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1994 Winter Olympics The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games ( no, De 17. olympiske vinterleker; nn, Dei 17. olympiske vinterleikane) and commonly known as Lillehammer '94, was an international winter multi-sport event held fr ...
are held in
Lillehammer Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the munic ...
,
Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of ...
; The
Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente (; KP), commonly known simply as Kaiser, is an American integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield. Kaiser Per ...
building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the
MS Estonia MS ''Estonia'' was a cruiseferry built in 1980 at the West German shipyard Meyer Werft in Papenburg. In 1993, she was sold to Nordström & Thulin for use on Estline's Tallinn–Stockholm route. The ship's sinking on 28 September 1994, in the Ba ...
, which sank in the
Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain. The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from ...
;
Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the ...
casts his
vote Voting is a method by which a group, such as a meeting or an electorate, can engage for the purpose of making a collective decision or expressing an opinion usually following discussions, debates or election campaigns. Democracies elect holde ...
in the 1994 South African general election, in which he was elected
South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring coun ...
's first
president President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university * President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...
, and which effectively brought
Apartheid Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...
to an end;
NAFTA The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA ; es, Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte, TLCAN; french: Accord de libre-échange nord-américain, ALÉNA) was an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States that crea ...
, which was signed in
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, comes into effect in
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, the
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, and
Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the southern portion of North America. It is borders of Mexico, bordered to the north by the United States; to the so ...
; The first passenger rail service to utilize the newly-opened
Channel tunnel The Channel Tunnel (french: Tunnel sous la Manche), also known as the Chunnel, is a railway tunnel that connects Folkestone (Kent, England, UK) with Coquelles ( Hauts-de-France, France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover ...
; The
1994 FIFA World Cup The 1994 FIFA World Cup was the 15th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national soccer teams. It was hosted by the United States and took place from June 17 to July 17, 1994, at nine venues across the country. The United States ...
is held in the
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; Skulls from the
Rwandan genocide The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu ...
, in which over half a million
Tutsi The Tutsi (), or Abatutsi (), are an ethnic group of the African Great Lakes region. They are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group and the second largest of three main ethnic groups in Rwanda and Burundi (the other two being the largest Bantu ethnic g ...
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1994 Winter Olympics The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games ( no, De 17. olympiske vinterleker; nn, Dei 17. olympiske vinterleikane) and commonly known as Lillehammer '94, was an international winter multi-sport event held fr ...
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Northridge earthquake The 1994 Northridge earthquake was a moment 6.7 (), blind thrust earthquake that occurred on January 17, 1994, at 4:30:55 a.m. PST in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles. The quake had a duration of approximatel ...
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Rwandan genocide The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu ...
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Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the ...
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Channel tunnel The Channel Tunnel (french: Tunnel sous la Manche), also known as the Chunnel, is a railway tunnel that connects Folkestone (Kent, England, UK) with Coquelles ( Hauts-de-France, France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover ...
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NAFTA The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA ; es, Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte, TLCAN; french: Accord de libre-échange nord-américain, ALÉNA) was an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States that crea ...
The year 1994 was designated as the "
International Year of the Family The year 1994 was proclaimed the International Year of the Family by the United Nations General Assembly. Its objectives are promoted by the United Nations Programme on the Family. This was one of many International observances declared for spe ...
" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the
United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmoni ...
.


Events


January

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January 1 January 1 or 1 January is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the ye ...
– The
North American Free Trade Agreement The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA ; es, Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte, TLCAN; french: Accord de libre-échange nord-américain, ALÉNA) was an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States that crea ...
(NAFTA) is established. *
January 8 Events Pre-1600 * 307 – Jin Huaidi becomes emperor of China in succession to his father, Jin Huidi, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying. * 871 – Æthelred I and Alfred the Great lead a West Saxon army to repel an inv ...
– ''
Soyuz TM-18 Soyuz TM-18 was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome and landed 112 km north of Arkalyk. TM-18 was a two-day solo flight that docked with the ''Mir'' space station on January 10, 1994. The three cosmonauts became the 15th resident crew on board ...
'': Valeri Polyakov begins his 437.7-day orbit of the
Earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. While large volumes of water can be found throughout the Solar System, only Earth sustains liquid surface water. About 71% of Earth's sur ...
, eventually setting the world record for days spent in orbit. *
January 11 Events Pre-1600 * 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence. * 630 – Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muha ...
– The Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the
Provisional Irish Republican Army The Irish Republican Army (IRA; ), also known as the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and informally as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reu ...
and its political arm
Sinn Féin Sinn Féin ( , ; en, " eOurselves") is an Irish republican and democratic socialist political party active throughout both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The original Sinn Féin organisation was founded in 1905 by Arthur Gr ...
. *
January 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence. *1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary. 1601–1900 * 1639 – The " Fundamental Orders", the first written c ...
– U.S. President
Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and again ...
and Russian President
Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...
sign the Kremlin accords, which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles toward each country's targets, and also provide for the dismantling of the
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in
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. *
January 17 Events Pre-1600 * 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. * 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people ...
– The 6.7
Northridge earthquake The 1994 Northridge earthquake was a moment 6.7 (), blind thrust earthquake that occurred on January 17, 1994, at 4:30:55 a.m. PST in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles. The quake had a duration of approximatel ...
strikes the
Greater Los Angeles Area Greater Los Angeles is the second-largest metropolitan region in the United States with a population of 18.5 million in 2021, encompassing five counties in Southern California extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino ...
with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''), leaving 57 people dead and more than 8,700 injured. *
January 19 Events Pre-1600 * 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to ''Augustus'', and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. * 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender a ...
Record cold temperatures hit the eastern United States. The coldest temperature ever measured in
Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th ...
state history, −36 °F (−38 °C), is recorded in New Whiteland, Indiana.


February

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February 3 Events Pre-1600 *1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states. * 1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire. * 1488 – ...
** In the aftermath of the Chadian–Libyan conflict, the
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rules that the Aouzou Strip belongs to the Republic of Chad. ** (136617) 1994 CC is discovered. *
February 5 Events Pre-1600 * 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. * 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion. * 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians ar ...
Byron De La Beckwith Byron De La Beckwith Jr. (November 9, 1920 – January 21, 2001) was an American murderer, white supremacist and member of the Ku Klux Klan from Greenwood, Mississippi. He murdered the civil rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963. Two tria ...
is convicted of the 1963 murder of
civil rights Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one's entitlement to participate in the civil and political life ...
leader Medgar Evers. *
February 6 Events Pre-1600 * 1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop. 1601–1900 * 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death ...
Markale massacres: a
Bosnian Serb Army The Army of Republika Srpska ( sr, Војска Републике Српске/Vojska Republike Srpske; ВРС/VRS), commonly referred to in English as the Bosnian Serb Army, was the military of Republika Srpska (1992–95), Republika Srpska ( ...
mortar shell kills 68 civilians and wounds about 200 in a Sarajevo marketplace. *
February 9 Events Pre-1600 * 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. * 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland. *1539 – The first recorded race is held ...
– The Vance–Owen peace plan for
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and ...
is announced. *
February 12 Events Pre-1600 * 1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna. * 1429 – English forces und ...
**
Edvard Munch Edvard Munch ( , ; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His best known work, '' The Scream'' (1893), has become one of Western art's most iconic images. His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the d ...
's painting '' The Scream'' is stolen in
Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...
(it is recovered on May 7). ** The
1994 Winter Olympics The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games ( no, De 17. olympiske vinterleker; nn, Dei 17. olympiske vinterleikane) and commonly known as Lillehammer '94, was an international winter multi-sport event held fr ...
begin in
Lillehammer Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the munic ...
. *
February 21 Events Pre-1600 *452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine. * 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery. *1440 – The Pru ...
– Revealing of the first photo of
Pluto Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of trans-Neptunian object, bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the S ...
and its moon
Charon In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon (; grc, Χάρων) is a psychopomp, the ferryman of Hades, the Greek underworld. He carries the souls of those who have been given funeral rites across the rivers Acheron and Styx, which separate the ...
taken from the
Hubble Space Telescope The Hubble Space Telescope (often referred to as HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first space telescope, but it is one of the largest and most vers ...
. *
February 24 Events Pre-1600 * 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica. * 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence. * ...
– In
Gloucester Gloucester ( ) is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England. Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the west, east of Monmouth and east o ...
, local
police The police are a Law enforcement organization, constituted body of Law enforcement officer, persons empowered by a State (polity), state, with the aim to law enforcement, enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citize ...
begin excavations at 25 Cromwell Street, the home of Fred West, a suspect in multiple murders. On February 28, he and his wife are arrested. *
February 25 Events Pre-1600 *138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor. * 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II. * ...
– Israeli Kahanist
Baruch Goldstein Baruch Kopel Goldstein ( he, ברוך קופל גולדשטיין; born Benjamin Carl Goldstein; December 9, 1956 – February 25, 1994) was an Israeli-American mass murderer, religious extremist, and physician who perpetrated the 1994 terroris ...
opens fire inside the Cave of the Patriarchs in the
West Bank The West Bank ( ar, الضفة الغربية, translit=aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; he, הגדה המערבית, translit=HaGadah HaMaʽaravit, also referred to by some Israelis as ) is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...
; he kills 29 Muslims before worshippers beat him to death. *
February 28 Events Pre-1600 * 202 BC – Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty. * 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes. * 1525 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is execut ...
– Four United States
F-16 The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is a single-engine multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force (USAF). Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successf ...
s
shoot down ''Shoot Down'' is a 2006 documentary regarding the events surrounding the Brothers to the Rescue organization and the eventual shootdown of two of its aircraft. Based on five reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an Ame ...
four
Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia ( Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hu ...
n J-21s over
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and ...
for violation of the Operation Deny Flight and its no-fly zone.


March

* March – The People's Republic of China gets its first connection to the
Internet The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, p ...
. *
March 1 Events Pre-1600 * 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia. * 293 – Emperor Dioclet ...
Walvis Bay is handed over to
Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...
by South Africa. * March 6 – A
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in
Moldova Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised state of Transnistri ...
results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with
Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...
. * March 8
Nine Inch Nails Nine Inch Nails, commonly abbreviated as NIN and stylized as NIИ, is an American industrial rock band formed in Cleveland in 1988. Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Trent Reznor was the only permanent member of the band ...
' second studio album, '' The Downward Spiral'', is released to critical acclaim. *
March 12 Events Pre-1600 * 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius. *1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the C ...
** A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as "proof" of the
Loch Ness Monster The Loch Ness Monster ( gd, Uilebheist Loch Nis), affectionately known as Nessie, is a creature in Scottish folklore that is said to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is often described as large, long-necked, and with one or ...
, is confirmed to be a hoax. ** The
Church of England The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Brit ...
ordains its first female priests. *
March 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland. *1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Hugu ...
** Apple Computer, Inc. releases the Power Macintosh, the first Macintosh computers to use the new
PowerPC PowerPC (with the backronym Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) created by the 1991 Apple– IBM– ...
microprocessors. ** The
Linux kernel The Linux kernel is a free and open-source, monolithic, modular, multitasking, Unix-like operating system kernel. It was originally authored in 1991 by Linus Torvalds for his i386-based PC, and it was soon adopted as the kernel for the GNU ...
version 1.0.0 is released after over two years of development. *
March 15 Events Pre-1600 * 474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce. * 44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place. * 493 &ndash ...
– U.S. troops are withdrawn from
Somalia Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constitut ...
. * March 20 – Italian journalist Ilaria Alpi and TV cameraman Miran Hrovatin are assassinated in
Somalia Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constitut ...
. * March 21 – The 66th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in
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.
Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg (; born December 18, 1946) is an American director, writer, and producer. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, he is the most commercially successful director of all time. Sp ...
's
Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...
drama '' Schindler's List'' wins seven Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director (Spielberg). * March 23 ** Green Ramp disaster: two military aircraft collide over Pope Air Force Base,
North Carolina North Carolina () is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 28th largest and List of states and territories of the United ...
causing 24 fatalities. ** Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated at a campaign rally in
Tijuana Tijuana ( ,"Tijuana"
(US) and
< ...
. * March 27 ** TV tycoon
Silvio Berlusconi Silvio Berlusconi ( ; ; born 29 September 1936) is an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies f ...
's right-wing coalition wins the Italian general election. ** The biggest
tornado outbreak __NOTOC__ A tornado outbreak is the occurrence of multiple tornadoes spawned by the same synoptic scale weather system. The number of tornadoes required to qualify as an outbreak typically are at least six to ten, with at least two rotational ...
in 1994 occurs in the
southeastern United States The Southeastern United States, also referred to as the American Southeast or simply the Southeast, is a geographical List of regions in the United States, region of the United States. It is located broadly on the eastern portion of the south ...
; one tornado kills 22 people at the Goshen United Methodist Church in Piedmont, Alabama. *
March 28 Events Pre-1600 *AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate. * 193 – After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Didiu ...
Shell House massacre:
Inkatha Freedom Party The Inkatha Freedom Party ( zu, IQembu leNkatha yeNkululeko, IFP) is a right-wing political party in South Africa. The party has been led by Velenkosini Hlabisa since the party's 2019 National General Conference. Mangosuthu Buthelezi founde ...
and ANC supporters battle in central
Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu language, Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a Megacity#List of megacities, megacity, and is List of urban areas by p ...
, South Africa. *
March 31 Events Pre-1600 * 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine the Great, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian. *1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at V ...
– The journal ''
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'' reports the finding in
Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
of the first complete ''
Australopithecus afarensis ''Australopithecus afarensis'' is an extinct species of australopithecine which lived from about 3.9–2.9 million years ago (mya) in the Pliocene of East Africa. The first fossils were discovered in the 1930s, but major fossil finds would no ...
'' skull.


April

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April 2 Events Pre-1600 *1513 – Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on what is now the U.S. state of Florida, landing somewhere between the modern city of St. Augustine and the mouth of the St. Joh ...
– The
National Convention of New Sudan The National Convention of New Sudan was an assembly organized by the Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M) in Chukudum, Eastern Equatoria April 2-13, 1994.Yongo-Bure, Benaiah. Economic Development of Southern Sudan'. Lanham, Md. .a. Uni ...
of the SPLA/M opens in Chukudum. *
April 5 Events Pre-1600 * 823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I. * 919 – The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his ...
Kurt Cobain Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American musician who served as the lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter of the rock band Nirvana. Through his angst-fueled songwriting and anti-establishment persona ...
, the lead singer of
Nirvana ( , , ; sa, निर्वाण} ''nirvāṇa'' ; Pali: ''nibbāna''; Prakrit: ''ṇivvāṇa''; literally, "blown out", as in an oil lamp Richard Gombrich, ''Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benāres to Modern Colomb ...
, commits suicide at age 27 at his home in Seattle. His body was found three days later. * April 6
Rwanda Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator ...
n President
Juvénal Habyarimana Juvénal Habyarimana (, ; 8 March 19376 April 1994) was a Rwandan politician and military officer who served as the second president of Rwanda, from 1973 until 1994. He was nicknamed ''Kinani'', a Kinyarwanda word meaning "invincible". An eth ...
and
Burundi Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; French: ''République du Burundi'' ), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Gr ...
President
Cyprien Ntaryamira Cyprien Ntaryamira (6 March 1955 – 6 April 1994) was a Burundian politician who served as President of Burundi from 5 February 1994 until his death two months later. A Hutu born in Burundi, Ntaryamira studied there before fleeing to Rwanda ...
die when a missile shoots down their jet near
Kigali Kigali () is the capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is near the nation's geographic centre in a region of rolling hills, with a series of valleys and ridges joined by steep slopes. As a primate city, Kigali has been Rwanda's economic, cult ...
,
Rwanda Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator ...
. This is taken as a pretext to begin the
Rwandan genocide The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu ...
. * April 7 – The
Rwandan genocide The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu ...
begins in
Kigali Kigali () is the capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is near the nation's geographic centre in a region of rolling hills, with a series of valleys and ridges joined by steep slopes. As a primate city, Kigali has been Rwanda's economic, cult ...
,
Rwanda Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator ...
. * April 16 – Voters in Finland decide to join the
European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are located primarily in Europe, Europe. The union has a total area of ...
in a referendum. * April 20 – South Africa adopts a new national flag, replacing the " Oranje, Blanje, Blou" flag adopted in 1928 that was used during
apartheid Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...
. *
April 21 Events Pre-1600 * 753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date). * 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered ...
– The
Red Cross The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a Humanitarianism, humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million Volunteering, volunteers, members and staff worldwide. It was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure re ...
estimates that hundreds of thousands of
Tutsi The Tutsi (), or Abatutsi (), are an ethnic group of the African Great Lakes region. They are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group and the second largest of three main ethnic groups in Rwanda and Burundi (the other two being the largest Bantu ethnic g ...
have been killed in
Rwanda Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator ...
. * April 25Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu ends his term as the 9th
Yang di-Pertuan Agong The Yang di-Pertuan Agong (, Jawi: ), also known as the Supreme Head of the Federation, the Paramount Ruler or simply as the Agong, and unofficially as the King of Malaysia, is the constitutional monarch and head of state of Malaysia. The o ...
of
Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federal constitutional monarchy consists of thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two regions: Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo's East Mal ...
. * April 26 ** Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman,
Yang di-Pertuan Besar In Malay, Yang di-Pertuan Besar, literally ''"He Who Is Made Chief Ruler"'', is a title given to the head of state in segments of the Malay Archipelago. In Malaysia # Also known as Yamtuan Besar, it is the title of the elected monarch of the ...
of Negeri Sembilan, becomes the 10th
Yang di-Pertuan Agong The Yang di-Pertuan Agong (, Jawi: ), also known as the Supreme Head of the Federation, the Paramount Ruler or simply as the Agong, and unofficially as the King of Malaysia, is the constitutional monarch and head of state of Malaysia. The o ...
of
Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federal constitutional monarchy consists of thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two regions: Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo's East Mal ...
. ** China Airlines Flight 140, an Airbus A300, crashes while landing at
Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most po ...
, Japan, killing 264 people. *
April 27 Events Pre-1600 * 247 – Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ''ludi saeculares''. * 395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of ...
– South Africa holds its first fully multiracial elections, marking the final end of the last vestiges of
apartheid Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...
.
Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the ...
wins the elections and is sworn in as the first democratically elected president the following month.


