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1994
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World Events
U.S. Events
Economics
US GDP (1998 dollars): $6,947.00 billion
Federal spending: $1460.84 billion
Federal debt: $4643.7 billion
Median Household Income
(current dollars): $32,264
Consumer Price Index: 148.2
Unemployment: 6.1%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.29
Sports
Super BowlDallas d. Buffalo (30-13)World SeriesNot HeldNBA ChampionshipHouston d. New York (4-3)Stanley CupNY Rangers d. Vancouver (4-3)WimbledonWomen: Conchita Martinez d. M. Navratilova (6-4 3-6 6-3)
Men: Pete Sampras d. G. Ivanisevic (7-6 7-6 6-0)Kentucky Derby ChampionGo For GinNCAA Basketball ChampionshipArkansas d. Duke (76-72)NCAA Football ChampionsNebraska (13-0-0)World CupBrazil d. Italy (3-2 (shootout))
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
Music: Of Reminiscences and Reflections, Gunther Schuller
Drama: Three Tall Women, Edward Albee Oscars awarded in 1994
Academy Award, Best Picture: Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen and Branko Lustig, producers (Universal) Nobel Prize for Literature: Kenzaburo Oe (Japan) 1994 Emmy Awards 1994 Tony Awards Grammys awarded in 1994
Record of the Year: "I Will Always Love You," Whitney Houston
Album of the Year: The Bodyguard—Original Soundtrack Album, Whitney Houston (Arista)
Song of the Year: "A Whole New World" (Theme From Aladdin), Alan Menken and Tim Rice, songwriters Miss America: Kimberly Clarice Aiken (SC) More Entertainment Awards...
Events- Kurt Cobain kills himself. He was 27.
- Ninety-five million viewers watch O. J. Simpson and Al Cowlings drive along Los Angeles freeways in history's most exciting low-speed chase.
- Steven Spielberg wins his first directing Oscar for Schindler's List.
- Woodstock '94 commemorates the original weekend-long concert. Green Day and Nine Inch Nails join Bob Dylan and the Allman Brothers.
- For the first time in history, chain bookstores outsell independent stores, signaling what many fear to be the death of smaller booksellers at the hands of superstores.
- Tom Hanks wins his second consecutive Best Actor Oscar. He won in 1993 for his role in Philadelphia and in 1994 for Forrest Gump.
- ER and Friends debut on NBC, establishing NBC's dominance of the Thursday-night lineup.
Movies- Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Quiz Show, Nobody's Fool
Books- James Kelman, How Late It Was, How Late
- Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: George A. Olah (US), University of Southern California in Los Angeles, for research that opened new ways to break apart and rebuild compounds of carbon and hydrogen Physics: Clifford G. Shull (US) and Bertram N. Brockhouse (Canada), for adapting beams of neutrons as probes to explore the atomic structure of matter Physiology or Medicine: Alfred G. Gilman and Martin Rodbell (both US), for discovery of G-proteins that help cells respond to outside signals
- White House launches Web page. Initial commerce sites are established and mass marketing campaigns are launched via email, introducing the term "spamming" to the Internet vocabulary. Background: Computers and Internet
- Dr. Ned First (US) clones calves from cells of early embryos. Background: Cloning Milestones
- The FDA approves the Flavr Savr tomato, the first genetically-engineered food product.
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