1994

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This article is about the year 1994. For the song by Jason Aldean, see1994 (song).For the BBC Radio 4 comedy series, seeNineteen Ninety-Four.For other uses, see1994 (disambiguation).

1994

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Clockwise from top-left: the1994 Winter Olympicsare held inLillehammer,Norway;anearthquakestrikes theSan Fernando Valley,killing 57 people and becoming one of thecostliest earthquakes on record;a model of theMSEstonia,whichsankin theBaltic Sea;Nelson Mandelacasts hisvotein theSouth African general election,in which he was electedSouth Africa's firstpresident,and which effectively broughtApartheidto an end;NAFTA,which was signed in1992,comes into effect inCanada,theUnited States,andMexico;the first passenger rail service to utilize the newly-openedChannel Tunnel;the1994 FIFA World Cupis held in the U.S. and is won byBrazil;skullsfrom theRwandan genocide,in which over half a millionTutsipeople were massacred byHutus.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Decades:	1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
Years:	1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997

1994 in variouscalendars

Gregorian calendar	1994 MCMXCIV
Ab urbe condita	2747
Armenian calendar	1443 ԹՎ ՌՆԽԳ
Assyrian calendar	6744
Baháʼí calendar	150–151
Balinese saka calendar	1915–1916
Bengali calendar	1401
Berber calendar	2944
British Regnal year	42Eliz. 2– 43Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2538
Burmese calendar	1356
Byzantine calendar	7502–7503
Chinese calendar	Quý dậuNăm (WaterRooster) 4691 or 4484 — to — Giáp Tuất năm (WoodDog) 4692 or 4485
Coptic calendar	1710–1711
Discordian calendar	3160
Ethiopian calendar	1986–1987
Hebrew calendar	5754–5755
Hindu calendars
-Vikram Samvat	2050–2051
-Shaka Samvat	1915–1916
-Kali Yuga	5094–5095
Holocene calendar	11994
Igbo calendar	994–995
Iranian calendar	1372–1373
Islamic calendar	1414–1415
Japanese calendar	Heisei6 ( bình thành ６ năm )
Javanese calendar	1926–1927
Juche calendar	83
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4327
Minguo calendar	ROC83 Dân quốc 83 năm
Nanakshahi calendar	526
Thai solar calendar	2537
Tibetan calendar	Âm thủy gà năm (female Water-Rooster) 2120 or 1739 or 967 — to — Dương mộc cẩu năm (male Wood-Dog) 2121 or 1740 or 968
Unix time	757382400 – 788918399

1994(MCMXCIV) was acommon year starting on Saturdayof theGregorian calendar,the 1994th year of theCommon Era(CE) andAnno Domini(AD) designations, the 994th year of the2nd millennium,the 94th year of the20th century,and the 5th year of the1990sdecade.

The year 1994 was designated as the "International Year of the Family"and the" International Year of Sport and theOlympic Ideal"by theUnited Nations.

In theLine IslandsandPhoenix IslandsofKiribati,1994 had only 364 days, omittingDecember 31.This was due to an adjustment of theInternational Date Lineby the Kiribati government to bring all of its territories into the same calendar day.

Events

The February 1994 photo of Pluto and Charon from the Hubble Space Telescope.

January

• January 1
  • TheNorth American Free Trade Agreement(NAFTA) is established.
  • Beginning of theZapatista uprisingin Mexico.
• January 8–Soyuz TM-18:Valeri Polyakovbegins his 437.7-day orbit of theEarth,eventually setting the world record for days spent in orbit.
• January 11– The Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on theProvisional Irish Republican Armyand its political armSinn Féin.
• January 14– U.S. PresidentBill Clintonand Russian PresidentBoris Yeltsinsign theKremlin accords,which stop the preprogrammed aiming ofnuclear missilestoward each country's targets, and also provide for the dismantling of thenuclear arsenalinUkraine.
• January 17– The 6.7M_wNorthridge earthquakestrikes theGreater Los Angeles Areawith a maximumMercalli intensityof IX (Violent), leaving 57 people dead and more than 8,700 injured.
• January 19–Record cold temperatureshit the eastern United States. The coldest temperature ever measured inIndianastate history, −36 °F (−38 °C), is recorded inNew Whiteland, Indiana.

February

• February 3
  • In the aftermath of theChadian–Libyan conflict,theInternational Court of Justicerulesthat theAouzou Stripbelongs to theRepublic of Chad.
  • Asteroid(136617) 1994 CCis discovered.
• February 5–Byron De La Beckwithis convicted of the 1963 murder ofcivil rightsleaderMedgar Evers.
• February 6–Markale massacres:aBosnian Serb Armymortar shellkills 68 civilians and wounds about 200 in a Sarajevo marketplace.
• February 9– The Vance–Owenpeace planforBosnia and Herzegovinais announced.
• February 12
  • Edvard Munch's paintingThe Screamis stolen inOslo(it is recovered on May 7).
  • The1994 Winter Olympicsbegin inLillehammer.
• February 21– Revealing of the first photo ofPlutoand its moonCharontaken from theHubble Space Telescope.
• February 24– InGloucester,England, localpolicebegin excavations at 25 Cromwell Street, the home ofFred West,a suspect in multiple murders. On February 28, he and his wife are arrested.
• February 25– IsraeliKahanistBaruch Goldsteinopens fire inside theCave of the Patriarchsin theWest Bank;he kills 29 Muslims before worshippers beat him to death.
• February 28– Four United StatesF-16sshoot downfourSerbianJ-21soverBosnia and Herzegovinafor violation of theOperation Deny Flightand itsno-fly zone.

