The full-length, uncensored version of Schindler’s List aired on NBC, receiving 65 million viewers.
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President H. W. Bush gave Iraq the ultimatum that they had 24 hours to get their forces out of Kuwait or face war.
Polio vaccines were given to the first group of children in the US at Arsenal Elementary School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg discovered the chemical element Plutonium.
The United States of America leased Guantanamo Bay from Cuba, with the lease lasting an indefinite period.
US General Eisenhower bid to raise $170 million in aid to help European Jews.