May 1994

Sunday 01:

Formula One driver Ayrton Senna is killed during the San Marino Grand Prix.

Wednesday 04:

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.

Thursday 05:

American Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore as punishment for spray-painting two cars.

Friday 06:

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand inaugurate the opening of the Channel Tunnel – a tunnel under the English Channel linking England and France for the first time since the end of the Great Ice Age.

Monday 09:

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

Tuesday 10:

An annular eclipse of the sun is visible across much of North America.

Sunday 29:

Herbert Shughart refuses to shake hands with President Bill Clinton following a presentation of posthumous Congressional Medals of Honour to the widows of two soldiers for valour in Somalia. "You are not fit to be president of the United States," said Shughart Senior. "The blame for my son?s death rests with the White House and with you. You are not fit to command." President Clinton replied to Mrs. Shughart, "What?s he jumping on me for? I didn?t kill the kid!" http://www.sweetness-light.com/?p=38http://www.urbin.net/EWW/polyticks/pres-mil.html