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1994 |
| January 6th |
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Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the right leg by an assailant
under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding. |
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| January
8th |
|
Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov began his 437.7 day orbit, which would
set the world record for time spent in orbit. |
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| January 11th |
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The Irish government announced the end of a 15-year broadcasting
ban on the IRA (Irish Republican Army) and its political wing
Sinn Fein. |
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| January 14th |
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U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin
signed the Kremlin accords which stopped the preprogrammed aiming
of nuclear missiles to targets and also provide for the dismantling
of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine. |
|
| January 26th |
|
A man fired two blank shots at Prince Charles as he was about
to make a speech in Sydney, Australia. |
|
| January 28th |
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The first trial of accused murderer Lyle Menendez ended in a
mistrial. He and his brother Erik were later found guilty and
sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of
their parents. |
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| January 31st |
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The German luxury car manufacturer BMW announced the purchase
of Rover from British Aerospace. |
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| February
1st |
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In Portland, Oregon, Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly
pleaded guilty for his role in attacking figure skater Nancy
Kerrigan. He accepts a plea bargain admitting to racketeering
charges in exchange for testimony against Harding. |
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| February
5th |
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Markale
Market Massacre 1 : A 120mm mortar shell landed and exploded
just before noon in the Markale market in Sarajevo, capital
of Bosnia. The attack killed 68 people and wounded 144 others.
Both sides accused each other for the attack. |
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| February
9th |
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Ex-US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and British MP Dr. David
Owen announced a peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
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| February
12th |
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In Norway, Edvard Munch's painting 'The Scream' was stolen in
Oslo. It was recovered on May 7th 1994. |
|
| February
14th |
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The Russian serial sex killer Andrei Chikatilo, found guilty
of murdering 52 women and children in 1992 and sentenced to
death, was executed with a shot to the back of the head. |
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| February
22nd |
|
Aldrich Ames and his wife were charged with spying for the Soviet
Union by the United States Department of Justice. Ames would
later be convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment and his
wife would receive 5 years in prison. |
|
| February
24th |
|
In Gloucester, England, police began to search and excavate
the garden of 25 Cromwell Street, the home of Fred and Rose
West, in search of their daughter Heather. The following day,
after the police discovered human remains, Fred West confessed. |
|
| February
25th |
|
Kahanist Baruch Goldstein opened fire inside the Cave of the
Patriarchs in the West Bank. Goldstein killed 29 Muslims before
worshippers beat him to death. |
|
| February
28th |
|
In
England more human remains were found at the 'house of horrors'
25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester. Fred West was arrested suspected
of multiple murders. He denied his wife's, Rose, involvement
in the murders, but she would be arrested in April 1994. |
|
| February
28th |
|
US F-16 pilots shot down four Serbian fighter aircraft over
Bosnia for violation of the Operation Deny Flight and its no-fly
zone. |
|
| March 4th |
|
Four terrorists were convicted for their roles in the World
Trade Center bombing which killed six and injured more than
a thousand. |
|
| March 12th |
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In Britain, the Church of England ordained its first women priests. |
|
| March 16th |
|
In
Portland, Oregon Tonya Harding pleaded guilty to conspiracy
to hinder prosecution for trying to cover-up an attack on figure
skating rival Nancy Kerrigan. She was fined $100,000 and banned
from the sport. |
|
| March 23rd |
|
At
an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate
Luis Donaldo Colosio was assassinated. Mario Aburto Martinez
was arrested for the crime and confessed on the same day. |
|
| March 28th |
|
In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters
battle in central Johannesburg killing 18. |
|
| April 6th |
|
Rwandan
president Juvénal Habyarimana and president of Burundi
Cyprien Ntaryamira died when a missile shot down their jet near
Kigali, Rwanda. This was taken as a pretext to begin the Rwandan
Genocide. |
|
| April 7th |
|
The
Rwandan Genocide began in Kigali, Rwanda. Between 500,000 and
1-million people were killed and 1.5 million people displaced
in the Rwandan civil war in Africa. |
|
| April 8th |
|
American
musician Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana, was found
dead in Seattle, Washington. He had committed suicide three
days earlier. |
|
| April
20th |
|
Paul Touvier was found guilty of ordering the execution of 7
Jews when he served in the Vichy France Milice, during WWII. |
|
| April 21st |
|
The Red Cross estimated that hundreds of thousands of Tutsi
have been killed in Rwanda. |
|
| April 22nd |
|
Former American President Richard Nixon died. Nixon was the
37th President and resigned due to the Watergate scandal of
the 1970s. |
|
| April 26th |
|
South
