File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics
The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games ( no, De 17. olympiske vinterleker; nn, Dei 17. olympiske vinterleikane) and commonly known as Lillehammer '94, was an international winter multi-sport event held fro ...
are held in Lillehammer, Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...
; The Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente (; KP), commonly known simply as Kaiser, is an American integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield. Kaiser ...
building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake
The 1994 Northridge earthquake was a moment 6.7 (), blind thrust earthquake that occurred on January 17, 1994, at 4:30:55 a.m. PST in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles.
The quake had a duration of approximately 1 ...
; A model of the MS Estonia
MS ''Estonia'' was a cruiseferry built in 1980 at the West German shipyard Meyer Werft in Papenburg. In 1993, she was sold to Nordström & Thulin for use on Estline's Tallinn–Stockholm route. The ship's sinking on 28 September 1994, in the B ...
, which sank in the Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain.
The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and ...
; Nelson Mandela casts his vote
Voting is a method by which a group, such as a meeting or an Constituency, electorate, can engage for the purpose of making a collective decision making, decision or expressing an opinion usually following discussions, debates or election camp ...
in the 1994 South African general election
General elections were held in South Africa between 26 and 29 April 1994. The elections were the first in which citizens of all races were allowed to take part, and were therefore also the first held with universal suffrage. The election was c ...
, in which he was elected South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
's first president
President most commonly refers to:
*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
* President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...
, and which effectively brought Apartheid
Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...
to an end; NAFTA, which was signed in 1992, comes into effect in Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
, the United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...
, and Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
; The first passenger rail service to utilize the newly-opened Channel tunnel; The 1994 FIFA World Cup
The 1994 FIFA World Cup was the 15th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national soccer teams. It was hosted by the United States and took place from June 17 to July 17, 1994, at nine venues across the country. The United States ...
is held in the United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...
; Skulls
The skull is a bone protective cavity for the brain. The skull is composed of four types of bone i.e., cranial bones, facial bones, ear ossicles and hyoid bone. However two parts are more prominent: the cranium and the mandible. In humans, th ...
from the Rwandan genocide
The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed H ...
, in which over half a million Tutsi
The Tutsi (), or Abatutsi (), are an ethnic group of the African Great Lakes region. They are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group and the second largest of three main ethnic groups in Rwanda and Burundi (the other two being the largest Bantu ethnic ...
people were massacred by Hutus
The Hutu (), also known as the Abahutu, are a Bantu ethnic or social group which is native to the African Great Lakes region. They mainly live in Rwanda, Burundi and the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where they form one of the p ...
., 300x300px, thumb
rect 0 0 200 200 1994 Winter Olympics
The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games ( no, De 17. olympiske vinterleker; nn, Dei 17. olympiske vinterleikane) and commonly known as Lillehammer '94, was an international winter multi-sport event held fro ...
rect 200 0 400 200 Northridge earthquake
The 1994 Northridge earthquake was a moment 6.7 (), blind thrust earthquake that occurred on January 17, 1994, at 4:30:55 a.m. PST in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles.
The quake had a duration of approximatel ...
rect 400 0 600 200 Sinking of the MS Estonia
The MS ''Estonia'' sank on Wednesday, 28 September 1994, between about 00:50 and 01:50 (UTC+2) as the ship was crossing the Baltic Sea, en route from Tallinn, Estonia, to Stockholm, Sweden. The sinking was one of the worst maritime disasters o ...
rect 0 200 300 400 Rwandan genocide
The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed H ...
rect 300 200 600 400 Nelson Mandela
rect 0 400 200 600 1994 FIFA World Cup
The 1994 FIFA World Cup was the 15th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national soccer teams. It was hosted by the United States and took place from June 17 to July 17, 1994, at nine venues across the country. The United States ...
rect 200 400 400 600 Channel tunnel
rect 400 400 600 600 NAFTA
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
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmoniz ...
.
Events
January
*
January 1
January 1 or 1 January is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the yea ...
– The
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is established.
*
January 8 – ''
Soyuz TM-18
Soyuz TM-18 was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome and landed 112 km north of Arkalyk. TM-18 was a two-day solo flight that docked with the ''Mir'' space station on January 10, 1994. The three cosmonauts became the 15th resident crew on boar ...
'':
Valeri Polyakov
Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov (russian: Валерий Владимирович Поляков, born Valeri Ivanovich Korshunov, russian: Валерий Иванович Коршунов, 27 April 1942 – 7 September 2022) was a Soviet and Rus ...
begins his 437.7-day orbit of the
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. While large volumes of water can be found throughout the Solar System, only Earth sustains liquid surface water. About 71% of Earth's surfa ...
, eventually setting the world record for days spent in orbit.
*
January 11
Events Pre-1600
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
* 630 – Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muha ...
– The Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the
Provisional Irish Republican Army
The Irish Republican Army (IRA; ), also known as the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and informally as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reu ...
and its political arm
Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin ( , ; en, " eOurselves") is an Irish republican and democratic socialist political party active throughout both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
The original Sinn Féin organisation was founded in 1905 by Arthur G ...
.
*
January 14 – U.S. President
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...
and Russian President
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...
sign the
Kremlin accords, which stop the preprogrammed aiming of
nuclear missiles
Nuclear weapons delivery is the technology and systems used to place a nuclear weapon at the position of detonation, on or near its target. Several methods have been developed to carry out this task.
''Strategic'' nuclear weapons are used primari ...
toward each country's targets, and also provide for the dismantling of the
nuclear arsenal in
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
.
*
January 17
Events Pre-1600
*38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
* 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on ...
– The 6.7
Northridge earthquake
The 1994 Northridge earthquake was a moment 6.7 (), blind thrust earthquake that occurred on January 17, 1994, at 4:30:55 a.m. PST in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles.
The quake had a duration of approximatel ...
strikes the
Greater Los Angeles Area
Greater Los Angeles is the second-largest metropolitan region in the United States with a population of 18.5 million in 2021, encompassing five counties in Southern California extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino Coun ...
with a maximum
Mercalli intensity
The Modified Mercalli intensity scale (MM, MMI, or MCS), developed from Giuseppe Mercalli's Mercalli intensity scale of 1902, is a seismic intensity scale used for measuring the intensity of shaking produced by an earthquake. It measures the eff ...
of IX (''Violent''), leaving 57 people dead and more than 8,700 injured.
*
January 19
Events Pre-1600
* 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to ''Augustus'', and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
* 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrend ...
–
Record cold temperatures hit the eastern United States. The coldest temperature ever measured in
Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...
state history, −36 °F (−38 °C), is recorded in
New Whiteland, Indiana
New Whiteland is a town in Pleasant Township, Johnson County, Indiana, United States. The population was 5,550 at the 2020 census.
History
New Whiteland had its start when U.S. Route 31 in Indiana was rerouted through the area. It was incorpo ...
.
February
*
February 3
** In the aftermath of the
Chadian–Libyan conflict, the
International Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice (ICJ; french: Cour internationale de justice, links=no; ), sometimes known as the World Court, is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN). It settles disputes between states in accordanc ...
rules
Rule or ruling may refer to:
Education
* Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE), a university in Cambodia
Human activity
* The exercise of political or personal control by someone with authority or power
* Business rule, a rule pert ...
that the
Aouzou Strip belongs to the
Republic of Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic t ...
.
**
(136617) 1994 CC
is a sub-kilometer trinary asteroid, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group.
Discovery
was discovered by Spacewatch's Jim Scotti at Kitt Peak National Observatory on 3 February 1994. In Jun ...
is discovered.
*
February 5 –
Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of
civil rights
Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one's entitlement to participate in the civil and political life o ...
leader
Medgar Evers
Medgar Wiley Evers (; July 2, 1925June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist and the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi, who was murdered by Byron De La Beckwith. Evers, a decorated U.S. Army combat veteran who had served i ...
.
*
February 6 –
Markale massacres
The Markale market shelling or Markale massacres were two separate bombardments, with at least one of them confirmed to have been carried out by the Army of Republika Srpska, targeting civilians during the siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian War. ...
