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1994 (''' MCMXCIV ''') was a Common Year Starting On Saturday of the Gregorian Calendar , and was designated the ''International year of the Family''.


EVENTS



January

• (NAFTA) goes into effect. Zapatista Army Of National Liberation begins war in Chiapas , Mexico.


• is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding 's ex-husband.


• began his 437.7 day orbit, eventually setting the world record for days spent in orbit.


• government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Fein


• meets Presidents of Czech Republic , Slovakia , Hungary and Poland .


• Bill Clinton and Russia n President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin Accords which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles to targets and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine .


• , magnitude 6.7, hits the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles at 4:31 am.


• , Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet to attend The Citadel but soon drops out.


• on charges of mutilating her husband John.


• delivers his first State Of The Union address, calling for health care reform, a ban on assault weapons, and welfare reform.


• in Sydney , Australia .


• ends in a mistrial. He and his brother Erik are later found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without parole.


• , the Dallas Cowboys hand the Buffalo Bills their fourth consecutive Super Bowl loss, 30-13.


• announces the purchase of Rover from British Aerospace

February

• , Tonya Harding 's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his role in attacking figure skater Nancy Kerrigan . He accepts a Plea Bargain admitting to racketeering charges in exchange for testimony against Harding.


• is sworn in as the 19th Secretary Of Defense Of United States .


• is convicted of the 1963 murder of Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers .


• mortar shell kills 68 civilians and wounds about 200 in a Sarajevo marketplace.


• is announced (so called Vance-Owen peace plan)


• 's painting, " The Scream ," is stolen in Oslo . It is recovered on May 7 .


• and his wife are charged with spying for the Soviet Union by the United States Department Of Justice . Ames would later be convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment and his wife would receive 5 years in prison.


• , local police begins excavations at 25 Cromwell Street the home of Frederick West suspected of multiple murders. On February 28 , he and his wife are arrested.


• Baruch Goldstein opens fire inside the Cave Of The Patriarchs in the West Bank . He Kills 29 Muslims before worshippers beat him to death.


• Federal Sports & Environment Minister Ros Kelly resigns over "The Sports Rorts Affair", where it was alleged that she apportioned money for community sporting projects in a Pork Barreling fashion.


• F-16 pilots shoot down four Serbia n fighter aircraft over Bosnia for violation of the Operation Deny Flight and its No-fly Zone

March

• March 1 - A lone Terrorist kills Ari Halberstam on an attack on 14 Jewish students on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City . {Link without Title}


• March 1 - South Africa cedes Walvis Bay to Namibia .


• March 1 - Mary Ellen Withrow begins term of office as Treasurer Of The United States , serving under President Bill Clinton .


• March 1 - The Grunge band Nirvana plays its final show in Munich


• March 4 - Four terrorists are convicted for their roles in the World Trade Center Bombing which killed six and injured more than a thousand.


• March 6 - Referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania .


• March 7 - The Supreme Court Of The United States rules in '' Campbell V. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. '' that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of Fair Use .


• March 12 - A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell , previously touted as 'proof' of the Loch Ness Monster , is confirmed to be a hoax.


• March 12 - The Church Of England ordains its first female priests.


• March 16 - In Portland, Oregon Tonya Harding pleads guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for trying to cover-up an attack on Figure Skating rival Nancy Kerrigan . She is fined $100,000 and banned from the sport.


• March 23 - At an election rally in Tijuana , Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated. Mario Aburto Martinez is arrested for the crime and confesses on the same day.


• March 27 - A tornado outbreak occurs in Southeastern United States. One tornado hits the United Methodist Church in Piedmont, Alabama killing 22. This outbreak is the biggest Tornado event of 1994.


• March 28 - In South Africa , Zulu s and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg killing 18.


• March 31 - The journal '' Nature '' reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete '' Australopithecus Afarensis '' skull (see Human Evolution ).

April

• n president Juvénal Habyarimana and president of Burundi Cyprien Ntaryamira died when a missile shoots down their jet near Kigali , Rwanda . This is taken as a pretext to begin the Rwandan Genocide


• begins in Kigali , Rwanda .


• , lead singer of Nirvana , is found dead in Seattle , Washington .


• decide to join the European Union in a referendum.


• is found guilty of ordering the execution of 7 Jews when he was serving in the Vichy France Milice


• estimates that hundreds of thousands of Tutsi have been killed in Rwanda


• dies.


