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1994
 
 
Tom Hanks stars in Forrest Gump, based on a novel by Winston Groom    
1994
 
   
A new constitution in South Africa guarantees equal rights to all citizens      
1994
 
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South Africa's first non-racial election is won by the ANC with 63% of the vote      
1994
 
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Nelson Mandela is sworn in as the first president of the new democratic South Africa      
1994
 
   
Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna dies when the steering column of his car shears during the San Marino Grand Prix      
1994
 
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Hastings Banda, president since independence in 1964, is defeated in Malawi's first multiparty elections      
1994
 
   
Israel recognizes the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as the representative body of the Palestinian people      
1994
 
   
The New Zealand government pays compensation to the Waikato tribe in the first of several settlements for land illegally seized      
1994
 
     
France's President Mitterrand and the British queen Elizabeth II together open the tunnel under the English Channel        
1994
 
 
The Italian film Il Postino brings poetry into the life of a postman who delivers mail to the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda