircraft to the region.
(AP, 10/10/99)
1994 Oct 11, U.S. troops in Haiti took over the National Palace.
(AP, 10/11/99)
1994 Oct 11, The Colorado Supreme Court declared the state's
anti-gay rights measure unconstitutional.
(AP, 10/11/99)
1994 Oct 11, Iraqi troops began moving north, away from the Kuwaiti
border.
(AP, 10/11/99)
1994 Oct 12, The Magellan space probe ended its four-year mapping
mission of Venus, plunging into the planet's atmosphere.
(TV, 10/17/95) (AP, 10/12/99)
1994 Oct 12, Panama granted political asylum to ousted Haitian
military leader Raoul Cedras.
(AP, 10/12/99)
1994 Oct 13, Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe won the Nobel Prize
in literature.
(AP, 10/13/99)
1994 Oct 13, Pro-British Protestant paramilitaries in Northern
Ireland announced a cease-fire matching the Irish Republican Army's six-week-old
truce.
(AP, 10/13/99)
1994 Oct 13, In Sri Lanka peace talks began in Jaffna.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)
1994 Oct 14, The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to PLO leader Yasser
Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli Foreign Minister
Shimon Peres.
(SFC, 10/12/96, p.A13)(AP, 10/14/99)
1994 Oct 14, Kidnapped Israeli soldier Nachshon Waxman was killed
when Israeli commandos raided the hideout of Islamic militants in Jerusalem.
(AP, 10/14/99)
1994 Oct 15, Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide returned
to his country, three years after being overthrown by army rulers. The
U.N. Security Council welcomed Aristide's return by voting to lift stifling
trade sanctions imposed against Haiti. The US had led an invasion, Operation
Restore Democracy, to restore Pres. Aristide. Emmanuel "Toto" Constant
left Haiti for the US when Jean-Bertrand Aristide was reinstated as president.
The US invasion was described in 1999 by Bob Shacochis in "The Immaculate
Invasion." Shacochis served there for 18 months as a Special Forces noncombatant.
(SFC, 7/15/96, p.A10)(SFC, 6/21/96, p.A14)(SFEC, 2/14/99, BR
p.1)(WSJ, 2/18/99, p.A20)(AP, 10/15/99)
1994 Oct 16, Heavy rains began drenching southeast Texas, resulting
in floods that left 20 dead and forced 14,000 from their homes in 35 counties.
(AP, 10/16/99)
1994 Oct 16, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was elected to a fourth
term.
(AP, 10/16/99)
1994 Oct 17, Negotiators for the Angolan government and rebels
agreed to a peace treaty to end their 19-year civil war.
(AP, 10/17/99)
1994 Oct 17, Leaders of Israel and Jordan initialed a draft peace
treaty.
(AP, 10/17/99)
1994 Oct 18, Defense Secretary William Perry, nearing the end
of a visit to China, said Beijing had agreed to brief the Pentagon on its
overall military strategy and defense spending plans.
(AP, 10/18/99)
1994 Oct 19, Entertainer Martha Raye died in Los Angeles at age
78.
(AP, 10/19/99)
1994 Oct 19, A Palestinian suicide bomber killed 22 Israelis
and wounded 48 in a bus explosion in the heart of Tel Aviv's shopping district.
Hamas took responsibility.
(WSJ, 3/6/96, p. A-15)(G&M, 7/31/97, p.A8)(AP, 10/19/99)
1994 Oct 20, The Pentagon announced that more than 100,000 U.S.
troops were being taken off alert for possible movement to the Persian
Gulf because the Iraqi threat to Kuwait had abated.
(AP, 10/20/99)
1994 Oct 20, Actor Burt Lancaster died in Los Angeles at age
80. In 2000 Kate Buford authored the biography "Burt Lancaster: An American
Life."
(AP, 10/20/99)(SFEC, 3/19/00, BR p.1)
1994 Oct 21, United States and North Korea signed an agreement
requiring the communist nation to halt its nuclear program and agree to
inspections.
