Events in History
- Mar 12 The Church of England ordains its first ever 33 female priests
- Apr 6 Plane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down by surface-to-air missiles, abruptly ending peace negotiations and sparking the Rwandan Genocide. Those responsible have never been identified.
- Apr 22 7,000 Tutsi slaughtered by Hutus in the stadium at Kibuye, Rwanda
- May 10 Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president
- Jun 29 US reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees
- Jul 5 Amazon.com founded in Bellevue, Washington by Jeff Bezos
- Aug 31 The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Sinn Féin) declares a ceasefire in Northern Ireland
- Sep 24 National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar
- Nov 9 Darmstadtium, Chemical element 110, discovered at GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research near Darmstadt, Germany
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Historical Figures Born in 1994
- Jan 14 Samir Patel, American spelling bee winner
- Jan 31 Vitalik Buterin, Russian-Canadian computer programmer (co-founder of Ethereum), born in Kolomna, Russia
- Mar 26 Paige VanZant, American mixed martial artist born in Dundee, Oregon
- Apr 25 Samuel Carvalho, British activist and mental health advocate, born in Cambridge, England
- May 4 Pauline Ducruet, daughter of HSH Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, born in Princess Grace Hospital Centre, La Colle, Monaco
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- Jan 1 Microsoft CEO Bill Gates (38) marries Melinda French (29)
- Mar 13 Cuba Godding Jr (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26)
- Mar 26 Talk show hostess Ricki Lake weds Rob Sussman
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Rwandan Genocide
Skulls of genocide victims at the Nyamata Memorial Site in RwandaApril 7Richard Nixon, The Only US President to Resign
Richard Nixon became the only US President ever to resign from office, brought down by scandal over the Watergate office break-in and its attempted cover-up.April 22Latest Wonder of the World
Often referred to as "the Chunnel", the 31-mile undersea tunnel linking England to France has been hailed as one of the "seven wonders of the modern world".May 6
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