1994

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is established.

Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is stolen in Oslo (it is recovered on May 7).

Green Ramp disaster: two military aircraft collide over Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina, United States, causing 24 fatalities.

Voters in Finland decide to join the European Union in a referendum.

Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.

Ernesto Samper is elected President of Colombia.

The Allied occupation of Berlin officially ends with a casing of the colors ceremony attended by U.S. president Bill Clinton.

Tyke, a female African bush elephant, injures her groomer and kills her trainer at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. She then escapes the arena, and runs amok in the streets for half an hour, before police officers shoot her 86 times. She eventually collapses from her wounds and dies.

Britain lifts the broadcasting ban imposed on Sinn Féin and paramilitary groups from Northern Ireland.

Robbery on the Bank of the Republic: In the Colombian city of Valledupar, a branch of the Colombian central bank Banco de la Republica (Bank of the Republic) is robbed of COP$24,075 million of non emitted bills (some US$33 million); this comes to be known as "El Robo del Siglo" (the bank heist of the century).

Iraq formally rescinds its claims over Kuwait, which it has claimed as a province since 1990 and had administered under military occupation until 1991 when it was ejected by an international coalition during the Persian Gulf War.

The Australian government agrees to pay reparations to indigenous Australians who were displaced during the nuclear tests at Maralinga in the 1950s and 1960s.