Criminal trial of O. J. Simpson opens in California (Jan. 24).

Million Man March draws hundreds of thousands of black men to capital (Oct. 16).

US GDP (1998 dollars): $7,269.60 billion
Federal spending: $1519.13 billion
Federal debt: $4921.0 billion
Median Household Income
(current dollars): $34,076
Consumer Price Index: 152.4
Unemployment: 5.6%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.32 (as of 1/1/95)

President: William J. Clinton
Vice President: Albert Gore, Jr.
Population: 262,764,948
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 52.8
Property Crime Rate (per 1,000): 45.9

Drs. Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell (UK) create the world's first cloned sheep, Megan and Morag, from embryo cells. Background: Cloning Milestones

An estimated 150 million people watch as the not guilty verdict is read in the O. J. Simpson verdict.

Scores killed as terrorist's car bomb blows up block-long Oklahoma City federal building (April 19); Timothy McVeigh, 27, arrested as suspect (April 21); authorities seek second suspect, link right-wing paramilitary groups to bombing (April 22).

Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia dies.