What Happened in April 1994

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• Apr 3 13th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Louisiana Tech, 60-59; Tar Heels first NCAA title on 3-point shot by Charlotte Smith as time expires
• Apr 3 1st roster of Silver Bullets (all-female pro baseball team) announced

• Apr 4 1st game played at Jacobs Field, Indians beat Mariners 4-3 in 11 inn
• Apr 4 56th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Arkansas beats Duke, 76-72; Razorbacks' first title in first title game

• Apr 4 KLM Saab 340B crashes at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 3 killed

• Apr 4 Largest Opening Day crowd at Yankee Stadium, 56,706
• Apr 4 MLB Chicago Cubs Karl "Tuffy" Rhodes, hit 3 HRs in 1993 hits 3 HRs on Opening Day vs Mets starter Dwight "Doc" Gooden at Wrigley Field, Chicago
• Apr 4 Netscape Communications founded as Mosaic Communications

• Apr 5 Miami Heat beat NY Knicks ending 15 game NBA winning streak
• Apr 6 1st scheduled Indians night game at Jacobs Field is rained out

• Apr 6 Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 Israelis & himself

• Apr 6 Rockwell B-1B Lancers break 11 world speed records
• Apr 7 1st night game at Cleveland's Jacobs Field, Indians 6 Seattle 2
• Apr 7 American soul singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion; receives sentence of six months in a halfway house, five years of probation, and ordered to pay $96,000 in back taxes and penalties
• Apr 7 Beginning of the Rwandan Genocide; the Presidential Guard begins killing moderate politicians and public figures in Kigali, including Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana
• Apr 7 NY Yankees beat Texas Rangers 18-6

• Apr 7 Vatican commemorates The Holocaust for the first time with an orchestral concert in the Sala Nervi
• Apr 8 Atlanta Brave Kent Mercker no-hits Dodgers, 6-0
• Apr 8 Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa resigns
• Apr 8 MLB outfielder Darryl Strawberry enters Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California for substance abuse rehabilitation
• Apr 8 Smoking banned in Pentagon & all US military bases
• Apr 9 147th Grand National: Jockey Richard Dunwoody wins his second GN aboard Irish 16/1 shot Miinnehoma by 1¼ lengths from Just So
• Apr 9 BPAA US Open by Justin Hromek

• Apr 9 STS-59 (Endeavour) launches into orbit

• Apr 12 Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.

• Apr 13 Pedro Martínez takes a perfect game through 7+1⁄3 innings until hitting Reggie Sanders with a pitch, leading to a bench-clearing brawl
• Apr 13 Presidential guard at Kigali, Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death
• Apr 13 Target date for Israeli complete withdrawal, doesn't occur
• Apr 13 United Arab Emirates' 1st official ODI, losing to India
• Apr 14 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender after completion of his Seven Seals manuscript

• Apr 14 NJ Devils end best regular season, 47-25-12 record for 106 points

• Apr 14 US F-15 accidentally shoots 2 US helicopters down over Iraq, 26 die
• Apr 15 Indians loses 1st game at Jacobs Field, KC wins 2-1

• Apr 15 WMMS-FM's Jeff & Flash, & entire station staff, are fired
• Apr 16 Circus performers Marissa Young (24) & Matt Richardson (21) wed
• Apr 17 "Little More Magic" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 30 performances
• Apr 17 "Twilight - Los Angeles 1992" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 72 performances
• Apr 17 Aruba government of Oduber falls

• Apr 18 Lebanon drops relations with Iran
• Apr 18 STS-59 (Endeavour) lands [approx]
• Apr 19 "Illmatic" debut studio album by US rapper Nas is released
• Apr 19 Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10km (11:25.88)
• Apr 19 Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election

• Apr 19 US Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender
• Apr 20 Danny Harold Rolling sentenced to death in Florida for killing 5
• Apr 20 Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed
• Apr 20 Sohail & Inzamam make world record ODI partnership of 263
• Apr 20 Space shuttle STS-59 (Endeavour 6), lands

