Events 401 - 540 of 540
- Sep 9 Space shuttle STS 64 (Discovery 20) launches into orbit
- Sep 9 Tu-22 crashes into Aeroflot Tu-134a at Zhukovsky, 7 killed
- Sep 10 Chong Hey swims female record 400m medley (4:01.67)/100m backstroke
- Sep 11 Jingyi Le swims female world record 50m freestyle
- Sep 12 Frank Eugene Corder crashes a Cessna plane into the south lawn of the White House, killing himself
- Sep 12 Parti Québécois wins parliamentary election
- Sep 13 George Burns undergoes surgery to drain fluid from his brain
- Sep 13 Space probe Ulyssus passes south pole of Sun
- Sep 15 "Sound of Motown" premieres in Rotterdam
- Sep 15 Dennis Richardson sworn in as head of St Maarten
- Sep 15 Muslim fundamentalists kidnap & behead 16 citizens in Algeria
- Sep 16 Fire Department puts out smokey electrical fire in the White House
- Sep 17 Andy Waller out handled the ball for Mashonaland CD v Mash U24
- Sep 18 Austrian conservative FVP wins election; extreme right gets 18.5%
- Sep 18 Sweden social-democratic SPD wins parliamentary election
- Sep 19 3,000 US militia lands on Haiti
Event of Interest
Sep 24 National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar
- Sep 24 Parliamentary election in Ukraine
- Sep 26 Estonia government of Prime Minister Mart Laar was defeated by no-confidence vote
- Sep 26 Switzerland bans racist propaganda
- Sep 28 909 people die when an Estonian ferry capsizes & sinks in Baltic sea
- Sep 29 House votes to end lobbyists buying meals & entertainment for Congress
- Sep 30 Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), launches into orbit
- Sep 30 Sylvestre Ntibantunganya elected president of Burundi
- Sep 30 Vladimir Meciars HZDDS wins Slovakia parliamentary election
- Oct 1 Oriental Pearl Tower, the modern symbol of Shanghai, is completed standing 468 m (1,536 feet) high (China's tallest structure until 2007)
Event of Interest
Oct 1 South African President Nelson Mandela visits US
- Oct 1 Stanley Betrian sworn in as leader of Curacao
- Oct 2 Pakistan defeat Australia by one wicket in Karachi Test
- Oct 3 Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president of Brazil
- Oct 4 7.9 earthquake strikes Koerilen, flood kills 18+
- Oct 4 Soyuz TM-20 launches
- Oct 5 52 members of Zonnetempel, murdered
- Oct 6 -9] European Campaign against Racism confers in Austria
- Oct 6 Ben Mokoena becomes 1st black mayor of Middelburg, South Africa
- Oct 7 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- Oct 7 Faud Guliyev appointed premier of Azerbijan
- Oct 7 Ingvar Carlsson forms Swedish government
- Oct 7 Lu Bin swims female 200m medley world record (2:11.57)
- Oct 8 BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Aleta Sill
- Oct 9 Austrian parliamentary election (23% extreme-right)
- Oct 10 Lt-general Raoul Cedras resigns as dictator of Haiti
- Oct 10 Nobel prize for physiology awarded to Alfred G. Gilman & Martin Rodbell for G-protein discoveries
- Oct 10 Value of Russian ruble decreases, 3081 rubles per dollar
- Oct 11 Russian ruble decreases to 3,926 rubles per dollar
- Oct 11 Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), lands
- Oct 12 Contact with NASA Venus orbitter Magellan broken
- Oct 12 Iranian Fokker F28 explodes between Isfahan and Tehran, killing 66
- Oct 13 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe
- Oct 14 NASA Space probe Magellan burns up in atmosphere of Venus
Nobel Prize
Oct 14 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres
- Oct 15 Botswana President Ketumile Masires BDP wins parliamentary election
- Oct 15 President Jean-Baptiste Aristide returns to Haiti
- Oct 16 Shreveport Pirates win first Canadian Football League game, 24-12 at home to Sacramento Gold Miners; fold 1995
- Oct 19 160 killed in fighting in Tsjetsjenie (Chechnya)
- Oct 19 Palestinian bomb attack on bus in Tel Aviv, kills 22
- Oct 21 Hana bridge is Seoul Korea crashes, 32+ die
- Oct 21 North Korea signs pact to end their nuclear projects
Event of Interest
Oct 22 Statue of Sam Houston unveiled in Texas
- Oct 24 Bomb attack on opposition in Sri Lanka, 55+ killed
- Oct 25 Susan Smith claims her 2 kids were carjacked (she actually killed them)
- Oct 26 Jordan & Israel sign peace accord
- Oct 28 Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth for 3rd time
- Oct 29 Antonov AN-12A crashes short of runway at Ust-Ilimsk Airport (Irkutsk, Russia), possibly due to icing; all 23 on board killed
- Oct 29 National Museum of American Indian joins the Smithsonian Institution and moves to the George Gustav Heye Center in Lower Manhattan (NYC) [1]
- Oct 29 NY Lotto pays $60 million+
- Oct 30 Leftist coalition wins Macedonian parliamentary election
- Oct 31 American Eagle ATR-72 crash down at Gary, Indiana: 68 killed
