Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Garth Brooks won Entertainer of the Year for the fourth consecutive time at the 29th Academy of Country Music Awards on 3 May 1994, hosted by Alan Jackson and Reba McEntire; Jackson took Album and Single of the Year, and Charley Pride received the Pioneer Award.

The $15BN Channel Tunnel opened, linking Britain to mainland Europe by rail for the first time since the last Ice Age, after six years of construction under the English Channel.

Unilever's Birds Eye Wall's introduced Solero in the UK in mid-1994, ice cream inside a soft fruit-sorbet coating, which reached the rest of Europe from March 1995; Solero Exotic is 98 kcal per lolly.

On 12 June 1994 the first Boeing 777 took off from Paine Field in Everett, Washington, flown by chief test pilot John Cashman, starting an 11-month test program for the world's largest twinjet.

The Lion King is a 1994 American animated musical drama film directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff and written by Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, and Linda Woolverton. It reached US theaters on 24 June 1994.

Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) moved into its purpose-built Vauxhall Cross headquarters, ending decades of hiding in increasingly compromised office buildings.

Square released Live A Live for the Super Famicom in Japan on 2 September 1994: a role-playing game of seven scenarios in different time periods, directed by Takashi Tokita.

On 24 October 1994 A. Lange & Söhne presented its first collection in Dresden, the Lange 1, Arkade, Saxonia and Tourbillon Pour le Mérite, marking the rebirth of the Saxon brand dormant since 1948.

British nose-to-tail cooking in the former smokehouse near Smithfield Market.

Sony Computer Entertainment's first console went on sale in Japan on 3 December 1994 at ¥39,800, starting the PlayStation line; North America followed on 9 September 1995 at US$299.

China held the grand commencement ceremony for the Three Gorges Project at Sandouping on the Yangtze on 14 December 1994, starting what became the world's largest hydropower plant.

A family-run Oaxacan restaurant known for its mole dishes.

Heinz Beck’s fine dining above Rome at the Rome Cavalieri hotel.

Morinaga Seika relaunched its 1972 Choco Monaka (originally 50 yen) as Choco Monaka Jumbo in 1995, a chocolate-coated monaka wafer around vanilla ice cream with a snapping chocolate layer.

The 1995 relaunch of Chibi Maruko-chan, Momoko Sakura's slice-of-life comedy about a scatterbrained third-grader navigating school, family and small everyday embarrassments in a quiet Japanese town. Produced by Nippon Animation, this version replaced the original 1990-1992 series and has stayed in weekly production ever since, making it one of the longest continuously running anime on air.

Square released the tactical RPG Front Mission, the first game of the mecha series, for the Super Famicom in Japan on 24 February 1995; it sold over 500,000 copies.

At the 37th Grammy Awards on 1 March 1995 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, Sheryl Crow won Record of the Year and Best New Artist, Tony Bennett's MTV Unplugged won Album of the Year and Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Philadelphia" won Song of the Year and three more awards.

Chrono Trigger, Square's time-travel RPG from the "Dream Team" of Hironobu Sakaguchi, Yuji Horii and Akira Toriyama, released on the Super Famicom in Japan on 11 March 1995 and sold two million copies in two months.

The US FAA and Europe's Joint Aviation Authorities certified the Boeing 777-200 on 19 April 1995, ten months after its first flight and about a month before the first delivery.

Reba McEntire won her first Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year on 10 May 1995, dedicating it to Oklahoma City after the federal-building bombing; newcomer Tim McGraw took Album of the Year and John Michael Montgomery's "I Swear" won Single and Song.

Boeing handed United Airlines the first production 777, a 777-200 registered N777UA, on 15 May 1995 at Everett, making United the launch customer in service.

The first McFlurry, a vanilla soft serve blended with Oreo pieces, was sold on 7 June 1995 at Ron McLellan's McDonald's in Bathurst, New Brunswick, and Oreo is the only original flavour still on the menu.

The Boeing 777 entered commercial service on 7 June 1995 when United Airlines flew its first Pratt & Whitney-powered 777-200 between London Heathrow and Washington.

Pocahontas is a 1995 American animated musical historical drama film loosely based on the life of Powhatan woman Pocahontas and the arrival of English settlers from the Virginia Company. It reached US theaters on 23 June 1995.

Studio Ghibli's Whisper of the Heart releases in Japanese theaters, a coming-of-age story following bookish schoolgirl Shizuku as she chases a mysterious cat and discovers her own ambitions as a writer.

Amazon.com went live from a rented house in Bellevue, Washington, selling books out of a garage-scale operation with a catalogue it did not stock. Within a month it had shipped to all fifty states and forty-five countries.

The original Shirokane charcoal-eel restaurant, with hitsumabushi, liver-topped bowls and its own concise dine-in and takeaway menus.

Commercial operation begins. This dates the original generating unit, before the later shutdown and recovery described in this thread.

On 11 August 1995 Embraer's ERJ-145, a 50-seat regional jet with rear-mounted engines, flew for the first time at São José dos Campos with 18 firm orders, 16 options and 127 letters of intent.