2nd » The National Convention of New Sudan of the SPLA/M opens in Chukudum.
4th » Marc Andreessen and James H. Clark known as Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name "Mosaic Communications Corporation".
5th » American musician Death of Kurt Cobain named Kurt Cobain commits suicide.
6th » The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
7th » Rwandan Genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
7th » Auburn Calloway attempts to Aircraft hijacking known as hijack FedEx Express Flight 705 and crash it to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy. The crew subdues him and lands the aircraft safely.
12th » Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet Newsgroup spam called spam.
14th » In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly Black Hawk Incident (April 1994) or shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
26th » China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airfield known as Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
27th » South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The South African Constitution of 1993 called Interim Constitution comes into force.
28th » Former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
30th » Formula One racing driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a crash during the qualifying session of the San Marino Grand Prix run at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari outside Imola, Italy.