* 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.

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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

After 1993, it was implemented for good when Major League Baseball restructured each league into three divisions, but their next playing was in 1995 due to the cancellation of the 1994 playoffs.

After 1993, it was implemented for good when Major League Baseball restructured each league into three divisions, but their next playing was in 1995 due to the cancellation of the 1994 playoffs.

* Charles Johnson ( 1994 – 1998, 2001 – 2002 ) — A four-time Gold Glove Award winner, in 1997 Johnson set a Major League single-season record for catchers by playing in 123 games without committing a single error.

Early in 1994 Major vetoed the Belgian politician Jean-Luc Dehaene as President of the European Commission ( in succession to Jacques Delors ) for being excessively federalist, only to find that he had to accept a Luxembourg politician of similar views, Jacques Santer, instead.

The Downing Street Declaration was issued on 15 December 1993 by Major and Albert Reynolds, the Irish Taoiseach, with whom he had a friendly relationship: an IRA ceasefire followed in 1994.

The former Labour MP Tony Banks said of Major in 1994 that " He was a fairly competent chairman of Housing on Lambeth Council.

In 1994, Major League Baseball adopted a new, expanded playoff system.

The 1994 – 95 Major League Baseball strike was a blow to the Phillies ' attendance and on-field success, as was the arrival of the Braves in the division due to league realignment.

* 1994 – The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.

In 1994, he was promoted to Major General, commanding the Southern Corps.

Regardless of the unceremonious end to the 1994 season, Kenny Rogers pitched the 12th perfect game in Major League history on July 28.

The ban was lifted by British Prime Minister John Major on 17 September 1994.

For professional baseball's founding year, Major League Baseball ( professional baseball's current official organization ) uses 1869 — the year the first professional team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, was established — and held official celebrations for professional baseball's 100th anniversary in 1969 and its 125th anniversary in 1994, both of which were commemorated with league-wide shoulder patches.

* 1994: Millennium Commission established by Prime Minister John Major and handed over to Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine.

With a sports division now established with the arrival of the NFL, Fox acquired over-air broadcast rights to the National Hockey League ( 1994 – 99 ), Major League Baseball ( since 1996 ), and NASCAR auto racing ( since 2001 ).

Heath did not divide Britain into regions, choosing instead to await the report of the Crowther Commission on the constitution ; the ten Government Office Regions were eventually set up by the Major government in 1994.

Major League Soccer was founded in 1993 as part of the United States ' bid to host the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

* Jenkins, John Major ( 1994 ) Jaloj Kexoj and PHI-64: The Dual Principle Core Paradigm of Mayan Time Philosophy and its Conceptual Parallel in Old World Thought.

* Willie Smith ( pitcher ) ( born 1967 ), American pitcher in Major League Baseball, 1994

* Bruce Dostal ( born 1965 ), former professional baseball player who spent four games on active roster of the Baltimore Orioles in June 1994, but never played in a Major League game.

* George Bradshaw ( 1924 – 1994 ), Major League Baseball catcher for the 1952 Washington Senators

* Three Major League Baseball players died in Clinton ... Chick Galloway ( 1969 ), Cal Cooper ( 1994 ), and Claude Crocker ( 2002 ).

During the 1994 Major League Baseball strike, Stiles appeared in several commercials for Nike, hanging out in an empty ballpark, doing things such as playing the organ and attempting to do the wave alone.

* 1994 – 95 Major League Baseball strike