1994 Tunisian General Election
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The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the
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. In the Line Islands and
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, 1994 had only 364 days, omitting December 31. This was due to an adjustment of the International Date Line by the Kiribati government to bring all of its territories into the same calendar day.


Events


January

*
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** The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is established. ** Beginning of the Zapatista uprising in Mexico. *
January 8 Events Pre-1600 * 307 – Emperor Huai of Jin, Sima Chi becomes emperor of the Jin dynasty (266–420), Jin dynasty in succession to his brother, Emperor Hui of Jin, Sima Zhong, despite a challenge from his other brother, Sima Ying. * 871 ...
– '' Soyuz TM-18'': Valeri Polyakov begins his 437.7-day orbit of the
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, eventually setting the world record for days spent in orbit. *
January 11 Events Pre-1600 * 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence. * 630 – Conquest of Mecca: Muhammad and his ...
– The Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the
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and its political arm
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. *
January 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence. * 1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary. 1601–1900 * 1761 – The Third Battle of Panipat is fought in I ...
– U.S. President
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and Russian President
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sign the
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, which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles toward each country's targets, and also provide for the dismantling of the
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in
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. *
January 17 Events Pre-1600 * 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. * 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 peopl ...
– The 6.7 Northridge earthquake strikes the
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of the United States, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''), leaving 57 people dead and more than 8,700 injured.


February

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February 3 Events Pre-1600 * 1047 – Drogo of Hauteville is elected as count of the Apulian Normans during the Norman conquest of Southern Italy. * 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, u ...
– In the aftermath of the Chadian–Libyan conflict, the
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that the
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belongs to the Republic of Chad. *
February 5 Events Pre-1600 * *2 BC – Caesar Augustus is granted the title ''pater patriae'' by the Roman Senate. *AD 62, 62 – AD 62 Pompeii earthquake, Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. *756 – Chinese New Year; An Lushan proclaims himself E ...
Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of
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leader
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. *
February 6 Events Pre-1600 * 590 – Hormizd IV, king of the Sasanian Empire, is overthrown and blinded by his brothers-in-law Vistahm and Vinduyih. * 1579 – The Diocese of Manila is erected by papal bull, with Domingo de Salazar appointe ...
Markale massacres: a Bosnian Serb Army mortar shell kills 68 civilians and wounds about 200 in a Sarajevo marketplace. *
February 9 Events Pre-1600 * 474 – Zeno (emperor), Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire, Eastern Roman Empire *1003 – Boleslaus III, Duke of Bohemia, Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I ...
– The Vance–Owen peace plan for
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is announced. *
February 12 Events Pre-1600 * 1096 – Pope Urban II confirms the foundation of the abbey of La Roë under Robert of Arbrissel as a community of canons regular. * 1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sofia performed the first post- ...
** Edvard Munch's painting '' The Scream'' is stolen in
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(it is recovered on May 7). ** The
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begin in Lillehammer. *
February 24 Events Pre-1600 * 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica. * 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence. ...
– In
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, England, local
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begin excavations at 25 Cromwell Street, the home of Fred West, a suspect in multiple murders. On February 28, he and his wife are arrested. * February 25 – Israeli Kahanist Baruch Goldstein opens fire inside the Cave of the Patriarchs in the
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; he kills 29 Muslims before worshippers beat him to death. *
February 28 Events Pre-1600 *202 BC – Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty. * 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople (Roman Catholic), Fourth Council of Co ...
– Four United States
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s shoot down four
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n J-21s over
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for violation of the Operation Deny Flight and its no-fly zone.


March

* March – China gets its first connection to the
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. *
March 6 Events Pre-1600 * 12 BCE – The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor. * 845 – The 42 Martyrs of Amorium are killed after refusing to convert to Islam. * 1204 &ndas ...
– A
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in
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results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with
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. *
March 12 Events Pre-1600 * 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius. * 1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of th ...
** A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as "proof" of the
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, is confirmed to be a hoax. ** The
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ordains its first female priests. *
March 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland. * 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the H ...
** Apple Computer, Inc. releases the Power Macintosh, the first Macintosh computers to use the new
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microprocessors. ** The
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version 1.0.0 is released after over two years of development. * March 15 – U.S. troops are withdrawn from
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. * March 20 – Italian journalist Ilaria Alpi and TV cameraman Miran Hrovatin are assassinated in
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. * March 21 – The 66th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in
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. Steven Spielberg's Holocaust drama '' Schindler's List'' wins seven Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director (Spielberg). *
March 23 Events Pre-1600 * 1400 – The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official. * 1540 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the las ...
** Green Ramp disaster: two military aircraft collide over Pope Air Force Base,
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causing 24 fatalities. ** Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated at a campaign rally in
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. * March 27 ** TV tycoon
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's right-wing coalition wins the Italian general election. ** The biggest
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in 1994 occurs in the southeastern United States; one tornado kills 22 people at the Goshen United Methodist Church in Piedmont, Alabama. *
March 28 Events Pre-1600 * AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate. * 193 – After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Did ...
Shell House massacre: Inkatha Freedom Party and ANC supporters battle in central
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, South Africa. * March 31 – The journal ''
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'' reports the finding in
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of the first complete ''
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'' skull.


