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1994 Calendar

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•  January 8, 1994 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
•  February 10, 1994 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dog in Chinese astrology.
•  March 28, 1994 – BBC Radio 5 is closed and replaced with a new news and sport station BBC Radio 5 Live.
•  April 6, 1994 – The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
•  April 14, 1994 – In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
•  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 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.
•  July 25, 1994 – Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
•  October 1, 1994 – Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America).
•  December 11, 1994 – First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.

•  February 8, 1994 – Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian artist and singer
•  February 25, 1994 – Eugénie Bouchard, Canadian tennis player
•  April 12, 1994 – Saoirse Ronan, Irish actress
•  April 27, 1994 – Elmo Magalona, Filipino singer and actor
•  May 25, 1994 – Alexandra Raisman, American gymnast
•  June 2, 1994 – Jemma McKenzie-Brown, English actress
•  July 6, 1994 – Camilla Rosso, English actress
•  July 13, 1994 – Ridge Canipe, American actor
•  November 26, 1994 – Erena Ono, Japanese singer (AKB48)
•  December 14, 1994 – Joshua Dionisio, Filipino actor