May

* May 1 – Three-time
Formula One Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The World Drivers' Championship, ...
world champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola, Italy. * May 5 – The
Bishkek Protocol The Bishkek Protocol is a provisional ceasefire agreement, signed by the representatives of Armenia (Parliament Speaker Babken Ararktsian), the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Parliament Speaker Karen Baburyan), Azerbaijan (First Deputy ...
between
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and
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is signed in
Bishkek Bishkek ( ky, Бишкек), ), formerly Pishpek and Frunze, is the capital and largest city of Kyrgyzstan. Bishkek is also the administrative centre of the Chüy Region. The region surrounds the city, although the city itself is not part of ...
,
Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan,, pronounced or the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south, and the People's Republic of China to the ea ...
, effectively freezing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. * May 6 – The
Channel Tunnel The Channel Tunnel (french: Tunnel sous la Manche), also known as the Chunnel, is a railway tunnel that connects Folkestone (Kent, England, UK) with Coquelles ( Hauts-de-France, France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover ...
, which took 15,000 workers more than seven years to complete, opens between England and France, enabling passengers to travel between the two countries in 35 minutes. *
May 10 Events Pre-1600 * 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China. * 1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of ...
**
Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the ...
is inaugurated as South Africa's first black
president President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university * President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...
. ** The Pinkenba Six, including future political candidate Mark Ellis, kidnap 3 Indigenous children in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. ** Serial Killer
John Wayne Gacy John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured, and murdered at least 33 young men and boys. Gacy regularly performed at children's hospitals and charitable events as ...
is executed by
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in the Stateville Correctional Center. ** Serial Killer
Jeffery Dahmer Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (; May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994), also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismemberment, dismembered seventeen men and boys ...
is baptised in prison. ** A solar eclipse occurs in The United States * May 17
Malawi Malawi (; or aláwi Tumbuka: ''Malaŵi''), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northe ...
holds its first multiparty elections. * May 18 – The Flavr Savr, a
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, is deemed safe for consumption by the FDA, becoming the first commercially grown genetically engineered food to be granted a license for human consumption. *
May 20 Events Pre-1600 * 325 – The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church. * 491 – Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed '' Augusta'' is able to choose her ...
– After a funeral in Cluny Parish Church,
Edinburgh Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian ...
attended by 900 people and after which 3,000 people lined the streets, John Smith is buried in a private family funeral on the island of
Iona Iona (; gd, Ì Chaluim Chille (IPA: iːˈxaɫ̪ɯimˈçiʎə, sometimes simply ''Ì''; sco, Iona) is a small island in the Inner Hebrides, off the Ross of Mull on the western coast of Scotland. It is mainly known for Iona Abbey, though ther ...
, at the sacred burial ground of Reilig Odhráin, which contains the graves of several Scottish kings as well as monarchs of Ireland, Norway and France. *
May 22 Events Pre-1600 * 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu. * 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. * 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt. *11 ...
Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
issues the Apostolic Letter '' Ordinatio sacerdotalis'' from the Vatican, expounding the
Catholic Church The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwide . It is am ...
's position requiring "the reservation of priestly ordination to men alone". *
May 26 Events Pre-1600 * 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe. * 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empir ...
-
Michael Jackson Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the " King of Pop", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. Over ...
marries Lisa Marie Presley in the
Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with ...
.


June

*
June 1 Events Pre-1600 * 1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu. *1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed ki ...
– The
Republic of South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countr ...
rejoins the
Commonwealth of Nations The Commonwealth of Nations, simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is a political association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire. The chief institutions of the organisation are the C ...
after the first democratic election; South Africa had departed the then-British Commonwealth in
1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (K ...
. *
June 6 Events Pre-1600 * 913 – Constantine VII, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointed ...
June 8 Events Pre-1600 * 218 – Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus. * 452 – Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces ...
Ceasefire A ceasefire (also known as a truce or armistice), also spelled cease fire (the antonym of 'open fire'), is a temporary stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions. Ceasefires may be between state ac ...
negotiations for the Yugoslav War begin in
Geneva Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situa ...
; they agree to a one-month cessation of hostilities (which does not last more than a few days). *
June 12 Events Pre-1600 * 910 – Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors. *1240 – At the instigation of Louis IX of Fr ...
Nicole Brown Simpson Nicole Brown Simpson (née Brown; May 19, 1959 – June 12, 1994) was the ex-wife of the former professional American football player, O. J. Simpson, to whom she was married from 1985 to 1992. She was the mother of their two children, Sydney an ...
and Ronald Lyle Goldman are murdered outside the Simpson home in
Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world ...
. O. J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit. * June 15 **
Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations. ** ''
The Lion King ''The Lion King'' is a 1994 American animated musical drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 32nd Disney animated feature film and the fifth produced during the Disney Renaissance ...
'', the highest-grossing hand-drawn animated film of all time, is released by Walt Disney Feature Animation. *
June 17 Events Pre-1600 * 653 – Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to Constantinople, due to his opposition to monothelitism. *1242 – Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were bur ...
** NFL star O. J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from police in a white Ford Bronco. The low-speed chase ends at Simpson's Brentwood, Los Angeles mansion, where he surrenders. ** The
1994 FIFA World Cup The 1994 FIFA World Cup was the 15th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national soccer teams. It was hosted by the United States and took place from June 17 to July 17, 1994, at nine venues across the country. The United States ...
starts in the
United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country Continental United States, primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., ...
. *
June 23 Events Pre-1600 * 229 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu. *1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Republic of Venice, Venetians defeat a larger Republic of Genoa, Genoese fleet, capturing all its s ...
NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeedin ...
's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the
International Space Station The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest Modular design, modular space station currently in low Earth orbit. It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos ( ...
, officially opens at
Kennedy Space Center The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC, originally known as the NASA Launch Operations Center), located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) ten field centers. Since December 196 ...
. * June 25
Cold War The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because t ...
: the last Russian troops leave Germany. * June 26
Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washi ...
announces it will no longer sell or support the
MS-DOS MS-DOS ( ; acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft. Collectively, MS-DOS, its rebranding as IBM PC DOS, and a few o ...
operating system An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common daemon (computing), services for computer programs. Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ef ...
separately from
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. *
June 28 Events Pre-1600 * 1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch. * 1360 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II. * 1461 – ...
– Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult execute the first sarin gas attack at
Matsumoto Matsumoto (松本 or 松元, "base of the pine tree") may refer to: Places * Matsumoto, Nagano (松本市), a city ** Matsumoto Airport, an airport southwest of Matsumoto, Nagano * Matsumoto, Kagoshima (松元町), a former town now part of the c ...
, Japan, killing eight and injuring 200. *
June 30 Events Pre-1600 * 296 – Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy. * 763 – The Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus. * 1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan ...
– An Airbus A330 crashes during a test flight near
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, France, where
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is based, killing the seven-person crew. The test was meant to simulate an engine failure at low speed with maximum angle of climb. *
June 30 Events Pre-1600 * 296 – Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy. * 763 – The Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus. * 1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan ...
** The Liberal Democratic Party in
Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the n ...
regained power after spent 11 months of opposition, with the coalition with Japanese Socialist Party. ** Tropical Storm Alberto forms, hitting parts of
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causing $1.03 billion in damage and 32 deaths.


