Highlights
Space Shuttle program
Space Shuttle program: The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, STS-49.
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Almost Live
"Message from the Supersonics" (Season 10, Episode 24) aired on 1994-05-07.
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Michigan
Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.
Space Shuttle program
Space Shuttle program: The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, STS-49.
McDonald's
Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first "fast-food murder" in Canada.
Alexander Ludwig
Alexander Ludwig, Canadian actor and musician
A fire and explosion occurs at a fireworks factory at Sungai Buloh, Malaysia, killing 26.
Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.
Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
Allan McLeod Cormack, South African-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1924)
Pope John Paul II travels to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
Kosovo War: Three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft inadvertently bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.
The decade's soundtrack was electric. These artists were making waves:
Ray McKinley
Ray McKinley, American drummer, singer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (born 1910)
Eddie Rabbitt
Eddie Rabbitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)
On the field and off it, athletes were making history:
Sydney Leroux
Sydney Leroux, Canadian-American footballer
Seko Fofana
Seko Fofana, Ivorian international footballer
Youri Tielemans
Youri Tielemans, Belgian footballer
Dani Olmo
Dani Olmo, Spanish footballer
Must-see TV was a real thing — and this is what filled the airwaves:
Almost Live
"Message from the Supersonics" (Season 10, Episode 24) aired on 1994-05-07.
Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?
"The Play's the Thing" (Season 1, Episode 10) aired on 1994-05-07.
Soul Train
"Artist Formally Known as Prince/ For Lovers Only" (Season 23, Episode 25) aired on 1994-05-07.
The Wonderful World of Disney
"The Rocketeer" (Season 38, Episode 5) aired on 1994-05-07.
"Peter Frampton (host), Pink Floyd" (Season 1994, Episode 17) aired on 1994-05-07.
"Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 1994" (Season 1994, Episode 1) aired on 1994-05-07.
"It's the Thing of the Principal" (Season 1, Episode 9) aired on 1994-05-07.
"John Goodman / The Pretenders" (Season 19, Episode 19) aired on 1994-05-07.
"Police pursuit; a bored wrestler" (Season 6, Episode 23) aired on 1995-05-07.
"Paul Reiser, Jane Seymour, Keanu Reeves & Dogstar" (Season 1996, Episode 73) aired on 1996-05-07.
"Mike Myers" (Season 1997, Episode 62) aired on 1997-05-07.
"Mike Myers, Danny Aiello, Crossbows of Death" (Season 1997, Episode 72) aired on 1997-05-07.
"A Hand Up is Never a Handout (1)" (Season 2, Episode 22) aired on 1998-05-07.
"Jon Favreau" (Season 1998, Episode 62) aired on 1998-05-07.
"Matt Lauer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Green Day" (Season 1998, Episode 71) aired on 1998-05-07.
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 — Eminem, "My Name Is"
#3 on TRL — Korn, "Freak On A Leash"
#4 on TRL — Britney Spears, "...Baby One More Time"
#5 on TRL — *NSYNC, "I Drive Myself Crazy"
#6 on TRL — Sugar Ray, "Every Morning"
#7 on TRL — Limp Bizkit, "Nookie"
#8 on TRL — 98 Degrees, "The Hardest Thing"
#9 on TRL — Lauryn Hill, "Ex-Factor"
#10 on TRL — Destiny's Child, "Bills, Bills, Bills"
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