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'''1994''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMXCIV]]''') was a [[common year starting on Saturday]] of the [[Gregorian calendar]], and was designated as the "[[International Year]] of the [[Family]]" and the "International Year of the Sport and the [[Olympic Ideal]]" by United Nations.

==Events==
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===January===
{{MonthR_31_Sa|January}}
* [[January 1]] - [[North American Free Trade Agreement|NAFTA]] goes into effect.
* [[January 1]] -The [[Zapatista Army of National Liberation]] begins their war in [[Chiapas]], Mexico.
* [[January 6]] - In [[Detroit, Michigan]], [[Nancy Kerrigan]] is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from figure skating rival [[Tonya Harding]]'s ex-husband.
* [[January 8]] - ''[[Soyuz TM-18]]'': [[Valeri Polyakov]] begins his 437.7 day orbit, eventually setting the world record for days spent in orbit.
* [[January 11]] - The [[Ireland|Irish]] government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|IRA]] and its political arm [[Sinn Féin]].
*[[January 11]] - ''[[The Superhighway Summit]]'' is held at [[UCLA]]'s Royce Hall. It was the first conference to discuss the growing [[information superhighway]] and was presided over by Vice President [[Al Gore]].
* [[January 12]] - [[President Clinton]] meets the Presidents of [[Czech Republic]], [[Slovakia]], [[Hungary]] and [[Poland]].
* [[January 14]] - U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] and [[Russia]]n President [[Boris Yeltsin]] sign the Kremlin Accords, which stop the preprogrammed aiming of [[Intercontinental ballistic missile|nuclear missiles]] toward each country's targets, and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in [[Ukraine]].
* [[January 15]] - [[SS American Star]] breaks tow in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and is beached at [[Fuerteventura]] in the [[Canary Islands]] a few days later.
* [[January 17]] - The [[1994 Northridge Earthquake]], [[Richter magnitude scale|magnitude]] 6.7, hits [[San Fernando Valley|the San Fernando Valley]] of [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] at 4:31 a.m killing 61 and leaving 26,029 homeless.
* [[January 18]] - The [[Cando event]], a possible [[bolide]] [[impact event|impact]] in [[Cando, Spain]]. Witnesses claim to have seen a [[fireball]] in the sky lasting for almost one minute.
* [[January 19]] - Record cold temperatures hit the eastern [[United States]]. The coldest temperature ever measured in [[Indiana]] state history, -36°F (-38°C), is recorded in [[New Whiteland, Indiana]].
* [[January 20]] - In [[South Carolina]], [[Shannon Faulkner]] becomes the first female cadet to attend [[The Citadel (Military College)|The Citadel]], but soon drops out.
* [[January 21]] - [[Lorena Bobbitt]] is found [[not guilty by reason of insanity]] on charges of mutilating her husband John.
* [[January 25]] - [[President Clinton]] delivers his first [[State of the Union]] address, calling for [[health care reform]], a [[Federal Assault Weapons Ban|ban on assault weapon]]s, and [[welfare reform]].
* [[January 26]] - A man fires 2 [[Blank (cartridge)|blank shots]] at [[Charles, Prince of Wales]] in [[Sydney]], [[Australia]].
* [[January 28]] - The first trial of accused murderer [[Lyle and Erik Menendez|Lyle Menendez]] ends in a [[Mistrial#Mistrials|mistrial]]. He and his brother [[Lyle and Erik Menendez|Erik]] are later found guilty and sentenced to [[Life imprisonment|life in prison]] without [[parole]].
* [[January 30]] - In [[Super Bowl XXVIII]], the [[Dallas Cowboys]] hand the [[Buffalo Bills]] their fourth consecutive [[Super Bowl]] loss, 30-13.
* [[January 31]] - German [[Luxury vehicles|luxury car]] manufacturer [[BMW]] announces the purchase of [[Rover (car)|Rover]] from [[British Aerospace]]

