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.
- February 5, 1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
- February 10, 1994 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dog in Chinese astrology.
- February 22, 1994 – Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
- March 21, 1994 – The last episode of the Australian TV series Mother and Son was broadcast.
- March 27, 1994 – One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.
- April 4, 1994 – Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name “Mosaic Communications Corporation”.
- April 7, 1994 – Auburn Calloway attempts to hijack FedEx Express Flight 705 and crash it to insure his family with his life insurance policy. The crew subdues him and lands the aircraft safely.
- 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.
- June 12, 1994 – The Boeing 777, the world’s largest twinjet, makes its first flight.
- June 28, 1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; 7 persons are killed, 660 injured.
- August 31, 1994 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
- October 1, 1994 – Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America).
- October 12, 1994 – 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).
- October 14, 1994 – The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of the future Palestinian Self Government.
- October 17, 1994 – Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.
- October 26, 1994 – Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty
- December 7, 1994 – Norfolk Southern ends its steam excursion program. This is the last time that Norfolk and Western 611 is under steam.
- 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 perpetrators.
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