1994 Sandown 500
The 1994 Sandown 500 was an endurance motor race for Group 3A Touring Cars and selected production cars held at the Sandown circuit in Victoria, Australia on 4 September 1994. The event was staged over 161 laps of the 3.10 km circuit, a total distance of 499 km. It was the 29th race in a sequence of annual endurance races held at Sandown.


1994 Sandown 500
Dick Johnson and John Bowe won the race in their Dick Johnson Racing Ford EB Falcon. Second was the Gibson Motorsport Holden VP Commodore of Mark Skaife and Jim Richards, while third was the Perkins Engineering Commodore of Larry Perkins and Gregg Hansford. After first racing in the "Sandown 500" in 1977 when the race was known as the Hang Ten 400, Dick Johnson scored his first win in the classic.


1994 Sandown 500
The race was notable as it marked the debut race of future three-time Supercars champion Craig Lowndes.


1994 Sandown ATCC round
The 1994 Sandown ATCC round was the second round of the 1994 Australian Touring Car Championship. It was held on the weekend of 4 to 6 March at Sandown Raceway in Melbourne, Victoria.


1994 Sandown ATCC round, Race results, Qualifying
Tomas Mezera carried through his pace demonstrated at Amaroo Park with a time of 1:13.568, to take his first pole position of the year. This was almost a second faster than his closest competitor, Mark Skaife


1994 Sandown ATCC round, Race results, Peter Jackson Dash
Mark Skaife would not make the start after his engine failed to start, leaving it a five-car race. John Bowe got off to a flyer and would keep the lead all the way to the flag.


1994 Sandown ATCC round, Race results, Race 1
Mezera got off to an early lead as Skaife made the most of the start - going from sixth to second by the end of the first corner. Both Dick Johnson and John Bowe ran into tyre problems early in the race, which would ultimately prove costly for the second race. On lap four, Skaife made a successful move on Mezera for the lead, however Skaife would not walk away with the lead as he did in Amaroo. For lap after lap, Mezera pressured Skaife.


1994 Sandown ATCC round, Race results, Race 1
On the final corner on the final lap, Mezera made a move down the inside of Skaife to reclaim the lead. However, on the switchback, Skaife reclaimed the lead coming out of the corner to take the flag and win the first heat. Mezera finished in second and Alan Jones third.


1994 Sandown ATCC round, Race results, Race 2
Skaife would make the most of the front row start and got off to an early lead, whilst Larry Perkins climbed up five positions to second. Meanwhile, back down the back, chaos ensued. Neil Crompton and Glenn Seton came into contact at turn two, which sent both competitors to the back of the field. Mezera came charging through the pack, eventually passing Perkins for second position and gaining on leader, Skaife. However, he would spin on the second-to-last corner, losing a number of positions. Skaife would go on to win the race, making it four wins in a row for the Gibson Motorsport driver, ahead of Perkins and Jim Richards.


1994 Sardinian regional election
The Sardinian regional election of 1994 took place on 12 and 26 June 1994.


1994 Sardinian regional election
The election took place under the provision of a new electoral law, which created a new system under which for the first time ever voters could express an indirect choice for the President through voting the candidate's coalition.


1994 Sardinian regional election
The election was won on the second round by the Progressives' coalition and Federico Palomba (PDS) was elected President of the Region for the 1994–1999 term. Although he didn't manage to win a majority of seats in the Regional Council, he was able to form a government with the external support of centrist and regionalist parties.


1994 Sardinian regional election, New electoral system
As had happened for the March 1994 national election, also in Sardinia a new electoral system was introduced. The proportional representation established after the end of World War II had been abolished and a new majoritarian system based on different pre-electoral coalition was introduced.


1994 Sardinian regional election, New electoral system
For the first time ever Sardinians were asked to choice directly the President of the Region. If no candidates received at least 50% of votes, the top three candidates could go to a second round after two weeks. In this case, the candidate who received more votes would have been elected president.


1994 Sardinian regional election, New electoral system
The election of the Regional Council was based on a direct choice for the candidate with a preference vote. Sixty-four councillors were elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota and open lists; remained seats and votes were grouped at regional level where a Hare quota was used, and then distributed to provincial party lists. Sixteen councillors were instead elected at-large using a general ticket: parties were required to group in alliances, and the alliance which received a plurality of votes elected some candidates, its leader becoming the President of Sardinia. Also in this case, the number of the seats for each party was determined proportionally.


1994 Saskatchewan Roughriders season
The 1994 Saskatchewan Roughriders finished in 4th place in the West Division with an 11–7 record and qualified for the playoffs, but lost the West Semi-Final game to the Calgary Stampeders.


1994 Saxony state election
The 1994 Saxony state election was held on 11 September 1994 to elect the members of the 2nd Landtag of Saxony. The incumbent Christian Democratic Union (CDU) government led by Minister-President Kurt Biedenkopf retained its majority and continued in office.


1994 Saxony state election, Parties
The table below lists parties represented in the 1st Landtag of Saxony.


1994 Saxony-Anhalt state election
The 1994 Saxony-Anhalt state election was held on 26 June 1994 to elect the members of the 2nd Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt. The incumbent government of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) led by Minister-President Christoph Bergner was defeated. The FDP suffered a 10-point swing and lost its seats in the Landtag, while the CDU narrowly remained the largest party with 34.4% of votes. After the election, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) formed a minority government with The Greens, tolerated by the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). This new government became known as the "Magdeburg model".


1994 Saxony-Anhalt state election, Parties
The table below lists parties represented in the 1st Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt.


1994 Scheldeprijs
The 1994 Scheldeprijs was the 81st edition of the Scheldeprijs cycle race and was held on 13 April 1994. The race was won by Peter Van Petegem.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash
On 2 June 1994, a Chinook helicopter of the Royal Air Force (RAF), serial number ZD576, crashed on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, in foggy conditions. The crash resulted in the deaths of all twenty-five passengers and four crew on board. Among the passengers were almost all the United Kingdom's senior Northern Ireland intelligence experts. The accident is the RAF's worst peacetime disaster.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash
In 1995, an RAF board of inquiry ruled that it was impossible to establish the exact cause of the accident. This ruling was subsequently overturned by two senior reviewing officers, who stated the pilots were guilty of gross negligence for flying too fast and too low in thick fog. This finding proved to be controversial, especially in light of irregularities and technical issues surrounding the then-new Chinook HC.2 variant which were uncovered. A Parliamentary inquiry conducted in 2001 found the previous verdict of gross negligence on the part of the crew to be 'unjustified'. In 2011, an independent review of the crash cleared the crew of negligence.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, Incident, Crash
Earlier on 2 June 1994, the helicopter and crew had carried out a trooping flight, as it was considered to be unsafe for British troops to move around in certain parts of Northern Ireland using surface transport at the time due to the threat posed by Provisional IRA attacks. This mission was safely accomplished and they returned to RAF Aldergrove (outside Belfast, Northern Ireland) at 15:20. They took off for Inverness at 17:42. Weather en route was forecast to be clear except in the Mull of Kintyre area. The crew made contact with military air traffic control (ATC) in Scotland at 17:55.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, Incident, Crash
Around 18:00, Chinook ZD576 flew into a hillside in dense fog. The pilots were Flight Lieutenants Jonathan Tapper, 28, and Richard Cook, 30, both United Kingdom Special Forces pilots. There were two other crew. The helicopter was carrying 25 British intelligence experts from MI5, the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the British Army, from Aldergrove to attend a conference at Fort George (near Inverness) in Scotland. At the time of the accident Air Chief Marshal Sir William Wratten called it "the largest peacetime tragedy the RAF had suffered".


