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Biker Mice from Mars
"Motocross Trap" (Season 2, Episode 11) aired on 1994-10-12.
Read more →The world was watching. Here's what dominated the headlines:
Peter Wessel Zapffe
Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian physician, mountaineer, and author (born 1899)
Sheila Florance
Sheila Florance, Australian actress (born 1916)
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Arkady Strugatsky, Russian author and translator (born 1925)
Regis Toomey
Regis Toomey, American actor (born 1898)
Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 746 crashes near Natanz, Iran, killing all 66 people on board.
New Zealand holds its first general election under the new mixed-member proportional representation system, which led to Jim Bolger's National Party forming a coalition government with Winston Peters's New Zealand First.
René Lacoste, French tennis player and fashion designer, co-founded Lacoste (born 1904)
The Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria kills 43 people at a fake roadblock.
Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.
The decade's soundtrack was electric. These artists were making waves:
John Denver
John Denver, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1943)
Wikipedia →On the field and off it, athletes were making history:
Henri Lansbury
Henri Lansbury, English footballer
Nicolao Dumitru
Nicolao Dumitru, Italian footballer
Ketel Marte
Ketel Marte, Dominican baseball player
Wilt Chamberlain
Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player and coach (born 1936)
Must-see TV was a real thing — and this is what filled the airwaves:
Biker Mice from Mars
"Motocross Trap" (Season 2, Episode 11) aired on 1994-10-12.
Roseanne
"Girl Talk" (Season 7, Episode 4) aired on 1994-10-12.
Reading Rainbow
"Stellaluna" (Season 12, Episode 8) aired on 1994-10-12.
Aladdin
"Opposites Detract" (Season 2, Episode 23) aired on 1994-10-12.
"FDR: The Grandest Job in the World (1933-1940)" (Season 7, Episode 3) aired on 1994-10-12.
"Kevin Bacon, Al Michaels, Clint Black" (Season 1994, Episode 169) aired on 1994-10-12.
"Lisa Hartman Black, Oleg Cassini, Raven-Symone, Peter Tork" (Season 1995, Episode 178) aired on 1995-10-12.
"Suzanne Somers, June Oswald" (Season 1995, Episode 174) aired on 1995-10-12.
"Ponce De Leon: The First Conquistador" (Season 1995, Episode 58) aired on 1995-10-12.
"Caroline and the Bad Back" (Season 1, Episode 4) aired on 1995-10-12.
"Madison (host), Sheryl Crow, Holly Palmer, Stevie Ray Vaughn" (Season 1996, Episode 31) aired on 1996-10-12.
"Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Rattan, Julie Scardina" (Season 1996, Episode 3) aired on 1996-10-12.
"Gets a Bright Idea (Light)" (Season 3, Episode 5) aired on 1996-10-12.
"Turtles to the Second Power" (Season 10, Episode 5) aired on 1996-10-12.
"The Secret Dovetailed Box" (Season 16, Episode 2) aired on 1996-10-12.
"The Hand of Fate" (Season 2, Episode 20) aired on 1997-10-12.
"Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves" (Season 42, Episode 3) aired on 1997-10-12.
"Toothwalkers: Giants of the Arctic Ice" (Season 16, Episode 1) aired on 1997-10-12.
"Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain" (Season 1997, Episode 6) aired on 1997-10-12.
"Between a Rock and Harlin's Place" (Season 1, Episode 4) aired on 1998-10-12.
"Hedda Hopper Hollywood Gossip Queen" (Season 1998, Episode 43) aired on 1998-10-12.
"Miami Dolphins at Jacksonville Jaguars" (Season 1998, Episode 6) aired on 1998-10-12.
"Up, Up and Away" (Season 1, Episode 2) aired on 1998-10-12.
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 — Ricky Martin, "Livin' la Vida Loca"
#4 on TRL — TLC, "No Scrubs"
#5 on TRL — Destiny's Child, "Bills, Bills, Bills"
#6 on TRL — Eminem, "My Name Is"
#7 on TRL — Savage Garden, "I Want You"
#8 on TRL — Limp Bizkit, "Nookie"
#9 on TRL — Sugar Ray, "Every Morning"
#10 on TRL — Santana, "Smooth"
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