Categories Gretzky had entered the game Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox.After passing a wet and tedious winter near the Pacific Coast, Lewis and Clark happily leave behind Fort Clatsop and head east for home.
Millions of dollars were spent on improvements in the electoral process, and there was far less election day fraud than in the 1988 presidential race. During the late 1830s, it On March 23, 1994, Los Angeles King Wayne Gretzky breaks Gordie Howe’s points record (1,850) in the final period of a game against the Edmonton Oilers.
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2. The ANC won the election with 62.65 % of the vote. 1994: Mandela becomes SA's first black president. Nomination Period – 9.00 a.m. to 11.00 a.m. on October 07th, 1994. Negotiations between black and white South Africans prevailed. The 1994 Mexican elections were widely hailed by foreign observers as a great advance in democracy. Gretzky’s record-setting goal tied the game; in overtime he scored another, and the Kings won 5-4. His administration has been implicated in other political assassinations, and in 1999 his brother Raul was convicted of ordering and financing the September 1994 murder of Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, the secretary general of the PRI.Leading Mexican presidential candidate assassinated On March 23, 2011, actress Elizabeth Taylor, who appeared in more than 50 films, won two Academy Awards and was synonymous with Hollywood glamour, dies of complications from congestive heart failure at a Los Angeles hospital at age 79. If you do still own property that you made an election on in 1994, make sure that you have copies of your 1994 return available, and that the executors of your estate are aware of it.
Since the Italian surrender in the summer of 1943, German troops had occupied wider swaths of the peninsula to prevent the Allies from using Italy as a base of © 2020 A&E Television Networks, LLC. This article was most recently revised and updated by Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexico’s ruling party’s presidential candidate, is gunned down during a campaign rally in the northern border town of Tijuana.As a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the political party that held power in Colosio campaigned as a man of the people and often appeared without the protection of bodyguards. Check out Britannica's new site for parents! Features
Login On 27 April 1994, South Africa held its first democratic elections. In 1993, Mandela and President de Klerk were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their work towards abolishing apartheid. Colosio had promised to fight Mexico’s rampant political corruption, of which Salinas, who had ties to organized crime in Mexico, was guilty.In the wake of the assassination, Salinas appointed Ernesto Zedillo the PRI presidential campaign. 17.08.1994.