Apr 03 St Francis Fighting Saints scores college baseball run record 71-1

Apr 05 Marlon Brando makes anti-semitic remarks about hollywood on Larry King

Apr 04 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Austin TX on KJFK 98.9 FM

Apr 03 South Australia grab exciting draw vs Western Australia to win Sheffield Shield

Apr 04 "Inherit the Wind" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 45 performances

Apr 05 John Bobbitt is put under house arrest in Las Vegas for 120 days

Nov 02 Ontario L'Orignal Railway (RailTex) commences operation over the former CN line between Glen Robertson, Hawkesbury and L'Orignal, Ont.

Nov 29 Volkswagen executive Jose Ignacio Lopez resigned on this day under charges of industrial espionage from General Motors, his former employer

Nov 25 America Online announced it would sell its WebCrawler search engine to Excite.

Nov 25 Buoyed by booming confidence in the dollar, as well as dwindling interest rates on U.S. Treasury Bonds, the Dow charged past the magic 6.500 point for the first time in history

Nov 29 The media reported that MTV Networks was demanding fees from online services that linked to their sites

Nov 21 CompuServe announced it would shut down its family-oriented service, WOW!, just eight months after it was launched

Nov 22 America Online agreed to provide a pop-up screen asking members to select a pricing plan.

Sep 28 Iron Road Railways, under the name Quebec Southern Railway commences operation over the following former CP lines in Quebec: Lennoxville - St-Jean Brookport - Wells River (VT) Farnham - Ste-Rosalie Jct Farnham - Stanbridge

Sep 21 John F. Kennedy, Jr. marries Carolyn Bessette on Cumberland Island, GA.

Sep 14 York - Durham Heritage Railway commences operation over the former CN line between Uxbridge and Stouffville, Ont.

Sep 26 U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid returned to earth after six months in orbit aboard the Russian space station Mir

Sep 12 Rocky Mountain Railtours runs the longest passenger train in Canadian history. Three GP40 locomotives hauled 34 cars from Vancouver to Kamloops.

Sep 28 Iron Road Railways, under the name Quebec Southern Railway commences operation over the following former CP lines in Quebec Lennoxville - St-Jean Brookport - Wells River (VT) Farnham - Ste-Rosalie Jct Farnham - Stanbridge

Jun 29 Ottawa rocker Alanis Morrissette performs eight songs from her hit album Jagged Little Pill before 150,000 people in London's Hyde Park

Dec 01 A volcano erupts in eastern Zaire, spewing a plume of ash and lava into the air

Dec 01 In a move that led to a public-relations disaster, America Online shifted to a flat $19.95-per-month fee for unlimited access

Dec 29 A peace accord is signed in Guatemala, ending 36 years of civil unrest there.

Dec 26 Six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's Boulder, Colorado, home. The killing remains unsolved.

Dec 05 Newspapers reported that Microsoft had struck deals with several computer makers that would give it a significant advantage: The companies would not be allowed to use Windows unless Microsoft's screen came up immediately when users logged on. Hey mine does

Dec 16 IBM announced on this day in 1996 it would stop selling computers that used that PowerPC chip and ran Windows NT. IBM, Motorola, and Apple had teamed up to challenge Intel Corporation's dominance in chips and Microsoft's near monopoly on operating systems

Dec 01 Chemin de fer Baie des Chaleurs, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Quebec Railway Corporation, commences operation over the former CN line beween Matapedia and Chandler, Que.

Dec 17 Intel Corporation and the Energy Department announced the development of a high-speed computer capable of performing more than one trillion calculations per second.

Dec 22 Brett Hull becomes the 24th player in NHL history to score 500 goals when he notches a hat trick in the St. Louis Blues' 7-4 victory over the Los Angeles Kings

Dec 05 Newspapers reported that Microsoft had struck deals with several computer makers that would give it a significant advantage The companies would not be allowed to use Windows unless Microsoft's screen came up immediately when users logged on. Hey mine does

Aug 14 Ian Macfarlane is appointed new head of Australia's Reserve Bank

Aug 28 Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana divorce, ending 15 years of marriage.

Aug 04 26th Olympic Summer games close in Atlanta, Georgia

Aug 29 A Russian plane carrying coal miners to work at a remote arctic island smashes into a mountain top, killing all 41 people aboard in the worst air disaster on Norwegian soil

Oct 30 RaiLink-Ottawa Valley takes over operation of the former CP line between Smiths Falls and Cartier, Ont as well as the Mattawa to Temiskaming branch in Quebec.

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