* 1994 – The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.

* 1908 – Marcel-Marie Desmarais, Quebec writer, preacher and broadcaster ( d. 1994 )

* 1994 – Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.

* 1903 – Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize ( d. 1994 )

* 1920 – Duncan Hamilton, English racing driver ( d. 1994 )

* 1916 – Martha Raye, American actress ( d. 1994 )

* 1940 – Sonny Sharrock, American guitarist ( Last Exit ) ( d. 1994 )

* 1994 – Forrest Landis, American actor

The Azeri armed forces took a series of devastating defeats by Armenian forces during the 1992 – 1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War, which resulted in the loss of control of Nagorno-Karabakh proper and seven surrounding rayons, comprising roughly 16 % of the territory of Azerbaijan.

4, No. 2, July 1994, pp. 263 – 264 )

After re-establishing its credibility in 1989, Australia underlined its superiority with victories in the 1990 – 91, 1993, 1994 – 95, 1997, 1998 – 99, 2001 and 2002 – 03 series, all by convincing margins.

* 1950 – Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate ( d. 1994 )

* 1994 – Robert Doisneau, French photographer ( b. 1912 )

* 1994 – Ayaka Wada, Japanese singer ( S / mileage and Shugo Chara Egg!

* 1994 – China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.

Economies, sociétés, civilisations ( 1946 – 1994 ), and Annales.

Histoire, Sciences Sociales ( 1994 – ).

* 1927 – Johnny Temple, American baseball player ( d. 1994 )

* 1951 – Randy Shilts, American journalist and author ( d. 1994 )

* 1910 – Berton Roueché, American writer ( d. 1994 )

* 1924 – Henry Mancini, American composer ( d. 1994 )

* 1994 – Liliana Mumy, American actress

In 1994, IKEA ran a commercial in the United States widely thought to be the first commercial featuring a homosexual couple ; it aired for several weeks before being pulled due to bomb threats directed at IKEA stores.

In October 1994, McVeigh showed Michael Fortier and his wife, Lori, a diagram he had drawn of the bomb he wanted to build.

* In 1994, the " Unabomber ", Theodore Kaczynski sent a mail bomb that killed Thomas J. Mosser, an advertising executive who lived here.

Upon its release in March 1994, The Hudsucker Proxy received mixed reviews from critics, and was a box office bomb.

On December 11, 1994, Yousef built another bomb, which had one tenth of the power that his final bombs were planned to have, in the lavatory of an aircraft.

On December 11, 1994 the Boeing 747-283B, tail number EI-BWF, was flying on the second leg of the route, from Cebu to Tokyo, when a bomb planted by terrorist Ramzi Yousef exploded, killing one passenger.

On September 22, 1994, Terry Nichols and McVeigh rented a storage shed and began gathering supplies for the truck bomb.

The observation deck was closed to the public in 1997 after heightened security measures due to, among other things, the mail bomb incident of 1994.

On 26 July 1994 a bomb exploded outside Balfour House, a prominent building on North Finchley High Street and home to an Israeli charity.

In October 1994 the Blues Explosion made their first attempt to record a live album at DPC, Tucson, Arizona, US but the performance was plagued with technical problems and was stopped when an audience member threw a stink bomb.

Spatuzza claims that his boss, Giuseppe Graviano, told him in 1994 that future Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was bargaining with the Mafia, concerning a political-electoral agreement between Cosa Nostra and Berlusconi ’ s party Forza Italia, in exchange for certain guarantees – such as to stop the 1993 Mafia bomb terror campaign, to force state institutions to moderate their crackdown against the Mafia after the murders of Antimafia magistrates Falcone and Borsellino.

The 1994 London Israeli Embassy attack was a car bomb attack on July 26, 1994 against the Israeli embassy building in London.

* On December 11, 1994, Ramzi Yousef planted a bomb on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, with the intent of mass murder.

Since 1994 he has been the target of repeated attacks by Palestinian groups opposed to the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority, including gunfire aimed at his offices and a bomb that destroyed part of his house.

The park was the target of a " group " calling itself " Loki 7 " in 1994, when they planted a pipe bomb in a garbage bin.

* Some anime series like Mega Man ( 1994 ) and Bomberman Jetters ( 2002 ), and video games like Tiny Toon Adventures: Toonenstein ( 1999 ) use " bomb bats " as weapons and / or enemies.

On 31 August 1994, the IRA announced its " complete cessation of military operations ", but that ended on 9 February 1996, when it detonated a bomb in Canary Wharf, killing two people.

On April 21, 1994, Geagea was arrested on charges of setting a bomb in the church in Zouk, of instigating acts of violence, and of committing assassinations during the Lebanese Civil War.

The unit in question had attempted a bomb attack on a south Dublin pub which was hosting a Sinn Féin fund-raiser on the 21 May 1994.

* David Holloway, Stalin and the bomb: The Soviet Union and atomic energy, 1939 – 1956 ( New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994 ).

The allegation prompted a strong statement in November 1994 from the private secretary of Pik Botha, then South African Foreign Minister, stating that " Had he known of the bomb, no force on earth would have stopped him from seeing to it that flight 103, with its deadly cargo, would not have left the airport.