• April 25 - End of term for Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah Ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu as 9th Yang Di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia .


• April 26 - Tuanku Jaafar Ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman , Yang Di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan becomes the 10th Yang Di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia .


• April 26 - South Africa holds its first fully multiracial elections.


• declares a national state of mourning as Nixon's funeral is held.


• April 29 - Formula One driver Rubens Barrichello of Brazil , age 22, nearly dies in a high-speed, floating single-car crash in the practice session for the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola , Italy


• April 30 - Formula One driver Roland Ratzenberger of Austria , age 33, dies in a high-speed, single-car crash in the practice session for the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola , Italy

May

• May 1 - Formula One driver Ayrton Senna of Brazil , age 34, is tragically killed in a high-speed, single-car accident during the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola , Italy


• May 6 - The Channel Tunnel , which took 15,000 workers over seven years to Complete , opens between England and France . Passengers can now travel between the two countries in 35 minutes.


• May 9 - Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa 's first black President


• May 10 - Illinois Execute s Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy by Lethal Injection for the murder of 33 young men and boys


• May 10 - An Annular Eclipse of the Sun is visible across much of North America .


• May 12 - Hockey becomes Canada 's official winter sport.


• May 31 - Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have dinner at the Granita restaurant in Islington and allegedly make a deal on who will become the leader of the Labour Party , and ultimately, the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .

June

• June - i intelligence reports, that Qusay Hussein , Saddam Hussein 's son, is the key player in efforts by the Iraq i government to hide the country's alleged illegal weapons


• June 6 - 8 - Ceasefire negotiations for the Yugoslav War begin in Geneva - they agree to one-month cessation of hostilities (which does not last more than a few days)


• June 12 - Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California . O. J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit.


• June 14 - Hacker Kevin Poulsen pleads guilty to seven counts of mail fraud, wire and computer fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.


• June 14 - The New York Rangers defeat the Vancouver Canucks 4 games to 3 in the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals .


• June 15 - Israel and the Vatican establish full Diplomatic Relations


• June 17 - NFL star OJ Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from police in his white Ford Bronco . The low speed chase, which unfolds live on television, ends up at Simpson's mansion in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California , where he then surrendered to police. Went on to create the quote of his famous glove, "If it doesn't fit, we must acquit." Spoken by Johnny Cochran


• June 24 - As Of 2004 the third highest grossing animated film of all-time, The Lion King , opens in theatres nationwide.

July

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• July - The planet Jupiter is hit by twenty one large fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 over the course of six days.


• July 2 - Assassin ation of Colombia n Soccer player Andrés Escobar in Bogotá


• July 6 - Fourteen firefighters die in the South Canyon Wildfire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado . The event inspired the 1999 book '' Fire On The Mountain ''.


• July 7 - Aden is occupied by troops from North Yemen .


• July 17 - Brazil defeats Italy 3-2 on Penalties to win the 1994 World Cup , after the game ended 0-0 after extra time.


• July 18 - In Buenos Aires , an explosion destroys a building housing several Jew ish organizations killing ninety six and injuring many more. On 9 November 2005 Alberto Nisman Arentino prosecutor identified Hezbollah militant Ibrahim Berro responsible.


• July 25 - Israel and Jordan sign the Israel-Jordan Treaty Of Peace which formally ends the State Of War that has existed between the nations since 1948 .


• July 25 - Phone Numbers through Australia start changing to eight digits (Mona Vale, Sydney 1st to change)

August

• August - ' Wollemia nobilis', a "fossil tree" discovered by bushwalker David Noble only 150 km from the largest city in Australia .


• August 1 - Fire destroys Norwich Central Library in the UK , including most of its historical records.


• August 1 - The University Of London founded the School Of Advanced Study , a group of postgraduate research institutes.


• August 12 - Woodstock '94 begins. It is the 25 year anniversary of woodstock in 1969 .


• August 12 - Major League Baseball players go on Strike , canceling the World Series .


• August 14 - End of Woodstock '94 .


• August 20 - In Honolulu, Hawaii during a circus international performance, a female elephant named Tyke went mad and crushed her trainer Allen Campbell to death before hundred of horrified spectators at the Neal Blaisdell Arena.


• August 31 - the Irish Republican Army announces a "complete cessation of military operations" from midnight.

September

• and the People's Republic Of China agree to de-target their Nuclear Weapon s against each other.


