Intel began volume shipments of its Pentium processor, a leap in personal computing power that would later be marred by a public floating-point division bug.

Tension gripped Kigali in the days before President Habyarimana's plane was shot down, the spark that ignited the Rwandan genocide's opening massacres.

Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain is found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his Seattle home, days after he had gone missing, at age 27.

A missile downs the plane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana over Kigali, igniting the genocide that would kill 800,000 people in 100 days.

Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was found dead in his Seattle home, days after he had died by suicide, closing out grunge's defining era.

Hutu extremists launched a genocide against Tutsi and moderate Hutu, killing roughly 800,000 people in about 100 days.

Representatives from 123 nations sign the Marrakesh Agreement, concluding the Uruguay Round of trade talks and establishing the World Trade Organization.

As Rwanda's genocide entered its second week, RPF forces continued advancing while Hutu extremist militias intensified killings of Tutsi civilians nationwide.

South Africa entered its final days before the first all-race elections, with F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela crossing the country to close out historic campaigns.

Thieves broke into Norway's National Gallery in Oslo and stole Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream while the world watched the Winter Olympics.

South Africa held its first fully democratic elections open to citizens of all races, four days of voting that would sweep Nelson Mandela into the presidency.

South Africans of all races voted for the first time in national elections, sweeping Nelson Mandela and the ANC into power and ending apartheid.

South Africans of all races begin voting in the country's first fully democratic election, ending decades of apartheid rule.

Queen Elizabeth II and French President François Mitterrand formally opened the Channel Tunnel, linking Britain and continental Europe by rail for the first time since the Ice Age.

Quentin Tarantino's genre-bending Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, a shock upset that reshaped independent cinema's relationship with the mainstream.

Colombian defender Andrés Escobar was shot dead in Medellín, days after an own goal against the United States eliminated Colombia from the World Cup.

Rwandan Patriotic Front rebels seized the capital Kigali, effectively ending the hundred-day genocide that killed an estimated 800,000 people.

As Rwandan Patriotic Front forces closed in on the capital, the genocidal interim government fled Kigali, effectively ending the hundred-day genocide's central command.

Jeff Bezos incorporated his online bookstore startup in Washington state, initially naming it Cadabra Inc. before renaming it Amazon months later.

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.

Placeholder event removed for accuracy.