Feb 09 Former U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright dies in Washington, D.C. at age 89.

Feb 21 Steve Fossett, a Chicago stockbroker, becomes the first person to make a solo balloon flight across the Pacific, landing in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Feb 14 Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas

Feb 18 Pamela Anderson (Baywatch) & Tommy Lee (Motley Crüe) wed

Feb 01 Andy & Grant Flower make 269 stand vs Pakistan, brotherly record

Feb 15 Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion

Feb 15 Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko, resigns

Feb 26 Barings, England's oldest investment banking company, fails after a securities broker loses over $1 billion gambling on Tokyo stock prices.

Feb 08 6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed)

Feb 06 Beachboy Brian Wilson wed Melinda Ledbetter

Feb 03 STS 63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit

Feb 23 On Wall Street, The Dow Jones industrial average closes above 4,000 for the first time, ending the day at 4003.33.

Feb 10 Chelsi Smith, 21, (Texas), crowned 44th Miss USA

Feb 21 RAF-pilot Jo Salter is first woman to fly in a tornado

Feb 06 Greg Blewett scores his 2nd century in his 2nd Test Cricket

Feb 11 US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge

Apr 29 In Kitchener Ontario butchers finish making the world's longest sausage, with a length of 28.77 miles.

Apr 02 More than 80 top Australian rugby league players sign with Super League

Apr 03 57th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion UCLA Bruins beats Arkansas 89-78

Apr 19 A massive bomb explosion destroys much of a federal building in Oklahoma City, USA

Apr 03 Howard Stern gets in trouble for disparaging remarks about Selena

Nov 19 Canadian National shares begin to trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Nov 03 The new Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies of the NBA each play thier first season opening game(both win)

Nov 21 Toy Story, the first entirely computer-animated movie, was released on this day

Nov 19 The Baltimore Stallions , the first U.S. franchise in the Cd. Football League win the Grey Cup

Nov 01 Commuter service commences over CP Rail between Vancouver and Mission, BC.

Nov 21 The Dow Jones closes over 5000 fo rthe first time

Nov 12 Canadian Chris Hadfield flys on the space shuttle as mission specialist

Nov 04 Israeli Prime Minister Assassinated

Dec 15 The New York Stock Exchange charged into the record books on this day. The Big Board posted a new mark for trading volume, as 652.8 million shares changed hands, topping the old mark of 608.2 million shares

Dec 20 NATO assumes peacekeeping duties in Bosnia

Dec 06 After a long and heated debate, House and Senate committee members agreed on the final wording of the Communications Decency Act, which made it a crime to provide pornography to minors over the Internet.

Dec 01 Michael Monus, the former president of the Phar-Mor drug store chain, was found guilty of embezzling roughly $1 billion from the company.

Dec 07 Bill Gates announced that Microsoft would shift its entire business focus to the Internet.

Dec 22 Quebec Lucien Bouchard announces that he is a candidate for the leadership of the Parti Québécois.

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