Africa held its first fully multiracial elections, which Nelson
Mandela's ANC (African National Congress) won, making Mandela
South Africa's first black President. |
|
| May 1st |
|
Brazilian
Formula One driver Ayrton Senna was killed at the age of 34
in a high-speed, single-car accident during the San Marino Grand
Prix in Imola, Italy. |
|
| May 6th |
|
The
Channel Tunnel, which took over 15,000 workers over seven years
to complete, opened between England and France. Passengers will
now be able to travel between the two countries within 35 minutes. |
|
| May 9th |
|
Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa's first black
president. |
|
| May 10th |
|
Nelson
Mandela was elected the South African President, in South Africa's
first free nonracial elections, in a sweeping victory where
the ANC captured 69.7% of the votes. |
|
| May 19th |
|
Jacqueline
Bouvier Kennedy died. She was married to President Kennedy and
was America's glamourous First Lady. She was made a widow when
JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas in 1963. |
|
June
6th - 8th |
|
Ceasefire
negotiations for the Yugoslav Civil War began in Geneva. It
was agreed that a one-month cessation of hostilities would be
implemented, but the agreement collapsed after a couple of days. |
|
| June 12th |
|
Nicole
Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered outside her home
in Los Angeles, California. O. J. Simpson was later acquitted
of the killings, but was held liable in a civil suit. |
|
| June 15th |
|
Israel
and the Vatican now established full diplomatic relations after
establishing contact in December 30th 1993. |
|
| June 17th |
|
NFL star OJ Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings fled from police
in his white Ford Bronco. The low speed chase, which was live
on television, ended up at Simpson's mansion in Brentwood, LA,
California. Simpson then surrendered to police. |
|
| July. |
|
The planet Jupiter was hit by twenty one large fragments of
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 over the course of six days. |
|
| July 2nd |
|
The assassination of Colombian soccer player Andrés Escobar
in Bogotá. Escobar was held responsible for a mistake
in a game that Columbia lost, and ultimately knocked out Columbia
out of the 1994 World Cup, which was held in America. |
|
| July 18th |
|
In Buenos Aires an explosion destroyed a building housing several
Jewish organisations. The bomb killed 96 people. On November
9th 2005, Alberto Nisman Argentine prosecutor identified Hezbollah
militant Ibrahim Berro responsible for the attack. |
|
| July 25th |
|
Israel
and Jordan signed the Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace, which formally
ended the state of war that had existed between the nations
since 1948. |
|
| August 14th |
|
The
terrorist, 'Carlos the Jackal', (Ilich Ramírez Sánchez)
was handed over to French agents and was held at the La Santé
de Paris prison in Paris to stand trial. His trial was in December
1997. |
|
| August 31st |
|
The IRA (Irish Republican Army) announced a "complete cessation
of military operations" from midnight. |
|
| September
3rd |
|
Russia and the People's Republic of China agreed to stop targeting
each other with nuclear weapons. |
|
| September
12th |
|
Soviet
cosmonaut Boris Yegorov died aged 57. Yegorov was a crew
member of the Voskhod 1 mission on the 12th October 1964. |
|
| September
13th |
|
President Bill Clinton signed the 'Assault Weapons Ban', which
banned the use of these weapons for a period of 10 years. |
|
| September
28th |
|
The car ferry MS Estonia sank in Baltic Sea, 852 people were
killed. |
|
| October 8th |
|
President
of the UN Security Council stated that Iraq must withdraw its
troops that were building up on the Kuwait border and immediately
cooperate with weapons inspectors. |
|
| October
12th |
|
NASA lost radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the
probe descended into the dense atmosphere of Venus. The spacecraft
burned up in the atmosphere either October 13th or October 14th. |
|
| October 15th |
|
Iraq, after being threatened by the U.N. Security Council and
the U.S., withdrew its troops from the border with Kuwait. |
|
| October 26th |
|
In the Middle-East, Jordan and Israel signed a peace treaty. |
|
| October 29th |
|
Francisco Martin Duran fired over two dozen shots at the White
House (Duran was later convicted of trying to kill US President
Bill Clinton). |
|
| November
5th |
|
A letter by ex-US President Ronald Reagan was released that
announced he had Alzheimer's disease. |
|
| November
8th |
|
Newt
Gingrich led the United States Republican Party in taking control
of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Its the
first time in more than 50 years that the Republicans controlled
both houses of U.S. Congress. |
|
| November
13th |
|
The first passengers travelled through the Channel Tunnel that
links Britain to mainland Europe. |
|
| November
28th |
|
In
Portage, Wisconsin, USA, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer
was clubbed to death by another inmate in the gymnasium at the
Columbia Correctional Institute. |
|
| December
11th |
|
Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered Russian troops into
Chechnya. |
|
| December
12th |
|
NASA
astronaut Stuart Roosa died. Support crew for the Apollo
9 flight. CM pilot on Apollo 14, 31st Jan. - 9th Feb. 1971.
Back up command pilot for the Apollo 16 and 17 missions. |
|
| December
13th |
|
In
England, police charged Fred West with the murder of 12 people.
Human remains had been found at the house and buried in the
garden of the 'house of horrors' at 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester
on February 25th. Fred West would commit suicide on January
1st 1995. |
|
| December
19th |
|
The Whitewater investigation began. US President Clinton and
his wife Hilary Clinton were implicated. |
|
| December
19th |
|
Civil unions between homosexuals are made legal in Sweden. |
|
| December
26th |
|
French anti-terrorist police stormed a hijacked jet at Marseille
and killed four Islamist terrorists. |
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Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin were awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize. |
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