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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.
•  February 12, 1994 – Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edward Munch’s iconic painting The Scream.
•  March 28, 1994 – In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.
•  April 4, 1994 – Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name “Mosaic Communications Corporation”.
•  April 21, 1994 – The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.
•  April 28, 1994 – Former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
•  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.
•  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.
•  October 21, 1994 – North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea and the United States sign an agreement that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.
•  December 14, 1994 – Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River.

•  January 18, 1994 – Kang Ji-young, South Korean singer
•  January 21, 1994 – BooBoo Stewart, American actor and singer
•  February 8, 1994 – Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian artist and singer
•  February 27, 1994 – Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player
•  April 12, 1994 – Airi Suzuki, Japanese singer
•  April 24, 1994 – Austin Rogers, American actor
•  May 11, 1994 – David Alvarez, Canadian dancer and actor
•  May 24, 1994 – Cayden Boyd, American actor
•  May 25, 1994 – Alexandra Raisman, American gymnast
•  September 19, 1994 – Alex Etel, English actor