July

* July 2Colombian
footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugb ...
Andrés Escobar Andrés Escobar Saldarriaga (; 13 March 1967 – 2 July 1994) was a Colombian footballer who played as a defender. He played for Atlético Nacional, BSC Young Boys, and the Colombia national team. Nicknamed ''The Gentleman'', he was known ...
, 27, is shot dead in
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. His murder is commonly attributed as retaliation for the own goal Escobar scored in the
1994 FIFA World Cup The 1994 FIFA World Cup was the 15th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national soccer teams. It was hosted by the United States and took place from June 17 to July 17, 1994, at nine venues across the country. The United States ...
against the United States soccer team. *
July 4 Events Pre-1600 *362 BC – Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans. * 414 – Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria, who reigned as regent and proclaimed ...
Rwandan Patriotic Front The Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF–Inkotanyi, french: Front patriotique rwandais, FPR) is the ruling political party in Rwanda. Led by President Paul Kagame, the party has governed the country since its armed wing defeated government forces, winn ...
troops capture
Kigali Kigali () is the capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is near the nation's geographic centre in a region of rolling hills, with a series of valleys and ridges joined by steep slopes. As a primate city, Kigali has been Rwanda's economic, cult ...
, a major breakthrough in the
Rwandan Civil War The Rwandan Civil War was a large-scale civil war in Rwanda which was fought between the Rwandan Armed Forces, representing the country's government, and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) from 1October 1990 to 18 July 1994. The war aro ...
. * July 5
Jeff Bezos Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( ;; and Robinson (2010), p. 7. ''né'' Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, and commercial astronaut. He is the founder, executive chairman, and former presi ...
founds
Amazon Amazon most often refers to: * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon (company), an American multinational technolog ...
. * July 71994 civil war in Yemen:
Aden Aden ( ar, عدن ' Yemeni: ) is a city, and since 2015, the temporary capital of Yemen, near the eastern approach to the Red Sea (the Gulf of Aden), some east of the strait Bab-el-Mandeb. Its population is approximately 800,000 peopl ...
is occupied by troops from North
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. * July 8
North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and T ...
n President Kim Il-sung dies, but officially continues to hold office. *
July 12 Events Pre-1600 * 70 – The armies of Titus attack the walls of Jerusalem after a six-month siege. Three days later they breach the walls, which enables the army to destroy the Second Temple. * 927 – King Constantine I ...
– The
Allied occupation of Berlin The history of Berlin starts with its foundation in the 14th century. It became the capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1417, and later of Brandenburg-Prussia, and the Kingdom of Prussia. Prussia grew about rapidly in the 18th and 19th ...
ends with a casing of the colors ceremony attended by U.S. President
Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and again ...
. * July 1622 – Fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 impact the planet
Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousand ...
. * July 17 – Brazil wins the
1994 FIFA World Cup The 1994 FIFA World Cup was the 15th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national soccer teams. It was hosted by the United States and took place from June 17 to July 17, 1994, at nine venues across the country. The United States ...
, defeating Italy 3–2 in a penalty shootout in the
final Final, Finals or The Final may refer to: *Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which decides a winner for an event ** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of con ...
(full-time 0–0). *
July 18 Events Pre-1600 *477 BC – Battle of the Cremera as part of the Roman–Etruscan Wars. Veii ambushes and defeats the Roman army. *387 BC – Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia: A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, lead ...
**
AMIA bombing The AMIA bombing occurred on 18 July 1994 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and targeted the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA; ), a Jewish Community Centre. Executed as a suicidal attack, a bomb-laden van was driven into the AMIA buildi ...
: In
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, a terrorist attack destroys a building housing several Jewish organizations, killing 85 and injuring many more. **
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troops capture Gisenyi, forcing the interim government into
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and ending the
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. *
July 25 Events Pre-1600 * 306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. * 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge ...
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and
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sign the Washington Declaration as a preliminary to signature on October 25 of the Israel–Jordan peace treaty, which formally ends the state of war that has existed between the nations since 1948.


August

*
August 5 Events Pre-1600 *AD 25 – Guangwu claims the throne as Emperor of China, restoring the Han dynasty after the collapse of the short-lived Xin dynasty. * 70 – Fires resulting from the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem are ...
– Groups of protesters spread from
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,
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's Castillo de la Punta ("Point Castle"), creating the first protests against
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's government since 1959. *
August 11 Events Pre-1600 * 3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins. * 2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and foun ...
– The formation of Hurricane John which would go one to become the longest-lasting tropical cyclone recorded worldwide. It would dissipate on September 13th, lasting a little over 31 days. * August 12 ** Woodstock '94 begins in
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. It is the 25-year anniversary of
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in 1969. ** All
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players go on strike, beginning the longest work stoppage in the sport's history. *
August 16 Events Pre-1600 * 1 BC – Wang Mang consolidates his power in China and is declared marshal of state. Emperor Ai of Han, who died the previous day, had no heirs. * 942 – Start of the four-day Battle of al-Mada'in, between the Hamda ...
– The release of the
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, being the first ever commercially available smartphone. * August 18 - 1994 Mascara earthquake. A 5.8 earthquake lefts 171 dead in
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. * August 31 ** The
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announces a "complete cessation of
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s". ** The Russian Army leaves
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and
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, ending the last traces of Eastern Europe's Soviet Union, Soviet occupation.


September

* September 3 –
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: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other. * September 5 – New South Wales State MP for Cabramatta John Newman (Australian politician), John Newman is shot outside his home, in Australia's first political assassination since 1977. * September 8 – USAir Flight 427, a Boeing 737 with 132 people on board, crashes on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport killing all on board. * September 13 – President
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signs the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, which bans the manufacture of new firearms with certain features for a period of 10 years. * September 14 – 1994 World Series, The 1994 World Series is officially cancelled due to the ongoing 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike, work stoppage. It is the first time a World Series will not be played since 1904 World Series, 1904. * September 16 ** Murder of Louise Jensen, Danish tour guide Louise Jensen is abducted, raped and murdered by three British soldiers in Cyprus. ** Britain lifts the 1988–1994 British broadcasting voice restrictions, broadcasting ban imposed on
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and paramilitary groups from Northern Ireland. * September 17 – Heather Whitestone is crowned the first deaf Miss America; she is crowned Miss America 1995. * September 19 **U.S. troops stage a bloodless invasion of Haiti to restore the legitimately elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to power. **Andrew Wiles proves Fermat's Last Theorem, solving the 357-year-old mathematical theorem first proposed by Pierre de Fermat in 1637. He would publish it in 1995. * September 28 ** The Roll-on/roll-off, car ferry MS Estonia, MS ''Estonia'' sinks in the
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, killing 852 people. ** José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician, is assassinated on orders of Raúl Salinas de Gortari. * September – Mullah Omar, Mohammed Omar would found the Taliban movement in his home town of Kandahar, Afghanistan. *September–October – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to stop cooperating with United Nations Special Commission, 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 1 ** In Slovakia, populist leader Vladimír Mečiar wins the 1994 Slovak parliamentary election, general election. ** Palau gains independence from the United Nations Trusteeship Council. **The World Wide Web Consortium is founded by Tim Berners-Lee, becoming the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. * October 4 – In Switzerland, 23 members of the Order of the Solar Temple cult are found dead, a day after 25 of their fellow cultists are similarly discovered in Morin-Heights, Quebec. * October 7 - Ingvar Carlsson returns as Prime Minister of Sweden . * October 8 – Iraq disarmament crisis: The President of the United Nations Security Council says that Iraq must withdraw its troops from the Kuwait border, and immediately cooperate with weapons inspectors. * October 12 –
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loses radio contact with the Magellan (spacecraft), ''Magellan'' spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere either October 13 or October 14). * October 15 ** After three years of U.S. exile, Haiti's president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Aristide returns to his country. ** Iraq disarmament crisis: following threats by the U.N. Security Council and the U.S., Iraq withdraws troops from its border with Kuwait.