===February===
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[[Image:William Perry official DoD photo.jpg|thumb|William Perry]]
* [[February 1]] - In [[Portland, Oregon]], [[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.
* [[February 3]] - [[William J. Perry]] is sworn in as the [[United States Secretary of Defense]].
* [[February 4]] - The [[Federal Open Market Committee]] raises the Fed Funds [[Inflation targeting|target rate]] for the first time since [[May]], [[1989]]. The rate is raised by 25 [[basis point]]s to 3¼ percent [http://www.federalreserve.gov/fomc/19940204default.htm].
* [[February 5]] - [[Byron De La Beckwith]] is convicted of the [[1963]] murder of [[civil rights]] leader [[Medgar Evers]].
* [[February 6]] - [[Markale massacres]]:A [[Bosnian Serb Army]] [[Mortar (weapon)|mortar shell]] kills 68 civilians and wounds about 200 in a Sarajevo marketplace.
* [[February 9]] - The Vance-Owen [[Peace process|Peace plan]] for [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] is announced.
* [[February 12]] - [[Edvard Munch]]'s painting, "[[The Scream]]," is stolen in [[Oslo]] (and is recovered on [[May 7]]).
* [[February 22]] - [[Aldrich Ames]] and his wife are charged with spying for the [[Soviet Union]] by the [[United States Department of Justice]]. Ames will later be convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment and his wife will receive 5 years in prison.
* [[February 24]] - In [[Gloucester]], [[Police|local police]] begins excavations at 25 Cromwell Street,the home of [[Fred West]], suspected of multiple murders. On [[February 28]], he and his wife are arrested.
* [[February 25]] - Israeli terrorist and [[Kahanist]] [[Baruch Goldstein]] opens fire inside the [[Cave of the Patriarchs]] in the [[West Bank]]. He kills 29 [[Muslims]] before worshippers beat him to death.
* [[February 26]] - [[Comedian]], [[Bill Hicks]], dies from [[pancreatic cancer]] in [[Little Rock, Arkansas]].
* [[February 27]] - [[Australian]] 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.
* [[February 28]] - [[United States]] [[F-16]] pilots [[Banja Luka incident (February 1994)|shoot down]] 4 [[Serbia]]n [[fighter aircraft]] over [[Bosnia-Herzegovina]] for violation of the [[Operation Deny Flight]] and its [[no-fly zone]].

===March===
{{MonthR_31_Tu|March}}
[[Image:Mary Ellen Withrow.jpg|thumb|Mary Withrow]]
* [[March 1]] - A lone [[terrorism|terrorist]] kills Ari Halberstam during an attack on 14 [[Judaism|Jewish]] students on the [[Brooklyn Bridge]] in [[New York City]]. [http://www.arihalberstam.com]
* [[March 1]] - [[South Africa]] cedes [[Walvis Bay]] to [[Namibia]].
* [[March 1]] - [[Mary Ellen Withrow]] begins her term of office as [[Treasurer of the United States]], serving under President [[Bill Clinton]].
* [[March 1]] - The [[grunge]] band [[Nirvana (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 6 and injured more than 1,000.
* [[March 6]] - A referendum in [[Moldova]] results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with [[Romania]].
* [[March 7]] - ''[[Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.]]'': The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of [[fair use]].
* [[March 7]] - A gunman takes 8 people hostage in the [[Salt Lake City Public Library Hostage Incident]].
* [[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 15]] - U.S. troops are withdrawn from [[Somalia]].
* [[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 21]] - [[Film director]] [[Steven Spielberg]]'s film ''[[Schindler's List]]'' wins 7 [[Academy Awards|Oscars]], including [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], at the [[66th Academy Awards]].
* [[March 23]] - At an election rally in [[Tijuana]], [[Mexico|Mexican]] presidential candidate [[Luis Donaldo Colosio]] is assassinated. Mario Aburto Martinez is arrested for the crime and confesses on the same day.
* [[March 27]] - The biggest [[tornado]] outbreak in 1994 occurs in the [[southeastern United States]]. One tornado hits a [[United Methodist Church]] in [[Piedmont, Alabama]], killing 22.
* [[March 28]] - [[Shell House Massacre]]: [[Inkatha Freedom Party]] and [[African National Congress|ANC]] supporters battle in central [[Johannesburg]] [[South Africa]].
* [[March 31]] - The journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' reports the finding in [[Ethiopia]] of the first complete ''[[Australopithecus afarensis]]'' skull (see [[Human evolution]]).