• September 4 - Kansai International Airport in Osaka , Japan opens. All international services are transferred from Itami to Kansai.


• September 5 - New South Wales State MP for Cabramatta John Newman is shot outside his home in Australia 's first Political Assassination since 1977.


• September 8 - A Boeing 737 carrying USAir Flight 427 with 132 people on board, crashes on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport . There are no survivors.


• September 13 - President Bill Clinton signs the Assault Weapons Ban , which bans the use of these weapons for a period of 10 years.


• September 22 - Long-running American sitcom "Friends" airs on NBC, eventually becoming part of NBC's '' "Must See TV" '' comedy blocks on Thursdays.


• September 28 - The car ferry '' MS Estonia '' sinks in Baltic Sea , killing 852.


• September 28 - Jose Francisco Ruiz Massier , Mexican politician, assassinated on the orders of the president's brother.


• September-October - threatens to stop cooperating with UNSCOM inspectors and begins to once again deploy troops near its border with Kuwait . In response, the U.S. begins to deploy troops to Kuwait .

October

• October 5 - UNESCO inaugurates World Teachers’ Day to celebrate and commemorate the signing of the Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers on October 5 , 1966 .


• must withdraw its troops from the Kuwait border and immediately cooperate with weapons inspectors


• October 12 - NASA loses Radio contact with the Magellan Spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere either October 13 or October 14 )


• October 15 - After three years of exile in the US, Haiti 's president Aristide returns to his country.


• October 15 - Iraq Disarmament Crisis : Following threats by the U.N. Security Council and the U.S., Iraq withdraws troops from its border with Kuwait.


• October 26 - Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty.


• October 29 - Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran was later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton ).


• October 31 - An American Eagle ATR-72 crashes in Roselawn, Indiana , after circling in icy Weather , killing 64 passengers.


• October 31 - HRH The Duke Of Edinburgh attends a ceremony in Israel where his late mother, HSH Princess Alice Of Battenberg is honoured as "Righteous among the Nations" for sheltering Jewish families from the Nazis in Athens , during World War II .

November

• . Featured speakers include Marc Andreessen of Netscape , Mark Graham of Pandora Systems, and Ken McCarthy of E-Media.


• November 4 - Sydney 's third runway opens ensuring protests about noise levels.


• November 5 - A letter by former US President Ronald Reagan is released that announces he has Alzheimer's Disease


• November 8 - Georgia Representative Newt Gingrich leads the United States Republican Party in taking control of both the House Of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections, the first time in 40 years the Republicans secured control of both houses of U.S. Congress . George W. Bush is elected Governor Of Texas .


• November 13 - Voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union in a Referendum .


• November 13 - The first passengers travel through the Channel Tunnel .


• clinches his first World Championship in the Australian Grand Prix .


• November 16 - Federal judge issues a temporary Restraining Order that prohibits the State of California from implementing Proposition 187 , that would have denied most public services to Illegal Alien s.


• November 20 - The Angola n government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol

December

• December 2 - Australia n government agrees to pay reparations to Indigenous Australians who were displaced during the Nuclear Test s at Maralinga in the 1950s and 1960s.


• December 11 - Boris Yeltsin orders troops into Chechnya .


• December 11 - A small bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434 , killing a Japan ese businessman. The bombing was a field test done by Ramzi Yousef to test explosives that would have been used in Project Bojinka , a terrorist attack plan that would be exposed after an apartment fire.


• December 15 - The Web Browser Netscape Navigator 1.0 is released.


• December 19 - A planned exchange rate correction of the Mexican Peso to the US Dollar , becomes a massive financial meltdown in Mexico , unleashing the ' Tequila ' effect on global financial markets. This will prompt a US$ 50,000 billion 'bailout' by the Clinton administration.


• December 19 - The Whitewater Scandal investigation begins.


• December 19 - Civil Union s between homosexuals are made legal in Sweden.


• December 26 - French anti-terrorist police storms a hijacked jet at Marseille and kill four Islamist terrorists.


• December 29 - Robert Schumann becomes the youngest person to visit the south pole.