- Nov 1 Muslim fundamentalists in Mostaganem Algeria murder 5 children
- Nov 2 Benzine explosion in Dronka Egypt, 400+ killed
- Nov 3 Dutch & British astronomers find spiral nebula Dwingeloo 1
- Nov 3 Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), launches
- Nov 3 Susan Smith who claimed her two children were carjacked arrested for murder
- Nov 3 Total solar eclipse in South America (4m23s)
- Nov 4 San Francisco: First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
- Nov 4 Soyuz TM-20 lands in Kazakhstan
- Nov 5 Space probe Ulyssus completes 1st passage behind the Sun
- Nov 5 Yak-40 accident in north of Peru, 8 killed
- Nov 6 Emomali Rachmonov recognized as president of Tadzjikistan
- Nov 8 Haitian government of Smarck Michel forms
- Nov 8 Republican Party nominee Tom Ridge wins Pennsylvania Gubernatorial election with 45% of the vote
- Nov 9 Chandrika Kumaratunga chosen 1st female president of Sri Lanka
- Nov 9 Darmstadtium, Chemical element 110, discovered at GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research near Darmstadt, Germany
Event of Interest
Nov 11 Bill Gates buys Leonardo da Vinci's "Codex" for $30,800,000
- Nov 13 Sweden agrees to join European Union
Latest Wonder of the World
Nov 14 1st public trains run through the Channel Tunnel linking England and France under the English Channel
- Nov 14 Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), lands
- Nov 15 6.7-8.1 earthquake strikes Philippines, killing 45
Election of Interest
Nov 15 German Bundestag officially elects Helmut Kohl as Chancellor by a single vote (341-340)
- Nov 15 Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election
- Nov 17 3rd Germany government of Kohl forms
- Nov 17 Irish government of Reynolds resigns
- Nov 20 Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war
- Nov 20 Russian Kosmos satellites 2294, 2295 and 2296 launch
- Nov 25 Sony founder Akio Morita announces he will be stepping down as CEO of the company
- Nov 27 Fire in disco in Fuxin, North-China, 233 killed
- Nov 27 Julio Maria Sanguinetti elected president of Uruguay
Event of Interest
Nov 28 Convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium in Portage, Wisconsin
- Nov 28 Norway votes against joining European Union
- Nov 29 Seoul, Korea, celebrated the 600th anniversary of its founding
- Nov 30 Cruise ship Achille Lauro destroyed by fire at Somalia, 4 die
- Nov 30 Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as 1st communist premier of Nepal
- Dec 1 Ernesto Zedillo innaugrated as president of Mexico
Event of Interest
Dec 1 Jim Bakker, American televangelist and convicted fraud is released from jail
- Dec 2 Cruise liner Achille Lauro (Willem Ruys) sinks off the coast of Somalia
- Dec 2 Jury finds Heidi Fleiss guilty of running a call girl ring
- Dec 6 Maltese Falcon auctioned for $398,590
- Dec 6 Orange County California files for bankruptcy
- Dec 6 Warner Brothers announces a 5th TV network to begin on Jan 11, 1995
- Dec 8 Fire in cinema in Karamay China, 310 killed
- Dec 9 5m meteor 1994 XM1 passes within 100,000 km of Earth
- Dec 9 US Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after comments about masturbation
- Dec 10 European Campaign against Racism "All different, All equal" begins
- Dec 10 Nobel Peace Prize presented to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat
- Dec 11 Russian troops enter Chechnya
- Dec 13 American Eagle commuter plane crashes in NC, killing 15
- Dec 14 Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam, China
- Dec 15 John Bruton becomes Ireland's premier
- Dec 15 Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia
- Dec 15 Palau becomes a member of the UN
- Dec 17 KLM's last DC-10 goes out of service
- Dec 18 Socialist Party (ex-communist) wins Bulgaria parliamentary election
- Dec 19 Rolls-Royce announces its future cars will feature V12 engine which will be produced by BMW
- Dec 21 Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street NYC
Event of Interest
Dec 22 Italian government of Silvio Berlusconi resigns
Event of Interest
Dec 23 Fearing arrest by the FBI, Whitey Bulger flees Boston, and successfully hides from law enforcement for the next 16 years
- Dec 24 Four Muslim fundamentalists capture Air France pilot in Algiers
- Dec 26 French commandos terminate Air France hijacking in Marseille
- Dec 29 B737-400 flies into a mountain at Edremit East Turkey, 54 killed
- Dec 29 Bangladesh government of Zia resigns
- Dec 29 Last Dutch electro-magnetic telephone exchange shuts down
- Dec 31 1st snowless December in Baltimore Maryland
- Dec 31 Anti Apartheid Group of Netherlands (AABN) disbands
- Dec 31 This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC-11 to UTC+13 and UTC-10 to UTC+14, respectively.