===April===
{{MonthR_30_Fr|April}}
* [[April 6]] - [[Rwanda]]n President [[Juvénal Habyarimana]] and [[Burundi]] President [[Cyprien Ntaryamira]] die when a missile shoots down their jet near [[Kigali]], [[Rwanda]]. This is taken as a pretext to begin the [[Rwandan Genocide]].
* [[April 7]] - The [[Rwandan Genocide]] begins in [[Kigali]], [[Rwanda]].
* [[April 8]] - [[Kurt Cobain]], lead singer of [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]], is found dead in [[Seattle, Washington]]. He was last seen alive 3 days ago, and his death is believed to have been suicide.
* [[April 16]] - Voters in [[Finland]] decide to join the [[European Union]] in a referendum.
* [[April 20]] - [[Paul Touvier]] is found guilty of ordering the execution of 7 Jews when he served in the [[Vichy France]] [[Milice]].
* [[April 21]] - The [[Red Cross]] estimates that hundreds of thousands of [[Tutsi]] have been killed in [[Rwanda]].
* [[April 22]] - Former [[President of the United States|United States President]] [[Richard Nixon]] dies in [[New York City]].
* [[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 25]] - The largest high school arson ever in the United States is started at [[Burnsville High School]], in [[Burnsville, Minnesota]], resulting in over 15 million dollars in damages. The same arsonist also goes on to set arsons at: [[Edina High School]] and [[Minnetonka High School]]. [http://www.olafire.com/AFSAContest.asp]
* [[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 27]] - [[South Africa]] holds its first fully multiracial elections.
* [[April 29]] - [[Commodore International]] declares bankruptcy.
* [[April 30]] - [[Austria]]n [[Formula One]] pilot [[Roland Ratzenberger]] is killed in an accident for the free practice of [[1994 San Marino Grand Prix]].

===May===
{{MonthR_31_Su|May}}
* [[May 1]] - The famous [[Formula 1]] driver [[Ayrton Senna]] dies in accident during [[1994 San Marino Grand Prix|San Marino Grand Prix]]
* [[May 6]] - The [[Channel Tunnel]], which took 15,000 workers over 7 years to complete, opens between [[England]] and [[France]]. Passengers can now travel between the 2 countries in 35 minutes.
* [[May 9]] - [[Nelson Mandela]] is inaugurated as [[South Africa]]'s first Black [[president]]. Also, Dos Tres was born.
* [[May 10]] - [[Illinois]] executes [[serial killer]] [[John Wayne Gacy]] by [[lethal injection]] for the murder of 33 [[Adolescence|young men]] and boys.
* [[May 10]] - An [[annular eclipse]] of the [[sun]] is visible across much of [[North America]].
* [[May 12]] - [[Ice hockey]] becomes [[Canada]]'s official [[winter sport]].
* [[May 12]] - [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] leader [[John Smith (UK politician)|John Smith]], 55, dies of a [[Myocardial infarction|heart attack]]. Deputy leader [[Margaret Beckett]] stands in until an election can be held. Smith is succeeded by [[Tony Blair]], the 41-year-old [[Scotland|Scottish]]-born [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Sedgefield]] in [[County Durham]].
* [[May 17]] - [[Malawi]] holds its first multiparty elections.

