10th » Rwandan Genocide: Maurice Baril, military advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General of the United Nations e.g Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, recommends that UNAMIR stand down.
11th » First Chechen War: President of Russia named Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.
11th » A bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, en route from Manila, Philippines, to Tokyo, Japan, killing one. The captain is able to safely land the plane.
14th » Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River.
15th » Palau becomes a member of the United Nations.
21st » Mexico called Mexican volcano Popocatépetl, dormant for 47 years, erupts gases and ash.
24th » Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked on the ground at Houari Boumedienne Airport, Algiers, Algeria. Over the course of 3 days 3 passengers are killed, as are all 4 terrorists.
26th » Four Armed Islamic Group of Algeria Armed Islamic Group Aircraft hijacking hijackers seize control of Air France Flight 8969. When the plane lands at Marseille, a National Gendarmerie French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the hijac
31st » This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 and UTC−10:00 to UTC+14:00, respectively.