Seattle
- The Seattle Mariners mounted one of baseball's most improbable late-season runs, forcing a one-game playoff with the Yankees and saving professional baseball in the city.
- Amazon.com launched publicly, offering books with a selection and price no physical store could match.
- Microsoft Windows 95 launched to lines around retail stores, cementing Redmond's dominance of the personal-computing era.
The United States
- The Oklahoma City bombing, carried out by a US Army veteran motivated by anti-government rage, killed 168 people. This was the deadliest domestic terrorist attack in US history at the time. (Reference, FBI)
- O.J. Simpson was acquitted; the verdict split the country along racial lines in ways that revealed a fracture few had fully seen.
- The Million Man March drew hundreds of thousands of Black men to Washington, D.C., in a call for unity and self-reliance.
The World
- The Dayton Accords ended the Bosnian War, freezing a fragile peace in a fractured country that has never fully healed.
- Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a right-wing Israeli extremist after a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
- The World Trade Organization replaced GATT, institutionalizing a global trading order that would generate enormous wealth - and enormous backlash.
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