===June===
{{MonthR_30_We|June}}
* June - [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: UN weapons inspectors Ritter and Smidovitch learn, through [[Israel]]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]]-[[June 8]] - [[Ceasefire]] negotiations for the [[Yugoslav War]] begin in [[Geneva]]; they agree to a 1-month cessation of hostilities (which does not last more than a few days).
* [[June 12]] - [[Nicole Brown Simpson]] and [[Ronald Goldman]] are murdered outside the Simpson home in [[Los Angeles, California]]. [[O.J. Simpson]] is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a [[Lawsuit|civil suit]].
* [[June 14]] - [[Hacker]] [[Kevin Poulsen]] pleads guilty to 7 counts of [[mail fraud]], wire and computer fraud, [[money laundering]], and [[obstruction of justice]].
* [[June 14]] - The [[New York Rangers]] defeat the [[Vancouver Canucks]] at [[Madison Square Garden]] in [[New York City|New York]] in Game 7 of the [[1993-94 NHL season#Stanley Cup Finals|1994 Stanley Cup Finals]] to win their first [[Stanley Cup]] Championship in 54 years and ending the [[Curse of 1940]].
* [[June 15]] - [[Israel]] and the [[Holy See|Vatican]] establish full [[diplomatic relations]].
* [[June 17]] - NFL star [[O.J. 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 surrenders to police.
* [[June 17]] - The [[1994 FIFA World Cup]] begins in the [[United States]].
* [[June 23]] - The [[International Olympic Committee]] celebrates their first centennial.
* [[June 24]] - The third-highest-grossing [[Animation|animated film]] of all time (as of 2004), ''[[The Lion King]]'', opens in theatres nationwide.

===July===
{{MonthR_31_Fr|July}}
[[Image:Jupiter showing SL9 impact sites.jpg|thumb|Brown spots mark impact sites of the Shoemaker-Levy Comet on [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter's]] southern hemisphere.]]
* [[July 2]] - [[Colombian]] [[Football (soccer)|footballer]] [[Andrés Escobar]], 27, is shot dead in [[Bogotá]]. His murder is commonly attributed as retaliation for the [[own goal]] Escobar scored in the [[1994 FIFA World Cup]] against the [[United States national football team|United States]].
* [[July 6]] - Fourteen firefighters die in the South Canyon [[wildfire]] on [[Storm King Mountain]] in [[Colorado]]. The event inspires the [[1999]] book ''[[Fire on the Mountain]]''.
* [[July 7]] - [[Aden]] is occupied by troops from North [[Yemen]].
* [[July 15]] - [[July 21]] - The planet [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]] is hit by 21 large fragments of [[Comet]] [[Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9|Shoemaker-Levy 9]] over the course of 6 days.
* [[July 17]] - [[Brazil national football team|Brazil]] defeat [[Italy national football team|Italy]] 3-2 on [[Penalty shootout (football)|penalties]] to win the [[1994 FIFA World Cup]], after the game ended 0-0 after [[extra time]].
* [[July 18]] - In [[Buenos Aires]], a [[List of terrorist incidents|terrorist attack]] destroys a building housing several [[Jew]]ish organizations, killing 85 and injuring many more (see [[AMIA Bombing]]).
* [[July 19]] - Four 26-pound ceiling tiles fall from the roof of the [[Kingdome]] in [[Seattle, Washington]], just hours before a scheduled [[Seattle Mariners]] game.
* [[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]].

===August===
{{MonthR_31_Mo|August}}
* August - ''[[Wollemia]] nobilis'', a "fossil tree" is discovered by bushwalker David Noble only 150 km from the largest city in [[Australia]].
* [[August 1]] - Fire destroys [[Norwich]] [[Central Library]] in the [[United Kingdom]], including most of its [[History|historical records]].
* [[August 1]] - The [[University of London]] founds the [[School of Advanced Study]], a group of postgraduate [[research institute]]s.
* [[August 5]] - Groups of protesters spread from [[Havana, Cuba]]'s Castillo de [[la Punta]] ("Point Castle"), creating the first massive strike against [[Fidel Castro]]'s dictatorship since [[1959]].
* [[August 12]] - [[Woodstock '94]] begins in [[Saugerties, New York]]. It is the [[25]] year anniversary of [[Woodstock Festival|Woodstock]] in [[1969]].
* [[August 12]] - [[Major League Baseball]] players go on [[1994 Major League Baseball strike|strike]], eventually causing the cancellation of the [[World Series]].
* [[August 20]] - In [[Honolulu, Hawaii]], during a circus international performance, a female elephant named [[Tyke (elephant)|Tyke]] goes mad and crushes her trainer [[Allen Campbell]] to death before hundreds of horrified spectators, at the [[Neal Blaisdell]] Arena.
* [[August 31]] - The [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] announces a "complete cessation of [[military operation]]s."
* [[August 31]] - [[Russian army]] leaves [[Estonia]].

