1994 Calendar

February 5, 1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.

February 10, 1994 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dog in Chinese astrology.

February 22, 1994 – Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.

April 6, 1994 – The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.

April 21, 1994 – The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.

May 5, 1994 – The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

May 6, 1994 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.

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 10, 1994 – Rwandan Genocide: Military advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Maurice Baril recommends that the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down.

December 31, 1994 – The first Chechen war: Russian army began a New Year’s storm of Grozny

February 10, 1994 – Makenzie Vega, American actress

February 14, 1994 – Paul Butcher, Jr., American actor

May 21, 1994 – Tom Daley, English diver and Olympian

May 25, 1994 – Alexandra Raisman, American gymnast

June 2, 1994 – Jemma McKenzie-Brown, English actress

June 16, 1994 – Aarya Ambekar, Indian Marathi singer

July 27, 1994 – Spencer Achtymichuk, Canadian actor

August 4, 1994 – Mayuko Fukuda, Japanese actress

November 26, 1994 – Erena Ono, Japanese singer (AKB48)

November 30, 1994 – William Melling, English actor