About the day » Tuesday May 17, 1994Calender converter

• Christine Lynn Post, fortasse, somewhere in IA or MN († 1994)

• Dwight Taylor Keith (93), Dekalb County, Georgia, United States
• Catharina Arnoldina Maria van Gennip (62), Eindhoven
• Duurdina Holstein (88)
• Andrew J. MaGill (63)
• Adriaantje de Graaf (73), Nieuwpoort
• Clarence V. (Victor) van Diest (78), Lewis and Clark
• Albert Altena (82), Sibculo
• Catharina Janssen (79), Kinrooi (B)
• Emma Augusta Hendricks (97), Montgomery, Fayette, West Virginia, United States
• Cornelis Liedorp (81), Krimpen aan de Lek

• 1989 » Mose Masoe, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1989 » Rain Raadik, Estonian basketball player
• 1989 » Tessa Virtue, Canadian ice dancer
• 1990 » Charlie Gubb, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 » Fabian Giefer, German footballer
• 1990 » Guido Pella, Argentine tennis player
• 1990 » Katrina Hart, English runner
• 1991 » Abigail Raye, Canadian field hockey player
• 1991 » Adil Omar, Pakistani rapper and music producer
• 1991 » Johanna Konta, Australian-English tennis player

• 1987 » Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, sociologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1992 » Lawrence Welk, American accordion player and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 1995 » Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1912)
• 1996 » Kevin Gilbert, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1966)
• 1999 » Bruce Fairbairn, Canadian trumpet player and producer (b. 1949)
• 1999 » Lembit Oll, Estonian chess Grandmaster (b. 1966)
• 2000 » Donald Coggan, English archbishop (b. 1909)
• 2001 » Frank G. Slaughter, American physician and author (b. 1908)
• 2001 » Jacques-Louis Lions, French mathematician (b. 1928)
• 2002 » László Kubala, Hungarian-Spanish footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1927)

1. Thomas
2. Jeroen
3. Jan
4. Kevin
5. Michael
6. Willem
7. Robin
8. Johannes
9. Niels
10. Daniel
11. Rick
12. Dennis
13. Max
14. David
15. Tim
16. Jacob

1. Laura
2. Anne
3. Lisa
4. Tessa
5. Michelle
6. Sanne
7. Melissa
8. Anna
9. Charlotte
10. Eva
11. Amanda
12. Esther
13. Elisabeth
14. Johanna
15. Iris
16. Eline

• 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 6 » American figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked and injured by an assailant hired by her rival Tonya Harding's ex-husband during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships that they were both taking part in.
• March 21 » The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change enters into force.
• June 27 » Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan. Seven people are killed, 660 injured.
• August 14 » Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
• November 30 » MSAchille Lauro catches fire off the coast of Somalia.
• December 29 » Turkish Airlines Flight 278 (a Boeing 737-400) crashes on approach to Van Ferit Melen Airport in Van, Turkey, killing 57 of the 76 people on board.

The temperature on May 17, 1994 was between 9.5 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 10.4 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.