Death Valley National Park covers a large desert area of eastern California and a small part of Nevada. It was created by the California Desert Protection Act, which upgraded the area from a national monument, a status it had held since 1933, and added a large amount of land. The park includes Badwater Basin, the lowest point in North America at about eighty-six meters below sea level, and it holds records for some of the highest air temperatures ever measured on Earth. Its landscapes range from salt flats and sand dunes to colorful canyons and high mountain peaks. The Timbisha Shoshone people have lived in the region for centuries, and in the 19th and early 20th centuries prospectors and miners worked borax and other minerals there.
Before and after
- 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
- 25 October 1994Operation Amanda
- 31 October 1994Establishment of Death Valley National Park
- 9 November 1994Discovery of darmstadtium
- from 9 November 1994 to 3 October 1995O. J. Simpson murder case
- from 29 November 1994 to 24 December 1994Operation Winter '94
- December 1994Operation Spider
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