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Events[edit]

  • January 14 - FROLINAT is dissolved.
  • February 12 - James Bulger is abducted, tortured and killed by two 10-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables in Liverpool, England in United Kingdom
  • February 26 - Pakistani terrorist Ramzi Yousef detonates a truck bomb below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing 6 people and injuring over a thousand.
  • February 28 - Beginning of the Waco siege.
  • April 10 - Janusz Waluś murders Chris Hani.
  • April 19 - End of the Waco siege. Mount Caramel Center is burned down by the Branch Davidians, resulting in the deaths of leader David Koresh and 76 of his followers (including 25 children.) Only 9 Branch Davidians would survive the blaze.
  • April 25 - The State of Eritrea is declared, officially making Eritrea de jure independent from Ethiopia. Isaias Afewerki is named president.
  • May 1 - Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa is assassinated in Colombo during a suicide bombing perpetrated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which also kills 17 other people.
  • May 1 - The National Bolshevik Party is founded by Eduard Limonov and Aleksandr Dugin.
  • June 22 - The Unabomber sends a mail bomb to geneticist Charles Epstein. Epstein survives the attack but loses three fingers and suffers damage to his eardrums.
  • June 23 - Lorena Bobbitt cuts off her husband's penis with a knife while he was asleep in bed.
  • July 8 - Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines is launched.
  • August 4 - The Arusha Accords are signed by Juvénal Habyarimana and Paul Kagame, ending the Rwandan Civil War.
  • August 10 - Øystein Aarseth is killed by his band member Varg Vikernes
  • August 26 - Ibrahim Babangida resigns as President of Nigeria.
  • September 13 - The First Intifada ends following the signing of the Oslo Accords.
  • September 24 - Skrewdriver breaks up after Ian Stuart Donaldson's death.
  • October 1 - Polly Klaas is kidnapped at knifepoint during a slumber party at her mother's home in California, She was later strangled by Richard Allen Davis.
  • October 21 - Burundian President Melchior Ndadaye is assassinated by Tutsi hardliners within the Burundian army during a failed coup attempt, starting the Burundian Civil War.
  • October 22 - Ange-Félix Patassé is elected President of the Central African Republic.
  • October 23 - IRA members Thomas Begley and Sean Kelly bomb a chip shop in Belfast, killing Begley along with eight civilians and one member of the UDA.
  • October 30 - Members of the Ulster Defence Association open fire on civilians in a crowded pub during a Halloween party, killing eight and wounding nineteen. The attack, known as the Greysteel massacre, was done out of revenge for the Shankill Road bombing.
  • November 17 - Nigerian Minister of Defence Sani Abacha forces interim president Ernest Shonekan to resign, and assumes the mantle of head of state.
  • November 21 - Triad sub-boss Andely Chan was ambushed and murdered.
  • December 14 - Nathan Dunlap commits a mass shooting at a Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant in Aurora, Colorado that he was formerly an employee of, killing four people and seriously injuring one other.
  • December 31 - Trans man Brandon Teena, along with Lisa Lambert & Phillip DeVine, is raped and murdered by John Lotter and Tom Nissen.
  • December 31 - End of the Georgian Civil War.
  • Unknown - The Nine Trey Gangsters (an offshoot of the Bloods) are founded by Omar Portee and Leonard McKenzie.
  • Unknown - Beginning of the First Republic of the Congo Civil War.
  • Unknown - The Kosovo Liberation Army is founded.

Births[edit]

Villain births[edit]

Victim births[edit]

  • May 12 - Kayla Rolland
  • June 5 - Breonna Taylor
  • June 26 - Matthew Eubanks
  • July 6 - Weihan David Wong
  • August 21 - Sydney Loofe
  • October 31 - Colton Boushie
  • December 23 - Christopher Martinez
  • Unknown - Oksana Makar
  • Unknown - Ioli Hadjilyra

Deaths[edit]

Villain deaths[edit]

Victim deaths[edit]

  • January 28 - Martin McNamee
  • February 12 - James Bulger
  • March 10 - David Gunn
  • March 27 - Charlie Keever & Jonathan Sellers
  • April 10 - Chris Hani
  • April 22 - Stephen Lawrence
  • May 1 - Ranasinghe Premadasa
  • June 28 - Eileen Sarmenta & Allan Gomez
  • July 26 - Christina Benjamin & Brian King
  • August 2 - Derrick Robie
  • August 10 - Øystein Aarseth
  • October 1 - Polly Klaas
  • October 21 - Melchior Ndadaye
  • December 31 - Brandon Teena, Lisa Lambert, & Phillip DeVine
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