May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
July 24 » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
Day of death December 12, 1994
The temperature on December 12, 1994 was between 11.1 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 3 » Baikal Airlines Flight 130 crashes near Irkutsk, Russia, resulting in 125 deaths.
March 21 » The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change enters into force.
May 6 » Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the Channel Tunnel.
July 4 » Rwandan genocide: Kigali, the Rwandan capital, is captured by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, ending the genocide in the city.
November 20 » The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.)
December 10 » Rwandan genocide: Maurice Baril, military advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, recommends that UNAMIR stand down.
Day of burial December 15, 1994
The temperature on December 15, 1994 was between -2.7 and 1.6 °C. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (10%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
March 23 » At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.
April 27 » South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.
May 21 » The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out.
June 1 » Republic of South Africa becomes a Commonwealth republic.
July 4 » Rwandan genocide: Kigali, the Rwandan capital, is captured by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, ending the genocide in the city.
July 8 » Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
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