March

• March – The People's Republic of China gets its first connection to theInternet.
• March 1–Walvis Bayis handed over toNamibiaby South Africa.
• March 6– AreferenduminMoldovaresults in the electorate voting against possible reunification withRomania.
• March 8–Nine Inch Nails' second studio album,The Downward Spiral,is released to critical acclaim.
• March 12
  • A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as "proof" of theLoch Ness Monster,is confirmed to be a hoax.
  • TheChurch of Englandordains its first female priests.
• March 14
  • Apple Computer, Inc.releases thePower Macintosh,the first Macintosh computers to use the newPowerPCmicroprocessors.
  • TheLinux kernelversion 1.0.0 is released after over two years of development.
• March 15– U.S. troops are withdrawn fromSomalia.
• March 20– Italian journalistIlaria Alpiand TV cameraman Miran Hrovatin are assassinated inSomalia.
• March 21– The66th Academy Awards,hosted byWhoopi Goldberg,are held at theDorothy Chandler PavilioninLos Angeles.Steven Spielberg'sHolocaustdramaSchindler's Listwins seven Oscars includingBest PictureandBest Director(Spielberg).
• March 23
  • Green Ramp disaster:two military aircraft collide overPope Air Force Base,North Carolinacausing 24 fatalities.
  • Mexicanpresidential candidateLuis Donaldo Colosiois assassinated at a campaign rally inTijuana.
• March 27
  • TV tycoonSilvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition wins theItalian general election.
  • The biggesttornado outbreakin 1994 occurs in thesoutheastern United States;one tornado kills 22 people at the Goshen United Methodist Church inPiedmont, Alabama.
• March 28–Shell House massacre:Inkatha Freedom PartyandANCsupporters battle in centralJohannesburg,South Africa.
• March 31– The journalNaturereports the finding inEthiopiaof the first completeAustralopithecus afarensisskull.

April

Nelson Mandelacasts his vote in the1994 South African general election

• April 2– TheNational Convention of New Sudanof theSPLA/Mopens inChukudum.
• April 5–Kurt Cobain,the lead singer ofNirvana,commits suicideatage 27at his home in Seattle. His body is found three days later.
• April 6–RwandanPresidentJuvénal HabyarimanaandBurundiPresidentCyprien Ntaryamiradie when a missile shoots down their jet nearKigali,Rwanda.This is taken as a pretext to begin theRwandan genocide.
• April 7– TheRwandan genocidebegins inKigali,Rwanda.
• April 16– Voters in Finland decide to join theEuropean Unionin a referendum.
• April 19– American rapperNasreleases classic albumIllmatic.
• April 20– South Africa adoptsa new national flag,replacing the "Oranje, Blanje, Blou"flag adopted in 1928 that was used duringapartheid.
• April 21– TheRed Crossestimates that hundreds of thousands ofTutsihave been killed inRwanda.
• April 25–Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahuends his term as the 9thYang di-Pertuan AgongofMalaysia.
• April 26
  • Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman,Yang di-Pertuan BesarofNegeri Sembilan,becomes the 10thYang di-Pertuan AgongofMalaysia.
  • China Airlines Flight 140,anAirbus A300,crashes while landing atNagoya,Japan, killing 264 people.
• April 27– South Africa holds itsfirst fully multiracial elections,marking the final end of the last vestiges ofapartheid.Nelson Mandelawins the elections and is sworn in as the first democratically elected president the following month.

May

• May 1– Three-timeFormula Oneworld championAyrton Sennais killed in an accidentduring theSan Marino Grand PrixinImola, Italy.
• May 5– TheBishkek ProtocolbetweenArmeniaandAzerbaijanis signed inBishkek,Kyrgyzstan,effectively freezing theNagorno-Karabakh conflict.
• May 6– TheChannel Tunnel,which took 15,000 workers more than seven years to complete, officially opens between England and France; it will enable passengers to travel by rail between the two countries in 35 minutes.
• May 7Edvard Munch's paintedThe Screamis recovered.
• May 10
  • Nelson Mandelais inaugurated as South Africa's first blackpresident.
  • ThePinkenba Six,including future political candidate Mark Ellis, kidnap 3 Indigenous children in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.
  • Serial killerJohn Wayne Gacyis executed bylethal injectionin theStateville Correctional Center,Illinois.
  • A solar eclipse occurs in The United States
• May 17–Malawiholds its first multiparty elections.
• May 18– TheFlavr Savr,agenetically modified tomato,is deemed safe for consumption by the FDA, becoming the first commercially growngenetically engineeredfood to be granted a license for human consumption.
• May 20– After a funeral in Cluny Parish Church,Edinburghattended by 900 people and after which 3,000 people line the streets, UK Labour Party leaderJohn Smithis buried in a private family funeral on the island ofIona,at the sacred burial ground of Reilig Odhráin, which contains the graves of several Scottish kings as well as monarchs of Ireland, Norway and France.
• May 22–Pope John Paul IIissues theApostolic LetterOrdinatio sacerdotalisfrom theVatican,expounding theCatholic Church's position requiring "the reservation of priestly ordination to men alone".
• May 26–Michael JacksonmarriesLisa Marie Presleyin theDominican Republic.

