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'''1994''' ('''
Roman numerals MCMXCIV''') was a
common year starting on Saturday of the
Gregorian calendar, and was designated the ''International year of the Family''.
Events
January
*
January 1 -
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect.
* January 1 -
Zapatista Army of National Liberation begins war in
Chiapas, Mexico.
* January 1 -
Bantustans join
South Africa
*
January 6 -
Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from figure skating rival
Tonya Harding's ex-husband.
*
January 8 -
Valeri Polyakov began his 437.7 day orbit, eventually setting the world record for days spent in orbit.
*
January 11 -
Ireland Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the
Provisional Irish Republican Army IRA and its political arm
Sinn Fein
*
January 12 -
President Clinton meets Presidents of
Czech Republic,
Slovakia,
Hungary and
Poland.
*
January 14 -
President of the United States U.S. President Bill Clinton and
Russian President
Boris Yeltsin sign the
Kremlin accords which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles to targets and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in
Ukraine.
*
January 17 -
1994 Northridge Earthquake, magnitude 6.7, hits the San Fernando Valley of
Los Angeles, California Los Angeles at 4:31 am.
*
January 20 - In
South Carolina,
Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet to attend
The Citadel (Military College) The Citadel but soon drops out.
*
January 21 - Lorena Bobbitt is found
not guilty by reason of insanity on charges of mutilating her husband John.
*
January 25 - President
Clinton delivers his first
State of the Union address, calling for health care reform, a ban on assault weapons, and welfare reform.
*
January 26 - A man fires two blank shots at
Charles, Prince of Wales in
Sydney,
Australia.
*
January 28 - The first trial of accused murderer
Lyle Menendez ends in a mistrial. He and his brother Erik are later found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
*
January 31 - German luxury car manufacturer
BMW announces the purchase of
Rover (car) Rover from
British Aerospace
February
*
February 1 - In
Portland, Oregon,
Tonya Harding's ex-husband
Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his role in attacking figure skater
Nancy Kerrigan. He accepts a
plea bargain admitting to racketeering charges in exchange for testimony against Harding.
*
February 3 -
William J. Perry was sworn in as the
United States Secretary of Defense 19th Secretary of Defense of United States
*
February 5 -
Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the
1963 murder of
civil rights leader
Medgar Evers
*
February 6 -
Serb mortar shell kills 68 civilians and wounds about 200 in a
Sarajevo marketplace
*
February 9 - Peace plan for
Bosnia and Herzegovina announced (so called Vance-Owen peace plan)
*
February 12 -
Edvard Munch's painting, "
The Scream," is stolen in
Oslo. It is recovered on
May 7
*
February 22 -
Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged with spying for the
Soviet Union by the
United States Department of Justice. Ames would later be convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment and his wife would receive 5 years in prison
*
February 24 - In
Gloucester, local police begins excavations at 25 Cromwell Street the home of
Fred West Frederick West suspected of multiple murders. On
February 28, he and his wife are arrested
*
February 25 -
Kahanist Baruch Goldstein opens fire inside the
Cave of the Patriarchs in the
West Bank. He
Mosque of Abraham massacre kills 29 Muslims before worshippers beat him to death
*
February 27 -
Australian Federal Sports & Environment Minister Ros Kelly resigns over "The Sports Rorts Affair", where it was alleged that she apportioned money for community sporting projects in a
pork barreling fashion.
*
February 28 -
United States US F-16 pilots shoot down four
Serbian fighter aircraft over
Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnia for violation of the
Operation Deny Flight and its
no-fly zone
March
*
March 1 - A lone
terrorism terrorist kills
Ari Halberstam on an attack on 14
Judaism Jewish students on the
Brooklyn Bridge in
New York City. [http://www.arihalberstam.com]
*
March 1 -
South Africa cedes
Walvis Bay to
Namibia.
*
March 1 -
Mary Ellen Withrow begins term of office as
Treasurer of the United States, serving under President
Bill Clinton.
*
March 1 - The
grunge band
Nirvana (band) Nirvana plays its final show in
Munich
*
March 4 - Four terrorists are convicted for their roles in the
World Trade Center bombing which killed six and injured more than a thousand.
