1st » Prime Minister of Poland Waldemar Pawlak resigns from parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Józef Oleksy.
1st » Yahoo! is incorporated.
2nd » Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.
14th » Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
16th » Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution named Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
20th » A sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway kills 13 and wounds 1,300 persons.
22nd » Astronaut named Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in outer space or space.