June

• June 1– TheRepublic of South Africarejoins theCommonwealth of Nationsafter its first democratic election; South Africa had departed the then-British Commonwealth in1961.
• June 6–8–Ceasefirenegotiations for theYugoslav Warbegin inGeneva;they agree to a one-month cessation of hostilities (which does not last more than a few days).
• June 12–Nicole Brown SimpsonandRonald Lyle Goldmanare murdered outside the Simpson home inLos Angeles.O. J. Simpsonis later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in acivil suit.
• June 15
  • Israeland theVaticanestablish fulldiplomatic relations.
  • The Lion King,the highest-grossinghand-drawn animated filmof all time, is released byWalt Disney Feature Animation.
• June 17
  • NFL starO. J. Simpsonand his friendAl Cowlingsflee from police in a whiteFord Bronco.The low-speed chase ends at Simpson'sBrentwood, Los Angelesmansion, where he surrenders.
  • The1994 FIFA World Cupstarts in theUnited States.
• June 23–NASA'sSpace Station Processing Facility,a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for theInternational Space Station,officially opens atKennedy Space Center.
• June 25–Cold War:the last Russian troops leave Germany.
• June 26–Microsoftannounces it will no longer sell or support theMS-DOSoperating systemseparately fromMicrosoft Windows.
• June 28– Members of theAum Shinrikyocult execute the firstsarin gas attackatMatsumoto,Japan, killing eight and injuring 200.
• June 30
  • AnAirbus A330crashes during a test flight nearToulouse,France, whereAirbusis based, killing the seven-person crew. The test was meant to simulate an engine failure at low speed with maximumangle of climb.
  • TheLiberal Democratic PartyinJapanregains power after spending 11 months in opposition, in coalition with theJapan Socialist Party.
  • Tropical Storm Albertoforms, hitting parts ofFloridacausing $1.03 billion in damage and 32 deaths.

July

Brown spots mark impact sites of theShoemaker–Levy CometonJupiter's southern hemisphere.

• July 2–ColombianfootballerAndrés Escobar,27, is shot dead inMedellín.His murder is commonly attributed as retaliation for theown goalEscobar scored in the1994 FIFA World Cupagainst theUnited States soccer team.
• July 4–Rwandan Patriotic Fronttroops captureKigali,a major breakthrough in theRwandan Civil War.
• July 5–Jeff BezosfoundsAmazon.
• July 7–1994 civil war in Yemen:Adenis occupied by troops from NorthYemen.
• July 8–North KoreanPresidentKim Il Sungdies, but officially continues to hold office.
• July 12– TheAllied occupation of Berlinends with a casing of the colors ceremony attended by U.S. PresidentBill Clinton.
• July 16–22– Fragments ofComet Shoemaker–Levy 9impact the planetJupiter.
• July 17– Brazil wins the1994 FIFA World Cup,defeating Italy 3–2 in a penalty shootout in thefinal(full-time 0–0).
• July 18
  • AMIA bombing:InBuenos Aires,aterrorist attackdestroys a building housing several Jewish organizations, killing 85 and injuring many more.
  • Rwandan Patriotic Fronttroops captureGisenyi,forcing the interim government intoZaireand ending theRwandan genocide.
• July 25–IsraelandJordansign the Washington Declaration as a preliminary to signature on October 25 of theIsrael–Jordan peace treaty,which formally ends the state of war that has existed between the nations since 1948.

August

Hurricane John near peak intensity to the south ofHawaiion August 23

• August 5–Maleconazo:Groups of protesters spread fromHavana,Cuba's Castillo de la Punta ( "Point Castle" ), creating the first protests againstFidel Castro's government since 1959.
• August 11– Formation ofHurricane Johnwhich will go on to become the longest-lasting tropical cyclone recorded worldwide. It will dissipate on September 13, lasting a little over 31 days.
• August 12
  • Woodstock '94begins inSaugerties, New York.It is the 25-year anniversary ofWoodstockin 1969.
  • AllMajor League Baseballplayers go onstrike,beginning the longest work stoppage in the sport's history.
• August 16– The release of theIBM Simonsmartphone,being the first ever commercially available smartphone.
• August 18
  • 1994 Mascara earthquake:a 5.8 earthquake leaves 171 dead inAlgeria.
  • Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants:a 12-person jury reaches its verdict to award Stella Liebeck $2,860,000 incompensatoryandpunitivedamages, later reduced to $640,000, for burns she received from a spilled hot coffee. McDonald's and Liebeck will later settle out of court.
• August 20–Tyke,a femaleAfrican bush elephant,injures her groomer and kills her trainer at theNeal S. Blaisdell CenterinHonolulu,Hawaii.She then escapes the arena, and runs amok in the streets for half an hour, before police officers shoot her 86 times. She eventually collapses from her wounds and dies.
• August 31
  • The Troubles:TheProvisional Irish Republican Armyannounces a "complete cessation ofmilitary operations"as part of theNorthern Ireland peace process.This will temporarily end in 1996 with theDocklands bombingin England before a definite ceasefire in 1997. In 1998, theGood Friday Agreementis signed and the IRA decommissions its weapons in 2005
  • TheRussian ArmyleavesEstoniaandLatvia,ending the last traces of Eastern Europe'sSovietoccupation.
• c. August –Pizza Hutbecomes the first restaurant to offeronline food ordering,in California.