November

* November 5 ** A letter by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, announcing that he has Alzheimer's disease, is released. ** George Foreman wins the World Boxing Association, WBA and International Boxing Federation, IBF World Heavyweight Championships by KO'ing Michael Moorer becoming the oldest List of heavyweight boxing champions, heavyweight champion in history. ** Influential Afrikaner theologian and critic of
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Johan Heyns is assassinated; the killers are never apprehended or identified. * November 6 ** A flood in Piedmont, Italy, kills dozens of people. ** Bražuolė bridge bombing in Lithuania damages a railway bridge but trains are stopped in time to avoid casualties. * November 7 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first webcast, internet radio broadcast. * 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 secure control of both houses of Congress of the United States, Congress. George W. Bush is elected Governor of Texas. ** Hurricane Gordon (1994), Hurricane Gordon hits Central America, Jamaica,
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, the Bahamas, Haiti and the Southeastern United States, causing $594 million in damages and 1,152 fatalities. * November 11 – Duy Tan University, Vietnam's University, was established. * November 13 ** Voters in Sweden decide to join the
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in a 1994 Swedish European Union membership referendum, referendum. ** The first passengers travel through the
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. **Dale Earnhardt wins his 7th and final NASCAR championship. * November 16 – A United States federal judge, federal judge issues a temporary restraining order, prohibiting the State of California from implementing Proposition 187, that would have denied most public services to Alien (law), illegal aliens. * November 20 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol. * November 28 – Voters in Norway decide not to join the
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in a 1994 Norwegian European Union membership referendum, referendum. * November 30 – The Italian cruise ship ''MS Achille Lauro, Achille Lauro'' catches fire in the Indian Ocean off the coast of
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with nearly a thousand passengers and crew aboard. After unsuccessful attempts by the crew to extinguish the fire, the vessel is evacuated and sinks two days later. During the evacuation, two die and eight are wounded.


December

* December 1 – Ernesto Zedillo takes office as President of Mexico. * December 2 – The Australian government agrees to pay reparations to indigenous Australians who were displaced during the nuclear tests at Maralinga in the 1950s and 1960s. * December 3 **Sony releases the PlayStation (console), PlayStation video game system in Japan; it will sell over 100 million units worldwide by the time it is discontinued in 2006. **Taiwan holds its first full local elections: James Soong is elected as the first and only directly-elected Governor of Taiwan Province, Governor of Taiwan; Chen Shui-bian becomes the first direct elected Mayor of Taipei; Wu Den-yih becomes the first directly-elected Mayor of Kaohsiung. * December 11 – Russian president
Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...
orders troops into Chechnya. * December 13 ** The trial of former President Mengistu Haile Mariam, Mengistu begins in
Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
. ** Fred West, 53, a builder living in
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, UK, is remanded in custody, charged with murdering 12 people (including two of his own daughters) whose bodies are mostly found buried at his house in Cromwell Street. His wife Rosemary West, 41, is charged with 10 murders. * December 14 – Construction commences on the Three Gorges Dam, at Sandouping, China. *December 15 – The initial release of Netscape Navigator, a web browser that will control the majority of the Usage share of web browsers, usage share for web browsers for the rest of the 1990s. * December 19 ** A planned exchange rate correction of the Mexican peso to the US dollar, becomes a massive financial meltdown in Mexico, unleashing the 'Tequila' effect on global financial markets. This prompts a US$50 billion "bailout" by the Clinton administration. ** Civil union in Sweden, Civil unions between same-sex couples are legalized in Sweden. * December 31 – This date is skipped by the Phoenix Islands to switch from the UTC−11 time zone to UTC+13, and by the Line Islands to switch from UTC−10 to UTC+14. The latter becomes the earliest time zone in the world, one full day ahead of Hawaii.


Date unknown

* Fundación Arco Iris – a Catholic Non-governmental organization, NGO is founded in Bolivia. * Pyroclastic flows – clouds of scalding gas, pumice, and ash – rapidly descend an erupting Mount Merapi volcano in central Java, causing sixty deaths. * Online service America Online offers gateway to World Wide Web for the first time. This marked the beginning of easy accessibility of the Web to the average person in the U.S. * The population of Nigeria exceeds 100 million, making it the first African state to have a population above 100 million.


Births


January—February

* January 3 – Isaquias Queiroz, Brazilian sprint canoeist * January 4 – Viktor Axelsen, Danish badminton player * January 5 – Zemgus Girgensons, Latvian ice hockey player * January 6 – Catriona Gray, Filipino-Australian model, singer and pageant titleholder won Miss Universe 2018 * January 10 – Faith Kipyegon, Kenyan middle-distance runner * January 12 – Emre Can, German footballer *
January 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence. *1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary. 1601–1900 * 1639 – The " Fundamental Orders", the first written c ...
** Muktar Edris, Ethiopian long-distance runner ** Kai (entertainer, born 1994), Kai, South Korean singer *
January 17 Events Pre-1600 * 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. * 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people ...
– Lucy Boynton, American-British actress * January 18 ** Minzy, South Korean singer, rapper and dancer ** Kang Ji-young, Jiyoung, South Korean singer and actress *
January 19 Events Pre-1600 * 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to ''Augustus'', and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. * 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender a ...
– Matthias Ginter, German footballer * January 20 – Hampus Lindholm, Swedish ice hockey player * January 21 – Booboo Stewart, American actor * January 28 – Maluma, Colombian singer * January 29 – Sudan Archives, American singer and violinist * February 1 ** Julia Garner, American actress ** Harry Styles, English singer *
February 6 Events Pre-1600 * 1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop. 1601–1900 * 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death ...
– Charlie Heaton, English actor * February 8 – Hakan Çalhanoğlu, Turkish footballer * February 10 - Seulgi (singer), Seulgi, South Korean singer *
February 12 Events Pre-1600 * 1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna. * 1429 – English forces und ...
– Arman Hall, American sprinter * February 13 – Memphis Depay, Dutch footballer * February 14 – Becky Hill, British singer * February 16 ** Federico Bernardeschi, Italian footballer ** Ava Max, American singer * February 18 – J-Hope, South Korean rapper and songwriter *
February 21 Events Pre-1600 *452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine. * 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery. *1440 – The Pru ...
– Wendy (singer), Wendy, South Korean singer * February 23 – Dakota Fanning, American actress and fashion model *
February 25 Events Pre-1600 *138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor. * 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II. * ...
– Eugenie Bouchard, Canadian tennis player * February 26 - Jacob Trouba, American Ice Hockey Player * February 27 – Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player *
February 28 Events Pre-1600 * 202 BC – Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty. * 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes. * 1525 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is execut ...
– Arkadiusz Milik, Polish footballer


March–April

*
March 1 Events Pre-1600 * 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia. * 293 – Emperor Dioclet ...
** Justin Bieber, Canadian singer ** Tyreek Hill, American football player * March 2 – Nikkie de Jager, Dutch makeup artist and beauty vlogger * March 5 – Daria Gavrilova, Russian-Australian tennis player * March 7 ** Chase Kalisz, American swimmer ** Jordan Pickford, English footballer * March 10 – Bad Bunny, Puerto Rican singer * March 11 − Andrew Robertson, Scottish footballer *
March 12 Events Pre-1600 * 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius. *1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the C ...
** Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist ** Christina Grimmie, American singer (d. 2016) *
March 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland. *1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Hugu ...
– Ansel Elgort, American actor, singer, and DJ * March 16 – Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player * March 26 – Mayu Watanabe, Japanese singer * March 29 – Sulli, South Korean singer, songwriter, actress and model (d. 2019) * March 30 – Jetro Willems, Dutch footballer * April 6 – Jasmine Curtis-Smith, Filipina-Australian actress * April 11 ** Duncan Laurence, Dutch singer ** Dakota Blue Richards, English actress * April 12 ** Eric Bailly, Ivorian footballer ** Oh Se-hun, South Korean singer ** Saoirse Ronan, United States-born Irish actress * April 14 – Skyler Samuels, American actress * April 15 – Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Bahamian track and field sprinter * April 18 – Moisés Arias, actor * April 24 – Jordan Fisher, American actor * April 25 – Omar McLeod, Jamaican hurdler


