Year in a Minute: 1994

SBS celebrating 50 Years. This is a Year in a Minute 1994.

President Nelson Mandela dances at a celebration concert following his inauguration in Pretoria, South Africa. (AP Photo/John Parkin) Credit: AP

100 days of slaughter in Rwanda by ethnic Hutu extremists,

800,000 die in the genocide.

Nelson Mandela becomes President of South Africa.

Real life looked like Pulp Fiction,

As 95 million people tune in live to watch OJ Simpson flee police on a LA freeway.

Grunge rock icon Kurt Cobain dies at 27.

The ‘Chase for Skase’ stalls, as a Spanish court rules fugitive Christopher Skase can stay in Majorca.

And after 7 years digging, a 31-mile Channel tunnel joins England and France.