1994 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1994?
- January 8, 1994 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
- January 17, 1994 – 1994 Northridge earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
- January 30, 1994 – Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grand master.
- February 10, 1994 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dog in Chinese astrology.
- March 28, 1994 – In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.
- April 7, 1994 – Rwandan Genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
- April 14, 1994 – In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
- May 4, 1994 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
- May 5, 1994 – The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
- May 10, 1994 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president.
- June 12, 1994 – 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 wrongful death civil suit.
- July 8, 1994 – Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
- July 18, 1994 – The bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentinian Jewish Communal Center) in Buenos Aires kills 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injures 300.
- August 23, 1994 – Eugene Bullard, The only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
- September 14, 1994 – The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.
- September 30, 1994 – Ongar railway station, the furthest London Underground from Central London, closes.
- October 21, 1994 – In Seoul, 32 people are killed when the Seongsu Bridge collapses.
- October 26, 1994 – Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty
- October 27, 1994 – The U.S. prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history.
- November 7, 1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world’s first internet radio broadcast.
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