May – June

* May 6 – Mateo Kovačić, Croatian footballer * May 8 – Zach Tinker, American actor * May 14 – Marquinhos, Brazilian footballer * May 17 – Julie Anne San Jose, Filipina singer-songwriter *
May 20 Events Pre-1600 * 325 – The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church. * 491 – Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed '' Augusta'' is able to choose her ...
– Piotr Zieliński, Polish footballer * May 21 – Tom Daley, British diver * May 24 ** Dimash Kudaibergen, Kazakh singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist ** Emma McKeon, Australian swimmer ** Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer * May 25 – Aly Raisman, American gymnast and model * May 27 – João Cancelo, Portuguese footballer * May 28 ** Son Yeon-jae, South Korean rhythmic gymnast ** John Stones, English footballer *
June 8 Events Pre-1600 * 218 – Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus. * 452 – Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces ...
– Song Yoo-jung, South Korean actress and model (d. 2021) * June 9 – Lee Hye-ri, South Korean singer and actress * June 11 ** Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress ** Jessica Fox (canoeist), Jessica Fox, Australian canoeist * June 14 – Moon Tae-il, Moon Taeil, South Korean singer * June 15 – Vincent Janssen, Dutch footballer *
June 23 Events Pre-1600 * 229 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu. *1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Republic of Venice, Venetians defeat a larger Republic of Genoa, Genoese fleet, capturing all its s ...
– HoYeon Jung, South Korean actress *
June 28 Events Pre-1600 * 1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch. * 1360 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II. * 1461 – ...
– Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan, heir apparent of Jordan * June 29 ** Camila Mendes, American actress ** Leandro Paredes, Argentinian footballer *
June 30 Events Pre-1600 * 296 – Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy. * 763 – The Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus. * 1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan ...
– Joshua Rojas, American baseball player


July–August

* July 2 – Baba Rahman, Ghanaian footballer *
July 4 Events Pre-1600 *362 BC – Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans. * 414 – Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria, who reigned as regent and proclaimed ...
– Era Istrefi, Kosovar Albanian singer and songwriter * July 7 - Ashton Irwin, Australian musician * July 9 – Akiane Kramarik, American poet *
July 12 Events Pre-1600 * 70 – The armies of Titus attack the walls of Jerusalem after a six-month siege. Three days later they breach the walls, which enables the army to destroy the Second Temple. * 927 – King Constantine I ...
– Molly Seidel, American marathon runner * July 17 ** Victor Lindelöf, Swedish footballer ** Benjamin Mendy, French footballer *
July 18 Events Pre-1600 *477 BC – Battle of the Cremera as part of the Roman–Etruscan Wars. Veii ambushes and defeats the Roman army. *387 BC – Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia: A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, lead ...
– Taylor Russell, Canadian actress * July 24 – Boyan Slat, Dutch CEO of The Ocean Cleanup * July 27 – Winnie Harlow, Canadian model * August 7 ** Damon Severson, American Ice Hockey Player * August 8 ** Lauv, American singer-songwriter ** Mirabai Chanu, Indian weightlifter * August 10 – Bernardo Silva, Portuguese footballer *
August 11 Events Pre-1600 * 3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins. * 2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and foun ...
– Song I-han, South Korean singer * August 13 – Filip Forsberg, Swedish ice hockey player * August 15 ** Kosuke Hagino, Japanese swimmer ** Theodor Blueger, American Ice Hockey Player * August 17 – Taissa Farmiga, American actress * August 18 – Madelaine Petsch, American actress * August 19 – Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian athlete * August 21 - Jacqueline Emerson, American actress * August 28 – Ons Jabeur, Tunisian tennis player * August 30 – Kwon So-hyun, South Korean actress and singer


September–October

* September 1 – Bianca Ryan, American singer-songwriter * September 5 – Gregorio Paltrinieri, Italian swimmer * September 8 – Bruno Fernandes, Portuguese footballer * September 10 – Mehdi Torabi, Iranian footballer * September 12 ** Mhairi Black, Scottish politician ** RM (rapper), RM, South Korean rapper and songwriter ** Elina Svitolina, Ukrainian tennis player * September 15 – Wout van Aert, Belgian road cyclist * September 23 – Yerry Mina, Colombian footballer * September 26 – Marcell Jacobs, Italian sprinter * September 29 – Halsey (singer), Halsey, American singer * September 30 ** Raphaël Coleman, English actor (d. 2020) ** Aliya Mustafina, Russian artistic gymnast * October 1 – Trézéguet (Egyptian footballer), Trézéguet, Egyptian footballer * October 8 – Luca Hänni, Swiss singer-songwriter * October 9 – Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress * October 10 ** Jung Il-hoon, Ilhoon, South Korean rapper, songwriter, and actor ** Bae Suzy, Suzy, South Korean singer and actress * October 12 ** Sean Monahan, Canadian ice hockey player ** Olivia Smoliga, American swimmer * October 24 – Krystal Jung, American-South Korean singer * October 25 – Manzoor Pashteen, Pakistani human rights activist


November–December

* November 10 ** Takuma Asano, Japanese footballer ** Zoey Deutch, American actress ** Andre De Grasse, Canadian sprinter * November 22 – Dacre Montgomery, Australian actor * November 24 – Nabil Bentaleb, Algerian footballer * November 29 – Julius Randle, American basketball player * December 3 ** Jake T. Austin, American actor ** Lil Baby, American rapper * December 6 – Giannis Antetokounmpo, Greek basketball player * December 7 – Yuzuru Hanyu, Japanese figure skater * December 8 ** Conseslus Kipruto, Kenyan middle-distance runner ** Raheem Sterling, Jamaican-born English footballer * December 17 – Nat Wolff, American actor * December 19 – M'Baye Niang, French-Senegalese footballer * December 21 – Daniel Amartey, Ghanaian footballer * December 26 – Javianne Oliver, American female track and field sprinter * December 28 – Adam Peaty, English swimmer * December 30 - Trey Edmunds, American football player * December 31 – Max Bowden, English actor


Deaths


January

*
January 1 January 1 or 1 January is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the ye ...
** Arthur Espie Porritt, New Zealand politician and athlete (b. 1900) ** Cesar Romero, Cuban-American actor (b. 1907) * January 3 – Frank Belknap Long, American writer (b. 1901) * January 4 – R. D. Burman, Indian music composer (b. 1939) * January 5 – Tip O'Neill, American politician (b. 1912) * January 7 – Phoumi Vongvichit, President of Laos (b. 1909) *
January 8 Events Pre-1600 * 307 – Jin Huaidi becomes emperor of China in succession to his father, Jin Huidi, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying. * 871 – Æthelred I and Alfred the Great lead a West Saxon army to repel an inv ...
– Pat Buttram, American actor (b. 1915) * January 13 – Johan Jørgen Holst, Norwegian politician and diplomat (b. 1937) *
January 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence. *1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary. 1601–1900 * 1639 – The " Fundamental Orders", the first written c ...
** Esther Ralston, American actress (b. 1902) ** Federica Montseny, Spanish politician (b. 1905) * January 15 – Harry Nilsson, American musician (b. 1941) ** György Cziffra, Hungarian pianist and composer (b. 1921) *
January 17 Events Pre-1600 * 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. * 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people ...
** Helen Stephens, American runner (b. 1918) ** Chung Il-kwon, South Korean politician (b. 1917) * January 20 ** Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1909) ** Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenyan politician (b. 1911) * January 22 ** Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (b. 1910) ** Frances Gifford, American actress (b. 1920) ** Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1922) * January 23 – Nikolai Ogarkov, Soviet marshal (b. 1917) * January 25 – Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (b. 1909) * January 27 – Claude Akins, American actor (b. 1926) * January 28 – Hal Smith (actor), Hal Smith, American actor (b. 1916) * January 29 ** Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier (b. 1967) ** Nick Cravat, American actor and acrobat (b. 1912) * January 30 ** Pierre Boulle, French author (b. 1912) ** Bahjat Talhouni, Jordanian politician (b. 1913)