September

• September 3–Cold War:Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target theirnuclear weaponsagainst each other.
• September 5–New South WalesState MP for CabramattaJohn Newmanis shot outside his home, in Australia's first political assassination since 1977.
• September 8–USAir Flight 427,aBoeing 737with 132 people on board, crashes on approach toPittsburgh International Airportkilling all on board.
• September 13– PresidentBill Clintonsigns theFederal Assault Weapons Ban,which bans the manufacture of new firearms with certain features for a period of 10 years.
• September 14–The 1994 World Seriesin baseball is officially cancelled due to the ongoingwork stoppage.It is the first time a World Series will not be played since1904.
• September 16
  • Danish tour guide Louise Jensen is abducted, raped and murderedby three British soldiers in Cyprus.
  • Britain lifts thebroadcasting banimposed onSinn Féinand paramilitary groups from Northern Ireland.
• September 17–Heather Whitestoneis crowned the first deaf Miss America when she is crowned Miss America 1995.
• September 19
  • Operation Uphold Democracy:U.S. troops stage a bloodless invasion ofHaitito restore the legitimately elected leader,Jean-Bertrand Aristide,to power.
  • Andrew WilesprovesFermat's Last Theorem,solving the 357-year-old mathematical theorem first proposed byPierre de Fermatin 1637. He will publish it in 1995.
• September 28
  • Thecar ferryMSEstoniasinks in theBaltic Sea,killing 852 people.
  • José Francisco Ruiz Massieu,Mexican politician, is assassinated on orders ofRaúl Salinas de Gortari.
• September –Mohammed Omarwill found theTalibanmovement in his home town ofKandahar,Afghanistan.
• September–October –Iraq disarmament crisis:Iraqthreatens to stop cooperating withUNSCOMinspectors and begins to once again deploy troops near its border withKuwait.In response, the U.S. begins to deploy troops toKuwait.

October

• October 1
  • InSlovakia,populist leaderVladimír Mečiarwins thegeneral election.
  • Palaugains independence from theUnited Nations Trusteeship Council.
  • TheWorld Wide Web Consortiumis founded byTim Berners-Lee,becoming the main internationalstandards organizationfor theWorld Wide Web.
• October 3– In alandslide victory,formerMinistry of FinanceFernando Henrique Cardosoiselectedpresident of Brazil.
• October 4– InSwitzerland,23 members of theOrder of the Solar Templecult are found dead, a day after 25 of their fellow cultists are similarly discovered inMorin-Heights, Quebec.
• October 7–Ingvar Carlssonreturns as Prime Minister of Sweden.
• October 8–Iraq disarmament crisis:The President of theUnited Nations Security Councilsays thatIraqmust withdraw its troops from the Kuwait border, and immediately cooperate with weapons inspectors.
• October 13(UTC) –NASAloses radio contact with theMagellanspacecraftas the probe descends into the thick atmosphere ofVenusand is presumed to burn up in the atmosphere.
• October 14–Pulp Fiction,a movie byQuentin Tarantino,premieres. It soon after becomes the highest grossing independent film ever made.
• October 15
  • After three years of U.S. exile,Haiti's presidentAristidereturns to his country.
  • Iraq disarmament crisis:following threats by the U.N. Security Council and the U.S., Iraq withdraws troops from its border with Kuwait.
• October 16–Robbery on the Bank of the Republic:In the Colombian city of Valledupar, a branch of the Colombian central bank Banco de la Republica (Bank of the Republic) is robbed of COP$24,075 million of non emitted bills (some US$33 million); this comes to be known as "El Robo del Siglo" (the bank heist of the century).