April

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April 2 Events Pre-1600 * 1513 – Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on what is now the U.S. state of Florida, landing somewhere between the modern city of St. Augustine and the mouth of the St ...
– The National Convention of New Sudan of the SPLA/M opens in Chukudum. * April 6
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n President Juvénal Habyarimana and
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President Cyprien Ntaryamira die when a missile shoots down their jet near
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,
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. This is taken as a pretext to begin the
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. *
April 7 Events Pre-1600 * 451 – Attila the Hun captures Metz in France, killing most of its inhabitants and burning the town. * 529 – First '' Corpus Juris Civilis'', a fundamental work in jurisprudence, is issued by Eastern Roman Em ...
– The
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begins in
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,
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. * April 16 – Voters in Finland decide to join the
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in a referendum. * April 20 – South Africa adopts a new national flag, replacing the " Oranje, Blanje, Blou" flag adopted in 1928 that was used during
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. *
April 21 Events Pre-1600 * 753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date). * 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is mur ...
– The Red Cross estimates that hundreds of thousands of Tutsi have been killed in
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. * April 25Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu ends his term as the 9th
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of
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. * April 26 ** Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan, becomes the 10th
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of
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. ** China Airlines Flight 140, an
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, crashes while landing at
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, Japan, killing 264 people. * April 27 – South Africa holds its first fully multiracial elections, marking the final end of the last vestiges of
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. Nelson Mandela wins the elections and is sworn in as the first democratically elected president the following month.


May

* May 1 – Three-time
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world champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola, Italy. * May 5 – The Bishkek Protocol between
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and
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is signed in Bishkek,
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, effectively freezing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. *
May 6 Events Pre-1600 * 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance. * 1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Sp ...
– The
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, which took 15,000 workers more than seven years to complete, officially opens between England and France; it will enable passengers to travel by rail between the two countries in 35 minutes. *
May 10 Events Pre-1600 * 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China. * 1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of ...
Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president. * May 17
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holds its first multiparty elections. * May 18 – The Flavr Savr, a genetically modified tomato, is deemed safe for consumption by the FDA, becoming the first commercially grown genetically engineered food to be granted a license for human consumption. * May 20 – After a funeral in Cluny Parish Church,
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attended by 900 people and after which 3,000 people line the streets, UK Labour Party leader John Smith is buried in a private family funeral on the island of Iona, at the sacred burial ground of Reilig Odhráin, which contains the graves of several Scottish kings as well as monarchs of Ireland, Norway and France. * May 22
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issues the Apostolic Letter '' Ordinatio sacerdotalis'' from the Vatican, expounding the
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's position requiring "the reservation of priestly ordination to men alone".


June

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June 1 Events Pre-1600 * 1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed king of Castile and León. * 1298 – Residents of Riga and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida. * 1495 – A monk, John Cor, rec ...
– The Republic of South Africa rejoins the
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after its first democratic election; South Africa had departed the then-British Commonwealth in 1961. *
June 6 Events Pre-1600 * 913 – Constantine VII, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointe ...
8Ceasefire negotiations for the Yugoslav War begin in
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; they agree to a one-month cessation of hostilities (which does not last more than a few days). * June 15
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and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations. * June 17 ** NFL star O. J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from police in a white
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. The low-speed chase ends at Simpson's
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mansion, where he surrenders. ** The 1994 FIFA World Cup starts in the
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. * June 19Ernesto Samper is elected
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. * June 23
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's
Space Station Processing Facility The Space Systems Processing Facility (SSPF), originally the Space Station Processing Facility, is a three-story industrial building at Kennedy Space Center for the Manufacturing of the International Space Station, manufacture and Process manufac ...
, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the
International Space Station The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station that was Assembly of the International Space Station, assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United ...
, officially opens at
Kennedy Space Center The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC, originally known as the NASA Launch Operations Center), located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of the NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) ten NASA facilities#List of field c ...
. * June 25
Cold War The Cold War was a period of global Geopolitics, geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 unt ...
: the last Russian troops leave Germany. * June 28 – Members of the
Aum Shinrikyo , better known by their former name , is a Japanese new religions, Japanese new religious movement and doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1987. It carried out the deadly Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995 and was found to have been respo ...
cult execute the first sarin gas attack at Matsumoto, Japan, killing eight and injuring 200. * June 30 ** The Liberal Democratic Party in
Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
regains power after spending 11 months in opposition, in coalition with the Japan Socialist Party. ** Tropical Storm Alberto forms, hitting parts of
Florida Florida ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Alabama to the northwest, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the north, the Atlantic ...
causing $1.03 billion in damage and 32 deaths.


