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Ciao Italia
"La Cucina delle Marche - Marchigiani Food" (Season 5, Episode 5) aired on 1994-02-05.
Read more →The world was watching. Here's what dominated the headlines:
Dmitry Andreikin
Dmitry Andreikin, Russian chess player
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Indian cricketer
Dean Jagger
Dean Jagger, American actor (born 1903)
Leilani Latu
Leilani Latu, Australian rugby league player
Miguel Rolando Covian, Argentinian-Brazilian physiologist and academic (born 1913)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1909)
Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
Pamela Harriman, English-American diplomat, 58th United States Ambassador to France (born 1920)
Wassily Leontief, Russian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)
On the field and off it, athletes were making history:
Jordan Rhodes
Jordan Rhodes, Scottish footballer
Nabil Bahoui
Nabil Bahoui, Swedish footballer
Gerald Tusha
Gerald Tusha, Albanian footballer
Stefan de Vrij
Stefan de Vrij, Dutch footballer
Seán Flanagan, Irish footballer and politician, 7th Irish Minister for Health (born 1922)
Must-see TV was a real thing — and this is what filled the airwaves:
Ciao Italia
"La Cucina delle Marche - Marchigiani Food" (Season 5, Episode 5) aired on 1994-02-05.
X-Men
"Mojovision" (Season 2, Episode 11) aired on 1994-02-05.
Almost Live
"The Costco Gourmet" (Season 10, Episode 16) aired on 1994-02-05.
Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?
"The Stolen Smile" (Season 1, Episode 1) aired on 1994-02-05.
"The Tale of the Doll Maker" (Season 3, Episode 5) aired on 1994-02-05.
"James Brown: The Godfather of Soul" (Season 1996, Episode 28) aired on 1996-02-05.
"Jack Hanna, Tammy Faye Messner, Aimee Mann" (Season 1996, Episode 20) aired on 1996-02-05.
"Wednesday February 05 1997" (Season 25, Episode 26) aired on 1997-02-05.
"Wednesday February 05 1997" (Season 1997, Episode 24) aired on 1997-02-05.
"Wednesday February 5 1997" (Season 1997, Episode 26) aired on 1997-02-05.
"Timothy Dalton" (Season 1997, Episode 19) aired on 1997-02-05.
"Fran Drescher, Eva Herzigova, Tony Bennett" (Season 1997, Episode 20) aired on 1997-02-05.
"Thursday February 05 1998" (Season 1998, Episode 30) aired on 1998-02-05.
"Carol Leifer" (Season 1998, Episode 19) aired on 1998-02-05.
"Dan Rather, Honeymoon the pig, Cast of Ragtime" (Season 1998, Episode 19) aired on 1998-02-05.
Total Request Live had teenagers calling in around the clock. Here's what was charting:
The #1 most requested video on TRL on this date in 1999
#2 on TRL — Backstreet Boys, "I Want It That Way"
#3 on TRL — TLC, "No Scrubs"
#4 on TRL — Jennifer Lopez, "If You Had My Love"
#5 on TRL — Korn, "Freak On A Leash"
#6 on TRL — Eminem, "My Name Is"
#7 on TRL — Limp Bizkit, "Nookie"
#8 on TRL — Britney Spears, "...Baby One More Time"
#9 on TRL — Sugar Ray, "Every Morning"
#10 on TRL — *NSYNC, "I Drive Myself Crazy"
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