1994

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s - 1990s - 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s

Years: 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 - 1994 - 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

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International year of the Family

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Births

Deaths

• February 11 - Antonio Martin, Spanish cyclist.
• February 11 - Sorrell Brooke, actor.
• February 11 - William Conrad, actor.
• May 8 - George Peppard, actor.
• September 11 - Jessica Tandy, actress.
• October 20 - Burt Lancaster, actor
• November 28 - Jeffrey Dahmer, serial killer

Events

• The Estonia sinks, killing 852.
• Brazil wins Football World Cup in the United States
• A strike by baseball players results in the premature termination of the season and the cancellation of the Baseball/World Series, for the first time since 1904.
• Homosexual marriages legal in Sweden

Sport

• January 30 - Super Bowl XXVIII Dallas Cowboys (30) def. Buffalo Bills (13)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford G. Shull
• Chemistry - George A Olah
• Medicine - Alfred G Gilman, Martin Rodbell
• Literature - Kenzaburo Oe
• Peace- Yasser Arafat , Shimon Peres (Israel) and Yitzhak Rabin
• Economics - Reinhard Selten, John Nash Jr, John Harsanyi