Mar 13 9th Soul Train Music Awards Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win

Mar 12 Congress party loses India national election

Mar 06 American Express Travel begins charging for domestic air tickets

Mar 22 Deputy Governor of Bank of England, Rupert Pennant-Rea, resigns following revelations of his affair with a freelance journalist

Mar 19 Finland Social-Democratic Party wins parliamentary election

Mar 19 Neil Marshall skates world record 3 km (3 4.08)

Mar 01 Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland

Mar 26 24th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nanci Bowen

Mar 26 15th Golden Raspberry Awards Color of Night wins

Mar 10 Dow-Jones hits record 4035.64

Mar 20 Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4,700 injured

Mar 07 Dollar worth 1.5330 Dutch guilder (record)

Mar 12 Sprinter Melinda Gainsford becomes the first Australian to win a world sprint title in more than 30 years

Mar 05 21st People's Choice Awards: Tim Allen wins

Mar 02 Space shuttle STS-67 (Endeavour 8), launches

Mar 04 George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker

Mar 18 Michael Jordan announces he is ending his 17 month NBA retirement

Mar 19 Bonnie Blair skates female world record point total (156.450)

Mar 19 "Translations" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 25 performances

Mar 12 Lara scores 139 in ODI vs Australia at Port-of-Spain

Mar 02 The NASA space shuttle Endeavour blasts off on a mission to study the far reaches of space.

Mar 06 9th American Comedy Awards: Rodney Dangerfield

Mar 07 New York becomes 38th state to have the death penalty

Mar 13 Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators

Mar 31 Microsoft Bob, a much ballyhooed "social interface" from Microsoft, started shipping.

Mar 05 Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election

Mar 27 67th Academy Awards "Forest Gump", Tom Hanks & Jessica Lange win

Mar 06 9th American Comedy Awards Rodney Dangerfield

Aug 21 NSW Police Royal Commission key witness Trevor Haken accuses 35 high ranking officers and others of corruption.

Aug 24 Microsoft holds a party for 2,000 industry dignitaries on its Redmond, WA campus, as it introduces the Windows 95 personal computer operating system to the world. (Our webmaster was one of those who attended the event, along with Bill Gates and Jay Leno.)

Aug 23 Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt (Life magazine) dies at age 96.

Aug 28 Chase Manhattan and Chemical Bank announce plans for a $10 billion merger to become the largest bank in the US.

Sep 06 Cal Ripken, Baltimore Orioles shortstop, breaks Lou Gehrig's record by playing in 2,131 consecutive games.

Sep 05 France sets off an underground nuclear device in the South Pacific, ending a three-year moratorium on such tests.

Sep 06 The Senate Ethics Committee recommends expulsion of US Senator Bob Packwood, accused of sexual misconduct.

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