* 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 – 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

* 1994 – Kosuke Hagino, Japanese swimmer

* 1994 – Mayuko Fukuda, Japanese actress

* 1994 – Saki Nakajima, Japanese singer ( Cute )

Lineker's final club was Nagoya Grampus Eight and he retired in 1994 after two seasons at the Japanese side.

* 1994 – Anri Okamoto, Japanese model and actress

* 1923 – Mas Oyama, Japanese karate master, founded Kyokushinkai karate ( d. 1994 )

* Masahiko Aoki and Hugh Patrick, The Japanese Main Bank System ( 1994 )

* Matrix Software, a Japanese video game developer founded 1994

* 1994 – Haruna Iikubo, Japanese singer ( Morning Musume )

By 1993 the 32-bit 3DO platform was released with much developer interest and Sega and Sony let it be known that the Sega Saturn and PlayStation would be ready for the Japanese marketplace in late 1994, and Bandai was also readying the release of their Playdia system.

By March 1994 the Mega-CD had sold 380, 000 units in Japan, — 11 % of Japanese Mega Drive owners.

The 1994 award-winning novel, Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson, contains many scenes and details relating to Japanese Americans from the Puget Sound, Washington, area and their incarceration experiences at Manzanar.

In 1994, the Portsmouth Peace Treaty Forum was created by the Japan-America Society of New Hampshire to commemorate the Portsmouth Peace Treaty with the first formal meeting between Japanese and Russian scholars and diplomats in Portsmouth, New Hampshire since the negotiation of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty in 1905.

The first Forum in 1994 was facilitated by the Japanese Consulate in Boston.

* Japanese — Közi often wore a Pierrot costume while a member of the visual rock band Malice Mizer ( 1992 – 2001 ); Pierrot was a rock band active from 1994 to 2006.

* Japanese Touring Car Championship ( JTCC ) ran from 1994 through 1998.

* Thea Musgrave: Journey through a Japanese Landscape ( 1994 )

In one study, the conviction rate in contested Japanese trials in 1994 was found to be 98. 8 %, while the comparable conviction rate in contested United States federal trials in 1994 was 30. 9 %.

* 1994: The Japanese religious sect Aum Shinrikyo released an impure form of sarin in Matsumoto, Nagano.

A Japanese manga adaptation of the book was published in 1994 by Tokuma Shoten.

Finch and Plakas performed several times with Japanese artist hide, in 1994.

A Japanese cartridge version for the Family Computer was released in 1994, and was followed by reissued ports for the Nintendo GameCube, Game Boy Advance and the Virtual Console.

is a Japanese politician who was the 79th Prime Minister of Japan from 9 August 1993 to 28 April 1994.