July

* July 4Rwandan Patriotic Front troops capture
Kigali Kigali () is the Capital (political), capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is near the nation's geographic centre in a region of rolling hills, with a series of valleys and ridges joined by steep slopes. As a primate city, Kigali is a relativ ...
, a major breakthrough in the
Rwandan Civil War The Rwandan Civil War was a large-scale civil war in Rwanda which was fought between the Rwandan Armed Forces, representing the country's government, and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) from 1October 1990 to 18 July 1994. The war arose ...
. * July 5
Jeff Bezos Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( ;; and Robinson (2010), p. 7. ; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and clou ...
founds
Amazon Amazon most often refers to: * Amazon River, in South America * Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin * Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company * Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek myth ...
. * July 71994 civil war in Yemen:
Aden Aden () is a port city located in Yemen in the southern part of the Arabian peninsula, on the north coast of the Gulf of Aden, positioned near the eastern approach to the Red Sea. It is situated approximately 170 km (110 mi) east of ...
is occupied by troops from North
Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, the north, Oman to Oman–Yemen border, the northeast, the south-eastern part ...
. * July 8
North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu River, Yalu (Amnok) an ...
n President
Kim Il Sung Kim Il Sung (born Kim Song Ju; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was a North Korean politician and the founder of North Korea, which he led as its first Supreme Leader (North Korean title), supreme leader from North Korea#Founding, its establishm ...
dies, but officially continues to hold office. * July 12 – The Allied occupation of Berlin ends with a casing of the colors ceremony attended by U.S. President
Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who was the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, ...
. * July 1622 – Fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 impact the planet
Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the List of Solar System objects by size, largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a Jupiter mass, mass more than 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined a ...
. * July 17 – Brazil wins the 1994 FIFA World Cup, defeating Italy 3–2 in a penalty shootout in the final (full-time 0–0). * July 18 ** AMIA bombing: In
Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...
, a
terrorist attack Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violence during peacetime or in the context of war a ...
destroys a building housing several Jewish organizations, killing 85 and injuring many more. ** Rwandan Patriotic Front troops capture Gisenyi, forcing the interim government into
Zaire Zaire, officially the Republic of Zaire, was the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1971 to 18 May 1997. Located in Central Africa, it was, by area, the third-largest country in Africa after Sudan and Algeria, and the 11th-la ...
and ending the
Rwandan genocide The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, occurred from 7 April to 19 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. Over a span of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Gre ...
. * July 25
Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...
and
Jordan Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...
sign the Washington Declaration as a preliminary to signature on October 25 of the Israel–Jordan peace treaty, which formally ends the state of war that has existed between the nations since 1948.


August

* August 5 – '' Maleconazo'': Groups of protesters spread from
Havana Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.Cuba Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the ...
's Castillo de la Punta ("Point Castle"), creating the first protests against
Fidel Castro Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President of Cuba, president ...
's government since 1959. * August 12Woodstock '94 begins in
Saugerties, New York Saugerties () is a Administrative divisions of New York#Town, town in the northeastern corner of Ulster County, New York, Ulster County, New York (state), New York. The population was 19,038 at the time of the 2020 United States census, 2020 c ...
, United States, marking the 25-year anniversary of Woodstock in 1969. * August 18 ** 1994 Mascara earthquake: a 5.8 earthquake leaves 171 dead in
Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...
. ** '' Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants'': a 12-person jury reaches its verdict to award Stella Liebeck $2,860,000 in compensatory and punitive damages, later reduced to $640,000, for burns she received from a spilled hot coffee. McDonald's and Liebeck will later settle out of court. * August 20Tyke, a female African bush elephant, injures her groomer and kills her trainer at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center in
Honolulu Honolulu ( ; ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, located in the Pacific Ocean. It is the county seat of the Consolidated city-county, consolidated City and County of Honol ...
,
Hawaii Hawaii ( ; ) is an island U.S. state, state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two Non-contiguous United States, non-contiguous U.S. states (along with Alaska), it is the only sta ...
. She then escapes the arena, and runs amok in the streets for half an hour, before police officers shoot her 86 times. She eventually collapses from her wounds and dies. *
August 31 Events Pre-1600 * 1056 – After a sudden illness a few days previously, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty. * 1057 – Abdication of Byzantine Emperor Michael VI Bringas after just one ye ...
**
The Troubles The Troubles () were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it began in the late 1960s and is usually deemed t ...
: The
Provisional Irish Republican Army The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA), officially known as the Irish Republican Army (IRA; ) and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland ...
announces a "complete cessation of military operations" as part of the Northern Ireland peace process. This will temporarily end in 1996 with the Docklands bombing in England before a definite ceasefire in 1997. In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement is signed and the IRA decommissions its weapons in 2005 ** The Russian Army leaves
Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...
and
Latvia Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south. It borders Russia to the east and Belarus to t ...
, ending the last traces of Eastern Europe's
Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
occupation. * c. August – Pizza Hut becomes the first restaurant to offer online food ordering, in California.