: a
Bosnian Serb Army
The Army of Republika Srpska ( sr, Војска Републике Српске/Vojska Republike Srpske; ВРС/VRS), commonly referred to in English as the Bosnian Serb Army, was the military of Republika Srpska (RS), the self-proclaimed Serb ...
mortar shell
A mortar is usually a simple, lightweight, man-portable, muzzle-loaded weapon, consisting of a smooth-bore (although some models use a rifled barrel) metal tube fixed to a base plate (to spread out the recoil) with a lightweight bipod mount and ...
kills 68 civilians and wounds about 200 in a Sarajevo marketplace.
*
February 9
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland.
*1539 – The first recorded race is held ...
– The Vance–Owen
peace plan for
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and H ...
is announced.
*
February 12
Events Pre-1600
*1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
*1429 – English forces under ...
**
Edvard Munch's painting ''
The Scream
''The Scream'' is a composition created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893. The agonized face in the painting has become one of the most iconic images of art, seen as symbolizing the anxiety of the human condition. Munch's work, including ...
'' is stolen in
Oslo
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population ...
(it is recovered on May 7).
** The
1994 Winter Olympics
The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games ( no, De 17. olympiske vinterleker; nn, Dei 17. olympiske vinterleikane) and commonly known as Lillehammer '94, was an international winter multi-sport event held fro ...
begin in
Lillehammer.
*
February 21
Events Pre-1600
*452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine.
* 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
*1440 – The Pru ...
– Revealing of the first photo of
Pluto
Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. It is the largest ...
and its moon
Charon taken from the
Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope (often referred to as HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first space telescope, but it is one of the largest and most vers ...
.
*
February 24 – In
Gloucester
Gloucester ( ) is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England. Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the west, east of Monmouth and east ...
, local
police
The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and th ...
begin excavations at 25 Cromwell Street, the home of
Fred West
Frederick Walter Stephen West (29 September 1941 – 1 January 1995) was an English serial killer, who committed at least twelve murders between 1967 and 1987 in Gloucestershire, most of them with his second wife, Rose West.
All the victi ...
, a suspect in multiple murders. On February 28, he and his wife are arrested.
*
February 25 – Israeli
Kahanist
Kahanism () is an extremist Jewish ideology based on the views of Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League and the Kach party in Israel. Kahane maintained the view that the majority of Arabs living in Israel are enemies of Jews an ...
Baruch Goldstein opens fire inside the
Cave of the Patriarchs
, alternate_name = Tomb of the Patriarchs, Cave of Machpelah, Sanctuary of Abraham, Ibrahimi Mosque (Mosque of Abraham)
, image = Palestine Hebron Cave of the Patriarchs.jpg
, alt =
, caption = Southern view of the complex, 2009
, map ...
in the
West Bank
The West Bank ( ar, الضفة الغربية, translit=aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; he, הגדה המערבית, translit=HaGadah HaMaʽaravit, also referred to by some Israelis as ) is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...
; he kills 29 Muslims before worshippers beat him to death.
*
February 28 – Four United States
F-16s
shoot down four
Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungar ...
n
J-21s over
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and H ...
for violation of the
Operation Deny Flight
Operation Deny Flight was a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) operation that began on 12 April 1993 as the enforcement of a United Nations (UN) no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina. The United Nations and NATO later expanded the mis ...
and its
no-fly zone
A no-fly zone, also known as a no-flight zone (NFZ), or air exclusion zone (AEZ), is a territory or area established by a military power over which certain aircraft are not permitted to fly. Such zones are usually set up in an enemy power's te ...
.
March
* March – The People's Republic of China gets its first connection to the
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...
.
*
March 1
Events Pre-1600
*509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor Diocletian ...
–
Walvis Bay
Walvis Bay ( en, lit. Whale Bay; af, Walvisbaai; ger, Walfischbucht or Walfischbai) is a city in Namibia and the name of the bay on which it lies. It is the second largest city in Namibia and the largest coastal city in the country. The ci ...
is handed over to
Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...
by South Africa.
*
March 6
Events Pre-1600
* 12 BCE – The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor.
* 632 – The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
* 845 & ...
– A
referendum
A referendum (plural: referendums or less commonly referenda) is a direct vote by the electorate on a proposal, law, or political issue. This is in contrast to an issue being voted on by a representative. This may result in the adoption of a ...
in
Moldova
Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised state of Transnistr ...
results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with
Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...
.
*
March 8
Events Pre-1600
* 1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem ''Shahnameh''.
*1126 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León.
* 1262 – Battle of Hausbergen between bou ...
–
Nine Inch Nails' second studio album, ''
The Downward Spiral
''The Downward Spiral'' is the second studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on March 8, 1994 by Nothing Records in the United States and Island Records in Europe. It is a concept album detailing the self-destru ...
'', is released to critical acclaim.
*
March 12
** A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as "proof" of the
Loch Ness Monster
The Loch Ness Monster ( gd, Uilebheist Loch Nis), affectionately known as Nessie, is a creature in Scottish folklore that is said to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is often described as large, long-necked, and with one or mor ...
, is confirmed to be a hoax.
** The
Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britai ...
ordains its first female priests.
*
March 14
**
Apple Computer, Inc. releases the
Power Macintosh
The Power Macintosh, later Power Mac, is a family of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer as the core of the Macintosh brand from March 1994 until August 2006.
Described by ''MacWorld'' as "the most important te ...
, 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
Events Pre-1600
*474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce.
* 44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place.
* 493 – Odo ...
– U.S. troops are withdrawn from
Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...
.
*
March 20
Events Pre-1600
* 673 – Emperor Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka.
* 1206 – Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
* 1600 – The Link ...
– Italian journalist
Ilaria Alpi
Ilaria Alpi (24 May 1961 – 20 March 1994) was an Italian journalist who was assassinated in Mogadishu, Somalia, together with her camera operator Miran Hrovatin. In 2009 Francesco Fonti, a former 'Ndrangheta member, claimed that Ilaria Alpi a ...
and TV cameraman Miran Hrovatin are assassinated in
Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...
.
*
March 21
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the ''Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas an ...
– The
66th Academy Awards
The 66th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1993 and took place on March 21, 1994, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p. ...
, hosted by
Whoopi Goldberg
Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955), known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg (), is an American actor, comedian, author, and television personality.Kuchwara, Michael (AP Drama Writer)"Whoopi Goldberg: A One-Woman Character Parade". ' ...
, are held at the
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is one of the halls in the Los Angeles Music Center, which is one of the largest performing arts centers in the United States. The Music Center's other halls include the Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, and Walt ...
in
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, largest city in the U.S. state, state of California and the List of United States cities by population, sec ...
.
Steven Spielberg's
Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...
drama ''
Schindler's List
''Schindler's List'' is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the 1982 novel ''Schindler's Ark'' by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally. The film f ...
'' wins seven Oscars including
Best Picture
This is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various film, festivals, and people's awards.
Best Actor/Best Actress
*See Best Actor#Film awards, Best Actress#F ...
and
Best Director Best Director is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organizations, festivals, and people's awards. It may refer to:
Film awards
* AACTA Award for Best Direction
* Academy Award for Best Director
* BA ...
(Spielberg).
*
March 23
Events Pre-1600
*1400 – The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official.
*1540 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last rel ...
**
Green Ramp disaster
{{Infobox aircraft occurrence
, name = Green Ramp disaster
, image = GreenRampWreckage.jpg
, image_size = 210
, caption = Wreckage of the Lockheed C-141 Starlifter destroyed by the accident.
, date = March 23, 1994
, type = Mid-air col ...
: two military aircraft collide over
Pope Air Force Base
Pope Field is a U.S. military facility located 12 miles (19 km) northwest of the central business district of Fayetteville, in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States.. Federal Aviation Administration. effective 15 November 2012 ...
,
North Carolina
North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia and ...
causing 24 fatalities.
**
Mexican presidential candidate
Luis Donaldo Colosio
Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta (; 10 February 1950 – 23 March 1994) was a Mexican politician, economist, and Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) presidential candidate, who was assassinated at a campaign rally in Tijuana during the Mexic ...
is assassinated at a campaign rally in
Tijuana
Tijuana ( ,["Tijuana"](_blank)
(US) and [< ...]
.
*
March 27
Events Pre-1600
*1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom.
* 1329 – Pope John XXII ...
** TV tycoon
Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi ( ; ; born 29 September 1936) is an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies f ...
's right-wing coalition wins the
Italian general election.
