168 die in the Oklahoma City bombing.
Bank of Tokyo and Mitsubishi Bank merged to become the world's largest bank.
Japanese terrorists release poisonous gas in the Tokyo subway.
The FDA approved the first chickenpox vaccine.
Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment and became the last state to approve the abolition of slavery.
The Great Hanshin earthquake hits Kobe, Japan.
Date skipped in Kiribati.
Whitey Bulger, an organized crime boss, fled Boston after fearing arrest from the FBI.
The original PlayStation was launched in Japan.
The Sega Saturn was released in Japan.
Sweden votes to join EU.
The chemical element Darmstadtium (#110) was discovered/created in Germany.
Two Israelis and a Palestinian share the Nobel Peace Prize.
NASA's space probe Magellan burned in the Venus atmosphere.
NASA launched the Endeavour space shuttle from the Kennedy Space Center on Mission STS-68.
NASA's Discovery Space Shuttle launched from Florida on its 19th mission, STS-64.
Russian Troops Leave Estonia 3 years after Estonia declared independence from the Soviet Union.
After 25 years of fighting with the British, the IRA announced a ceasefire on Britain.
Tokyo celebrated the country's first LGBTQ+ pride parade.
Britain fitted the first-ever battery-operated heart in the first operation of its kind.
Venezuelan political terrorist Carlos the Jackal was captured in Sudan.
Tokyo had its hottest day on record, reaching a staggering 102.4°F (39.1°C).
Former British prime minister Tony Blair won the leadership election for the British Labour Party.
Kim Jong-il takes office as the Supreme Leader of North Korea.
South Africa rejoined the Commonwealth of Nations after ending Apartheid.
The Nagorno-Karabakh war ends officially.
The 'Grease' musical production opened at the Eugene O' Neill Theater in New York City, running for 1,503 performances.
Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa's first black president.
The Channel Tunnel linking the United Kingdom with France is opened.
Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord to ensure Palestinian self-rule in Gaza and Jericho.
Former CIA officer Aldrich Ames admits he forwarded U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union.
South African citizens of all races are allowed to vote in a general election for the first time.
Germany makes Holocaust denial illegal.
President Richard Nixon died of a stroke at the age of 81.
Star Trek actor George Takei had an asteroid named after him.
The Rwandan genocide begins.
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.
The famous iconic painting 'The Scream' by Edvard Munch was stolen from a gallery in Oslo, Norway.
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.
Philadelphia premiered in Century City, California. It was one of the first mainstream films about AIDS, directed by Jonathan Demme.
Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot and killed in Medellín.
NASA's Endeavour Space Shuttle was launched through Mission STS-61.
The 6.4 magnitude Latur earthquake in India killed nearly 10,000 people.
The Oslo Accords were signed.
The pilot episode of the science-fiction series 'The X-Files' aired on FOX in the US & Canada.
The second-largest mosque in Africa officially opened in Casablanca, Morocco.
