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In 1994, the world population was approximately 5,675,551,255 people[†]
1994Druski, American comedian and actor[†]
Drew Desbordes, known professionally as Druski, is an American comedian, actor, and influencer. He is known for his sketch comedy, Coulda Been Records, and collaborations with various musicians in their music videos, including Jack Harlow, Drake, Lil Yachty, and others.
1994RM, South Korean rapper, songwriter and record producer[†]
Kim Nam-joon, known professionally as RM, is a South Korean rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He is the leader of South Korean boy band BTS, under Big Hit Entertainment. Born in Seoul and raised in Ilsan, RM began his music career in the underground Korean hip-hop scene as a teenager, going by the name Runch Randa. He joined Big Hit in 2010, and debuted as part of BTS in June 2013.
1994Elina Svitolina, Ukrainian tennis player[†]
Elina Mykhailivna Svitolina is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She reached career-high rankings of world No. 3 in singles and No. 108 in doubles by the WTA. Svitolina has won 18 WTA Tour singles titles, including the 2018 WTA Finals, and has reached three major singles semifinals.
1994Tom Ewell, American actor (born 1909)[†]
Tom Ewell was an American film, stage and television actor, and producer. His most successful and most identifiable role was that of Richard Sherman in The Seven Year Itch, a character he played in the Broadway production (1952–1954) and reprised for the 1955 film adaptation. He received a Tony Award for his work in the play and a Golden Globe Award for his performance in the film. Although Ewell preferred acting on stage, he accepted several other screen roles in light comedies of the 1950s, most notably The Girl Can't Help It (1956). He appeared in the film version of the musical State Fair (1962) and in a small number of additional ones released between the early 1960s and 1980s.
1994Boris Yegorov, Russian physician and astronaut (born 1937)[†]
Boris Borisovich Yegorov was a Soviet physician and cosmonaut who became the first medical doctor to travel to space. He was born in Moscow, Soviet Union and received his medical degree from the Moscow Medical Institute in 1961.
1994Frank Eugene Corder fatally crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing. There were no other casualties.[†]
Frank Eugene Corder was an American truck driver. He stole a Cessna 150 late on September 11, 1994, and crashed the stolen aircraft onto the South Lawn of the White House early on September 12, 1994, while attempting to land the plane; he was killed, and was the sole casualty.
Nelson Mandela, South Africa's indispensable man, settled into the seat of his presidential jet. He propped his chronically swollen feet on two pillows, accepted a bowl of cereal and a plate of fruit, and commenced a daylong demonstration of his art of the presidency. It was 6 A.M. on his 122d day as liberator-turned-chief-executive, and he had agreed to let two reporters watch him do his job. Never a man oblivious of his audience, Mr. Mandela promptly embarked on a campaign of seductive engagement: deliberate charm, disarming confidences, a command of details mustered in defense of crisp convictions.
Picture these two late-summer snapshots from the New York campaign scrapbook: On the left, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, the Democratic Party's poet laureate, stands shoulder to shoulder in his native Queens with Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, the city's first Republican Mayor in a generation, who effusively lauds the Governor's leadership and vision at the ground breaking for a major real-estate development there.
GIULIANI'S GUBERNATORIAL FENCE-SITTING Rudolph W. Giuliani, New York City's first Republican Mayor in a generation, is testing the patience of his party by withholding his endorsement in tomorrow's gubernatorial primary between State Senator George E. Pataki and Richard M. Rosenbaum while cozying up to Gov. Mario M. Cuomo and generally parceling out his popularity and praise to influence the race for governor on his own terms.
A three-day-old strike by Mount Vernon teachers ended early this morning when the Board of Education agreed to a contract, much like one it had previously rejected, that raises teacher salaries 8.5 percent over four years. Teachers will return to work today. Article, page B7.
They are supposed to stand tall and stoic against the vagaries and perils of their work. Yet police officers find themselves vulnerable to the painful psychodramas that engulf other people. Ten members of New York's police force have killed themselves this year, equaling the number in 1987, the worst year until now. The suicides, including two last Tuesday, have brought renewed attention to a long-smoldering problem on the police force: the depth of suspicion that troubled officers have for the department's array of counseling services. Most officers shun them for fear of jeopardizing their careers or out of a stubborn attitude that they should deal with their own ordeals. And many sergeants are loath to report tormented officers because they do not want to be looked upon as the heavy. Of the 10 policemen who took their lives this year, only one was being treated by a department psychologist.
Up and down the East Coast, the word quickly spread through immigrant communities. Come to the Northern Virginia offices of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Bring cash. Buy the right to live or work in the United States. Smooth-talking middlemen took care of the details, bribing immigration service employees with gold jewelry, free vacations and cash-filled envelopes passed hand to hand in the aisles of a nearby department store. Ghanaians, Lebanese and Salvadorans, among others, flocked to what quickly became a multicultural bazaar. Most came from the Washington area, but others drove hundreds of miles and scribbled phony local addresses.
Mickey Mantle, Duke Snyder and Willie Mays were their heroes, President Dwight David Eisenhower was in the White House, and it seemed like one big continuous block party to the kids who grew up in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx in the 1950's. "We didn't know it then, but the old neighborhood was a unique place," said Harry Schwartz, one of several thousand former residents of Pelham Parkway who attended a reunion here today in Eisenhower Park on Long Island.
For American labor leaders, it's Nafta 2: The Rematch. Having failed to convince Congress last fall that the North American Free Trade Agreement would shift American jobs to lower-paid Mexican workers, unions are trying for a comeback by organizing Mexican plants, especially those run by American companies near the border.
Jessica Tandy, who enhanced the American theater and enriched the American screen as few actresses have, died yesterday at her home in Easton, Conn. She was 85. The cause was ovarian cancer, said her husband, the actor Hume Cronyn.
Joining a two-century-old debate over who has the power to make war, the Administration asserted today that it has no obligation to seek Congressional approval for an invasion of Haiti. Two senior officials, Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Madeleine K. Albright, the United States representative to the United Nations, responded to growing calls to put the issue to a vote in Congress by saying that no vote was required.
Lurid accusations of infidelity, physical abuse, threatened violence and dishonesty rent the Haft family's retailing and real estate empire last year. And in the last few weeks, the family's battles have become nastier. In the first round last year, Herbert H. Haft, the patriarch, turned against the son, Robert M. Haft, 41, who was his closest partner and heir apparent. Now in the latest set of blows and parries, Herbert's one remaining ally within the family, his younger son, Ronald S. Haft, 35, has set out to break the father's grip on the family-controlled Dart Group Corporation, which owns Crown Books, Trak Auto, Shoppers Food Warehouse and other stores.
It soared toward the goal posts ever so gently, and then took off -- perhaps blown forward by the gasps of so many Jets fans who for too many years have been afraid to exhale. But in this September of good feelings, Nick Lowery's 39-yard field-goal attempt in overtime did precisely what Nick Lowery field-goal attempts have done so often: win a game.