1994
Otto Remer flees to Spain to escape a 22-month jail sentence in Germany for "inciting hate, violence and racism" by publicly denying that Nazi gas chambers ever existed or that the holocaust occurred.
1994 January 11
The Russian Federal Assembly begins its work.
1994 February 3
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan censures aide Khalid Abdul Muhammad for antisemitic remarks made in a November, 1993 speech in Washington.
1994 February 5
Byron de la Beckwith, a white supremacist, is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Beckwith is sentenced to life in prison.
1994 February 23
State Duma passes amnesty for political and economic crimes.
1994 March 1
Former Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver is hospitalized in Berkeley after suffering a brain hemorrhage.
1994 March 23
Magic Johnson is named coach of the Los Angeles Lakers.
1994 April 6
The Presidents of Rwanda and Barundi are killed in a mysterious plane crash.
1994 April 7
Civil War erupts in Rwanda, a day after its president is killed under mysterious circumstances.
1994 April 12
Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell declines to be nominated to the Supreme Court.
1994 April 12
Randall Robinson, executive director of TransAfrica, a lobbying group for African and Caribbean issues, begins a liquid-fast diet to protest the U.S. government's "discriminatory policy" on Haiti.
1994 April 17
Mainland China's public security unit announces it has solved a criminal case in which 24 Taiwan tourists were killed at Qiandao Lake on March 31, 1994.
1994 April 22
Franklyn Jenifer, president of Howard University, resigns after being named the president of the University of Texas at Dallas.
1994 May 4
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat signs the Cairo agreement with Israel's Yitzhak Rabin.
1994 May 9
South Africa's newly elected parliament chooses Nelson Mandela to be the country's first black president.
1994 May 19
Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis dies in New York at age 64.
1994 May 24
Denny's Restaurants agree to pay $54 million to settle lawsuits by African Americans who claim they were discriminated against by the restaurant chain.
1994 May 26
Pop star Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis Presley, are married in the Dominican Republic.
1994 May 26
President Clinton renews trade privileges for China and announces his administration will no longer link China's trade status with its human rights record.
1994 May 27
Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returns to Russia to the emotional cheers of thousands after spending two decades in exile.
1994 May 31
The United States announces it is no longer aiming long-range nuclear missiles at targets in the former Soviet Union.
1994 June 12
Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are slashed to death outside her home in Brentwood, California, a Los Angeles suburb. Her ex-husband, celebrity athlete O.J. Simpson, is later arrested and charged with the killings.
1994 June 13
A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon Corporation and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the nation's worst oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
1994 June 15
Israel and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations.
1994 June 16
Yegor Gaidar resigns as Russian first deputy prime minister.