(AP, 10/21/99)
1994 Oct 21, Thirty-two people were killed when a section of
bridge collapsed in Seoul, South Korea.
(AP, 10/21/99)
1994 Oct 22, President Clinton, campaigning in San Francisco for
California Democrats, demanded that schools expel gun-toting students;
he earlier accused Republicans of plotting to gut his education package.
(AP, 10/22/99)
1994 Oct 22, Colorado Springs opened a brand new airport with
a 2.5 million annual passenger capacity. (That is about 7,000 people per
day).
(Hem, Dec. 94, p.138)
1994 Oct 22, Harold Horace Hopkins (75), inventor (Endoscope),
died.
(MC, 10/22/01)
1994 Oct 22, Rollo May (85), founder (Humanistic Psychology Movement),
died.
(MC, 10/22/01)
1994 Oct 23, Robert Lansing (66), actor (Twelve O'Clock High,
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Equalizer), died of cancer.
(MC, 10/23/01)
1994 Oct 23, In Egypt a British man was killed and 3 injured
in an attack on a van by Islamic extremists at Naqada.
(SFC,11/19/97, p.C2)
1994 Oct 23, A suicide bomber in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killed 50
people including Gamini Dissanayake, the opposition presidential candidate.
(AP, 10/23/99)
1994 Oct 24, Raul Julia (54), actor (Addams Family), died of stroke.
(MC, 10/24/01)
1994 Oct 25, President Clinton began a five-day trip to the Mideast.
(AP, 10/25/99)
1994 Oct 25, Susan Smith drowned her 2 sons when she let her
car roll into John D. Long Lake in South Carolina. Smith of Union, S.C.,
claimed that a black carjacker had driven off with her two sons and later
confessed to drowning the children in John D. Long Lake. She was convicted
of murder. On Aug 31, 1996 three adults and 4 children drowned at the same
location when their car rolled into lake by accident.
(SFC, 9/2/96, p.D5)(AP, 10/25/99)
1994 Oct 25, Three defendants were convicted in South Africa
of murdering American exchange student Amy Biehl.
(AP, 10/25/99)
1994 Oct 26, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Prime
Minister Abdel Salam Majali of Jordan signed a peace treaty during an extravagant
ceremony at the Israeli-Jordanian border attended by President Clinton.
(WSJ, 5/30/96, p.A4)(SFC, 6/15/96, p.A7)(SFC, 4/24/98, p.A17)(AP,
10/26/99)
1994 Oct 27, In the first trip to Syria by an American president
in 20 years, President Clinton met with Syrian President Hafez Assad before
heading to Jerusalem to meet with Israeli officials.
(AP, 10/27/99)
1994 Oct 28, President Clinton visited Kuwait, where he praised
U.S. ground forces sent in response to an Iraqi threat, and all but promised
the troops they'd be home by Christmas.
(AP, 10/28/99)
1994 Oct 29, NY Lotto paid over $60 million.
(MC, 10/29/01)
1994 Oct 29, The National Museum of American Indian opened in
NYC.
(MC, 10/29/01)
1994 Oct 29, Francisco Martin Duran of Colorado Springs, Colo.,
fired more than two dozen shots from a semiautomatic rifle at the White
House while standing on Pennsylvania Avenue; Duran was later convicted
of trying to assassinate President Clinton and was sentenced to 40 years
in prison.
(AP, 10/29/99)
1994 Oct 30, Pope John Paul II named 30 new cardinals, including
the archbishops of Baltimore and Detroit and the first-ever from Sarajevo,
Bosnia-Herzegovina and two former East-bloc states, Albania and Belarus.
(AP, 10/30/99)
1994 Oct 31, An American Eagle French-built ATR-72, en route from
Indianapolis to Chicago, crashed in Roselawn, Ind., and killed 68 people.
In 1997 American Airlines and 7 other companies settled a suit filed by
relatives for $110 million. [first source said Oct ‘95]
(SFC, 1/10/96, p.A3)(SFC, 9/23/97, p.A4)(AP, 10/31/97)
1994 Oct, The Clintons inaugurated a sculpture garden at the White
House.
