Kim Il-sung died on 8 July 1994 in Pyongyang, aged 82. The founder of North Korea, Kim Il-sung led guerrilla units against Japanese rule in Korea and Manchuria before the Soviet Union backed him as leader of its zone of occupation in the north after 1945. He became head of government when the state was founded in 1948 and later its president. He launched the Korean War in 1950, which ended in an armistice in 1953 without a peace treaty. He developed the state ideology of juche, or self-reliance, and cultivated an intense personality cult. After his death in 1994 he was named Eternal President, and power passed to his son Kim Jong-il.
Before and after
- 6 May 1994Construction of Channel Tunnel
- from 2 June 1994 to 21 August 1994Operation Tiger
- 15 June 1994Release of The Lion King
- 5 July 1994Founding of Amazon
- 8 July 1994Death of Kim Il-sung
- from 16 July 1994 to 22 July 1994Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashes into Jupiter
- 4 September 1994Construction of Kansai International Airport
- from 19 September 1994 to 2 April 2009Premiere of ER
- from 22 September 1994 to 6 May 2004Premiere of Friends
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