WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JUNE 1994
Find out what all happened January to June 1994

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

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

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

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

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

Formula One racing driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a crash during the qualifying session of the San Marino Grand Prix run at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari outside Imola, Italy. (30. April 1994)

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

The Cando event, a possible bolide impact in Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute. (18. January 1994)

A bus crashes in Gdańsk, Poland killing 32 people. (2. May 1994)

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

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

Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name "Mosaic Communications Corporation". (4. April 1994)

Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president. (10. May 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)

In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people. (14. April 1994)

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel. (6. May 1994)

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

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

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