(WSJ, 12/1/98, p.A20)
1994 Oct, R.I. Hernstein and C. Murray published "The Bell Curve."
The book asserted that the US is fast becoming an "IQ meritocracy," in
which bright people are channeled into High-paying jobs while the very
dull, including many from minority groups, disproportionately become welfare
recipients, unwed teenage mothers, school dropouts and criminals.
(WSJ, 10/20/94, p.B1)
1994 Oct, The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to John C.
Harsanyi of UC Berkeley, John F. Nash of Princeton and to Reinhard Selten
of the Univ. of Bonn. Harsanyi (d.2000 at 80) won for his groundbreaking
work in game theory.
(SFC, 10/15/98, p.A2)(SFC, 8/12/00, p.A22)
1994 Oct, Forbes magazine listed Gordon Getty as America’s 49th
richest person with $1.5 billion.
(SFC, 1/8/95, p.7)
1994 Oct, Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education
Act. It was intended to keep the FDA’s hands off of vitamin and mineral
supplements unless something goes wrong. It relaxed rules on how herbs
could be marketed by allowing companies to advertise structure and function
claims even if medical evidence was sketchy.
(SFEC,10/26/97, p.A10)(WSJ, 12/3/97, p.A1)
1994 Oct, Dream Works, a film studio venture, was formed by Steven
Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg.
(SFC, 7/5/96, p.D3)
1994 Oct, Shuttle by United Airlines began operating to compete
with Southwest Airlines.
(WSJ, 1/16/98, p.A1)
1994 Oct, Bosnian forces defeated the Serbs near Bihac.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1994 Oct, Fernando Henrique Cardoso was elected president of Brazil.
(USAT, OW, 4/22/96, p.1)
1994 Oct, A Cuban exile took part in a commando raid during which
Arcilio Rodriguez Garcia, a local official, was shot dead. Humberto Real
Suarez and six others were captured several hours after landing by boat.
He was sentenced to death in 1996 and the others were sentenced to 30-years
in prison.
(SFC, 4/26/96, p.A-14)
1994 Oct, In Northern Ireland the Loyalist Volunteers were founded
by hard-line dissidents opposed to the truces called by the Ulster Defense
Assoc. and the Ulster Volunteer Force, the north’s 2 major pro-British
gangs.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.A11)
1994 Oct, In Russia journalist Dmitry Kholodov was killed by an
exploding briefcase. He had been investigating corruption in the military.
He had targeted former defense minister Gen’l. Pavel Grachev and former
troop commander Gen’l. Matvei Burlakov. In 1998 a prosecutor charged retired
colonel Pavle Popovskikh with organizing the killing.
(SFC, 12/30/96, p.A8)
1994 Nov 1, The Senate Intelligence Committee released a report
saying CIA Director R. James Woolsey's response to the Aldrich Ames spy
case was "seriously inadequate," but that his predecessors were ultimately
to blame for the scandal.
(AP, 11/1/99)
1994 Nov 1, In Cherry Hill, Pa., Len Jenoff and Paul Daniels
clubbed to death Carol Neulander (52), the wife of Rabbi Fred J. Neulander
(53), under a contract from Rabbi Neulander. Neulander stood trial in 2001
in New Jersey. He was convicted of murder Nov 20, 2002 and sentenced to
life in prison.
(SFC, 10/20/01, p.A18)(SFC, 11/21/02, p.A6)(SFC, 11/23/02, p.A4)
1994 Nov 1, Moslem fundamentalists in Mostaganem, Algeria, murdered
5 children.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1994 Nov 1, Syd Dernley (73), hangman, died.
(MC, 11/1/01)
1994 Nov 2, A jury in Pensacola, Fla., convicted Paul Hill of
murder for the shotgun slayings of an abortion provider and his bodyguard;
Hill was sentenced to death.
(AP, 11/2/99)
1994 Nov 2, In Durunka, Egypt, more than 475 people were killed
when fuel carried by floodwaters ignited.
