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Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map
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En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
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Deng Xiaoping, leader of China died
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Scientists in Scotland announced they succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named "Dolly"
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Earthquake in Pakistan, kills 45
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President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research
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Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80
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The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history.
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Russia & Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict
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The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment
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US space probe Pathfinder lands on Ares Vallis Mars
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200-year-old USS Constitution sails under its own power
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K.R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India's 10th president and the first Dalit— formerly called "untouchable"— to hold this office
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Korean Air 747 with 331 aboard crashes in Guam, 29 survive
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The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken.
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Hurricane kills 123 in Acapulco Mexico
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Typhoon Linda kills at least 208 in southern Vietnam
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In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies were born alive. They would go on to become the first set of septuplets to survive infancy, with all seven alive in 2007.
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S Afr & US surgeons separate Zambian Siamese twins joined at the head