===September===
{{MonthR_30_Th|September}}
* [[September 3]] - [[Cold War]]: [[Russia]] 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 (Australian politician)|John Newman]] is shot outside his home in [[Australia]]'s first [[political]] [[assassination]] since 1977.
* [[September 8]] - [[USAir Flight 427]], a [[Boeing 737]] 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 manufacture of new weapons with certain features for a period of 10 years.
* [[September 19]] - American troops stage a bloodless invasion of [[Haiti]] in order to restore the legitimate elected leader, [[Jean-Bertrand Aristide]], to power.
* [[September 20]] - Kevin Shncee was born
* [[September 22]] - The long-running American sitcom ''[[Friends]]'' premieres on NBC, eventually becoming part of NBC's ''[[Must See TV]]'' comedy blocks on Thursdays.
* [[September 28]] - The [[car ferry]] ''[[MS Estonia]]'' sinks in the [[Baltic Sea]], killing 852.
* [[September 28]] - [[Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu]], Mexican politician, is assassinated on the orders of the president's brother.
* September-October - [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: [[Iraq]] threatens to stop cooperating with [[United Nations Special Commission|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===
{{MonthR_31_Sa|October}}
* [[October 5]] - In [[Switzerland]], 23 members of the [[Order of the Solar Temple]] cult are found dead, a day after 25 of their fellow cultists are similarly discovered in [[Morin Heights]], [[Quebec]].
* [[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]].
* [[October 8]] - [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: The President of [[United Nations|the UN]] [[United Nations Security Council|Security Council]] says that [[Iraq]] 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 (planet)|Venus]] (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere either [[October 13]] or [[October 14]]).
* [[October 14]] - The [[documentary]] [[Hoop Dreams]] is released.
* [[October 15]] - After 3 years of U.S. exile, [[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 29]] - [[Francisco Martin Duran]] fires over 2 dozen shots at the [[White House]]; he is later convicted of trying to kill President [[Bill Clinton]].
* [[October 31]] - An [[American Eagle Airlines|American Eagle]] [[ATR-72]] crashes in [[Roselawn, Indiana]], after circling in icy [[weather]], killing 64 passengers.
* [[October 31]] - [[Prince Philip|The Duke of Edinburgh]] attends a ceremony in [[Israel]], where his late mother, [[Princess Alice of Battenberg]], is honoured as "Righteous among the Nations" for sheltering Jewish families from the [[Nazism|Nazis]] in [[Athens]], during [[World War II]].

