February 1994 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1994 Irina Privalova runs world record 50 metre indoor (6.03 seconds).
• 03 Feb 1994 Les Miserables, opens at Kallang Theatre, Singapore
• 04 Feb 1994 10th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins
• 05 Feb 1994 Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego, debuts on Fox TV
• 06 Feb 1994 Government Inspector closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 37 performances
• 07 Feb 1994 Howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge
• 08 Feb 1994 Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car
• 09 Feb 1994 Edvard Munch's painting ampquotThe Screamampquot is stolen in Oslo (and is recovered on May 7).
• 11 Feb 1994 Sorrell Booke, American actor (Mayor Boss Hogg - Dukes of Hazzard), dies at age 64 (born 1930).
• 12 Feb 1994 17th Winter Olympic games opens in Lillehammer, Norway
• 13 Feb 1994 44th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 127-118 at Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• 14 Feb 1994 Alexander Golubev skates Olympics record 500 metre (36.33).
• 15 Feb 1994 US asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti.
• 16 Feb 1994 6.5 earthquake strikes SE Sumatra, kills 200
• 17 Feb 1994 Randy Shilts, American journalist (And the band played on), dies of AIDS at age 41 (born 1951).
• 18 Feb 1994 Actor Joe Pantoliano (41) weds model Nancy Sheppard
• 20 Feb 1994 Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals.
• 22 Feb 1994 Les Miserables, opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya
• 23 Feb 1994 A US District Court rules that Microsoft violated patents held by Stac Electronics, in data compression used in Microsoft's DoubleSpace in DOS 6. Microsoft is ordered to remove or replace the technology, and pay US$120 million in damages. The court also finds that Stac illegally used access to Microsoft's trade secrets to make Stacker compatible with DOS 6.0. Microsoft is awarded US$13.6 million in damages.
• 24 Feb 1994 In Gloucester, local police begin excavations at 25 Cromwell Street, the home of Fred West, a suspect in multiple murders. On February 28, he and his wife are arrested.
• 25 Feb 1994 Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres 30 Palestinians in Hebron
• 26 Feb 1994 Actor Dolph Lundgren (34) weds Anette Qviberg in Stockholm
• 27 Feb 1994 17th Winter Olympic games closes in Lillehammer, Norway
• 28 Feb 1994 100 agents raid Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas

Famous Birthday

• Harry Styles

  British pop musician and youngest member of the band One Direction.

• Dakota Fanning

  American child actor/actress including "I Am Sam" in 2001 and "Charlotte's Web" (2006) and TV programs like "ER.

• Jake Bugg

  Rock Singer.

• Earl Sweatshirt

  American rapper part of the collective OFWGKTA.

• Eugenie Bouchard

  Tennis Player.

• Nikki Yanofsky

  Canadian singer-songwriter.

• Yifan Hou
• Allie Grant

  American actress.

• J-Hope

  Pop Singer.

• Ellen Marlow
• Makenzie Vega

  American actress.

• Karidja Touré
• Charlie Heaton
• Marie Bochet
• Memphis Depay

  Soccer Player.

• Urvashi Rautela
• Thomas Boudat
• Jordan Ikoko
• Hayley Orrantia

  TV Actress.

• Charlotte Vega
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Famous Deaths

• Bill Hicks

  American comedian actor and singer (d. 1994).

• Dinah Shore

  American entertainer, the winner of eight Emmy's and owner of nine gold records.

• Yann Piat

  French politician who served in the National Assembly from 1993 to 1994.

• Jean Sablon

  French actor and singer.

• Joseph Cotten

  American stage, radio and film actor.

• Derek Jarman

  British film director known for being iconoclastic and innovative.

• Donald Judd

  US furniture maker/architect/artist, dies at age 65.

• William Conrad

  American actor (Cannon), dies of a heart attack at age 73 (born 1920).

• Papa John Creach

  American musician (Born 1917).

• Hermann Abs

  German banker to Hitler and Adenauer, dies at 92.

• Pu Yi

  Brother of last Chinese Emperor, , dies at 87.

• Sorrell Brooke

  Actor (Mayor Hogg-Dukes of Hazzard), dies at 64.

• Frederick Edward Nicklin

  Architect, dies at 68.

• Baruch Goldstein

  Physician / murderer (53 in mosque), lynched at 42.

• Tiger Haynes

  US actor (Moscow on the Hudson, Cosby Show), dies at age 79.

• Fouad Fram al-Boustani

  Lebanese Historian (Rawaeaa), dies at 88.

• Norman Del Mar

  Conductor / writer (Conducting Brahms), dies at 74.

• John Wesley Funchess Littlejohn

  blues guitarist/singer, dies at age 62.

• Ignace Strasfogel

  Polish / US pianist / conductor / composer, dies at 84.

• Andrei Tsjikatilo [Rostov Ripper]

  Russian mass murdered, executed.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Bryan Adams - All For Love
2. Celine Dion - The Power Of Love
3. Mariah Carey - Hero
4. Ace Of Base - The Sign
5. Toni Braxton - Breathe Again

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. D:Ream - Things Can Only Get Better
2. Mariah Carey - Without You
3. Toni Braxton - Breathe Again
4. Doop - Doop
5. Ace Of Base - The Sign