(AP, 11/2/99)
1994 Nov 3, Susan Smith of Union, S.C., was arrested for drowning
her two young sons, nine days after claiming the children had been abducted
by a black carjacker.
(AP, 11/3/99)
1994 Nov 3, Twelve jurors were seated at the O.J. Simpson trial
in Los Angeles.
(AP, 11/3/99)
1994 Nov 3, The space shuttle Atlantis blasted into orbit on
a mission to survey Earth's ozone layer.
(AP, 11/3/99)
1994 Nov 3, There was a total solar eclipse in South America
(4m23s).
(MC, 11/3/01)
1994 Nov 4, In Union, S.C., townspeople jeered as Susan Smith
was led into court, a day after the 23-year-old secretary was arrested
and charged with murder in the drownings of her sons, 3-year-old Michael
and 14-month-old Alexander.
(AP, 11/4/99)
1994 Nov 5, Former President Reagan disclosed he had Alzheimer's
disease.
(AP, 11/5/97)
1994 Nov 5, George Foreman, 45, became boxing's oldest heavyweight
champion by knocking out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA
fight in Las Vegas.
(AP, 11/5/99)
1994 Nov 5, Space probe Ulysses completed its 1st passage behind
the Sun.
(MC, 11/5/01)
1994 Nov 6, About 300 people crowded a small church in Union,
S.C., for the funeral of 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex Smith,
who'd been drowned by their mother, Susan Smith.
(AP, 11/6/99)
1994 Nov 7, On the eve of Election Day, President Clinton concluded
an eight-day campaign odyssey with an impassioned plea for embattled Democrats,
saying, "We'll go forward, we don't want to go back," even as he braced
for expected Republican gains in the House and Senate.
(AP, 11/7/99)
1994 Nov 8, In midterm elections, Republicans won a majority in
the Senate, gained control of the House for the first time in 40 years.
California voters approved Proposition 187, designed to bar illegal aliens
from education, social services and non-emergency health care.
(WSJ,11/9/94)(AP, 11/8/99)
1994 Nov 9, A day after Republicans won majorities in both the
House and Senate, President Clinton and the GOP pledged cooperation, even
as they started forming battle lines over irreconcilable differences.
(AP, 11/9/99)
1994 Nov 10, Officials said the United States would lift the arms
embargo against the Bosnian government, despite opposition of the U.N.
Security Council.
(AP, 11/10/99)
1994 Nov 10, Prominent attorney Louis Nizer died in New York
at age 92.
(AP, 11/10/99)
1994 Nov 10, Iraq, hoping to win an end to trade sanctions,
recognized the independence and boundaries of Kuwait.
(SFC, 2/24/98, p.A9)(AP, 11/10/99)
1994 Nov 10, In Russia Colonel Mikhail Likhodey chairman of the
Afghan War Invalids Fund was killed by a bomb blast outside his apartment.
The Fund had been granted lucrative tax exemptions on the import and export
of alcohol and tobacco with an estimated value of $800 million.
(SFC, 11/11/96, p.A13)(SFC, 11/12/96, p.A11)
1994 Nov 11, Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft Corp., purchased
a 72-page document by Leonardo da Vinci that he renamed the "Codex Leicester"
for $30.8 million. The work was written in backwards-mirror with illustrations
of the author’s theories on the movement of water and air.
(WSJ, 5/14/96, p.A-18)(NH, 5/97, p.11)
1994 Nov 11, In Pennsylvania Eddie Polec (16), a Fox Chase high
school student, died after being clubbed to death by students of Abington
High School. In 2000 Bryn Freedman and William Knoedelseder authored "In
Eddie’s Name: One Family’s Triumph Over Tragedy."
(SFEC, 5/14/00, BR p.12)
1994 Nov 11, A suicide bomber killed three soldiers at an Israeli
military checkpoint in Gaza. [see Nov 12]
(AP, 11/11/99)
1994 Nov 12, President Clinton arrived in the Philippines to open
a campaign for free trade in Asia and to commemorate World War II Allied
victories in the Pacific.
