Timeline October 1994

Events in October 1994 9

• 1913 – 1994 Burt Lancaster (1913-1994) Died 20 October 1994, aged 80 Burt Lancaster, Academy Award-winning star of films including From Here to Eternity and Elmer Gantry, died in Century City, California. His career spanned four decades of Hollywood leading roles.
• 1916 – 1994 Martha Raye (1916-1994) American comedian and singer, famous for her big mouth and for entertaining troops from the Second World War to Vietnam.
• 1940 – 1994 Raul Julia (1940-1994) Puerto Rican actor of stage and screen, known for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Gomez in The Addams Family.
• 1994 Foo Fighters demo recorded by Dave Grohl alone Robert Lang Studios Grohl plays every instrument himself, months after Kurt Cobain's death.
• 1994 Pulp Fiction Palme d'Or, and a new grammar Three interlocking Los Angeles crime stories told out of order, with a dead man alive again in the final scene. It wins the Palme d'Or at Cannes in May, is released in October, takes over two hundred million dollars on an eight-million-dollar budget, and resurrects John Travolta's career. For most of the following decade every independent crime film in America is trying to be it.
• 1994 Martha Raye dies in Los Angeles Martha Raye dies aged 78.
• 1994 US-North Korea Agreed Framework signed Pyongyang agrees to freeze plutonium program The United States and North Korea signed the Agreed Framework, under which North Korea agreed to freeze and eventually dismantle its plutonium-based nuclear program in exchange for aid and light-water reactors. The agreement broke down in the early 2000s.
• 1994 Raul Julia dies in Manhasset Raul Julia dies aged 54.
• 1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty signed Two states formally end decades of war Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty at the Arava border crossing, formally ending the state of war between the two countries. It was only the second peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state, after Egypt in 1979.