Cosmonauts aboard the Mir space station conducted a lengthy spacewalk to repair exterior damage, part of the ongoing effort to keep the aging Russian outpost operational.

Recorded weeks before Kurt Cobain's death, Nirvana's stripped-down acoustic album 'MTV Unplugged in New York' is released, becoming a haunting posthumous classic.

A welding accident sparked a fire that gutted the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona's historic opera house, destroying its 19th-century auditorium.