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1994 in the United States

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1994
in
the United States

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Events from the year 1994 in the United States.

Incumbents

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Federal government

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Events

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January

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January 17: Northridge earthquake

February

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March

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April

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April 22: Former President Richard Nixon dies at 81.

May

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June

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July

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August

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  • August 3 – Stephen Breyer is sworn in as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court.
  • August 12
  • august 18 – Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants: a 12-person jury reaches its verdict to award Stella Liebeck $2,860,000 in compensatory and punitive damages, later reduced to $640,000, for burns she received from a spilled hot coffee. McDonald's and Liebeck will later settle out of court.
  • August 20 – In Honolulu, Hawaii, during a circus international performance, an elephant named Tyke crushes her trainer Allen Campbell to death before hundreds of horrified spectators at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center. She then escapes the arena, and runs amok in the streets for half an hour, before police officers shoot her 86 times. She eventually collapses from her wounds and dies.
  • August 23 – Eugene Bullard is posthumously commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force, 33 years after his death, and 77 years to the day after his rejection for U.S. military service in 1917.
  • c. August – Pizza Hut becomes the first restaurant to offer online food ordering, in California.[13][14]

September

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October

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November

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November 8: Republicans gain control of Congress (Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich pictured)

December

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Ongoing

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Sport

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Births

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January

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Booboo Stewart

February

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Earl Sweatshirt

March

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Christina Grimmie
Paige VanZant

April

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Aminé

May

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Alexander Gould
Celeste
Lindsey Horan

June

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QTCinderella
Liv Morgan
Camila Mendes

July

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Eugenia Cooney

August

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Cr1TiKaL
Bobby Shmurda

September

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Cameron Dallas
Halsey
Ice Poseidon

October

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Margaret Qualley

November

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Nyjah Huston

December

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Jake T. Austin

Deaths

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January

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Cesar Romero
Telly Savalas

February

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Joseph Cotten
Jack Kirby
Dinah Shore
Bill Hicks

March

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John Candy

April

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Richard Nixon

May

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George Peppard
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

June

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Barry Sullivan
Menachem Mendel Schneerson

July

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Dick Sargent
Julian Schwinger

August

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September

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Raul Julia

October

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November

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Wilma Rudolph
Cab Calloway

December

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See also

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References

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  2. ^ "Green Day's Dookie: 15 Years Later, Still A Genuine Punk Classic". MTV. 2009-05-13. Archived from the original on June 7, 2014. Retrieved 2016-07-23.
  3. ^ "Leslie Aspin". history.defense.gov. Retrieved 2022-10-15.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "William J. Perry". history.defense.gov. Retrieved 2022-10-15.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ "Ari Halberstam Memorial Site". Archived from the original on 5 July 2012. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  6. ^ "Woman Held in Perris Is Suspect in Series of Killings". Los Angeles Times. March 18, 1994.
  7. ^ Garland, Max. "25 years ago, Federal Express Flight 705 was business as usual — until a hijacking attempt". The Commercial Appeal. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
  8. ^ "Federal Express crew attacked aboard DC-10". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
  9. ^ "On This Day 1994: Rock musician Kurt Cobain 'shoots himself'". BBC News. 8 April 1994. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  10. ^ "Our Lady of the Angels School Fire, Chicago December 1, 1958 - 2000 Essay Contest 3rd Place". Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  11. ^ "Death of a First Lady; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Dies of Cancer at 64". The New York Times.
  12. ^ Edsall, Thomas B. (1994-05-25). "GOP GAINS HOUSE SEAT NATCHER HELD". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
  13. ^ "Pizza Hut Tells Twitter It Made The First Online Sale In 1994". HuffPost. 2013-09-09. Archived from the original on 2019-11-05. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
  14. ^ "Hobbes' Internet Timeline 25". Zakon.org. Archived from the original on 2020-11-11. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  15. ^ "Mass murderer killed in prison". The Independent. 29 November 1994. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  16. ^ "Jeffrey Dahmer, Multiple Killer, Is Bludgeoned to Death in Prison". The New York Times. 29 November 1994. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  17. ^ "Inmate attacked with Dahmer dies from trauma | Jet | Find Articles at BNET". Archived from the original on 2010-09-07. Retrieved 2010-10-19.
  18. ^ Lewis, Peter (1994-11-10). "America Online Buys 2 Internet Companies". New York Times.
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  21. ^ Kevin Poulsen (January 21, 2000). "The case of the kung fu 'phreak'". ZDNet. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
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  24. ^ "Alexandra Raisman". Team USA. Archived from the original on March 21, 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  25. ^ "Nat Wolff Biography". TV Guide. Archived from the original on March 9, 2014. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
  26. ^ Flint, Peter B. (February 7, 1994). "Joseph Cotten, 88, Is Dead; Actor on Stage and in Films". The New York Times. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
  27. ^ Harris M. Lentz (1994). Obituaries in the Performing Arts. McFarland & Company. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-7864-0254-0.
  28. ^ Harris M. Lentz (1994). Obituaries in the Performing Arts. McFarland & Company. p. 160. ISBN 978-0-7864-0254-0.
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