(AP, 11/12/99)
1994 Nov 12, Wilma Rudolph, Olympic gold medallist in track and
field, died in Nashville, Tenn., at age 54.
(AP, 11/12/99)
1994 Nov 12, A Palestinian suicide bomber killed three Israeli
soldiers in Gaza Strip. The Islamic Jihad took responsibility. [see Nov
11]
(WSJ, 3/6/96, p. A-15)(G&M, 7/31/97, p.A8)
1994 Nov 13, President Clinton, visiting the Philippines, sought
to assure world leaders that his party's severe losses in midterm elections
wouldn't undercut his foreign policy.
(AP, 11/13/99)
1994 Nov 13, A heavily armed gunman traded fire with San Francisco
police, hitting two police officers, a paramedic and another person before
being killed.
(AP, 11/13/99)
1994 Nov 13, Sweden voted to join the European Union.
(AP, 11/13/99)
1994 Nov 14, President Clinton, in Indonesia, met one-on-one with
the leaders of China, Japan and South Korea, winning pledges to keep the
pressure on North Korea to freeze its nuclear weapons program.
(AP, 11/14/99)
1994 Nov 14, U.S. experts visited North Korea's main nuclear
complex for the first time under an accord aimed at opening such sites
to outside inspections.
(AP, 11/14/99)
1994 Nov 14, The 1st trains for public ran in Channel Tunnel
under the English Channel.
(MC, 11/14/01)
1994 Nov 14, In the Czech Republic the TV station Nova began
its first commercial broadcast in Eastern Europe with the film "Sophie’s
Choice."
(WSJ, 4/30/97, p.A1)
1994 Nov 14, Heavy rains and flooding from Tropical Storm Gordon
swept across Haiti, killing several hundred people.
(AP, 11/14/99)
1994 Nov 15, The Federal Reserve increased key interest rates
by 0.75 percent, the largest hike in 13 years.
(AP, 11/15/99)
1994 Nov 15, James Winston Watts (90), developer of the Frontal
Lobotomy, died.
(MC, 11/15/01)
1994 Nov 15, Helmut Kohl was elected German chancellor (341-340
votes).
(MC, 11/15/01)
1994 Nov 15, The 18-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
group concluded a two-day summit in Indonesia by adopting a sweeping resolution
to remove trade and investment barriers in the region by 2020.
(AP, 11/15/99)
1994 Nov 16, The US government reported consumer prices rose 0.1
percent in October.
(AP, 11/16/99)
1994 Nov 16, A US federal judge issued a temporary restraining
order prohibiting the state of California from implementing most provisions
of Proposition 187, the voter-approved measure that would deny most public
services to illegal aliens.
(AP, 11/16/99)
1994 Nov 16, The UN Law of the Sea, ratified in 1993, took effect.
Arvid Pardo (d.1999 at 85), Maltese delegate to the UN, proposed in 1967
that the bounty of the sea should be considered "the common heritage of
mankind" and asked that some of the sea's wealth be used to bankroll a
fund to help close the gap between rich and poor nations.
(SFC, 7/19/99, p.A22)
1994 Nov 16, John C. Boylan (82), US actor (Twin Peaks, Sleepless
in Seattle), died (unrelated to Historian).
(MC, 11/16/01)
1994 Nov 17, The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Sunset Boulevard"
opened at Minskoff Theater on Broadway with Glenn Close as faded movie
star Norma Desmond. It ran for 977 performances.
(AP, 11/17/99)(MC, 11/17/01)
1994 Nov 17, Francisco Martin Duran, the Colorado man accused
of an assault-rifle attack on the White House, was indicted on a new charge
of trying to assassinate President Clinton.
(AP, 11/17/99)
1994 Nov 17, Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds resigned.
(SFC, 6/18/96, p.A8)
1994 Nov 18, "Star Trek VII Generations," premiered.
(MC, 11/18/01)
1994 Nov 18, The Commerce Department reported that America's
trade deficit worsened to $10.13 billion in September.
