Stern's Beauty Pageant
Jan 1 Howard Stern's New Year's Eve Beauty Pageant
Taylor Released From Hospital
Jan 17 Actress Elizabeth Taylor released from the hospital after hip treatment
"Four Weddings and a Funeral" Premieres
Jan 20 British comedy "Four Weddings and a Funeral" written by Richard Curtis, starring Hugh Grant premieres at the Sundance Film Festival
51st Golden Globes
Jan 22 51st Golden Globes: Schlinder's List, Tom Hanks, & Holly Hunter win
- Jan 30 10th Sundance Film Festival: "What Happened Was" wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
"Marimar"
Jan 31 Mexican telenovela "Marimar" starring Thalia and Eduardo Capetillo premieres
- Feb 4 10th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins
- Feb 5 "Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego," debuts on Fox TV
- Feb 7 American actor and singer Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle, USMC) undergoes a liver transplant
- Feb 7 Howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge
- Feb 8 "Sátántangó", Hungarian film directed by Béla Tarr, starring Mihály Víg, Putyi Horváth, is released
Nicholson Attacks Car
Feb 8 Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car
Film & TV History
Feb 12 Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose
Grammy Awards
Mar 1 36th Grammy Awards: "I Will Always Love You"; Whitney Houston; Sting; Toni Braxton; Mary Chapin-Carpenter win
- Mar 7 8th American Comedy Award: Carrot Top
People's Choice Awards
Mar 8 20th People's Choice Awards: Tom Cruise & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Roseanne Arnold win (TV)
- Mar 10 1 million Greeks attend actress and activist Melina Mercouri's funeral
Film & TV History
Mar 18 Zsa Zsa Gabor files for bankruptcy
- Mar 20 14th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Indecent Proposal" wins
- Mar 20 WrestleMania X, Madison Square Garden, NYC: Bret Hart beats Yokozuna to win WWF Championship
Academy Awards
Mar 21 66th Academy Awards: "Schindler's List", Tom Hanks & Holly Hunter win
Music History
Mar 21 English actor Dudley Moore arrested for hitting his girlfriend
- Mar 23 Howard Stern formally announces his Libertarian run for NY governor
- Mar 30 ABC Masters Tournament won by Hobo Boothe
- Mar 31 Actor James Farentino pleads no contest to stalking ex-girlfriend Tina Sinatra
Film & TV History
Apr 4 American actor Tony Curtis (68) undergoes heart-bypass surgery
Music History
Apr 5 "Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect" opens at Golden Theater, NYC; runs for 347 performances
Film & TV History
Apr 6 Chuck Jones found guilty of breaking into beauty queen Marla Maples' home
Music Concert
Apr 9 Rock for the Rainforest benefit concert held at Carnegie Hall, NYC; performers include: Sting, Elton John, James Taylor, Whitney Houston, Luciano Pavarotti, Aaron Neville, Tammy Wynette, Branford Marsalis, and Larry Adler
Film & TV History
Apr 13 Asteroid 7373 Takei discovered and named after Star Trek actor George Takei
Film & TV History
Apr 14 Turner Classic Movies cable channel launches; media mogul Ted Turner hosts ceremony in NYC's Times Square district at 6PM marking "the exact centennial anniversary of the first public movie showing in New York City"
Music History
Apr 15 Jazz singer Tony Bennett records a session for "MTV's Unplugged" series at Sony Studios, NYC, featuring the Ralph Sharon trio, and guest appearances by Elvis Costello, and k.d.lang; album release wins 2 Grammy Awards
Film & TV History
Apr 18 Arsenio Hall announces he will end his late-night TV talk show in May 1994
- Apr 23 Libertarian party nominates Howard Stern for Governor of NY
Due South Premieres
Apr 26 TV series "Due South" about Canadian Mounties starring Paul Gross premieres in Canada
- Apr 27 Revival of J.B Priestley's stage drama "An Inspector Calls", starring Philip Bosco, opens at Royale Theatre NYC; runs for 454 performances, winning a Drama Desk and a Tony Award
- May 1 Charles Kuralt, American broadcast journalist (On the Road) retires from CBS
- May 6 Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait sets fire to the couch on The Tonight Show
- May 8 500th commentary by Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes
Music Concert
May 10 Barbra Streisand's begins 1st concert tour in 30 years, at the Capitol Centre in Landover, Maryland (after "warm-up" shows in Las Vegas and London)
Pulp Fiction
May 12 "Pulp Fiction", directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson premieres at the Cannes Film Festival (Palme d'Or 1994)
Film & TV History
May 19 Egyptian actor Omar Sharif suffers a mild heart attack
- May 19 Final episode of American TV drama "LA Law" after 8 year run
- May 20 Sony Theaters & Cineplex (NYC) hike movie ticket prices to $8.00
- May 20 Sushmita Sen from India is crowned the 43rd Miss Universe at 18 years old
- May 23 "Star Trek: The Next Generation" finale airs this week in syndication
