Facts and Events That Happened in This Year
Blizzard Entertainment released the first Diablo game.
The Guatemalan Civil War came to an end after 36 years of bloody conflict.
JonBenét Ramsey was found dead.
The largest strike in South Korean history began.
The horror film classic 'Scream,' starring Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox, was released.
The musical 'Chicago' opened at Richard Rodgers Theater in New York City.
A stampede of 47,000 football fans killed 84 people and injured 180 more in Guatemala City.
Fox News Channel began broadcasting.
The Nintendo 64 gaming console was released in the US.
Nintendo released Super Mario 64, one of their most iconic Mario games.
Naughty Dog released their first 3D video game, Crash Bandicoot, for the PlayStation.
Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot four times in Las Vegas, Nevada, US.
A team of NASA scientists declared that the Martian ALH 84001 meteorite might contain traces of alien life.
The US won gold in the first-ever women's soccer at the Olympics.
George R. R. Martin published his novel, 'Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire.'
Basketball player Michael Jordan was offered the richest NBA one-year contract of $30 million from the Chicago Bulls.
Nelson Mandela stepped down as President.
The Nutty Professor with Eddie Murphy premiered in the US.
The Nintendo 64 went on sale in Japan three months before hitting US shelves.
STS 77 (Endeavour 11) was launched into orbit.
The disaster movie 'Twister' by Michael Crichton premiered.
The TV Land Network made its debut.
Ted Kaczynski, The Unabomber, was caught and arrested.
The EU banned all British beef exports due to the risks of carrying 'mad cow disease.'
Sixteen primary school children and one teacher were killed in a mass shooting in Dunblane, Scotland.
The Hubble Space Telescope captured the first images of the surface of Pluto.
The longest siege of a capital city in modern history, the siege of Sarajevo, officially ended.
Alanis Morissette claimed four Grammy's, including Album of the Year with ''Jagged Little Pill."
Pokémon was released on the Game Boy for the first time, in the video games Pocket Monsters Red & Green.
The movie 'Trainspotting' arrived in UK cinemas.
The world-famous British boy band, Take That, announced their breakup.
A computer defeated world champion chess player Gary Kasparov for the first time.
French President Jacques Chirac announced France's nuclear test program had finished.
Germany first observed the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The programming language 'Java' was released.
NASA mission STS-72 landed at the Kennedy Space Center after eight days in space.