(AP, 11/18/99)
1994 Nov 18, Bandleader Cab Calloway died in Hockessin, Del.,
at age 86.
(AP, 11/18/99)
1994 Nov 18, Fifteen people were killed and more than 150 wounded
when Palestinian police opened fire on rioting worshippers outside a mosque
in the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 11/18/99)
1994 Nov 19, The U.N. Security Council, anxious to stop Serb attacks
on the "safe area" of Bihac in northwest Bosnia, authorized NATO to bomb
rebel Serb forces striking from neighboring Croatia.
(AP, 11/19/99)
1994 Nov 19, Julian Symons (82), British detective writer (Death's
Darkest Face), died.
(MC, 11/19/01)
1994 Nov 20, The Angolan government under dos Santos and rebels
under Savimbi signed a treaty in Zambia to end 19 years of war, even as
fighting continued in their homeland.
(AP, 11/20/99)(SFC, 4/5/02, p.A11)
1994 Nov 20. The most heavily mined country in the world was
Afghanistan, with between 10 and 15 million deadly mines. In Angola, one
third of the countryside was strewn with mines and the toll of nearly 25
people a day who were injured or killed by land mines has left 20,000 amputees.
Cambodia’s 7 million mines amount to two for every single Cambodian child,
and between 200 and 250 people became victims every month. In Somalia,
the laying of mines rose to new heights of terror as civilian areas were
deliberately targeted. Truck loads of mines were scattered in houses, wells,
river-crossings, markets, and even cemeteries. Presently, the area being
mined most heavily is the war zone of the former Yugoslavia, where 3 million
mines have been laid in just a few years. The US State Dept. estimated
that 25,000 people are killed or maimed each year by mines. About 1.5 to
2 million new mines go into the ground each year. There is a British Rapid
Antipersonnel Minefield Breaching System (RAMBS) manufactured by Pains-Wessex
Schermuly that is fired from a rifle and clears a path 60 meters long and
one meter wide in less than a minute.
(UNICEFF Mailer,11/94)(WSJ, 5/17/96,p.A-1)(WSJ, 5/31/96, p.A13)
1994 Nov 21, Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., remarked in a newspaper
interview that President Clinton "better have a bodyguard" if he were to
visit North Carolina; Helms later called his comment a mistake.
(AP, 11/21/99)
1994 Nov 21, NATO retaliated for repeated Serb attacks on a U.N.
safe haven by bombing an airfield in a Serb-controlled section of Croatia.
(AP, 11/21/02)
1994 Nov 22, A gunman opened fire inside the District of Columbia's
police headquarters; the ensuing gunbattle left two FBI agents, a city
detective and the gunman dead.
(AP, 11/22/99)
1994 Nov 22, Serb fighters in northwest Bosnia set villages ablaze
in response to a retaliatory airstrike by NATO.
(AP, 11/22/99)
1994 Nov 23, NATO warplanes blasted Serb missile batteries in
two air raids while Bosnian Serb fighters, for the first time, broke into
the U.N.-designated safe haven of Bihac.
(AP, 11/23/99)
1994 Nov 23, A large cache of bomb-grade uranium was transferred
from Kazakhstan to the United States.
(AP, 11/23/02)
1994 Nov 24, Rebel Serbs refused to withdraw from the U.N. designated
safe area around Bihac and continued to advance on the city, despite recent
NATO air strikes.
(AP, 11/24/99)
1994 Nov 24, In Sri Lanka a Tiger suicide bomber killed opposition
pres. candidate Gamini Disanayake and 51 others.
(SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)
1994 Nov 25, NATO warplanes buzzed the besieged "safe haven" of
Bihac in northwest Bosnia but did not carry out airstrikes against rebel
Serbs.
(AP, 11/25/99)
1994 Nov 26, Margaret Garrish, a 72-year-old Detroit woman, committed
suicide in the presence of Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
(AP, 11/26/99)
1994 Nov 26, Thirty clergymen were elevated to the rank of cardinal
in a Vatican ceremony presided over by Pope John Paul II.