November

• November 5
  • A letter by former U.S. PresidentRonald Reagan,announcing that he hasAlzheimer's disease,is released.
  • American boxerGeorge Foremanwins theWBAandIBFWorld Heavyweight Championships byKO'ingMichael Moorerbecoming the oldestheavyweight championin history.
  • InfluentialAfrikanertheologianand critic ofapartheidJohan Heynsis assassinated; the killers are never apprehended or identified.
• November 6
  • A flood inPiedmont,Italy, kills dozens of people.
  • Bražuolė bridge bombinginLithuaniadamages a railway bridge but trains are stopped in time to avoid casualties.
• November 7–WXYC,the student radio station of theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,provides the world's firstinternet radio broadcast.
• November 8
  • "Republican Revolution":GeorgiaRepresentativeNewt Gingrichleads theUnited States Republican Partyin taking control of both theHouse of Representativesand theSenateinmidterm congressional elections,the first time in 40 years the Republicans secure control of both houses ofCongress.George W. Bushis electedGovernor of Texas.
  • Hurricane GordonhitsCentral America,Jamaica,Cuba,theBahamas,Haitiand theSoutheastern United States,causing $594 million in damages and 1,152 fatalities.
• November 11
  • Duy Tan University,Vietnam's University, is established.
  • Iraqformally rescinds its claims overKuwait,which it has claimed as a province since 1990 and had administered under military occupation until 1991 when it was ejected by an international coalition during thePersian Gulf War.
• November 13
  • Voters in Sweden decide to join theEuropean Unionin areferendum.
  • Dale Earnhardtwins his 7th and finalNASCAR championship.
• November 14– The firstEurostartrain passengers travel through theChannel Tunnel.
• November 15
  • 1994 Nepalese general electionTheCPN (UML)is elected with a minority government, becoming the first democratically electedCommunistparty in Asia.
  • 1994 Mindoro earthquakeA 7.1 earthquake hits the centralPhilippineisland ofMindoro,killing 78 people, injuring 430 and triggering a tsunami up to 8.5 m (28 ft) high.
• November 16– Afederal judgeissues a temporaryrestraining orderprohibiting the State ofCaliforniafrom implementingProposition 187,that would have denied mostpublic servicestoillegal aliens.
• November 20– TheAngolangovernment andUNITArebels sign theLusaka Protocol.
• November 22–Pyroclastic flows– clouds of scalding gas, pumice, and ash – rapidly descend an eruptingMount Merapivolcano in centralJava,causing sixty deaths.
• November 27– A Fuxin Yiyuan dance hall catches fire inLiaoning Province,China, killing 233 persons, with another 71 rescued, according to a confirmedChinese governmentofficial report.
• November 28– Voters in Norway decide not to join theEuropean Unionin areferendum.
• November 30– The Italian cruise shipAchille Laurocatches fire in theIndian Oceanoff the coast ofSomaliawith nearly a thousand passengers and crew aboard. After unsuccessful attempts by the crew to extinguish the fire, the vessel is evacuated and sinks two days later. During the evacuation, two die and eight are wounded.
• c. November –Online serviceAmerica Onlinepurchases Booklink as a browser to offer its users a gateway to theWorld Wide Webfor the first time. This marks the beginning of easy accessibility of the Web to the average person in the U.S.In 1996, AOL replaces Booklink with a browser based on Internet Explorer, allegedly in exchange for inclusion of AOL in Windows.

December

• December 1–Ernesto Zedillotakes office asPresident of Mexico.
• December 2– The Australian government agrees to pay reparations toindigenous Australianswho were displaced during thenuclear testsatMaralingain the 1950s and 1960s.
• December 3
  • Sony releases thePlayStationvideo game system in Japan; it will sell over 100 million units worldwide by the time it is discontinued in 2006.
  • Taiwan holds its first full local elections:James Soongis elected as the first and only directly electedGovernor of Taiwan;Chen Shui-bianbecomes the first direct electedMayor of Taipei;Wu Den-yihbecomes the first directly electedMayor of Kaohsiung.
• December 11– Russian presidentBoris Yeltsinorders troops intoChechnya.
• December 13
  • The trial of former PresidentMengistubegins inEthiopia.
  • Fred West,53, a builder living inGloucester,England, is remanded in custody, charged with murdering 12 people (including two of his own daughters) whose bodies are mostly found buried at his house in Cromwell Street. His wifeRosemary West,41, is charged with 10 murders.
• December 14– Construction commences on theThree Gorges Dam,atSandouping,China.

  

  The Netscape Navigator web browser as it first appeared in December 1994

• December 15– The initial release ofNetscape Navigator,aweb browserthat will control the majority of theusage sharefor web browsers for the rest of the 1990s.
• December 19
  • A plannedexchange ratecorrection of theMexican pesoto the US dollar, becomes a massive financial meltdown in Mexico, unleashing the 'Tequila' effect on globalfinancial markets.This prompts a US$50 billion "bailout" by theClinton administration.
  • Civil unionsbetween same-sex couples are legalized in Sweden.
• December 31– This date is skipped by thePhoenix Islandsto switch from theUTC−11time zonetoUTC+13,and by theLine Islandsto switch fromUTC−10toUTC+14.The latter becomes the earliest time zone in the world, one full day ahead of Hawaii.

Date unknown

• Fundación Arco Iris– a CatholicNGOis founded inBolivia.
• Thepopulation of Nigeriaexceeds 100 million, making it the first African state to have a population above 100 million.

Births

Main pages:Category:1994 birthsandDeaths in 1994

January

Lucy Boynton

Booboo Stewart

Maluma

• January 1–Emilie Hegh Arntzen,Norwegian handball player
• January 3–Isaquias Queiroz,Brazilian sprint canoeist
• January 4–Viktor Axelsen,Danish badminton player
• January 5–Zemgus Girgensons,Latvian ice hockey player
• January 6
  • Catriona Gray,Filipino-Australian model, singer and pageant titleholder wonMiss Universe 2018
  • Jay B,South Korean singer
• January 7–Lee Sun-bin,South Korean actress and singer
• January 10–Faith Kipyegon,Kenyan middle-distance runner
• January 11–Desirae Krawczyk,American tennis player
• January 12–Emre Can,German footballer
• January 14
  • Muktar Edris,Ethiopian long-distance runner
  • Kai,South Korean singer
• January 17–Lucy Boynton,American-British actress
• January 18
  • Minzy,South Korean singer, rapper and dancer
  • Jiyoung,South Korean singer and actress
• January 19–Matthias Ginter,German footballer
  • Gustika Fardani Jusuf, Indonesian activist
• January 20–Hampus Lindholm,Swedish ice hockey player
• January 21–Booboo Stewart,American actor
• January 24–Maisie Adam,English comedian
• January 25–Willow Nightingale,American professional wrestler
• January 28–Maluma,Colombian singer
• January 30–Amelia Dimoldenberg,English comedian and presenter