** The biggest
tornado outbreak
__NOTOC__
A tornado outbreak is the occurrence of multiple tornadoes spawned by the same synoptic scale weather system. The number of tornadoes required to qualify as an outbreak typically are at least six to ten, with at least two rotational l ...
in 1994 occurs in the
southeastern United States
The Southeastern United States, also referred to as the American Southeast or simply the Southeast, is a geographical region of the United States. It is located broadly on the eastern portion of the southern United States and the southern por ...
; one tornado kills 22 people at the Goshen United Methodist Church in
Piedmont, Alabama
Piedmont is a city in Calhoun and Cherokee counties in the U.S. state of Alabama. The population was 4,400 at the 2020 census. It is included in the Anniston-Oxford, Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The city is approximately one and a h ...
.
*
March 28
Events Pre-1600
* AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate.
* 193 – After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Di ...
–
Shell House massacre:
Inkatha Freedom Party
The Inkatha Freedom Party ( zu, IQembu leNkatha yeNkululeko, IFP) is a right-wing political party in South Africa. The party has been led by Velenkosini Hlabisa since the party's 2019 National General Conference. Mangosuthu Buthelezi founded ...
and
ANC
The African National Congress (ANC) is a social-democratic political party in South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when the first post-apartheid election install ...
supporters battle in central
Johannesburg
Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Dem ...
, South Africa.
*
March 31 – The journal ''
Nature
Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are ...
'' reports the finding in
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
of the first complete ''
Australopithecus afarensis
''Australopithecus afarensis'' is an extinct species of australopithecine which lived from about 3.9–2.9 million years ago (mya) in the Pliocene of East Africa. The first fossils were discovered in the 1930s, but major fossil finds would not ...
'' skull.
April
![Mandela voting in 1994](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Mandela_voting_in_1994.jpg)
*
April 2
Events Pre-1600
* 1513 – Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on what is now the U.S. state of Florida, landing somewhere between the modern city of St. Augustine and the mouth of the St. J ...
– The
National Convention of New Sudan of the
SPLA/M opens in
Chukudum
Chukudum is a Town in Budi County of the Eastern Equatoria state of South Sudan.
Location
The town lies at the base of the Didinga Mountains, which are often shrouded in clouds, in spectacularly beautiful country. It is accessible only by a roug ...
.
*
April 5 –
Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of
Nirvana
( , , ; sa, निर्वाण} ''nirvāṇa'' ; Pali: ''nibbāna''; Prakrit: ''ṇivvāṇa''; literally, "blown out", as in an oil lampRichard Gombrich, ''Theravada Buddhism: A Social History from Ancient Benāres to Modern Colombo.' ...
,
commits suicide at
age 27 at his home in Seattle. His body was found three days later.
*
April 6
Events Pre–1600
*46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) at the Battle of Thapsus.
* 402 – Stilicho defeats the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
*13 ...
–
Rwandan President
Juvénal Habyarimana
Juvénal Habyarimana (, ; 8 March 19376 April 1994) was a Rwandan politician and military officer who served as the second president of Rwanda, from 1973 until 1994. He was nicknamed ''Kinani'', a Kinyarwanda word meaning "invincible".
An ethn ...
and
Burundi President
Cyprien Ntaryamira
Cyprien Ntaryamira (6 March 1955 – 6 April 1994) was a Burundian politician who served as President of Burundi from 5 February 1994 until his death two months later. A Hutu born in Burundi, Ntaryamira studied there before fleeing to Rwanda ...
die when a missile shoots down their jet near
Kigali,
Rwanda. This is taken as a pretext to begin the
Rwandan genocide
The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed H ...
.
*
April 7
Events Pre-1600
* 451 – Attila the Hun captures Metz in France, killing most of its inhabitants and burning the town.
* 529 – First ''Corpus Juris Civilis'', a fundamental work in jurisprudence, is issued by Eastern Roman Empe ...
– The
Rwandan genocide
The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed H ...
begins in
Kigali,
Rwanda.
*
April 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1457 BC – Battle of Megido - the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
* 69 – Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Otho commits suicide.
* 73 – Masad ...
– Voters in Finland decide to join the
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been de ...
in a referendum.
*
April 20
Events Pre-1600
* 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
1601–1900
*1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament.
*1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroys ...
– South Africa adopts
a new national flag, replacing the "
Oranje, Blanje, Blou" flag adopted in 1928 that was used during
apartheid
Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...
.
*
April 21 – The
Red Cross
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million volunteers, members and staff worldwide. It was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and ...
estimates that hundreds of thousands of
Tutsi
The Tutsi (), or Abatutsi (), are an ethnic group of the African Great Lakes region. They are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group and the second largest of three main ethnic groups in Rwanda and Burundi (the other two being the largest Bantu ethnic ...
have been killed in
Rwanda.
*
April 25
Events Pre-1600
*404 BC – Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion.
* 775 – The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the ...
–
Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu ends his term as the 9th
Yang di-Pertuan Agong
The Yang di-Pertuan Agong (, Jawi: ), also known as the Supreme Head of the Federation, the Paramount Ruler or simply as the Agong, and unofficially as the King of Malaysia, is the constitutional monarch and head of state of Malaysia. The o ...
of
Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...
.
*
April 26
Events Pre-1600
* 1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.
*1348 – Czech king Karel IV founds the Charles University in Prague, which was later named after him and was the first university in Central Europe.
* 1 ...
**
Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman,
Yang di-Pertuan Besar
In Malay, Yang di-Pertuan Besar, literally ''"He Who Is Made Chief Ruler"'', is a title given to the head of state in segments of the Malay Archipelago.
In Malaysia
# Also known as Yamtuan Besar, it is the title of the elected monarch of the st ...
of
Negeri Sembilan, becomes the 10th
Yang di-Pertuan Agong
The Yang di-Pertuan Agong (, Jawi: ), also known as the Supreme Head of the Federation, the Paramount Ruler or simply as the Agong, and unofficially as the King of Malaysia, is the constitutional monarch and head of state of Malaysia. The o ...
of
Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...
.
**
China Airlines Flight 140
China Airlines Flight 140 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport (serving Taipei, Taiwan) to Nagoya Airport in Nagoya, Japan.China Airlines is based in Taiwan. Air China is the flag carrier for the ...
, an
Airbus A300
The Airbus A300 is a wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Airbus.
In September 1967, aircraft manufacturers in the United Kingdom, France, and West Germany signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a large airliner.
West ...
, crashes while landing at
Nagoya
is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most po ...
, Japan, killing 264 people.
*
April 27 – South Africa holds its
first fully multiracial elections, marking the final end of the last vestiges of
apartheid
Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...
.
Nelson Mandela wins the elections and is sworn in as the first democratically elected president the following month.
May
*
May 1
Events Pre-1600
* 305 – Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman emperor.
* 880 – The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
*1169 – N ...
– Three-time
Formula One
Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The World Drivers' Championship, ...
world champion
Ayrton Senna
Ayrton Senna da Silva (; 21 March 1960 – 1 May 1994) was a Brazilian racing driver who won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in , , and . Senna is one of three Formula One drivers from Brazil to win the World Championship and ...
is killed in an accident during the
San Marino Grand Prix
The San Marino Grand Prix () was a Formula One championship race which was run at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari in the town of Imola, near the Apennine mountains in Italy, between 1981 and 2006. It was named after nearby S ...
in
Imola, Italy.
*
May 5
Events Pre-1600
* 553 – The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
*1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
*1260 – Kub ...
– The
Bishkek Protocol between
Armenia
Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ' ...
and
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of t ...
is signed in
Bishkek,
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan,, pronounced or the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south, and the People's Republic of China to the ea ...
, effectively freezing the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is an ethnic and territorial conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, inhabited mostly by ethnic Armenians, and seven surrounding districts, inhabited mostly by Azerbaij ...
.
*
May 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.
* 1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Sp ...
– 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 Africa's first black
president
President most commonly refers to:
*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
* President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...
.
** The
Pinkenba Six, including future political candidate Mark Ellis, kidnap 3 Indigenous children in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.
** Serial Killer
John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured, and murdered at least 33 young men and boys. Gacy regularly performed at children's hospitals and charitable events as " ...
is executed by lethal injection in the Stateville Correctional Center.
** Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer, Jeffery Dahmer is baptised in prison.
** A solar eclipse occurs in The United States
* May 17 – Malawi holds its first multiparty elections.
* May 18 – The Flavr Savr, a genetically modified tomato, is deemed safe for consumption by the FDA, becoming the first commercially grown Genetic engineering, genetically engineered food to be granted a license for human consumption.
* May 20 – After a funeral in Cluny Parish Church, Edinburgh attended by 900 people and after which 3,000 people lined the streets, John Smith (Labour Party leader), John Smith is buried in a private family funeral on the island of Iona, at the sacred burial ground of Reilig Odhráin, which contains the graves of several Scottish kings as well as monarchs of Ireland, Norway and France.
* May 22 – Pope John Paul II issues the Apostolic Letter ''Ordinatio sacerdotalis'' from the Vatican City, Vatican, expounding the Catholic Church's position requiring "the reservation of priestly ordination to men alone".
*May 26 - Michael Jackson marries Lisa Marie Presley in the Dominican Republic.
June
* June 1 – The South Africa, Republic of South Africa rejoins the Commonwealth of Nations after the first democratic election; South Africa had departed the then-British Commonwealth in 1961.
* June 6–June 8 – Ceasefire negotiations for the Yugoslav War begin in Geneva; they agree to a one-month cessation of hostilities (which does not last more than a few days).
* June 12 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman are murdered outside the Simpson home in
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, largest city in the U.S. state, state of California and the List of United States cities by population, sec ...
. O. J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a Lawsuit, civil suit.
* June 15
** Israel and the Holy See, Vatican establish full Diplomatic Relations, diplomatic relations.
** ''The Lion King'', the highest-grossing Traditional animation, hand-drawn animated film of all time, is released by Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Feature Animation.
* June 17
** NFL star O. J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from police in a white Ford Bronco. The low-speed chase ends at Simpson's Brentwood, Los Angeles mansion, where he surrenders.
** The
1994 FIFA World Cup
The 1994 FIFA World Cup was the 15th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national soccer teams. It was hosted by the United States and took place from June 17 to July 17, 1994, at nine venues across the country. The United States ...
starts in the
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...
.
* June 23 – NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center.
* June 25 – Cold War: the last Russian troops leave Germany.
* June 26 – Microsoft announces it will no longer sell or support the MS-DOS operating system separately from Microsoft Windows.
* June 28 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult execute the first Matsumoto incident, sarin gas attack at Matsumoto, Nagano, Matsumoto, Japan, killing eight and injuring 200.
* June 30 – An Airbus A330 crashes during a test flight near Toulouse, France, where Airbus is based, killing the seven-person crew. The test was meant to simulate an engine failure at low speed with maximum angle of climb.
* June 30
** The Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party in Japan regained power after spent 11 months of opposition, with the coalition with Japanese Socialist Party.
** Tropical Storm Alberto (1994), Tropical Storm Alberto forms, hitting parts of Florida causing $1.03 billion in damage and 32 deaths.
July
![Jupiter showing SL9 impact sites](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Jupiter_showing_SL9_impact_sites.jpg)
* July 2 – Colombian people, Colombian Association football, footballer Andrés Escobar, 27, is shot dead in Medellín. His murder is commonly attributed as retaliation for the own goal Escobar scored in the
1994 FIFA World Cup
The 1994 FIFA World Cup was the 15th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national soccer teams. It was hosted by the United States and took place from June 17 to July 17, 1994, at nine venues across the country. The United States ...
against the United States men's national soccer team, United States soccer team.
* July 4 – Rwandan Patriotic Front troops capture
Kigali, a major breakthrough in the Rwandan Civil War.
* July 5 – Jeff Bezos founds Amazon (company), Amazon.
* July 7 – 1994 civil war in Yemen: Aden is occupied by troops from North Yemen.
* July 8 – North Korean President Kim Il-sung dies, but officially continues to hold office.
* July 12 – The Allied occupation of Berlin ends with a casing of the colors ceremony attended by U.S. President
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...
.
* July 16–July 22, 22 – Fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 impact the planet Jupiter.
* July 17 – Brazil wins the
1994 FIFA World Cup
The 1994 FIFA World Cup was the 15th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national soccer teams. It was hosted by the United States and took place from June 17 to July 17, 1994, at nine venues across the country. The United States ...
, defeating Italy 3–2 in a penalty shootout in the 1994 FIFA World Cup Final, final (full-time 0–0).
* July 18
** AMIA bombing: In Buenos Aires, a List of terrorist incidents, terrorist attack destroys a building housing several Jewish organizations, killing 85 and injuring many more.
** Rwandan Patriotic Front troops capture Gisenyi, forcing the interim government into Zaire and ending the
Rwandan genocide
The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed H ...
.
* July 25 – Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration as a preliminary to signature on October 25 of the Israel–Jordan peace treaty, which formally ends the state of war that has existed between the nations since 1948.
August
![John 1994-08-23 0200Z](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/John_1994-08-23_0200Z.png)
* August 5 – Groups of protesters spread from Havana, Cuba's Castillo de la Punta ("Point Castle"), creating the first protests against Fidel Castro's government since 1959.
*August 11 – The formation of Hurricane John (1994), Hurricane John which would go one to become the longest-lasting tropical cyclone recorded worldwide. It would dissipate on September 13th, lasting a little over 31 days.
* August 12
** Woodstock '94 begins in Saugerties, New York. It is the 25-year anniversary of Woodstock in 1969.
** All Major League Baseball players go on 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike, strike, beginning the longest work stoppage in the sport's history.
*August 16 – The release of the IBM Simon smartphone, being the first ever commercially available smartphone.
* August 18 - 1994 Mascara earthquake. A 5.8 earthquake lefts 171 dead in Algeria.
* August 31
** The
Provisional Irish Republican Army
The Irish Republican Army (IRA; ), also known as the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and informally as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reu ...
announces a "complete cessation of military operations".
** The Russian Ground Forces, Russian Army leaves Estonia and Latvia, ending the last traces of Eastern Europe's Soviet Union, Soviet occupation.
September
* September 3 – Cold War: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
* 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 killing all on board.
* September 13 – President
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...
signs the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, which bans the manufacture of new firearms with certain features for a period of 10 years.
* September 14 – 1994 World Series, The 1994 World Series is officially cancelled due to the ongoing 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike, work stoppage. It is the first time a World Series will not be played since 1904 World Series, 1904.
* September 16
** Murder of Louise Jensen, Danish tour guide Louise Jensen is abducted, raped and murdered by three British soldiers in Cyprus.
** Britain lifts the 1988–1994 British broadcasting voice restrictions, broadcasting ban imposed on
Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin ( , ; en, " eOurselves") is an Irish republican and democratic socialist political party active throughout both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
The original Sinn Féin organisation was founded in 1905 by Arthur G ...
and paramilitary groups from Northern Ireland.
* September 17 – Heather Whitestone is crowned the first deaf Miss America; she is crowned Miss America 1995.
* September 19
**U.S. troops stage a bloodless invasion of Haiti to restore the legitimately elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to power.
**Andrew Wiles proves Fermat's Last Theorem, solving the 357-year-old mathematical theorem first proposed by Pierre de Fermat in 1637. He would publish it in 1995.
* September 28
** The Roll-on/roll-off, car ferry MS Estonia, MS ''Estonia'' sinks in the
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain.
The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and ...
, killing 852 people.
** José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician, is assassinated on orders of Raúl Salinas de Gortari.
* September – Mullah Omar, Mohammed Omar would found the Taliban movement in his home town of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
*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
* October 1
** In Slovakia, populist leader Vladimír Mečiar wins the 1994 Slovak parliamentary election, general election.
** Palau gains independence from the United Nations Trusteeship Council.
**The World Wide Web Consortium is founded by Tim Berners-Lee, becoming the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web.
* October 4 – 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 7 - Ingvar Carlsson returns as Prime Minister of Sweden .
* October 8 – Iraq disarmament crisis: The President of the United Nations 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), ''Magellan'' spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere either October 13 or October 14).
* October 15
** After three years of U.S. exile, Haiti's president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Aristide returns to his country.
** Iraq disarmament crisis: following threats by the U.N. Security Council and the U.S., Iraq withdraws troops from its border with Kuwait.
November
* November 5
** A letter by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, announcing that he has Alzheimer's disease, is released.
** George Foreman wins the World Boxing Association, WBA and International Boxing Federation, IBF World Heavyweight Championships by KO'ing Michael Moorer becoming the oldest List of heavyweight boxing champions, heavyweight champion in history.
** Influential Afrikaner theologian and critic of
apartheid
Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...
Johan Heyns is assassinated; the killers are never apprehended or identified.
* November 6
** A flood in Piedmont, Italy, kills dozens of people.
** Bražuolė bridge bombing in Lithuania damages a railway bridge but trains are stopped in time to avoid casualties.
* November 7 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first webcast, internet radio broadcast.
* 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 secure control of both houses of Congress of the United States, Congress. George W. Bush is elected Governor of Texas.
** Hurricane Gordon (1994), Hurricane Gordon hits Central America, Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas, Haiti and the Southeastern United States, causing $594 million in damages and 1,152 fatalities.
* November 11 – Duy Tan University, Vietnam's University, was established.
* November 13
** Voters in Sweden decide to join the
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been de ...
in a 1994 Swedish European Union membership referendum, referendum.
** The first passengers travel through the
Channel Tunnel.
**Dale Earnhardt wins his 7th and final NASCAR championship.
* 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 Alien (law), illegal aliens.
* November 20 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol.
* November 28 – Voters in Norway decide not to join the
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been de ...
in a 1994 Norwegian European Union membership referendum, referendum.
* November 30 – The Italian cruise ship ''MS Achille Lauro, Achille Lauro'' catches fire in the Indian Ocean off the coast of
Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...
with nearly a thousand passengers and crew aboard. After unsuccessful attempts by the crew to extinguish the fire, the vessel is evacuated and sinks two days later. During the evacuation, two die and eight are wounded.
December
* December 1 – Ernesto Zedillo takes office as President of Mexico.
* December 2 – The Australian government agrees to pay reparations to indigenous Australians who were displaced during the nuclear tests at Maralinga in the 1950s and 1960s.
* December 3
**Sony releases the PlayStation (console), PlayStation video game system in Japan; it will sell over 100 million units worldwide by the time it is discontinued in 2006.
**Taiwan holds its first full local elections: James Soong is elected as the first and only directly-elected Governor of Taiwan Province, Governor of Taiwan; Chen Shui-bian becomes the first direct elected Mayor of Taipei; Wu Den-yih becomes the first directly-elected Mayor of Kaohsiung.
* December 11 – Russian president
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...
orders troops into Chechnya.
* December 13
** The trial of former President Mengistu Haile Mariam, Mengistu begins in
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
.
**
Fred West
Frederick Walter Stephen West (29 September 1941 – 1 January 1995) was an English serial killer, who committed at least twelve murders between 1967 and 1987 in Gloucestershire, most of them with his second wife, Rose West.
All the victi ...
, 53, a builder living in
Gloucester
Gloucester ( ) is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England. Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the west, east of Monmouth and east ...
, UK, is remanded in custody, charged with murdering 12 people (including two of his own daughters) whose bodies are mostly found buried at his house in Cromwell Street. His wife Rosemary West, 41, is charged with 10 murders.
* December 14 – Construction commences on the Three Gorges Dam, at Sandouping, China.
![Netscape-1](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Netscape-1.0N.png)
*December 15 – The initial release of Netscape Navigator, a web browser that will control the majority of the Usage share of web browsers, usage share for web browsers for the rest of the 1990s.
* December 19
** A planned exchange rate correction of the Mexican peso to the US dollar, becomes a massive financial meltdown in Mexico, unleashing the 'Tequila' effect on global financial markets. This prompts a US$50 billion "bailout" by the Clinton administration.
** Civil union in Sweden, Civil unions between same-sex couples are legalized in Sweden.
* December 31 – This date is 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 becomes the earliest time zone in the world, one full day ahead of Hawaii.
Date unknown
* Fundación Arco Iris – a Catholic Non-governmental organization, NGO is founded in Bolivia.
* Pyroclastic flows – clouds of scalding gas, pumice, and ash – rapidly descend an erupting Mount Merapi volcano in central Java, causing sixty deaths.
* Online service America Online offers gateway to World Wide Web for the first time. This marked the beginning of easy accessibility of the Web to the average person in the U.S.
* The population of Nigeria exceeds 100 million, making it the first African state to have a population above 100 million.
Births
January—February
![Dakota Fanning SAG AWARDS 2020](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Dakota_Fanning_SAG_AWARDS_2020.jpg)
* January 3 – Isaquias Queiroz, Brazilian sprint canoeist
* January 4 – Viktor Axelsen, Danish badminton player
* January 5 – Zemgus Girgensons, Latvian ice hockey player
* January 6 – Catriona Gray, Filipino-Australian model, singer and pageant titleholder won Miss Universe 2018
* January 10 – Faith Kipyegon, Kenyan middle-distance runner
* January 12 – Emre Can, German footballer
*
January 14
** Muktar Edris, Ethiopian long-distance runner
** Kai (entertainer, born 1994), Kai, South Korean singer
*
January 17
Events Pre-1600
*38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
* 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on ...
– Lucy Boynton, American-British actress
* January 18
** Minzy, South Korean singer, rapper and dancer
** Kang Ji-young, Jiyoung, South Korean singer and actress
*
January 19
Events Pre-1600
* 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to ''Augustus'', and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
* 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrend ...
– Matthias Ginter, German footballer
* January 20 – Hampus Lindholm, Swedish ice hockey player
* January 21 – Booboo Stewart, American actor
* January 28 – Maluma, Colombian singer
* January 29 – Sudan Archives, American singer and violinist
* February 1
** Julia Garner, American actress
** Harry Styles, English singer
*
February 6 – Charlie Heaton, English actor
* February 8 – Hakan Çalhanoğlu, Turkish footballer
* February 10 - Seulgi (singer), Seulgi, South Korean singer
*
February 12
Events Pre-1600
*1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
*1429 – English forces under ...
– Arman Hall, American sprinter
* February 13 – Memphis Depay, Dutch footballer
* February 14 – Becky Hill, British singer
* February 16
** Federico Bernardeschi, Italian footballer
** Ava Max, American singer
* February 18 – J-Hope, South Korean rapper and songwriter
*
February 21
Events Pre-1600
*452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine.
* 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
*1440 – The Pru ...
– Wendy (singer), Wendy, South Korean singer
* February 23 – Dakota Fanning, American actress and fashion model
*
February 25 – Eugenie Bouchard, Canadian tennis player
* February 26 - Jacob Trouba, American Ice Hockey Player
* February 27 – Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player
*
February 28 – Arkadiusz Milik, Polish footballer
March–April
![Skyler Samuels (42364100612) (cropped)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Skyler_Samuels_%2842364100612%29_%28cropped%29.jpg)
*
March 1
Events Pre-1600
*509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor Diocletian ...
** Justin Bieber, Canadian singer
** Tyreek Hill, American football player
* March 2 – Nikkie de Jager, Dutch makeup artist and beauty vlogger
* March 5 – Daria Gavrilova, Russian-Australian tennis player
* March 7
** Chase Kalisz, American swimmer
** Jordan Pickford, English footballer
* March 10 – Bad Bunny, Puerto Rican singer
* March 11 − Andrew Robertson, Scottish footballer
*
March 12
** Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist
** Christina Grimmie, American singer (d. 2016)
*
March 14 – Ansel Elgort, American actor, singer, and DJ
* March 16 – Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player
* March 26 – Mayu Watanabe, Japanese singer
* March 29 – Sulli, South Korean singer, songwriter, actress and model (d. 2019)
* March 30 – Jetro Willems, Dutch footballer
*
April 6
Events Pre–1600
*46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) at the Battle of Thapsus.
* 402 – Stilicho defeats the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
*13 ...
– Jasmine Curtis-Smith, Filipina-Australian actress
* April 11
** Duncan Laurence, Dutch singer
** Dakota Blue Richards, English actress
* April 12
** Eric Bailly, Ivorian footballer
** Oh Se-hun, South Korean singer
** Saoirse Ronan, United States-born Irish actress
* April 14 – Skyler Samuels, American actress
* April 15 – Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Bahamian track and field sprinter
* April 18 – Moisés Arias, actor
* April 24 – Jordan Fisher, American actor
*
April 25
Events Pre-1600
*404 BC – Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion.
* 775 – The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the ...
– Omar McLeod, Jamaican hurdler
May – June
![Jung Hoyeon 정호연, Squid Game promo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Jung_Hoyeon_%EC%A0%95%ED%98%B8%EC%97%B0%2C_Squid_Game_promo.jpg)
*
May 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.
* 1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Sp ...
– Mateo Kovačić, Croatian footballer
* May 8 – Zach Tinker, American actor
* May 14 – Marquinhos, Brazilian footballer
* May 17 – Julie Anne San Jose, Filipina singer-songwriter
* May 20 – Piotr Zieliński, Polish footballer
* May 21 – Tom Daley, British diver
* May 24
** Dimash Kudaibergen, Kazakh singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
** Emma McKeon, Australian swimmer
** Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer
* May 25 – Aly Raisman, American gymnast and model
* May 27 – João Cancelo, Portuguese footballer
* May 28
** Son Yeon-jae, South Korean rhythmic gymnast
** John Stones, English footballer
* June 8 – Song Yoo-jung, South Korean actress and model (d. 2021)
* June 9 – Lee Hye-ri, South Korean singer and actress
* June 11
** Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress
** Jessica Fox (canoeist), Jessica Fox, Australian canoeist
* June 14 – Moon Tae-il, Moon Taeil, South Korean singer
* June 15 – Vincent Janssen, Dutch footballer
* June 23 – HoYeon Jung, South Korean actress
* June 28 – Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan, heir apparent of Jordan
* June 29
** Camila Mendes, American actress
** Leandro Paredes, Argentinian footballer
* June 30 – Joshua Rojas, American baseball player
July–August
![Nafi Thiam Belgrade 2017](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Nafi_Thiam_Belgrade_2017.jpg)
* July 2 – Baba Rahman, Ghanaian footballer
* July 4 – Era Istrefi, Kosovar Albanian singer and songwriter
* July 7 - Ashton Irwin, Australian musician
* July 9 – Akiane Kramarik, American poet
* July 12 – Molly Seidel, American marathon runner
* July 17
** Victor Lindelöf, Swedish footballer
** Benjamin Mendy, French footballer
* July 18 – Taylor Russell, Canadian actress
* July 24 – Boyan Slat, Dutch CEO of The Ocean Cleanup
* July 27 – Winnie Harlow, Canadian model
* August 7
** Damon Severson, American Ice Hockey Player
* August 8
** Lauv, American singer-songwriter
** Mirabai Chanu, Indian weightlifter
* August 10 – Bernardo Silva, Portuguese footballer
* August 11 – Song I-han, South Korean singer
* August 13 – Filip Forsberg, Swedish ice hockey player
* August 15
** Kosuke Hagino, Japanese swimmer
** Theodor Blueger, American Ice Hockey Player
* August 17 – Taissa Farmiga, American actress
* August 18 – Madelaine Petsch, American actress
* August 19 – Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian athlete
* August 21 - Jacqueline Emerson, American actress
* August 28 – Ons Jabeur, Tunisian tennis player
* August 30 – Kwon So-hyun, South Korean actress and singer
September–October
![180503 수지 01](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/180503_%EC%88%98%EC%A7%80_01.jpg)
* September 1 – Bianca Ryan, American singer-songwriter
* September 5 – Gregorio Paltrinieri, Italian swimmer
* September 8 – Bruno Fernandes, Portuguese footballer
* September 10 – Mehdi Torabi, Iranian footballer
* September 12
** Mhairi Black, Scottish politician
** RM (rapper), RM, South Korean rapper and songwriter
** Elina Svitolina, Ukrainian tennis player
* September 15 – Wout van Aert, Belgian road cyclist
* September 23 – Yerry Mina, Colombian footballer
* September 26 – Marcell Jacobs, Italian sprinter
* September 29 – Halsey (singer), Halsey, American singer
* September 30
** Raphaël Coleman, English actor (d. 2020)
** Aliya Mustafina, Russian artistic gymnast
* October 1 – Trézéguet (Egyptian footballer), Trézéguet, Egyptian footballer
* October 8 – Luca Hänni, Swiss singer-songwriter
* October 9 – Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress
* October 10
** Jung Il-hoon, Ilhoon, South Korean rapper, songwriter, and actor
** Bae Suzy, Suzy, South Korean singer and actress
* October 12
** Sean Monahan, Canadian ice hockey player
** Olivia Smoliga, American swimmer
* October 24 – Krystal Jung, American-South Korean singer
* October 25 – Manzoor Pashteen, Pakistani human rights activist
November–December
![Giannis Antetokounmpo (51915153421) (cropped)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Giannis_Antetokounmpo_%2851915153421%29_%28cropped%29.jpg)
* November 10
** Takuma Asano, Japanese footballer
** Zoey Deutch, American actress
** Andre De Grasse, Canadian sprinter
* November 22 – Dacre Montgomery, Australian actor
* November 24 – Nabil Bentaleb, Algerian footballer
* November 29 – Julius Randle, American basketball player
* December 3
** Jake T. Austin, American actor
** Lil Baby, American rapper
* December 6 – Giannis Antetokounmpo, Greek basketball player
* December 7 – Yuzuru Hanyu, Japanese figure skater
* December 8
** Conseslus Kipruto, Kenyan middle-distance runner
** Raheem Sterling, Jamaican-born English footballer
* December 17 – Nat Wolff, American actor
* December 19 – M'Baye Niang, French-Senegalese footballer
* December 21 – Daniel Amartey, Ghanaian footballer
* December 26 – Javianne Oliver, American female track and field sprinter
* December 28 – Adam Peaty, English swimmer
* December 30 - Trey Edmunds, American football player
* December 31 – Max Bowden, English actor
Deaths
January
![Matt Busby 1957](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Matt_Busby_1957.jpg)
*
January 1
January 1 or 1 January is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the yea ...
** Arthur Espie Porritt, New Zealand politician and athlete (b. 1900)
** Cesar Romero, Cuban-American actor (b. 1907)
* January 3 – Frank Belknap Long, American writer (b. 1901)
* January 4 – R. D. Burman, Indian music composer (b. 1939)
* January 5 – Tip O'Neill, American politician (b. 1912)
* January 7 – Phoumi Vongvichit, President of Laos (b. 1909)
*
January 8 – Pat Buttram, American actor (b. 1915)
* January 13 – Johan Jørgen Holst, Norwegian politician and diplomat (b. 1937)
*
January 14
** Esther Ralston, American actress (b. 1902)
** Federica Montseny, Spanish politician (b. 1905)
* January 15 – Harry Nilsson, American musician (b. 1941)
** György Cziffra, Hungarian pianist and composer (b. 1921)
*
January 17
Events Pre-1600
*38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
* 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on ...
** Helen Stephens, American runner (b. 1918)
** Chung Il-kwon, South Korean politician (b. 1917)
* January 20
** Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1909)
** Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenyan politician (b. 1911)
* January 22
** Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (b. 1910)
** Frances Gifford, American actress (b. 1920)
** Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1922)
* January 23 – Nikolai Ogarkov, Soviet marshal (b. 1917)
* January 25 – Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (b. 1909)
* January 27 – Claude Akins, American actor (b. 1926)
* January 28 – Hal Smith (actor), Hal Smith, American actor (b. 1916)
* January 29
** Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier (b. 1967)
** Nick Cravat, American actor and acrobat (b. 1912)
* January 30
** Pierre Boulle, French author (b. 1912)
** Bahjat Talhouni, Jordanian politician (b. 1913)
February
![Dinah Shore - promo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Dinah_Shore_-_promo.jpg)
* February 1 – Olan Soule, American actor (b. 1909)
* February 2 – Marija Gimbutas, Lithuanian-American archeologist (b. 1921)
*
February 6
** Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)
** Jack Kirby, American comic book writer and illustrator (b. 1917)
** Luis Alberto Sánchez, Peruvian politician, former Vice President and Prime Minister (b. 1900)
* February 7 – Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (b. 1913)
*
February 9
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland.
*1539 – The first recorded race is held ...
– Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist (b. 1934)
* February 11
** Sorrell Booke, American actor (b. 1930)
** William Conrad, American actor (b. 1920)
** Paul Feyerabend, Austrian philosopher (b. 1924)
** Antonio Martín, Spanish cyclist (b. 1970)
*
February 12
Events Pre-1600
*1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
*1429 – English forces under ...
– Donald Judd, American artist (b. 1928)
* February 14
** Christopher Lasch, American historian, moralist, and social critic (b. 1932)
** Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (b. 1936)
* February 19 – Derek Jarman, English film director (b. 1942)
*
February 24 – Dinah Shore, American actress and singer (b. 1917)
*
February 25
**
Baruch Goldstein, American-Israeli physician, religious extremist, and mass murderer (b. 1956)
** Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (b. 1914)
* February 26 – Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961)
March
![Fernando Rey](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Fernando_Rey.jpg)
* March 2 – Anita Morris, American actress and singer (b. 1943)
* March 4 – John Candy, Canadian actor and comedian (b. 1950)
* March 5 – Abdullah al-Sallal, 1st President of the Yemen Arab Republic (b. 1917)
*
March 6
Events Pre-1600
* 12 BCE – The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor.
* 632 – The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
* 845 & ...
– Melina Mercouri, Greek actress and politician (b. 1920)
* March 9
** Charles Bukowski, American writer (b. 1920)
** Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (b. 1917)
* March 10 – D. J. M. Mackenzie, New Zealand-born British medical officer (b. 1905)
* March 13 – Danny Barker, American musician (b. 1909)
* March 17
** Ellsworth Vines, American tennis player (b. 1911)
** Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and director (b. 1925)
*
March 21
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the ''Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas an ...
** Macdonald Carey, American actor (b. 1913)
** Lili Damita, French-American actress and singer (b. 1904)
** Dack Rambo, American actor (b. 1941)
* March 22
** Dan Hartman, American musician (b. 1950)
** Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (b. 1899)
*
March 23
Events Pre-1600
*1400 – The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official.
*1540 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last rel ...
**
Luis Donaldo Colosio
Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta (; 10 February 1950 – 23 March 1994) was a Mexican politician, economist, and Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) presidential candidate, who was assassinated at a campaign rally in Tijuana during the Mexic ...
, Mexican politician (b. 1950)
** Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (b. 1921)
** Álvaro del Portillo, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1914)
* March 25 – Max Petitpierre, Swiss politician (b. 1899)
* March 26 – Whina Cooper, New Zealand schoolteacher, historian, and activist (b. 1895)
*
March 28
Events Pre-1600
* AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate.
* 193 – After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Di ...
** Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born playwright (b. 1909)
** Ira Murchison, American athlete (b. 1933)
* March 29 – Bill Travers, English actor (b. 1922)
April
* April 1
** Léon Degrelle, Belgian politician and Nazi collaborator (b. 1906)
** Robert Doisneau, French photographer (b. 1912)
* April 3 – Jérôme Lejeune, French pediatrician and geneticist (b. 1926)
*
April 5 –
Kurt Cobain, American singer and songwriter (b. 1967)
*
April 6
Events Pre–1600
*46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) at the Battle of Thapsus.
* 402 – Stilicho defeats the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
*13 ...
** Sheck Exley, American cave diver (b. 1949)
**
Juvénal Habyarimana
Juvénal Habyarimana (, ; 8 March 19376 April 1994) was a Rwandan politician and military officer who served as the second president of Rwanda, from 1973 until 1994. He was nicknamed ''Kinani'', a Kinyarwanda word meaning "invincible".
An ethn ...
, 3rd President of Rwanda (b. 1937)
**
Cyprien Ntaryamira
Cyprien Ntaryamira (6 March 1955 – 6 April 1994) was a Burundian politician who served as President of Burundi from 5 February 1994 until his death two months later. A Hutu born in Burundi, Ntaryamira studied there before fleeing to Rwanda ...
, 5th President of Burundi (b. 1955)
*
April 7
Events Pre-1600
* 451 – Attila the Hun captures Metz in France, killing most of its inhabitants and burning the town.
* 529 – First ''Corpus Juris Civilis'', a fundamental work in jurisprudence, is issued by Eastern Roman Empe ...
** Agathe Uwilingiyimana, 4th Prime Minister of Rwanda (b. 1953)
** Albert Guðmundsson (footballer, born 1923), Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (b. 1923)
** Golo Mann, German historian (b. 1909)
* April 9 – Marcel Ichac, French alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director (b. 1906)
* April 13 – Nikolai Kryuchkov, Russian actor (b. 1911)
* April 15 – John Curry, British figure skater (b. 1949)
*
April 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1457 BC – Battle of Megido - the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
* 69 – Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Otho commits suicide.
* 73 – Masad ...
– Ralph Ellison, American writer (b. 1914)
* April 17 – Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist (b. 1913)
* April 18 – Ken Oosterbroek, South African photojournalist (b. 1962)
* April 22 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (b. 1913)
* April 24 – Masutatsu Ōyama, Korean-Japanese Karate master (b. 1923)
*
April 27 – Lynne Frederick, English actress (b. 1954)
* April 29
** Russell Kirk, American political philosopher (b. 1918)
** Marcel Bernard, French tennis champion (b. 1914)
* April 30
** Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian Formula One driver (b. 1960)
** Richard Scarry, American author (b. 1919)
** Sorie Ibrahim Koroma, Prime Minister of Sierra Leone (b. 1930)
May
![Mrs Kennedy in the Diplomatic Reception Room cropped](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Mrs_Kennedy_in_the_Diplomatic_Reception_Room_cropped.jpg)
*
May 1
Events Pre-1600
* 305 – Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman emperor.
* 880 – The Nea Ekklesia is inaugurated in Constantinople, setting the model for all later cross-in-square Orthodox churches.
*1169 – N ...
–
Ayrton Senna
Ayrton Senna da Silva (; 21 March 1960 – 1 May 1994) was a Brazilian racing driver who won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in , , and . Senna is one of three Formula One drivers from Brazil to win the World Championship and ...
, Brazilian Formula One 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
John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured, and murdered at least 33 young men and boys. Gacy regularly performed at children's hospitals and charitable events as " ...
