The Eiffel Tower in Paris received its 150 millionth visitor.
NASA lost contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
Mother Teresa contracted malaria and spent one week in hospital in New Delhi, India.
Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashed in South Korea.
Agathe Uwilingiyimana elected as Prime Minister of Rwanda.
President Bill Clinton ordered a US cruise missile strike on Iraq.
Canada swore in Kim Campbell as the nation’s first female Prime Minister.
A Boeing 727 crashed into a mountain in Medellin, Colombia.
NASA's Discovery space shuttle launched on mission STS-56.
A car bomb explodes below the World Trade Center in New York.
Janet Reno became the first female to be appointed US Attorney General by President Clinton.
The MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands.
The second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START II) is signed.
The country of Czechoslovakia peacefully dissolved into two nations, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
A 7.8 earthquake hit Flores Island in Indonesia, which caused an 82-foot tsunami, killing about 2,500 people.
US Marines landed in Somalia as part of Operation Restore Hope in order to secure the trade routes to deliver food to the people.
The Hofburg fire destroyed part of the Royal Court in Vienna, Austria.
Queen Elizabeth II became Britain's first monarch to pay income tax.
Catholic church regrets its handling of Galileo Galilee's case.
Lee Jang Rim, the founder of the Dami Mission Christian Movement in South Korea, declared that the world would end.
A fragment of a meteorite landed in Peekskill, New York, US, and smashed a 1980 Chevrolet Malibu.
Rome General Peace Accords end Mozambican Civil War.
A picture of Pope John Paul II was torn up by the Irish singer Sinead O'Connor on Saturday Night Live.
A prison riot in Carandiru Penitentiary, Brazil, led to the killing of over 100 inmates by the police.
NASA launched the Mars Observer, a space probe designed to study Mars' geology and climate.
NASA's 50th space shuttle mission, STS-47, landed safely at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Mae Jemison becomes first Black woman in space.
Mall of America Opens its Doors to Shoppers.
During a tour in Montreal, Canada, James Hetfield from the band Metallica received third-degree burns to his arms, face, hands, and legs.
Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashes while approaching Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal.
The country of Georgia joined the United Nations shortly after the country became independent.
Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
The third-strongest recorded earthquake in US history happened in Southern California.
Yitzhak Rabin's Labor Party wins the election in Israel.
World Oceans Day was celebrated for the first time.
The High Court of Australia recognized Aboriginal land rights for the first time.
The Italian mafia murder Giovanni Falcone.
The 27th Amendment was ratified.
Three astronauts, Richard J. Hieb, Thomas D. Akers, and Pierre J. Thuot, simultaneously walked in space for the first time.
Deadly riots erupt in Los Angeles.
For the first time in its 700-year history, the British House of Commons is presided over by a female Speaker.
David Bowie and supermodel Iman tied the knot in Lausanne, Switzerland.
A series of massive explosions destroys parts of Guadalajara.
The first exoplanets are discovered.
Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela revealed their separation.
The Bosnian War began after a series of violent conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Apartheid in South Africa comes to an end.
NASA successfully launched the third of its advanced series 2 GPS satellites into orbit.
Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is jailed for life.
Air Inter Flight 148 crashed in the Vosges Mountains in France while circling to land at Strasbourg Airport.
