The British singer Cliff Richard was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
Saddam Hussein was reelected president of Iraq through a referendum.
The 51 Pegasi b planet was discovered. It was the first discovered exoplanet around a sun-like star.
The psychological crime thriller movie 'Se7en,' starring Morgan Freeman, premiered in New York.
The STS-69 became the 100th successful crewed NASA spaceflight.
A bill in New York to reinstate the death penalty became law.
Disney bought Capital Cities, ABC, and ESPN for $19 billion.
The shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir joined, forming the largest artificial satellite to orbit the earth.
Following the Sega Saturn's success in Japan, the console was released in North America on this day.
President Bill Clinton declared this day as the National Day of Mourning.
The FBI arrested an American terrorist, Timothy McVeigh, who was responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing.
Bank of Tokyo and Mitsubishi Bank merged to become the world's largest bank.
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.
Malcolm X's daughter, Qubilah Shabazz, was arrested for making arrangements to kill Louis Farrakhan, who she believed killed her father in 1965.
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.
Susan Smith murdered her two children and tried to pin on a made-up Black man.
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.
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.
Police captured O.J. Simpson for murder charges after a 90-minute police chase.
South Africa rejoined the Commonwealth of Nations after ending Apartheid.
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.
Jeffrey Dahmer got baptized while in prison at Columbia Correctional Institution in Wisconsin.
President Richard Nixon died of a stroke at the age of 81.
American construction worker Rodney King received $3.8 million in compensation after suffering police brutality on March 3, 1991.
Star Trek actor George Takei had an asteroid named after him.
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.
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.
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 Dow Jones Industrial hit its third record high in one week.
The Maastricht Treaty came into effect, and with it, the European Union was formed.
