February 5, 1994 – During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell slams into a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.

February 10, 1994 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dog in Chinese astrology.

April 21, 1994 – The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.

April 27, 1994 – South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.

August 14, 1994 – Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as “Carlos the Jackal,” is captured.

September 30, 1994 – Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years of service.

October 27, 1994 – Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.

November 7, 1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world’s first internet radio broadcast.

November 20, 1994 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war (localized fighting resumes the next year).

December 15, 1994 – Palau becomes a member of the United Nations.

February 8, 1994 – Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian artist and singer

March 30, 1994 – Sarah Solovay, American singer-songwriter

April 4, 1994 – Risako Sugaya, Japanese singer

April 16, 1994 – Liliana Mumy, American actress

April 18, 1994 – Moises Arias, American actor

June 2, 1994 – Jemma McKenzie-Brown, English actress

June 16, 1994 – Aarya Ambekar, Indian Marathi singer

June 28, 1994 – Prince Hussein bin Al Abdullah II, Prince of Jordan

October 9, 1994 – Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress