1994 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1994?
- January 1, 1994 – The North American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect.
- January 6, 1994 – Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, Michigan.
- 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 12, 1994 – The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
- March 14, 1994 – Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
- March 18, 1994 – Bosnia’s Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending warring 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 last episode of the Australian TV series Mother and Son was broadcast.
- March 23, 1994 – At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.
- 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 13, 1994 – Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance on Late Show with David Letterman.
- 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.
- June 15, 1994 – Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations.
- August 14, 1994 – Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as “Carlos the Jackal,” is captured.
- 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.
- 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 27, 1994 – Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
- December 21, 1994 – Mexican volcano Popocatepetl, dormant for 47 years, erupts gases and ash.
- 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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