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, Incident, Crash
The initial point of impact was 810 feet [250 m] above mean sea level and about 500 metres east of the lighthouse, but the bulk of the aircraft remained airborne for a further 187 metres horizontally north and 90 feet [27 m] vertically before coming to rest in pieces. Fire broke out immediately. All those on board sustained injuries from which they must have died almost instantaneously. The points of impact were shrouded in local cloud with visibility reduced to a few metres, which prevented those witnesses who had heard the aircraft from seeing it.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, Incident, Crash
In the immediate aftermath of the accident, one commentator stated that the loss of so many top level Northern Ireland intelligence officers in one stroke was a huge blow to the John Major government, "temporarily confounding" its campaign against the IRA. That the crash killed so many British intelligence experts, without any witnesses in the foggy conditions, led to considerable speculation and conspiracy theories being devised on the issue on the potential of a cover-up having been performed. Among these were accusations that wake turbulence from a top-secret hypersonic US aircraft had been responsible for the crash, while another postulated that it was a deliberate assassination of the intelligence operatives on board in connection with the then on-going Northern Ireland peace process.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, Incident, Initial inquiry
In 1995, an RAF board of inquiry that investigated the incident determined that there was no conclusive evidence to determine the cause of the crash. An immediate suspicion that the helicopter could have been shot down by the Provisional IRA, with their known Strela 2 surface-to-air missile capability, had been quickly ruled out by investigators. A review of the evidence, carried out by two Air Chief Marshals of the Royal Air Force, found the two pilots to have been guilty of gross negligence by flying too fast and too low in thick fog.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, Incident, Initial inquiry
Both the incident and the first inquiry have been subject to controversy and dispute, primarily as to whether the crash had been caused by pilot error or by a mechanical failure. The 2011 Parliamentary report found the reviewing officers to have failed to correctly adhere to the standard of proof of "absolutely no doubt" in deciding the question of negligence.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, Incident, Subsequent inquiries
The first inquiry and its conclusion proved to be highly controversial. A subsequent fatal accident inquiry (1996), House of Commons Defence Select Committee report (2000) and Commons Public Accounts Committee report have all either left open the question of blame or challenged the original conclusion. The campaign for a new inquiry was supported by the families of the pilots, and senior politicians, including former Prime Minister John Major and former Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind. The new inquiry took place in the House of Lords from September to November 2001. The findings were published on 31 January 2002, and found that the verdicts of gross negligence on the two pilots were unjustified.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, Incident, Subsequent inquiries
In December 2007, Defence Secretary Des Browne agreed to conduct a fresh report into the crash. On 8 December 2008, Secretary of State for Defence John Hutton announced that "no new evidence" had been presented and the verdicts of gross negligence against the flight crew would stand. On 4 January 2010, doubts of the official explanation were raised again with the discovery that an internal MOD document, which had been written nine months prior to the incident, described the engine software as 'positively dangerous' as it could lead to failure of both engines. The 2011 Review concluded that criticism that the original board had not paid enough attention to maintenance and technical issues was unjustified.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, Incident, Subsequent inquiries
On 13 July 2011, Defence Secretary Liam Fox outlined to MPs the findings of an independent review into the 1994 crash, which found that the two pilots who were blamed for the crash had been cleared of gross negligence. In doing so, the Government accepted Lord Philip's confirmation that the Controller Aircraft Release (CAR) was "mandated" upon the RAF. Issued in November 1993, the CAR stated that the entire navigation and communications systems used on the Chinook HC2 were not to be relied upon in any way by the aircrew, and therefore it had no legitimate clearance to fly.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, Incident, Subsequent inquiries
Knowledge of the CAR had been withheld from the pilots; by withholding this when issuing their Release to Service (RTS) (the authority to fly), the RAF had made a false declaration of compliance with regulations. In December 2012, the Minister for the Armed Forces, Andrew Robathan, confirmed such a false declaration did not constitute "wrongdoing", despite it leading directly to deaths of servicemen.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, ZD576's service history
Boeing CH-47C Chinook, construction number B-868, RAF serial number ZD576 was originally delivered to the Royal Air Force as a Chinook HC.1 on 22 December 1984.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, ZD576's service history
It was re-delivered to No 7 Squadron as a Chinook HC.2 on 21 April 1994. On arrival at RAF Odiham, its No.1 engine had to be replaced. On 10 May 1994, a post-flight fault inspection revealed a dislocated mounting bracket had caused the collective lever to have restricted and restrictive movement; this resulted in a "Serious Fault Signal" being sent as a warning to other UK Chinook operating units. On 17 May 1994, emergency power warning lights flashed multiple times and the No.1 engine was again replaced. On 25 May 1994, a serious incident occurred which had indicated the imminent failure of the No.2 engine.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, ZD576's service history
On 31 May 1994, two days before the accident, two Chinook HC.1s were withdrawn from RAF Aldergrove and replaced by a single HC.2, ZD576.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, Possible causes, Pilot error
Aviation safety author Andrew Brookes wrote that the true cause will never be known, but that pilot error induced by fatigue is likely to have played a part; the crew had been on flight duty for 9 hours and 15 minutes, including 6 hours flying time, before they took off on the crash flight. Had they made it to Fort George, they would have needed special permission from a senior officer to fly back to Aldergrove.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, Possible causes, Pilot error
Baroness Symons, speaking on behalf of the Government in the House of Lords in 2000.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, Possible causes, Pilot error
In his book, Steuart Campbell suggested that two errors by the pilots; failure to climb to a safe altitude upon entering cloud, and a navigational error made in the poor visibility (mistaking a fog signal station for a lighthouse), together caused the crash. The Board of Inquiry had identified that several factors may have sufficiently distracted the crew from turning away from the Mull, and upon entering cloud, failed to carry out the correct procedure for an emergency climb in a timely manner.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, Possible causes, Pilot error
RAF Visual Flight Rules (VFR) require the crew to have a minimum visibility of 5.5 kilometres above 140 knots (260 km/h), or minimum visibility of one kilometre travelling below 140 knots; if VFR conditions are lost an emergency climb must be immediately flown. Nine out of ten witnesses interviewed in the inquiry reported visibility at ground level in the fog as being as low as ten to one hundred metres at the time of the crash; in-flight visibility may have been more or less than this. The tenth witness, a yachtsman who was offshore, reported it as being one mile (1.6 km), though he is regarded as a less reliable witness as he changed his testimony.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, Possible causes, Pilot error
If witness accounts of visibility are correct, the pilots should have transferred to Instrument Flight Rules, which would require the pilots to slow the aircraft and climb to a safe altitude at the best climbing speed. In the area around the Mull of Kintyre, the safe altitude would be 2,400 feet (730 m) above sea level, 1,000 feet (300 m) above the highest point of the terrain. The height of the crash site of ZD576 was 810 feet (250 m), 1,600 feet (490 m) below the minimum safe level. The Board of Inquiry into the accident recommended formal procedures for transition from Visual Flight Rules to Instrument Flight Rules in mid-flight be developed, and the RAF has since integrated such practices into standard pilot training.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, Possible causes, Pilot error
Regarding negligence on the part of the pilots, the 2011 Report said "the possibility that there had been gross negligence could not be ruled out, but there were many grounds for doubt and the pilots were entitled to the benefit of it... [ T]he Reviewing Officers had failed to take account of the high calibre of two Special Forces pilots who had no reputation for recklessness."


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, Possible causes, FADEC problems
At the time of the crash, new FADEC (Full Authority Digital Engine Control) equipment was being integrated onto all RAF Chinooks, as part of an upgrade from the Chinook HC.1 standard to the newer Chinook HC.2 variant. The Ministry of Defence was given a £3 million settlement from Textron, the manufacturers of the system, after a ground-test of the FADEC systems on a Chinook in 1989 resulted in severe airframe damage. Contractors, including Textron, had agreed that FADEC had been the cause of the 1989 incident and that the system needed to be redesigned.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, Possible causes, FADEC problems
The committee investigating the crash were satisfied that the destructive error in 1989 was not relevant to the 1994 crash. Information provided from Boeing to the investigation led to the following conclusion regarding FADEC performance: "Data from the Digital Electronics Unit (DECU) of the second engine showed no evidence of torque or temperature exceedance and the matched power conditions of the engines post-impact indicate that there was no sustained emergency power demand. No other evidence indicated any FADEC or engine faults." It was expected that in a FADEC engine runaway, engine power would become asynchronous and mismatched. The investigation found the engines at the crash to have matched settings, decreasing the likelihood of a FADEC malfunction being involved.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, Possible causes, FADEC problems
EDS-SCICON was given the task of independently evaluating the software on the Chinook HC.2 in 1993. According to the House of Commons report: "After examining only 18 per cent of the code they found 486 anomalies and stopped the review... intermittent engine failure captions were being regularly experienced by aircrew of Chinook Mk 2s and there were instances of uncommanded run up and run down of the engines and undemanded flight control movements".


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, Possible causes, FADEC problems
Tests upon the Chinooks performed by the MOD at Boscombe Down in 1994 reported the FADEC software to be "unverifiable and ... therefore unsuitable for its purpose". In June 1994, the MoD test pilots at Boscombe Down had refused to fly the Chinook HC.2 until the engines, engine control systems and FADEC software had undergone revision. In October 2001, Computer Weekly reported that three fellows of the Royal Aeronautical Society had said that issues with either control or FADEC systems could have led to the crash.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, Possible causes, FADEC problems
The main submission to Lord Philip (see above) revealed that the FADEC Safety Critical software did not have a Certificate of Design, and was therefore not cleared to be fitted to Chinook HC2. It further revealed that John Spellar MP had been wrong when claiming the software was not Safety Critical, providing the original policy document governing this definition to Lord Philip. MoD subsequently claimed it did not have its own copy, calling into question how it could advise Spellar one way or the other.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, Possible causes, Other factors
The onboard Tactical Air Navigation System, which only retained the last measured altitude, gave an altitude reading of 468 feet (143 m). The investigation observed that it was possible for some of the avionics systems to interfere with the Chinook's VHF radio, potentially disrupting communications.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, Possible causes, Other factors
Flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders were not fitted to all RAF Chinooks at the time of the accident. The absence of this data greatly reduced the amount and quality of data available to subsequent investigations. Information on speed and height were derived from the position of cockpit dials in the wreckage and the wreckage's condition. During 1994, the RAF had begun to fit these recording devices across the Chinook HC.2 fleet prior to the accident; this process was completed in 2002.


1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash, Possible causes, Other factors
The aircraft had not been classified as being airworthy. It was mandated upon the RAF that it was "not to be relied upon in any way".


1994 Scotland rugby union tour of Argentina
The 1994 Scotland rugby union tour of Argentina was a series of matches played in May and June 1994 in Argentina by Scotland national rugby union team. The Scottish side played a total of 6 matches in Argentina, winning only two with 3 loses.


1994 Scotland rugby union tour of Argentina, Test details, First test
Argentina: 15.Santiago Mesón, 14.Martín Terán, 13.Diego Cuesta Silva, 12.Marcelo Loffreda (capt), 11.Jorge, 10.Del Castillo, 9.Miranda, 8.Camerlinckx, 7.Temperley, 6.Rolando Martín, 5.Pedro Sporleder, 4.Germán Llanes, 3.Patricio Noriega, 2.Angelillo, 1.CorralScotland: 15.Dods, 14.Jonier, 13.Jardine, 12.Schiel, 11.Logan, 10.Townsend, 9.Redpath, 8.Hogg, 7.Smith, 6.Walton, 5.Reed (capt), 4.Munro, 3.Burnell, 2.McKenzie, 1.Sharp


1994 Scotland rugby union tour of Argentina, Test details, Second test
Argentina: S. Mesón; M. Terán, M. Loffreda (capt), D. Cuesta Silva, G. Jorge; G. del Castillo, N. Fernández Miranda; C. Viel Temperley, J.Santamarina, R. Martín; G. Llanes, P. Sporleder; P. Noriega, J.J. Angelillo, F. MéndezScotland: M. Dods; C. Joiner, I. Jardine, G. Shiel, Y.. Logan; G. Townsend, B. Redpath; I.Smith, C. Hogg, P. Walton; A. Reed (capt), S. Munro; P. Burnell, K. McEnzie, A. Sharp


1994 Scott Tournament of Hearts
The 1994 Scott Tournament of Hearts Canadian women's national curling championship, was played February 26 to March 5 at the Waterloo Recreational Sports Complex in Waterloo, Ontario.


