WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO MAY 1994
Find out what all happened February to May 1994

Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name "Mosaic Communications Corporation". (4. April 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)

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

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

Auburn Calloway attempts to hijack FedEx Express Flight 705 and crash it to insure his family with his life insurance policy. The crew subdues him and lands the aircraft safely. (7. April 1994)

South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force. (27. April 1994)

Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released. (14. March 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. (28. April 1994)

Rwandan Genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda. (7. April 1994)

Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola. (1. May 1994)

Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison. (24. May 1994)

The Church of England ordains its first female priests. (12. March 1994)

Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance on Late Show with David Letterman. (13. May 1994)

The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull. (31. March 1994)

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

The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessful attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out. (21. May 1994)

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

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