Tonya Harding admits conspiring to cover up an attack on rival figure skater
Nancy Kerrigan that is designed to improve Harding's chances of making the U.S. Olympic team.
Former football star, sportscaster and actor O.J. Simpson is charged with murder
in the death of his ex-wife and her friend. Major league baseball players go on strike,
leading to cancellation of the World Series. Forty-five-year-old George Foreman becomes the oldest
heavyweight champ in boxing history.
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March 16, 1994
Tonya Harding pleads guilty in attack on Nancy Kerrigan
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Figure skater Tonya Harding appears in a Portland, Oregon, court to plead guilty to conspiracy in a January 6 assault on Nancy Kerrigan, a principal rival to Harding for a spot on the U.S. Olympic team. Kerrigan's knee was hurt in the attack organized by Harding's husband and two other men, but she went on to win a silver medal in the Winter Olympics in February. Harding, who finished eighth, is later stripped of her 1994 national championship title and banned for life from the U.S. Figure Skating Association.
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June 17, 1994
O.J. Simpson charged with murder
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O.J. Simpson is charged with the slaying of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. Instead of meeting with police, the former football star disappears from his house and police later find him in a white Ford Bronco driving along a Los Angeles area freeway. With media helicopters hovering above, Simpson is followed back to his home and arrested. A jury acquits Simpson of criminal charges in 1995, but he is found liable for the deaths in a civil trial two years later.
1.3M QuickTime Movie - 35 sec.
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August 11, 1994
Baseball players strike against proposed salary cap
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Major league baseball players, opposing a proposed salary cap by team owners, go on strike with seven weeks left in the season. It's the eighth baseball work stoppage in 22 years and when no progress is made in negotiations, Acting Commissioner Bud Selig cancels the rest of the season. For the first time since 1904, there is no World Series. The
strike finally ends in April 1995, but it's nearly two more years before players and owners reach a new collective bargaining agreement.
3.6M QuickTime Movie - 42 sec.
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November 6, 1994
George Foreman, 45, wins heavyweight boxing title
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George Foreman becomes the oldest fighter in boxing history to win a championship when he knocks out Michael Moorer in Las Vegas, Nevada. Foreman, a former heavyweight champion who had returned to boxing in 1987 after a 10-year layoff, enters the fight a 3-1 underdog. But two minutes, three seconds into the 10th round, he lands a solid right that sends Moorer, 26, to the canvas, and the 45-year-old grandfather is the new heavyweight champion.
1.5M QuickTime Movie - 26 sec.
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