WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO OCTOBER 1994
Find out what all happened August to October 1994

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

The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire. (31. August 1994)

The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike. (14. September 1994)

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

The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn Féin and Irish paramilitary groups in 1988. (16. September 1994)

Sino-Soviet Split: Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other. (3. September 1994)

Major League Baseball players go on strike. This will force the cancellation of the 1994 World Series. (12. August 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)

Ongar railway station, the furthest London Underground from Central London, closes. (30. September 1994)

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

Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years in service. (30. September 1994)

Eugene Bullard, the only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force. (23. August 1994)

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

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)

Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank. (24. August 1994)

Friends, an American sitcom television show, debuts. (22. September 1994)

Ulysses probe passes the Sun's south pole. (13. September 1994)

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal," is captured. (14. August 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)

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