* 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

On February 5, 1994, Misskelley was convicted by a jury of one count of first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder.

During the trial, testimony was presented from another woman, Patricia Masden, who told the jury that Albert had bitten her on two different occasions in 1993 and 1994 in Miami and Dallas hotels, which she viewed as unwanted sexual advances.

On January 19, 1994, after three days of evidence presentation, a grand jury handed up a 93-count indictment against Ferguson, which carried the possibility of up to 175 years in prison.

Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants, also known as the McDonald's coffee case and the hot coffee lawsuit, is a 1994 product liability lawsuit that became a flashpoint in the debate in the U. S. over tort reform after a jury awarded $ 160, 000 to cover medical expenses and compensatory damages ( in addition to $ 2. 7 million in punitive damages ) to Stella Liebeck who suffered 3rd degree burns in her pelvic region when she spilled hot coffee purchased from fast food restaurant McDonald's.

A twelve-person jury reached its verdict on August 18, 1994.

In April 1994, Curry, along with Darrell Chambers and William Longstreet, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Detroit on drug conspiracy charges.

* In 1994, the Band was disciplined after nineteen members of the band skipped a field rehearsal in Los Angeles to play outside the L. A. County Courthouse during jury selection for the O. J. Simpson trial.

In 1994 she represented the Defendant in, R v Carol Peters ( the appeal and re-trial ) in which the Court of Appeal quashed Peters ' murder conviction ( alleged temazepan poisoning and the inflicting of 39 stab wounds to her husband ) ordering a re-trial at which she was acquitted of murder, the jury accepting Baird's submissions that she was suffering from, what was at the time an evolving area of law, battered women syndrome.

The lawsuit went to jury trial — a trial that was reported by Court TV to large and involved audiences — which awarded Claire $ 84 million in the Spring of 1994.

This is a legal determination to be made by a judge and jury, not a scientific determination to be made by a computer or a scientist ( Farwell 1994, PBS 2004 ).

Stac, in an effort led by attorney Morgan Chu, sued Microsoft for infringement of two of its data compression patents, and won ; in 1994, a California jury ruled the infringement by Microsoft was not willful, but awarded Stac $ 120 million in compensatory damages, coming to about $ 5. 50 per copy of MS-DOS 6. 0 that had been sold.

* 1994 – 2008 — William " Big Billy " D ' Elia — in 2006 he was indicted on money laundering, in 2008 he pleaded guilty and testified in front of a grand jury for leniency.

Meanwhile, former Travel Office Director Billy Dale was indicted by a federal grand jury on December 7, 1994, on two counts of embezzlement and criminal conversion, charged with wrongfully depositing into his own bank account $ 68, 000 in checks from media organizations traveling with the president during the period between 1988 and 1991.

On June 21, 1994, a grand jury in Volusia County, Florida indicted him with the first-degree murder of his wife Kimberly Anne Guglielmo.

He was also member of the jury for the Giller Prize in 1994, 1995, 1996 and 2003.

The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 amended the right to silence by allowing inferences to be drawn by the jury in cases where a suspect refuses to explain something, and then later produces an explanation ( in other words the jury is entitled to infer that the accused fabricated the explanation at a later date, as he or she refused to provide the explanation during the time of the Police questioning.

* 1994, Distinction by the Prix Ars Electronica jury for his entry Kinoetic Evolution in the category Interactive Art.

He was the three time chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle ( 1994, 2009 and 2010 ), and has also served as a member of the jury at the Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival and Mill Valley Film Festival and was a member of several National Endowment for the Arts panels.

In 1994 a jury found the detectives not guilty of perjury and of perverting the course of justice.

The detectives were acquitted in July 1994 by a unanimous jury verdict.