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1994 is a year in the 20th century. It is a common year.
[edit] Births
- January 30 - Dylan Cash, American child actor
- February 23 - Dakota Fanning, actress
- May 4 - Alexander Gould, voice actor (Finding Nemo)
- August 9 - Forrest Landis, red-haired American actor
[edit] Deaths
- 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, Major League Baseball second baseman (b. 1927)
- January 15 - Harry Nilsson, American musician (b. 1941)
- January 17 - Helen Stephens, American sprinter
- January 22 - Telly Savalas, actor
- January 23 - Brian Redhead, journalist and broadcaster
- January 25 - Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician
- January 27 - Claude Akins, American actor
- January 30 - Pierre Boulle, author
- February 24- Dinah Shore
- February 26 - Bill Hicks, American actor
- March 4 - John Candy, Canadian actor
- April 8 - Kurt Cobain, American musician, Nirvana
- April 22 - Richard Nixon
- April 30 - Roland Ratzenberger, Formula 1 driver
- May 1 - Ayrton Senna, Formula 1 driver
- May 19 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
[edit] Events
- January 1 - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect
- January 6 - Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding.
- January 11 - Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Fein
- January 14 - 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 at 4:31 am.
- January 20 - In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet to attend The Citadel but soon drops out.
- 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 from British Aerospace
- February 1 - Green Day's first major label studio album, Dookie, debuts.
- March 8 - The industrial band Nine Inch Nails finally released their long-awaited second full-length album The Downard Spiral, which had become a hit. Soundgarden's Superuknown, which featured their best known hit "Black Hole Sun", was released on the same day.
- April 8 - Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, is found dead in Seattle, Washington. He had committed suicide three days earlier.
- April 19 - The Offspring releases their third album, Smash, which would be one of the band's top selling albums sold in the entire world. It contains their best known hit singles, "Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Seperated)" and "Self Esteem".
- August 12 - Woodstock '94 happens
- October 14 - A popular Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction was released in theaters, starring Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel and Bruce Willis.
- Brett Gurewitz leaves Bad Religion to concentrate on the fast growing Epitaph Records, leaving their singer Greg Graffin the only founding member of the band still performing with the group. He was replaced by former Minor Threat/Dag Nasty guitarist Brian Baker, who turned down a touring job for R.E.M. at this time. However, Gurewitz rejoined Bad Religion in 2001 and he is still a member of the band today.
[edit] Films released
- Forrest Gump
- Ed Wood
- The Lion King
- Pulp Fiction
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Speed
- Reality Bites
[edit] New books
- Accident - Danielle Steel
- The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
- The Chamber - John Grisham
- Creatures of the Kingdom - James A. Michener
- Dark Rivers of the Heart - Dean R. Koontz
- Daughter of Damascus - Shiham Turjuman
- Dead Right - David Frum
- The Debt of Honor - Tom Clancy
- Disclosure - Michael Crichton
- The Ghosts of Sleath - James Herbert
- The Gift - Danielle Steel
- How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman
- The Ice Storm - Rick Moody
- The Informers - Bret Easton Ellis
- In Search of CHURCHILL - Martin Gilbert
- Interesting Times - Terry Pratchett
- In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O'Brien
- Insomnia - Stephen King
- Just Like That - Lily Brett
- Life After God - Douglas Coupland
- Nothing Lasts Forever - Sidney Sheldon
- Point de côté - Judith Godrèche
- Politically Correct Bedtime Stories - James Finn Garner
- Recessional - James A. Michener
- Songs of Earth and Power - Greg Bear
- Soul Music - Terry Pratchett
- The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
- Troubling a Star - Madeleine L'Engle
- La Virevolte - Nancy Huston
- The Wind in the Wheat, by Reed Arvin
- Wings - Danielle Steel
[edit] Hit songs
- "90's Girl" - BlackGirl
- "All For Love" - Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting
- "All I Wanna Do" - Sheryl Crow
- "All That She Wants" - Ace of Base
- "Always" - Erasure
- "Another Night" - Real McCoy
- "Any Time, Any Place" - Janet Jackson
- "Backwater" - Meat Puppets
- "Big Empty" - Stone Temple Pilots
- "Black Hole Sun" - Soundgarden
- "Come Out And Play" - The Offspring
- "Closer" - Nine Inch Nails
- "Cut Your Hair" - Pavement
- "Don't Turn Around" - Ace of Base
- "Everyday" - Phil Collins
- "Found Out About You" - Gin Blossoms
- "Gin & Juice" - Snoop Doggy Dogg
- "I Alone" - Live
- "I Stay Away" - Alice in Chains
- "Longview" - Green Day
- "Loser" - Beck
- "Love is Strong" - Rolling Stones
- "Mary Jane's Last Dance" - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
- "Mr. Jones" - Counting Crows
- "Sabatoge" - Beastie Boys
- "Seether" - Veruca Salt
- "She Don't Use Jelly" - The Flaming Lips
- "The Sign" - Ace of Base
- "Until I Fall Away" - Gin Blossoms
- "Waterfalls" - TLC
- "Without You" - Mariah Carey
- "You Want This" - Janet Jackson
