1994- One Year In History
US Statistics:
President: William J. Clinton
Vice President: Albert Gore, Jr.
Population: 260,289,237
Life expectancy: 75.7 years
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 53.7
Property Crime Rate (per 1,000): 46.6
News Headlines:
Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan attacked (Feb. 22).
Four convicted in World Trade Center bombing (March 4).
O. J. Simpson arrested in killings of wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and friend, Ronald Goldman (June 18).
Major league baseball players strike (Aug. 13).
Powerful earthquake strikes.
Reagan, 83, reveals Alzheimer's disease (Nov. 6).
Economics:
US GDP (1998 dollars): $6,947.00 billion
Federal debt: $4643.7 billion
Unemployment: 6.9%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.29
Sports:
Super Bowl
Dallas d. Buffalo (30-13)
World Series
Not Held
NBA Championship
Houston d. New York (4-3)
1994 Winter Olympics
Entertainment:
Kurt Cobain kills himself. He was 27.
Ninety-five million viewers watch O. J. Simpson and Al Cowlings drive along Los Angeles freeways in history's most exciting low-speed chase.
Steven Spielberg wins his first directing Oscar for Schindler's List.
Woodstock '94 commemorates the original weekend-long concert. Green Day and Nine Inch Nails join Woodstock veterans Bob Dylan and the Allman Brothers.
Tom Hanks wins his second consecutive Best Actor Oscar. He won in 1993 for his role in Philadelphia and in 1994 for Forrest Gump.
ER and Friends debut on NBC, establishing NBC's dominance of the Thursday-night lineup.
Record of the Year: Sheryl Crow, "All I Wanna Do"
Album of the Year: Tony Bennett, MTV Unplugged
Deaths:
Richard Milhous Nixon 4/22/1994
Cab Calloway
Burt Lancaster
John Candy
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Tip O'Neill
Jessica Tandy
