Scientists in Scotland announce the first successful cloning of a mammal – Dolly, the sheep.

After dying in a Paris car crash, the funeral of Princess Diana draws unprecedented worldwide attention.

Jon Benet Ramsey, a six-year-old beauty pageant contestant, is found murdered in her Colorado home.  Her parents claim an intruder did it, but soon fall under “an umbrella of suspicion.” The case remains unsolved.

39 members of the Heaven’s Gate cult are found dead in a home in California.  They committed suicide in the belief that an alien spaceship, hiding behind the Hale-Bopp comet, was coming to take them away.

Comedian Ellen Degeneres “outs” herself in the media and on her hit sitcom.

Michael Jackson and wife Debbie Rowe welcome their first child, Prince Michael Jr.

Spice Girls
Backstreet Boys
Hanson
Meredith Brooks

Album: Time Out of Mind, Bob Dylan
Song: “Sunny Came Home,”  Shawn Colvin
Best New Artist: Paula Cole

The top five movies of the year:

1. The Lost World:  Jurassic Park 2

2. Men In Black
3. Liar Liar
4. Air Force One
5. Batman & Robin

Our eyeballs were glued to these favorites!

• Veronica's
• Just Shoot Me
• The Drew Carey Show
• Law and Order
• Ellen

John Denver
Michael Hutchence (INXS)
Mother Teresa
Gianni Versace
Jimmy Stewart