What Happened In June 1994 In History

Historical Events for June, 1994

• 12th » Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in wrongful death claim named wrongful death civil suit.
• 13th » A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the 'Exxon Valdez' disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
• 14th » The 1994 Stanley Cup riot occurs after the New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup from Vancouver, causing an estimated $ called CAD1.1 million, leading to 200 arrests and injuries.
• 15th » Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations.
• 17th » Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O.J. Simpson is arrested for the O. J. Simpson murder case called murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
• 28th » Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult Matsumoto incident called release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Nagano named Matsumoto, Japan; Seven people are killed, 660 injured.

Famous Birthdays on June in 1994

• 2nd » Jemma McKenzie-Brown, English actress
• 2nd » Antonio Spavone, Italian race car driver
• 10th » Annefleur Kalvenhaar, Dutch cyclist (d. 2014)
• 11th » Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress
• 11th » Jessica Fox (canoeist) known as Jessica Fox, French-Australian canoe racer
• 21st » Başak Eraydın, Turkish tennis player
• 21st » Chisato Okai, Japanese singer and actress (Cute (Japanese band) named Cute and Tanpopo)
• 26th » Hollie Arnold, English javelin thrower
• 26th » Leonard Carow, German actor
• 27th » Anita Husarić, Bosnian tennis player
• 28th » Hussein bin Abdullah, Crown Prince of Jordan
• 28th » Madeline Duggan, English actress
• 29th » Shin Dongho, South Korean singer and actor (U-KISS)
• 30th » Rhys Jones (athlete) called Rhys Jones, Welsh sprinter

Famous Deaths for June 1994

• 1st » Frances Heflin, American actress (b. 1923)
• 2nd » David Stove, Australian philosopher (b. 1927)
• 3rd » Puig Aubert, French rugby player (b. 1925)
• 4th » Massimo Troisi, Italian actor and director (b. 1953)
• 6th » Mark McManus, Scottish actor (b. 1935)
• 6th » Barry Sullivan (actor) named Barry Sullivan, American actor and director (b. 1912)
• 9th » Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist and academic, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences or Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 11th » A. Thurairajah, Sri Lankan engineer and academic (b. 1934)
• 12th » Toma Bebić, Dalmatian painter, journalist, and educator (b. 1935)
• 12th » Nicole Brown Simpson, German-American murder victim (b. 1959)
• 12th » Christopher Collins, American actor (b. 1949)
• 12th » Ronald Goldman, American waiter (b. 1968)
• 12th » Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-French rabbi (b. 1902)
• 13th » Nadia Gray, Romanian-French actress (b. 1923)
• 14th » Lionel Grigson, English pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1942)
• 14th » Henry Mancini, American composer and conductor (b. 1924)
• 14th » Marcel Mouloudji, French singer and actor (b. 1922)
• 15th » Manos Hatzidakis, Greek composer and theorist (b. 1925)
• 16th » Kristen Pfaff, American bass player and songwriter (Hole (band) known as Hole and Janitor Joe (band) e.g Janitor Joe) (b. 1967)
• 21st » William Wilson Morgan, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1906)
• 24th » Jean Vallerand, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1915)
• 26th » Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi author and activist (b. 1929)
• 27th » Tai Solarin, Nigerian educator and activist (b. 1922)
• 29th » Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
• 29th » Jack Unterweger, Austrian serial killer (b. 1950)

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