1994 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Sandra PetersonThird: Jan BetkerSecond: Joan McCuskerLead: Marcia GudereitAlternate: Anita Ford


1994 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Gloria PalinkasThird: Crystal McLeodSecond: Charlene RobinsonLead: Candy TaylorAlternate: Karen McNamee


1994 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Diane DalioThird: Donna GervaisSecond: Rae Ann CopelandLead: Lorraine FlanniganAlternate: Cheryle Wood


1994 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Connie LaliberteThird: Karen PurdySecond: Cathy GauthierLead: Janet ArnottAlternate: Kristen Kroeker


1994 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Heidi HanlonThird: Diane BlairSecond: Sheri StewartLead: Judy BlanchardAlternate: Ellen Brennan


1994 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Laura Phillips Third: Cathy CunninghamSecond: Kathy KerrLead: Heather MartinAlternate: Susan Thomas


1994 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Colleen JonesThird: Kay ZinkSecond: Angie RomkeyLead: Kim KellyAlternate: Monica Moriarty


1994 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Anne MerklingerThird: Theresa BreenSecond: Patti McKnightLead: Audrey FreyAlternate: Kristin Turcotte


1994 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Shelly DanksThird: Nancy ReidSecond: Janice MacCullumLead: Shelley MuzikaAlternate: Joan Butcher


1994 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Agnes CharetteThird: France CharetteSecond: Chantal OsborneLead: Sylvie DanielAlternate: Joelle Sabourin


1994 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Sherry AndersonThird: Kay MontgomerySecond: Donna GignacLead: Elaine McCloyAlternate: Cathy Fahlman


1994 Scott Tournament of Hearts, Teams
Skip : Shelley AucoinThird: Margaret LawrenceSecond: Rose-Marie BakerLead: Doris MacKenzieAlternate: Anne Campbell


1994 Scottish Challenge Cup Final
The 1994 Scottish Challenge Cup Final, also known as the B&Q Cup Final for sponsorship reasons,  was an association football match between Dundee and Airdrieonians on 6 November 1994 at McDiarmid Park in Perth. It was the fifth final of the Scottish Challenge Cup since it was first organised in 1990 to celebrate the centenary of the Scottish Football League.


1994 Scottish Challenge Cup Final
The match was Dundee's first national cup final since winning the inaugural tournament in 1990 whilst it was Airdrieonians's first in only two years since contesting the 1992 Scottish Cup Final. The tournament was contested by clubs below the Scottish Premier Division, with both finalists from the First Division.


1994 Scottish Challenge Cup Final, Route to the final, Dundee
Dundee faced a trip to Arbroath in the first round which saw the team triumph 5–0 winners. The second round was another game on the road against Inverness Caledonian Thistle. With the game tied 1–1 after extra time, the game went to penalties with Dundee emerging victorious. to progress to the quarter-finals. A first home game of the tournament saw Morton travel to Dens Park, with the home team winning 2–1. The reward for reaching the semi-final was a third away game with the opponents in the form of Dunfermline Athletic at East End Park. Dundee won 2–1 to book a place in the final. This was Dundee's second appearance in the Scottish Challenge Cup Final since winning the competition in its inaugural year in 1990.


1994 Scottish Challenge Cup Final, Route to the final, Airdrieonians
The first round draw paired Airdrieonians with Berwick Rangers at home with The Diamonds producing a 3–1 win. Raith Rovers were the opposition in the second round at Excelsior Stadium. With the scores tied at 1–1 after extra time, the game went to penalties and Airdrie emerged winners. The reward for reaching the quarter-final stage was another home game with the opposition being Ayr United and again Airdrieonians winning 2–0. The semi-final draw again resulted in Airdrieonians playing another home game, with Clydebank the opposition provided, Airdrieonians won by 3 goals to 0, to keep their second clean sheet of the tournament and progress to the Scottish Challenge Cup Final for the first time since its inauguration in 1990.


1994 Scottish Challenge Cup Final, Pre-match, Analysis
Airdrieonians played all four of their games preceding the final at home, in the process scoring nine goals and conceding two. On the other hand, Dundee played only one game at home with the other three played on the road, whilst scoring a total of ten goals and conceding three. Airdrieonians kept two clean sheets over Dundee's one. This was the first appearance in the Scottish Challenge Cup Final for Airdrieonians but the second appearance for Dundee since winning the competition in its inaugural year in 1990.


1994 Scottish Cup Final
The 1994 Scottish Cup Final was the final match of the 1993–94 Scottish Cup competition, the 109th edition of the most important cup competition in Scottish football. It was played between Dundee United and Rangers at Hampden Park, Glasgow on 21 May 1994.


1994 Scottish Cup Final
Dundee United won the game 1–0, with a goal by Craig Brewster. Following a mix-up between Rangers' goalkeeper Ally Maxwell and Dave McPherson, United's Christian Dailly rolled a cross-shot across goal. The ball bounced off the post but Brewster was there to tap in.


1994 Scottish Cup Final
It was Dundee United's first Scottish Cup victory, having previously played in six finals, but losing all of them. Dundee United manager Ivan Golac was the first manager from outside the United Kingdom to win the Scottish Cup.


1994 Scottish Cup Final, Background
Rangers were seeking to complete what was described as "a Double Treble" having won all three domestic trophies in 1992-1993 and having already won the League Cup and the Premier Division. United on the other hand had failed to win the Scottish Cup despite reaching six finals, and had lost four finals within the previous ten years. Moreover the side had only finished 2 points clear of being relegated from the Premier Division. Consequently Rangers were heavy favourites for the match, although, as Dundee United player Craig Brewster would note, United had beaten Rangers 3-0 at Ibrox a few months earlier.


1994 Scottish Cup Final, Match, Summary
Both sides fielded attacking line-ups and had scoring opportunities in the first half, and Dundee United had a penalty claim turned down in the 11th minute, but the match remained goalless at halftime. The only goal of the game eventually came two minutes into the second half. Rangers' goalkeeper Ally Maxwell saw his attempt at a clearance come off Dundee United's Christian Dailly who was then able to shoot towards the goal. His shot hit the post, but his team mate Craig Brewster was on hand to score. Rangers strove for an equalizer, their closest effort being an Alexei Mikhailichenko shot that was superbly saved by United's Guido van de Kamp, but they were ultimately unable to break down Dundee United's defence.


1994 Scottish Cup Final, Attendance
At the time of the match Hampden Park was undergoing major reconstruction work. As this was only partly completed its capacity was reduced. Consequently, only 38,000 tickets for the final were available (with Rangers being given 19,000 and Dundee United being allocated 12,000 and the rest going to sponsors and other clubs). The match was a sell-out, and ultimately 37,450 people attended the final. Authors Mike Watson and Matthew Watson suggested that the bulk of the apparent 550 non-attenders were probably drawn from tickets issued to sponsors.


1994 Scottish League Cup Final
The 1994 Scottish League Cup Final was played on 27 November 1994, at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow and was the final of the 49th Scottish League Cup competition. The final was contested by Raith Rovers and Celtic. Raith Rovers won the final on a penalty shootout after the match ended in a 2–2 draw.


1994 Scottish Masters
The 1994 Regal Scottish Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 20 and 25 September 1994 at the Motherwell Civic Centre in Motherwell, Scotland.


1994 Scottish Masters
Ken Doherty won the tournament by defeating Stephen Hendry 9–7 in the final.


1994 Scottish Masters, Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


1994 Scottish regional elections
Regional elections were held in Scotland on 5 May 1994, as part of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. These were the last elections before 29 new mainland unitary authorities, established by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, came into effect. The councils up for election were last contested in 1990 Scottish regional elections, and vote and seat changes are compared to the 1990 results.


1994 Scottish regional elections, Overview, Background
As these were the last elections to the Regional Councils, which were to be abolished within the next two years, the election was seen as a somewhat pointless exercise as the elected representatives would have minimal time to introduce any policies before powers were transferred to the new unitary authorities. Nevertheless, voters still saw it as an opportunity to demonstrate the popularity of John Major's incumbent Tory Government, which saw the Conservatives lose 21 seats, and be replaced by the Liberal Democrats as third largest party by number of seats.


1994 Scottish regional elections, Overview, Outcome
A record number of 1522 candidates stood for election across Scotland, including a new high of 341 women candidates. Turnout stayed almost the same from 1990 at 45.6%, a decrease of 0.3%. The Conservatives' vote share decreased by 5.8%, to give them their worst ever performance at a local election, with only 13.7% of the vote. Labour retained their position as the largest party, down slightly from the previous election. The SNP made large gains  of almost 5%, mainly at the expense of the Conservatives, as did the Liberal Democrats, who increased their vote share by 3.7%. Independent candidates won the most votes in the Highland, Border and Dumfries & Galloway regions, despite having lost up to 9% of the vote in some areas.


1994 Scottish regional elections, Overview, Regional Trends
Labour held  Strathclyde, Lothian, Central and Fife Regions, while Independents took a majority on Orkney, Shetland, Highland and the Western Isles councils, as well as taking the most seats on Borders and Dumfries and Galloway councils. As in 1990, no party won a majority on Tayside and Grampian councils, with the SNP overtaking Labour to be the largest party on the former, and the Liberal Democrats winning a plurality of seats on the latter.


1994 Seattle Mariners season
The Seattle Mariners 1994 season was their 18th since the franchise creation, and ended the season finishing 3rd in the American League West, finishing with a 49–63 (.438) record. The season was cut short by the infamous 1994 player's strike, which began on August 12.


1994 Seattle Mariners season
The Mariners played their final twenty games on the road, due to interior ceiling repairs at the Kingdome; they were 10–1 in August, and won their final six games.


1994 Seattle Mariners season, Regular season
By Friday, August 12, the Mariners had compiled a 49–63 (.438) record through 112 games and were only two games behind the Texas Rangers for the lead in the four-team AL West Division. They had scored 569 runs (5.08 per game) and allowed 616 runs (5.50 per game).


1994 Seattle Mariners season, Regular season
Slightly more than half of the 162 games scheduled were to be televised this season, with 72 on KSTW and sixteen on Prime Sports Northwest; of those 88 games, 65 were on the road and 23 at home.


