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.
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 MedellÃn.
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.
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.
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.
