| Police and protesters clash during Democratic National Convention protests as protesters chant "The whole world is watching". |
| Norrmalmstorg robbery: Stockholm police secure the surrenders of hostage-takers Jan-Erik Olsson and Clark Olofsson, defusing the Norrmalmstorg hostage crisis.
The behaviours of the hostages later give rise to the term Stockholm syndrome. |
| Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd.
Seventy-five are killed and seriously injured. |
| Gulf War: Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province. |
| An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people. |
| NASA's Galileo probe performs a flyby of the asteroid Ida.
Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl. |
| Singaporean presidential election: Former De
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