1994

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Centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades:	1960s 1970s 1980s - 1990s - 2000s 2010s 2020s
Years:	1991 1992 1993 - 1994 - 1995 1996 1997

1994 is a year in the 20th century. It is a common year.

1 Births
2 Deaths
3 Events
4 Films released
5 New books
6 Hit songs

[change] Births

February 23 - Dakota Fanning, American actress

[change] Deaths

January 15 - Harry Nilsson, American musician (b. 1941)
February 24 - Dinah Shore, American actress and singer (b. 1916)
March 4 - John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (b. 1950)
March 13 - Danny Barker, American jazz musician (b. 1909)
April 5 - Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana) (b. 1967)
April 22 - Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (b. 1913)
May 1 - Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1960)
May 19 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (b. 1929)
July 8 - Kim Il-sung, President of North Korea (b. 1912)

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January 1 - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect
January 6 - Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding.
January 11 - Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Fein
January 14 - U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles to targets and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine.
January 17 - 1994 Northridge Earthquake, magnitude 6.7, hits the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles at 4:31 am.
January 20 - In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet to attend The Citadel but soon drops out.
January 26 - A man fires two blank shots at Charles, Prince of Wales in Sydney, Australia.
January 28 - The first trial of accused murderer Lyle Menendez ends in a mistrial. He and his brother Erik are later found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
January 31 - German luxury car manufacturer BMW announces the purchase of Rover from British Aerospace
February 1 - Green Day's first major label studio album, Dookie, debuts.
March 8 - The industrial band Nine Inch Nails finally released their long-awaited second full-length album The Downard Spiral, which had become a hit. Soundgarden's Superuknown, which featured their best known hit "Black Hole Sun", was released on the same day.
April 8 - Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana, is found dead in Seattle, Washington. He had committed suicide three days earlier.
April 19 - The Offspring releases their third album, Smash, which would be one of the band's top selling albums sold in the entire world. It contains their best known hit singles, "Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated)" and "Self Esteem".
August 12 - Woodstock '94 happens
October 14 - A popular Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction was released in theaters, starring Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel and Bruce Willis.
Brett Gurewitz leaves Bad Religion to concentrate on the fast growing Epitaph Records, leaving their singer Greg Graffin the only founding member of the band still performing with the group. He was replaced by former Minor Threat/Dag Nasty guitarist Brian Baker, who turned down a touring job for R.E.M. at this time. However, Gurewitz rejoined Bad Religion in 2001 and he is still a member of the band today.