WHAT ALL HAPPENED OCTOBER TO NOVEMBER 1994
Find out what all happened October to November 1994

The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.) (20. November 1994)

Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified. (27. October 1994)

In a referendum voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union. (13. November 1994)

WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast. (7. November 1994)

NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus (the spacecraft presumably burned up in the atmosphere). (12. October 1994)

The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered. (9. November 1994)

The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of the future Palestinian Self Government. (14. October 1994)

Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America). (1. October 1994)

In Seoul, 32 people are killed when the Seongsu Bridge collapses. (21. October 1994)

Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty (26. October 1994)

MS Achille Lauro catches fire off the coast of Somalia. (30. November 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. (21. October 1994)

Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton). (29. October 1994)

In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers. (19. November 1994)

San Francisco: First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web. (4. November 1994)

Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces. (17. October 1994)

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