- May 23 47th Cannes Film Festival: "Pulp Fiction" directed by Quentin Tarantino wins the Palme d'Or
Daytime Emmy Awards
May 25 Emmy 21st Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci not nominated
The Flintstones
May 27 "The Flintstones" live action movie based in the 1960s cartoon, starring John Goodman (as Fred), Rick Moranis (as Barney), and Rosie O'Donnell (as Betty) premieres
- May 27 Final broadcast of TV talk show "The Arsenio Hall Show"
Radio History
May 27 Larry King ends his radio show
Film & TV History
Jun 2 Indonesian censors ban Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List"
Film & TV History
Jun 2 Sharon Stone files $12m lawsuit against her jeweler
Music History
Jun 5 Spalding Gray's one-man show "Gray's Anatomy" opens an encore run at Beaumont Theater, NYC; runs for 8 performances
- Jun 11 "Meet The Flintstones" by The B-52's (stylized for this release as The B.C. 52's) from the 1994 film The Flintstones peaks at #33
- Jun 20 Howard Stern begins 30-minute (Radio) TV show on E! cable network
- Jun 27 Spalding Gray's one-man show "Gray's Anatomy" closes at Beaumont Theater, NYC, after 8 performances
- Jul 6 "Forrest Gump", directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, and Gary Sinise, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1995)
Film & TV History
Jul 10 Revival of Henrik Ibsen's stage drama "Hedda Gabler", starring Kelly McGillis, opens at Criterion Theater, NYC; runs for 33 performances
The Sisters Rosensweig
Jul 16 Wendy Wasserstein's stage play "The Sisters Rosensweig", starring Madeline Kahn, closes at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC, after 556 performances
Pro Wrestling
Jul 17 Hulk Hogan beats Ric Flair to win WCW wrestling championship
Music History
Jul 23 American dancer, actor, and director Gene Kelly suffers a mild stroke
- Aug 2 NY Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern's non financial disclosure
- Aug 4 27th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Hyatt Regency
- Aug 4 Howard Stern drops out of NY gubernatorial race
- Aug 7 Revival of Henrik Ibsen's stage drama "Hedda Gabler", starring Kelly McGillis, closes at Criterion Theater, NYC, after 33 performances
- Aug 16 Shauna Gambill, 17, of California, crowned 12th Miss Teen USA
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
- Sep 1 51st Venice Film Festival: "Before the Rain" directed by Milco Mancevski and "Vive L'Amour" directed by Tsai Ming-Liang jointly awarded Golden Lion
Telethon
Sep 5 Jerry Lewis' 29th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,100,000
Film & TV History
Sep 6 Actor Jackson Pinckney awarded $487,000 for being partially blinded by Jean-Claude Van Damme during filming of "Cyborg"
Emmy Awards
Sep 11 46th Emmy Awards: Frasier, Picket Fences and Kelsey Grammer win
- Sep 17 19th Toronto International Film Festival: "Priest" directed by Antonia Bird wins the People's Choice Award
- Sep 17 Heather Whitestone (21), Miss Alabama, crowned 68th Miss America 1995
ER
Sep 19 Hospital based drama series "ER" premieres on NBC, created by novelist and filmmaker Michael Crichton, starring George Clooney, Anthony Edwards and Noah Wyle
Friends
Sep 22 "Friends" TV sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman debuts on NBC, starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer
The Shawshank Redemption
Sep 23 "The Shawshank Redemption", directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, is released
Ed Wood
Sep 28 "Ed Wood" film directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp premieres
Film & TV History
Oct 3 Gary Larson, announces he is retiring from doing "The Far Side" cartoon
Film & TV History
Nov 11 Gothic horror film "Interview with a Vampire", based on the book by Anne Rice, directed by Neal Jordan is released, starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Christian Slater
Star Trek: Generations
Nov 18 "Star Trek: Generations" film directed by David Carson and starring Patrick Stewart premieres
Aishwarya Rai Miss World
Nov 19 Aishwarya Rai, 21, of India, crowned 44th Miss World
Cobb
Dec 2 "Cobb" a film about baseball player Ty Cobb, starring Tommy Lee Jones premieres
Kennedy Center Honors
Dec 4 Kennedy Center Honors ceremony held for actor Kirk Douglas, singer Aretha Franklin, composer Morton Gould, theater producer-director Harold Prince, and folk singer-songwriter Pete Seeger, in Washington D.C.
- Dec 7 Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide
- Dec 18 Stand-up comedy revue "Comedy Tonight" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater, NYC; runs for 9 performances
- Dec 25 "Comedy Tonight" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 8 performances
"The Madness of King George"
Dec 28 "The Madness of King George" film based on the play by Alan Bennett, directed by Nicholas Hytner, starring Nigel Hawthorne and Helen Mirren premieres in the US
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