*
March 6 - Referendum in
Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with
Romania.
*
March 7 - The
Supreme Court of the United States rules in ''
Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.'' that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of
fair use.
*
March 12 - A photo by
Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as 'proof' of the
Loch Ness monster, is confirmed to be a hoax.
*
March 12 - The
Church of England ordains its first female priests.
*
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 23 - At an election rally in
Tijuana,
Mexico Mexican presidential candidate
Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated. Mario Aburto Martinez is arrested for the crime and confesses on the same day.
*
March 27 - A tornado outbreak occurs in Southeastern United States. One tornado hits the United Methodist Church in
Piedmont, Alabama killing 22. This outbreak is the biggest
tornado event of 1994.
*
March 28 - In
South Africa,
Zulus and
African National Congress supporters battle in central
Johannesburg killing 18.
*
March 31 - The journal ''
Nature (journal) Nature'' reports the finding in
Ethiopia of the first complete ''
Australopithecus afarensis'' skull (see
Human evolution).
April
*
April 6 -
Rwandan president
Juvénal Habyarimana and president of
Burundi Cyprien Ntaryamira died when a missile shoots down their jet near
Kigali,
Rwanda. This is taken as a pretext to begin the
Rwandan Genocide
*
April 7 - The
Rwandan Genocide begins in
Kigali,
Rwanda.
*
April 8 -
Kurt Cobain, lead singer of
Nirvana (band) Nirvana, is found dead in
Seattle, Washington Seattle,
Washington.
*
April 16 - Voters in
Finland decide to join the
European Union in a referendum.
*
April 20 -
Paul Touvier is found guilty of ordering the execution of 7 Jews when he was serving in the
Vichy France Milice
*
April 21 -
Red Cross estimates that hundreds of thousands of
Tutsi have been killed in
Rwanda
*
April 22 - Former American President
Richard Nixon dies.
*
April 25 - End of term for
Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu as 9th
Yang di-Pertuan Agong of
Malaysia.
*
April 26 -
Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman,
Yang di-Pertuan Besar of
Negeri Sembilan becomes the 10th
Yang di-Pertuan Agong of
Malaysia.
*
April 26 -
South Africa holds its first fully multiracial elections.
*
April 29 -
Formula One driver
Rubens Barrichello of
Brazil, age 22, nearly dies in a high-speed, floating single-car crash in the practice session for the
San Marino Grand Prix in
Imola,
Italy
*
April 30 -
Formula One driver
Roland Ratzenberger of
Austria, age 33, dies in a high-speed, single-car crash in the practice session for the
San Marino Grand Prix in
Imola,
Italy
May
*
May 1 -
Formula One driver
Ayrton Senna of
Brazil, age 34, is tragically killed in a high-speed, single-car accident during the
San Marino Grand Prix in
Imola,
Italy
*
May 6 - The
Channel Tunnel, which took 15,000 workers over seven years to
complete, opens between
England and
France. Passengers can now travel between the two countries in 35 minutes.
*
May 9 -
Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as
South Africa's first black
president
*
May 10 -
Illinois execution (legal) executes
serial killer John Wayne Gacy by
lethal injection for the murder of 33 young men and boys
*
May 10 - An
annular eclipse of the
sun is visible across much of
North America.
*
May 12 -
Ice hockey Hockey becomes
Canada's official winter sport.
*
May 23 - Series final of
Star Trek: The Next Generation ''
All Good Things'' aired in the USA.
*
May 31-
Tony Blair and
Gordon Brown have dinner at the
Granita (restaurant) Granita restaurant in
Islington and allegedly make a deal on who will become the leader of the
Labour Party (UK) Labour Party, and ultimately, the next
Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom.
June
*June -
Iraq disarmament crisis: UN weapons inspectors Ritter and Smidovitch learn, through
Israeli intelligence reports, that
Qusay Hussein,
Saddam Hussein's son, is the key player in efforts by the
Iraqi government to hide the country's alleged illegal weapons
*
June 6-
June 8 8 -
Ceasefire negotiations for the
Yugoslav War begin in
Geneva - they agree to one-month cessation of hostilities (which does not last more than a few days)
*
June 12 -
Nicole Brown Simpson and
Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in
Los Angeles, California.
