WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO DECEMBER 1994
Find out what all happened March to December 1994

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

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

Mexican volcano Popocatépetl, dormant for 47 years, erupts gases and ash. (21. December 1994)

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho. (4. May 1994)

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down. (6. April 1994)

The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. (5. May 1994)

Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president. (10. May 1994)

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

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

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)

Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February. (7. May 1994)

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