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Born on Saturday April 2, 1994
Died on Saturday April 2, 1994

Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from April 2, 1994 at Delpher


Born on April 2

Died on April 2
  • 1987 » Buddy Rich, American drummer, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1917)
  • 1989 » Manolis Angelopoulos, Greek singer (b. 1939)
  • 1992 » Jan van Aartsen, Dutch politician (b. 1909)
  • 1992 » Juanito, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1954)
  • 1994 » Betty Furness, American actress, consumer advocate, game show panelist, television journalist and television personality (b. 1916)
  • 1994 » Marc Fitch, British historian and philanthropist (b. 1908)
  • 1995 » Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
  • 1997 » Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese director and producer (b. 1910)
  • 1998 » Rob Pilatus, American-German singer-songwriter (b. 1965)
  • 2001 » Charles Daudelin, Canadian sculptor and painter (b. 1920)

Names that were popular for boys in 1994
  1. Thomas
  2. Jeroen
  3. Jan
  4. Kevin
  5. Michael
  6. Robin
  7. Willem
  8. Johannes
  9. Niels
  10. Rick
  11. Daniel
  12. Max
  13. Dennis
  14. David
  15. Tim
  16. Jacob
Names that were popular for girls in 1994
  1. Laura
  2. Anne
  3. Lisa
  4. Tessa
  5. Michelle
  6. Sanne
  7. Anna
  8. Melissa
  9. Charlotte
  10. Eva
  11. Amanda
  12. Esther
  13. Iris
  14. Eline
  15. Elisabeth
  16. Johanna

Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1994
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
  • January 17 » The 6.7 Mw  Northridge earthquake shakes the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 57 people dead and more than 8,700 injured.
  • May 24 » Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
  • June 23 » NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center.
  • August 23 » Eugene Bullard, the only African American pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
  • September 30 » Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years in service.
  • December 3 » The PlayStation developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment was released in Japan
Weather April 2, 1994

The temperature on April 2, 1994 was between 1.4 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.

Source: KNMI