From top to bottom, left to right: The
Oklahoma City bombing kills 168 people and becomes the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history, shaking the nation and prompting new federal anti-terrorism laws; Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv, dealing a severe blow to the Israeli–Palestinian peace process and shocking the world;
O. J. Simpson is found
not guilty of murder in one of the most-watched and controversial trials in U.S. history, sparking national debates about race and justice;
Windows 95 is released by Microsoft, ushering in a new era of personal computing with the debut of the Start menu and taskbar; the
Sampoong Department Store collapse in Seoul kills over 500 people, becoming one of the deadliest modern building failures and exposing severe flaws in construction oversight; the
Srebrenica massacre takes place during the Bosnian War, as Bosnian Serb forces killed more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys in Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II; the
Great Hanshin earthquake strikes Kobe, Japan, killing over 6,000 people and causing widespread destruction in one of the country's worst natural disasters of the 20th century;
American Airlines Flight 965 crashes into a mountain near Cali, Colombia, killing 151 people and prompting global changes in aviation safety procedures; the
Murder of Selena shocks the world as Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez is fatally shot by the president of her fan club, cutting short a rising star's life and leaving a lasting cultural legacy.