1994 Seattle Mariners season, Player stats, Batting
Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In


1994 Seattle Seahawks season
The 1994 Seattle Seahawks season was the team's 19th season with the National Football League. The 1994 season was head coach Tom Flores' last with the team. The team played their two preseason and first three regular season home games at Husky Stadium due to the collapse of four ceiling tiles at the Kingdome on July 19.


1994 Seattle Seahawks season
Chris Warren and the Seahawks rushing attack ranked second best for the season.


1994 Seattle Seahawks season, Schedule, Regular season
By finishing in fifth place in 1993, Seattle plays the two NFC fifth-place finishers, the Redskins and Buccaneers, and two games against the other AFC fifth-place finisher, the Colts.


1994 Segunda División de Chile
The 1994 Segunda División de Chile was the 43rd season of the Segunda División de Chile.


1994 Selwyn by-election
The Selwyn by-election, a by-election in the New Zealand electorate of Selwyn - a predominantly rural district in the Canterbury Plains in New Zealand's South Island - took place on 13 August 1994. The previous sitting MP, Ruth Richardson, precipitated the poll by resigning from parliament. Richardson planned to retire from politics, having been removed as Minister of Finance the previous year.


1994 Selwyn by-election, Background
The by-election was significant, as National held on to the majority of the House of Representatives by only one seat (50 to 49). This meant the party would have lost its majority in the House if it failed to retain the seat, and it would have required the formation of a coalition or a confidence-and-supply agreement with another parliamentary party - probably New Zealand First or the Alliance - to maintain governance.


1994 Selwyn by-election, Background
All "major" New Zealand political parties of the day contested the by-election. David Carter, the National Party candidate, won the seat, and therefore the distribution of seats in Parliament did not change . In second place, and only around four hundred votes behind Carter, came the Alliance's John Wright, in a result that surprised many commentators. National's traditional opponent, the Labour Party, placed a distant third. The fourth "major" candidate represented the New Zealand First party: Tim Shadbolt, then Mayor of Invercargill.


1994 Selwyn by-election, Results
The following table shows the official results as published by the Electoral Commission.


1994 Senior League World Series
The 1994 Senior League World Series took place from August 14–20 in Kissimmee, Florida, United States. Brandon, Florida defeated Midland, Michigan in the championship game.


1994 Senior PGA Tour
The 1994 Senior PGA Tour was the 15th season since the Senior PGA Tour officially began in 1980 (it was renamed the Champions Tour in 2003 and PGA Tour Champions in 2016). The season consisted of 37 official money events with purses totalling $29,150,000, including four majors. Lee Trevino won the most tournaments, six. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.


1994 Senior PGA Tour, Tournament results
The following table shows all the official money events for the 1994 season. "Date" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Senior majors are shown in bold.


1994 Shane
1994 Shane, provisional designation 1961 TE, is a dark Adeonian asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 25 kilometers in diameter.


1994 Shane
It was discovered on 4 October 1961, by astronomers of the Indiana Asteroid Program conducted at the Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana, United States. It was later named after American astronomer C. Donald Shane.


1994 Shane, Orbit and classification
Shane is a member of the Adeona family (505), a large family of carbonaceous asteroids.


1994 Shane, Orbit and classification
The asteroid orbits the Sun in the intermediate main belt at a distance of 2.1–3.2 AU once every 4 years and 5 months (1,603 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.21 and an inclination of 10° with respect to the ecliptic. It was first identified as 1939 RN at Simeiz Observatory in 1939, extending Shane's observation arc by 22 years prior to its official discovery observation at Goethe.


1994 Shane, Lightcurve
In October 2009, a rotational lightcurve of Shane was obtained from photometric observations at the Via Capote Observatory (G69) in California. It gave a well-defined rotation period of 8.22 hours with a brightness variation of 0.26 magnitude (U=3), superseding a previously obtained period of 8 hours from 1996 (U=n.a. ).


1994 Shane, Diameter and albedo
According to observations made by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS, Shane has an albedo of 0.06, while the survey carried out by the Japanese Akari satellite rendered a higher albedo of 0.13 with a corresponding diameter of 18 kilometers. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an even lower albedo of 0.04, yet does not classify it as a carbonaceous but rather as a S-type asteroid, which typically have much higher albedos due to their stony surface composition.


1994 Shane, Naming
This minor planet was named after American astronomer Charles Donald Shane (1895–1983), director of Lick Observatory, second president of AURA, and instrumental for the establishment of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.


1994 Shane, Naming
Shane played a major role in the planning and construction of the first telescopes and buildings on Kitt Peak National Observatory as well. The 3-meter C. Donald Shane telescope, located at Lick Observatory, was also named after him. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 March 1981 (M.P.C. 5848).


1994 Shankill Road killings
The 1994 Shankill Road killings took place on 16 June 1994 when the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) shot dead three Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) members – high-ranking member of the UVF Belfast Brigade staff Trevor King and two other UVF members, Colin Craig and David Hamilton – on the Shankill Road in Belfast, close to the UVF headquarters. The following day, the UVF launched two retaliatory attacks. In the first, UVF members shot dead a Catholic civilian taxi driver in Carrickfergus. In the second, they shot dead two Protestant civilians in Newtownabbey, who they believed were Catholics. The Loughinisland massacre, two days later, is believed to have been a further retaliation.


1994 Shankill Road killings, Background
The UVF had been considering calling a ceasefire soon, which they believed would be from a position of strength. The Irish National Liberation Army had been in decline since the late 1980s after the feud with Irish People's Liberation Organization in which the loss of their best operators in Belfast 1987 had left them weak and largely inactive. But in 1992 the INLA had somewhat of a resurgence in its campaign. On 14 April 1992, a British Army (BA) recruiting sergeant Michael Newman (33) was shot dead by two INLA volunteers outside an army recruiting office in Derby.


1994 Shankill Road killings, Background
It was a significant incident as Newman was the first serving member of British Armed Forces to be killed by the INLA since 1984 when they shot dead UDR soldier Colin Houston. It was also significant in that this was the first person the INLA had killed in England since the Airey Neave killing. Two months later they struck in England again with two firebombs in stores in Leeds causing £50,000 worth of damage. On the 14 January 1993 an INLA hit team fired rifle shots through the window of the home of UVF leader John "Bunter" Graham at Belfast, seriously injured him. In June 1993 they killed retired RUC officer, John Patrick Murphy.


1994 Shankill Road killings, Shootings
On 16 June 1994, high-ranking UVF Commander volunteer Trevor King was standing on the Shankill Road not far from "The Eagle" ("The Eagle" was the UVF's Belfast GHQ) and he was talking to fellow UVF members, David Hamilton (43) and Colin Craig (31). They were about one hundred yards away from the UVF headquarters, which was located in rooms above a shop known as "The Eagle". A car drove past them and as it did so, INLA gunmen inside the vehicle opened fire on the three men. The car was later found burning close to Divis tower.


1994 Shankill Road killings, Shootings
David Lister and Hugh Jordan claimed that Gino Gallagher, who was himself shot dead in 1996 during an internal dispute, was the main gunman in the attack. However, Jack Holland and Henry McDonald said that Gallagher was inside the car which was scouting the area for UVF members, and not one of the gunmen. Colin Craig was killed on the spot. King and David Hamilton lay in the street, seriously wounded as panic and chaos erupted on the Shankill in the wake of the shooting.


1994 Shankill Road killings, Shootings
Presbyterian minister, the Reverend Roy Magee was in "The Eagle" discussing an upcoming Combined Loyalist Military Command (CLMC) meeting and the possibility of a loyalist ceasefire with the UVF Brigade Staff when the attack took place. He and the others raced out of the building after hearing the gunfire. He later described the scene he came upon outside.


1994 Shankill Road killings, Shootings
"With some others, I ran down to where the men were. One was already dead and the others were in a very, very bad physical state. The road was in pandemonium at that stage. You could see that the leadership of the UVF was quite naturally very, very broken and disturbed about the shooting of their colleague. He [Trevor King] was a senior commander".


1994 Shankill Road killings, Shootings
King was rushed to hospital where he was put on a life-support machine. The shooting had left him paralysed from the neck down. He died on 9 July with Reverend Magee at his bedside. According to Magee, King himself made the decision to turn off the machine.


1994 Shankill Road killings, Shootings
The killings were a blow for the Northern Ireland peace process and a morale boost for the INLA. The attack was the INLA's deadliest since the Droppin Well bombing in 1982 which killed seventeen people, 11 British soldiers and 6 civilians.


1994 Shankill Road killings, Aftermath
The following day, the UVF launched two 'retaliatory' attacks. In the first, UVF members shot dead a Catholic civilian taxi driver in Carrickfergus. In the second, they shot dead two Protestant civilians in Newtownabbey, who they believed were Catholics. Two days after the killings the Ulster Volunteer Force decided to launch another  revenge attack when they killed six Catholic civilians in a bar while they were watching the Ireland vs Italy 1994 World Cup game opener in what became known as Loughinisland massacre. The tit-for-tat attacks continued on and off for the spring and summer of 1994 until the Provisional IRA ceasefire of 31 August 1994 and the Combined Loyalist Military Command ceasefire in October. The attacks on the Shankill were the INLA's deadliest attack of the 1990s.


1994 Shankill Road killings, Aftermath
When interviewed for Boston College for research on the conflict, Progressive Unionist Party leader David Ervine suggested the INLA might have been working in cahoots with the Provisional IRA in targeting prominent Loyalists, as the month after in July the Provisional IRA killed three leading UDA men.


1994 Sheffield City Council election
Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 5 May 1994. One third of the council was up for election. Since the previous election, three by-elections had taken place, resulting in two Lib Dem gains from Labour in Brightside and Walkley and a successful hold of a Dore seat by the Conservatives. This, along with a defection from Burngreave councillor James Jamison, left Labour down three, the Liberal Democrats up two and the Conservatives unchanged going into this election.


1994 Sheffield City Council election, Election result
This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:


1994 Shell Rimula X season
The 1994 Shell Rimula-X Turbo Chargers season was the 10th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).