• Apr 21 Revival of William Inge's stage drama "Picnic" opens at Criterion Theater, NYC; runs for 45 performances
• Apr 21 Serbian army bombs distress clinic in Goradze Bosnia, 28 killed
• Apr 21 The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan
• Apr 22 7,000 Tutsi slaughtered by Hutus in the stadium at Kibuye, Rwanda

• Apr 22 Borge Ousland is the 1st person on a solo and unsupported journey to reach the North Pole

• Apr 22 Schelto Patijn appointed Mayor of Amsterdam
• Apr 22 World's largest lollipop, weighing 3,011 pounds, made by BonBon, a candy factory in Home-Olstrup, Denmark; record later broken
• Apr 23 Army shoots to death 23-40 fishermen in Gonaives, Haiti
• Apr 23 General Tire World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Norm Duke

• Apr 24 "Broken Glass" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 73 performances
• Apr 24 "Flowering Peach" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 41 performances
• Apr 24 Armando Calderon Sol wins El Salvador presidential election
• Apr 24 Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed

• Apr 24 NFL Draft: Ohio State defensive tackle Dan Wilkinson first pick by Cincinnati Bengals
• Apr 24 NY Rangers sweep NY Islanders in NHL playoffs
• Apr 25 14" of snow in Southern California
• Apr 25 Bomb attack on taxi stand in Johannesburg, South Africa kills 10
• Apr 25 Fishing boat with school children capsize at Lanaka Syria, 46 killed
• Apr 25 King Azlan Shah of Malaysia resigns
• Apr 25 Mexican businessman and billionaire Angel Losada kidnapped
• Apr 25 Tsutomu Hata elected premier of Japan
• Apr 26 1st day of voting in first ever multi-racial elections in South Africa, Dr Nomaza Paintin in NZ is 1st black South African to vote
• Apr 26 26.9°C in Prestebakke Norway (Norwegian April high temperature record)
• Apr 26 Physicists announce first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle.
• Apr 26 Taiwan Airbus A-300 crashes at Nagoya Japan, 262 killed

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• Apr 4 Risako Sugaya, Japanese pop singer (Berryz Kobo), born in Kanagawa, Japan
• Apr 5 Simona Tabasco, Italian actress (The White Lotus), born in Naples, Italy
• Apr 11 Dakota Blue Richards, English actress (The Golden Compass), born in South Kensington, London
• Apr 12 Airi Suzuki, Japanese singer (Cute), born in Gifu, Japan

• Apr 16 Liliana Mumy, American actress (Cheaper By The Dozen; The Santa Clause; The Loud House), born in San Marcos, California
• Apr 16 Midori Francis, American actress (Dash & Lily), born in Lakewood, New Jersey)
• Apr 18 Aminé [Adam Daniel ], American singer-songwriter and rapper (Caroline), born in Portland, Oregon
• Apr 18 Moisés Arias, American-Colombian actor (The Kings of Summer), born in New York City
• Apr 24 Austin Rogers, American actor, born in New Port Richey, Florida
• Apr 25 Maggie Rogers, American singer-songwriter (Alaska), born in Easton, Maryland
• Apr 25 Sam Fender, English singer-songwriter and actor (Seventeen Going Under), born in South Shields, England
• Apr 25 Samuel Carvalho, British activist and mental health advocate, born in Cambridge, England

• Apr 9 American singer Wayne Newton (52) weds attorney Kathleen McCrone (30) at his Casa de Shenandoah ranch in Paradise, Nevada
• Apr 16 American singer and piano player Harry Connick, Jr. (26) weds American model Jill Goodacre (30) at St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, Louisiana

• Apr 24 Actor Lou Diamond Phillips marries Kelly Phillips
• Apr 26 "Mad About You" actress Leila Kenzel (33) weds Neil Monaco (34)

• Apr 15 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (21 days after his divorce) weds Mary Richardson

