Facts and Events That Happened in This Year
The World Trade Organization is founded.
Star Trek actor George Takei had an asteroid named after him.
The Rwandan genocide begins.
Kurt Cobain from Nirvana committed suicide at age 27 by shooting himself in the head with a shotgun.
Silvio Berlusconi rises to power in Italy.
The world's largest omelet was cooked up in Japan.
The United States military banned smoking in the workplace.
Justin Bieber was born in Stratford, Canada.
The famous iconic painting 'The Scream' by Edvard Munch was stolen from a gallery in Oslo, Norway.
American actor Jack Nicholson got road rage and decided to smash the windscreen of someone's car with a golf club.
A Russian cosmonaut flew aboard a NASA Space Shuttle for the first time.
Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov begins his record spaceflight.
Millions of people from the former Apartheid Homelands gain South African citizenship.