O. J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit.
*
June 14 - Hacker
Kevin Poulsen pleads guilty to seven counts of mail fraud, wire and computer fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.
*
June 14 - The
New York Rangers defeat the
Vancouver Canucks 4 games to 3 in the
1994 Stanley Cup Finals.
*
June 15 -
Israel and the
Holy See Vatican establish full
diplomatic relations
*
June 17 - NFL star
OJ Simpson and his friend
Al Cowlings flee from police in his white
Ford Bronco. The low speed chase, which unfolds live on television, ends up at Simpson's mansion in
Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, where he then surrendered to police. Went on to create the quote of his famous glove, "If it doesn't fit, we must acquit." Spoken by
Johnny Cochran
*
June 24 -
As of 2004 the third highest grossing animated film of all-time,
The Lion King, opens in theatres nationwide.
July
*July - The planet
Jupiter (planet) Jupiter is hit by twenty one large fragments of
Comet Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Shoemaker-Levy 9 over the course of six days.
*
July 2 -
Assassination of
Colombian
soccer player
Andrés Escobar in
Bogotá
*
July 6 - Fourteen firefighters die in the South Canyon
wildfire on Storm King Mountain in
Colorado. The event inspired the 1999 book ''
Fire on the Mountain''.
*
July 7 -
Aden is occupied by troops from North
Yemen.
*
July 17 -
Brazil national football team Brazil defeats
Italy national football team Italy 3-2 on
kicks from the penalty mark penalties to win the
Football World Cup 1994, after the game ended 0-0 after extra time.
*
July 18 - In
Buenos Aires, an explosion destroys a building housing several
Jewish organizations killing ninety six and injuring many more. On
9 November 2005 Alberto Nisman Arentino prosecutor identified Hezbollah militant Ibrahim Berro responsible.
*
July 25 -
Israel and
Jordan sign the
Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace which formally ends the
state of war that has existed between the nations since
1948.
*
July 25 - Phone Numbers through Australia start changing to eight digits (Mona Vale, Sydney 1st to change)
August
*August - '
Wollemia nobilis', a "fossil tree" discovered by bushwalker David Noble only 150 km from the largest city in
Australia.
*
August 1 - Fire destroys
Norwich Central Library in the
United Kingdom UK, including most of its historical records
*
August 12 -
Woodstock '94 begins. It is the
25 year anniversary of woodstock in
1969.
*
August 12 -
Major League Baseball players go on
1994 baseball strike strike, canceling the
World Series.
*
August 14 - End of
Woodstock '94.
*
August 31 - the
Irish Republican Army announces a "complete cessation of military operations" from midnight.
September
*
September 3 -
Cold War:
Russia and the
People's Republic of China agree to de-target their
nuclear weapons against each other.
*
September 4 -
Kansai International Airport in
Osaka,
Japan opens. All international services are transferred from Itami to Kansai.
*
September 5 - New South Wales State MP for Cabramatta
John Newman (Australian politician) John Newman is shot outside his home (
Australia's first
political assassination since 1977)
*
September 8 - A
Boeing 737 carrying
USAir Flight 427 with 132 people on board, crashes on approach to
Pittsburgh International Airport. There are no survivors
*
September 13 - President
Bill Clinton signs the
Assault Weapons Ban, which bans the use of these weapons for a period of 10 years.
*
September 22 - Long-running American sitcom "Friends" airs on NBC, eventually becoming part of NBC's ''
"Must See TV"'' comedy blocks on Thursdays.
*
September 28 - The car ferry ''
MS Estonia'' sinks in
Baltic Sea, killing 852.
*
September 28 -
Jose Francisco Ruiz Massier, Mexican politician, assassinated on the orders of the president's brother
*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
*
October 5 -
UNESCO inaugurates World Teachers’ Day to celebrate and commemorate the signing of the Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers on
October 5,
1966.
*
October 8 -
Iraq disarmament crisis: President of the UN Security Council says that
Iraq must withdraw its troops from the Kuwait border and immediately cooperate with weapons inspectors
*
October 12 -
NASA loses
radio contact with the
Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of
Venus (planet) Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere either
October 13 or
October 14)
*
October 15 - After three years of exile in the US,
Haiti's president Aristide returns to his country.
*
October 15 -
Iraq disarmament crisis: Following threats by the U.N. Security Council and the U.S., Iraq withdraws troops from its border with Kuwait.
*
October 26 -
Jordan and
Israel sign a peace treaty.
*
October 29 -
Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the
White House (Duran was later convicted of trying to kill US President
Bill Clinton).
*
October 31 - An
American Eagle Airlines American Eagle ATR-72 crashes in
Roselawn, Indiana, after circling in icy
weather, killing 64 passengers.
*
October 31 - HRH
Prince Philip The Duke of Edinburgh attends a ceremony in
Israel where his late mother, HSH
Princess Alice of Battenberg is honoured as "Righteous among the Nations" for sheltering Jewish families from the
Nazism Nazis in
Athens, during
World War II.
November
*
November 4 -
Sydney's third runway opens ensuring protests about noise levels.
*
November 5 - A letter by former US President
Ronald Reagan is released that announces he has
Alzheimer's disease
*
November 8 -
Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia Representative
Newt Gingrich leads the
United States Republican Party in taking control of both the
United States House of Representatives House of Representatives and the
United States Senate Senate in midterm congressional elections, the first time in 40 years the Republicans secured control of both houses of
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress.
George W. Bush is elected
Governor of Texas.
*
November 13 - Voters in
Sweden decide to join the
European Union in a
Referenda in Sweden referendum.
*
November 13 - The first passengers travel through the
Channel Tunnel.
*
November 13 -
Formula One:
Michael Schumacher clinches his first
World Championship in the
Australian Grand Prix.
*
November 16 - Federal judge issues a temporary
restraining order that prohibits the State of
California from implementing
Proposition 187, that would have denied most public services to
illegal aliens.
*
November 20 - The
Angolan government and
UNITA rebels sign the
Lusaka Protocol
December
*
December 2 -
Australian government agrees to pay reparations to
indigenous Australians who were displaced during the
nuclear tests at
Maralinga in the 1950s and 1960s.
*
December 11 -
Boris Yeltsin orders troops into
Chechnya.
*
December 11 - A small bomb explodes on
Philippine Airlines Flight 434, killing a
Japanese businessman. The bombing was a field test done by
Ramzi Yousef to test explosives that would have been used in
Project Bojinka, a terrorist attack plan that would be exposed after an apartment fire.
*
December 15 - The
web browser Netscape Navigator 1.0 is released.
*
December 19 - A planned exchange rate correction of the
Mexican Peso to the
United States US Dollar, becomes a massive financial meltdown in
Mexico, unleashing the '
Tequila' effect on global financial markets. This will prompt a
US$ 50,000 billion 'bailout' by the
Bill Clinton Clinton administration.
*
December 19 - The
Whitewater scandal investigation begins.
*
December 19 -
Civil unions between homosexuals are made legal in Sweden.
*
December 26 - French anti-terrorist police storms a hijacked jet at
Marseille and kill four Islamist terrorists.
*
December 29 -
Robert Schumann (record-breaker) Robert Schumann becomes the youngest person to visit the south pole.
Births
*
Tanveer K. Atwal, American actress
*
Flora Ogilvy, British heiress
*
Jake Robel (murdered) (d.
2000)
*
January 5 -
Sarah Burgess, American actress
*
January 30 -
Dylan Cash, American actor
*
February 10 -
Makenzie Vega, American actress
*
February 14 -
Paul Butcher Jr., American actor
*
February 23 -
Dakota Fanning, American actress
*
March 13 -
Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp
*
March 30 -
Cecilia Zhang, Canadian kidnapping victim
*
April 10 -
Liliana Mumy, American actress
*
May 4 -
Alexander Gould, American voice actor
*
May 4 -
Pauline Ducruet, Monaco heir
*
May 24 -
Cayden Boyd, American actor
*
June 17 -
Jiordan Anna Tolli, Australian actress
*
June 28 -
Sophia Lorentzen, British heiress
*
July 9 -
Akiane Kramarik, American child prodigy
*
July 27 -
Mafalda of Bulgaria
*
August 9 -
Forrest Landis, American actor
*
August 25 -
Jetseta Gage, American kidnapping victim (d.
