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Events
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What happened in 1994:
Economy
President: Bill Clinton
Vice President: Al Gore
Population: 260,289,237
Life Expectancy: 75.7 years
Dow-Jones
High: 3,978
Low: 3,593
Federal Spending: $1460.84 billion
Federal Debt: $4643.7 billion
Median Household Income: $32,264
Inflation: 2.7%
Consumer Price Index: 148.2
Unemployment: 6.9%
Average Costs
Cost of a New Home: $154,500.00
Median Household Income: $32,264.00
Cost of a First-Class Stamp: $0.29
Cost of a Gallon of Regular Gas: $1.11
Cost of a Dozen Eggs: $0.87
Cost of a Gallon of Milk: $2.88
Events
- Following the death of his ex-wife, NFL
star OJ Simpson and friend, Al Cowlings were
in a low speed chase with police. It unfolded
live on television and ended at OJ's Californian
mansion. OJ surrendered and was arrested for
murder.
- South Africa's white minority Parliament
met in Cape Town to vote itself out of power.
The new government was led by the black majority
who'd been excluded from the political process
since European settlers arrived at the Cape
of Good Hope in 1652. Nelson Mandela was elected
South Africa’s first black president.
- An estimated 800,000 Tutsis Rwandans were
killed in the space of 100 days by Hutu Rwandans
- the largest genocide in modern times. It
was sparked by the death of the Rwandan president,
a Hutu, when his plane was shot down above
Kigali airport.
- Brian Lara set a new world record for test
innings, while playing against England. The
West Indian batsman set a new world record
scoring 375 runs in one test match.
- George Foreman became the world's oldest
heavyweight boxing champion. Foreman, 45,
beat Michael Moorer, 26, in Las Vegas, to
win the IBF and the WBA titles. Foreman last
held the title in 1973 when he defeated Joe
Frazier.
- Diane Modahl is the first British female
athlete to be found guilty of drug-taking
and is banned from competitions for four years.
The charges are later dropped.
- Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Quentin Tarantino's
brilliant film Pulp Fiction was released.
It also starred John Travolta, Uma Thurman
and Harvey Keitel. The film re-juvenated Travolta's
flagging career and made a star out of Jackson.
Music
- Tim Westwood joins Radio 1, marking the
first ever weekly national hip hop show.
- The jungle scene was picking up momentum.
Kenny Ken (Dead Dred) previewed his Dred Bass
track at the club AWOL. It was the first to
use the backwards bassline.
- In a bizarre and unlikely twist of pop history,
Michael Jackson married Elvis’ daughter, Lisa
Marie Presley. The couple would separate within
18 months.
- In hip hop, Notorious B.I.G. causes a storm
with his debut, Ready To Die and Queensbridge's
Nas is the first rapper to receive "5 Mics"
(5/5!) in Source magazine for Illmatic. It's
regarded as one of the best hip hop albums
of the 90s.
- Rapper Tupac Shakur and two of his entourage
are charged with sexual assault. The day after
the guilty verdict is announced, he's shot
5 times by muggers while in the lobby of a
New York recording studio. Miraculously he
survives.
Links
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- 1994 a Year in History
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History of 1994
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