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Date	Event
January 1, 1994	The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
January 1, 1994	The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comes into effect.
January 3, 1994	Baikal Airlines Flight 130 crashes near Mamoney, Irkutsk, Russia, resulting in 125 deaths.
January 6, 1994	U.S. figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked and injured by an assailant hired by her rival Tonya Harding's ex-husband during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
January 7, 1994	A British Aerospace Jetstream 41 operating as United Express Flight 6291 crashes in Gahanna, Ohio, killing five of the eight people on board.
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 11, 1994	The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.
January 17, 1994	The 6.7 Mw  Northridge earthquake shakes the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 57 people dead and more than 8,700 injured.
January 25, 1994	The spacecraft Clementine by BMDO and NASA is launched.
February 3, 1994	Space Shuttle program: STS-60 is launched, carrying Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard the Shuttle.
February 5, 1994	Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
February 5, 1994	Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
February 12, 1994	Four thieves break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
February 21, 1994	Aldrich Ames is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union in Arlington County, Virginia.
February 22, 1994	Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
March 4, 1994	Space Shuttle program: the Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-62.
March 18, 1994	Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
March 21, 1994	The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change enters into force.
March 23, 1994	At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.
March 23, 1994	A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.
March 23, 1994	Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, killing 75.
March 28, 1994	In South Africa, African National Congress security guards kill dozens of Inkatha Freedom Party protesters.
April 4, 1994	Three people are killed when KLM Cityhopper Flight 433 crashes at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
April 6, 1994	The Rwandan genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
April 7, 1994	Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda, and soldiers kill the civilian Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.
April 7, 1994	Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 in order to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy.
April 14, 1994	In a friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two U.S. Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two U.S. Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
April 15, 1994	Marrakesh Agreement relating to foundation of World Trade Organization is adopted.
April 26, 1994	China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
April 26, 1994	South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.
April 27, 1994	South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.
April 28, 1994	Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
April 30, 1994	Formula One racing driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a crash during the qualifying session of the San Marino Grand Prix run at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari outside Imola, Italy.
May 1, 1994	Three-time Formula One champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix.
May 4, 1994	Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, 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 5, 1994	American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
May 6, 1994	Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
May 7, 1994	Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.
May 10, 1994	Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
May 17, 1994	Malawi holds its first multi-party elections.
May 18, 1994	Israeli troops finish withdrawing from the Gaza Strip, ceding the area to the Palestinian National Authority to govern.
May 21, 1994	The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out.
May 22, 1994	A worldwide trade embargo against Haiti goes into effect to punish its military rulers for not reinstating the country's ousted elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
May 24, 1994	Four men are convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993; each one is sentenced to 240 years in prison.
June 1, 1994	Republic of South Africa becomes a republic in the Commonwealth of Nations.
June 6, 1994	China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 crashes near Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, killing all 160 people on board.
June 10, 1994	China conducts a nuclear test for DF-31 warhead at Area C (Beishan), Lop Nur, its prominence being due to the Cox Report.
June 13, 1994	A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
June 14, 1994	The 1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot occurs after the New York Rangers defeat the Vancouver Canucks to win the Stanley Cup, causing an estimated C$1.1 million, leading to 200 arrests and injuries.
June 17, 1994	Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
June 18, 1994	The Troubles: Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) attack a crowded pub with assault rifles in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland. Six Catholic civilians are killed and five wounded. It was crowded with people watching the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
June 20, 1994	The 1994 Imam Reza shrine bomb explosion in Iran leaves at least 25 dead and 70 to 300 injured.
June 23, 1994	NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center.
June 27, 1994	Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan. Seven people are killed, 660 injured.
June 30, 1994	During a test flight of an Airbus A330-300 at Toulouse–Blagnac Airport, the aircraft crashes killing all seven people on board.
July 2, 1994	USAir Flight 1016 crashes near Charlotte Douglas International Airport, killing 37 of the 57 people on board.
July 4, 1994	Rwandan genocide: Kigali, the Rwandan capital, is captured by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, ending the genocide in the city.
