- January 8
- US President George H. W. Bush is televised falling violently ill at a state dinner in Japan, vomiting into the lap of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and fainting. [1] [33]
- January 9
- At the Winter Consumer Electronics Show, Apple Computer chairman John Sculley coins the term Personal Digital Assistant, referring to handheld computers that typically operate via a stylus on a LCD display. Sculley announces that Apple will enter the consumer-electronics market by the end of the year. [4]
- January 11
- Algeria's President Chadli announces his resignation. [1]
- Singer Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the cultural boycott. [1] [33]
- January 12
- The second round of Algeria's general elections is cancelled when the first round is favorable to the Islamic Salvation Front. [1] [33]
- January 13
- Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II. [33]
- January 15
- The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia begins to break up. Slovenia and Croatia gain independence and international recognition in some Western countries. [33]
- Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia. [1]
- European Community recognizes Slovenian and Croatian independence. [1]
- January 16
- El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign a pact in Mexico City ending a 12-year civil war that claimed at least 75,000 lives. [33]
- January 22
- Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation. [33]
- STS-42: Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space, aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. [1] [5] [33]
- January 26
- Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons. [33]
- January 31
- IBM reports a year-end loss, for the first time, of US$564 million, on revenues of US$64.8 billion. [4]
- February 1
- Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal Court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal Disaster case, and orders the Indian government to press for an extradition from the United States. [33]
- February 5
- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces the nomination of Beauty and the Beast for a Best Picture award. This is the first time in the history of the Motion Picture Academy that an animated feature has been nominated in this category. [6]
- February 7
- The Maastricht Treaty is signed, founding the European Union. [33] [37]
- February 9
- Fastest yodeler-22 tones/15 falsetto in one second by Thomas School of Germany. [1]
- February 11
- An F-16 jet crashes into a residential district of Hengelo, the Netherlands; no casualties are reported. [1] [33]
- February 14
- Ceasefire in Somalia begins. [1]
- February 16
- Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated. [1]
- February 18
- The Executive Chairman of UNSCOM details Iraq's refusal to abide by United Nations Security Council disarmament resolutions. [33]
- February 20
- Orthodox patriarch Shenouda III visits Netherlands. [1]
- February 21
- The United Nations Security Council approves United Nations Resolution 743 to send a UNPROFOR peacekeeping force to Yugoslavia. [33]
- February 25
- Digital Equipment unveils the 64-bit Alpha processor architecture, with speed estimates of 150 million instructions per second. [4]
- (to February 26) Massacre of 613 Azerbaijani civilians in Khojaly. [33]
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