Jan 23 British Columbia blocks Alcan's $1.3-billion (Canadian) Kemano power dam development, citing the threat to its salmon fishery.

Jan 11 Birmingham Barracudas granted CFL franchise

Jan 17 7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan (5,372 die)

Jan 20 The United States announced it was easing the trade embargo in effect against North Korea since the Korean War.

Jan 01 Centennial of Canadian Mounties presence in Canada's Yukon Territory

Jan 19 Pope John Paul II beatifies Mother Mary McKillop before crowd of 120,000 at Randwick racecourse in Sydney.

Jan 01 Centennial of Canadian Mounties presence in Canada's Yukon Territory

Jan 21 Calgary Police charge Dorothy Joudrie with attempted murder after the shooting of her estranged husband, oil executive Earl Joudrie, at her home in Calgary

Jan 09 Worker accidentally cuts electrical wires at Newark Airport

Jan 18 Pope John Paul II begins visit to Australia

Feb 08 In Ottawa Romeo LeBlanc sworn in as Canada's 25th Governor General

Feb 02 Henry Olonga no-balled for throwing in Zimbabwe-Pakistan Test Cricket

Feb 13 West Indies beat New Zealand by innings &332, Courtney Walsh 13-55

Feb 10 US female Figure Skating championship won by Nicole Bobek

Feb 25 Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)

Feb 22 Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters

Feb 12 Susan Auch skates female world record 500 meter (38.94 seconds)

Feb 28 US Marines land in Somalia to protect the retreating UN peacekeeping force.

Feb 07 Terrorist Ramzi Yousef is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan, where he had been hiding for two years, for his part in the World Trade Center bombing.

Feb 28 In Fredericton New Brunswick, a judicial report on sexual abuse of boys at Kingsclear Training Centre released; critical of bureaucratic indifference that allowed abuse to continue for almost 30 years

Feb 02 US space shuttle Discovery launched

Feb 28 Denver International Airport opens.

Feb 01 Belgium's TV channel VT4 goes on the air

Feb 22 Bloc Quebecois leader Lucien Bouchard returns to the House of Commons where MPs give him a standing ovation; he had lost part of his leg to the so-called flesh-eating disease in late 1993

Feb 01 Amtrak New York-Tampa run ends

Feb 03 Air Force Lt. Colonel Eileen Collins becomes the first woman commander of a U.S. space mission as the shuttle Discovery blasts off from Cape Kennedy.

Feb 02 Egyptian, Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian leaders meet in Cairo to restore peace in the Middle East.

Feb 13 A Netherlands tribunal indicts 21 Serbs for atrocities committed at a Bosnian prison camp.

Feb 15 Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17

Feb 25 Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 Shiite mosque goers dead

Feb 27 Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed)

Feb 12 PRI loses/PAN wins Mexican regional elections

Feb 05 Japan's Shinshinto Party win local elections

Feb 11 The space shuttle Discovery touches down at Cape Canaveral, Florida, ending a mission that included docking with the Russian Mir space station.

Feb 11 West Indies score 5-660 against New Zealand

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