* 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

The African National Congress ( ANC ) is South Africa's governing political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) and the South African Communist Party ( SACP ), since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994.

It has been the ruling party of post-apartheid South Africa on the national level since 1994.

In South Africa, Boxing Day was renamed Day of Goodwill in 1994.

In 1994, the administrative county ( which did not include the county borough of Dublin ) was dissolved and the area divided among the administrative counties of Dún Laoghaire – Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin each with its county seat.

Middle Park, the home of South Melbourne FC was demolished in 1994 due to expansion at Albert Park.

Frederik Willem de Klerk ( born 18 March 1936 ), often known as F. W. de Klerk, was the seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. de Klerk was also leader of the National Party ( which later became the New National Party ) from February 1989 to September 1997.

* Milton Santos ( 1926 – 2001 ) winner of the Vautrin Lud prize in 1994, one of the most important geographers in South America.

In February 1994, there was the return series as Australia toured South Africa.

There was another drawn series when South Africa toured England in 1994.

In October 1994, South Africa again came up against Australia in a triangular one day series also featuring Pakistan.

Previous Prosecutors have been Ramón Escovar Salom of Venezuela ( 1993 – 1994 ), Richard Goldstone of South Africa ( 1994 – 1996 ), Louise Arbour of Canada ( 1996 – 1999 ), Eric Östberg of Sweden, and Carla Del Ponte of Switzerland ( 1999 – 2007 ), who until 2003, simultaneously served as the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda where she led the OTP since 1999.

* 1994 – More than seven million people from the former Apartheid Homelands, receive South African citizenship.

* 1994 – Storm King Mountain, Glenwood Springs, Colorado: South Canyon Fire: 14 firefighters died in the fire.

These sanctions ended when South Africa abandoned apartheid in 1994.

Led by dictator Hastings Banda, Malawi was the only African country to maintain close relations with White-ruled South Africa until the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela.

Since South Africa and Malawi had their first democratic elections in 1994, Malawi and South Africa have enhanced relations.

It would turn out to be the last time that South Africa would participate in the Games until 1994.

Following the African franc currency devaluation in January 1994 the government updated its development program in conjunction with international agencies, and exports and economic growth have increased.

The 50 % devaluation of the currencies of 14 Francophone African nations on 12 January 1994 had mixed effects on the CAR's economy.

Since 1994 the party system is dominated by the socialist African Independence Party of Guinea and Cape Verde and the Party for Social Renewal.

Off the field, in 1994, the Astros hired one of the first African American general managers, former franchise player Bob Watson.

Following the collapse of apartheid in 1994, Malawi developed, and currently maintains, strong diplomatic relations with all African countries.

The 50 % devaluation of the West African CFA franc in January 1994 boosted exports of livestock, cowpeas, onions, and the products of Niger's small cotton industry.

A Senegalese contingent deployed on a peacekeeping mission to the Central African Republic in 1997, while in 1994, a battalion-sized force was sent to Rwanda to participate in the UN peacekeeping mission there.

General Constand Viljoen is a former chief of the South African Defence Force, who, as a leader of the Afrikaner Volksfront, sent 1500 of his militiamen to prop up the government of Lucas Mangope and to contest the termination of Bophuthatswana as a homeland in 1994.

South Africa held its first multi-racial elections in 1994, leaving the newly-elected African National Congress ( ANC ) government the daunting task of trying to restore order to an economy harmed by sanctions, while also integrating the previously-disadvantaged segment of the population into it.

The NCNW produced its first cookbook, The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro, in 1958, and revived the practice in 1993, producing a popular series of cookbooks featuring recipes by famous African Americans, among them: The Black Family Reunion Cookbook ( 1991 ), Celebrating Our Mothers ' Kitchens: Treasured Memories and Tested Recipes ( 1994 ), and Mother Africa's Table: A Chronicle of Celebration ( 1998 ).

Despite friction between the African National Congress and Biko throughout the 1970s the ANC has included Biko in the pantheon of struggle heroes, going as far as using his image for campaign posters in South Africa's first non-racial elections in 1994.

The South African government adopted both songs as national anthems from 1994, when they were performed at Nelson Mandela's inauguration.

L. " Secret Doctors: Enthnomedicine of African Americans " ( Westport: Bergin & Garvey, 1994 ).

Zambia was the first African state to cooperate with the International Tribunal investigation of the 1994 Rwanda genocide.

* Nelson Mandela is elected President of South Africa in 1994, becoming the first black President in South African history ending a long legacy of apartheid white-rule in the country.

The colonial use of traditional law and structures of power was thus an integral part of the process of colonial domination ( Young 1994 ; Penvenne 1995 ; O ' Laughlin 2000 ) obsessed with the maximization of economic development and growth through the use of idle or unproductive African workforce.

IS interpreter Bill Moody noted in a 1994 paper that the vocabulary used in conference settings is largely derived from the sign languages of the Western world and is less comprehensible to those from African or Asian sign language backgrounds.

Following the transition to democracy in 1994, the African National Congress-led government chose to implement affirmative action legislation to correct previous imbalances ( a policy known as Employment Equity ).