Bill Clinton
(Born Aug. 19, 1946 in Hope, Ark.)
42nd President of the United States
“Being President is like being the
groundskeeper in a cemetery: there
are a lot of people under you, but
none of them are listening.”
1994 Dodge
Viper
— Bill Clinton
Al Gore
(Born March 31, 1948 in Washington, D.C.)
45th Vice President of the United States
World events
• Intermittent Civil War in Rwanda
between majority Hutus and minority
Tutsis after assassination of President
estimates of 1/2 million people killed
in civil wars
• Nelson
Mandella
becomes
president of
South Africa
•
Channel
Tunnel
opened
between
England and
France
• 48 members of the Order of the
Solar Tradition Cult commit suicide to
escape the hypocrisies and oppression
of this world
• PLO leader Yasser Arafat returns
to Palestine after 27 years in exile
• Ferry Estonia sinks in the Baltic
Sea off coast of Finland killing
over 900
• The Achille Lauro is destroyed in a fire off the coast of
Somalia
• The journal
Nature
reports
the finding in
Ethiopia
of the first
complete
Australopithecus afarensis skull
• Jordan and
Israel sign a peace treaty
• The IRA announces a
complete cessation of military operations
• Outbreak of the Ebola virus in
Zaire
• NAFTA begins
• Violent wildfires
destroy 286,000 acres in
Montana
Sports
U.S. news
• Tonya Harding wins
the national Figure Skating title but is stripped
of her title following an
attack on her rival Nancy
Kerrigan
• First genetically
engineered tomatoes
available
• Magnitude 6.7
Northridge earthquake
hits San Fernando Valley
• OJ Simpson flees
police in his white Ford Bronco
• MLB players begin 232-day strike
• Orange County, Calif. files for
bankruptcy protection
• The Whitewater scandal investigation begins
• Superbowl XXVIII, Dallas
30, Buffalo 13
• NBA Finals, Houston Rockets 4,
New York Knicks 3
Technology
• World’s first satellite digital television service launched
• Netscape Navigator released,
quickly becomes market leader for
browsing the web
• Java programming language released
• Scientists estimate the oldest
Europeans at 500,000 years old
• The Channel Tunnel, which
took 15,000 workers over seven
years to complete, and is 31
miles long joining France and
England, opens
Popular culture
• Lisa Marie Presley marries Michael Jackson
• Kurt Cobain commits suicide
1994 Ferrari
F355
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Popular films
• The Shawshank Redemption
• Forrest Gump
• The Lion King
• True Lies
• The Santa Clause
• The Flintstones
• Dumb & Dumber
• Clear and Present Danger
• Speed
• The Mask
• Pulp Fiction
• Four Weddings and a Funderal
• Miracle on 34th Street
Popular
music
• The Sign, Ace of Base
• I Swear, All-4-One
• I’ll Make Love to You, Boyz II Men
• The Power of the Dream, Celine
Dion
• Hero, Mariah Carey
• Stay (I Missed You), Lisa Loeb
and Nine Stories
• Breathe Again, Toni Braxton
• All for Love, Bryan Adams, Rod
Stewart and Sting
• All That She Wants, Ace of Base
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George Foreman (45)
KOs Michael Moorer
to win boxing HW
championship
Popular TV shows
• Seinfeld
• E.R.
• Home Improvement
• Grace Under Fire
• NYPD Blue
• Murder, She Wrote
• Friends
• Roseanne
• Mad About You
• Madman of the People
1994 Ford
Mustang
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