February

Julia Garner

Harry Styles

Alexia Putellas

Bakar

Seulgi

Ava Max

Dakota Fanning

• February 1
  • Julia Garner,American actress
  • Luke Saville,Australian tennis player
  • Harry Styles,English singer
• February 3–Malaika Mihambo,German athlete
• February 4–Alexia Putellas,Spanish footballer
• February 6–Charlie Heaton,English actor
• February 8–Hakan Çalhanoğlu,Turkish footballer
• February 10–Seulgi,South Korean singer
• February 11–Dansby Swanson,American baseball player
• February 12
  • Arman Hall,American sprinter
  • Bakar,British musician
• February 13–Memphis Depay,Dutch footballer
• February 14
  • Becky Hill,British singer
  • Petchmorakot Petchyindee Academy,ThaiMuay Thaikickboxerand formerONE Featherweight Muay Thai World Champion
• February 16
  • Federico Bernardeschi,Italian footballer
  • Ava Max,American singer
• February 18
  • J-Hope,South Korean rapper and songwriter
  • Gabriela Schloesser,Mexican born-Dutch archer
• February 20–Brigid Kosgei,Kenyan marathon runner
• February 21–Wendy,South Korean singer
• February 23
  • Dakota Fanning,American actress and fashion model
  • Lucas Pouille,French tennis player
  • Little Simz,English rapper
• February 24–Jessica Pegula,American tennis player
• February 25–Eugenie Bouchard,Canadian tennis player
• February 26–Jacob Trouba,American Ice Hockey Player
• February 27–Hou Yifan,Chinese chess player
• February 28–Arkadiusz Milik,Polish footballer

March

Justin Bieber

Jordan Pickford

Tyreek Hill

Ansel Elgort

• March 1
  • Justin Bieber,Canadian singer
  • Tyreek Hill,American football player
• March 2–Nikkie de Jager,Dutch makeup artist and beauty vlogger
• March 5–Daria Gavrilova,Russian-Australian tennis player
• March 7
  • Chase Kalisz,American swimmer
  • Jordan Pickford,English footballer
• March 10
  • Bad Bunny,Puerto Rican singer
  • Nikita Parris,English footballer
• March 11−Andrew Robertson,Scottish footballer
• March 12
  • Katie Archibald,Scottish track cyclist
  • Jerami Grant,American basketball player
  • Christina Grimmie,American singer (murdered.2016)
  • Carlos Ramírez,Colombian BMX cyclist
• March 14–Ansel Elgort,American actor, singer, and DJ
• March 15–Georgia Taylor-Brown,British triathlete
• March 16–Joel Embiid,Cameroonian basketball player
• Sierra McClain,American actress and singer
• March 18–Megan Tapper,Jamaican hurdler
• March 20–R'Bonney Gabriel,American beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned as Miss USA 2022, and as Miss Universe 2022.
• March 22–Douglas Santos,Brazilian footballer
• March 23–Bridger ZadinaAmerican actor
• March 24–Giulia Steingruber,Swiss artistic gymnast
• March 26–Mayu Watanabe,Japanese singer
• March 28–Jackson Wang.Hong Kong singer and rapper
• March 29–Sulli,South Korean singer, songwriter, actress and model (d.2019)
• March 30–Jetro Willems,Dutch footballer

April

Saoirse Ronan

Skyler Samuels

Shaunae Miller-Uibo

• April 3
  • Feng Bin,Chinese discus thrower
  • Srbuk,Armenian singer
• April 5–Nicolas Tournat,French handball player
• April 6–Jasmine Curtis-Smith,Filipina-Australian actress
• April 9–Rosamaria Montibeller,Brazilian volleyball player
• April 11
  • Duncan Laurence,Dutch singer
  • Dakota Blue Richards,English actress
• April 12
  • Eric Bailly,Ivorian footballer
  • Oh Se-hun,South Korean singer
  • Saoirse Ronan,United States-born Irish actress
• April 14
  • Pauline Ranvier,French fencer
  • Skyler Samuels,American actressr
• April 15
  • Shaunae Miller-Uibo,Bahamian track and field sprinter
  • Jacob Hoyle,American Epee Fence
  • April 16–Liliana Mumy,American actress
• April 18–Moisés Arias,actor
• April 20–Alexander Massialas,American fencer
• April 21–Gulnaz Khatuntseva,Russian cyclist
• April 22–Maria Verschoor,Dutch field hockey player
• April 24–Jordan Fisher,American actor
• April 25–Omar McLeod,Jamaican hurdler
• April 29–Valériane Vukosavljević,French basketball player

