Phil Sharp, an MIT professor from Falmouth, Ky., wins Nobel Prize in medicine for research on gene structure. Police slowly chase O.J. Simpson, wanted in murder of his wife and another man, on highways of Los Angeles area. Men linked to figure skater Tonya Harding club rival Nancy Kerrigan on the knee. World Series canceled by players' strike. Rock singer Kurt Cobain commits suicide.
Whitewater investigation begins.
Louisville's Commonwealth Building razed. Major blizzard hits Louisville area with 16-inch snowfall and temperature of 22 below zero. Shannon Faulkner becomes first woman admitted to The Citadel. Tenn. Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky is at the center of a sex scandal involving President Clinton in 1998. Shannon Lucid sets U.S. space endurance record aboard the Russian Mir space station.