BIRTHS

• Tanveer K. Atwal , American actress


• Flora Ogilvy , British heiress


• Jake Robel (murdered) (d. 2000 )


• January 5 - Sarah Burgess , American actress


• January 30 - Dylan Cash , American actor


• February 10 - Makenzie Vega , American actress


• February 14 - Paul Butcher Jr. , American actor


• February 23 - Dakota Fanning , American actress


• March 13 - Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp


• March 30 - Cecilia Zhang , Canadian kidnapping victim


• April 10 - Liliana Mumy , American actress


• May 4 - Alexander Gould , American voice actor


• May 4 - Pauline Ducruet , Monaco heir


• May 24 - Cayden Boyd , American actor


• June 17 - Jiordan Anna Tolli , Australian actress


• June 28 - Sophia Lorentzen , British heiress


• July 9 - Akiane Kramarik , American child prodigy


• July 27 - Mafalda Of Bulgaria


• August 9 - Forrest Landis , American actor


• August 25 - Jetseta Gage , American kidnapping victim (d. 2005 )


• September 15 - Ashleigh Middleton , American actress


• September 19 - Alexander Etel , British actor


• September 22 - Danielle Van Dam , American murder victim (d. 2002 )


• October 9 - Jodelle Ferland , Canadian actress


• October 12 - Rolandito Salas


• November - Joel Homan , American actor


• November 11 - Connor Price , Canadian actor


• November 17 - Raquel Castro , American actress


• November 30 - Dylan Cash , American actor


• December 15 - Toby Linz , American actor


• December 29 - Princess Kako Of Akishino

DEATHS


January

• January 1 - Arthur Espie Porritt , New Zealand politician and athlete (b. 1900 )


• January 5 - Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill , Speaker Of The U.S. House Of Representatives (b. 1912 )


• January 9 - Johnny Temple , baseball player (b. 1927 )


• January 15 - Harry Nilsson , American musician (b. 1941 )


• January 17 - Helen Stephens , American runner (b. 1918 )


• January 22 - Telly Savalas , American actor (b. 1924 )


• January 23 - Brian Redhead , British journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929 )


• January 25 - Stephen Cole Kleene , American mathematician (b. 1909 )


• January 27 - Claude Akins , American actor (b. 1914 )


• January 30 - Pierre Boulle , French author (b. 1912 )

February-April

• February 6 - Jack Kirby , American comic book writer and illustrator (b. 1917 )


• February 7 - Witold Lutosławski , Polish composer (b. 1913 )


• February 9 - Howard Martin Temin , American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1934 )


• February 11 - Sorrell Booke , American actor (b. 1930 )


• February 11 - William Conrad , American actor (b. 1920 )


• February 11 - Neil Bonnett , American race car driver (b. 1946 )


• February 14 - Andrei Chikatilo , Russian serial killer (executed) (b. 1936 )


• February 17 - Randy Shilts , American author and activist (b. 1951 )


• February 22 - Papa John Creech , American fiddler (b. 1917 )


• February 24 - Jean Sablon , French singer (b. 1906 )


• February 24 - Dinah Shore , American actress, and singer (b. 1916 )


• February 25 - Baruch Goldstein , American-born mass murderer (b. 1956 )


• February 25 - Jersey Joe Walcott , American boxer (b. 1914 )


• February 26 - Bill Hicks , American comedian (b. 1961 )


• March 4 - John Candy , Canadian comedian and actor (b. 1950 )


• March 22 - Walter Lantz , American cartoonist (b. 1899 )


• March 23 - Luis Donaldo Colosio , Mexican politician (b. 1950 )


• March 25 - Max Petitpierre , member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1899 )


• March 28 - Eugene Ionesco , Romanian-born playwright (b. 1909 )


• March 29 - Bill Travers , English actor and co-founder of the Born Free Foundation (b. 1922 )


• April 1 - Léon Degrelle , Belgian Nazi (b. 1906 )


• April 2 - Betty Furness , American actress, author, and consumer advocate (b. 1916 )


• April 5 - Kurt Cobain , American musician ( Nirvana ) (b. 1967 )


• April 6 - Juvénal Habyarimana , President Of Rwanda (b. 1937 )


• April 6 - Cyprien Ntaryamira , President Of Burundi (b. 1956 )


• April 7 - Albert Guðmundsson , Icelandic footballer and politician (b. 1923 )


• April 7 - Golo Mann , German historian (b. 1909 )


• April 10 - Sam B. Hall , American politician (b. 1924 )


• April 16 - Ralph Ellison , American writer (b. 1914 )


• April 17 - Roger Wolcott Sperry , American neurobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1913 )


• April 22 - Richard Nixon , 37th President Of The United States (b. 1913 )


