November 1, 1994: ADX Florence opens, the federal "supermax" prison in Florence, Colorado, 110 miles south of Denver. It is the new Alcatraz: Home for the worst of the worst, and no one has ever escaped from it.
Notable current residents include, in chronological order of their crimes: Theodore Kaczynski, the "Unabomber"; Ramzi Yousef, convicted in the 1st World Trade Center bombing in 1993; Terry Nichols, the surviving Oklahoma City bomber; Eric Rudolph, the bomber of abortion clinics and the 1996 Olympic Park in Atlanta; Zacarias Moussaoui, "the 20th Hijacker" on 9/11; Richard Reid, the "Shoe Bomber"; Robert Hansen, the FBI Agent convicted of spying for Russia; Umar Abdulmutallab, the 2009 "Underwear Bomber"; Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving brother from the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing; and Joaquin Guzman, the Mexican drug lord known as "El Chapo."
UPDATE: Kaczynski died on June 10, 2023, having been transferred, due to illness, to Federal Medical Center, Butner, outside Durham, North Carolina. Timothy McVeigh, the main
Oklahoma City bomber, was at Florence from 1997 until 1999, when he was moved
to the prison in Indiana that hosts the federal Death Row. Kaczynski actually formed friendships
with Yousef and McVeigh.
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November 1, 1994 was a Tuesday. English soccer star James Ward-Prowse was born on this day. Baseball season was over -- earlier than expected, due to the Strike of '94. Football was in midweek. The NHL was in lockout. And the NBA season didn't start for another 3 days. So there were no scores on this historic day.
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