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| January
1: North American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA) begins. January 6: An accomplice Tonya Harding assaults rival figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. The man clubs Kerrigan in the leg intending to remove her from competition. January 14: Russian manned spacecraft Soyuz TM-17 lands. On board are crew Vasili Tsibliyev and Aleksandr Serebrov returning to Earth after a long duration space mission aboard space station Mir. January 25: NASA and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization launch the space probe Clementine. It will go on to orbit the moon and capture 1.8 million images of the surface. January 30: The Dallas Cowboys football team defeats the Buffalo Bills by a score of 30-13 for their fourth Super Bowl Victory in Super Bowl XXVIII. February 3: NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-60 mission. February 12: The 1994 Winter Olympics opening ceremony occurs in Lillehammer, Norway. February 25: A retirement party is held in honor of Gene Kranz's retirement from NASA. A friend and I attended this party and had a private meeting with Mr. Kranz in his office on this day. For an account of these events follow the Gene Kranz link. March 4: NASA launches space shuttle Columbia on the STS-62 mission. March 18: Space shuttle Columbia lands after the successful completion the STS-62 mission. March 21: The Best Picture Oscar is awarded to "Schindler's List" at the 66th annual Academy Awards ceremony. March 22: Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-21 lands with crewmembers Anatoli Solovyov and Nikolai Budarin after the successful completion of their long duration mission on space station Mir. April 9: NASA launches space shuttle Endeavour on the STS-59 mission. It is the first space shuttle launch that I ever saw in person. For my personal account of the launch follow the STS-59 link. April 13: The GOES-8 weather satellite is launch on board Atlas Centaur 73 from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. For my personal account of the launch follow the AC-73 link. April 20: Space Shuttle Endeavour lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California after the successful completion of its mission. April 26: A China Airlines Airbus A-300 crashes in Nagoya, Japan killing all 264 on board. April 27: Former US President Richard M. Nixon is buried at the Nixon Presidential Library in California. May 1: Formula 1 race driver Ayrton Senna is killed in a crash at the San Marino Grand Prix. May 29: Al Unser Jr. wins the 78th Indianapolis 500. This is the last 500 for veteran race driver Mario Andretti, who retires. June 22: The Houston Rockets beat the New York Knicks 4 games to 3 in the 48th NBA Championship. July 1: Russia launches manned spacecraft Soyuz TM-19 with a crew of Yuri Malenchenko and Talgat Musabayev. July 9: Russian manned spacecraft Soyuz TM-18 lands with crew Viktor Afansayev and Yuri Usachev. July 8: NASA launches space shuttle Columbia on mission STS-65. July 12: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside of her home in Los Angeles, California. July 16: First fragment of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with the planet Jupiter. July 22: Last fragment of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with the planet Jupiter. July 23: Space Shuttle Columbia lands after a record setting 14 day 55 minute mission. August 1: Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson confirm rumors that they had been married a few weeks before. August 12: Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association go on strike. September 9: NASA launches space shuttle Discovery on mission STS-64. September 13: Space probe Ulysses passes over the South Pole of the Sun. September 20: Space shuttle Discovery lands after the completion of mission STS-64. September 30: NASA launches space shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-68. October 3: Russia launches Soyuz TM-20 with crewmembers Aleksandr Viktorenko, Elena Kondakova, and German Ulf Merbold. October 11: Space shuttle Endeavour lands after the successful completion of mission STS-68. October
13: NASA loses contact
with the Venus orbiting
spacecraft Magellan that is destined to burn up in the atmosphere of
Venus
after completing its mission. |