• April 30 - Roland Ratzenberger , Austrian race car driver (b. 1960 )

May-October

• May 1 - Ayrton Senna , Brazilian race car driver (b. 1960 )


• May 7 - Clement Greenberg , American art critic (b. 1909 )


• May 8 - George Peppard , American actor (b. 1928 )


• May 10 - John Wayne Gacy , American serial killer (executed) (b. 1942 )


• May 12 - John Smith , Scottish politician (b. 1938 )


• May 15 - Gilbert Roland , Mexican-born actor (b. 1905 )


• May 19 - Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy , First Lady Of The United States (b. 1929 )


• May 21 - Johan Hendrik Weidner , Belgian World War II resistance fighter (b. 1912 )


• May 29 - Erich Honecker , leader of East Germany (b. 1912 )


• June 9 - Jan Tinbergen , Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903 )


• June 12 - Menachem Mendel Schneerson , the Lubavitcher Rebbe (b. 1902 )


• June 15 - Kristen Pfaff , American bassist ( Hole ) (b. 1967 )


• June 29 - Kurt Eichhorn , German conductor (b. 1908 )


• July 8 - Kim Il Sung , President Of North Korea (b. 1912 )


• July 11 - Gary Kildall , American computer inventor (b. 1942 )


• July 14 - César Tovar , Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (b. 1940 )


• July 29 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin , British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910 )


• August 13 - Elias Canetti , Bulgarian-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905 )


• August 18 - Richard Laurence Millington Synge , English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914 )


• August 19 - Linus Pauling , American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Chemistry and Peace (b. 1901 )


• September 6 - Nicky Hopkins , British musician (b. 1944 )


• September 11 - Jessica Tandy , English actress (b. 1909 )


• September 12 - Boris Yegorov , cosmonaut (b. 1937 )


• September 15 - Moana Pozzi , Italian porn actress (b. 1961 )


• September 30 - Andre Michael Lwoff , French microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1902 )


• October 7 - Niels Kaj Jerne , English immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1911 )


• October 14 - Emil Gilels , Russian pianist (b. 1916 )


• October 19 - Martha Raye , American actress (b. 1916 )


• October 20 - Burt Lancaster , American actor (b. 1913 )


• October 21 - Benoît Régent , French actor (b. 1953 )

November-December

• November 12 - Wilma Rudolph , American athlete (b. 1940 )


• November 13 - Motoo Kimura , Japanese geneticist (b. 1924 )


• November 14 - Tom Villard , American actor (b. 1953 )


• November 16 - Doris Speed , English actress (b. 1899 )


• November 16 - Dino Valente , American musician (b. 1943 )


• November 28 - Jeffrey Dahmer , American serial killer (murdered) (b. 1960 )


• December 8 - Antonio Carlos Jobim , Brazilian composer (b. 1927 )


• December 10 - Alexander Wilson , Canadian and Notre Dame athlete (b. 1905 )


• December 11 - Philip Phillips , American archaeologist (b. 1900 ).


• December 11 - Carl Marzani , American political documentary filmmaker, author, editor and publisher (b. 1912 )


• December 12 - Stuart Roosa , astronaut (b. 1933 )


• December 23 - Sebastian Shaw , English actor (b. 1905 )


• December 24 - John Boswell , American historian (b. 1947 )

NOBEL PRIZES

• Physics - Bertram N. Brockhouse , Clifford Glenwood Shull


• Chemistry - George Andrew Olah


• Medicine - Alfred G. Gilman , Martin Rodbell


• Literature - Kenzaburo Oe


• Peace - Yasser Arafat , Shimon Peres , Yitzhak Rabin


• Economics - Reinhard Selten , John Forbes Nash , John Harsanyi

FIELDS MEDALISTS

• Efim Isakovich Zelmanov , Pierre-Louis Lions , Jean Bourgain , Jean-Christophe Yoccoz

TEMPLETON PRIZE

• Michael Novak

RIGHT LIVELIHOOD AWARD

• Astrid Lindgren , SERVOL (Service Volunteered for All), H. Sudarshan / VGKK (Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra), Ken Saro-Wiwa / MOSOP (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People)

FICTIONAL REFERENCE

• In the Stargate universe (more specifically, the film '' Stargate ''), the Stargate Program begins, when Dr. Daniel Jackson discovers how to activate an alien device known as the Stargate . This would begin one of the most successful science fiction franchises in US television history.