1994 Shell Rimula X season, Occurrences
After a dismal performance by the team in the All-Filipino, coach Rino Salazar was replaced by former Shell mentor Joe Lipa beginning the Commissioner’s Cup.


1994 Shell Rimula X season, Occurrences
On July 31, Seven-time best import Bobby Parks was accused of deliberately throwing games after Shell lost to San Miguel in overtime by one point in their last outing in the eliminations of the Commissioners Cup. Shell’s loss to the Beermen eliminated Toñdena 65, who were hoping to gain a tie with San Miguel and a playoff for the last semifinals berth.


1994 Shell Rimula X season, Imports
Bobby Parks didn’t finish the whole conference for the first time in his eight PBA seasons. He was replaced by Jerome Lane starting the Commissioners Cup semifinal round.


1994 Shell Rimula X season, Imports
In the Governor's Cup, Shell’s original choice Guy Taylor was unimpressive in their exhibition match against Pepsi Mega in Subic and was sent home in favor of Carl Ray Harris. After eight games, Harris was replaced by Delano Demps, the former 7-Up import who led the Bottlers to a runner-up finish two years ago. Demps saw action for only two games and went back home. Michael Morrison was on his third tour of duty with Shell and he came just in time for their playoff against Tondeña 65 on October 30. Shell was the last entry into the semifinals by winning against the Rhum Masters in overtime, 125-123. Morrison played a total of five games until their fourth reinforcement in the Governor's Cup, Terrence Lewis, replaces him and played the last six games for the Turbo Chargers in the semifinals.


1994 Shell Rimula X season, Governors Cup roster
Assistant coach: Cris Calilan, replaced by Nemie Villegas Team Manager: Vergel de Dios


1994 Shetland Islands Council election
Elections to the Shetland Islands Council were held on 5 May 1994 as part of Scottish regional elections. The Shetland Movement maintained six seats, while the Liberal Democrats gained representation on the council for the first time. Only nine seats were contested.


1994 Shimizu S-Pulse season
The 1994 season was Shimizu S-Pulse's third season in existence and their second season in the J1 League. The club also competed in the Emperor's Cup and the J.League Cup. The team finished the season fourth in the league.


1994 Shreveport Pirates season
The 1994 Shreveport Pirates season was the first season in the teams franchise history. They finished last place in the East division with a 3–15 record and failed to make the playoffs.


1994 Shreveport Pirates season, Offseason
During the 1993 season, Bernie Glieberman was the owner of the Ottawa Rough Riders franchise. The city refused to renegotiate the terms of the lease for Frank Clair Stadium and Glieberman threatened to move the franchise. Instead, Glieberman sold the franchise to local businessman Bruce Firestone. Glieberman was offered the opportunity to start a new franchise and the Shreveport Pirates were born. His son Lonie was named team president and the Gliebermans were leased Independence Stadium at a 10-year lease for $2,500 a game. Lonie Glieberman boasted that the Pirates would be the first US based CFL franchise to win the Grey Cup.


1994 Shreveport Pirates season, Offseason, Training camp
The Pirates first training camp was meant to be on the grounds at Louisiana State University. Instead, there was a scheduling error and the Pirates were forced to hold their training camp on the grounds of the Louisiana State Fair. The players were housed in a large barracks style room that housed 12 to 18 players, and were on the second level, while animals were on the first level. Pirates player Joe Mero would book a nearby hotel room at his own expense.


1994 Shreveport Pirates season, Offseason, Training camp
Head coach John Huard was the former football coach at the Maine Maritime Academy and he would be fired during training camp. An incident occurred where Huard berated a volunteer athletic therapist. The therapist left training camp and Huard was released from his coaching duties. Huard was replaced by NFL Hall of Famer and former Cincinnati Bengals and Toronto Argonauts head coach Forrest Gregg. Gregg convinced the Gliebermans to remove the Vice President of Operations and the General Manager.


1994 Shreveport Pirates season, Regular season
Despite the losing, Shreveport averaged a respectable attendance of 17,871 fans per game. The Pirates set a CFL record with the longest losing streak in history (14 consecutive losses).


1994 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election
Legislative Assembly elections were held in Sikkim, in November 1994, to elect the 32 members of the fifth Legislative Assembly.


1994 Singapore Classic
The 1994 Singapore Classic was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Dusit Resort Hotel in Kallang, Singapore that was part of the Tier IV category of the 1994 WTA Tour. It was the sixth and last edition of the tournament and took place from 18 April through 24 April 1994. First-seeded Naoko Sawamatsu won the singles title.


1994 Singapore Classic, Finals, Doubles
Patty Fendick /  Meredith McGrath defeated  Nicole Arendt /  Kristine Radford 6–4, 6–1


1994 Singapore Classic – Doubles
Jo Durie and Jill Hetherington were the defending champions in 1990, but none competed this year.


1994 Singapore Classic – Doubles
Patty Fendick and Meredith McGrath won the title by defeating Nicole Arendt and Kristine Radford 6–4, 6–1 in the final.


1994 Singapore Classic – Singles
Naoko Sawamatsu successfully defended her title by defeating Florencia Labat 7–5, 7–5 in the final.


1994 Singer World Series
The Singer World Series was a quadrangular ODI cricket tournament held in Sri Lanka from 4 to 17 September 1994. It featured the national cricket teams of Pakistan, Australia, India and the hosts, Sri Lanka. The competition was won by India, which defeated Sri Lanka in the final.


1994 Singer World Series, Points table
The tournament was organised in a round robin format, with each team playing each other once.


1994 Singer World Series, Records and awards
Sri Lanka's captain Arjuna Ranatunga won the player of the series award; India's Sachin Tendulkar won the batsmen of the series award; and Australia's Steve Waugh was awarded the bowler of the series award.


1994 Sint Eustatius status referendum
A status referendum was held on the island of Sint Eustatius on 14 October 1994, alongside simultaneous referendums on Bonaire, Saba and Sint Maarten. A majority voted for maintaining the status quo.


1994 Sint Maarten status referendum
A status referendum was held on the island of Sint Maarten in October 1994. The referendum was the result of a discussion about the future of the Netherlands Antilles, following the secession of Aruba in 1986. While most politicians, including the government of the Netherlands Antilles and the island government campaigned in favour of secession of Sint Maarten to make it form a country of its own within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the option of retaining and restructuring the Netherlands Antilles came out in favour. This resulted in the rise of the Party for the Restructured Antilles.


1994 Six Nations Tournament
The 1994 Six Nations Tournament was the first playing of the Six Nations ice hockey Tournament. A total of 29 teams participated in the qualifying rounds, and the tournament was won by HC Bolzano.


1994 Skate America
The 1994 Skate America was held at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 26–31. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


1994 Skate Canada International
The 1994 Skate Canada International was held in Red Deer, Alberta on November 3–6. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


1994 Skoda Czech Open
The 1994 Skoda Czech Open, also known as the Prague Open, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the I. Czech Lawn Tennis Club in Prague, Czech Republic  that was part of the ATP World Series of the 1994 ATP Tour. It was the eighth edition of the tournament and was held from 1 August until 7 August 1994. First-seeded Sergi Bruguera won his second successive singles title at the event.


1994 Skoda Czech Open, Finals, Doubles
Karel Nováček /  Mats Wilander defeated  Tomáš Krupa /  Pavel Vízner walkover


1994 Slick 50 500
The 1994 Slick 50 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on October 30, 1994, at Phoenix International Raceway in Phoenix, Arizona. This race would be the final race in 1994 that Chevrolet would win; with the Chevrolet Lumina representing their manufacturing brand in the top-level professional stock car series at that time.


1994 Slick 50 500
The pace car in this race was a Chevrolet Camaro Z28.


1994 Slick 50 500
Never again would the aluminium chassis of the Chevrolet Lumina win another race in the NASCAR Cup Series; the Chevrolet Monte Carlo would take over in 1995 and would race until the beginning of the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. With the winner's average speed being slightly below 108 miles per hour (174 km/h), stock car manufacturers realized that aluminium no longer made the fastest vehicles and started to research for lighter materials to use for the exterior of the NASCAR vehicles. In today's NASCAR, a simple steel tube frame with safety roll cage (serving as a space frame chassis) is used for the racing vehicles. A 24-gauge sheet metal body covers the body for safety reasons.


1994 Slick 50 500, Race report
A lineup of 43 drivers made the starting grid for this 312-lap racing event; John Andretti finished in last-place due to a crash on lap 31. The yellow flag didn't come until lap 34 and lasted until lap 41. About 9% of the race was run under a caution flag while the green flag was maintained for an average of 57 laps. Individual winnings for each driver ranged from the winner's share of $67,885 ($117,099.34 when considering inflation) to the last-place finisher's share of $6,825 ($11,772.9 when considering inflation). The total prize purse for this racing event was $690,315 ($1,190,770.13 when considering inflation).


1994 Slick 50 500, Race report
Eleven drivers failed to qualify for this event; including Jeff Purvis. There were four caution flags for this event; most of them were caused by in-race accidents. Sterling Marlin, Ricky Rudd, Jeff Gordon and Ron Hornaday, Jr. would dominate the race during the first 100 laps while Terry Labonte and Marlin would dominate the final 100 laps of this event. Terry Labonte would eventually defeat Mark Martin by slightly more than three seconds after two hours and fifty-four minutes of racing. All 43 of the drivers were born in the United States of America.


1994 Slick 50 500, Race report
Sterling Marlin claims his first pole in over a year, and his only one of the 1994 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. Jeff Gordon was in the spotlight for the 1994 NASCAR Cup Series season with a pre-season engagement to his now ex-wife Brooke and 13 finishes in the "top ten" prior to this event. His fourth-place finish would add another "top ten" finish to Jeff Gordon's NASCAR racing résumé.


1994 Slick 50 500, Race report
Rick Carelli would be the highest-finishing driver not to finish the race while Michael Waltrip would be the lowest-finishing driver to finish the race. Most of the drivers in this event would either be driving Ford or Chevrolet vehicles during the race. The best finish for Dick Brooks Racing in NASCAR's Winston Cup Series after the former driver returned to owning a race team a few months earlier, buying the single car team from Felix Sabates.


