Britain and the World 1994

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	1994
Jan6	Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was attacked by Tonya Harding's bodyguard
Jan11	Irish government announced the end of a 20-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm, Sinn Fein.
Jan23	The journalist and broadcaster Brian Redhead dies at the age of 64. He is best remembered as the presenter of Today on Radio 4 (1975 - 1993)
Jan25	Michael Jackson reached a multi-million dollar settlement with a boy who had accused him of sexual molestation.
Jan31	German luxury car-maker BMW announced the purchase of Rover from British Aerospace, ending nearly a century of independent mass car production in Britain.
Feb5	White separatist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in Jackson, Miss., of murdering civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963, and was immediately sentenced to life in prison. (Beckwith died Jan. 21 2000 at age 80.)
	The Serbs fire artillery shells into Sarajevo market - 68 dead and more than 200 injured
Feb12	Seventeenth Winter Olympics open in Lillehammer Norway
	Edvard Munch's painting, "The Scream," was stolen in Oslo. - recovered May7th 1994
Feb17	Northridge earthquake (6.7 in Richter scale) in Los Angeles area 4.31 AM - 57 dead ,
Feb21	Federal agents arrest Aldrich Ames, a CIA official, in Virginia for espionage
Feb24	In Gloucester, local police begins excavations at 25 Cromwell Street the home of Frederick and Rosemary West February 28 - Frederick West and his wife arrested
Feb25	US born Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein opened fire inside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank,Jerusalem killing 29 Muslims before he was beaten to death by worshipers.
Feb28	U.S. warplanes shoot down four Serb aircraft over Bosnia in the first NATO use of force in the troubled area.
Mar4	Four Muslim fundamentalists were found guilty in the World Trade Center bombing in New York.
Mar12	The Church of England ordained women priests for the first time in 460 years.
Apr7	Civil war erupted in Rwanda, a day after a mysterious plane crash resulted in the deaths of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi; in the months that followed, hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsi and Hutu intellectuals were slaughtered.
Apr8	Kurt Cobain, singer and guitarist for the band Nirvana,was found dead at his house in Seattle from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Apr20	Paul Touvier became the first Frenchman to be found guilty of war-related crimes against humanity for ordering the execution of seven Jews 50 years earlier, while he was serving in a pro-Nazi militia that had been set up by the collaborationist Vichy government.
Apr26	The first post-Apartheid, non-racial election is held in South Africa. Nelson Mandela's ANC party wins.
May1	Ayrton Senna, three times world F-1 auto racing champion, died after a high-speed crash in the San Marino Grand Prix.
May1	Israel and the PLO signed a historic agreement giving Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip their first measure of freedom since the 1967 Middle East war.
May6	Britain and France were joined for the first time since the Ice Age by The Channel Tunnel - hailed as one of the great engineering feats of the 20th century.
May10	Nelson Mandela inaugurated as the first black President of South Africa
May12	Labour Party leader John Smith dies of a heart attack. Representing Monklands East in Westminster, Smith was 55 and widely believed to be a future Prime Minister before his sudden death.
Jun2	29 people, including top Northern Ireland undercover police fighting the IRA, were killed when their Chinook helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre. The Official Enquiry blamed pilot error but subsequent investigation has revealed serious shortcomings in the helicopters software. The MOD's stance under successive governments caused a lot of disquiet
Jun17	O. J. Simpson was arrested after a dramatic car chase and a 90-minute standoff in the driveway of his estate, broadcast live on TV.
Jun23	An announcement was made that the royal yacht Britannia would be decommissioned. Her voyage from Portsmouth to Hong Kong in January 1997 was the ship's longest and its last. She has been moored in Edinburgh since April 1998 and today the luxury yacht is among the Scotland's most popular tourist attractions.
Oct1	Ferry Estonia sinks with 900 people. The largest peacetime\par disaster in Scandinavia. Various theories, including the conspiratorial ones, emerge but the most likely culprit is a leak in the front of the ferry
Oct13	Swiss police say cult guru Luc Jouret was among the charred bodies found in the cult deaths that cost the lives of 52 of his disciples.
Nov13	The first fare-paying passengers on the new rail service traveled through the Channel Tunnel linking England and France.
Nov19	U.K. National Lottery commences its first draw
Nov28	Convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was clubbed to death in prison as he was cleaning a toilet bya fellow inmate named Christopher Scarver. A court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on February 17, 1992 sentenced Dahmer to fifteen consecutive life sentences which required a minimum of 936 years imprisonment..
Dec26	French anti-terrorist police stormed a hijacked jet at Marseille, killing all four Islamic fundamentalist hostage-takers and saving the lives of some 170 passengers and crew

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