- UN declares famine in Sudan
- India and Pakistan test nuclear weapons
- Good Friday agreement is signed in Northern Ireland
- Clinton and Lewinsky sex scandal is exposed
- Apple Computer unveils the iMac
- General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London
- Sensation exhibition travels to US and causes outrage
- The Angel of the North sculpture by Antony Gormley is assembled outside Gateshead
- James Cameron’s Titanic becomes the highest grossing film of all time