No major world climactic disasters this month but many cultural successes such as the "Swan Lake" ballet premieres with all-male swans at Sadler's Wells.
The 17th James Bond film "Golden Eye", stared Pierce Brosnan for the first time and the Beatles "Anthology 1" (double CD/triple LP) is released.
Sadly, Alan Hull, British folk singer-songwriter, and guitarist died of a heart attack at 50 and English-Australian WWII bomber pilot and stockbroker, died at the age of 75.
Better news as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother successfully underwent hip surgery.
Further afield, Russian chess prodigy Gary Kasparov defeated Anatoly Karpov to become the youngest World Chess Champion ever; stunning Jacqueline Aguilera Marcano (19), of Venezuela, is crowned 45th Miss World.
Buena Vista Pictures released Toy Story, the first feature film completely animated by computers.
More sadness as Bernard Oliver, American engineer at HP and inventor (first hand-held calculators, SETI, Pulse Code Modulation), dies aged 79.
However, The US Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully docked with the Russian space station Mir, marking another significant milestone in international space cooperation.
Elsewhere, South Africa held its first all-race local government elections, a landmark moment symbolizing the definitive end of the apartheid system as the former South African Defence Minister and ten retired military officers are formally charged with the murder of 13 people in a black township near Durban.
Leaders of Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia after being invited to the United States to officially sign The Dayton Agreement laying the groundwork for ending three and a half years of the devastating Bosnian War.
In the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir, a right-wing Jewish extremist, who opposed his peace efforts with the Palestinians.
PLO leader Yasser Arafat makes a surprising and significant diplomatic gesture by visiting Israel to pay respects to the family.
André Dallaire attempted to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, but was thwarted by his wife.
Nigerian playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was hanged by government forces, along with eight others.
More violence as a truck-bomb attack targeted a US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training centre in Riyadh, killing five Americans and two Indians.
Next, A suicide bomber attacks the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, resulting in 16 fatalities in a tragic act of terrorism.
Better news as Ireland voted to end its long-standing ban on divorce, twenty-seven nations signed the Barcelona Treaty, establishing the foundation for the Union for the Mediterranean.
US President Bill Clinton lifts ban on exports of oil from the Alaskan North Slope