1994 Slick 50 500, Race report
Dale Earnhardt would eventually go on to clinch the NASCAR Winston Cup Championship by more than 440 points after this event; although his day ended on lap 91 with engine problems. Earnhardt stated in the mid-race interview that they were had an "experimental" engine since they already wrapped up the title. The experiment was obviously a failure.


1994 Slick 50 500, Retirements from NASCAR
Rick Carelli and Mike Chase would end their respective NASCAR Cup Series careers after this event.


1994 Sligo Intermediate Football Championship
This is a round-up of the 1994 Sligo Intermediate Football Championship. Grange/Cliffoney triumphed in this Championship, to claim their second title at Intermediate level, with St. Farnan's the beaten finalists on this occasion.


1994 Sligo Senior Football Championship
This is a round-up of the 1994 Sligo Senior Football Championship. Tourlestrane were champions for the first time in twelve years, after defeating Shamrock Gaels in the final. This was the last year that amalgamations competed in the Championship, St. Nathy's and Geevagh/St. Michael's exiting early, though Bunninadden's promotion to Senior level meant the end of the former alliance in any event. Ballymote returned to the Championship after a 27-year gap, but didn't enjoy much success.


1994 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Sligo Senior Football Championship Final
Team:P. McVann (Capt)L. GaughanP. DurcanN. ManleyD. DurkinB. WalshA. WalshM. Walsh (0-1)E. O'Hara (1-0)T. NormanlyF. Kennedy (1-1)J. LundyA. Brennan (0-3)T. Carty (0-2)G. McGowan


1994 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Sligo Senior Football Championship Final
Team:J. KearnsJ. ConlonG. McDermottS. PotterM. ConlonP. WhiteJ. LyonsG. BallantyneJ. WhiteC. Kearns (0-3)M. KennyT. DeignanD. Ryan (0-3)E. Deignan (Capt)(0-2)R. Ballantyne


1994 Slovak disclosure referendum
A referendum on the retrospective disclosure of the financial details of large-scale privatisation was held in Slovakia on 22 October 1994. Although approved by 95.9% of those voting, voter turnout was just 20% and the referendum was declared invalid due to insufficient turnout.


1994 Slovak disclosure referendum, Question
Súhlasíte, aby sa prijal zákon o preukazovaní finančných prostriedkov, ktoré boli použité pri dražbách a privatizácii?


1994 Slovak disclosure referendum, Question
("Do you agree to a law on proof of funds used for auctioning and privatization?")


1994 Slovak parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Slovakia on 30 September and 1 October 1994. The early elections were necessary after the Vladimír Mečiar 1992 government had been recalled in March 1994 by the National Council and a new temporary government under Jozef Moravčík had been created at the same time.


1994 Slovak parliamentary election
The governing Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) lost seats, but remained the largest party in the National Council with over three times as many seats as the second-placed Common Choice, a left-wing alliance, which almost failed to enter the parliament despite its good performance in pre-election opinion polls. After the election, the HZDS formed a coalition with the Union of the Workers of Slovakia and the Slovak National Party.


1994 Solheim Cup
The third Solheim Cup match took place from October 21 to October 23, 1994, at The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, United States. The United States team regained the cup from the European team winning by 13 points to 7.


1994 Solheim Cup, Format
A total of 20 points were available. Day 1 was five rounds of foursomes. Day 2 was five rounds of fourballs. The final 10 points were decided in a round of singles matchplay. All ten golfers from each team played on each day.


1994 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election
The Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council elections were held on Thursday, 5 May 1994, with one third of the council and a double vacancy in Fordbridge to be elected. The council remained under no overall control with the Conservatives seven seats short of a majority. Voter turnout was 43.6%.


1994 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election result
This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections:


1994 Sonoma State Cossacks football team
The 1994 Sonoma State Cossacks football team represented Sonoma State during the 1994 NCAA Division II football season. Sonoma State competed in the Northern California Athletic Conference in 1994.


1994 Sonoma State Cossacks football team
The 1994 Cossacks were led by second-year head coach Frank Scalercio. They played home games at Cossacks Stadium in Rohnert Park, California. Sonoma State finished the season as in a 3-way tie as co-champion of the NCAC, with a record of three wins and seven losses (3–7, 2–1 NCAC). The Cossacks were outscored by their opponents 202–372 for the season.


1994 Sonoma State Cossacks football team, Team players in the NFL
No Sonoma State players were selected in the 1995 NFL Draft.


1994 Soul Train Music Awards
The 1994 Soul Train Music Awards were held on Tuesday, March 15, 1994, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. The show was hosted by Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight and Johnny Gill.


1994 South Africa rugby union tour of Britain and Ireland
The 1994 South Africa rugby union tour of Britain and Ireland was a series of matches played in October and November 1994 in Britain and Ireland by South Africa national rugby union team. The Springboks played two Test matches on the thirteen match tour and won both.


1994 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand
The 1994 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand was a series of rugby union matches played in New Zealand by the South African national rugby union team, from June - August 1994. The team played 14 matches in total; 11 against several provincial rugby teams and 3 against the New Zealand national rugby union team. South Africa won 10 out of the 11 matches against provincial sides, losing one match to Otago. They lost their first two test matches against the New Zealand national side and drew the last test. The South African coach for the tour was Ian McIntosh. This was the South African team's first tour to New Zealand since the controversial 1981 South Africa rugby union tour, which was received negatively by New Zealanders due to South Africa's Apartheid legislation at the time.


1994 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand, Touring party, Backs
Gavin Johnson, Andre Joubert, Theo van Rensburg, Chris Badenhorst, James Small, Cabous van der Westhuizen, Chester Williams, Jannie Claassens, FA Meiring, Japie Mulder, Pieter Muller, Brendan Venter, Hennie le Roux, Lance Sherrell, Johan Roux, Joost van der Westhuizen


1994 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand, Touring party, Forwards
Adriaan Richter, Tiaan Strauss, Wahl Bartmann, Ruben Kruger, Francois Pienaar, Rudolf Straeuli, Fritz van Heerden, Mark Andrews, Steve Atherton, Adri Geldenhuys, Krynauw Otto, Nico Wegner, Kobus Wiese, Keith Andrews, Guy Kebble, Ollie le Roux, Johan le Roux, Balie Swart


1994 South African Open (tennis)
The 1994 South African Open, also known as the Sun City Open, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 89th edition of the South African Open and was part of the ATP World Series of the 1994 ATP Tour. It took place in Sun City, South Africa from 28 March through 3 April 1994. German Markus Zoecke won the singles final against compatriot Hendrik Dreekmann.


1994 South African Open (tennis), Finals, Doubles
Marius Barnard /  Brent Haygarth defeated  Ellis Ferreira /  Grant Stafford, 6–3, 7–5


1994 South African general election
General elections were held in South Africa between 26 and 29 April 1994. The elections were the first in which citizens of all races were allowed to take part, and were therefore also the first held with universal suffrage. The election was conducted under the direction of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), and marked the culmination of the four-year process that ended apartheid.


1994 South African general election
Millions queued in lines over a four-day voting period. Altogether, 19,726,579 votes were counted, and 193,081 were rejected as invalid. As widely expected, the African National Congress (ANC), whose slate incorporated the labour confederation COSATU and the South African Communist Party, won a sweeping victory, taking 62 percent of the vote, just short of the two-thirds majority required to unilaterally amend the Interim Constitution. As required by that document, the ANC formed a Government of National Unity with the National Party and the Inkatha Freedom Party, the two other parties that won more than 20 seats in the National Assembly. The new National Assembly's first act was to elect Nelson Mandela as President, making him the country's first black chief executive.


1994 South African general election
The date 27 April is now a public holiday in South Africa, Freedom Day.


1994 South African general election, Background
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) entered the election late, and it was added to the already-printed ballot papers by means of a sticker. In rural areas with limited infrastructure, people queued "for days" in order to vote.


1994 South African general election, Results, National Assembly
The 400 members of the National Assembly were chosen from party lists in proportion to each party's share of the national ballot.


1994 South African general election, Results, Senate
The 90 members of the Senate were chosen, 10 from each province, by the newly elected provincial legislatures. Each province's Senate seats were allocated in proportion to the parties' representation in the provincial legislature.


1994 South African general election, Results, Senate
In 1997, on the adoption of the final Constitution, the Senate became the National Council of Provinces; its political makeup remained the same, but members were divided into permanent and special delegates, as described in the following table.


1994 South African general election, Provincial legislature results
Members of the provincial legislatures were elected from party lists in proportion to each party's share of the provincial ballot.


1994 South African general election, Legacy
Following the elections, 27 April subsequently became a national public holiday, Freedom Day.


1994 South African general election, Legacy
In a Sunday Independent article on the 20th anniversary of the election, Steven Friedman, who headed the IEC's information analysis department during the election, stated that the lack of a voters roll made verifying the results of the election difficult, and there were widespread accusations of cheating.


1994 South African general election, Legacy
Friedman characterised the election as a "technical disaster but a political triumph", and intimated that the final results were as a result of a negotiated compromise, rather than being an accurate count of the votes cast, stating that it was impossible to produce an accurate result under the circumstances that the election was held.


1994 South African general election, Legacy
He wrote that he believed that the result of the election, which gave KwaZulu-Natal to the IFP; gave the National Party 20% of the vote share, and a Deputy President position; and held the ANC back from the two-thirds majority with the ability to unilaterally write the final constitution, helped prevent a civil war.


1994 South American Cross Country Championships
The 1994 South American Cross Country Championships took place on January 12–13, 1994. The races were held Manaus, Brazil.


1994 South American Cross Country Championships
Complete results, results for junior and youth competitions, and medal winners were published.


1994 South American Cross Country Championships, Participation
According to an unofficial count, 81 athletes (+ 1 guest athlete) from 6 countries (1 + guest country) participated.


