Kim Jong-il takes office as the Supreme Leader of North Korea.
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 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.
American construction worker Rodney King received $3.8 million in compensation after suffering police brutality on March 3, 1991.
The World Trade Organization is founded.
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.
