Sep 18 Australian PM announces plans to make Australia a republic by 2001

Sep 24 America and the Commonwealth lift trade sanctions against South Africa

Sep 10 Further agreements reached between the PLO and Israel about self rule in the Gaza Strip

Sep 13 Israel and the PLO sign historic peace agreement at the White House, USA

Sep 23 A South African Bill grants blacks a legal say in affairs of state for the first time

Jun 14 U.S. President Clinton selects Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a women's rights advocate, to serve on the Supreme Court.

Jun 25 Canada elected its first woman as prime minister. Kim Campbell was Canada’s 19th prime minister, governing until October 25, 1993 when the Progressive-Conservative party was royally defeated.

Jun 15 John Connally, the former Texas governor wounded when President John F. Kennedy was killed, dies at age 76.

Dec 25 SS South of Ireland, a passenger steamer, built for the Great Western Railway, and completed in 1867, she was lost at Warbarrow near Lulworth on December 25th, inward bound to Weymouth.

Dec 12 Ultra-Nationalists make strong gains in Russian elections dec13

Dec 15 Downing Street Declaration on Northern Ireland issued

Dec 07 South African transitional executive council set up

Dec 02 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot to death in Medellin.

Dec 14 Actress Myrna Loy dies at age 88.

Dec 08 The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed into US law. NAFTA is a trade pact between the United States, Canada, and Mexico, eliminates virtually all tariffs and trade restrictions between the three nations.

Dec 28 Timmins, Ontario country singer Shania Twain marries her producer Robert John "Mutt& Lang.

Dec 13 Hubble Space Telescope repaired

Dec 15 GATT Uruguay Round completed

Aug 10 In the South Island, New Zealand a 7.0 earthquake was centered about 130 kilometers west of Queenstown

Aug 18 Waring factions in Yugoslavia agree to place Sarajevo under UN control

Aug 31 Russians pull last 500 military personnel left from cold war, out of Lithuania

Oct 01 The Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway commences operation over the former CN line between Sydney and Truro, Nova Scotia.

Oct 10 Socialists regain power in Greece

Oct 25 Jean Chretien succeeds Kim Campbell as Canada's prime minister.

Oct 02 President Yeltsin declares a State of Emergency in Moscow

Jul 09 Peter Gill of the British Forensic Science Service announced that his team had positively identified the remains of Russia's last czar, Nicholas II, his wife, Czarina Alexandra, three of their five children, and four of their servant

Jul 23 Widespread flooding on the Mississippi river, USA

Jul 02 Death of Sir Edward "Weary" Dunlop Sir Edward's name is closely associated with the courage and endurance of Australian prisoners of war of the Japanese

Jul 08 Egypt executes 7 Islamic extremists for attacks on foreign tourists

Jul 12 In the Hokkaido, Japan Region, a 7.6 earthquake killed at least 200 people and 39 missing in the Hokkaido region, including at least 165 killed on Okushiri

Jul 13 Germans hold farewell ceremony for Canadian troops after 42 years of NATO service.

Jul 23 Sarah Deal becomes first women Marine selected for naval aviation training.

Mar 04 Katharine Hepburn enters the hospital suffering from exhaustion

Mar 22 Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS

Mar 13 Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US

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