* January 1: The World Wide Web becomes publicly available.
* April 19: The Oklahoma City bombing kills 168 people and injures over 680.
* May 26: The Bosnian War ends with the signing of the Dayton Agreement.
* July 20: NASA launches the space shuttle Atlantis on a mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
*August 17: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated in Tel Aviv.
* November 22: Microsoft releases Windows 95.
1996
* January 1: The European Union is established with the signing of the Maastricht Treaty.
* February 27: Terrorist attack in Moscow metro kills 26 and injures 200.
* March 27: The United States Food and Drug Administration approves the use of the first protease inhibitor to treat HIV.
* July 17: TWA Flight 800 explodes in mid-air, killing all 230 people on board.
* August 1: NASA's Pathfinder lander touches down on Mars.
* September 4: The United States withdraws from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
1997
* January 20: Bill Clinton is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
* February 22: The Dolly, the first cloned mammal, is born in Scotland.
* March 9: The Notorious B.I.G. is killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Angeles.
* May 11: Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer developed by IBM, defeats world chess champion Garry Kasparov.
* July 4: The Mars Pathfinder rover, Sojourner, lands on Mars.
* August 31: Diana, Princess of Wales, is killed in a car crash in Paris.
1998
* January 1: The euro is introduced as the official currency of 11 European Union countries.
* August 7: Al-Qaeda suicide bombs US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania embassies, killing nearly 220 people.
* September 21: Hurricane Mitch makes landfall in Central America, causing widespread damage and killing over 11,000 people.
* October 29: US launches space shuttle for first joint US-Russian mission to Mir space station.
* November 3: Microsoft releases Windows 98.
1999
* January 1: The euro becomes the sole currency of the 11 European Union countries that adopted it in 1998.
* March 24: NATO begins airstrikes against Yugoslavia in an attempt to end the Kosovo War.
* April 20: The Columbine High School massacre occurs in Colorado, leaving 15 dead and 24 wounded.
* June 15: The United States announces that it has a trade surplus of 237 billion US Dollars with the rest of the world.
* July 20: NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft crashes into the moon at the end of its mission to map the moon's surface.
* December 31: The last day of the 20th century.
2000
* January 1: The Y2K bug does not cause any major problems, as many had feared.
* September 15: The Sydney Olympic Games begin.
* September 28: The Second Intifada begins in the Israeli-occupied territories.
* November 7: George W. Bush is elected President of the United States in a close and controversial election.
* December 31: The last day of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century.