September

* September 3
Cold War The Cold War was a period of global Geopolitics, geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 unt ...
: Russia and the China agree to de-target their
nuclear weapon A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission or atomic bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear weapon), producing a nuclear exp ...
s against each other. * September 5
New South Wales New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South ...
State MP for Cabramatta John Newman is shot outside his home, in Australia's first political assassination since 1977. * September 8USAir Flight 427, a
Boeing 737 The Boeing 737 is an American narrow-body aircraft, narrow-body aircraft produced by Boeing at its Boeing Renton Factory, Renton factory in Washington (state), Washington. Developed to supplement the Boeing 727 on short and thin routes, the t ...
with 132 people on board, crashes on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport killing all on board. * September 13 – President
Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who was the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, ...
signs the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, which bans the manufacture of new firearms with certain features for a period of 10 years. * September 14The 1994 World Series in baseball is officially cancelled due to the ongoing work stoppage. It is the first time a World Series will not be played since 1904. * September 16 ** Danish tour guide Louise Jensen is abducted, raped and murdered by three British soldiers in Cyprus. ** Britain lifts the broadcasting ban imposed on
Sinn Féin Sinn Féin ( ; ; ) is an Irish republican and democratic socialist political party active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The History of Sinn Féin, original Sinn Féin organisation was founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffit ...
and paramilitary groups from Northern Ireland. * September 17Heather Whitestone is crowned the first deaf Miss America when she is crowned Miss America 1995. * September 19
Operation Uphold Democracy Operation Uphold Democracy was a multinational military intervention designed to remove the military regime led and installed by Raoul Cédras after the 1991 Haitian coup d'état overthrew the elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The op ...
: U.S. troops stage a bloodless invasion of
Haiti Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...
to restore the legitimately elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to power. * September 28 ** The car ferry MS ''Estonia'' sinks in the
Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by the countries of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North European Plain, North and Central European Plain regions. It is the ...
, killing 852 people. ** José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician, is assassinated on orders of Raúl Salinas de Gortari. * September–October – Iraq disarmament crisis:
Iraq Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to Iraq–Saudi Arabia border, the south, Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and ...
threatens to stop cooperating with UNSCOM inspectors and begins to once again deploy troops near its border with
Kuwait Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia and the geopolitical region known as the Middle East. It is situated in the northern edge of the Arabian Peninsula at the head of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to Iraq–Kuwait ...
. In response, the U.S. begins to deploy troops to
Kuwait Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia and the geopolitical region known as the Middle East. It is situated in the northern edge of the Arabian Peninsula at the head of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to Iraq–Kuwait ...
.


October

* October 1 ** In
Slovakia Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's m ...
, populist leader Vladimír Mečiar wins the
general election A general election is an electoral process to choose most or all members of a governing body at the same time. They are distinct from By-election, by-elections, which fill individual seats that have become vacant between general elections. Gener ...
. **
Palau Palau, officially the Republic of Palau, is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the western Pacific Ocean. The Republic of Palau consists of approximately 340 islands and is the western part of the Caroline Islands ...
gains independence from the United Nations Trusteeship Council. * October 5 – The day after five members of the Order of the Solar Temple were found dead in
Morin-Heights Morin-Heights () is a town in the Laurentian Mountains region of Quebec, Canada. It is west of Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, Saint-Sauveur and north of Lachute; municipally, it is within the Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality, Regional Co ...
, Quebec, Canada, Swiss police find 48 members of the cult dead, in what was found to be a mass murder-suicide. * October 15 ** After three years of U.S. exile,
Haiti Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...
's president Aristide returns to his country. ** Iraq disarmament crisis: following threats by the U.N. Security Council and the U.S., Iraq withdraws troops from its border with Kuwait. * October 16Robbery on the Bank of the Republic: In the Colombian city of Valledupar, a branch of the Colombian central bank Banco de la Republica (Bank of the Republic) is robbed of COP$24,075 million of non emitted bills (some US$33 million); this comes to be known as "El Robo del Siglo" (the bank heist of the century).


