The University of Oxford receives its Royal charter.

The Garfield cartoon strip makes its debut.

The Reinsurance Treaty is signed by Germany and Russia.

After a televised low-speed highway pursuit, OJ Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

The Ford Motor Company is formed.

A tsunami in Japan kills more than 22,000 people.

TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Lebanese Islamist organization Hezbollah after take-off from Athens, Greece.

The Great Vancouver Fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.

The parliament of the Russian Federation declares its sovereignty on Russia Day.

The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston between Yankees and Irish over racial tensions