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All My Children
"Wednesday March 23 1994" (Season 1994, Episode 58) aired on 1994-03-23.
Read more →The world was watching. Here's what dominated the headlines:
Jaime Alguersuari
Jaime Alguersuari, Spanish race car driver
Mark Barberio
Mark Barberio, Canadian ice hockey player
Princess Eugenie
Princess Eugenie, English royal
Revolutionary United Front
The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking the 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War.
Friedrich Hayek, Austrian-German economist, philosopher, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.
A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground alongside destroying a Starlifter by accident. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.
Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes into the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, killing 75.
Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican economist and politician (born 1950)
Luis María Argaña, Paraguayan judge and politician, Vice President of Paraguay (born 1932)
The decade's soundtrack was electric. These artists were making waves:
Osmond Borradaile
Osmond Borradaile, Canadian director and cinematographer (born 1898)
Wikipedia →On the field and off it, athletes were making history:
Gordon Hayward
Gordon Hayward, American basketball player
Facundo Campazzo
Facundo Campazzo, Argentine basketball player
Gregg Wylde
Gregg Wylde, Scottish footballer
Tolga Ciğerci
Tolga Ciğerci, German-Turkish footballer
Must-see TV was a real thing — and this is what filled the airwaves:
All My Children
"Wednesday March 23 1994" (Season 1994, Episode 58) aired on 1994-03-23.
The Nanny
"Sunday in the Park with Fran" (Season 1, Episode 18) aired on 1994-03-23.
Thunder Alley
"Chore Patrol" (Season 1, Episode 3) aired on 1994-03-23.
The Late Show with David Letterman
"Kevin Kline, Placido Domingo" (Season 1994, Episode 47) aired on 1994-03-23.
"Diane Von Furstenberg" (Season 1, Episode 29) aired on 1994-03-23.
"Marilyn Kentz, Carl Kristensen" (Season 1995, Episode 48) aired on 1995-03-23.
"Salon, It's Been Good to Know You" (Season 1, Episode 3) aired on 1995-03-23.
"Beatles Anthology, Ben Folds Five" (Season 1996, Episode 12) aired on 1996-03-23.
"Pasta Aristocratica – Aristocratic Pasta" (Season 7, Episode 12) aired on 1996-03-23.
"Portrait of Mrs. Campbell" (Season 2, Episode 20) aired on 1996-03-23.
"Pinnipeds: Tons of Fun" (Season 3, Episode 22) aired on 1996-03-23.
"Phil Hartman / Gin Blossoms" (Season 21, Episode 16) aired on 1996-03-23.
"Health clubs; basketball bozos" (Season 8, Episode 23) aired on 1997-03-23.
"Mark Harmon" (Season 1998, Episode 39) aired on 1998-03-23.
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 — Jennifer Lopez, "If You Had My Love"
#3 on TRL — Destiny's Child, "Bills, Bills, Bills"
#4 on TRL — Ricky Martin, "Livin' la Vida Loca"
#5 on TRL — Smash Mouth, "All Star"
#6 on TRL — Blink-182, "What's My Age Again?"
#7 on TRL — Backstreet Boys, "I Want It That Way"
#8 on TRL — Will Smith, "Wild Wild West"
#9 on TRL — Savage Garden, "I Want You"
#10 on TRL — TLC, "No Scrubs"
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