What Happened in August 1994 (2024)

• Aug 1 99.9°F (37.7°C) in Berlin-Dahlem: record

• Aug 1 Train crash in Havana, Cuba, kills 6
• Aug 2 Explosion in lead/zinc mine in Guangxi, China, kills over 120
• Aug 2 Noureddine Morceli runs world record 3000m (7:25.11)

• Aug 2 Whitewater Congressional hearings begin
• Aug 3 102.4°F (39.1°C) in Tokyo Japan: record
• Aug 3 1st Jordanian plane to fly over Israeli airspace (King Hussein pilot)
• Aug 4 27th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Hyatt Regency
• Aug 4 Galaxy Dwingeloo 1 near the Milky Way is discovered
• Aug 4 Howard Stern drops out of NY gubernatorial race
• Aug 4 Truck carrying millions of bees overturns on NY parkway
• Aug 5 Antonov-12 crashes at Boda, Eastern Siberia, 47 killed
• Aug 5 British rocker Billy Idol admitted to the hospital after drug overdose in Los Angeles, California
• Aug 6 Algerian Muslim fundamentalists threaten school/Universities
• Aug 7 1st telephone link between Israel & Jordan
• Aug 7 Ernesto Samper sworn in as president of Colombia

• Aug 9 Stanley Betrian put in charge of Curacao
• Aug 10 Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841)
• Aug 11 João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira, elected President of Guinea-Bissau
• Aug 12 1st NFL game on Fox network (exhibition - SF vs Denver)
• Aug 12 Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association go on strike leading to cancellation of World Series for only the second time in MLB history (1904); labour dispute
• Aug 12 Panic in church of Brazzaville: 142 killed
• Aug 12 Stephen G Breyer, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
• Aug 13 Train crash in Tbilisi, Georgia, 24 killed

• Aug 14 MLB pitcher Doc Gooden completes substance abuse rehabilitation at the Betty Ford Center in Ranch Mirage, California

• Aug 14 Space telescope Hubble photographs Uranus with rings
• Aug 14 Terrorist "Carlos" arrested in Khartoum, Sudan
• Aug 15 South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning
• Aug 15 Terrorist Carlos the Jackal, captured in Khartoum Sudan
• Aug 16 Chandrika Kumaratungo's party wins Sri Lanka elections
• Aug 16 Shauna Gambill, 17, of California, crowned 12th Miss Teen USA
• Aug 17 King Letsie II of Lesotho dismisses premier Ntsu Mokhehle
• Aug 17 NY Central park reservoir officially named after Jackie Kennedy Onasis
• Aug 18 15th Commonwealth Games open in Victoria, Canada
• Aug 18 5.6 earthquake in Algeria, kills 171
• Aug 20 109.8°F (43.2°C) in Cordoba Spain
• Aug 20 Archbishop Quarracino wants all hom*osexuals to leave Argentina
• Aug 20 Ferry boat sinks at Chandpur Bangladesh, 300-350 killed
• Aug 20 Vuyani Bungu, the South African junior featherweight, wins the IBF World Boxing Title
• Aug 21 -23] Typhoon Fred ravages Chinese county Zhejiang, 700+ killed
• Aug 21 Ernesto Zedillo wins Mexican presidential election
• Aug 21 Royal Air Maroc ATR-42 crash down at Agadir, 44 killed
• Aug 21 The last French troops pull out of Rwanda, ending their highly controversial mission there

• Aug 22 Wim Cook government forms in Netherlands

• Aug 24 Israel & PLO initialed accord giving autonomy to Palestinians in West Bank in education, health, taxation, social welfare & tourism
• Aug 24 Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m free style (14:41.66)
• Aug 24 Kieren Perkins swims world record 800m free style (7:46.00)

• Aug 28 1st Japanese gay pride parade
• Aug 28 94th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
• Aug 28 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Ottawa Hunt GC: Martha Nause wins by 1 from Michelle Mcgann

• Aug 30 Gund Arena in Cleveland, Ohio opens
• Aug 31 Last Russian soldiers leave Estonia & Latvia

• Aug 31 The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Sinn Féin) declares a ceasefire in Northern Ireland

