* 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

It emerged from a split in the Provisional IRA in 1986 but did not become active until the Provisional IRA ceasefire of 1994.

It was only after the Provisional IRA declared a ceasefire in 1994 that the Continuity IRA became active, announcing its intention to continue the campaign against British rule.

During his period as Foreign Minister, Spring with Reynolds was involved in negotiations leading to the Provisional Irish Republican Army and loyalist ceasefires of 1994 and the Belfast Agreement of 1998.

The PDK was declared illegal in July 1994, after which its activities continued under the Cambodian National Unity Party and the self-proclaimed " Provisional Government of National Union and National Salvation of Cambodia "

The ban was lifted a fortnight after the first Provisional Irish Republican Army ceasefire, on 16 September 1994.

The declaration, after a meeting between Gerry Adams and American congressman Bruce Morrison, which was followed by a joint statement issued by Adams and John Hume, was considered sufficient by the Provisional Irish Republican Army to announce a ceasefire on 31 August 1994 which was then followed on 13 October by an announcement of a ceasefire from the Combined Loyalist Military Command.

The peace process, when discussing the history of Northern Ireland, is often considered to cover the events leading up to the 1994 Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) ceasefire, the end of most of the violence of the Troubles, the Good Friday ( or Belfast ) Agreement, and subsequent political developments.

On 6 April 1994 The Provisional IRA announced a three day Ceasefire or " Temporary Cessation of Hostilities " to run from Wednesday 6 April-Friday 8 April 1994.

Five months later, on Wednesday 31 August 1994, the Provisional IRA announced a " cessation of military operations " from midnight.

He served as Head of the Provisional Government of Haiti president of Haiti for five months ( May 11 and October 12 ) in 1994 after the military regime had forced Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the elected president, out of the country in 1991.

On September 18, 1994 President Bill Clinton sent former president Jimmy Carter, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell, and Sen. Sam Nunn, at the request of U. S. Senator Bob Bennett of Utah, to negotiate the return of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide with Emile Jonassaint, Head of the Provisional Government in Haiti.

When his political reform package was passed by the Legislative Council in 1994, the Chinese government decided to terminate the originally planned " through-train " arrangement, and to set up their own Provisional Legislative Council unilaterally, affirming that the colonial Legislative Council would not survive after 1997.

On 21 January 1994, on the 75th anniversary of the First Dáil Éireann, Continuity IRA volunteers offered a " final salute " to Tom Maguire by firing over his grave, and a public statement and a photo were published in Saoirse Irish Freedom.

A further exception occurs in the case of those counties created after 1994 which often drop the word county entirely, or use it after the name ; thus for example internet search engines show many more uses ( on Irish sites ) of " Fingal " than of either " County Fingal " or " Fingal County ".

* 1994 – The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.

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 LTTE has been accused of hijacking several vessels and ships in waters outside Sri Lanka, including Ocean Trader ( in October 1994 ), Irish Mona ( in August 1995 ), Princess Wave ( in August 1996 ), Athena ( in May 1997 ), Misen ( in July 1997 ), Morong Bong ( in July 1997 ), MV Cordiality ( in September 1997 ), Princess Kash ( in August 1998 ), Newko ( in July 1999 ), Uhana ( in June 2000 ), Fuyuan Ya 225 ( Chinese trawler, in March 2003 ), MV Farah III ( in December 2006 ) and City of Liverpool ( in January 2007 ).

In 1994 DEC sold the PDP-11 system-software rights to Mentec Inc., an Irish producer of LSI-11 based boards for Q-Bus and ISA architecture personal computers, and in 1997 discontinued PDP-11 production.

* 1955 – Frankie Kennedy, Irish flute player ( Altan ) ( d. 1994 )

Other translations include the standard critical edition by Ralph Manheim and John Willett ( 1976 ), one by noted Irish playwright and translator Frank McGuinness ( 1992 ), and another by Jeremy Sams for a production at London's Donmar Warehouse in 1994.

Irish dancing, popularised in 1994 by the world-famous show Riverdance, is notable for its rapid leg and foot movements, body and arms being kept largely stationary.

" Delamarre cites E. Campanile, in Langues indo-européennes (" The name of the Irish Saint Brigid is an adjective of the form * brigenti … ' the Eminent '"), edited by Françoise Bader ( Paris, 1994 ), pp. 34 – 40, that Brigid is a continuation of the Indo-European goddess of the dawn like Aurora .</ ref >) is the daughter of the Dagda and one of the Tuatha Dé Danann.

Another illustration of the progression of performance in the men's mile is that in 1994, forty years after Bannister's breaking of the barrier, the Irish runner Eamonn Coghlan became the first man over the age of 40 to run a sub-four-minute mile.

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 ".

In September 1994 Reynolds was infamously stood up by Russian president Boris Yeltsin whose plane landed at Shannon Airport but who failed to emerge to meet the waiting Irish dignatories.

* Irish Place Names, D. Flanagan and L. Flanagan, Dublin, 1994

Irish Academic Press, 1994.

The Irish speaking primary school was founded in 1994 in Oranmore, County Galway.

* Trailer ( album ), a 1994 album from the Northern Irish musical group Ash

In 1994 Baker joined BBM, a short-lived power trio with the lineup of Baker, Jack Bruce and Irish blues rock guitarist Gary Moore.

Ralph Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes was born in Ipswich on 22 December 1962, the eldest child of Mark Fiennes ( 1933 – 2004 ), a farmer and photographer whose father was industrialist Sir Maurice Fiennes ( 1907 – 1994 ), and Jennifer Lash ( 1938 – 1993 ), a writer of English and Irish descent.

The band was threatened with legal action by an Irish pop band of the same name in 1994, and, to avoid a legal dispute, the band appended " 182 " to the end of their name.

Paul Harrington ( Dublin, 8 May 1960 ) is an Irish musician, who, with Charlie McGettigan, won the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland in 1994.

Nonetheless, she appeared in leading roles in several notable films, including the Irish film Widows ' Peak ( 1994 ), Miami Rhapsody ( 1995 ) and Reckless ( also 1995 ).

* Kevin Murphy ( Irish ombudsman ), appointed Ombudsman by the President of Ireland, serving from 1994 to 2003

John Gerard Bruton ( born 18 May 1947 ) is an Irish politician who served as Taoiseach ( prime minister ) of Ireland from 1994 to 1997.