Oct 01 The St. Lawrence and Hudson Railway is formed by merging the CP Rail routes in southern Ontario and Quebec with its Delaware and Hudson subsidiary in northern USA. The STLH name was first used about June 1 although the legal entity was not established until October 1.

Oct 12 Linda Juster is married in Placentia California

Jul 20 26th Olympic Summer games opens in Atlanta, Georgia

Jul 07 Indonesia cancels appointment of General Mantiri as ambassador to Australia and leaves post temporarily vacant.

Jul 27 One person is killed and more than 100 injured as a pipe bomb explodes at the Atlanta Olympics.

Mar 17 Mike Tyson beat Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain Heavyweight title

Mar 27 "State Fair", opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 118 performances

Mar 10 22nd People's Choice Awards Apollo 13, Tom Hanks win

Mar 01 Plans approved allowing traffic cameras High Harrington &Shap England

Mar 29 10th Soul Train Music Awards Patti Labelle, Boyz II Men win

Mar 25 68th Academy Awards: "Braveheart", Nicholas Cage & Susan Sarandon win

Mar 16 Mike Tyson KOs Frank Bruno in 2nd round

Mar 06 10th American Comedy Awards

Mar 31 Space Shuttle STS 76 (Atlantis 16), lands

Mar 25 Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) approaches within 0.1018 AUs of Earth

Mar 24 U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid safely transfers to the Russian space station Mir from the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis for a planned five-month stay.

Mar 22 STS 76 (Atlantis 16), launches into orbit

Mar 24 MTA raises NYC bridge tolls to $3.50 each way

Mar 24 16th Golden Raspberry Awards Showgirls wins

Mar 07 British Steel in Workington wins Lithuanian multi-million £ order

Mar 07 Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists

Mar 20 UK admits humans can catch CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease aka Mad Cow Disease)

Mar 28 Katie Beam, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 35th Miss Teenage America

Mar 07 The first surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)

Mar 15 Tasmanian Premier Ray Groom resigns after accepting responsibility for Liberals losing majority in recent election.

Mar 25 World Ice Dance Championship in Edmonton won by Gritshuk & Platov (Russia)

Mar 19 Winnie Mandela divorces Nelson after 38 years of marrage

Mar 26 Canada's Anik E-1 communications satellite suffers electronic fault in Space, loses 50% of its capacity.

Mar 10 22nd People's Choice Awards: Apollo 13, Tom Hanks win

Mar 11 Chris Harris scores 130 in losing New Zealand side vs Australia, World Cup

Mar 12 Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy

Mar 28 In Ecuador a 6.0 earthquake occurred at least 27 people killed, 100 injured, several thousand homeless

Mar 01 New toll-free 888 area code introduced

Mar 24 16th Golden Raspberry Awards: Showgirls wins

Mar 31 Karnataka defeat Tamil Nadu on first innings to win Ranji Trophy

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