- Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia win independence from USSR
- US Supreme Court limits death row appeals (April 16)
- Super Bowl
- NY Giants d. Buffalo (20-19)
- World Series
- Minnesota d. Atlanta Braves (4-3)
- NBA Championship
- Chicago d. LA Lakers (4-1)
- Stanley Cup
- Pittsburgh d. Minnesota (4-2)
- Fox Broadcasting is the first network to permit condom advertising on television.
- Movies - The Silence of the Lambs, Beauty and the Beast, JFK, Thelma & Louise
- Cost of a gallon of Gas $1.12
- Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States, killing 17.
- Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested after the remains of 11 men and boys are found in his Milwaukee, Wisconsin apartment
- Former U.S. postal worker Joseph Harris kills his former girlfriend and her fiance and two former co workers at the post office in Ridgewood, New Jersey which resulted in the phrase "going postal"
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