Video: 'Three Colors: Red' trailer
(Thursday, May 12, 1994) — Three Colors: Red, the final film of The Three Colors Trilogy which examines the French Revolutionary ideals, premiered today at the Cannes Film Festival.
Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski, the film starred Irène Jacob and Jean-Louis Trintignant.
Video: '1994 Inauguration of the Chunnel -- Linking France & England'
(Friday, May 6, 1994) — Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and French President Francois Mitterrand today formally opened the Channel Tunnel between their countries in a ceremony held in Calais.
Video: '5/2/1994: Nelson Mandela Wins Election'
(Monday, May 2, 1994) — An eruption of joy swept the vast black ghettos of South Africa tonight as Nelson Mandela claimed his presidential victory in South Africa’s first democratic elections; President F.W. de Klerk acknowledged defeat.
Video: 'The Funeral of President Nixon'
(Wednesday, April 27, 1994, 4:00 p.m. PDT) — Former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon was remembered at an outdoor funeral service today attended by all five of his successors at the Nixon presidential library in Yorba Linda, California. Nixon, who had served from 1969 to 1974, had passed away Apr. 22, 1994, at the age of 81 of natural causes.
Video: '1994 Death/Arrival in California of President Richard Nixon 1of6'
(Tuesday, April 26, 1994, 12:30 p.m. PDT) — In a scene worthy of “King Lear,” the usually sunny California sky unleashed thunder, lightning, rain and hail today as the body of former U.S. President Richard Nixon returned to his birthplace in a plain wooden coffin covered by a flag for burial on Apr. 27, 1994. Nixon, who had served from 1969 to 1974, had passed away Apr. 22, 1994, at the age of 81. Continue reading Nixon’s body flown west for burial 20 years ago this hour (Apr 26 1994)
(Friday, April 26, 1994, 8:15 p.m. JST) — China Airlines Flight 140, a Taiwanese Airbus A-300, crashed tonight while landing in Nagoya, Japan, killing 264 people. There were seven survivors (click here for a video report).
Video: 'Richard Nixon has a stroke - news 1994'
(Monday, April 18, 1994, 5:45 p.m EDT) — Former U.S. President Richard Nixon, 81, suffered a stroke today at his Park Ridge, New Jersey, home and was taken by ambulance to New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, where he was in stable condition but not able to speak.
Video: 'Kurt Cobain's Death News Report from KSTW April 8, 1994'
(Friday, April 8, 1994, about 8:30 a.m. PDT) — Kurt Cobain, singer and guitarist for the grunge band Nirvana, was found dead this morning in Seattle from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. It was later determined that he had died on Apr. 5, 1994.
Video: 'Video Analysis of Habyarimana Plane Crash'
(Wednesday, April 6, 1994, 8:26 p.m. local time) — The Hutu president of Rwanda, Juvenal Habyarimana, was killed TODAY along with the president of Burundi, Cyprien Ntaryamira, when their plane was apparently shot down near the Rwandan capital of Kigali. What followed was a 100-day genocide in Rwanda during which more than 500,000 minority Tutsis and moderate members of the Hutu majority were killed by Hutu extremists.
Video: 'Kurt Cobain - Mini Biography'
(Tuesday, April 5, 1994) — Nirvana singer-guitarist Kurt Cobain, 27, fatally shot himself today above his garage in Seattle. His body was not found for three days.
