Houston Rockets' Streak
Dec 2 Houston Rockets score a 94-85 win over the Knicks at New York’s Madison Square Garden, recording their 15th straight win to start the season; tie Washington Capitols' all-time NBA record 1948-49; streak ends next game
- Dec 2 Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5) launches
- Dec 4 2nd SEC Championship Game: #9 Florida beats #16 Alabama, 28-13
- Dec 4 A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels.
Dan Jansen
Dec 4 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.92 sec)
- Dec 4 Johann Koss skates world record 5K (6:35.53)
- Dec 5 "Timon of Athens" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 37 performances
- Dec 5 82nd Davis Cup: Germany beats Australia in Dusseldorf (4-1)
- Dec 5 Astronauts begin repair of Hubble telescope in space
- Dec 5 Rafael Caldera elected President of Venezuela
- Dec 5 The mayor of Wien (Vienna), Helmut Zilk, is wounded by a letter bomb.
- Dec 6 Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 5 km 7:13.29
Goulet has Surgery
Dec 7 American singer Robert Goulet undergoes prostate cancer surgery
- Dec 7 Henri Konan Bedie names himself President of Ivory coast
- Dec 7 The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
- Dec 8 30 killed at religious rebellion in Algeria
Houston Wins
Dec 8 4th Billboard Music Awards: Whitney Houston, The Bodyguard Soundtrack win
- Dec 8 Dow-Jones hits record 3734.53
- Dec 8 Storm hits western Europe, 11 killed in England
- Dec 9 Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns
My Fair Lady Revived
Dec 9 Revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's musical "My Fair Lady" opens at Virginia Theater, NYC; runs for 165 performances
- Dec 10 "Doom" pioneering first-person shooter video game is uploaded onto the internet by id Software
- Dec 10 Dow Jones hits record 3740.67
- Dec 11 59th Heisman Trophy Award: Charlie Ward, Florida State (QB)
- Dec 11 Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle elected President of Chile
- Dec 12 "Any Given Day" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 32 performances
- Dec 12 "Kentucky Cycle" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 34 performances
- Dec 12 WAQX 104.3 (Q-104) rock format replaces WNCN classic format in NYC
- Dec 13 "I Swear" single released by John Michael Montgomery (Billboard Song of the Year 1994)
- Dec 13 Deadline for Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza, they don't
- Dec 13 Dow Jones hits record 3764.43
- Dec 13 Fire in textile factory in Fuzjou China, 60 killed
- Dec 13 Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5) lands after 10 days and 19 hours in space
Philadelphia
Dec 14 "Philadelphia", one of the first mainstream films about AIDS, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, premieres in Century City, California
- Dec 14 Muslim fundamentalists murder 12 Croats and Bosnians in Algeria
Downing Street Declaration
Dec 15 British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds sign Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination
- Dec 15 C-130 flies into a Philippines hill & explodes, 16 killed
- Dec 15 Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns
- Dec 15 John Williams makes his final appearance as conductor of Boston Pops
- Dec 15 Lee Aspen resigns as secretary of defense
- Dec 15 Y-12 crashes at Phonesavanh, Laos: 18 killed
- Dec 16 Jule Styne, Norman and Bob Merrill's musical "Red Shoes", based on the 1948 film, opens at Gershwin Theater, NYC; runs for 5 performances
Shannen Doherty Fired
Dec 16 Shannen Doherty (Brenda) is fired from TV series Beverly Hills 90210
- Dec 17 "Northern Exposure" star Barry Corbin falls off his horse
- Dec 17 Kevin Scott skates world record 1000 m (1:12.54)
- Dec 17 Muslims in Bangladesh call for the murder of feminist Taslima Nasrin
- Dec 18 Kevin Scott skates world record 1K (1:12.54)
- Dec 18 The MGM Grand Las Vegas hotel and casino first opens as the largest hotel complex in the world (since surpassed)
- Dec 19 Marsha Norman, Bob Merrill, and Jule Styne's fairy tale musical "Red Shoes", directed by Stanley Donen, closes at Gershwin Theater, NYC, after 5 performances; loses nearly $8 million
- Dec 21 "The Sign" single released in the US by Ace of Base (Billboard Song of the Year 1994)
- Dec 26 Antonov-26 crashes at Gyumri, Armenia, 36 killed
- Dec 27 "Candles, Snow, & Mistletoe" opens at Palace Theater, NYC; runs for 7 performances
- Dec 27 Dow-Jones hits record 3792.93
Bocelli's Debut
Dec 28 Andrea Bocelli makes his classical debut singing at a concert at Teatro Romolo Valli in Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Dec 28 Ballon d'Or: Juventus' Italian striker Roberto Baggio is named Europe's best football player ahead of Inter forward Dennis Bergkamp and Manchester United striker Eric Cantona
- Dec 28 Dow-Jones hits record 3793.49
- Dec 28 Dutch Antilles government of Yandi Paula forms
Courtney Love Sues
Dec 29 Courtney Love sues doctors for leaking news of her methadone treatment
- Dec 29 Todd Bridges arrested for transporting methamphetamine (speed)
- Dec 30 "Candles, Snow, & Mistletoe" closes at Palace NYC after 7 performances
- Dec 30 Vatican recognizes Israel
Streisand's 1st Concert in 20 Years
Dec 31 Barbra Streisand performs her 1st public concert in 20 years before a sell-out crows of over 25,000 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada
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