February

* February 1 – Olan Soule, American actor (b. 1909) * February 2 – Marija Gimbutas, Lithuanian-American archeologist (b. 1921) *
February 6 Events Pre-1600 * 1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop. 1601–1900 * 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death ...
** Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905) ** Jack Kirby, American comic book writer and illustrator (b. 1917) ** Luis Alberto Sánchez, Peruvian politician, former Vice President and Prime Minister (b. 1900) * February 7 – Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (b. 1913) *
February 9 Events Pre-1600 * 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. * 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland. *1539 – The first recorded race is held ...
– Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist (b. 1934) * February 11 ** Sorrell Booke, American actor (b. 1930) ** William Conrad, American actor (b. 1920) ** Paul Feyerabend, Austrian philosopher (b. 1924) ** Antonio Martín, Spanish cyclist (b. 1970) *
February 12 Events Pre-1600 * 1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna. * 1429 – English forces und ...
– Donald Judd, American artist (b. 1928) * February 14 ** Christopher Lasch, American historian, moralist, and social critic (b. 1932) ** Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (b. 1936) * February 19 – Derek Jarman, English film director (b. 1942) *
February 24 Events Pre-1600 * 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica. * 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence. * ...
– Dinah Shore, American actress and singer (b. 1917) *
February 25 Events Pre-1600 *138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor. * 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II. * ...
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, American-Israeli physician, religious extremist, and mass murderer (b. 1956) ** Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (b. 1914) * February 26 – Bill Hicks, American comedian (b.
1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (K ...
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March

* March 2 – Anita Morris, American actress and singer (b. 1943) * March 4 – John Candy, Canadian actor and comedian (b. 1950) * March 5 – Abdullah al-Sallal, 1st President of the Yemen Arab Republic (b. 1917) * March 6 – Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and politician (b. 1920) * March 9 ** Charles Bukowski, American writer (b. 1920) ** Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (b. 1917) * March 10 – D. J. M. Mackenzie, New Zealand-born British medical officer (b. 1905) * March 13 – Danny Barker, American musician (b. 1909) * March 17 ** Ellsworth Vines, American tennis player (b. 1911) ** Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and director (b. 1925) * March 21 ** Macdonald Carey, American actor (b. 1913) ** Lili Damita, French-American actress and singer (b. 1904) ** Dack Rambo, American actor (b. 1941) * March 22 ** Dan Hartman, American musician (b. 1950) ** Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (b. 1899) * March 23 ** Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (b. 1950) ** Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (b. 1921) ** Álvaro del Portillo, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1914) * March 25 – Max Petitpierre, Swiss politician (b. 1899) * March 26 – Whina Cooper, New Zealand schoolteacher, historian, and activist (b. 1895) *
March 28 Events Pre-1600 *AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate. * 193 – After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Didiu ...
** Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born playwright (b. 1909) ** Ira Murchison, American athlete (b. 1933) * March 29 – Bill Travers, English actor (b. 1922)


April

* April 1 ** Léon Degrelle, Belgian politician and Nazi collaborator (b. 1906) ** Robert Doisneau, French photographer (b. 1912) * April 3 – Jérôme Lejeune, French pediatrician and geneticist (b. 1926) *
April 5 Events Pre-1600 * 823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I. * 919 – The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his ...
Kurt Cobain Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American musician who served as the lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter of the rock band Nirvana. Through his angst-fueled songwriting and anti-establishment persona ...
, American singer and songwriter (b. 1967) * April 6 ** Sheck Exley, American cave diver (b. 1949) **
Juvénal Habyarimana Juvénal Habyarimana (, ; 8 March 19376 April 1994) was a Rwandan politician and military officer who served as the second president of Rwanda, from 1973 until 1994. He was nicknamed ''Kinani'', a Kinyarwanda word meaning "invincible". An eth ...
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Cyprien Ntaryamira Cyprien Ntaryamira (6 March 1955 – 6 April 1994) was a Burundian politician who served as President of Burundi from 5 February 1994 until his death two months later. A Hutu born in Burundi, Ntaryamira studied there before fleeing to Rwanda ...
, 5th President of Burundi (b. 1955) * April 7 ** Agathe Uwilingiyimana, 4th Prime Minister of Rwanda (b. 1953) ** Albert Guðmundsson (footballer, born 1923), Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (b. 1923) ** Golo Mann, German historian (b. 1909) * April 9 – Marcel Ichac, French alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director (b. 1906) * April 13 – Nikolai Kryuchkov, Russian actor (b. 1911) * April 15 – John Curry, British figure skater (b. 1949) * April 16 – Ralph Ellison, American writer (b. 1914) * April 17 – Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist (b. 1913) * April 18 – Ken Oosterbroek, South African photojournalist (b. 1962) * April 22 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (b. 1913) * April 24 – Masutatsu Ōyama, Korean-Japanese Karate master (b. 1923) *
April 27 Events Pre-1600 * 247 – Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ''ludi saeculares''. * 395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of ...
– Lynne Frederick, English actress (b. 1954) * April 29 ** Russell Kirk, American political philosopher (b. 1918) ** Marcel Bernard, French tennis champion (b. 1914) * April 30 ** Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian Formula One driver (b. 1960) ** Richard Scarry, American author (b. 1919) ** Sorie Ibrahim Koroma, Prime Minister of Sierra Leone (b. 1930)


May

* May 1Ayrton Senna, Brazilian Formula One driver (b. 1960) * May 7 – Clement Greenberg, American art critic (b. 1909) * May 8 – George Peppard, American actor (b. 1928) *
May 10 Events Pre-1600 * 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China. * 1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of ...
John Wayne Gacy John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured, and murdered at least 33 young men and boys. Gacy regularly performed at children's hospitals and charitable events as ...
, American serial killer (b. 1942) * May 12 ** Erik Erikson, Danish-American developmental psychologist (b. 1902) ** Roy J. Plunkett, American chemist (b. 1910) * May 13 – Duncan Hamilton (racing driver), Duncan Hamilton, English racing driver (b. 1920) * May 15 ** Royal Dano, American actor (b. 1922) ** Gilbert Roland, American actor (b. 1905) * May 16 – Alain Cuny, French actor (b. 1908) * May 19 ** Luis Ocaña, Spanish bicycle racer (b. 1945) ** Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American socialite, conservationist, and First Lady of the United States (b. 1929) * May 21 ** Giovanni Goria, Italian Prime Minister (b. 1943) ** Masayoshi Ito, Japanese politician (b. 1913) ** Ralph Miliband, Polish-born British academic (b. 1924) * May 28 – Julius Boros, American golfer (b. 1920) * May 29 – Erich Honecker, East German politician (b. 1912) * May 30 ** Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader (b. 1899) ** Marcel Bich, French businessman (b. 1914) ** Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan novelist (b. 1909)


June

* June 4 ** Roberto Burle Marx, Brazilian landscape architect (b. 1909) ** Stephen McNally, American actor (b. 1911) ** Massimo Troisi, Italian actor, screenwriter, and film director (b. 1953) *
June 6 Events Pre-1600 * 913 – Constantine VII, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointed ...
** Mark McManus, Scottish actor (b. 1935) ** Barry Sullivan (American actor), Barry Sullivan, American actor (b. 1912) * June 7 – Dennis Potter, English dramatist (b. 1935) * June 9 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist (b. 1903) * June 10 ** Mary Maxwell Gates, American businesswoman (b. 1929) ** Edward Kienholz, American artist and sculptor (b. 1927) *
June 12 Events Pre-1600 * 910 – Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors. *1240 – At the instigation of Louis IX of Fr ...
** Ron Goldman, American model, waiter, and murder victim (b. 1968) ** Menachem Mendel Schneerson, American Hasidic rabbinical leader (b. 1902) **
Nicole Brown Simpson Nicole Brown Simpson (née Brown; May 19, 1959 – June 12, 1994) was the ex-wife of the former professional American football player, O. J. Simpson, to whom she was married from 1985 to 1992. She was the mother of their two children, Sydney an ...
, German-American actress, waitress (b. 1959) * June 13 – K. T. Stevens, American actress (b. 1919) * June 14 – Henry Mancini, American composer and arranger (b. 1924) * June 15 – Manos Hatzidakis, Greek composer (b. 1925) * June 16 – Kristen Pfaff, American bassist (b. 1967) * June 20 – Jay Miner, American computer pioneer (b. 1932) * June 21 – William Wilson Morgan, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1906) * June 26 – A. den Doolaard, Dutch writer and journalist (b. 1901)