===November===
{{MonthR_30_Tu|November}}
[[image:George-W-Bush.jpeg|thumb|George W. Bush is elected [[Governor of Texas]], [[November 8]]]]
* [[November 4]] - [[San Francisco]]: The first conference devoted entirely to the subject of the commercial potential of the [[World Wide Web]] opens. 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 U.S. President [[Ronald Reagan]] is released that announces he has [[Alzheimer's disease]].
* [[November 5]] - [[George Foreman]] regains the [[WBC|World Heavyweight Boxing Championship]] by [[KO]]'ing [[Michael Moorer]] in the 10th round of their bout. Foreman becomes the oldest [[List of heavyweight boxing champions|heavyweight champion]] in history 20 years after first losing the title to [[Muhammad Ali]] in the [[Rumble in the Jungle]].
* [[November 5]] - [[Johan Heyns]], influential [[Afrikaner]] [[theologian]] and critic of [[Apartheid]] is assassinated.
* [[November 8]] - [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] Representative [[Newt Gingrich]] leads the [[United States Republican Party]] in taking control of both the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] and the [[United States Senate|Senate]] in midterm congressional elections, the first time in 40 years the Republicans secured control of both houses of [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]]. [[George W. Bush]] is elected [[Governor of Texas]].
* [[November 13]] - Voters in [[Sweden]] decide to join the [[European Union]] in a [[Referenda in Sweden|referendum]].
* [[November 13]] - The first passengers travel through the [[Channel Tunnel]].
* [[November 16]] - A [[United States federal judge|Federal judge]] issues a temporary [[restraining order]], prohibiting 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===
{{MonthR_31_Th|December}}
[[image:Navigator_1-22.png|thumb|Netscape Navigator]]
* [[December 2]] - The [[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]].
* [[December 13]] - [[Fred West]], 53, a builder living in [[Gloucester]], is remanded in custody, charged with murdering 12 people (including two of his own daughters) whose bodies were mostly found buried at his house in Cromwell Street. His wife [[Rose West]], 41, is charged with 10 murders. Police believe that the murders took place between [[1967]] and [[1987]], and suspect that they may have killed up to 30 people.
* [[December 14]] - A [[Learjet]] piloted by Richard Anderson and Brad Sexton misses an [[Primary education|elementary school]] and crashes into an apartment complex in [[Fresno, California]], killing both pilots and injuring several apartment residents.
* [[December 14]] - [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Home Secretary]] [[Michael Howard]] announces that [[Myra Hindley]] is to serve a [[whole life tariff]] for the [[Moors Murders]] of the [[1960s]]. The decision was made in private by Mr Howard's predecessor [[David Waddington]] in [[1990]], but Hindley is only informed of the decision today after the [[House of Lords]] ruled that the Home Secretary must inform all [[life sentence]] prisoners of the minimum term that they should serve before parole can be considered. Hindley, 52, can appeal against the decision but now knows that she may well spend the rest of her life in prison.
* [[December 15]] - The [[web browser]] [[Netscape Navigator]] 1.0 is released.
* [[December 19]] - A planned [[exchange rate]] correction of the [[Mexican Peso]] to the [[United States|US]] [[Dollar]], becomes a massive financial meltdown in [[Mexico]], unleashing the '[[Tequila]]' effect on global [[financial market]]s. This will prompt a [[US$]] 50 billion 'bailout' by the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] administration.
* [[December 19]] - The [[Whitewater scandal]] investigation begins in [[Washington, DC]].
* [[December 19]] - [[Civil union]]s between homosexuals are made legal in Sweden.
* [[December 26]] - French [[Counter-terrorism|anti-terrorist]] police storm a hijacked jet at [[Marseille]] and kill 4 Islamist terrorists.
* [[December 29]] - [[Robert Schumann (record-breaker)|Robert Schumann]], aged 10, becomes the youngest person to visit the [[South Pole]].
* [[December 31]] was skipped by the [[Phoenix Islands]] to switch from the [[UTC-11]] [[time zone]] to [[UTC+13]], and by the [[Line Islands]] to switch from [[UTC-10]] to [[UTC+14]]. The latter became the earliest time zone in the world, one full day ahead of [[Hawaii]].
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==Births==
===January===

===February===
*[[February 10]] - [[Makenzie Vega]], American actress
*[[February 14]] - [[Paul Butcher Jr.]], American actor
*[[February 14]] - [[Allie Grant]], American actress
*[[February 23]] - [[Dakota Fanning]], American actress

===March===
*[[March 12]] - [[Tanveer K. Atwal]], American actress
*[[March 13]] - [[Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp]]
*[[March 14]] - [[Frankie Ryan Manriquez]], American actor
*[[March 16]] - [[Sierra McClain]], American actress and singer
*[[March 30]] - [[Cecilia Zhang]], Canadian kidnapping victim (d. [[2003]])
*[[March 31]] - [[Caden Waidyatilleka]], American actor

===April===
*[[April 12]] - [[Moises Arias]], American actor
*[[April 14]] - [[Skyler Samuels]], American actress
*[[April 16]] - [[Liliana Mumy]], American actress

===May===
*[[May 4]] - [[Alexander Gould]], American actor
*[[May 4]] - [[Pauline Ducruet]], Monaco heir
*[[May 12]] - [[Drew Mikuska]], American actor
*[[May 24]] - [[Cayden Boyd]], American actor

===June===
*[[June 11]] - [[Ivana Baquero]], Spanish actress
*[[June 17]] - [[Jiordan Anna Tolli]], Australian actress
*[[June 28]] - [[Sophia Lorentzen]], British heiress
*[[June 28]] - [[Prince Hussein bin Al Abdullah II]], prince of [[Jordan]]

