1994

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1890s - 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s

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.

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]?