2005)
*
September 15 -
Ashleigh Middleton, American actress
*
September 19 -
Alexander Etel, British actor
*
September 22 -
Danielle Van Dam, American murder victim (d.
2002)
*
October 9 -
Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress
*
October 12 -
Rolandito Salas
*
October 14 -
Alisyn and Kelli Griffith, American actresses
*November -
Joel Homan, American actor
*
November 1 -
Jonathan and Thomas Selstad, American actors
*
November 11 -
Connor Price, Canadian actor
*
November 17 -
Raquel Castro, American actress
*
November 30 -
Dylan Cash, American actor
*
December 15 -
Toby Linz, American actor
*
December 29 -
Princess Kako of Akishino
Deaths
January
*
January 1 -
Arthur Espie Porritt, New Zealand politician and athlete (b.
1900)
*
January 5 -
Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill,
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (b.
1912)
*
January 9 -
Johnny Temple, baseball player (b.
1927)
*
January 15 -
Harry Nilsson, American musician (b.
1941)
*
January 17 -
Helen Stephens, American runner (b.
1918)
*
January 22 -
Telly Savalas, American actor (b.
1924)
*
January 23 -
Brian Redhead, British journalist and broadcaster (b.
1929)
*
January 25 -
Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (b.
1909)
*
January 27 -
Claude Akins, American actor (b.
1914)
*
January 30 -
Pierre Boulle, French author (b.
1912)
February-April
*
February 6 -
Jack Kirby, American comic book writer and illustrator (b.
1917)
*
February 7 -
Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (b.
1913)
*
February 9 -
Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1934)
*
February 11 -
Sorrell Booke, American actor (b.
1930)
*
February 11 -
William Conrad, American actor (b.
1920)
*
February 11 -
Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (b.
1946)
*
February 14 -
Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (executed) (b.
1936)
*
February 17 -
Randy Shilts, American author and activist (b.
1951)
*
February 22 -
Papa John Creech, American fiddler
*
February 24 -
Jean Sablon, French singer (b.
1906)
*
February 24 -
Dinah Shore, American actress, and singer (b.
1916)
*
February 25 -
Baruch Goldstein, American-born mass murderer (b.
1956)
*
February 25 -
Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (b.
1914)
*
February 26 -
Bill Hicks, American comedian (b.
1961)
*
March 4 -
John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (b.
1950)
*
March 22 -
Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (b.
1899)
*
March 23 -
Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (b.
1950)
*
March 25 -
Max Petitpierre, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b.
1899)
*
March 28 -
Eugene Ionesco, Romanian-born playwright (b.
1909)
*
March 29 -
Bill Travers, English actor and co-founder of the Born Free Foundation (b.
1922)
*
April 1 -
Léon Degrelle, Belgian Nazi (b.
1906)
*
April 2 -
Betty Furness, American actress, author, and consumer advocate (b.
1916)
*
April 5 -
Kurt Cobain, American musician (
Nirvana (band) Nirvana) (b.
1967)
*
April 6 -
Juvénal Habyarimana,
President of Rwanda (b.
1937)
*
April 6 -
Cyprien Ntaryamira,
President of Burundi (b.
1956)
*
April 7 -
Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (b.
1923)
*
April 7 -
Golo Mann, German historian (b.
1909)
*
April 10 -
Sam B. Hall, American politician (b.
1924)
*
April 16 -
Ralph Ellison, American writer (b.
1914)
*
April 17 -
Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1913)
*
April 22 -
Richard Nixon, 37th
President of the United States (b.
1913)
*
April 30 -
Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver (b.
1960)
May-October
*
May 1 -
Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver (b.
