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1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1994th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 994th year of the 2nd millennium, the 94th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1990s decade. The year 1994 was designated as the "International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitting December 31. This was due to an adjustment of the International Date Line by the Kiribati government to bring all of its territories into the same calendar day. Events January January 1 The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is established. Beginning of the Zapatista uprising. January 8 – Soyuz TM-18: Valeri Polyakov begins his 437.7-day orbit of the Earth, eventually setting the world record for days spent in orbit. January 11 – The Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the Provisional Irish Republican Army and its political arm Sinn Féin. January 14 – U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords, which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles toward each country's targets, and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine. January 17 – The 6.7 Mw Northridge earthquake strikes the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 57 people dead and more than 8,700 injured. 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. February February 3 In the aftermath of the Chadian–Libyan conflict, the International Court of Justice rules that the Aouzou Strip belongs to the Republic of Chad. (136617) 1994 CC is discovered. 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 shell kills 68 civilians and wounds about 200 in a Sarajevo marketplace. February 9 – The Vance–Owen peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina is announced. February 9 – Sophie Calver [Calver International] February 12 Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is stolen in Oslo (it is recovered on May 7). The 1994 Winter Olympics begin in Lillehammer. February 21 – Revealing of the first photo of Pluto and its moon Charon taken from the Hubble Space Telescope. February 24 – In Gloucester, local police begin excavations at 25 Cromwell Street, the home of Fred West, a suspect in multiple murders. On February 28, he and his wife are arrested. February 25 – Israeli 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 28 – Four United States F-16s shoot down four Serbian J-21s over Bosnia and Herzegovina for violation of the Operation Deny Flight and its no-fly zone. March March – The People's Republic of China gets its first connection to the Internet. March 1 – Walvis Bay is handed over to Namibia by South Africa. March 6 – A referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania. March 8 – Nine Inch Nails' second studio album, The Downward Spiral, is released to critical acclaim. March 12 A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as "proof" of the Loch Ness Monster, is confirmed to be a hoax. The Church of England ordains its first female priests. March 14 Apple Computer, Inc. releases the Power Macintosh, the first Macintosh computers to use the new PowerPC microprocessors. The Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released after over two years of development. March 15 – U.S. troops are withdrawn from Somalia. March 20 – Italian journalist Ilaria Alpi and TV cameraman Miran Hrovatin are assassinated in Somalia. March 21 – The 66th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Steven Spielberg's Holocaust drama Schindler's List wins seven Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director (Spielberg). March 23 Green Ramp disaster: two military aircraft collide over Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina causing 24 fatalities. Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated at a campaign rally in Tijuana. March 27 TV tycoon Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition wins the Italian general election. The biggest tornado outbreak in 1994 occurs in the southeastern United States; one tornado kills 22 people at the Goshen United Methodist Church in Piedmont, Alabama. March 28 – Shell House massacre: Inkatha Freedom Party and ANC supporters battle in central Johannesburg, South Africa. March 31 – The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull. April April 2 – The National Convention of New Sudan of the SPLA/M opens in Chukudum. April 5 – Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana, commits suicide at age 27 at his home in Seattle. His body is found three days later. April 6 – Rwandan 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 16 – Voters in Finland decide to join the European Union in a referendum. April 19 – Rapper Nas releases classic album Illmatic. April 20 – South Africa adopts a new national flag, replacing the "Oranje, Blanje, Blou" flag adopted in 1928 that was used during apartheid. April 21 – The Red Cross estimates that hundreds of thousands of Tutsi have been killed in Rwanda. April 25 – Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu ends his term as the 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. China Airlines Flight 140, an Airbus A300, crashes while landing at Nagoya, Japan, killing 264 people. April 27 – South Africa holds its first fully multiracial elections, marking the final end of the last vestiges of apartheid. Nelson Mandela wins the elections and is sworn in as the first democratically elected president the following month. May May 1 – Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola, Italy. May 5 – The Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan is signed in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, effectively freezing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. May 6 – The Channel Tunnel, which took 15,000 workers more than seven years to complete, opens between England and France, enabling passengers to travel between the two countries in 35 minutes. May 10 Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South.... Discover the H G Wells John Boynton Priestly popular books. Find the top 100 most popular H G Wells John Boynton Priestly books.