November

* November 5 ** A letter by former U.S. President
Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party a ...
, announcing that he has Alzheimer's disease, is released. ** American boxer George Foreman wins the World Boxing Association, WBA and International Boxing Federation, IBF World Heavyweight Championships by KO'ing Michael Moorer becoming the oldest List of heavyweight boxing champions, heavyweight champion in history. ** Influential Afrikaner theologian and critic of
apartheid Apartheid ( , especially South African English:  , ; , ) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was characterised by an ...
Johan Heyns is assassinated; the killers are never apprehended or identified. * November 6 ** A flood in Piedmont, Italy, kills dozens of people. ** Bražuolė bridge bombing in Lithuania damages a railway bridge but trains are stopped in time to avoid casualties. * November 7 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first webcast, internet radio broadcast. * November 8 ** "Republican Revolution": Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia Representative Newt Gingrich leads the United States Republican Party in taking control of both the United States House of Representatives, House of Representatives and the United States Senate, Senate in 1994 United States elections, midterm congressional elections, the first time in 40 years the Republicans secure control of both houses of Congress of the United States, Congress. George W. Bush is elected Governor of Texas. ** Hurricane Gordon (1994), Hurricane Gordon hits Central America, Jamaica,
Cuba Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the ...
, the Bahamas,
Haiti Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...
and the Southeastern United States, causing $594 million in damages and 1,152 fatalities. * November 11 **Duy Tan University, Vietnam's University, is established. **
Iraq Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to Iraq–Saudi Arabia border, the south, Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and ...
formally rescinds its claims over
Kuwait Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia and the geopolitical region known as the Middle East. It is situated in the northern edge of the Arabian Peninsula at the head of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to Iraq–Kuwait ...
, which it has claimed as a province since 1990 and had administered under military occupation until 1991 when it was ejected by an international coalition during the Gulf War, Persian Gulf War. * November 13 – Voters in Sweden decide to join the
European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are Geography of the European Union, located primarily in Europe. The u ...
in a 1994 Swedish European Union membership referendum, referendum. * November 14 – The first Eurostar train passengers travel through the
Channel Tunnel The Channel Tunnel (), sometimes referred to by the Portmanteau, portmanteau Chunnel, is a undersea railway tunnel, opened in 1994, that connects Folkestone (Kent, England) with Coquelles (Pas-de-Calais, France) beneath the English Channel at ...
. * November 15 ** 1994 Nepalese general election The Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist), CPN (UML) is elected with a minority government, becoming the first democratically elected Communist party in Asia. ** 1994 Mindoro earthquake A 7.1 earthquake hits the central Philippines, Philippine island of Mindoro, killing 78 people, injuring 430 and triggering a tsunami up to high. * November 20 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol. * November 27 – A Fuxin Yiyuan dance hall catches fire in Liaoning Province, China, killing 233 persons, with another 71 rescued, according to a confirmed Chinese government official report. * November 28 – Voters in Norway decide not to join the
European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are Geography of the European Union, located primarily in Europe. The u ...
in a 1994 Norwegian European Union membership referendum, referendum.


December

* December 1 – Ernesto Zedillo takes office as President of Mexico. * December 2 – The Australian government agrees to pay reparations to indigenous Australians who were displaced during the nuclear tests at Maralinga in the 1950s and 1960s. * December 3 **Sony releases the PlayStation (console), PlayStation video game system in Japan; it will sell over 100 million units worldwide by the time it is discontinued in 2006. **Taiwan holds its first full local elections: James Soong is elected as the first and only directly elected Governor of Taiwan Province, Governor of Taiwan; Chen Shui-bian becomes the first direct elected Mayor of Taipei; Wu Den-yih becomes the first directly elected Mayor of Kaohsiung. * December 11 – Russian president
Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician and statesman who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1961 to ...
orders troops into Chechnya. * December 13 ** The trial of former President Mengistu Haile Mariam, Mengistu begins in
Ethiopia Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...
. ** Fred West, 53, a builder living in
Gloucester Gloucester ( ) is a cathedral city, non-metropolitan district and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West England, South West of England. Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean ...
, England, is remanded in custody, charged with murdering 12 people (including two of his own daughters) whose bodies are mostly found buried at his house in Cromwell Street. His wife Rosemary West, 41, is charged with 10 murders. * December 14 – Construction commences on the Three Gorges Dam, at Sandouping, China. * December 19 ** A planned exchange rate correction of the Mexican peso to the US dollar, becomes a massive financial meltdown in Mexico, unleashing the 'Tequila' effect on global financial markets. This prompts a US$50 billion "bailout" by the Clinton administration. ** Civil union in Sweden, Civil unions between same-sex couples are legalized in Sweden. * December 31 – This date is skipped by the
Phoenix Islands The Phoenix Islands, or Rawaki, are a group of eight atolls and two submerged coral reefs that lie east of the Gilbert Islands and west of the Line Islands in the central Pacific Ocean, north of Samoa. They are part of the Kiribati, Republic ...
to switch from the UTC−11 time zone to UTC+13, and by the Line Islands to switch from UTC−10 to UTC+14. The latter becomes the earliest time zone in the world, one full day ahead of Hawaii.