===July===
*[[July 9]] - [[Akiane Kramarik]], [[Poetry of the United States|American poet]] and painter
*[[July 6]] - [[Camilla and Rebecca Rosso]], English twin actresses
*[[July 13]] - [[Ridge Canipe]], American actor

===August===
*[[August 9]] - [[Forrest Landis]], American actor
*[[August 25]] - [[Jetseta Gage]], American kidnapping victim (d. [[2005]])
*[[August 28]] - [[Jessie Flower]], American actress

===September===
*[[September 1]] - [[Bianca Ryan]], American singer
*[[September 17]] - [[Taylor Ware]], American singer and yodeler
*[[September 19]] - [[Alexander Nathan Etel]], British actor
*[[September 22]] - [[Danielle Van Dam]], American murder victim (d. [[2002]])

===October===
*[[October 9]] - [[Jodelle Ferland]], Canadian actress
*[[October 12]] - [[Rolandito Salas]], missing child

===November===
*[[November 11]] - [[Connor Price]], Canadian actor
*[[November 17]] - [[Raquel Castro]], American actress
*[[November 23]] - [[Freddie Popplewell]], British actor

===December===
*[[December 15]] - [[Toby Linz]], American actor
*[[December 17]] - [[Nat Wolff]], American actor, singer, and songwriter

===Unknown months===
*[[Flora Ogilvy]], British heiress

==Deaths==
===January===
*[[January 1]] - [[Arthur Espie Porritt]], [[New Zealand]] politician and athlete (b. [[1900]])
*[[January 1]] - [[Cesar Romero]], [[Cuban American|Cuban-American]] actor (b. [[1907]])
*[[January 5]] - [[Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill]], [[Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives]] (b. [[1912]])
*[[January 5]] – [[Elmar Lipping]], Estonian statesman and soldier (b. [[1906]])
*[[January 5]] - [[Brian Johnston]], British cricket commentator (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 20]] - [[Matt Busby]], [[Football in Scotland|Scottish football]] manager ([[Manchester United]]) (b. [[1909]])
*[[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 [[Auto racing|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]], [[List of French singers|French singer]] (b. [[1906]])
*[[February 24]] - [[Dinah Shore]], American actress and singer (b. [[1916]])
*[[February 25]] - [[Baruch Goldstein]], American-born [[mass murder]]er (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 9]] - [[Charles Bukowski]], American writer (b. [[1920]])
*[[March 21]] - [[MacDonald Carey]], American actor (b. [[1913]])
*[[March 22]] - [[Walter Lantz]], American cartoonist (b. [[1899]])
*[[March 23]] - [[Luis Donaldo Colosio]], Mexican politician (b. [[1950]])
*[[March 25]] - [[Max Petitpierre]], [[List of members of the Swiss Federal Council|member of the Swiss Federal Council]] (b. [[1899]])
*[[March 28]] - [[Eugène 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 protection|consumer advocate]] (b. [[1916]])
*[[Circa|ca.]] [[April 5]] - [[Kurt Cobain]], American musician ([[Nirvana (band)|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 15]] - [[John Curry]], British [[Ice skating|ice skater]] (b. [[1949]])
*[[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===
*Unknown date - [[Francis Bell (actor)|Francis Bell]], Australian actor (b. [[1944]])
*[[May 1]] - [[Ayrton Senna]], Brazilian race car driver (b. [[1960]])
*[[May 7]]- [[Clement Greenberg]], [[Visual arts of the United States|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 (UK politician)|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 [[German Democratic Republic|East Germany]] (b. [[1912]])
*[[June 9]] - [[Jan Tinbergen]], Dutch economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1903]])
*[[June 12]] - [[Menachem Mendel Schneerson]], the [[Lubavitcher Rebbe]] (b. [[1902]])
*[[June 12]] - [[Nicole Brown Simpson]], [[Divorce|ex-wife]] of [[O.J. Simpson]] (b. [[1959]])
*[[June 12]] - [[Ronald Goldman]], friend of [[Nicole Brown Simpson]] (b. [[1968]])
*[[June 14]] - [[Henry Mancini]], American composer and arranger (b. [[1924]])
*[[June 15]] - [[Kristen Pfaff]], American bassist ([[Hole (band)|Hole]]) (b. [[1967]])
*[[June 20]] - [[Jay Miner]], American [[computer pioneer]] (b. [[1932]])
*[[June 29]] - [[Kurt Eichhorn]], German conductor (b. [[1908]])
*[[July 8]] - [[Dick Sargent]], American actor (b. [[1930]])
*[[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 in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1910]])
*[[August 13]] - [[Elias Canetti]], Bulgarian-born writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1905]])
*[[August 18]] - [[Richard Laurence Millington Synge]], English chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1914]])
*[[August 19]] - [[Linus Pauling]], American chemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] and [[Nobel Peace Prize|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 [[Pornographic actor|porn actress]] (b. [[1961]])
*[[September 17]] - [[Karl Popper]], Austrian and British philosopher (b. [[1902]])
*[[September 20]] - [[Abioseh Nicol]], [[Sierra Leone]]an diplomat, UN official and author (b. [[1924]])

