WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MARCH 1994
Find out what all happened January to March 1994

Punk rock band Green Day releases their album Dookie, which would eventually sell over 20 million copies worldwide. (1. February 1994)

Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats signed the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. (18. March 1994)

Copyright Law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use. (7. March 1994)

Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes in Siberia when the pilot's fifteen-year old son accidentally disengages the autopilot, killing all 75 people on board. (23. March 1994)

More than seven million people from the former Apartheid Homelands, receive South African citizenship. (3. January 1994)

The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican State of Chiapas. (1. January 1994)

Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grandmaster. (30. January 1994)

The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin. (11. January 1994)

Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, Michigan. (6. January 1994)

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

Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream. (12. February 1994)

A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster. (23. March 1994)

The Clementine space probe launches. (25. January 1994)

At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez. (23. March 1994)

During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell slams into a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo. (5. February 1994)

BBC Radio 5 is closed and replaced with a new news and sport station BBC Radio 5 Live. (28. March 1994)

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

In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths. (28. March 1994)

Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Baruch Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors. (25. February 1994)

The North American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect. (1. January 1994)

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