1994 South American Games
The V South American Games (Spanish: Juegos Sudamericanos; Portuguese: Jogos Sul-Americanos) were a multi-sport event held in 1994 in Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela, with some events in Puerto Cabello (boxing, judo, karate, wrestling) and Caracas (shooting). The Games were organized by the South American Sports Organization (ODESUR). An appraisal of the games and detailed medal lists were publishedelsewhere,emphasizing the results of the Argentinian teams.


1994 South American Games
Torch lighter at the Polideportivo Misael Delgado was local swimmer Ramón Volcán. Aruba, the Netherlands Antilles, and Panamá had their first appearance at the games, enhancing the number of participating nations to 14.


1994 South American Games
The games were initially awarded to Montevideo, Uruguay, but the local officials declined in 1992.


1994 South American Games, Medal count
The medal count for these Games is tabulated below. This table is sorted by the number of gold medals earned by each country. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next, and then the number of bronze medals.


1994 South American Junior Championships in Athletics
The 26th South American Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Santa Fe, Argentina from September 1–4, 1994.


1994 South American Junior Championships in Athletics, Participation (unofficial)
Detailed result lists can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website. An unofficial count yields the number of about 259 athletes from about 12 countries:  Argentina (50), Bolivia (7), Brazil (61), Chile (41), Colombia (15), Ecuador (17), Guyana (2), Panama (2), Paraguay (19), Peru (11), Uruguay (31), Venezuela (3).


1994 South American Junior Championships in Athletics, Medal summary
Medal winners are published for men and womenComplete results can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website.


1994 South American Youth Championships in Athletics
The 12th South American Youth Championships in Athletics were held in Cochabamba, Bolivia from September 30-October 2, 1994.


1994 South American Youth Championships in Athletics, Medal summary
Medal winners are published for boys and girls. Complete results can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website.


1994 South American Youth Championships in Athletics, Medal summary
All results are marked as "affected by altitude" (A), because Cochabamba is located at 2,558 metres above sea level.


1994 South American Youth Championships in Athletics, Participation (unofficial)
Detailed result lists can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website. An unofficial count yields the number of about 233 athletes from about 11 countries:


1994 South Carolina Gamecocks football team
The 1994 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Gamecocks were led by head coach Brad Scott and played their home games in Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina.


1994 South Carolina Gamecocks football team, Roster
QB Wright Mitchell QB Desi Sargent QB Brandon Bennett* RB Leroy Jeter*RB Rob DeBoerRB Terry Wilburn RB Albert HaynesRB Anthony Jacobs(WO)RB Eddie Miller*WR Robert Brooks* WR David PitchkoWR Asim Penny WR Bralyn Bennett WR Bill ZorrWR Darren Greene WR Mike Whitman*TE Matthew Campbell TE Boomer Foster TE Roderick Howell TE Mathew Campbell TE Ernest Dye* OL Kenny Farrell* OL Jay Killen* OL Antoine Rivens* OL Rich Sweet* OL Vincent Dinkins OL Kevin RosenkransOL Cedric Bembery*DL Bobby Brown*DL Marty Dye* DL Troy Duke DL David Turnipseed DL Ernest Dixon* LB James C Mcdougald*LB Eric Brown* LB Gerald Dixon* LB Robert Gibson* LB Keith Franklin LB Joe ReavesLB Keith Emmons LB Toby Cates* DB Jerry Inman* DB Bru Pender* DB Tony Watkins*DB Frank Adams DB Cedric SurrattDB Norman GreeneDB Daren Parker P


1994 South Carolina gubernatorial election
The 1994 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1994, to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. The contest featured two politicians from the Upstate and David Beasley narrowly defeated Nick Theodore to become the 113th governor of South Carolina.


1994 South Carolina gubernatorial election, Democratic primary
The South Carolina Democratic Party held their primary for governor on August 9, 1994. Lieutenant Governor Nick Theodore, from the Upstate, emerged as the winner of the runoff election on August 23 against popular Charleston mayor Joseph P. (Joe) Riley, Jr. and the three-term Attorney General of South Carolina, Thomas T. Medlock.


1994 South Carolina gubernatorial election, Republican primary
The South Carolina Republican Party held their primary on August 9, 1994, and the contest featured state representative David Beasley from the Upstate against two Lowcountry politicians. Beasley cruised to victory and benefited from the campaign of popular Charleston mayor Joe Riley for the Democratic nomination by drawing Lowcountry voters away from the Republican primary and towards the Democratic primary.


1994 South Carolina gubernatorial election, General election, Results
The general election was held on November 8, 1994, and David Beasley was elected as the next governor of South Carolina in the closest election percentage wise since the disputed election of 1876. Turnout was higher than the previous gubernatorial election because of the competitive nature of the race between the two parties.


1994 South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team
The 1994 South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team represented South Dakota State University during the 1994 NCAA Division II football season.


1994 South Dakota gubernatorial election
The 1994 South Dakota gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 1994 to elect a Governor of South Dakota. Republican former Governor Bill Janklow was elected, defeating Democratic nominee Jim Beddow.


1994 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament
The 1994 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament was again held as separate tournaments for the Eastern Division and the Western Division. The Eastern Division tournament was held at Cliff Hagan Stadium in Lexington, KY. The Western Division tournament was held at Swayze Field in Oxford, MS. Both tournaments were held from May 18 through May 21. Tennessee won the Eastern Division tournament and LSU won the Western Division tournament.


1994 Southend-on-Sea Borough Council election
The 1994 Southend-on-Sea Council election took place on 5 May 1994 to elect members of Southend-on-Sea Borough Council in Essex, England. One third of the council was up for election.


1994 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament
The 1994 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament was held at College Park in Charleston, SC from April 28 through May 1. Fifth seeded The Citadel won the tournament and earned the Southern Conference's automatic bid to the 1994 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. It was the Bulldogs second tournament win and first under coach Fred Jordan.


1994 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament
The tournament used a double-elimination format. Only the top eight teams participate, so Furman was not in the field.


1994 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1994 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from March 3–6, 1994 at the Asheville Civic Center in Asheville, North Carolina. The Chattanooga Mocs, led by head coach Mack McCarthy, won their sixth Southern Conference title and received the automatic berth to the 1994 NCAA Tournament.


1994 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
All of the conference's ten members were eligible for the tournament. Teams were seeded based on conference winning percentage. The tournament used a preset bracket consisting of four rounds, the first of which featured two games, with the winners moving on to the quarterfinal round. This was the last year in which the conference did not utilize a divisional format, which was implemented the following season.


1994 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team
The 1994 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southern Mississippi as an independent during the 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their fourth year under head coach Jeff Bower, the team compiled a 6–5 record.


1994 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament
The 1994 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 15 to 19, 1994 to determine the champion of the Southland Conference in the sport of college baseball for the 1994 season. The event pitted the top four finishers from the conference's regular season in a double-elimination tournament held at H. Alvin Brown–C. C. Stroud Field on the campus of Northwestern State in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Third-seeded Texas–San Antonio won their first championship and claimed the automatic bid to the 1994 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


1994 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format
The top four finishers from the regular season were seeded one through four. They played a double-elimination tournament.


1994 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player
Scott Pederson was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Pederson was an outfielder for Texas–San Antonio.


1994 Southwark London Borough Council election
Elections to Southwark Council were held in May 1994. The whole council was up for election. Turnout was 36.5%.


1994 Southwark London Borough Council election, By-Elections
The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. James R. Munday.


1994 Southwark London Borough Council election, By-Elections
The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. Mike Lee.


1994 Southwark London Borough Council election, By-Elections
The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. Elizabeth Denton.


1994 Southwark London Borough Council election, By-Elections
The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. Sonya J. H. Murison.


1994 Southwark London Borough Council election, By-Elections
The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. Svetlana Kirov.


1994 Southwark London Borough Council election, By-Elections
The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. Robert A. Bayne.


1994 Southwark London Borough Council election, By-Elections
The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. Paul Cheesman.


1994 Southwark London Borough Council election, By-Elections
The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. Eyscene Sheilds.


1994 Southwest Conference Baseball Tournament
The 1994 Southwest Conference Baseball Tournament was the league's annual postseason tournament used to determine the Southwest Conference's (SWC) automatic bid to the 1994 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. The tournament was held from May 12 through May 15 at Disch–Falk Field on the campus of The University of Texas in Austin, TX.


1994 Southwest Conference Baseball Tournament
The number 4 seed Texas Longhorns went 3-0 to win the team's 11th SWC Tournament under head coach Cliff Gustafson.


1994 Southwest Conference Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding
The tournament featured the top four finishers of the SWC's 7 teams in a double-elimination tournament.


1994 Southwest Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1994 Southwest Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 11-0, 1994 at Reunion Arena in Dallas, TX.


1994 Southwest Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Number 1 seed Texas defeated 2 seed Texas A&M 87-62 to win their 1st championship and receive the conference's automatic bid to the 1994 NCAA Tournament.


1994 Southwest Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format and Seeding
The tournament consisted of the top 8 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament.


1994 Southwest Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
The 1994 Southwest Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was held March 9-12, 1994 at Moody Coliseum in Dallas, TX.


1994 Southwest Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
Number 3 seed Texas defeated 1 seed Texas Tech 71-69 to win their 9th championship and receive the conference's automatic bid to the 1994 NCAA Tournament.


1994 Southwestern Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team
The 1994 Southwestern Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) in the Big West Conference during the 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their ninth year under head coach Nelson Stokley, the team compiled an 6–5 record and as Big West co-champion.


1994 Spanish Grand Prix
The 1994 Spanish Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 29 May 1994 at the Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona. It was the 36th Spanish Grand Prix and the fourth to be held at the Circuit de Catalunya, and the fifth race of the 1994 Formula One World Championship.


1994 Spanish Grand Prix
The 65-lap race was won by Englishman Damon Hill, driving a Williams-Renault. It was the first victory of the season for Hill and the Williams team, who were still recovering from the death of Ayrton Senna at Imola four weeks previously. Hill won by 24 seconds from German driver and championship leader Michael Schumacher, whose Benetton-Ford was stuck in fifth gear for most of the race. Another Englishman, Mark Blundell, finished third in a Tyrrell-Yamaha, which would turn out to be the final podium finish for the Tyrrell team.