• Apr 1 Robert Doisneau, French photographer (The Kiss), dies at 81
• Apr 1 Rosalind Laura Burke, British aviator, dies at 86
• Apr 1 Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot, dies at 72
• Apr 2 Richard Davies, actor (Pvt Buckaroo), dies of a heart attack at 79
• Apr 3 Elizabeth "Betty" Furness, American actress, journalist and consumer activist (Dangerous Corner, Studio 1), dies of stomach cancer at 78
• Apr 3 Frank G. Wells, American company director (Walt Disney Co.), dies in a helicopter crash at 62
• Apr 3 Jerome Lejeune, French geneticist (discovered chromosome responsible for Downs Syndrome), dies at 67
• Apr 3 Pat Harper, American NYC news anchor (WPIX, WNBC), dies of a heart attack at 59
• Apr 4 (Virginia) "Ginny" Simms, American singer (Kay Kyser Band), actress (Night and Day), and radio star, dies of a heart attack at 80 [1]
• Apr 4 Olga Lowina, Dutch yodeler (Edelweisskapel), dies at 69
• Apr 5 Andre Victor Tchelistcheff, "the dean of American winemaking", Russian-born American winemaker (Beaulieu wines, Napa Valley, dies at 92 [1]

• Apr 5 Marlon Riggs, American writer, director and producer (Ethnic notions), dies at 37
• Apr 5 Roy Smeck, American musician (guitar and banjo), dies at 94
• Apr 6 Cyprien Ntaryamira, 5th President of Burundi (1994), assassinated by missile strike on the plane he was travelling on over Kigali, Rwanda at 39
• Apr 6 Dick Cary, American jazz musician, dies at 77