1960)
*
May 7-
Clement Greenberg, American art critic (b.
1909)
*
May 8 -
George Peppard, American actor (b.
1928)
*
May 10 -
John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (executed) (b.
1942)
*
May 12 -
John Smith (UK politician) John Smith, Scottish politician (b.
1938)
*
May 15 -
Gilbert Roland, Mexican-born actor (b.
1905)
*
May 19 -
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy,
First Lady of the United States (b.
1929)
*
May 21 -
Johan Hendrik Weidner, Belgian World War II resistance fighter (b.
1912)
*
May 29 -
Erich Honecker, leader of East Germany (b.
1912)
*
June 9 -
Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist,
Nobel Prize in Economics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1903)
*
June 12 -
Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe
*
June 15 -
Kristen Pfaff, American bassist (
Hole (band) Hole) (b.
1967)
*
June 29 -
Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b.
1908)
*
July 8 -
Kim Il Sung,
President of North Korea (b.
1912)
*
July 11 -
Gary Kildall, American computer inventor (b.
1942)
*
July 14 -
César Tovar, Venezuelan
Major League Baseball player (b.
1940)
*
July 29 -
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1910)
*
August 13 -
Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1905)
*
August 18 -
Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1914)
*
August 19 -
Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry and
Nobel Peace Prize Peace (b.
1901)
*
September 6 -
Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b.
1944)
*
September 11 -
Jessica Tandy, English actress (b.
1909)
*
September 12 -
Boris Yegorov, cosmonaut (b.
1937)
*
September 15 -
Moana Pozzi, Italian porn actress (b.
1961)
*
September 30 -
Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1902)
*
October 7 -
Niels Kaj Jerne, English immunologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1911)
*
October 14 -
Emil Gilels, Russian pianist (b.
1916)
*
October 19 -
Martha Raye, American actress (b.
1916)
*
October 20 -
Burt Lancaster, American actor (b.
1913)
*
October 21 -
Benoît Régent, French actor (b.
1953)
November-December
*
November 12 -
Wilma Rudolph, American athlete (b.
1940)
*
November 13 -
Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (b.
1924)
*
November 14 -
Tom Villard, American actor (b.
1953)
*
November 16 -
Doris Speed, English actress (b.
1899)
*
November 16 -
Dino Valente, American musician (b.
1943)
*
November 28 -
Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (murdered) (b.
1960)
*
December 8 -
Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer (b.
1927)
*
December 10 -
Alexander Wilson (athlete) Alexander Wilson, Canadian and Notre Dame athlete (b.
1905)
*
December 11 -
Philip Phillips (archaeologist) Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (b.
1900).
*
December 12 -
Stuart Roosa, astronaut (b.
1933)
*
December 23 -
Sebastian Shaw (actor) Sebastian Shaw, English actor (b.
1905)
*
December 24 -
John Boswell, American historian (b.
1947)
Nobel prizes
*
Nobel Prize in Physics Physics -
Bertram N. Brockhouse,
Clifford Glenwood Shull
*
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Chemistry -
George Andrew Olah
*
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Medicine -
Alfred G. Gilman,
Martin Rodbell
*
Nobel Prize in literature Literature -
Kenzaburo Oe
*
Nobel Peace Prize Peace -
Yasser Arafat,
Shimon Peres,
Yitzhak Rabin
*
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel Economics -
Reinhard Selten,
John Forbes Nash,
John Harsanyi
Fields Medalists
*
Efim Isakovich Zelmanov,
Pierre-Louis Lions,
Jean Bourgain,
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
Templeton Prize
*
Michael Novak
Right Livelihood Award
*
Astrid Lindgren,
SERVOL (Service Volunteered for All),
H. Sudarshan /
VGKK (Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra),
Ken Saro-Wiwa /
MOSOP (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People)
Fictional reference
* In the
Stargate universe (more specifically, the film ''
Stargate (film) Stargate''), the
SGC Stargate Program begins, when Dr.
Daniel Jackson discovers how to activate an alien device known as the
Stargate (device) Stargate. This would begin one of the most successful science fiction franchises in US television history.
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