WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 1994
Find out what all happened September to December 1994

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

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

Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America). (1. October 1994)

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

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

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

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

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

Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified. (27. October 1994)

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

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)

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

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 car ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people. (28. September 1994)

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