WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO JUNE 1994
Find out what all happened March to June 1994

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

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

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

China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board. (26. April 1994)

Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam. (12. April 1994)

The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, makes its first flight. (12. June 1994)

Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in wrongful death civil suit. (12. June 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)

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

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

An RAF Chinook helicopter crashes in Scotland killing all 29 on board. The original cause of the crash is ruled as pilot error, this verdict is overturned in 2011. (2. June 1994)

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

Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; 7 persons are killed, 660 injured. (28. June 1994)

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

A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages. (13. June 1994)

American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism, a punishment that many in the United States deemed to be excessive for a teenager committing a non-violent crime. However, significant numbers of Americans were also in favor of it. (5. May 1994)

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

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

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