Daily Archives: January 1, 2014

Siskel & Ebert pick ‘Schindler’s List’ as best film of 1993 20 years ago today (Jan 1 1994)


Video: 'Siskel & Ebert - The Best of 1993'

(Saturday, January 1, 1994) — Film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert today both picked Schindler’s List, an epic drama film about of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories, as the best film of 1993.

North American Free Trade Agreement goes into effect 20 years ago today (Jan 1 1994)


Video: 'NEED TO KNOW | After NAFTA | PBS'

(Saturday, January 1, 1994) — The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral rules-based trade bloc in North America, came into force today. The AFL-CIO blamed the agreement for sending 700,000 American manufacturing jobs to Mexico by 2011.