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What Happened In January 1994 In History

Historical Events for January, 1994

  • 1st » The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexico known as Mexican Chiapas named State of Chiapas.
  • 1st » The North American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect.
  • 3rd » More than seven million people from the former Apartheid in South Africa known as Apartheid Bantustan known as Homelands, receive South African citizenship.
  • 6th » Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the United States Figure Skating Championships e.g U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit e.g Detroit, Michigan.
  • 8th » Russian Astronaut Russian called cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on 'Soyuz TM-18' leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
  • 11th » The Republic of Ireland e.g Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the Official Irish Republican Army e.g IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.
  • 17th » 1994 Northridge earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
  • 25th » The Clementine mission called Clementine space probe launches.
  • 30th » Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grandmaster.

Famous Birthdays on January in 1994

  • 6th » Jameis Winston, American football player
  • 6th » JB (South Korean musician) named JB, South Korean singer, dancer and actor (Got7 and JJ Project)
  • 11th » Mathieu Marquet, Mauritian swimmer
  • 12th » Emre Can, German footballer
  • 14th » Abi Phillips, English actress and singer-songwriter
  • 15th » Jordy Croux, Belgian footballer
  • 15th » Eric Dier, English footballer
  • 19th » Matthias Ginter, German footballer
  • 20th » Denis Mukhametdinov, Russian footballer
  • 21st » Laura Robson, Australian-English tennis player
  • 21st » Booboo Stewart, American actor, singer, and dancer (T-Squad)
  • 21st » Simone Pasa, Italian footballer
  • 21st » Kang Seung-yoon, South Korean singer and actor (Winner (band) e.g Winner)
  • 23rd » Wesley Jobello, French footballer
  • 24th » Youngjae, South Korean singer (B.A.P)
  • 27th » Rani Khedira, German footballer
  • 29th » Lucas Hufnagel, German footballer
  • 29th » Ayane Sakura, Japanese voice actress
  • 31st » Kenneth Zohore, Danish footballer

Famous Deaths for January 1994

  • 1st » Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, New Zealand physician and politician, 11th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1900)
  • 1st » Cesar Romero, American actor (b. 1907)
  • 1st » Edward Arthur Thompson, Irish historian (b. 1914)
  • 2nd » Dixy Lee Ray, American politician, 17th Governor of Washington (b. 1914)
  • 2nd » Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, French businessman (b. 1915)
  • 4th » R.D. Burman, Indian composer (b. 1939)
  • 4th » Marie Orav, Estonian chess player (b. 1911)
  • 5th » Brian Johnston, English sportscaster (b. 1912)
  • 5th » Elmar Lipping, Estonian military commander and politician (b. 1906)
  • 6th » Virginia Clinton Kelley, American mother of Bill Clinton (b. 1923)
  • 7th » Llewellyn Rees, English actor (b. 1901)
  • 8th » Pat Buttram, American actor (b. 1915)
  • 8th » Harvey Haddix, American baseball player (b. 1925)
  • 9th » Johnny Temple, American baseball player (b. 1927)
  • 12th » Gustav Naan, Estonian physicist and philosopher (b. 1919)
  • 15th » Georges Cziffra, Hungarian-French pianist (b. 1921)
  • 15th » Harry Nilsson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
  • 15th » Harilal Upadhyay, Indian author, poet, and astrologist (b. 1916)
  • 17th » Yevgeny Ivanov (spy) called Yevgeni Ivanov, Russian spy (b. 1926)
  • 17th » Helen Stephens, American runner (b. 1918)
  • 18th » Denis Henry Desty, English chromatographer (b. 1923)
  • 20th » Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and coach (b. 1909)
  • 21st » Bassel al-Assad, Syrian colonel (b. 1962)
  • 21st » Andrejs Kapmals, Latvian runner (b. 1889)
  • 22nd » Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (b. 1910)
  • 22nd » Rhett Forrester, American singer-songwriter (Riot (band) known as Riot) (b. 1956)
  • 22nd » Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1924)
  • 23rd » Nikolai Ogarkov, Russian field marshal (b. 1917)
  • 23rd » Brian Redhead, English journalist and author (b. 1929)
  • 24th » Yves Navarre, French author (b. 1940)
  • 25th » Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (b. 1909)
  • 27th » Claude Akins, American actor (b. 1918)
  • 28th » Hal Smith (actor) or Hal Smith, American actor (b. 1916)
  • 29th » Ulrike Maier, Austrian skier (b. 1967)
  • 30th » Pierre Boulle, French author (b. 1912)

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