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In 1994, the world population was approximately 5,675,551,255 people[†]
1994Moon Tae-il, South Korean singer[†]
Moon Tae-il, known mononymously as Taeil, is a South Korean singer. He is a former member of the South Korean boy band NCT and its sub-units NCT U and NCT 127, managed by the label SM Entertainment. Taeil made his debut in April 2016 in the rotational unit NCT U and became a member of the Seoul-based unit NCT 127 in July 2016. He departed from NCT on August 28, 2024, following allegations of sexual offenses, later revealed to be quasi-rape.
1994Lionel Grigson, English pianist, composer, and educator (born 1942)[†]
Lionel Grigson was an English jazz pianist, cornettist, trumpeter, composer, writer and teacher, who in the 1980s started the jazz course at the Guildhall School of Music. As Simon Purcell wrote in The Independent, "Whether he inspired or inflamed, Grigson's energies often acted as a catalyst and his interest in, and support for, young jazz musicians contributed significantly to the growth and consolidation of jazz education in Britain....Within the context of a leading international conservatoire, the Guildhall School of Music, in London, Grigson did much to demonstrate and explain the underlying principles common to jazz, classical and indeed all music, and as a result produced a generation of jazz educators possessing a thorough grounding in an area where much educational work is left to chance." Among his published books are Practical Jazz (1988), Jazz from Scratch (1991) and A Jazz Chord Book, as well as studies on the music of Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong and Thelonious Monk.
1994Henry Mancini, American composer and conductor (born 1924)[†]
Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor, arranger, pianist and flutist. Often cited as one of the greatest composers in the history of film, he won four Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and twenty Grammy Awards, plus a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995.
1994Marcel Mouloudji, French singer and actor (born 1922)[†]
Marcel André Mouloudji was a French singer and actor who was born in Paris and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He sang songs written by Boris Vian and Jacques Prévert.
1994The 1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot occurs after the New York Rangers defeat the Vancouver Canucks to win the Stanley Cup, causing an estimated C$1.1 million, leading to 200 arrests and injuries.[†]
The 1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup Riot occurred in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of June 14, 1994, and continued into the following morning. The riot followed Game 7 of the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals in which the Vancouver Canucks lost to the New York Rangers. It was Vancouver's first riot since 1972, when the Rolling Stones American Tour 1972 led to confrontations between the police and 2,000 outside the Pacific Coliseum.
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In extraordinary sessions at the White House, President Clinton and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, provided sworn testimony on Sunday to the special prosecutor about the death of a White House lawyer and Administration discussions of the Whitewater affair, the White House said today. The back-to-back questioning of the President and Mrs. Clinton represented the first time that a sitting President has given a deposition about his official conduct. It was apparently the first time a sitting First Lady has ever been interviewed by law-enforcement officials about her conduct while in the White House.
AMONG people with AIDS, it is an open secret. When the time comes, many say, they are going to take control of their death. They are going to enlist the help of friends, family, lovers and sympathetic doctors, and they are going to take an overdose of pills or put a plastic bag over their heads or add a little too much morphine to an intravenous drip, and they are going to kill themselves. People with AIDS and their advocates say that virtually everyone with the disease at least thinks about suicide when the end is near and wonders how it might be done. Several studies in New York, California and Texas have consistently shown that people with AIDS kill themselves at a much higher rate than people with other chronic diseases and that the suicide rate among people with AIDS is from 10 to 20 times that of the general population.
The United States Supreme Court ruled today that Congress did not violate the Constitution when it closed a tax loophole retroactively in 1987 and collected back taxes from those who had relied on the original provision. The 9-to-0 decision involving an estate tax provision overturned a 1992 ruling by a Federal appeals court in California, which held that the retroactive application of the amended provision violated the constitutional guarantee of due process of law.
