- Riots in Los Angeles after police are acquitted of assaulting African-American Rodney King
- Bombing of Baltic Exchange
- Church of England votes to allow women to become priests
- Maastricht Treaty on the European Union is signed
- Conservative Party wins general election under John Major
- First McDonald’s in China opens in Beijing
- Charles Saatchi organises first series of exhibitions of Young British Artists
- Feminists protest lack of female artists shortlisted for the Turner Prize
- Francis Bacon dies
- United Colors of Benetton advertising campaign features photographs of dying AIDS victims
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