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  • Chechnya, Russia
    Aug, 1994
    First Chechen War

    Large-scale armed campaign to remove Dudayev's government

    Chechnya, Russia
    Aug, 1994

    In August 1994, the coalition of the opposition factions based in north Chechnya launched a large-scale armed campaign to remove Dudayev's government.




  • Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Friday Aug 5, 1994
    Bosnian War

    NATO aircraft attacked a target within the Sarajevo Exclusion Zone

    Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Friday Aug 5, 1994

    On 5 August, at the request of UNPROFOR, NATO aircraft attacked a target within the Sarajevo Exclusion Zone after weapons were seized by Bosnian Serbs from a weapons collection site near Sarajevo.




  • Canada
    Thursday Aug 4, 1994
    Shaquille O'Neal

    1994 FIBA World Championship

    Canada
    Thursday Aug 4, 1994

    While in college, O'Neal was considered for the Dream Team to fill the college spot, but it eventually went to future teammate Christian Laettner. His national team career began in the 1994 FIBA World Championship in which he was named MVP of the Tournament. While he led the Dream Team II to the gold medal with an 8–0 record, O'Neal averaged 18 points and 8.5 rebounds and recorded two double-doubles. In four games, he scored more than 20 points. Before 2010, he was the last active American player to have a gold from the FIBA World Cup.




  • Sudan
    Sunday Aug 14, 1994
    Carlos the Jackal

    To Paris for a trail

    Sudan
    Sunday Aug 14, 1994

    On 14 August 1994, Sudan transferred him to French agents of the DST, who flew him to Paris for trial.




  • U.S.
    Tuesday Aug 16, 1994
    Mobile Phones

    The World's First Smartphone

    U.S.
    Tuesday Aug 16, 1994

    In 1994, IBM Simon was introduced. This was possibly the world's first smartphone. It was a mobile phone, pager, fax machine, and PDA all rolled into one. It included a calendar, address book, clock, calculator, notepad, email, and a touchscreen with a QWERTY keyboard. The IBM Simon had a stylus, used to tap the touch screen. It featured predictive typing that would guess the next characters as you tapped. It had applications, or at least a way to deliver more features by plugging a PCMCIA 1.8 MB memory card into the phone.




  • France
    Wednesday Aug 17, 1994
    Zinedine Zidane

    International debut

    France
    Wednesday Aug 17, 1994

    He earned his first cap with France as a substitute in a friendly against the Czech Republic on 17 August 1994, which ended in a 2–2 draw after Zidane scored twice to help France erase a 2–0 deficit. After Eric Cantona was handed a year-long suspension in January 1995 for assaulting a fan, Zidane took over the playmaker position.




  • United Kingdom
    Aug, 1994
    James Bond

    SeaFire was published

    United Kingdom
    Aug, 1994

    SeaFire, first published in 1994, was the fourteenth novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond.


  • Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
    Tuesday Aug 30, 1994
    Rosa Parks

    Parks was robbed and assaulted in her home

    Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
    Tuesday Aug 30, 1994

    At age 81 Parks was robbed and assaulted in her home in central Detroit on August 30, 1994. The assailant, Joseph Skipper, broke down the door but claimed he had chased away an intruder. He requested a reward and when Parks paid him, he demanded more. Parks refused and he attacked her. Hurt and badly shaken, Parks called a friend, who called the police. A neighborhood manhunt led to Skipper's capture and reported beating.


  • Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador
    Wednesday Aug 31, 1994
    Pedro López (serial killer)

    López was released from prison

    Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador
    Wednesday Aug 31, 1994

    López was released from an Ecuadorian prison on 31 August 1994, then rearrested as an illegal immigrant and handed over to Colombian authorities, who charged him with a 20-year-old murder. He was declared insane and held in the psychiatric wing of a Bogotá hospital.


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