July

* July 2 ** Roberto Balado, Cuban boxer (b. 1969) ** Maung Maung, President of Myanmar (b. 1925) * July 3 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (b. 1934) * July 7 ** Anita Garvin, American actress (b. 1907) ** Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe officer (b. 1907) ** Cameron Mitchell (actor), Cameron Mitchell, American actor (b. 1918) * July 8 ** Christian-Jaque, French film director (b. 1904) ** Kim Il-sung, President of North Korea (b. 1912) ** Dick Sargent, American actor (b. 1930) * July 11 – Gary Kildall, American computer inventor (b. 1942) * July 16 – Julian Schwinger, American physicist (b. 1918) * July 17 – Jean Borotra, French tennis player (b. 1898) * July 20 – Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (b. 1897) * July 21 – Pere Calders, Spanish writer and cartoonist (b. 1912) * July 27 – Kevin Carter, South African photojournalist (b. 1960) * July 29 – Dorothy Hodgkin, British chemist (b. 1910)


August

* August 3 – Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Russian actor (b. 1925) * August 4 – Giovanni Spadolini, Italian Prime Minister (b. 1925) * August 6 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter and actor turned politician (b. 1928) *
August 11 Events Pre-1600 * 3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins. * 2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and foun ...
– Peter Cushing, English actor (b. 1913) * August 13 – Manfred Wörner, German politician and diplomat (b. 1934) * August 14 – Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born writer (b. 1905) *
August 16 Events Pre-1600 * 1 BC – Wang Mang consolidates his power in China and is declared marshal of state. Emperor Ai of Han, who died the previous day, had no heirs. * 942 – Start of the four-day Battle of al-Mada'in, between the Hamda ...
– John Doucette, American actor (b. 1921) * August 17 – Jack Sharkey, American boxer (b. 1902) * August 18 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English chemist (b. 1914) * August 19 ** Linus Pauling, American chemist (b. 1901) ** Robert Rozhdestvensky, Soviet poet (b. 1932) * August 20 – Aleksandar Petrović (film director), Aleksandar Petrović, French film director (b. 1929) * August 21 – Anita Lizana, Chilean tennis champion (b. 1915) * August 23 – Zoltán Fábri, Hungarian film director (b. 1917) * August 27 – Roberto Goyeneche, Argentine tango singer (b. 1926) * August 30 – Lindsay Anderson, British film director (b. 1923)


September

* September 3 – Billy Wright (footballer, born 1924), Billy Wright, English footballer (b. 1924) * September 5 – Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician (b. 1921) * September 6 ** Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. 1944) ** Duccio Tessari, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1926) ** Paul Xuereb, Maltese politician (b. 1923) * September 7 ** James Clavell, British writer (b. 1921) ** Dennis Morgan, American actor and singer (b. 1908) ** Terence Young (director), Terence Young, British film director (b. 1915) * September 8 – János Szentágothai, Hungarian anatomist (b. 1912) * September 9 – Patrick O'Neal (actor), Patrick O'Neal, American actor (b. 1927) * September 11 – Jessica Tandy, English-born American actress (b. 1909) * September 12 ** Tom Ewell, American actor and producer (b. 1909) ** Boris Yegorov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1937) * September 15 – Mark Stevens (actor), Mark Stevens, American actor (b. 1916) * September 17 ** Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (b. 1954) ** Karl Popper, Austrian-British philosopher (b. 1902) * September 18 – Franco Moschino, Italian fashion designer (b. 1950) * September 19 – Joseph Iléo, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1921) * September 20 – Jule Styne, English-born American songwriter (b. 1905) * September 23 – Robert Bloch, American writer (b. 1917) * September 26 – Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (b. 1907) * September 27 – Carlos Lleras Restrepo, President of Colombia (b. 1908) * September 30 ** André Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist (b. 1902) ** Roberto Eduardo Viola, military president of Argentina (b. 1924)


October

* October 2 – Harriet Nelson, American actress (b. 1909) * October 3 – Dub Taylor, American actor (b. 1907) * October 7 ** Niels Kaj Jerne, English immunologist (b. 1911) ** James Hill (British director), James Hill, British film and television director (b. 1919) * October 9 – Raich Carter, English sportsman (b. 1913) * October 15 – Sarah Kofman, French philosopher (b. 1934) * October 19 ** Oldřich Černík, Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1921) ** Martha Raye, American actress and comedian (b. 1916) * October 20 ** Sergei Bondarchuk, Russian film director (b. 1920) ** Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913) * October 23 – Robert Lansing (actor), Robert Lansing, American actor (b. 1928) * October 24 – Raul Julia, Puerto Rican-American actor and singer (b. 1940) * October 25 – Mildred Natwick, American actress (b. 1905) * October 29 – Shlomo Goren, Israeli rabbi (b. 1918)


November

* November 1 – Noah Beery Jr., American actor (b. 1913) * November 2 – Grisha Filipov, 38th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1919) * November 4 – Sam Francis, American painter (b. 1923) * November 10 – Carmen McRae, American jazz singer (b. 1922) * November 11 – Elizabeth Maconchy, Dame Elizabeth Maconchy, British composer (b. 1907) * November 12 ** Wilma Rudolph, American athlete (b. 1940) ** J. I. M. Stewart, Scottish novelist (b. 1906) * November 13 ** Vladimir Ivashko, Ukrainian Soviet Communist politician (b. 1932) ** Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (b. 1924) * November 14 – Tom Villard, American actor (b. 1953) * November 18 – Cab Calloway, American jazz singer and bandleader (b. 1907) * November 19 – Julian Symons, British crime writer and poet (b. 1912) * November 21 – Willem Jacob Luyten, Dutch-American astronomer (b. 1899) * November 23 – Alberto Natusch, Bolivian general, 55th President of Bolivia (b. 1933) * November 28 ** Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (b. 1960) ** Vicente Enrique y Tarancón, Spanish cardinal (b. 1907) * November 30 ** Guy Debord, French theorist, writer, and filmmaker (b. 1931) ** Lionel Stander, American actor (b. 1908)


December

* December 4 – Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Peruvian writer (b. 1929) * December 6 – Gian Maria Volonté, Italian actor (b. 1933) * December 8 ** Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer (b. 1927) ** Enrique Líster, Spanish communist politician and military officer (b. 1907) * December 9 – Max Bill, Swiss architect and artist (b. 1908) * December 10 – Alex Wilson (Canadian sprinter), Alex Wilson, Canadian athlete (b. 1905) * December 11 – Stanisław Maczek, Polish general (b. 1892) * December 12 – Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (b. 1933) * December 13 – Antoine Pinay, French politician, former Prime Minister of France, Prime Minister (b. 1891) * December 18 – Lilia Skala, Austrian-born American actress (b. 1896) * December 20 – Dean Rusk, American diplomat, 54th United States Secretary of State, Secretary of State (b. 1909) * December 23 – Sebastian Shaw (actor), Sebastian Shaw, English actor (b. 1905) * December 24 ** John Boswell, American historian (b. 1947) ** Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor (b. 1916) ** John Osborne, English playwright (b. 1929) * December 25 – Zail Singh, 7th President of India (b. 1916) * December 26 ** Karl Schiller, German economist and politician (b. 1911) ** Sylva Koscina, Italian-Croatian actress (b. 1933) * December 31 – Woody Strode, American athlete and actor (b. 1914)


Nobel Prizes

* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Bertram Brockhouse, Clifford 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 – Kenzaburō Ōe * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin * Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences – Reinhard Selten, John Forbes Nash Jr., John Harsanyi


Templeton Prize

* Michael Novak


Fields Medal

* Efim Isakovich Zelmanov, Pierre-Louis Lions, Jean Bourgain, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz


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, Ogoni People)


References

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