Events in 1994

• Aug 2 Jacob Collier, English musician and producer (Djesse Vol. 1, 2, 3), born in London, England
• Aug 3 Todd Gurley, American NFL player (Los Angeles Rams), born in Baltimore, Maryland
• Aug 8 Lauv [Ari Staprans Leff]. American singer-songwriter, and record producer ("I Like Me Better"), born in San Francisco, California
• Aug 9 King Von [Dayvon Bennett], American rapper and songwriter ("Cazy Story"), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2020)
• Aug 10 Bernardo Silva, Portuguese footballer (Manchester City), born in Lisbon, Portugal
• Aug 10 Chun In-gee, South Korean golfer (US Open 2015, Evian C'ship 2016; Women's PGA C'ship 2022), born in Gunsan, South Korea
• Aug 17 Phoebe Bridgers, American singer-songwriter (Punisher), born in Newport Beach, California
• Aug 18 Jessie Flower [Michaela Murphy], American actress (Avatar: The Last Airbender), born in Southern Indiana
• Aug 18 Madelaine Petsch, American actress (Riverdale), born in Port Orchard, Washington
• Aug 19 Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian athlete (Gold medal heptathlon 2016 & 2020), born in Brussels, Belgium
• Aug 20 Miracle the white buffalo, an extremely rare white, non-albino buffalo calf, born in Janesville Wisconsin
• Aug 24 Kelsey Plum, American basketball player (Las Vegas Aces), born in Poway, California
• Aug 25 Josh Flitter, American actor (Air Buddies movies), born in Ridgewood, New Jersey

• Aug 28 Ons Jabeur, Tunisian tennis player (World #2 2022; Wimbledon women's singles 2022, 23 & US Open 2022 runner-up), born in Ksar Hellal, Tunisia

Born in 1994

• Aug 13 Former "Growing Pains" patriarch actor Alan Thicke (48) weds former Miss World Gina Marie Tolleson (25) at his rolling Santa Barbara ranch
• Aug 27 TV executive Anthony Radziwill (35) weds Emmy Award-winning journalist Carole Di Falco (31) in East Hampton, New York

• Aug 1 George Dixon, American jazz trumpeter, dies at 85
• Aug 1 Gerard van de Groenekan, furniture maker/designer, dies at 90
• Aug 2 Bert Freed, American character actor (Shane, Invaders From Mars), dies of a heart attack at 74
• Aug 2 Bhagwatpersad Ausan, commandant Suriname military police, dies at 38
• Aug 3 Hidalgo Moya, American architect and designer (Skylon), dies at 74
• Aug 3 Innokenti Smoktunovski, Russian actor (Hamlet), dies at 69
• Aug 4 Giovanni Spadolini, Italian historian and politician, dies at 69
• Aug 4 Richard Du Cann, English lawyer and QC, dies at 65
• Aug 4 Solomon Adler, English-born economist and alleged spy for China, dies at 85
• Aug 5 Amy Sacks, American TV producer (ABC sports, Disney), dies of Lupus at 39
• Aug 5 Audrey Langford, English singing teacher, dies at 82
• Aug 5 Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot, dies at 84
• Aug 5 Terry Hibbitt, English footballer, dies at 47
• Aug 6 Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter (Volare), dies at 66
• Aug 7 Larry Martyn, British comedy actor (Are You Being Served), dies at 60
• Aug 7 Robert Hutton [Winne], American actor (Torture Garden, Rocket), dies at 74

• Aug 8 Henriette Santer, Dutch-English clinical psychologist, dies at 62
• Aug 8 Leonid Leonov, Russian writer and playwright (Russky Lesson), dies at 95
• Aug 8 Robin Cavendish, English campaigner for the disabled, dies at 64
• Aug 9 Clarence Ford, American sax player, dies at 64
• Aug 9 Mien van 't Sant, Dutch author (Mieke serial), dies at 93
• Aug 9 Toby Rowland, American theatrical manager (London), dies at 77
• Aug 10 Bill Baker, American doo-wop singer The Five Satins - "In The Still Of The Night"), dies at 58
• Aug 10 Leendert-John Schalm, Dutch banker on Curacao, murdered at 58
• Aug 11 Dorothy Grenfell Williams, radio producer and broadcaster, dies at 60
• Aug 11 Gordon Cullen, architect, dies at 80
• Aug 11 Mark "Red" Mitchell, American actor (JFK; 8 Seconds; Want to Live), dies when his car is struck by a train at 33

