Timeline January 1994

Events in January 1994 17

• 1907 – 1994 Cesar Romero (1907-1994) American actor and dancer, the Cisco Kid and the Joker in Batman.
• 1922 – 1994 Telly Savalas (1922-1994) Died 22 January 1994, aged 72 Telly Savalas, the American actor best known for playing the lollipop-loving detective Kojak on television, died of prostate cancer in Los Angeles. The role made him one of the most recognizable TV stars of the 1970s.
• 1994 Australian Open 1994 Men: Pete Sampras · Women: Steffi Graf
• 1994 1994: Michael Schumacher Benetton German Schumacher won the first of his seven titles in a season marred by the death of Ayrton Senna and a controversial collision with Damon Hill at the final race in Adelaide.
• 1994 Cesar Romero dies in Santa Monica Cesar Romero dies aged 86.
• 1994 Exile to California Left Iran for the United States, settling in California as a political refugee. She would never return to her homeland. Received the Lillian Hellman-Dashiell Hammett Award for writers persecuted for their work.
• 1994 Knighted Knighted for services to football, becoming Sir Bobby Charlton. Later served as a director of Manchester United and as an ambassador for English football.
• 1994 – 1998 Korea National University of Arts Enrolled at the Korea National University of Arts in 1994, becoming part of the inaugural graduating class of its School of Drama.
• 1994 Stones from the River Published Stones from the River, the novel that would define her career. Set in Burgdorf during the Nazi era, it told the story of Trudi Montag, a dwarf and keeper of secrets who witnesses her town's complicity in the horrors of the Third Reich. It became a bestseller and an Oprah's Book Club selection.
• 1994 Switched to Neuroscience Made the audacious decision to leave immunology entirely and pivot to neuroscience, studying the molecular and cellular basis of memory. Many colleagues were astonished that a Nobel laureate would abandon his winning field.
• 1994 – 1995 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Published The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, a sprawling novel weaving together a man searching for his missing cat, Japanese wartime atrocities in Manchuria, and a mysterious woman at the bottom of a well. It won the Yomiuri Prize — ironic, as Murakami had previously declined the same award — and is considered by many critics to be his finest work.
• 1994 Universal Mother Released Universal Mother, an album exploring electronic-based meditations on motherhood and identity.
• 1994 Yellow Pumpkin on Naoshima A giant yellow pumpkin sculpture covered in black polka dots was installed on a pier on Naoshima Island in Japan's Inland Sea. The 2.5-metre-wide fibreglass work became one of the most photographed artworks in Japan and an icon of Kusama's pumpkin obsession.
• 1994 Attack on Nancy Kerrigan Rival figure skater's associates club her knee An assailant hired by associates of skater Tonya Harding struck Nancy Kerrigan on the leg at a Detroit rink, weeks before the US Figure Skating Championships. The scandal dominated US media through the Lillehammer Olympics, where both skaters competed.
• 1994 Northridge earthquake Magnitude 6.7 quake strikes Los Angeles A magnitude 6.7 earthquake centered in Northridge, California killed dozens of people and caused tens of billions of dollars in damage. It remains one of the costliest natural disasters in US history.
• 1994 Grateful Dead inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Hall of Fame Garcia skips the ceremony — a cardboard cutout stands in.
• 1994 The Band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Hall of Fame Inducted, though Levon Helm stays away.