| 1994-11-30
The National Football League announces that the Jacksonville Jaguars will become the league's 30th franchise.
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| 1994-10-21
In Seoul, 32 people are killed when the Seongsu Bridge collapses.
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| 1994-09-03
Sino-Soviet Split: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other.
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| 1994-06-15
Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations.
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| 1994-12-31
This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC-11 to UTC+13 and UTC-10 to UTC+14, respectively.
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| 1994-03-14
Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
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| 1994-05-17
Malawi holds its first multi-party elections.
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| 1994-07-25
Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
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| 1994-10-14
The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize, for their work at ending the decades-long state-of-war between Egypt and Israel and for establishing normal diplomatic relations for the very first time.
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| 1994-07-21
Tony Blair is declared the winner of the leadership election of the British Labour Party, paving the way for him to become Prime Minister after the 1997 general election.
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| 1994-03-23
At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.
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| 1994-05-24
Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
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| 1994-09-30
Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years of service.
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| 1994-02-05
During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell slams into a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
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| 1994-06-28
Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; 7 persons are killed, 660 injured.
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| 1994-07-26
Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders the removal of Russian troops from Estonia.
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| 1994-06-12
Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in wrongful death civil suit.
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| 1994-10-26
Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty
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| 1994-04-27
South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote.
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| 1994-04-04
Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name "Mosaic Communications Corporation".
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| 1994-09-24
National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
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| 1994-12-07
Norfolk Southern ends its steam excursion program. This is the last time that Norfolk and Western 611 is under steam.
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| 1994-04-07
Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
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| 1994-01-03
More than seven million people from the former Apartheid Homelands, receives South African citizenship.
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| 1994-11-20
The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war (localized fighting resumes the next year).
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| 1994-06-18
The Troubles: the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) open fire inside a pub in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland, killing six civilians and wounding five.
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| 1994-08-31
The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
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| 1994-03-04
Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign an agreement to form a federation in a loose economic union with Croatia.
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| 1994-10-01
Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America).
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| 1994-05-05
The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
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| 1994-10-21
North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea and the United States sign an agreement that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.
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| 1994-02-25
Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Dr. Baruch Kappel Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors.
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| 1994-06-17
Following a televised low-speed highway chase , O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
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| 1994-11-19
In Great Britain, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
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| 1994-03-28
12-year-old schoolgirl Nikki Conroy is stabbed to death at Hall Garth School in Middlesbrough after an armed man walked into her maths classroom and attacked pupils with a knife. Stephen James Wilkinson is later convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
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| 1994-01-30
Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grand master.
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| 1994-06-13
A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
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| 1994-09-28
The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
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| 1994-11-28
In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by an inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium.
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| 1994-10-27
Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
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| 1994-05-21
The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessful attempts to secede from Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out.
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| 1994-06-24
A United States Air Force B-52 aircraft crashes at Fairchild Air Force Base killing all four members of its crew.
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| 1994-02-05
Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
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| 1994-11-18
Star Trek VII Generations premieres.
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| 1994-08-14
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
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| 1994-11-07
WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provided the world's first internet radio broadcast.
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| 1994-12-10
Rwandan Genocide: Military advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Maurice Baril recommends that the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down.
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| 1994-03-23
Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes in Siberia when the pilot's fifteen-year old son accidentally disengages the autopilot, killing all 75 people on board.
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| 1994-09-13
Ulysses probe passes the Sun's south pole.
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| 1994-05-06
Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones files suit against President Bill Clinton, alleging that he had sexually harassed her in 1991.
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| 1994-09-12
Frank Eugene Corder crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself.
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| 1994-03-07
Copyright Law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
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| 1994-11-09
The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
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| 1994-01-25
The Clementine space probe launches.
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| 1994-01-08
Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
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| 1994-05-04
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
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| 1994-03-27
One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.
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| 1994-04-26
China Airlines flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
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| 1994-07-03
The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty-six people are killed in crashes.
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| 1994-08-23
Eugene Bullard, The only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
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| 1994-09-08
A USAir Boeing 737 crashes in Hopewell Township, Pennsylvania, near the city of Aliquippa.
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| 1994-11-13
In a referendum voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union.
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| 1994-08-24
Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.
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| 1994-03-04
Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16) launches into orbit.
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| 1994-01-11
The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.
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| 1994-12-11
First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.
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| 1994-01-01
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican State of Chiapas.
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| 1994-12-21
Mexican volcano Popocatepetl, dormant for 47 years, erupts gases and ash.
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| 1994-04-12
Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.
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| 1994-07-20
Israel's Shimon Peres visits Jordan, the highest ranking Israeli official to do so
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| 1994-05-01
Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.
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| 1994-03-27
The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany.
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| 1994-01-01
The North American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect.
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| 1994-03-12
The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
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| 1994-12-14
Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam in the Yangtze River.
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| 1994-05-05
American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism, a punishment that many in the United States deemed to be excessive for a teenager committing a non-violent crime.
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| 1994-04-26
Physicists announce first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle.
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| 1994-04-28
Former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
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| 1994-04-15
Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities sign the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and initiating the World Trade Organization (effective January 1, 1995).
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| 1994-12-15
Palau becomes a member of the United Nations.
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| 1994-04-06
The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
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| 1994-10-12
NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere either October 13 or October 14).
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| 1994-05-13
Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance on Late Show with David Letterman.
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| 1994-10-29
Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton).
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| 1994-08-12
Major League Baseball players go on strike. The work stoppage forces the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
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| 1994-07-20
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's Fragment Q1 hits Jupiter.
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| 1994-07-18
The bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentinian Jewish Communal Center) in Buenos Aires kills 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injures 300.
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| 1994-01-18
The Cando event, a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute.
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| 1994-11-04
San Francisco: First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
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| 1994-03-28
In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.
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| 1994-07-16
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter. Impacts continue until July 22.
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| 1994-01-06
Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit.
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| 1994-03-31
Human evolution: The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.
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| 1994-05-02
In a bus disaster in Poland, 32 people die.
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| 1994-09-14
The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.
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| 1994-01-17
1994 Northridge Earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
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| 1994-05-06
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
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| 1994-01-03
An Aeroflot Tupolev TU-154 crashes and explodes after takeoff from Irkutsk, Russia, killing 125 people including one on the ground.
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| 1994-04-14
In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
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| 1994-04-21
The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.
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| 1994-05-10
Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
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| 1994-11-30
MS Achille Lauro fire off Somalia coast.
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| 1994-10-31
An American Eagle ATR-72 crashes in Roselawn, Indiana, after circling in icy weather, killing 68 passengers and crew.
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| 1994-03-23
A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.
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| 1994-02-22
Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
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| 1994-10-27
The U.S. prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history.
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