In a broadly worded First Amendment decision, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that cities may not bar residents from posting signs on their own property. The display of political slogans and other types of signs on residential property is "a venerable means of communication that is both unique and important," the Court said in striking down an ordinance that the wealthy St. Louis suburb of Ladue, Mo., enacted in 1991 to prevent "ugliness, visual blight and clutter."
In badly tattered sneakers with untied laces, 10-year-old Anthony Bonilla made a strong move to the hoop, stopped and then cocked the ball over his right shoulder as if he were about to hurl a boulder. Launching the basketball, which seemed twice its size in his tiny hands, it flew in a great, yawning arc before finding its mark. Two points! The third-grader beamed. He had earned some bragging rights: "I can hit all nets from the 3-point line any time I want to." Then he dribbled off to demonstrate.
RENOWNED acoustic physicists, master violin makers and the Tokyo String Quartet gathered here last week, ostensibly to seek agreement on how to go about making a great fiddle. To no one's surprise they failed utterly, but in so doing they produced magnificent music and some modest but intriguing scientific insights. The eclectic science of acoustics investigates the atmospheres of stars, the mysteries of hearing, the technology of detecting secret nuclear tests, the extent of global climate change, the architecture of boiler factories and concert halls, the quantum-mechanical behavior of ultracold liquids and countless other weighty subjects. But whatever its focus, acoustic science is about sound. Perhaps for that reason, its practitioners tend to be music lovers, many of them amateur musicians. Meetings of the Acoustical Society of America generally offer some great music to leaven the avalanche of technical and scientific papers that sometimes threatens to bury participants.
Ben Cohen, the Ben who helped build Ben & Jerry's into a $140 million company without ever abandoning his blue-jean image, plans to resign as the ice cream company's chief executive. With the kind of marketing flair that made a household name out of a business begun in an abandoned gas station 16 years ago, the company announced a contest inviting its customers to explain why they should succeed Mr. Cohen.
North Korea deepened its confrontation with the United Nations and the Clinton Administration late Monday, announcing that it would immediately withdraw from the International Atomic Energy Agency and that the agency's inspectors would no longer be allowed in the country. The declaration would appear to mean that the two inspectors in North Korea will be expelled, but the statement did not explicitly refer to them. Without inspectors present, the spent fuel rods extracted from North Korea's largest nuclear reactor during the last month could be converted into weapons fuel without detection.
H.M.O.'S FEEL GROWTH PAINS AS POOR JOIN Tens of thousands of New York's Medicaid recipients have enrolled in health maintenance organizations -- some nonprofit organizations with a long record of assisting the poor, others offshoots of commercial insurers drawn in by the promise of profits. But the spurt has also come with growing pains, particularly among the commercial companies. Critics say there are wide variations in quality and that some plans have put more effort into developing their marketing skills than their networks of doctors and medical services. A1.
The Supreme Court handed a major victory to New York today, validating the state's effort to curb widespread tax evasion in the sale of cigarettes to non-Indian customers at stores on Indian reservations. The Justices unanimously overturned a decision by the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, which ruled a year ago that state regulations aimed at restricting the number of untaxed cigarettes available for sale on the reservations conflicted with Federal laws governing Indian commerce.
It was not, the authorities said, a conventional suburban marriage and it ended in murder. He was a wealthy 54-year-old senior vice president for merchandising at the Grand Union supermarket chain. She was a 23-year-old former topless dancer with a history of arrests in petty crimes. Brooke D. Lennon and his wife, Michelle, shared what the authorities said was was a craving for liquor and their relationship was so fractious they spent much of their one year of marriage living apart, he in a condominium in Edgewater, N.J., and she in a tumbledown bungalow in Monsey, N.Y., rented by her lover.
Companies A Federal jury ruled that Exxon was negligent and reckless in a trial stemming from the 1989 grounding of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska's Prince William Sound that caused the worst oil spill in the continent's history. The findings open Exxon to huge damage awards in a civil suit brought by some 10,000 Alaskans. [ Page A1. ]