July 5, 1994	Jeff Bezos founds Amazon.
July 8, 1994	Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
July 16, 1994	The comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 is destroyed in a head-on collision with Jupiter.
July 18, 1994	The bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Jewish Community Center) in Buenos Aires kills 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injures 300.
July 18, 1994	Rwandan genocide: The Rwandan Patriotic Front takes control of Gisenyi and north western Rwanda, forcing the interim government into Zaire and ending the genocide.
July 25, 1994	Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
August 12, 1994	Major League Baseball players go on strike, eventually forcing the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
August 14, 1994	Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
August 21, 1994	Royal Air Maroc Flight 630 crashes in Douar Izounine, Morocco, killing all 44 people on board.
August 23, 1994	Eugene Bullard, the only African American pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
August 31, 1994	Russia completes removing its troops from Estonia.
September 8, 1994	USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes in clear weather killing all 132 aboard, resulting in the most extensive aviation investigation in world history and altering manufacturing practices in the industry.
September 9, 1994	Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-64.
September 12, 1994	Frank Eugene Corder fatally crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing. There were no other casualties.
September 14, 1994	The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.
September 16, 1994	The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn Féin and Irish paramilitary groups in 1988.
September 28, 1994	The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
October 1, 1994	Palau enters a Compact of Free Association with the United States.
October 12, 1994	The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.
October 14, 1994	Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of future Palestinian self government.
October 15, 1994	The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island.
October 17, 1994	Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.
October 21, 1994	North Korea and the United States sign an Agreed Framework that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.
October 21, 1994	In Seoul, South Korea, 32 people are killed when a span of the Seongsu Bridge collapses.
October 26, 1994	Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty.
October 27, 1994	Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
October 29, 1994	Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House; he is later convicted of trying to kill U.S. President Bill Clinton.
October 31, 1994	American Eagle Flight 4184 crashes near Roselawn, Indiana killing all 68 people on board.
November 7, 1994	WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, launches the world's first internet radio broadcast.
November 8, 1994	Republican Revolution: On the night of the 1994 United States midterm elections, Republicans make historic electoral gains by securing massive majorities in both houses of Congress (54 seats in the House and eight seats in the Senate, additionally), thus bringing to a close four decades of Democratic domination.
November 9, 1994	The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.
November 13, 1994	In a referendum, voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union.
November 15, 1994	A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits the central Philippine island of Mindoro, killing 78 people, injuring 430 and triggering a tsunami up to 8.5 m (28 ft) high.
November 19, 1994	In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
November 20, 1994	The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.)
December 3, 1994	Taiwan holds its first full local elections; James Soong elected as the first and only directly elected Governor of Taiwan, Chen Shui-bian became the first directly elected Mayor of Taipei, Wu Den-yih became the first directly elected Mayor of Kaohsiung.
December 10, 1994	Rwandan genocide: Maurice Baril, military advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, recommends that UNAMIR stand down.
December 11, 1994	First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.
December 11, 1994	A bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, en route from Manila, Philippines, to Tokyo, Japan, killing one. The captain is able to land the plane safely.
December 13, 1994	Flagship Airlines Flight 3379 crashes in Morrisville, North Carolina, near Raleigh–Durham International Airport, killing 15.
December 14, 1994	Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.
December 24, 1994	Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked on the ground at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers, Algeria. Over the course of three days three passengers are killed, as are all four terrorists.
December 26, 1994	Four Armed Islamic Group hijackers seize control of Air France Flight 8969. When the plane lands at Marseille, a French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the hijackers.
December 29, 1994	Turkish Airlines Flight 278 (a Boeing 737-400) crashes on approach to Van Ferit Melen Airport in Van, Turkey, killing 57 of the 76 people on board.
December 31, 1994	This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 and UTC−10:00 to UTC+14:00, respectively.
December 31, 1994	The First Chechen War: The Russian Ground Forces begin a New Year's storming of Grozny.