WHAT ALL HAPPENED NOVEMBER TO DECEMBER 1994
Find out what all happened November to December 1994

Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked on the ground at Houari Boumedienne Airport, Algiers, Algeria. Over the course of 3 days 3 passengers are killed, as are all 4 terrorists. (24. December 1994)

Palau becomes a member of the United Nations. (15. December 1994)

Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River. (14. December 1994)

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

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

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

The First Chechen War: Russian army began a New Year's storm of Grozny (31. December 1994)

Rwandan Genocide: Maurice Baril, military advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, recommends that UNAMIR stand down. (10. December 1994)

First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya. (11. December 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)

Four Armed Islamic Group hijackers seize control of Air France Flight 8969. When the plane lands at Marseille, a French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the hijackers. (26. December 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)

This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 and UTC−10:00 to UTC+14:00, respectively. (31. December 1994)

Mexican volcano Popocatépetl, dormant for 47 years, erupts gases and ash. (21. December 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)

A bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, en route from Manila, Philippines, to Tokyo, Japan, killing one. The captain is able to safely land the plane. (11. December 1994)

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