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* 1994 – 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 – The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
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.
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.
* 1994 – China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
1994 and Queen
One of the most successful of the 1990s generation of cult films was the Australian drag queen road saga The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ( 1994 ).
In 1994, he was knighted by her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, for Services to Science and Technology.
She is also the subject of Betty King's 1974 biographical novel Margaret of Anjou, Alan Savage's 1994 novel Queen of Lions, Anne Powers ' historical romance The Royal Consorts, and Susan Higginbotham's 2011 novel The Queen of Last Hopes.
Stephan Elliott's 1994 film Priscilla Queen of the Desert mixed traditional outback cinematography and landscape with contemporary urban sub-culture: following three drag queens on a road trip to Central Australia.
She holds the record for most César Awards for Best Actress with five, for Possession ( 1981 ), One Deadly Summer ( 1983 ), Camille Claudel ( 1988 ), Queen Margot ( 1994 ) and Skirt Day ( 2009 ).
Her fourth César win was for the 1994 film Queen Margot, an ensemble epic directed by Patrice Chéreau.
In 1994, at the request of the Queen, St Davids was again granted city status along with the Irish town of Armagh, " In recognition of their important Christian heritage and their status as cities in the last century ".
Pleasence was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his services to the acting profession by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994.
At this time, Jarman also began painting again ( see the book: Evil Queen: The Last Paintings, 1994 ).
Comedies like the barn yard animation Babe ( 1995 ), directed by Chris Noonan ; Baz Lurhmann's Strictly Ballroom ( 1992 ); Rob Sitch's The Dish ( 2000 ); and Stephan Elliott's The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ( 1994 ) all feature in the top ten box-office list.
That novel has been translated into English and was made into a commercially successful French film in 1994 as La Reine Margot ( later as Queen Margot, and subtitled, in English-language markets ), starring Isabelle Adjani.
Weaving first received international attention in the hit Priscilla, Queen of the Desert in 1994, and provided the voice of Rex the sheepdog and farm leader in the 1995 family film, Babe.
He made his first major film breakthrough shortly after, with his role as a drag queen in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert in 1994.
UNBC offered a limited number of courses in rented office space in 1992 and 1993 but was opened officially by Queen Elizabeth II, with 1, 500 students, in 1994 with the completion of the main Prince George campus after two years of construction.
Playing against type, he appeared as a transsexual in the Australian film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ( 1994 ).
Stamp began his fourth decade as an actor wearing some of the choicest of Tim Chappel's Academy Award-winning costumes for the comedy The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ( 1994 ) which co-starred Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving.
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