Timeline July 1994

Events in July 1994 7

• 1912 – 1994 Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) Died 8 July 1994, aged 81 Kim Il Sung, founder and long-ruling leader of North Korea, died of a heart attack, prompting a formal ten-day mourning period. His son Kim Jong Il succeeded him, beginning a dynastic leadership that continues today.
• 1994 1994 FIFA World Cup The American Boom The first final decided by a penalty shootout. Winner: Brazil.
• 1994 Wimbledon 1994 Men: Pete Sampras · Women: Conchita Martínez
• 1994 Amazon.com founded Jeff Bezos starts an online bookstore Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in Bellevue, Washington, initially as an online bookseller. It grew into one of the world's largest companies, reshaping retail and cloud computing.
• 1994 Forrest Gump Oscar Best Picture 1994 — $678m worldwide Directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Tom Hanks. A man with a low IQ witnesses and unknowingly influences several defining historical events in the 20th century.
• 1994 USA 94 -- the torn meniscus and the final The 1994 World Cup produces the most celebrated individual act of Baresis career. In the group stage he tears the meniscus in his left knee. Italy reach the final against Brazil. Baresi undergoes surgery and 25 days later starts the final in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena in punishing heat, delivering what most observers regard as the finest individual performance of the tournament. Italy lose on penalties; Baresi, taking the first kick, blasts it over the bar. His image covering his face in anguish is one of the most iconic photographs in World Cup history.
• 1994 Final outdoor world record -- 6.14m, Sestriere, 31 July 1994 On 31 July 1994 in Sestriere, Italy, Bubka sets his 35th and final world record: 6.14m outdoors. The altitude of Sestriere (2,035m above sea level) assists the vault, but the achievement is genuine -- he has been raising the outdoor record incrementally for a decade. The record stands for 26 years, until Armand Duplantis clears 6.15m in Rome on 17 September 2020. Together with his 6.15m indoor record (also still the record at the time of Duplantis's outdoor breakthrough), Bubka's marks define the boundary of the humanly possible in pole vault for a quarter of a century.