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1994 Calendar

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•  February 10, 1994 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dog in Chinese astrology.
•  April 4, 1994 – Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name “Mosaic Communications Corporation”.
•  May 24, 1994 – Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
•  June 13, 1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
•  June 14, 1994 – The 1994 Stanley Cup riot occurs after the New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup from Vancouver, causing an estimated C$1.1 million, thus forcing 200 arrests and injuries. One person is also left with permanent brain damage.
•  June 28, 1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; 7 persons are killed, 660 injured.
•  September 12, 1994 – Frank Eugene Corder crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House’s south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself.
•  September 22, 1994 – the Nordhordland Bridge was opened across the Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset and Flatøy in Hordaland, Norway. It has no lateral anchorage because of the depth of Salhusfjorden.
•  December 7, 1994 – Norfolk Southern ends its steam excursion program. This is the last time that Norfolk and Western 611 is under steam.
•  December 15, 1994 – Palau becomes a member of the United Nations.

•  February 10, 1994 – Makenzie Vega, American actress
•  February 24, 1994 – Earl Sweatshirt, American rapper part of the collective OFWGKTA
•  March 1, 1994 – Justin Bieber, Canadian pop star
•  May 4, 1994 – Pauline Ducruet, daughter of HSH Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
•  July 27, 1994 – Spencer Achtymichuk, Canadian actor
•  August 4, 1994 – Mayuko Fukuda, Japanese actress
•  August 18, 1994 – Jessie Flower, American voice actress
•  September 19, 1994 – Alex Etel, English actor
•  October 9, 1994 – Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress
•  December 26, 1994 – Souleymane Coulibaly, Ivorian footballer