Tom Hanks wins an Oscar for playing a gay man with AIDS in the film Philadelphia.

AIDS becomes the leading cause of death among Americans between the ages of 25 and 44. 400,000 people in the United States have developed AIDS since 1981, and over 250,000 people are said to have died from conditions in the category called AIDS. (During the same period, over 25 million people died of heart disease and cancer in the U.S.)

Dr. Phillip Johnson, Dr. Charles Thomas, and Nobel Prize recipient Dr. Kary Mullis author "What Causes AIDS? It's An Open Question" in the June issue of Reason.