- March 6
- A referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania. [30]
- Oil tanker Visahakit 5 collides with a cargo ship 64.km off the eastern Sriracha coast of Thailand, dumping about 400,000 litres of diesel fuel. [522]
- March 7
- African National Congress chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa. [1]
- Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia. [1]
- March 8
- B737 plane collides with Ilyushin-86 in New Dehli, India; at least 8 killed. [1]
- Train accident at Pinetown, Natal kills 47. [1]
- March 9
- Irish Republican Army launch first of three mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport. [1]
- March 10
- One million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral. [1]
- March 11
- Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as President of Chile. [1]
- March 12
- Church of England ordains its first 33 women priests. [1] [30]
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- A photo by Marmaduke Wetherell, previously touted as 'proof' of the Loch Ness monster, is confirmed to be a hoax. [30]
- March 13
- 33.3 percent of Austria votes for ultra-right FPÖ. [1]
- Tanker Nassia and freighter Shipbroker (both Cypriot-flagged) collide in the Bosphorus waterway off Turkey, killing 29 crewmen, leaking crude oil. [1] [522]
- President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed. [1]
- March 14
- Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released. [5]
- Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu is kidnapped. [1]
- Apple Computer introduces its first Power Macintosh computers, featuring 60 to 80 MHz PowerPC processors. Apple successfully managed a major processor transformation, without losing significant market share. [4]
- March 15
- U.S. troops are withdrawn from Somalia. [30]
- March
- Six people in Quebec, Canada, share a CDN$19 million Lotto 6/49 lottery jackpot, the largest single ticket in Canadian history. [40.63]
- March 16
- Moravcik forms Slovakia government. [1]
- March 17
- Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed). [1]
- March 18
- South Africa Goldstone committee reveals existence of secret police. [1]
- March 19
- 2500 kilograms of cocaine intercepted in Zeewolde, Netherlands. [1]
- Largest omelet (1,383 square feet) made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama, Japan. [1]
- March 20
- El Salvador's first Presidential election following 12-year civil war. [1]
- Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa. [1]
- March 21
- Novell announces it is acquiring WordPerfect Corporation for US$1.4 billion, and will acquire Quattro Pro from Borland International for US$145 million. [4]
- March 22
- Dutch Ambassador to US christens a new tulip (the Hillary Clinton). [1]
- South African Government/African National Congress take power in Ciskei homeland. [1]
- March 23
- Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican Presidential candidate, assassinated at age 44 (born 1950). [1] [30]
- Russian Airbus A-310 crashes in Siberia (74-75 killed). [1]
- March 26
- Constantine Koukouchkine, Russian diplomat, murdered in Algeria at age 41. [1]
- March 27
- The biggest tornado outbreak in 1994 occurs in the southeastern United States. One tornado hits a United Methodist Church in Piedmont, Alabama, killing 22. [1] [30]
- In Manching, Germany, the twin-engine Eurofighter first flies. [5]
- March 28
- Inkatha Freedom Party and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, South Africa; over 53 killed. [1] [30]
- Italy's right-wing alliance under Silvio Berlusconi wins election. [1]
- March 29
- Serbs and Croats sign a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia. [1]
- March 31
- The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull. [30]
- Panamanian-flagged supertanker Seki collides with the UAE tanker Baynunah, leaking 18.5 million litres of crude oil into the Arabian Sea 16km off the UAE port of Fujairah. [522]
- April 3
- Disney President and Chief Operating Officer Frank Wells dies in a helicopter accident, at age 62. [1] [6]
- April 4
- KLM Saab 340B crashes at Schiphol, three killed. [1]
- Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Mosaic Communications (later renamed Netscape). [1] [5]
- April 6
- Agatha Uwilingiyimana Rwanda/first female Prime Minister in Africa, assassinated. [1]
- Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira die when a missile shoots down their jet near Kigali, Rwanda. (Colonel Theoneste Bagosora of Rwanda leads Hutu tribe members on a mass slaughter of up to one million Tutsi members in the next three months.) [1] [30] [105] [129] [258.58]
- Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 Israelis and himself. [1]
- Rockwell B-1B Lancers break 11 world speed records. [1]
- April 7
- Rwandan armed forces kill ten Belgian peacekeeping officers leading to the withdrawal of United Nations troops from the country. [30] [129]
- Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Germans killing Jews) for first time. [1]
- April 8
- Japan's premier Morihiro Hosokawa resigns. [1]
- April 13
- Presidential guard at Kigali, Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death. [1]
- Taleb Ali al-Suheil, Iran sheik, murdered in Lebanon at age 64. [1]
- April 14
- US F-15 accidentally shoots two US helicopters down over Iraq, 26 die. [1]
- April 16
- Voters in Finland decide to join the European Union in a referendum. [30]
- April 17
- Aruba government of Oduber falls. [1]
- April 18
- Lebanon drops relations with Iran. [1]
- April 19
- Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election. [1]
- April 20
- Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze, Bosnia, 47 killed. [1]
- Paul Touvier is found guilty of ordering the execution of seven Jews when he served in the Vichy France Milice. [30]
- April 21
- Serbian army bombs distress clinic in Goradze, Bosnia, 28 killed. [1]
- The Red Cross estimates that hundreds of thousands of Tutsi have been killed in Rwanda. [30]
- April 22
- 7,000 Tutsis slaughtered in stadium of Kibuye, Rwanda. [1]
- Børge Ousland reaches North pole. [1]
- In Denmark, the largest lollipop is made, weighing 3,011 pounds. [1]
- Schelto Patijn appointed mayor of Amsterdam. [1]
- April 23
- Army shoots to death 23-40 fishermen in Gonaives, Haiti. [1]
- April 24
- Armando Calderón Sol wins El Salvador presidential election. [1]
- April 25
- Bomb attack on taxi stand in Johannesburg, South Africa; ten killed. [1]
- The largest high school arson ever in the United States is started at Burnsville High School, in Burnsville, Minnesota, resulting in over US$15 million in damages. [30]
- Fishing boat with school children capsizes at Lanaka, Syria, 46 killed. [1]
- Mexican businessman and billionaire Angel Losada is kidnapped. [1]
- Talaat Yassin Hamman, militant Muslim leader, shot dead at age 32. [1]
- Tsutomu Hata elected premier of Japan. [1]
- End of term for Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu as 9th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia. [1] [30]
- April 26
- Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan, becomes the 10th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia. [30]
- First multi-racial election in South Africa begins; Dr Nomaza Paintin in New Zealand is first black South African to vote. [1]
- 26.9 degrees C in Prestebakke, Norway (Norwegian April high temperature record). [1]
- Taiwan Airbus A-300 crashes at Nagoya, Japan, 262 killed. [1]
- April 27
- 29.0 degrees C in Genevad, Sweden (Swedish April high temperature record). [1]
- April 28
- First multi-racial election in South Africa ends. [1] (April 27 [30])
- Freddy Thielemans sworn in as mayor of Brussels, Belgium. [1]
- April 29
- Ferry boat smashes into Mombasa Harbor, Kenya, kills over 300. [1]
- Israel and Palestinian Liberation Organization sign economic accord. [1]
- Commodore International declares bankruptcy. [30]
- April 30
- Croatia replaces the dinar with the kuna as monetary unit. [971.333]
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