Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

At the 36th Grammys at Radio City Music Hall, Whitney Houston opened the show with "I Will Always Love You" and won Record of the Year, Album of the Year for The Bodyguard and Best Female Pop Vocal, while Alan Menken's "A Whole New World" took Song of the Year and Toni Braxton Best New Artist.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gainax's Neon Genesis Evangelion begins airing, a mecha series following teenage pilot Shinji Ikari as NERV's Evangelion units battle mysterious beings called Angels threatening Tokyo-3.

APPP's Golden Boy premieres on home video, a comedic OVA following Kintarou Oe, a law-school graduate who bikes from town to town taking odd jobs and chasing life lessons (and misadventures with women) instead of a career.

Production I.G's Ghost in the Shell opens in Japanese theaters, Mamoru Oshii's cyberpunk thriller adapting Masamune Shirow's manga, following cybernetic Section 9 agent Major Motoko Kusanagi as she hunts a mysterious hacker known as the Puppet Master.

Pixar's Toy Story, the first entirely computer-animated feature film, opened in US theaters on 22 November 1995 after a Los Angeles premiere on 19 November. John Lasseter directed the story of cowboy doll Woody and space ranger Buzz Lightyear.

TMS Entertainment's Detective Conan begins its television broadcast, adapting Gosho Aoyama's manga about a teenage detective shrunk into a child's body who solves cases under a false identity while investigating the organization responsible.

Sunrise begins releasing Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team, a One Year War-era OVA following Ensign Shiro Amada as he leads a Ground Type Gundam unit while falling for an enemy Zeon pilot.

The 31st Academy of Country Music Awards on 24 April 1996, hosted by Faith Hill and Brooks & Dunn, gave Brooks & Dunn Entertainer of the Year and Top Vocal Duo, Shania Twain Album of the Year and Top New Female Vocalist, and George Strait the Single Record of the Year.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1996 American animated musical drama film loosely based on the 1831 novel by Victor Hugo, and produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. It reached US theaters on 21 June 1996.

Oshkosh Truck Corporation bought fire apparatus builder Pierce Manufacturing outright, a deal that kicked off Oshkosh's diversification and set up Pierce to become the world's largest fire truck maker.

In the year 2005, a race of alien monsters called Zonders emerge from underground and launch a series of attacks on the city of Tokyo.

The Roslin Institute reveals that a Finn-Dorset lamb born the previous July was cloned from an adult mammary-gland cell by somatic cell nuclear transfer - the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell.

At the 32nd Academy of Country Music Awards on 23 April 1997, 14-year-old LeAnn Rimes won Single and Song of the Year for "Blue" and Top New Female Vocalist, Brooks & Dunn repeated as Entertainer of the Year, and George Strait took Album of the Year and Top Male Vocalist.

Hercules is a 1997 American animated musical fantasy comedy film loosely based on the legendary hero Heracles (known in the film by his Roman name, Hercules), a son of Zeus in Greek mythology. It reached US theaters on 27 June 1997.

Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke opens in Japan, Hayao Miyazaki's epic about a cursed prince caught between the spirits of an ancient forest and the humans of Iron Town.

Gainax's The End of Evangelion opens in Japan, a theatrical film providing an alternate, more conclusive ending to the TV series as NERV comes under full assault from SEELE while Shinji, Asuka, and the rest confront the Human Instrumentality Project.

The 1997 TV adaptation of Kentaro Miura's dark fantasy manga Berserk begins airing, following mercenary swordsman Guts on a revenge-driven hunt for the corrupt king of Midland and the demonic Band of the Falcon that betrayed him.

Frank Gehry's titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opened in October 1997, reviving a struggling industrial city and popularizing the aircraft-design software that made its curved form buildable.

MV Solitaire, converted from a 1972 bulk carrier into a 300-metre pipelaying ship, entered service for Allseas in 1998 and became the world's largest and most powerful pipelay vessel.

Water begins flowing from the newly completed Katse Dam through the Lesotho Highlands Water Project to Johannesburg, the first payment on a 1986 treaty that turns Lesotho’s rainfall into its biggest export.

Artland releases the first episode of the Legend of the Galactic Heroes Gaiden OVA, a collection of side stories set before the main series that trace Reinhard von Lohengramm's rise through the Galactic Empire's command.

Perfect Blue releases in Japanese theaters, Satoshi Kon's directorial debut for Madhouse, a psychological thriller about a retiring pop idol whose grip on reality frays as a stalker and an impersonator blur the line between her old and new selves.

Andoni Luis Aduriz opened his Basque restaurant in Gipuzkoa in March 1998. Restaurant Magazine has counted it among the world's best since 2006, ranking it as high as fourth.

Sunrise's Cowboy Bebop begins airing, a genre-blending space-western following bounty hunters Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, and their crew aboard the ship Bebop.

On Monday 6 April 1998 Citicorp and Travelers Group announced a merger valued at about US$70 billion in stock, then the largest in history, creating the world's largest financial services company, Citigroup.

One day, Kinomoto Sakura, a 4th grader stumbles upon the mysterious book of Clow. Upon opening it and reading the name of The Windy aloud, Sakura scatters the cards to the winds.

Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page present Google, a search-engine prototype that ranks pages by the link structure of the web rather than by page text alone. The paper describes PageRank and a prototype indexing 24 million pages.

The 33rd Academy of Country Music Awards were held on 22 April 1998 at the Universal Amphitheatre on CBS; Garth Brooks took Entertainer of the Year and Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's "It's Your Love" won four awards.

Mulan is a 1998 American animated musical coming-of-age action-adventure film based on the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan, and produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. It reached US theaters on 19 June 1998.

Triangle Staff's Serial Experiments Lain begins airing, a psychological sci-fi series following withdrawn teenager Lain Iwakura as she is drawn into the Wired, a networked reality blurring into the physical world.

Brain's Base begins releasing Getter Robo: Armageddon, a dark direct-sequel OVA in which Ryoma Nagare and his allies must pilot Getter Robo again after a resurrected Dr. Saotome unleashes a catastrophe that nearly wipes out humanity.

Caterpillar unveiled its 797 — at the time the world's largest and most powerful haul truck — at its Decatur, Illinois assembly plant on 29 September 1998.

Taichi Keaton is a half-British half-Japanese archeologist and SAS veteran of the Falklands War. He solves mysteries and investigates insurance fraud for Lloyd's around the world.

Pixar's second feature, A Bug's Life, opened in US theaters on 25 November 1998 after a premiere at the El Capitan Theatre. John Lasseter directed the story of an inventor ant who hires circus bugs to defend his colony from grasshoppers.

Rurouni Kenshin OVA: Trust & Betrayal (Tsuioku-hen) premieres, director Kazuhiro Furuhashi's darker, more graphic prequel OVA telling the origin of Himura Kenshin as the assassin Hitokiri Battousai.