May

Mateo Kovačić

Dimash Kudaibergen

Lindsey Horan

Aly Raisman

João Cancelo

John Stones

• May 1
  • Khamzat Chimaev,Russian born-Swedish mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
  • Jóhan Hansen,Danish handball player
• May 2–Alexander Choupenitch,Czech fencer
• May 4–Zhu Yaming,Chinese triple jumper
• May 6
  • Mateo Kovačić,Croatian footballer
  • Juan Musso,Argentine footballer
• May 8–Zach Tinker,American actor
• May 14
  • Pernille Blume,Danish swimmer
  • Marquinhos,Brazilian footballer
• May 17–Julie Anne San Jose,Filipina singer-songwriter
• May 19–Gabriela Guimarães,Brazilian volleyball player
• May 20–Piotr Zieliński,Polish footballer
• May 21–Tom Daley,British diver
• May 22
  • Athena Manoukian,Greek born-Armenian singer
  • Miho Takagi,Japanese speed skater
• May 24
  • Dimash Kudaibergen,Kazakh singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
  • Jarell Martin,American basketball player
  • Emma McKeon,Australian swimmer
  • Daiya Seto,Japanese swimmer
• May 25–Aly Raisman,American gymnast and model
• May 26–Lindsey Horan,American soccer player
• May 27
  • João Cancelo,Portuguese footballer
  • Aymeric Laporte,French born-Spanish footballer
• May 28
  • Son Yeon-jae,South Korean rhythmic gymnast
  • John Stones,English footballer

June

HoYeon Jung

Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan

Camila Mendes

Leandro Paredes

• June 8–Song Yoo-jung,South Korean actress and model (d.2021)
• June 9–Lee Hye-ri,South Korean singer and actress
• June 10–Cheung Ka Long,Hong Kong foil fencer
• June 11
  • Ivana Baquero,Spanish actress
  • Jessica Fox,Australian canoeist
• June 14–Moon Taeil,South Korean singer
• June 15
  • Vincent Janssen,Dutch footballer
  • Lee Kiefer,American fencer
• June 18–Takeoff,American rapper (d.2022)
• June 20–Sarah Köhler,German swimmer
• June 22–Klaudia Breś,Polish olympic athlete
• June 23–HoYeon Jung,South Korean actress
• June 24–Lily Williams,American cyclist
• June 25–Lauren Price,Welsh boxer
• June 26–Jessica Parratto,American diver
• June 28
  • Anish Giri,Russian born-Dutch chess grandmaster
  • Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan,heir apparent of Jordan
• June 29
  • Camila Mendes,American actress
  • Leandro Paredes,Argentinian footballer
• June 30
  • Nate Hairston,American Football Player
  • Joshua Rojas,American baseball player

July

Shohei Ohtani

• July 2–Baba Rahman,Ghanaian footballer
• July 4–Era Istrefi,Kosovar-Albanian singer and songwriter
• July 5
  • Robin Gosens,German footballer
  • Shohei Ohtani,Japanese baseball player
  • Sơn Tùng M-TP,Vietnamese singer-songwriter and actor
• July 7–Ashton Irwin,Australian musician
• July 9–Akiane Kramarik,American poet and painter
• July 11
  • Lucas Ocampos,Argentine footballer
  • Jake Wightman,British middle-distance runner
• July 12
  • Jamie Herrell,American born-Filipino actress and beauty queen
  • Molly Seidel,American marathon runner
• July 16–Torbjørn Bergerud,Norwegian handball player
• July 17
  • Victor Lindelöf,Swedish footballer
  • Benjamin Mendy,French footballer
• July 18–Taylor Russell,Canadian actress
• July 25–Bianka Buša,Serbian volleyball player
• July 27
  • Winnie Harlow,Canadian model
  • Boyan Slat,Dutch CEO ofThe Ocean Cleanup
  • Sándor Tótka,Hungarian canoeist
• July 31–Liang Xinping,Chinese synchronised swimmer

August

Bernardo Silva

Madelaine Petsch

Phoebe Bridgers

Nafissatou Thiam

Ons Jabeur

• August 1–Sayaka Hirota,Japanese badminton player
• August 2–Tang Yuanting,Chinese badminton player
• August 8
  • Lauv,American singer-songwriter
  • Mirabai Chanu,Indian weightlifter
• August 10–Bernardo Silva,Portuguese footballer
• August 11–Song I-han,South Korean singer
• August 13
  • Joaquín Correa,Argentine footballer
  • Filip Forsberg,Swedish ice hockey player
  • Andrea Meza,Mexican model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe 2020
• August 15
  • Kosuke Hagino,Japanese swimmer
  • Natalia Zabiiako,Estonian born-Russian pair skater
• August 17
  • Taissa Farmiga,American actress
  • Phoebe Bridgers,American singer-songwriter
• August 18–Madelaine Petsch,American actress
• August 19
  • Katja Salskov-Iversen,Danish sailor
  • Nafissatou Thiam,Belgian athlete
• August 23–Dara Howell,Canadian freestyle skier
• August 24
  • Kelsey Plum,American basketball player
  • Breanna Stewart,American basketball player
• August 28–Ons Jabeur,Tunisian tennis player
• August 30–Kwon So-hyun,South Korean actress and singer

