Events Date 1994 August | History by KabAstro

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

Baseball Record

Aug 1 Baltimore shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. becomes only the second player after Lou Gehrig to appear in 2,000 consecutive MLB games, in a 1-0 win vs Twins

Voodoo Lounge World Tour

Aug 1 The Rolling Stones begin the Voodoo Lounge World Tour

Aug 1 Train crash in Havana, Cuba, kills 6
Aug 2 Congressional hearings begin on White Water
Aug 2 Explosion in lead/zinc mine in Guangxi China, 120+ killed
Aug 2 Noureddine Morceli runs world record 3000m (7:25.11)

Howard Stern Disclosure

Aug 2 NY Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern's non financial disclosure

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 Dwingeloo 1, near milky way system, 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

Hedda Gabler

Aug 7 Revival of Henrik Ibsen's stage drama "Hedda Gabler", starring Kelly McGillis, closes at Criterion Theater, NYC, after 33 performances

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

Women's British Open

Aug 14 British Open Women's Golf, Woburn, Duke's Course: Liselotte Neumann wins by 3 strokes from fellow Swede Annika Sörenstam; first LPGA sanctioned Open

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

PGA Championship

Aug 14 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Southern Hills CC: Nick Price of Zimbabwe wins his 2nd PGA C'ship by 6 strokes from American Corey Pavin

Aug 14 Space telescope Hubble photographs Uranus with rings
Aug 14 Terrorist "Carlos" arrested in Khartoum, Sudan

Event of Interest

Aug 15 South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning

Anti-apartheid Activist and South African President Nelson Mandela

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 homosexuals 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

Murder of Interest

Aug 22 DNA testing links O.J. Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman

NFL Running Back and Convicted Criminal O.J. Simpson

Aug 22 Wim Cook government forms in Netherlands

Grace

Aug 23 Jeff Buckley releases his album "Grace", featuring his cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah"

Singer-Songwriter and Writer Leonard Cohen

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)

Laughter on the 23rd Floor

Aug 27 Neil Simon's comedy "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater, NYC, after 320 performances

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