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Quite simply, 1994 was a bazaar of the bizarre. Has there ever been anything in sports so bizarre as no World Series, no September baseball? Or odious threats of "replacement players" in major league uniforms next season because of a labor dispute that has lasted longer than the abbreviated season?
IT is known officially as the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. And the first building, now under construction in downtown Newark, is indeed that. But considering the long-range plans, it might as well be called the New Jersey Office, Shopping, Dining and Performing Arts Center. Ultimately, less than one-third of the floor area to be built on the site, or about 400,000 square feet, would be devoted to performances or subsidiary commercial uses. The rest of the space, 1 million square feet, would be in two large office towers across Center Street, on land controlled by the arts center.
HEATHER WATTS SITS AT A rear table in the restaurant near Lincoln Center that used to be the Ginger Man, sipping white wine, lighting one of the cigarettes she keeps intending to give up and talking about her impending retirement. Twenty-four years have passed since Ms. Watts joined the New York City Ballet and came to be one of the few ballerinas well known outside the rarefied world of dance, one who seemed to embody the vitality and contradictions of a contemporary woman.
For the country's talk radio hosts, about 70 percent of whom call themselves conservative, the first signs of a bear market are starting to emerge. Gone is Joycelyn Elders, the Surgeon General labeled "the condom queen" by many a drive-time talk jock. Ditto Tom Foley and Dan Rostenkowski, the term-limits poster boys of the old Democratic Congress.
BURSTING a speculative bubble is easy for a central banker. Doing so without killing a lot of innocent bystanders is not. Alan Greenspan may have accomplished the task. The operative phrase is "a lot," and there are many people who would disagree with it. Certainly there were many speculators who suffered greatly as a result of the Federal Reserve's tightening of credit, including some who did not know they were speculating. But the Fed managed to unwind huge speculation on interest rates with only minimal damage to the stock market and the economy.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 28, 1994, covering January 1, 1995.
Kenny G
Pearl Jam
Garth Brooks
Eagles
Mariah Carey
Sardar Azmoun, Iranian footballer[†]
Sardar Azmoun is an Iranian professional footballer who plays as a forward for UAE Pro League club Shabab Al Ahli and the Iran national team.
Poppy, American singer and YouTube personality[†]
Moriah Rose Pereira, better known as Poppy and formerly as That Poppy, is an American singer, songwriter, and YouTuber. She first earned recognition for surreal performance art videos on YouTube, in which she played an uncanny valley-like android commenting on and satirizing internet culture and modern society. She has become more widely known for being highly experimental and versatile with her artistry and music.
1995Eugene Wigner, Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)[†]
Eugene Paul Wigner was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who also contributed to mathematical physics. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles".
1995The World Trade Organization comes into being.[†]
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland that regulates and facilitates international trade. Governments use the organization to establish, revise, and enforce the rules that govern international trade in cooperation with the United Nations System. The WTO is the world's largest international economic organization, with 166 members representing over 98% of global trade and global GDP.
1995The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.[†]
The Draupner wave, also known as the New Year's wave or Draupner freak wave, was a rare freak wave that was the first to be detected by a measuring instrument. The wave, determined to be 25.6 m (84 ft) in height, was recorded on 1 January 1995 at Unit E of the Draupner platform, a gas pipeline support complex located in the North Sea about 160 km southwest from the southern tip of Norway.
1995Austria, Finland and Sweden join the EU.[†]
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, of which the capital Vienna is the most populous city and state. Austria is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The country occupies an area of 83,879 km2 (32,386 sq mi) and has a population of around 9 million.
In 1995, the world population was approximately 5,758,878,982 people[†]