February 4 The Federal Open Market Committee raises the Fed Funds target rate for the first time since May 1989, by 25 basis points to 3Ό percent.
February 27 Australian Federal Sports & Environment Minister Ros Kelly resigns over "The Sports Rorts Affair", where it was alleged that she apportioned money for community sporting projects in a pork barreling fashion.
March 16 Tonya Harding pleads guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for trying to cover-up an attack on figure skating rival Nancy Kerrigan.
March 27 The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany.
March 31 The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.
April 6 & 7 Rwandan and Burundi Presidents die when a missile shoots down their jet near Kigali, Rwanda.The Rwandan Genocide begins in Kigali.
April 30 & May 1 Formula One driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed while qualifying for the San Marino Grand Prix. The following day, three-time world champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix. Both 4 Trees, born in 1960, occupied 6 Metal by the month (caution in traffic and around machinery).
May 6 The Channel Tunnel, which took over 7 years to complete, opens between England and France.
May 12 Ice hockey becomes Canada's official winter sport.
June 15 Israel and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations.
July 2 Colombian footballer Andrιs Escobar, 27, is shot dead in Medellνn. His murder is commonly attributed as retaliation for an honest mistake he made in the 1994 FIFA World Cup against the United States.
July 15 through July 21 The planet Jupiter is hit by 21 large fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 over the course of 6 days.
August 5 Groups of protesters spread from Havana, Cuba's Castillo de la Punta ("Point Castle"), creating the first protests against Fidel Castro's government since 1959.
August 12 The 199495 Major League Baseball strike is called, ending the 1994 MLB Season.
September 3 Russia and the People's Republic of China agree to point their nuclear weapons away from each other.
September 28 The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea.
November 4 The first conference devoted entirely to the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web opens.
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 14 A runaway Santa Fe freight train rear ends a Union Pacific train at the bottom of Cajon Pass, California.
December 19 A planned exchange rate correction of the Mexican Peso to the US Dollar, becomes a massive financial meltdown in Mexico. This prompts a $50 billion 'bailout' by the Clinton Administration.
January 1, 1995 The World Trade Organization (WTO) is established.
January 25, 1995 A rocket launched from the space exploration centre at Andψya, Norway is briefly interpreted by the Russians as an incoming attack.
January 31, 1995 U.S. President Bill Clinton invokes emergency powers, to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse.
1994 (6 Metal Year / 5 Soil 9-Year Cycle / 9 Fire 81-Year Cycle)
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