April 19, 1995: Oklahoma City bombing: 168 people are killed — including 8 Federal Marshals and 19 children — and 680 wounded at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building by a bomb set off by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.

October 16, 1995: The Million Man March is held in Washington D.C. The event was conceived by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

November 4, 1995: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.

1995: In Boston: Ted Williams Tunnel opens; City Office of Civil Rights established; Citizen Schools nonprofit headquarters open.

January 26, 1996: Whitewater scandal: U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies before a grand jury.

August 21, 1996: Former South Africa president F. W. de Klerk, makes an official apology for crimes committed under Apartheid to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Cape Town.

August 26, 1996: Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law.

November 5, 1996: U.S. presidential election, 1996: Incumbent Democratic President Bill Clinton defeats his Republican challenger, Robert J. Dole.

1996: In Boston: Harbor Islands National Recreation Area established; City Public Health Commission, established; Massachusetts Interactive Media Council established; Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth headquartered in city; Boston Coalition of Black Women incorporated.

December 5, 1996: President Clinton appoints Madeleine Albright as first female U.S. Secretary of State.

December 13, 1996: Kofi Annan named United Nations secretary-general.

May 16, 1997: U.S. President Bill Clinton issues a formal apology to the surviving victims of the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male and their families.

July 10, 1997: In London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from Neanderthal skeleton, which support the “Out of Africa” theory of human evolution, placing an “African Eve” at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.

January 17, 1998: The Drudge Report breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton’s alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which led to impeachment by the House of Representatives.

June 7, 1998: James Byrd Jr, a 49-year-old African-American man is dragged to death behind a pickup truck by three men, of whom at least two were white supremacists, in Jasper, Texas; White supremacist John William King is found guilty of the crime (Feb. 23, 1999).

August 19, 1998: In Boston: Dudley Film Festival (now the Roxbury International Film Festival) is founded.

February 4, 1999: Unarmed Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by New York City police on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.