• Aug 12 Gene Cherico, American jazz bassist, dies at 59
• Aug 12 Manfred Salzgeber, German film distributor/publicist, dies at about 51
• Aug 13 Manfred Wörner, German general and Secretary-General of NATO (1988-94), dies at 59
• Aug 13 Raymond Gallois-Montbrun, French violinist and composer, dies at 75
• Aug 14 Alice Childress, American playwright, actress and writer, dies at 77
• Aug 14 Bill Cowley, creator (Lyke Wake Walk), dies at 78
• Aug 14 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-British author (Crowds and Power) and winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, dies at 89
• Aug 14 Joan Harrison, English screenwriter and producer who often worked with Alfred Hitchco*ck (Rebecca, They Won't Believe Me), dies at 83
• Aug 14 Patrick Meehan, Scottish petty criminal, wrongly convicted of murder and later given a royal pardon, dies of throat cancer at 67 [1]
• Aug 14 Tom Greenshields, English sculptor, dies at 79
• Aug 15 Shepherd Mead, American writer (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying), dies of stroke at 80
• Aug 15 Simon R. Naoli, Tanzanian marathoner, dies in an accident at 28
• Aug 15 Wout Wagtmans, Dutch cyclist (Rome-Naples-Rome 1957), dies at 64
• Aug 16 Earnest Pawel, Polish/American author (Nightmare of Reason), dies at 74
• Aug 16 Frits de Knight, photographer, dies of AIDS at 40
• Aug 16 Henry Geldzahler, US critic, dies
• Aug 16 John Doucette, American actor (The Lone Ranger, Lock Up, Big Town), dies of cancer at 73
• Aug 17 Jack Sharkey, American boxer (NYSAC, NBA and lineal heavyweight champion 1932-33), dies at 91
• Aug 18 Gottlob Frick, German opera singer, dies at 88
• Aug 18 Judy Ann Scott-Fox, literary agent, dies at 56
• Aug 18 Richard Laurence Millington Synge, British biochemist (Nobel 1952), dies at 79
• Aug 19 John George Hughes, British academic and 9th bishop of Kensington (1987-1994), dies at 59
• Aug 19 Ladislav f*cks, Czech writer, dies at 70

• Aug 19 Nancy Lancaster, American British decorator (Colefax and Fowler), dies at 96
• Aug 19 Robert Rozhdestvensky, Soviet poet, dies at 64
• Aug 19 Walter Bartley, English biochemist, dies at 78
• Aug 20 Aleksander Petrovic, Serbian film director (I Even Met Happy Gypsies), dies at 65
• Aug 20 Kalman Kahana, Polish co-founder of state Israel, dies at 81
• Aug 20 Revilo P. Oliver, American right-wing advocate who alleged Lee Harvey Oswald was part of a Soviet conspiracy, dies at 86
• Aug 21 Anita Lizana, Chilean tennis player (US Nat C'ships 1937; first Latin American major winner), dies at 78
• Aug 21 Danitra Vance, American comedienne (SNL, 1985), and actress (Jumpin' At The Boneyard), dies of breast cancer at 40
• Aug 21 Hein Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch eccentric millionaire, dies at 73
• Aug 22 Leo Lerman, American writer and editor (Condé Nast Publications), dies at 80
• Aug 22 Tom Quirke, journalist, dies at 42
• Aug 23 Henri Rousselot, French admiral (submarine commander WWII), dies at 82
• Aug 23 Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale), dies at 70
• Aug 23 Rabah Stambouli, Algerian sociologist/politician, murdered at 65
• Aug 23 Richard Jock Kinneir, British graphic designer (modern road signs), dies at 77
• Aug 24 Jason McRoy, English mountain bike racer, dies in a motorcycle accident at 23
• Aug 25 Ramdas Nayak, Indian Hindu leader and politician, murdered at 52
• Aug 26 Tariq Yunus, Indian actor (Bollywood; Ashanti; Deceivers), dies at 54
• Aug 27 Roberto Goyeneche [El Polaco], Argentine tango singer (Maria), dies at 68
• Aug 28 Alfonso Letelier (-Llona), Chilean composer and educator (El Hombre ante la Ciencia - (Man Before Science)), dies at 88
• Aug 28 David Wright, South African-British poet (Deafness: A Personal Account), dies of cancer at 74
• Aug 28 Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian pater, murdered
• Aug 28 Pieter de Cort, Belgian rock guitarist (Betty Goes Green), dies of cancer at 25
• Aug 29 Arthur Ernest Mourant, British hematologist, dies at 90
• Aug 29 Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian Catholic priest, shot dead
• Aug 29 Marea Hartman, English sports executive (President Amateur Athletic Association of England 1991-94; integrated women's athletics), dies at 74
• Aug 29 Michael Peters, American choreographer and dancer (Dreamgirls; Michael Jackson videos "Beat It" and "Thriller"), dies of complications from AIDS at 46
• Aug 29 Phillip Gilmore, American actor (Malcolm X), dies at 38
• Aug 29 Tushar Kanti Ghosh, Indian journalist and world's oldest and longest serving newspaper editor (Amrita Bazar Patrika), dies at 95
• Aug 30 Lindsay Anderson, British director (If ...), dies at 71
• Aug 30 Michael Gribble, American film animator (Mike & Spike Festival), dies of cancer at 42
• Aug 31 Artur Balsam, Polish-American pianist, dies at 88
• Aug 31 Barbara Avedon, American scriptwriter (Bewitched), dies at 69
• Aug 31 Norman "Doc" Jones, American jazz bass player (Jo Jo Parnell Trio), dies at 68