• Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin assasinated
• Mexican bailout
• Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City destroyed by terrorist bomb
• OJ Simpson verdict - "Not Guilty"

1. Batman Forever
2. Apollo 13
3. Toy Story
4. Pocahontas
5. Ace Ven tura II
6. Casper
7. Die Hard: With a Vengence
8. Goldeneye
9. Crimson Tide
10. Waterworld

Fiction
1."The Chamber" ... John Grisham
2."Debt of Honor" ... Tom Clancey
3."The Celestine Prophecy" ... James Redfield
4."The Gift" ... Danielle Steel
5."Insomnia" ... Stephen King
6."Politically Correct Bedtime Stories" ... James Finn Garner
7."Wings" ... Danielle Steel
8."Accident" ... Danielle Steel
9."The Bridges of Madison County" ... Robert James Waller
10. "Disclosure" ... Michael Crichton
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Nonfiction
1."In the Kitchen with Rosie" ... Rosie Daley
2."Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" ... John Gary
3."Crossing the Threshold of Hope" ... John Paul II
4."Magic Eye I, N.E." ... Thing Enterprise
5."The Book of Virtues" ... William J. Bennett
6."Magic Eye II, N.E. " ... Thing Enterprise
7."Embraced by the Light" ... Betty J. Eadie with Curtis Taylor
8."Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man" ... Tim Allen
9 ."Couplehood" ... Paul Reiser
10."Magic Eye Book III, N.E." ... Thing Enterprise

Most Popular Television Shows

Best Picture: "Braveheart"
Best Director: Mel Gibson ... "Braveheart"
Best Actor: Nicolas Cage ... "Leaving Las Vegas"
Best Actress: Susan Sarandon ... "Dead Man Walking"

Grammy Awards

Song of the Year: "Kiss from a Rose" ... Seal|
Best Song: "Kiss from a Rose" ... Seal
Best Album: "Jagged Little Pill" ... Alanis Morissette
Male Vocalist: Seal ... "Kiss From a Rose"
Female Vocalist: Annie Lennox ... "No More 'I Love Yous'"

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
The prize was awarded jointly to: CRUTZEN, PAUL J., The Netherlands, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, b. 1933; MOLINA, MARIO J., U.S.A., (in Mexico City, Mexico) MIT, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., b. 1943; and ROWLAND, F. SHERWOOD, U.S.A., University of California, Irvine, CA, U.S.A., b. 1927: "for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone"

Literature
HEANEY, SEAMUS, Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, b. 1939: "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past"

Peace
The prize was awarded jointly to: JOSEPH ROTBLAT and to the PUGWASH CONFERENCES ON SCIENCE AND WORLD AFFAIRS for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and in the longer run to eliminate such arms.

PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE
The prize was awarded jointly to: LEWIS, EDWARD B., U.S.A., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A., b. 1918; NUSSLEIN-VOLHARD, CHRISTIANE, Germany, Max-Planck-Institut fur Entwicklungsbiologie, Tubingen, Germany, b. 1942; and WIESCHAUS, ERIC F., U.S.A., Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A., b. 1947: "for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development"

Physics
The prize was awarded "for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics" with one half to: PERL, MARTIN L., U.S.A., Stanford University, Stanford, CA, U.S.A., b. 1927, "for the discovery of the tau lepton" and with one half to: REINES, FREDERICK, U.S.A., University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, U.S.A., b. 1918, d. 1998: "for the detection of the neutrino"

Pulitzer Prizes

Drama: Horton Foote ... "The Young Man from Atlanta"
Fiction: Carol Shields ... "The Stone Diaries"
History: Doris Kearns Goodwin ... "No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt"
International Reporting: Mark Fritz ... "Associated Press"
National Reporting: Tony Horwitz ... "Wall Street Journal"
Public Service: "Virgin Islands Daily News"