| 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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| 1994-11-30
The National Football League announces that the Jacksonville Jaguars will become the league's 30th franchise.
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| 1994-05-02
In a bus disaster in Poland, 32 people die.
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| 1994-01-17
1994 Northridge Earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
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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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| 1994-04-27
South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote.
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| 1994-01-25
The Clementine space probe launches.
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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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| 1994-11-13
In a referendum voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union.
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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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| 1994-05-21
The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessful attempts to secede from Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out.
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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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| 1994-05-10
Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
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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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| 1994-01-30
Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grand master.
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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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| 1994-01-01
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican State of Chiapas.
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| 1994-05-04
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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| 1994-10-27
The U.S. prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history.
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| 1994-10-21
In Seoul, 32 people are killed when the Seongsu Bridge collapses.
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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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| 1994-10-01
Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America).
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| 1994-12-15
Palau becomes a member of the United Nations.
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| 1994-09-14
The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.
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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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| 1994-06-24
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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| 1994-04-04
Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name "Mosaic Communications Corporation".
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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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| 1994-03-14
Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
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| 1994-08-14
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
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| 1994-04-07
Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
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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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| 1994-08-31
The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire.
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| 1994-01-01
The North American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect.
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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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| 1994-05-17
Malawi holds its first multi-party elections.
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| 1994-10-26
Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty
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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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| 1994-11-19
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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| 1994-11-28
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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| 1994-06-12
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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| 1994-12-11
First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.
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| 1994-03-27
The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany.
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| 1994-12-21
Mexican volcano Popocatepetl, dormant for 47 years, erupts gases and ash.
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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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| 1994-03-28
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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| 1994-07-18
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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| 1994-11-04
San Francisco: First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
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| 1994-06-17
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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| 1994-09-08
A USAir Boeing 737 crashes in Hopewell Township, Pennsylvania, near the city of Aliquippa.
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| 1994-03-12
The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
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| 1994-07-16
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter. Impacts continue until July 22.
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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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| 1994-02-05
Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
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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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| 1994-05-24
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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| 1994-11-18
Star Trek VII Generations premieres.
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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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| 1994-02-05
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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| 1994-03-28
In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.
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| 1994-05-13
Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance on Late Show with David Letterman.
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| 1994-07-20
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's Fragment Q1 hits Jupiter.
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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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| 1994-01-03
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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| 1994-05-05
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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| 1994-11-09
The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
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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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| 1994-09-28
The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
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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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| 1994-05-06
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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| 1994-09-24
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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| 1994-05-06
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
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| 1994-04-28
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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| 1994-05-01
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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| 1994-03-04
Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16) launches into orbit.
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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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| 1994-04-12
Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.
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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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| 1994-04-26
China Airlines flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
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| 1994-09-30
Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years of service.
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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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| 1994-01-03
More than seven million people from the former Apartheid Homelands, receives South African citizenship.
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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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| 1994-09-13
Ulysses probe passes the Sun's south pole.
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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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| 1994-07-03
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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| 1994-03-07
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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| 1994-08-12
Major League Baseball players go on strike. The work stoppage forces the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
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| 1994-03-27
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
Physicists announce first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle.
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| 1994-06-15
Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations.
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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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| 1994-07-25
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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| 1994-11-30
MS Achille Lauro fire off Somalia coast.
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| 1994-12-14
Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam in the Yangtze River.
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| 1994-07-26
Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders the removal of Russian troops from Estonia.
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| 1994-10-27
Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
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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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| 1994-03-23
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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| 1994-03-23
At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.
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| 1994-03-23
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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| 1994-10-29
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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| 1994-04-21
The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.
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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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