*[[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]])
*[[October 24]] - [[Raul Julia]], [[Puerto Rican]] actor (b. [[1940]])

===November-December===
*[[November 5]] - [[Johan Heyns]], [[Afrikaner]] theologian and critic of [[Apartheid]] assassinated (b. [[1928]])
*[[November 10]] - [[Carmen McRae]], American [[The Jazz Singer (1927 film)|jazz singer]] (b. [[1920]])
*[[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 20]] - [[John Lucarotti]], TV writer (b. [[1926]])
*[[November 22]] - [[Charles Upham]], New Zealand soldier, double [[Victoria Cross]] winner (b. [[1908]])
*[[November 23]] - [[Art Barr]], American [[Professional wrestling|professional wrestler]] (b.[[1966]])
*[[November 28]] - [[Jeffrey Dahmer]], American serial killer (murdered in prison) (b. [[1960]])
*[[December 8]] - [[Antonio Carlos Jobim]], Brazilian composer (b. [[1927]])
*[[December 10]] - [[Alexander Wilson (athlete)|Alexander Wilson]], Canadian and Notre Dame athlete (b. [[1905]])
*[[December 11]] - [[Philip Phillips (archaeologist)|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 (actor)|Sebastian Shaw]], English actor (b. [[1905]])
*[[December 24]] - [[John Boswell (historian)|John Boswell]], American historian (b. [[1947]])
*[[December 27]] - [[Fanny Craddock]], British TV chef and restaurant critic (b. [[1909]])

==Nobel prizes==
*[[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Bertram N. Brockhouse]], [[Clifford Glenwood Shull]]
*[[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[George Andrew Olah]]
*[[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] - [[Alfred G. Gilman]], [[Martin Rodbell]]
*[[Nobel Prize in literature|Literature]] - [[Kenzaburo Oe]]
*[[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Yasser Arafat]], [[Shimon Peres]], [[Yitzhak Rabin]]
*[[Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel|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|Ogoni People]])

==1994 in fiction==
* ''[[Thundarr the Barbarian]]'' (1980-1982): A large asteroid passes between [[Earth]] and the [[Moon]], causing the Moon to split into two large fragments. The event also causes major upheavals in Earth's climate and geography, as well as severe alterations in [[tidal force]]s, due to the gravitational effects of both the asteroid and the shattered Moon. This catastrophe results in the disruption of modern human civilization. Two thousand years later, civilization will re-emerge in a semi-[[barbarism|barbaric]] state, where [[magic (paranormal)|magic]] has been rediscovered, but co-exists alongside remnants of technology from previous civilizations, as well as science advanced far beyond that of the 1990s.

* The character [[List of Cowboy Bebop characters#Faye Valentine|Faye Valentine]] from [[Cowboy Bebop]] is born in 1994
* ''[[The Blair Witch Project]]'' (1999): Three student filmmakers disappear in the woods near the town of [[Burkittsville, Maryland]] in [[October]] whilst filming a documentary named ''The Blair Witch Project''. A year later, their footage is recovered.
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