September

Bruno Fernandes

RM

Halsey

• September 1–Bianca Ryan,American singer-songwriter
• September 5–Gregorio Paltrinieri,Italian swimmer
• September 7
  • Elinor Barker,Welsh racing cyclist
  • Kento Yamazaki,Japanese actor
• September 8–Bruno Fernandes,Portuguese footballer
• September 10
  • Mehdi Torabi,Iranian footballer
  • Saemapetch Fairtex,ThaiMuay Thaikickboxer
• September 12
  • Mhairi Black,Scottish politician
  • RM,South Korean rapper and songwriter
  • Elina Svitolina,Ukrainian tennis player
• September 15–Wout van Aert,Belgian road cyclist
• September 16
  • Aleksandar Mitrović,Serbian footballer
  • Mina Popović,Serbian volleyball player
• September 22–Jinyoung,South Korean singer
• September 23–Yerry Mina,Colombian footballer
• September 26–Marcell Jacobs,Italian sprinter
• September 28–Simon Hald,Danish handball player
• September 29
  • Halsey,American singer
  • Katarzyna Niewiadoma,Polish racing cyclist
• September 30
  • Raphaël Coleman,English actor (d.2020)
  • Aliya Mustafina,Russian artistic gymnast

October

Bae Suzy

• October 1
  • Trézéguet,Egyptian footballer
  • Arthur Van Doren,Belgian field hockey player
• October 8–Luca Hänni,Swiss singer-songwriter
• October 9–Jodelle Ferland,Canadian actress
• October 10
  • Jung Il-hoon,South Korean rapper, songwriter, and actor
  • Bae Suzy,South Korean singer and actress
• October 12
  • Sean Monahan,Canadian ice hockey player
  • Olivia Smoliga,American swimmer
• October 13–Cyprien Sarrazin,French alpine skier
• October 17–Alejandra Valencia,Mexican archer
• October 18–Pascal Wehrlein,German-Mauritian racing driver
• October 22
  • Carline van Breugel,Dutch politician
  • Alberta Santuccio,Italian fencer
• October 24
  • Krystal Jung,American-South Korean singer
  • Sean O'Malley,American mixed artist fighter
• October 25–Manzoor Pashteen,Pakistani human rights activist
• October 26
  • Matthew Hudson-Smith,British sprinter
  • Daria Shmeleva,Russian track cyclist

November

Zoey Deutch

Dacre Montgomery

• November 8–Wang Yilyu,Chinese badminton player
• November 9–Bence Penke,Hungarian voice actor
• November 10
  • Takuma Asano,Japanese footballer
  • Zoey Deutch,American actress
  • Andre De Grasse,Canadian sprinter
• November 13–Laurien Leurink,Dutch field hockey player
• November 16
  • Vilde Ingstad,Norwegian handball player
  • Elena Tsagrinou,Greek singer
• November 22–Dacre Montgomery,Australian actor
• November 24–Nabil Bentaleb,Algerian footballer
• November 29
  • Julius Randle,American basketball player
  • Zhu Ting,Chinese volleyball player

December

Lil Baby

Giannis Antetokounmpo

Raheem Sterling

• December 3
  • Jake T. Austin,American actor
  • Lil Baby,American rapper
• December 4
  • Franco Morbidelli,Italian Grand Prix motorcycle racer
  • Leandro Trossard,Belgian footballer
• December 6–Giannis Antetokounmpo,Greek basketball player
• December 7–Yuzuru Hanyu,Japanese figure skater
  • Geno Chiarelli,American politician
• December 8
  • Conseslus Kipruto,Kenyan middle-distance runner
  • Raheem Sterling,Jamaican-born English footballer
• December 10–Lily Owsley,British field hockey player
• December 11–Gabriel Basso,American actor
• December 13–Laura Flippes,French handball player
• December 16–Christopher Bell,American racing car driver
• December 17–Nat Wolff,American actor
• December 18–Vlada Chigireva,Russian synchronised swimmer
• December 19
  • Katrina Lehis,Estonian fencer
  • M'Baye Niang,French-Senegalese footballer
• December 21–Daniel Amartey,Ghanaian footballer
• December 24
  • Daphne Groeneveld,Dutch model
  • Jennifer Valente,American cyclist
• December 26–Georgia Hirst,English actress
• December 28–Adam Peaty,English swimmer
• December 30–Hannah Martin,British field hockey player
• December 31–Max Bowden,English actor

Unknown date

• Germania Poleo,Venezuelan journalist

Deaths

Main article:Deaths in 1994

Nobel Prizes

The Nobel Prize medallion.

• Physics–Bertram Brockhouse,Clifford Shull
• Chemistry–George Andrew Olah
• Medicine–Alfred G. Gilman,Martin Rodbell
• Literature–Kenzaburō Ōe
• Peace–Yasser Arafat,Shimon Peres,Yitzhak Rabin
• Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences–Reinhard Selten,John Forbes Nash Jr.,John Harsanyi

Templeton Prize

• Michael Novak

Fields Medal

• Efim Zelmanov,Pierre-Louis Lions,Jean Bourgain,Jean-Christophe Yoccoz

Right Livelihood Award

• Astrid Lindgren,SERVOL (Service Volunteered for All), H. Sudarshan / VGKK (Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra),Ken Saro-Wiwa/MOSOP(Movement for the Survival of theOgoni People)