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July 3 – Iran Air Flight 655 is shot down by a missile launched from the USS Vincennes. July 4 – In Zürich, Switzerland, FIFA chose the United States as the venue to organize the 1994 FIFA World Cup, the United States won with 10 votes, surpassed Morocco with 7 votes and Brazil with 3 votes.
The incident was captured by news cameras and later broadcast on television. January 27 – State of the Union Address . January 28 – The U.S. State Department invalidates US passports for travel to or through Lebanon due to security concerns.
February 14 – Martha Raddatz, news reporter February 15 – John Goodsall , guitarist February 19 – Herb Lusk , American football player (died 2022 ) [ 11 ]
October 3 – Kevin Richardson, American pop singer; October 4 – Ridwan Kamil, Indonesian architect, politician and current governor of West Java; October 6 – Emily Mortimer, English actress and screenwriter; October 7. Yelena Shevchenko, Soviet gymnast; Melinda Schneider, Australian singer and songwriter
Clockwise from top-left: the Ash Wednesday bushfires burned around 2,080 km 2 (510,000 acres), killing 75 people in Victoria and South Australia; a suicide bombing in Beirut, Lebanon killed 63 people (+1 suicide bomber) and injuring 120; Soviet Sukhoi Su-15 shoots Korean Air Lines Flight 007 killing all aboard; the video game crash of 1983 caused a large-scale recession in the North American ...
The 16 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1,000 and fewer than 10,000 direct, violent deaths in the current or previous calendar year. [2] Conflicts causing at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year are considered wars by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program.
May 5 – Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds gets his 3,000th major league hit. May 20 – Mavis Hutchinson, 53, becomes the first woman to run across the U.S.; her trek took 69 days. May 25 – A bomb explodes in the security section of Northwestern University, wounding a security guard (the first Unabomber attack).
May 3 – Christine Jorgensen, transgender actress, singer, and activist (b. 1926) May 19 – Robert Webber, actor (b. 1924) May 20 – Gilda Radner, actress and comedian (b. 1946) May 30 – Claude Pepper, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1936 to 1951 (b. 1900) June 15 – Victor French, actor and director (b. 1934) July 3 – Jim Backus, actor ...