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1994 (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".
Events
January
- January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. Zapatista Army of National Liberation begins war in Chiapas, Mexico.
- January 6 : Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding's ex-husband.
- January 8 : Valeri Polyakov began his 437.7 day orbit, eventually setting the world record for days spent in orbit.
- January 11 : Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin
- January 12 : President Clinton meets Presidents of Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland.
- January 14 : U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles to targets and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine.
- January 17 : 1994 Northridge Earthquake, magnitude 6.7, hits the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles at 4:31 am.
- January 20 : In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet to attend 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 ban on assault weapons, and welfare reform.
- January 26 : A man fires two blank shots at Charles, Prince of Wales in Sydney, Australia.
- January 28 : The first trial of accused murderer Lyle Menendez ends in a mistrial. He and his brother Erik are later found guilty and sentenced to 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 car manufacturer BMW announces the purchase of Rover from British Aerospace
February
March
- March 1 - A lone terrorist kills Ari Halberstam on an attack on 14 Jewish students on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. *
- March 1 - South Africa cedes Walvis Bay to Namibia.
- March 1 - Mary Ellen Withrow begins term of office as Treasurer of the United States, serving under President Bill Clinton.
- March 1 - The grunge 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 six and injured more than a thousand.
- March 6 - Referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania.
- March 7 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
- 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 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 seven Oscars, including Best Picture at the 66th Academy Awards.
- March 23 - At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated. Mario Aburto Martinez is arrested for the crime and confesses on the same day.
- March 27 - A tornado outbreak occurs in Southeastern United States. One tornado hits the United Methodist Church in Piedmont, Alabama killing 22. This outbreak is the biggest tornado event of 1994.
- March 28 - In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg killing 18.
- March 31 - The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull (see Human evolution).
April
- April 6 : Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and president of Burundi Cyprien Ntaryamira died 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, is found dead in Seattle, Washington.
- 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 was serving in the Vichy France Milice
- April 21 : Red Cross estimates that hundreds of thousands of Tutsi have been killed in Rwanda
- April 22 : Former American President Richard Nixon dies.
- 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 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 26 - South Africa holds its first fully multiracial elections.
- April 27 : Bill Clinton declares a national state of mourning as Richard Nixon's funeral is held.
- April 29 - Formula One driver Rubens Barrichello of Brazil, age 22, nearly dies in a high-speed, floating single-car crash in the practice session for the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola, Italy
- April 30 - Formula One driver Roland Ratzenberger of Austria, age 33, dies in a high-speed, single-car crash in the practice session for the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola, Italy
May
June
- June - Iraq disarmament crisis: UN weapons inspectors Ritter and Smidovitch learn, through Israeli intelligence reports, that Qusay Hussein, Saddam Hussein's son, is the key player in efforts by the Iraqi government to hide the country's alleged illegal weapons
- June 6-8 - Ceasefire negotiations for the Yugoslav War begin in Geneva - they agree to one-month cessation of hostilities (which does not last more than a few days)
- June 12 - 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 a civil suit.
- June 14 - Hacker Kevin Poulsen pleads guilty to seven counts of mail fraud, wire and computer fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.
- June 14 - The New York Rangers defeat the Vancouver Canucks 4 games to 3 in the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals.
- June 15 - Israel and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations
- June 17 - NFL star OJ 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 surrendered to police. Went on to create the quote of his famous glove, "If it doesn't fit, we must acquit." Spoken by Johnny Cochran
- June 23 - The International Olympic Committee celebrates their first centennial.
- June 24 - As of 2004 the third highest grossing animated film of all-time, The Lion King, opens in theatres nationwide.
July
August
September
- September 3 - Cold War: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons 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 is shot outside his home in Australia's first political assassination since 1977.
- September 8 - A Boeing 737 carrying USAir Flight 427 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 manfacture 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 22 - Long-running American sitcom "Friends" airs on NBC, eventually becoming part of NBC's Must See TV comedy blocks on Thursdays.
- September 28 - The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852.
- September 28 - Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician, assassinated on the orders of the president's brother.
- September-October - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to stop cooperating with 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
November
December
Births
- Tanveer K. Atwal, American actress
- Flora Ogilvy, British heiress
- Jake Robel (murdered) (d. 2000)
- January 5 - Sarah Burgess, American actress
- February 10 - Makenzie Vega, American actress
- February 14 - Paul Butcher Jr., American actor
- February 23 - Dakota Fanning, American actress
- March 13 - Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp
- March 30 - Cecilia Zhang, Canadian kidnapping victim (d. 2003)
- April 10 - Liliana Mumy, American actress
- May 4 - Alexander Gould, American voice actor
- May 4 - Pauline Ducruet, Monaco heir
- May 24 - Cayden Boyd, American actor
- June 17 - Jiordan Anna Tolli, Australian actress
- June 28 - Sophia Lorentzen, British heiress
- July 9 - Akiane Kramarik, American child prodigy
- July 27 - Mafalda of Bulgaria
- August 9 - Forrest Landis, American actor
- August 25 - Jetseta Gage, American kidnapping victim (d. 2005)
- September 19 - Alexander Etel, British actor
- September 22 - Danielle Van Dam, American murder victim (d. 2002)
- October 9 - Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress
- October 12 - Rolandito Salas
- November - Joel Homan, American actor
- November 11 - Connor Price, Canadian actor
- November 17 - Raquel Castro, American actress
- December 15 - Toby Linz, American actor
- December 29 - Princess Kako of Akishino
Deaths
January
- January 1 - Arthur Espie Porritt, New Zealand politician and athlete (b. 1900)
- 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 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, 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 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, French singer (b. 1906)
- February 24 - Dinah Shore, American actress, and singer (b. 1916)
- February 25 - Baruch Goldstein, American-born mass murderer (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 22 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (b. 1899)
- March 23 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (b. 1950)
- March 25 - Max Petitpierre, 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 advocate (b. 1916)
- ca. April 5 - Kurt Cobain, American musician (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 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
- May 1 - Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1960)
- May 7- Clement Greenberg, 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, 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 East Germany (b. 1912)
- June 9 - Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
- June 12 - Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe (b. 1902)
- June 14 - Henry Mancini, American composer and arranger (b. 1924)
- June 15 - Kristen Pfaff, American bassist (Hole) (b. 1967)
- June 29 - Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (b. 1908)
- 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 laureate (b. 1910)
- August 13 - Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
- August 18 - Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
- August 19 - Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and 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 porn actress (b. 1961)
- September 17 - Karl Popper, Austrian and british philosopher, played a vital role in establishing the philosophy of science as a vigorous, autonomous discipline within analytic philosophy. (b. 1902)
- 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)
November-December
- 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 23 - Art Barr, American professional wrestler (b.1966)
- November 28 - Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (murdered) (b. 1960)
- December 8 - Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer (b. 1927)
- December 10 - Alexander Wilson, Canadian and Notre Dame athlete (b. 1905)
- December 11 - 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, English actor (b. 1905)
- December 24 - John Boswell, American historian (b. 1947)
Nobel prizes
Fields Medalists
Templeton Prize
Right Livelihood Award
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