Births


January

*
January 1 January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in the Gregorian Calendar; 364 days remain until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the year. __TOC__ Events ...
– Emilie Hegh Arntzen, Norwegian handball player * January 3 – Isaquias Queiroz, Brazilian sprint canoeist * January 4 – Viktor Axelsen, Danish badminton player * January 5 – Zemgus Girgensons, Latvian ice hockey player * January 6 – Catriona Gray, Filipino-Australian model, singer and pageant titleholder won Miss Universe 2018 * January 7 – Lee Sun-bin, South Korean actress and singer * January 10 – Faith Kipyegon, Kenyan middle-distance runner *
January 11 Events Pre-1600 * 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence. * 630 – Conquest of Mecca: Muhammad and his ...
– Desirae Krawczyk, American tennis player * January 12 – Emre Can, German footballer *
January 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence. * 1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary. 1601–1900 * 1761 – The Third Battle of Panipat is fought in I ...
** Muktar Edris, Ethiopian long-distance runner ** Kai (entertainer, born 1994), Kai, South Korean singer *
January 17 Events Pre-1600 * 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. * 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 peopl ...
– Lucy Boynton, American-British actress * January 18 ** Minzy, South Korean singer, rapper and dancer ** Kang Ji-young, Jiyoung, South Korean singer and actress * January 19 – Matthias Ginter, German footballer * January 21 – Booboo Stewart, American actor * January 28 – Maluma, Colombian singer


February

* February 1 ** Julia Garner, American actress ** Luke Saville, Australian tennis player ** Harry Styles, English singer *
February 3 Events Pre-1600 * 1047 – Drogo of Hauteville is elected as count of the Apulian Normans during the Norman conquest of Southern Italy. * 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, u ...
– Malaika Mihambo, German athlete * February 4 – Alexia Putellas, Spanish footballer *
February 6 Events Pre-1600 * 590 – Hormizd IV, king of the Sasanian Empire, is overthrown and blinded by his brothers-in-law Vistahm and Vinduyih. * 1579 – The Diocese of Manila is erected by papal bull, with Domingo de Salazar appointe ...
– Charlie Heaton, English actor * February 8 – Hakan Çalhanoğlu, Turkish footballer *
February 12 Events Pre-1600 * 1096 – Pope Urban II confirms the foundation of the abbey of La Roë under Robert of Arbrissel as a community of canons regular. * 1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sofia performed the first post- ...
**Arman Hall, American sprinter **Bakar (musician), Bakar, British musician * February 13 – Memphis Depay, Dutch footballer * February 14 ** Becky Hill, British singer ** Petchmorakot Petchyindee Academy, Thai Muay Thai Kickboxing, kickboxer and former List of ONE Championship champions#Featherweight World Championship, ONE Featherweight Muay Thai World Champion * February 16 ** Federico Bernardeschi, Italian footballer ** Ava Max, American singer * February 18 ** J-Hope, South Korean rapper and songwriter ** Gabriela Schloesser, Mexican born-Dutch archer * February 20 – Brigid Kosgei, Kenyan marathon runner * February 21 – Wendy (singer), Wendy, South Korean singer * February 23 ** Dakota Fanning, American actress and fashion model ** Lucas Pouille, French tennis player *
February 24 Events Pre-1600 * 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica. * 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence. ...
– Jessica Pegula, American tennis player * February 25 – Eugenie Bouchard, Canadian tennis player * February 26 – Mahra Al Maktoum, Emirati princess. * February 27 – Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player *
February 28 Events Pre-1600 *202 BC – Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty. * 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople (Roman Catholic), Fourth Council of Co ...
– Arkadiusz Milik, Polish footballer


