Here are twenty-five significant events of 1994, the year CG&A Communications opened its doors.
- The world population reaches 5,670,000,000 (today it is 2 billion more)
- Jean Chretien is Prime Minister of Canada and Bob Rae Premier of Ontario
- OJ Simpson’s white Bronco is chased by police LIVE on international news
- TV series ER and Friends debuts
- Yahoo is founded
- Amazon is founded with a goal to change the way we shop
- PlayStation is first introduced
- The computer Zip Drive is introduced
- The Whitehouse launches its website
- Bill Clinton is US President; former US President Ronald Reagan announces he has Alzheimer’s
- First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis dies of cancer at age 64
- Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa President
- Rwandan genocide begins in Kigali, Rwanda
- The Channel Tunnel is opened to connect Britain with France
- Time Magazine’s Man of the Year is Pope John Paul II
- The George Foreman Grill is released
- Michael Jackson and Lisa Maria Presley are briefly married
- Singer/Songwriter Kurt Cobain commits suicide at age 27
- Canadian singer/songwriter Justin Bieber is born and comedian John Candy dies of a heart attack at age 43
- Song of the Year is “A Whole New World” (Theme From Aladdin)
- The Lion King movie is released, the biggest hit of the Disney Renaissance era
- The blockbuster movie of ‘94 is Forrest Gump
- Schlinder’s List wins a number of Oscars
- For the first time in history, chain bookstores outsell independent stores
- Brazil wins the World Cup, Dallas Cowboys win the Super Bowl championship, and NY Rangers win the Stanley Cup
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