(AP, 11/26/99)
1994 Nov 26, A major offensive by the Russian-backed opposition
fails to wrest Grozny, the capital of Chechnya from its government.
(AP, 11/26/02)
1994 Nov 28, Norwegian voters rejected European Union membership.
(DT net, 11/28/97)
1994 Nov 28, Jeffrey Dahmer (b.May 21, 1960), a serial killer
who sexually abused, tortured, and cannibalized murder victims during the
1980's, was clubbed to death in prison by a fellow inmate while cleaning
a prison toilet at the Columbia Correctional Institute gymnasium in Portage,
Wi. He was serving several life terms for the killing of 17 young men and
boys over a 13-year rampage of necrophilia and dismemberment.
(SFC, 5/29/96, A4)(AP, 11/28/97)(DT net, 11/28/97)(MC, 11/28/01)
1994 Nov 28, Ronald "Buster" Edwards (62), Great Train Robber
(1963), committed suicide.
(MC, 11/28/01)
1994 Nov 28, Calvin Fuller (92), chemist, died. He invented a
device that converts solar energy into electricity.
(DT net, 11/28/97)
1994 Nov 28, Jerry Rubin (56), Political Activist, leading anti-Vietnam
War protester of the 1960s who later made headlines by his enthusiastic
embrace of capitalism, died after being hit by car.
(DT net, 11/28/97)
1994 Nov 29, The House passed, 288-146, the revised General Agreement
on Tariffs and Trade.
(AP, 11/29/99)
1994 Nov 29, Fighter jets attacked the capital of Chechnya and
its airport hours after Russian President Boris Yeltsin demanded the breakaway
republic end its civil war.
(AP, 11/29/99)
1994 Nov 29, Seoul, Korea, celebrated the 600th anniversary of
its founding.
(MC, 11/29/01)
1994 Nov 29, Sviatoslav S. Stravinsky (84), French-US composer,
son of Igor S., died.
(MC, 11/29/01)
1994 Nov 30, Two passengers died and nearly 1,000 others and crew
members fled the cruise ship "Achille Lauro" after it caught fire off the
coast of Somalia; the ship sank two days later. The Achille Lauro had gained
notoriety in 1985 when it was hijacked by Palestinian extremists.
(AP, 11/30/99)
1994 Nov, Jeffrey Seller and Kevin McCollum bought the commercial
rights to the Broadway show "Rent" for $4,000. The composer of the show
was Jonathon Larson who died just after the productions final dress rehearsal.
(WSJ, 5/23/96, p.A-1,7)
1994 Nov, The Clinton administration announced that it would stop
enforcing the arms embargo despite European objections.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1994 Nov, Oregon voters passed a Death with Dignity Act. It allowed
doctors to prescribe lethal drugs for terminally ill patients with less
than 6 months to live. The law was upheld in 1997.
(SFC, 3/26/98, p.A4)
1994 Nov, The Bosnian forces were on the offensive on three fronts
and were joined by the Croat militias.
(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A14)
1994 Nov, In France the Var River overflowed and washed away bridges
and stretches of the Nice-Digne railroad track. Rail service was not restored
until Apr 1996 at a cost of F50 Million (US$10 mil).
(Hem., 1/97, p.116)
1994 Nov, In the tiny oil state of Tabasco, Mexico, the government
party spent $38.8 million to win the elections. Roberto Madrazo won over
leftist opponent Andres Lopez Obrador. The money spent was 38 times the
legal spending limit and $37 million more than the campaign declared. The
population of Tobasco is only 1.5 mil. Paul Karam, later identified as
a money laundering suspect with links to banker Carlos Cabal Peniche contributed
some 12.4 million pesos to the ruling party trust fund.
(SFC, 6/8/96, p.A10)(WSJ, 6/11/96, p.A12)
1994 Nov, The UN Security Council established an Int’l. Criminal
Tribunal to prosecute those responsible for the Rwanda genocide.
(SSFC, 4/7/02, p.A19)