Unix Timestamp: 780710400
Wednesday, September 28. 1994, 12:00:00 AM UTC

SeptemberndashOctober ndash Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq threatens to stop cooperating with UNSCOM inspectors and begins to once again deploy troops near its border with Kuwait. In response, the U.S. begins to deploy troops to Kuwait.

The car ferry "MS Estonia" sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.

Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician, is assassinated on orders of Raul Salinas de Gortari.

Palau gains independence from the United Nations Trusteeship Council

In Slovakia, populist leader Vladimir Meciar wins the general election.