1994

• Ace of Base – “The Sign”
• Aerosmith – “Crazy”
• All-4-One – “I Swear”
• Big Mountain – “Baby I Love Your Way”
• Bon Jovi – “Always”
• Boyz II Men – “I’ll Make Love to You”
• Boyz II Men – “On Bended Knee”
• Bruce Springsteen – “Streets of Philadelphia”
• Bryan Adams – “Please Forgive Me”
• Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting – “All For Love”
• Celine Dion – “The Power of Love”
• Collective Soul – “Shine”
• Counting Crows – “Mr Jones”
• Elton John – “Can You Feel the Love Tonight”
• Enigma – “Return to Innocence”
• Lisa Loeb – “Stay (I Missed You)”
• Mariah Carey – “Without You”
• Rednex – “Cotton Eye Joe”
• Sheryl Crow – “All I Wanna Do”
• The Cranberries – “Linger”
• The Cranberries – “Zombie”

• The Lion King
• Forrest Gump
• True Lies
• The Mask
• Speed
• The Flintstones
• Dumb and Dumber
• Four Weddings and a Funeral
• Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

• Babylon 5
• The Magic School Bus
• Party of Five
• Due South
• ER
• Touched by an Angel
• Friends

• In Living Color
• L.A. Law
• Star Trek: The Next Generation
• The Arsenio Hall Show
• Dinosaurs
• The Mickey Mouse Club

• Seinfeld
• ER
• Home Improvement
• Grace Under Fire
• Murder, She Wrote
• Friends
• Roseanne
• Mad About You
• Murphy Brown
• Full House

• Justin Bieber - pop singer, "Baby", "Sorry", "What Do You Mean?"
• Cameron Dallas - Instagram star
• Harry Styles - part of famous British boy band One Direction; solo single "Sign of the Times"; acting in movie "Dunkirk"
• Halsey - pop singer, "Him & I"; "Closer" (with Chainsmokers)
• Ansel Elgort - movie actor, "Divergent", "The Fault in Our Stars", "Baby Driver"
• Booboo Stewart - movie actor, "Twilight" movies
• Camila Mendes - TV actress, "Riverdale"

• first multi-racial elections in South Africa - Nelson Mandela elected President
• Channel Tunnel opens between England and France
• Netscape Navigator released, quickly becoming leader for web browsing
• Israeli computer scientists Alon Cohen and Lior Haramaty invent VoIP for sending telephone calls over the Internet.

• bootylicious
• Botox
• chai latte
• cybercafe
• dot-com
• GenY
• LASIK
• MP3
• po-po
• roofie
• spyware
• task bar
• webcam
• wifebeater

January: American figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was attacked with a police baton by an assailant hired by the ex-husband of her rival Tonya Harding. She recovered just in time to win a silver medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics. 

April 10: Rwandan armed forces kill 10 Belgian peacekeeping officers in a successful effort to discourage international intervention in the genocide that had begun only hours earlier. In approximately three months, the Hutu extremists who controlled Rwanda brutally murdered an estimated 500,000 to 1 million innocent civilian Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the worst episode of ethnic genocide since World War II.

In 1986 the IOC voted to change the schedule of the Olympic Games so that the Summer and Winter Games would be held in different years. To adjust to this new schedule, the Lillehammer Games were held in 1994, the only time that two winter Games have been staged two years apart. Local hero Johann Olav Koss won three speed skating events and set a world record in every one. 

On June 12, former NFL star OJ Simpson's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are stabbed to death. On June 17, Simpson is charged with 2 counts of murder. He does not surrender and is declared a fugitive. Simpson is spotted riding in a friend Cowlings' white Ford Bronco. With Cowlings driving, they lead police on a 60-mile slow speed chase on the LA freeways and end up at Simpson's home where he finally surrenders to police. It was viewed by 95 million people.

Major League Baseball Players Association begin 232 day strike causing 1994 season to be cancelled.

On May 26, 1994, Lisa Marie Presley (only child of Elvis Presley, the "King of Rock 'n Roll") and Michael Jackson ("King of Pop") secretly wed in a small, private ceremony. At the time of their marriage, the press and public were unaware that the two even knew each other. They got divorced 2 years later.