Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returned to Earth aboard Soyuz TM-20 after 437 days aboard Mir, still the longest single human spaceflight in history.

Aum Shinrikyo cultists released sarin gas on five packed Tokyo subway trains during morning rush hour, killing 13 and sickening thousands.

A truck bomb built from fertilizer and fuel oil destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people including 19 children.

Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with Russia's Mir space station, the first shuttle-Mir linkup and largest spacecraft ever assembled in orbit at the time.

Bosnian Serb forces under General Ratko Mladić overran the UN 'safe area' of Srebrenica, beginning a massacre that killed more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys.

Japan's government revokes the religious corporation status of Aum Shinrikyo, the cult behind the deadly Tokyo subway sarin attack.

Pixar's Toy Story premiered in wide release, the first feature film created entirely with computer animation, forever changing how movies were made.