January 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.
Day of death August 5, 1994
The temperature on August 5, 1994 was between 17.3 °C and 25.7 °C and averaged 21.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
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.
May 9 » Disappearance of Cleashindra Hall in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
June 13 » A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15billion in damages.
June 17 » Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
September 16 » The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn Féin and Irish paramilitary groups in 1988.
November 9 » The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.
December 26 » Four Armed Islamic Group hijackers seize control of Air France Flight 8969. When the plane lands at Marseille, a French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the hijackers.
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