August 1994

Monday 01:

Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm rumors that they had married eleven weeks earlier.

Tuesday 02:

Popular Japanese television and movie actor Beat Takeshi is seriously injured in a motorcycle accident.

Friday 12:

Major League Baseball players go on strike. The work stoppage will force the cancellation of the World Series.

Sunday 14:

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.

Wednesday 24:

Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.

Sunday 28:

First Japanese gay pride march.

Wednesday 31:

The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.