, American serial killer (b. 1942)
* May 12
** Erik Erikson, Danish-American developmental psychologist (b. 1902)
** Roy J. Plunkett, American chemist (b. 1910)
* May 13 – Duncan Hamilton (racing driver), Duncan Hamilton, English racing driver (b. 1920)
* May 15
** Royal Dano, American actor (b. 1922)
** Gilbert Roland, American actor (b. 1905)
* May 16 – Alain Cuny, French actor (b. 1908)
* May 19
** Luis Ocaña, Spanish bicycle racer (b. 1945)
** Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American socialite, conservationist, and First Lady of the United States (b. 1929)
* May 21
** Giovanni Goria, Italian Prime Minister (b. 1943)
** Masayoshi Ito, Japanese politician (b. 1913)
** Ralph Miliband, Polish-born British academic (b. 1924)
* May 28 – Julius Boros, American golfer (b. 1920)
* May 29 – Erich Honecker, East German politician (b. 1912)
* May 30
** Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader (b. 1899)
** Marcel Bich, French businessman (b. 1914)
** Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan novelist (b. 1909)
June
![11Iyar5749-profile-lubavitcher-rebbe](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/11Iyar5749-profile-lubavitcher-rebbe.jpg)
* June 4
** Roberto Burle Marx, Brazilian landscape architect (b. 1909)
** Stephen McNally, American actor (b. 1911)
** Massimo Troisi, Italian actor, screenwriter, and film director (b. 1953)
* June 6
** Mark McManus, Scottish actor (b. 1935)
** Barry Sullivan (American actor), Barry Sullivan, American actor (b. 1912)
* June 7 – Dennis Potter, English dramatist (b. 1935)
* June 9 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist (b. 1903)
* June 10
** Mary Maxwell Gates, American businesswoman (b. 1929)
** Edward Kienholz, American artist and sculptor (b. 1927)
* June 12
** Ron Goldman, American model, waiter, and murder victim (b. 1968)
** Menachem Mendel Schneerson, American Hasidic rabbinical leader (b. 1902)
** Nicole Brown Simpson, German-American actress, waitress (b. 1959)
* June 13 – K. T. Stevens, American actress (b. 1919)
* June 14 – Henry Mancini, American composer and arranger (b. 1924)
* June 15 – Manos Hatzidakis, Greek composer (b. 1925)
* June 16 – Kristen Pfaff, American bassist (b. 1967)
* June 20 – Jay Miner, American computer pioneer (b. 1932)
* June 21 – William Wilson Morgan, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1906)
* June 26 – A. den Doolaard, Dutch writer and journalist (b. 1901)
July
![Schwinger](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Schwinger.jpg)
* July 2
** Roberto Balado, Cuban boxer (b. 1969)
** Maung Maung, President of Myanmar (b. 1925)
* July 3 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player (b. 1934)
* July 7
** Anita Garvin, American actress (b. 1907)
** Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe officer (b. 1907)
** Cameron Mitchell (actor), Cameron Mitchell, American actor (b. 1918)
* July 8
** Christian-Jaque, French film director (b. 1904)
** Kim Il-sung, President of North Korea (b. 1912)
** Dick Sargent, American actor (b. 1930)
* July 11 – Gary Kildall, American computer inventor (b. 1942)
* July 16 – Julian Schwinger, American physicist (b. 1918)
* July 17 – Jean Borotra, French tennis player (b. 1898)
* July 20 – Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (b. 1897)
* July 21 – Pere Calders, Spanish writer and cartoonist (b. 1912)
* July 27 – Kevin Carter, South African photojournalist (b. 1960)
* July 29 – Dorothy Hodgkin, British chemist (b. 1910)
August
* August 3 – Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Russian actor (b. 1925)
* August 4 – Giovanni Spadolini, Italian Prime Minister (b. 1925)
* August 6 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter and actor turned politician (b. 1928)
* August 11 – Peter Cushing, English actor (b. 1913)
* August 13 – Manfred Wörner, German politician and diplomat (b. 1934)
* August 14 – Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born writer (b. 1905)
* August 16 – John Doucette, American actor (b. 1921)
* August 17 – Jack Sharkey, American boxer (b. 1902)
* August 18 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English chemist (b. 1914)
* August 19
** Linus Pauling, American chemist (b. 1901)
** Robert Rozhdestvensky, Soviet poet (b. 1932)
* August 20 – Aleksandar Petrović (film director), Aleksandar Petrović, French film director (b. 1929)
* August 21 – Anita Lizana, Chilean tennis champion (b. 1915)
* August 23 – Zoltán Fábri, Hungarian film director (b. 1917)
* August 27 – Roberto Goyeneche, Argentine tango singer (b. 1926)
* August 30 – Lindsay Anderson, British film director (b. 1923)
September
![Louis ferdinand c1930](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Louis_ferdinand_c1930.jpg)
* September 3 – Billy Wright (footballer, born 1924), Billy Wright, English footballer (b. 1924)
* September 5 – Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician (b. 1921)
* September 6
** Nicky Hopkins, British musician (b. 1944)
** Duccio Tessari, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
** Paul Xuereb, Maltese politician (b. 1923)
* September 7
** James Clavell, British writer (b. 1921)
** Dennis Morgan, American actor and singer (b. 1908)
** Terence Young (director), Terence Young, British film director (b. 1915)
* September 8 – János Szentágothai, Hungarian anatomist (b. 1912)
* September 9 – Patrick O'Neal (actor), Patrick O'Neal, American actor (b. 1927)
* September 11 – Jessica Tandy, English-born American actress (b. 1909)
* September 12
** Tom Ewell, American actor and producer (b. 1909)
** Boris Yegorov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1937)
* September 15 – Mark Stevens (actor), Mark Stevens, American actor (b. 1916)
* September 17
** Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (b. 1954)
** Karl Popper, Austrian-British philosopher (b. 1902)
* September 18 – Franco Moschino, Italian fashion designer (b. 1950)
* September 19 – Joseph Iléo, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1921)
* September 20 – Jule Styne, English-born American songwriter (b. 1905)
* September 23 – Robert Bloch, American writer (b. 1917)
* September 26 – Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (b. 1907)
* September 27 – Carlos Lleras Restrepo, President of Colombia (b. 1908)
* September 30
** André Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist (b. 1902)
** Roberto Eduardo Viola, military president of Argentina (b. 1924)
October
![Raul Julia - Dracula](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Raul_Julia_-_Dracula.jpg)
* October 2 – Harriet Nelson, American actress (b. 1909)
* October 3 – Dub Taylor, American actor (b. 1907)
* October 7
** Niels Kaj Jerne, English immunologist (b. 1911)
** James Hill (British director), James Hill, British film and television director (b. 1919)
* October 9 – Raich Carter, English sportsman (b. 1913)
* October 15 – Sarah Kofman, French philosopher (b. 1934)
* October 19
** Oldřich Černík, Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1921)
** Martha Raye, American actress and comedian (b. 1916)
* October 20
** Sergei Bondarchuk, Russian film director (b. 1920)
** Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
* October 23 – Robert Lansing (actor), Robert Lansing, American actor (b. 1928)
* October 24 – Raul Julia, Puerto Rican-American actor and singer (b. 1940)
* October 25 – Mildred Natwick, American actress (b. 1905)
* October 29 – Shlomo Goren, Israeli rabbi (b. 1918)
November
![Cab Calloway Gottlieb](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Cab_Calloway_Gottlieb.jpg)
* November 1 – Noah Beery Jr., American actor (b. 1913)
* November 2 – Grisha Filipov, 38th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1919)
* November 4 – Sam Francis, American painter (b. 1923)
* November 10 – Carmen McRae, American jazz singer (b. 1922)
* November 11 – Elizabeth Maconchy, Dame Elizabeth Maconchy, British composer (b. 1907)
* November 12
** Wilma Rudolph, American athlete (b. 1940)
** J. I. M. Stewart, Scottish novelist (b. 1906)
* November 13
** Vladimir Ivashko, Ukrainian Soviet Communist politician (b. 1932)
** Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (b. 1924)
* November 14 – Tom Villard, American actor (b. 1953)
* November 18 – Cab Calloway, American jazz singer and bandleader (b. 1907)
* November 19 – Julian Symons, British crime writer and poet (b. 1912)
* November 21 – Willem Jacob Luyten, Dutch-American astronomer (b. 1899)
* November 23 – Alberto Natusch, Bolivian general, 55th President of Bolivia (b. 1933)
* November 28
** Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (b. 1960)
** Vicente Enrique y Tarancón, Spanish cardinal (b. 1907)
* November 30
** Guy Debord, French theorist, writer, and filmmaker (b. 1931)
** Lionel Stander, American actor (b. 1908)
December
![Dean Rusk](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Dean_Rusk.jpg)
* December 4 – Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Peruvian writer (b. 1929)
* December 6 – Gian Maria Volonté, Italian actor (b. 1933)
* December 8
** Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer (b. 1927)
** Enrique Líster, Spanish communist politician and military officer (b. 1907)
* December 9 – Max Bill, Swiss architect and artist (b. 1908)
* December 10 – Alex Wilson (Canadian sprinter), Alex Wilson, Canadian athlete (b. 1905)
* December 11 – Stanisław Maczek, Polish general (b. 1892)
* December 12 – Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (b. 1933)
* December 13 – Antoine Pinay, French politician, former Prime Minister of France, Prime Minister (b. 1891)
* December 18 – Lilia Skala, Austrian-born American actress (b. 1896)
* December 20 – Dean Rusk, American diplomat, 54th United States Secretary of State, Secretary of State (b. 1909)
* December 23 – Sebastian Shaw (actor), Sebastian Shaw, English actor (b. 1905)
* December 24
** John Boswell, American historian (b. 1947)
** Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor (b. 1916)
** John Osborne, English playwright (b. 1929)
* December 25 – Zail Singh, 7th President of India (b. 1916)
* December 26
** Karl Schiller, German economist and politician (b. 1911)
** Sylva Koscina, Italian-Croatian actress (b. 1933)
* December 31 – Woody Strode, American athlete and actor (b. 1914)
Nobel Prizes
* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Bertram Brockhouse, Clifford 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 – Kenzaburō Ōe
* Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
* Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences – Reinhard Selten, John Forbes Nash Jr., John Harsanyi
Templeton Prize
* Michael Novak
Fields Medal
* Efim Isakovich Zelmanov, Pierre-Louis Lions, Jean Bourgain, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
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)
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:1994
1994,