Lincoln High School Class of 1994 - 1994 in Review
World Events
• Serbs' heavy weapons pound Sarajevo (January 5-6).
• Thousands dead in Rwanda massacre (April 6).
• South Africa holds first interracial national election (April 29); Nelson Mandela elected President.
• Israel signs accord with Palestinians (May 4), peace treaty with Jordan (October 17).
• IRA declares cease-fire in Northern Ireland (Aug. 31). Ulster Protestants declare cease-fire (October 13).
• Aristide returns to Haiti (Oct. 4), forms Government with Prime Minister and full Cabinet (November 9).
• United States sends forces to Persian Gulf (October 7).
• Russians attack secessionist Republic of Chechnya (December 11 et seq.).
• Nobel Peace Prize: Yasir Arafat (Palestine), Shimon Peres, and Yitzhak Rabin (both Israel)
World Population
5.602 billion
United States 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
United States Events
• Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan attacked (January 6); three arrested in attack (January 13).
• Aldrich Ames, high C.I.A. official, charged with spying for Soviets (February 22).
• Four convicted in World Trade Center bombing (March 4).
• Clinton accused of sexual harassment while Governor of Arkansas (May 6).
• O. J. Simpson arrested in killings of wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and friend, Ronald Goldman (June 18).
• US Supreme Court approves limit on abortion protests (June 30).
• Senate confirms Stephen G. Breyer for Supreme Court (July 29).
• Major league baseball players strike (August 13).
• Newt Gingrich named House Speaker (December 5).
Economics
• US GDP (1998 dollars): $6,947.00 billion
• Federal spending: $1460.84 billion
• Federal debt: $4643.7 billion
• Median Household Income (current dollars): $32,264
• Consumer Price Index: 148.2
• Unemployment: 6.1%
• 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)
• Stanley Cup
NY Rangers d. Vancouver (4-3)
• Wimbledon
Women: Conchita Martinez d. M. Navratilova (6-4 3-6 6-3)
Men: Pete Sampras d. G. Ivanisevic (7-6 7-6 6-0)
• Kentucky Derby Champion
Go For Gin
• NCAA Basketball Championship
Arkansas d. Duke (76-72)
• NCAA Football Champions
Nebraska (13-0-0)
• World Cup
Brazil d. Italy (3-2 (shootout))
• 1994 Winter Olympics
Entertainment
Events
• 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.
• For the first time in history, chain bookstores outsell independent stores, signaling what many fear to be the death of smaller booksellers at the hands of superstores.
• 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.
Movies
• Forrest Gump
• Pulp Fiction
• The Shawshank Redemption
• Quiz Show
• Nobody's Fool
Books
• James Kelman, How Late It Was, How Late
• Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
Events
• White House launches Web page. Initial commerce sites are established and mass marketing campaigns are launched via email, introducing the term 'spamming' to the Internet vocabulary. Background: Computers and Internet
• Dr. Ned First (US) clones calves from cells of early embryos. Background: Cloning Milestones
• The FDA approves the Flavr Savr tomato, the first genetically-engineered food product.
Nobel Prizes in Science
• Chemistry: George A. Olah (US), University of Southern California in Los Angeles, for research that opened new ways to break apart and rebuild compounds of carbon and hydrogen
• Physics: Clifford G. Shull (US) and Bertram N. Brockhouse (Canada), for adapting beams of neutrons as probes to explore the atomic structure of matter
• Physiology or Medicine: Alfred G. Gilman and Martin Rodbell (both US), for discovery of G-proteins that help cells respond to outside signals
