Video: ‘”Drive My Car” – RADD’
(Monday, February 7, 1994, 8:00 p.m. EST) — A video clip for “Drive My Car” by RAADD (Recording Artists Against Drunk Driving) was broadcast tonight during ABC-TV’s showing of the annual American Music Awards, featuring ex-Beatle Paul McCartney as the main vocalist with appearances by ex-Beatle Ringo Starr and many other artists.
Video: 'Medgar Evers - Part 2, Civil Rights Heroes Discovery Documentary' (Feb. 5, 1994, at 4:57)
(Saturday, February 5, 1994; during the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–68)) — White separatist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted today in Jackson, Mississippi, of murdering civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37, on June 12, 1963, and was immediately sentenced to life in prison. De La Beckwith appealed unsuccessfully, and died at age 80 in prison in January 2001.
Video: 'Markale Massacre - Sarajevo (Feb. 5, 1994)'
(Saturday, February 5, 1994, between 12:10pm-12:15pm CET; during the Siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian War) — 68 people were killed today when a mortar shell exploded at the Markale (marketplace) located in the historic core of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Video: 'STS-60 launch & landing (2-3-94)'
(Thursday, February 3, 1994, 7:10:00 a.m. EST) — The space shuttle Discovery lifted off this morning, carrying Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard a U.S. spacecraft.
Video: 'There's only one Paul McCartney...' (Jan. 28, 1994, at 1:09)
(Friday, January 28, 1994) — Paul and Linda McCartney attended the London premiere of Wayne’s World 2 today on behalf of Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts at the Empire Leicester Square Cinema. Continue reading Paul McCartney attends London premiere of ‘Wayne’s World 2’ 20 years ago today (Jan 28 1994)
Video: 'Prince Charles in Sydney 1994 (and the security scare)'
(Wednesday, January 26, 1994) — A scare occurred today during a visit to Sydney, Australia, by Britain’s Prince Charles as college student David Kang lunged at the prince, firing two blank shots from a starter’s pistol. Kang was later sentenced to 500 hours of community service.
Video: 'State of the Union Address: Speech by President Clinton (1994)'
(Tuesday, January 25, 1994, 9:00 p.m. EST) — U.S. President Bill Clinton threatened in his State of the Union address tonight to veto any health care proposal that does not guarantee coverage for all Americans and he laid down a broad, unequivocal challenge to Congress to deliver his ambitious domestic agenda.
(Thursday, January 20, 1994) — Former U.S. President Richard Nixon joined his one-time White House colleagues today to recall the achievements of the Nixon administration and to launch a new Center for Peace and Freedom that they hope will continue the work they started exactly 25 years earlier with his first inauguration (click here to watch a video of the event).
Video: 'Paul McCartney inducts John Lennon into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame'
(Wednesday, January 19, 1994) — Former Beatle Paul McCartney gave a speech tonight during John Lennon’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, 13 years after the ex-Beatle’s murder. Continue reading Paul McCartney inducts John Lennon into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 20 years ago tonight (Jan 19 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.
