MCMXCIV

(1994)
I see this year as a year of quality, in music, in my life as a 5 year old and in international affairs.
Green Day- Dookie
Blink 182- Cheshire Cat, which I don't find amazing but others do so...
Nirvana play final show and Cobain dies months later
Nas- Illmatic
Blur- Parklife
Offspring- Smash, "which helps bring the 1990s punk scene into the mainstream and has been credited as the highest selling independent album of all time." wikipedia
Weezer- 'blue' album
Oasis- Definitely, maybe
Jeff Buckley- Grace
Jimmy Eat World- Jimmy Eat World
Notorious BIG- Big Poppa
Snoop Dog- Gin & Juice

Ok I did not realise how amazing it was at the start of this blog! haha just went through Wikipedia, and all that shit was released in 1994- check out the top 40 for all the months too! Dimmu Borgir, top of the charts in December?! So many other people I did not expect to see- Mariah Carey?! Millencolin I guess is to be expected, but Weird Al Yankovich?! I thought he was a youtube phenonemenon.
NOFX, Prodigy, Anal Cunt, Powerman 5000, Cannibal Corpse, Aphex Twin. Insane.

Then we come to film!
Lion King
Forest Gump
Dumb and Dumber
Pulp Fiction
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla apparently, which sounds hilarious
The Jungle Book
Little Rascals
The Shawshank Redemption

Acting debuts:
Cate Blanchett
Jude Law
Kate Winslet

In news:
January 14 – U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin Accords, which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles toward each country's targets, and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine.

February 12 – Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" is stolen in Oslo (and is recovered on May 7).

March 12 – A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as 'proof' of the Loch Ness monster, is confirmed to be a hoax.
March 12 – The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
March 14 – Apple Computer, Inc. releases the first Macintosh computers to use the new PowerPC Microprocessors. This is considered to be a major leap in personal computer, as well as Macintosh history.
March 15 – U.S. troops are withdrawn from Somalia.
March 21 – The 66th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. Steven Spielberg's Holocaust drama, Schindler's List, wins 7 Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director(Spielberg).
March 27 – TV tycoon Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition wins the Italian general election.

April 7 – The Rwandan Genocide begins in Kigali, Rwanda.
April 8 – Kurt Cobain, songwriter and frontman for the band Nirvana, is found dead
at his Lake Washington home.
April 16 – Voters in Finland decide to join the European Union in a referendum.

May 6 – The Channel Tunnel, which took 15,000 workers over 7 years to complete, opens between England and France, enabling passengers to travel between the 2 countries in 35 minutes.
May 10 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first Black president.

June 17 – NFL star O.J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from police in his white Ford Bronco. The low-speed chase ends at Simpson's Brentwood, Los Angeles, California mansion, where he surrenders.

July 15 – July 21 – The planet Jupiter is hit by 21 large fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 over the course of 6 days.
July 17 – Brazil wins the 1994 FIFA World Cup, defeating Italy by 3-2 in penalties (full time 0-0).
July 18 – In Buenos Aires, a terrorist attack destroys a building housing several Jewish organizations, killing 85 and injuring many more (see AMIA Bombing).

September 3 – Cold War: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
September–October – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to stop cooperating with UNSCOM inspectors and begins to once again deploy troops near its border with Kuwait. In response, the U.S. begins to deploy troops to Kuwait.

October 4 – In Switzerland, 23 members of the Order of the Solar Temple cult are found dead, a day after 25 of their fellow cultists are similarly discovered in Morin Heights, Quebec.

November 4 – San Francisco: The first conference devoted entirely to the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web opens.

November 28 – Voters in Norway decide not to join the European Union in a referendum.

December 2 – The Australian government agrees to pay reparations to indigenous Australians who were displaced during the nuclear tests at Maralinga in the 1950s and 1960s.
December 11 – Russian president Boris Yeltsin orders troops into Chechnya.

What an insane year!