1995 - A chemical fire occurs in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines. Police officers led by watch commander Aida Fariscal and investigators find bomb-making materials and a laptop computer and disks that contain plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack. The mastermind, Ramzi Yousef, was arrested one month later. His friend Khalid Sheik Mohammed would not be arrested until March 2003.
1998 - The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around the moon and later found evidence for frozen water on the moon's surface.