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Nelson Mandela becomes president of South Africa in May after the first elections open to all. In Rwanda a genocide kills hundreds of thousands of people between April and July. In December a new free browser helps bring the web to the public.

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Sega 32X

32X

Sega

Its code name was Mars. This add-on plugged into Sega's home console to turn it into a 32-bit machine while waiting for the next console. Critics first praised its low price, then turned against it within weeks. Sales stopped in early 1996 with only forty games.

Photo: Evan-Amos (Public domain)

Danone Actimel

Actimel

Danone

Its name comes from the Dutch 'actieve melk', active milk. Each 100 ml bottle promised nearly 10 billion bacteria for the body's defences.

Photo: Pancrat (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9

Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9

Torn apart near Jupiter, the comet hit the planet in pieces between 16 and 22 July 1994. Fragment A struck first at about 60 km/s and left a huge dark spot. It was the first collision between two bodies of the solar system ever seen directly away from Earth.

Photo: NASA, ESA, and H. Weaver and E. Smith (STScI) (Public domain)

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