What Happened In February 1994 In History

Historical Events for February, 1994

• 1st » Punk rock band Green Day releases their album 'Dookie', which would eventually sell over 20 million copies worldwide.
• 5th » Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
• 5th » During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell slams into a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
• 22nd » Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
• 25th » Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Baruch Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian people or Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten

Famous Birthdays on February in 1994

• 1st » Anna-Lena Friedsam, German tennis player
• 1st » Skylar Laine, American singer-songwriter
• 1st » Harry Styles, English singer (One Direction)
• 5th » Saki Nakajima (singer) called Saki Nakajima, Japanese singer (Cute (Japanese band) e.g Cute, Guardians 4, and Petitmoni)
• 8th » Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 10th » Makenzie Vega, American actress
• 10th » Son Na-eun, South Korean singer, dancer, actress and model (A Pink)
• 11th » Dominic Janes, American actor
• 11th » Katherine Miranda Chang, Peruvian tennis player
• 12th » Alex Galchenyuk, American ice hockey player
• 13th » Memphis Depay, Dutch footballer
• 13th » Patryk Dobek, Polish sprinter
• 14th » Paul Butcher (actor) or Paul Butcher, American actor
• 16th » Annika Beck, German tennis player
• 16th » Matthew Knight, Canadian actor
• 17th » Angie Miller (American singer) called Angie Miller, American singer-songwriter
• 18th » Ulrik Munther, Swedish singer-songwriter
• 19th » Tiina Trutsi, Estonian footballer
• 21st » Tang Haochen, Chinese tennis player
• 21st » Charalampos Mavrias, Greek footballer
• 23rd » Dakota Fanning, American actress
• 24th » Earl Sweatshirt, American rapper and producer (Odd Future)
• 25th » Eugenie Bouchard, Canadian tennis player
• 27th » Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player
• 28th » Jake Bugg, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Famous Deaths for February 1994

• 4th » Jane Arbor, English author (b. 1903)
• 4th » Fred De Bruyne, Belgian cyclist (b. 1930)
• 6th » Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)
• 6th » Jack Kirby, American author and illustrator (b. 1917)
• 7th » Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer and conductor (b. 1913)
• 7th » Stephen Milligan, English journalist and politician (b. 1948)
• 7th » Arnold Smith, Canadian diplomat, 1st Commonwealth Secretary-General (b. 1915)
• 8th » Raymond Scott, American pianist and composer (b. 1908)
• 9th » Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine e.g Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1934)
• 11th » Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (b. 1946)
• 11th » Sorrell Booke, American actor (b. 1930)
• 11th » William Conrad, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1920)
• 11th » Paul Feyerabend, Austrian philosopher (b. 1924)
• 11th » Nicole Germain, Canadian actress (b. 1917)
• 12th » Sue Rodriguez, Canadian activist (b. 1950)
• 14th » Andrei Chikatilo, Ukrainian-Russian serial killer (b. 1936)
• 14th » Christopher Lasch, American historian and critic (b. 1932)
• 14th » Rodney Orr, American race car driver (b. 1962)
• 17th » Randy Shilts, American author and journalist (b. 1951)
• 19th » Derek Jarman, English director and set designer (b. 1942)
• 21st » Johannes Steinhoff, German general and pilot (b. 1913)
• 22nd » Papa John Creach, American violinist (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, and The Dinosaurs) (b. 1917)
• 24th » Jean Sablon, French singer and actor (b. 1906)
• 24th » Dinah Shore, American actress and singer (b. 1916)
• 25th » Baruch Goldstein, American-Israeli physician and murderer (b. 1956)
• 25th » Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (b. 1914)
• 26th » Bill Hicks, American comedian and singer (b. 1961)

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