Highlights
The world was watching. Here's what dominated the headlines:
Ralph Abernathy
Ralph Abernathy, American minister and activist (born 1936)
Jinho
Jo Jinho, South Korean singer
Turgut Özal
Turgut Özal, Turkish engineer and politician, 8th president of Turkey (born 1927)
Alanna Goldie
Alanna Goldie, Canadian fencer
The Katina P is deliberately run aground off Maputo, Mozambique, and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
Roger Wolcott Sperry, American psychologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1913)
Chaim Herzog, Israeli general, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of Israel (born 1918)
Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-90, the final Spacelab mission.
The decade's soundtrack was electric. These artists were making waves:
Gamal Hamdan
Gamal Hamdan, Egyptian scholar and geographer (born 1928)
Linda McCartney
Linda McCartney, American photographer, activist, and musician (born 1941)
On the field and off it, athletes were making history:
Lachlan Maranta
Lachlan Maranta, Australian rugby league footballer
Anna Odine Strøm
Anna Odine Strøm, Norwegian ski jumper and two-time Olympic champion
Must-see TV was a real thing — and this is what filled the airwaves:
All My Children
"Monday April 17 1995" (Season 1995, Episode 76) aired on 1995-04-17.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
"Save the Last Trance for Me" (Season 5, Episode 21) aired on 1995-04-17.
Joseph
"Part 2" (Season 1, Episode 2) aired on 1995-04-17.
The Marshal
"Unprotected Witness" (Season 1, Episode 12) aired on 1995-04-17.
"The Germ Turns" (Season 2, Episode 6) aired on 1995-04-17.
"The Extraordinary Journeys Of Jules Verne" (Season 1995, Episode 20) aired on 1995-04-17.
"Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Berlin, Ram Pathak, Tanya Tucker" (Season 1995, Episode 62) aired on 1995-04-17.
"Peter Tilden (guest host), Peri Gilpin" (Season 1996, Episode 44) aired on 1996-04-17.
"Thursday April 17 1997" (Season 25, Episode 78) aired on 1997-04-17.
"Peri Gilpin" (Season 1997, Episode 51) aired on 1997-04-17.
"Thane Maynard, Issac Hayes, Bobby Slayton" (Season 1998, Episode 7) aired on 1998-04-17.
"Rock and Roll Ears, The Bucket, The Bridesmaid, Voice from the Grave & The Chess Game" (Season 2, Episode 9) aired on 1998-04-17.
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