Sections of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt were displayed during Clinton's inauguration weekend, a stark counterpoint to the celebratory pageantry.

Colombian security forces shoot and kill Pablo Escobar on a rooftop in Medellín, ending a manhunt that had gripped the nation for sixteen months.

A 1,300-pound truck bomb detonated in the World Trade Center's underground parking garage, killing six people and foreshadowing greater terror to come.

Federal agents stormed the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, over illegal weapons, triggering a gun battle that killed four agents and began a 51-day standoff.

FBI tanks pumped tear gas into the Branch Davidian compound after a 51-day standoff, and fires broke out killing about 76 people inside.

CERN announced it would place World Wide Web software into the public domain, allowing anyone to use and build on the technology without paying royalties.

Musician Prince announced he would abandon his given name for an unpronounceable symbol, becoming known as "the Artist Formerly Known as Prince" amid a bitter contract dispute.

Apple unveiled the Newton MessagePad, an early handheld computer with handwriting recognition that pioneered ideas later revived in smartphones.

The tiny Pyrenees principality of Andorra became the 184th member of the United Nations after centuries of unusual co-sovereignty.

Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands on the White House lawn after signing the Oslo Accords.

Researchers reported significant results from early combination antiretroviral therapy trials, a step toward the treatments that would later transform HIV/AIDS survival rates.

Soyuz TM-17 launched carrying a French-Russian crew to the Mir space station, part of the growing cooperative spaceflight programs of the post-Soviet era.

Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo for dismantling apartheid and negotiating South Africa's peaceful transition.