What Happened In August 1994 - Historical Events 1994 August

Historical Events for August, 1994

12th » Major League Baseball players go on 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike e.g strike. This will force the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
14th » Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
23rd » Eugene Bullard, the only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
24th » Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the palestinian people called Palestinians on the West Bank.
31st » The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.

1st » Sergeal Petersen, South African rugby player
1st » Ayaka Wada, Japanese singer (S/mileage, Hello Pro Kenshūsei, and Shugo Chara Egg!)
2nd » Laura Pigossi, Brazilian tennis player
3rd » Esther Earl, American activist and blogger (d. 2010)
4th » Mayuko Fukuda, Japanese actress
11th » Rand Saad, Iraqi archer
11th » Storm Sanders, Australian tennis player
14th » Kim Rodriguez, Filipino actress
15th » Kosuke Hagino, Japanese swimmer
15th » Natalja Zabijako, Estonian figure skater
17th » Taissa Farmiga, American actress
19th » Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian pentathlete
20th » Merily Toom, Estonian footballer
21st » Jacqueline Emerson, American actress and singer (Devo 2.0)
22nd » Olli Maatta, Finnish ice hockey player
24th » Aqib Khan, English actor
24th » King Krule, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
24th » Rafid Topan Sucipto, Indonesian motorcycle racer
25th » Josh Flitter, American actor
29th » Courtney Stodden, American singer
31st » Alex Harris (footballer) known as Alex Harris, Scottish footballer

5th » Menachem Avidom, Israeli composer (b. 1908)
5th » Alain de Changy, Belgian race car driver (b. 1922)
6th » Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter, actor, and politician (b. 1928)
7th » Larry Martyn, English actor (b. 1934)
11th » Peter Cushing, English actor (b. 1913)
14th » Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss author (b. 1905)
14th » Alice Childress, American actress, playwright, and author (b. 1912)
15th » Wout Wagtmans, Dutch cyclist (b. 1929)
17th » Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver (b. 1901)
17th » Jack Sharkey, American boxer (b. 1902)
18th » Martin Cahill, Irish criminal (b. 1949)
19th » Linus Pauling, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry known as Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
22nd » Gilles Groulx, Canadian director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
23rd » Zoltán Fábri, Hungarian director and screenwriter (b. 1917)
27th » Frank Jeske, German footballer (b. 1960)
27th » Boris Malenko, American wrestler (b. 1933)