1994 Spanish Grand Prix
The Grand Prix was additionally notable for the season-ending crash of debutant Italian driver Andrea Montermini in his Simtek S941 on the front straight. Montermini, elevated from test driver status after the death of Roland Ratzenberger at the San Marino Grand Prix crashed heavily into the pit wall. It also marked the Formula One debut of Scottish driver David Coulthard, replacing Senna for Williams. The new Lotus 109 made its debut this weekend replacing the two-year-old 107.


1994 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Pre-race
This was the first race for the newly formed Grand Prix Drivers Association (GPDA). Several top level names, including Michael Schumacher, Damon Hill, and Gerhard Berger, were instrumental in the setup and running of the GPDA, and they took the decision to install a temporary chicane before the Nissan corner. This was an attempt to improve safety, as well as limit speeds around the track, as the Nissan corner was generally taken at near flat-out speeds.


1994 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Pre-race
Sauber entered only one car for this race due to Karl Wendlinger's injury at the previous race.


1994 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
Michael Schumacher took the second pole position in succession and the second of his career. Damon Hill also lined up on the front row, his time had been beaten by Schumacher's by over half a second, and he was only one thousandth of a second ahead of Mika Häkkinen. The pair's respective Williams and McLaren teammates lined up eighth and ninth, McLaren's Martin Brundle on the fourth row in front of a disappointed David Coulthard for Williams. Schumacher's Benetton teammate – JJ Lehto – had done a bit better for himself and lined up fourth.


1994 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
Rubens Barrichello's Jordan qualified in fifth, followed by the two Ferraris. Tyrrell driver Ukyo Katayama was the other driver in the top ten, while at the back Andrea Montermini crashed heavily on the Simtek previously driven by Roland Ratzenberger and broke his ankles. Obviously he failed to set a timed lap in the second session and failed to qualify.


1994 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Race
Olivier Beretta retired when his Larousse-Ford's engine failed on the formation lap. Schumacher led from pole position at the start of the race whilst Barrichello and Berger collided at the first corner. Neither driver retired as a direct result of the collision, although both did eventually, but Berger was forced to run across the grass and lost places and would eventually retire on lap 28 with gearbox problems. Coulthard climbed up to fifth place from his ninth place starting spot, but his car stalled in the pits on lap 16.


1994 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Race
Despite retiring from twelfth place on lap 32 with electrical problems, he described his race as a "good debut overall". While Williams notched up their first victory of the season, and first after the death of Ayrton Senna, championship leader Michael Schumacher finished a strong second, despite being stuck in fifth gear for most of the race. Knowing that he had a major problem, he managed to make a pitstop (and get away from the pit stop in 5th gear), and as the race unfolded gave nothing to the leading Hill's pace.


1994 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Race
He had to change his driving style to find new trajectories and corner apexes, and his past experience as a World Sports Car driver helped him to do so. Meanwhile Rubens Barrichello retired after he spun off near the pit entry on lap 40 and Schumacher was once again able to make a pitstop and not stall the car. After the pit stops, Mika Häkkinen was in third place for McLaren behind Hill and Schumacher, having temporarily been in front of Schumacher earlier in the race.


1994 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Race
Häkkinen's engine failed as did JJ Lehto's Benetton-Ford engine 5 laps after Hakkinen on lap 54, though granting the place to Hakkinen's teammate Martin Brundle. Brundle then retired himself after a transmission explosion from the back of his car at the first corner by lap 60 and was classified 11th. Mark Blundell, for Tyrrell, completed the podium celebrations, scoring his 3rd and last podium of his career.


1994 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Post-race
After the race, the Williams team were very emotional with Hill's win.


1994 Spanish Grand Prix, Report, Post-race
I don't think I have known such a difficult month. Everyone at Williams has been through a terrible time. This victory must go to them and to all the fans of Ayrton Senna who I met in Brazil. They wanted Williams to be successful. It was important to do well in this race and to win it is better than I expected to do.


1994 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1994 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth round of the 1994 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 8 May 1994 at the Circuito Permanente de Jerez.


1994 Special Honours (New Zealand)
The 1994 Special Honours in New Zealand was a Special Honours Lists, dated 6 February 1994, making one appointment to the Order of New Zealand.


1994 Speedway World Team Cup
The 1994 Speedway World Team Cup was the 35th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.


1994 Speedway World Team Cup
The format changed after the World Team Cup merged with the Speedway World Pairs Championship. Teams now consisted of just two riders with a reserve rider available if needed.


1994 Speedway World Team Cup
The final took place on 18 September at the Holsteinring at Brokstedt in Germany. Sweden won their seventh title, which was their first for 24 years since the 1970 Speedway World Team Cup.


1994 Speedway World Team Cup, Qualification, Group C
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fellns - non-starter • nc - non-classify


1994 Speedway World Team Cup, Qualification, Group B
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fellns - non-starter • nc - non-classify


1994 Speedway World Team Cup, Qualification, Group A
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fellns - non-starter • nc - non-classify


1994 Speedway World Team Cup, World Final
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fellns - non-starter • nc - non-classify


1994 Spengler Cup
The 1994 Spengler Cup was held in Davos, Switzerland between December 26, 1994, and December 31, 1994. All matches were played at HC Davos's home arena, Eisstadion Davos. The final was won 3-0 by Farjestads BK over HC Davos.


1994 Sri Lankan parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 16 August 1994. They marked the decisive end of seventeen years of United National Party rule and a revival of Sri Lankan democracy.


1994 Sri Lankan parliamentary election, Background
Democracy in Sri Lanka had seemed doomed as the presidencies of J.R. Jayewardene and Ranasinghe Premadasa arbitrarily banned opposition parties, severely muzzled the media, and routinely used death squads, torture, and kidnappings in the two civil conflicts against the LTTE and JVP. The UNP had simply cancelled the 1983 parliamentary elections; its control of the media led it to victory in the 1988 and 1989 elections.


1994 Sri Lankan parliamentary election, Background
The population was increasingly tired of war and repression, worn out with jingoistic Sinhalese nationalism, and wanted a return to freedom, peace, and democracy. Chandrika Kumaratunga, leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, formed a coalition with small leftist parties called the People's Alliance. This was in some ways a revival of her mother's coalition from the 1970s, but this time campaigning for rapprochement with the Tamils rather than their marginalization.


1994 Sri Lankan parliamentary election, Results
The PA did not win a majority, but was able to govern with the support of the smaller parties.


1994 Sri Lankan parliamentary election, Legacy
The 1994 election did not live up to its great hopes. The PA government was unable to come to an agreement with the LTTE, and ended up prosecuting war just as brutally as its UNP predecessor. The Executive Presidency, which Kumaratunga had promised to abolish, remained as powerful as before.


1994 Sri Lankan presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Sri Lanka on 9 November 1994. Nominations were accepted on 7 October 1994 and electoral participation was 70.47%. Prime Minister Chandrika Kumaratunga of the governing People's Alliance was elected, receiving 62% of all votes cast.


1994 Sri Lankan presidential election, Background
President Ranasinghe Premadasa was assassinated in 1993 by the Tamil Tigers and was succeeded by the Prime Minister, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga. President Wijetunga chose not to run in the 1994 election; therefore the United National Party selected Leader of the Opposition Gamini Dissanayake as their candidate. His main challenger was Prime Minister Chandrika Kumaratunga of the People's Alliance, whose party had won the parliamentary elections earlier in 1994.


1994 Sri Lankan presidential election, Background
On 24 October 1994, during the presidential campaign, Gamini Dissanayake was assassinated by the Tamil Tigers. His name on the ballot paper was replaced by his wife Srima Dissanayake.


1994 Sri Lankan presidential election, Results
Kumaratunga won the election by a record margin with 62.28% of the vote.


1994 St. Louis Cardinals season
The St. Louis Cardinals 1994 season was the team's 113th season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 103rd season in the National League. The Cardinals went 53-61 during the season and finished tied for 3rd place with the Pittsburgh Pirates in the National League Central division, 13 games behind the Cincinnati Reds. The season was cut short due to the infamous 1994 player's strike.


1994 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season
By Friday, August 12, the Cardinals had compiled a 53-61 record through 114 games (although they had actually played 115 games, since their April 6 match versus the Cincinnati Reds at Riverfront Stadium ended after the top of the 6th inning due to poor weather). They had scored 535 runs (4.65 per game) and allowed 621 runs (5.40 per game).


1994 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1994 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1994 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1994 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1994 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1994 Sta. Lucia Realtors season
The 1994 Sta. Lucia Realtors season was the second season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).


1994 Sta. Lucia Realtors season, Notable dates
March 6: The Sta.Lucia Realtors pulled off a 111-108 victory over Tondeña 65 in the opening game of the league's 20th season.


1994 Sta. Lucia Realtors season, Notable dates
March 22: The Realtors scored their fourth win against San Miguel and handed the beermen their first loss in four games in a 103-93 victory as Jun Limpot scored 35 points.


1994 Sta. Lucia Realtors season, Notable dates
March 26: In the out-of-town game in Sta.Cruz, Laguna, the Realtors scored their fifth victory in six starts as they repeated over Tondeña 65 Rhum Masters, 110-105.


1994 Sta. Lucia Realtors season, Imports
In the Commissioner's Cup, the Realtors couldn't search for the right import and came up with Christopher Ward, who was fresh out of college and was range against last year's best import awardee Ronnie Thompkins of Swift in his first and only game, scoring only 12 points in a losing cause. Ward was replaced by Louis Ely, who lasted two games with the Realtors. When Lambert Shell, their import last season who led Sta.Lucia to a third-place finish became available, the Realtors hired him in place of Ely. Lambert Shell was also their import in the Governor's Cup and in both conferences, the Realtors failed to make past the eliminations.


1994 Sta. Lucia Realtors season, Roster
Assistant coaches: Adonis Tierra / Joshua Villapando Team Manager: Buddy Encarnado


1994 Stanford Cardinal football team
The 1994 Stanford Cardinal football team represented Stanford University in the 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Cardinal played in the Pacific-10 Conference. After back-to-back disappointing seasons, this was Bill Walsh's last season as Stanford's head coach.