March

* March 1 – Justin Bieber, Canadian singer * March 5 – Daria Gavrilova, Russian-Australian tennis player * March 7 – Jordan Pickford, English footballer * March 10 ** Bad Bunny, Puerto Rican singer ** Nikita Parris, English footballer * March 11 − Andrew Robertson, Scottish footballer *
March 12 Events Pre-1600 * 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius. * 1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of th ...
** Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist ** Christina Grimmie, American singer (murdered. 2016) *
March 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland. * 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the H ...
– Ansel Elgort, American actor, singer, and DJ * March 15 – Georgia Taylor-Brown, British triathlete * March 16 ** Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player ** Sierra McClain, American actress and singer * March 21 ** Jasmin Savoy Brown, American actress * March 22 – Douglas Santos (footballer, born 1994), Douglas Santos, Brazilian footballer *
March 23 Events Pre-1600 * 1400 – The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official. * 1540 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the las ...
– Bridger Zadina American actor * March 24 – Giulia Steingruber, Swiss artistic gymnast * March 26 – Mayu Watanabe, Japanese singer * March 29 – Sulli, South Korean singer, songwriter, actress and model (d. 2019) * March 30 – Jetro Willems, Dutch footballer


April

* April 1 ** Ella Eyre, English singer-songwriter * April 3 ** Feng Bin, Chinese discus thrower ** Srbuk, Armenian singer * April 9 – Rosamaria Montibeller, Brazilian volleyball player * April 11 ** Duncan Laurence, Dutch singer ** Dakota Blue Richards, English actress * April 12 ** Eric Bailly, Ivorian footballer ** Oh Se-hun, South Korean singer ** Saoirse Ronan, United States-born Irish actress * April 14 – Pauline Ranvier, French fencer * April 20 – Alexander Massialas, American fencer *
April 21 Events Pre-1600 * 753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date). * 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is mur ...
– Gulnaz Khatuntseva, Russian cyclist * April 22 – Maria Verschoor, Dutch field hockey player * April 25 – Omar McLeod, Jamaican hurdler


May

* May 1 – Khamzat Chimaev, Russian born-Swedish mixed martial artist and professional wrestler * May 2 – Alexander Choupenitch, Czech fencer * May 3 – Jessica Sula, British actress * May 4 – Zhu Yaming, Chinese triple jumper *
May 6 Events Pre-1600 * 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance. * 1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Sp ...
** Mateo Kovačić, Croatian footballer ** Juan Musso, Argentine footballer * May 14 ** Pernille Blume, Danish swimmer ** Marquinhos, Brazilian footballer * May 17 – Julie Anne San Jose, Filipina singer-songwriter * May 19 – Gabriela Guimarães, Brazilian volleyball player * May 20 – Piotr Zieliński, Polish footballer * May 21 – Tom Daley, British diver * May 22 ** Athena Manoukian, Greek born-Armenian singer ** Miho Takagi (speed skater), Miho Takagi, Japanese speed skater * May 24 ** Jarell Martin, American basketball player ** Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer * May 25 – Aly Raisman, American gymnast and model * May 26 – Lindsey Heaps, American soccer player * May 27 ** João Cancelo, Portuguese footballer ** Aymeric Laporte, French born-Spanish footballer * May 28 ** Son Yeon-jae, South Korean rhythmic gymnast


June

* June 8 **Liv Morgan, American pro wrestler **Song Yoo-jung, South Korean actress and model (d. 2021) * June 10 – Cheung Ka Long, Hong Kong foil fencer * June 11 ** Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress ** Jessica Fox (canoeist), Jessica Fox, Australian canoeist * June 15 ** Vincent Janssen, Dutch footballer ** Lee Kiefer, American fencer * June 20 – Sarah Köhler, German swimmer * June 23 – HoYeon Jung, South Korean actress * June 24 – Lily Williams (cyclist), Lily Williams, American cyclist * June 25 – Lauren Price, Welsh boxer * June 28 ** Anish Giri, Russian born-Dutch chess grandmaster ** Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan, heir apparent of Jordan * June 29 ** Camila Mendes, American actress ** Leandro Paredes, Argentinian footballer


July

* July 2 – Baba Rahman, Ghanaian footballer * July 4 – Era Istrefi, Kosovar-Albanian singer and songwriter * July 5 ** Robin Gosens, German footballer ** Shohei Ohtani, Japanese baseball player * July 9 – Akiane Kramarik, American poet and painter * July 11 ** Lucas Ocampos, Argentine footballer ** Jake Wightman, British middle-distance runner * July 12 – Molly Seidel, American marathon runner * July 17 ** Victor Lindelöf, Swedish footballer ** Benjamin Mendy, French footballer * July 22 * Jaz Sinclair, American film actress * July 25 – Bianka Buša, Serbian volleyball player * July 27 ** Winnie Harlow, Canadian model ** Sándor Tótka, Hungarian canoeist * July 31 – Liang Xinping, Chinese synchronised swimmer