• Apr 6 Theo Bosch, Dutch humanist and architect (Amsterdam), dies of cardiac arrest at 54
• Apr 7 Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (1993-94) and one of the 1st female political figures in Africa, assassinated by the presidential guard in the opening stages of the Rwandan Genocide at 40
• Apr 7 Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (Minister of Finance), dies at 70
• Apr 7 Evert Hartman, Dutch writer (War Without Friends), dies at 56
• Apr 7 Francois de Grossouvre, French politician and adviser to President Mitterrand, commits suicide at 76
• Apr 7 Golo Mann, German-American historian (Antisemitism), dies at 85
• Apr 7 Ken Carson, American western singer (Garry Moore Show), dies at 79
• Apr 7 Lee Brilleaux, British R&B singer, harmonica player, and guitarist (Dr. Feelgood), dies of lymphoma at 41
• Apr 8 François Rozet, French Canadian actor (b. 1899)
• Apr 8 Irene Eisinger, German-British singer, dies at 91
• Apr 8 Walter Arnold, German theologist (World council of Churches), dies at 64
• Apr 9 Cor van Dis jr. [Cornelis Nicolas van Dis jr.], Dutch politician (1971-94), dies at 71
• Apr 9 Keith Watson, British comic strip artist (Dan Dare), dies at 59
• Apr 9 Marcel Ichac, French director (Karakoram) and alpinist, dies at 87
• Apr 9 Raouf Khayrat, Egyptian general-major, murdered
• Apr 10 James L. Lyons, American jazz promoter (Monterey Jazz Festival, 1958-92), dies of a heart attack at 77
• Apr 10 Sam B. Hall, American politician and judge (Rep (D) Texas 1976-85), dies at 70
• Apr 10 Victor Afanasiev, Rus editor-in-chief of Pravda (1976-89), dies at 71
• Apr 11 John Nicolaas Block, Dutch aviation pioneer (Martinair, Transavia), dies at 64
• Apr 12 Harry la Fontaine, Danish/US resistance fighter/producer, dies at 81
• Apr 12 Q. T. Macon, American blues singer and guitarist ("Blow Wind"), dies at 60
• Apr 13 Donald Benjamin Harden, British researcher, dies at 92
• Apr 13 Nikolai Kryuchkov, Soviet Russian film actor (Telegram; Ballad of a Soldier; Town People), dies at 83
• Apr 13 P. J. Engels, Dutch politician (KVP), dies at 70
• Apr 13 Rudolf Hrusinský, Czech actor and director (Short Cut, Golden Eels), dies at 73
• Apr 13 Taleb Ali al-Suheil, Iran sheik, murdered in Lebanon at 64
• Apr 14 Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (b. 1897)
• Apr 14 Selometsi Baholo, vice-premier of Lesotho, murdered
• Apr 15 John Curry, British figure skater (Olympic gold, World C'ship gold, European C'ship gold 1976), dies from AIDS at 44
• Apr 15 Walter Clegg, British politician, dies at 73
• Apr 16 John McLiam [Williams], Canadian actor (First Blood, Sleeper, Men From Shiloh), dies of Parkinson's disease at 76
• Apr 16 Ralph Ellison, American writer (Invisible Man; Shadow and Cast: Juneteenth), dies of pancreatic cancer at 80
• Apr 16 Ron Vawter, American actor (Roy Cohn; The Silence of the Lambs), dies at 45
• Apr 16 Samuel "Sam" Selvon, Trinidad-born writer (The Lonely Londoners), dies at 70
• Apr 17 Peter Hacker, American journalist/actor (NBC, Broadcast News), dies at 69
• Apr 18 Bill Rexford, American auto racer (NASCAR Grand National Series championship 1950, youngest Cup champion [23]), dies at 67
• Apr 18 Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32
• Apr 19 Frederick Ferrari, English tenor and variety performer (Love Descended Like An Angel), dies at 81
• Apr 19 Larry Davis, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 57
• Apr 19 Louis Simmonds, British bookseller, dies at 87
• Apr 19 Michael Carreras, film Director, dies at 67
• Apr 19 Michel van Rooy, Dutch actor (Doctor Vlimmen, The Attack), dies at 43
• Apr 20 Jean Carmet, French actor (Cache Cash, Miss Mona, Night Magic), dies of a heart attack at 72
• Apr 21 Clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at 93
• Apr 22 Denis Pitts, English journalist, filmmaker, and novelist (Rogue Hercules), dies at 64
• Apr 22 Hans Burkhardt, Swiss-American abstract artist, dies at 89
• Apr 22 Jack Bently, English trombonist, dies at 80

• Apr 23 Cassidy Clinton Cremer, author (John Cremer), murdered at 30
• Apr 23 Cecile Dreesmann, Dutch textile artist and son of Anton Dreesmann, dies at 74
• Apr 25 David Langton [Basil Muir Langton-Dodds], Scottish actor (The Avengers, Quintet, St Joan, Abandon Ship), dies of a heart attack at 82
• Apr 25 George Gennimatas, Greek minister of National Economy, dies at 55
• Apr 25 Talaat Yassin Hamman, militant Muslim leader, shot dead at 32
• Apr 26 Manuel Enríquez, Mexican composer, dies at 67
• Apr 26 Masutatsu Oyama, Founder of Japanese Kyokushin Karate, dies at 70
• Apr 27 John Preston, American writer (Gay House, Big Gay Book), dies at 48
• Apr 27 Lynne Frederick, English actress (Trail of Pink Panther), dies at 39
• Apr 29 Oscar Sheldon A Williams, artist/critic, dies at 74
• Apr 29 William "Bill" Quinn, American actor (Star Trek, The Birds, Rifleman, All in the Family), dies of natural causes at 81
• Apr 30 Ferdinando Scarfiotti, Italian set designer (Last Emperor), dies at 53
• Apr 30 Geoffrey Roberts, English wine merchant (championed Australian and Californian wines), dies at 46
• Apr 30 Richard Scarry, American children's book writer and illustrator (What Do People Do All Day?), dies at 74
• Apr 30 Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver, dies in crash at 31