August

* August 1 – Sayaka Hirota, Japanese badminton player * August 2 – Tang Yuanting, Chinese badminton player * August 8 – Lauv, American singer-songwriter * August 10 – Bernardo Silva, Portuguese footballer * August 11 – Song I-han, South Korean singer * August 13 – Joaquín Correa, Argentine footballer * August 15 – Natalia Zabiiako, Estonian born-Russian pair skater * August 17 – Taissa Farmiga, American actress * August 18 – Madelaine Petsch, American actress * August 19 ** Katja Salskov-Iversen, Danish sailor ** Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian athlete * August 23 – Dara Howell, Canadian freestyle skier * August 24 ** Kelsey Plum, American basketball player ** Breanna Stewart, American basketball player * August 28 – Ons Jabeur, Tunisian tennis player * August 30 – Kwon So-hyun, South Korean actress and singer


September

* September 1 ** Kento Momota, Japanese badminton player ** Bianca Ryan, American singer-songwriter * September 5 – Gregorio Paltrinieri, Italian swimmer * September 7 ** Elinor Barker, Welsh racing cyclist ** Kento Yamazaki, Japanese actor * September 12 ** Mhairi Black, Scottish politician ** RM (musician), RM, South Korean rapper and songwriter ** Elina Svitolina, Ukrainian tennis player * September 16 ** Aleksandar Mitrović, Serbian footballer ** Mina Popović, Serbian volleyball player * September 23 – Yerry Mina, Colombian footballer * September 29 ** Halsey (singer), Halsey, American singer ** Katarzyna Niewiadoma, Polish racing cyclist * September 30 – Aliya Mustafina, Russian artistic gymnast


October

* October 1 ** Trézéguet (Egyptian footballer), Trézéguet, Egyptian footballer ** Arthur Van Doren, Belgian field hockey player * October 8 – Luca Hänni, Swiss singer-songwriter * October 9 – Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress * October 10 – Bae Suzy, South Korean singer and actress * October 12 – Olivia Smoliga, American swimmer * October 17 ** Sara Dosho, Japanese wrestler ** Alejandra Valencia, Mexican archer * October 18 – Pascal Wehrlein, German-Mauritian racing driver * October 22 – Carline van Breugel, Dutch politician ** Alberta Santuccio, Italian fencer * October 23 - Margaret Qualley, American actress and model * October 24 ** Krystal Jung, American-South Korean singer ** Sean O'Malley (fighter), Sean O'Malley, American mixed martial artist fighter * October 26 – Matthew Hudson-Smith, British sprinter


November

* November 8 – Wang Yilyu, Chinese badminton player * November 10 ** Takuma Asano, Japanese footballer ** Zoey Deutch, American actress * November 13 – Laurien Leurink, Dutch field hockey player * November 22 – Dacre Montgomery, Australian actor * November 24 – Nabil Bentaleb, Algerian footballer * November 29 ** Julius Randle, American basketball player ** Zhu Ting (volleyball), Zhu Ting, Chinese volleyball player


December

* December 3 – Jake T. Austin, American actor * December 6 – Giannis Antetokounmpo, Greek basketball player * December 7 – Yuzuru Hanyu, Japanese figure skater * December 8 ** Conseslus Kipruto, Kenyan middle-distance runner ** Raheem Sterling, Jamaican-born English footballer * December 10 – Lily Owsley, British field hockey player * December 17 – Nat Wolff, American actor * December 18 – Vlada Chigireva, Russian synchronised swimmer * December 19 ** Katrina Lehis, Estonian fencer ** M'Baye Niang, French-Senegalese footballer * December 21 – Daniel Amartey, Ghanaian footballer * December 24 – Jennifer Valente, American cyclist * December 28 – Adam Peaty, English swimmer * December 29 – Princess Kako of Akishino, Japanese princess * December 30 – Hannah Martin (field hockey), Hannah Martin, British field hockey player * December 31 – Max Bowden, English actor


Deaths


Nobel Prizes

* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Bertram Brockhouse, Clifford Shull * Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – George Andrew Olah * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Medicine – Alfred G. Gilman, Martin Rodbell * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Kenzaburō Ōe * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin * Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences – Reinhard Selten, John Forbes Nash Jr., John Harsanyi


Templeton Prize

* Michael Novak


Fields Medal

* Efim Zelmanov, Pierre-Louis Lions, Jean Bourgain, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz


Right Livelihood Award

* Astrid Lindgren, SERVOL (Service Volunteered for All), H. Sudarshan / VGKK (Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra), Ken Saro-Wiwa / MOSOP (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni people, Ogoni People)


References

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