Mar 14 President Clinton trips and tears up his knee requiring surgery

Mar 04 Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU)

Mar 07 Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome &Stockholm are finalists for 2004 Olympics site

Mar 11 Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space

Mar 19 Police fired tear gas and warning shots in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, to quell a protest against the government's plan to use foreign mercenaries to crush a separatist rebellion

Mar 07 Galileo, 4th Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 8)

Aug 29 The Japanese Supreme Court rules the government acted illegally when it deleted from a history textbook references to Japan's deadly experiments on Chinese during World War II.

Aug 21 Death of Norris Bradbury, American physicist who led the team charged with assembling the components for the world's first atomic bomb explosion.

Aug 29 DVD's outsell Laserdiscs in the U.S.

Aug 06 Korean Airlines Flight 801 crashed on Guam

Aug 30 The world learns of the Paris car crash that killed England's Princess Diana, her husband and Harrod's owner Dodi Fayed, and their driver.

Aug 01 Boeing buys out McDonnell-Douglas for $16.3 billion

Aug 12 The birth of Erwin Schrodinger, Physicist

Aug 20 Hudson Bay Railway, owned by Omnitrax of Denver, Colorado, takes over operation of former CN lines to Flin Flon, Lyn Lake and Churchill.

Sep 05 Humanitarian Mother Teresa dies of a heart attack in Calcutta, India, at age 87.

Sep 04 Huron Central Railway, owned by Genessee Rail-One, takes over operation of the former CP line between Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury, Ont.

Sep 20 RaiLink Southern Ontario takes over the operation of the former CN Hagersville subdivision between Nanticoke and Brantford including the Burford Spur. On December 15 the company took over the former CN Northern and Northwestern Spur.

Sep 21 A volcanic avalanche buries Montserrat's airport and flows into the Atlantic Ocean 5.5km away.

Sep 06 The funeral for Diana, Princess of Wales, is held at London's Westminster Abbey.

Sep 23 "The Adventures of Pinocchio" becomes the first DVD to incorporate DVD video games

Sep 04 RaiLink-Lakeland &Waterways takes over the former CN lines in northeastern Alberta from Boyle to Lynton, near Fort McMurray. Agreement was reached on 2 September, operation commenced on 4 September and formal transfer took place on November 24.

Sep 05 Digital Theater Sound (DTS) announces its intentions to enter the DVD market

Feb 09 Fox cartoon series "Simpsons" airs 167th episode the longest-running animated series in cartoon history

Feb 23 Jeff Sluman wins Tucson Golf Classic

Feb 27 "Last Night of Ballyhoo" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC

Feb 24 South Africa announces it is constructing largest modern day blimp

Feb 21 STS 82 (Discovery 22) lands

Feb 21 "Empire Strikes Back, special edition," premieres

Feb 15 US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldridge

Feb 10 Soyuz TM-25 launches to the MIR

Feb 10 O J Simpson jury reaches decision on $25 million in punitive damages

Feb 23 Tucson Chrysler Golf Classic

Feb 27 Singer Sade (Helen Folasade), arrested in Jamaica for disobeying a cop

Feb 23 American Express Senior Golf Invitational

Feb 28 Smokers must prove they are over 18 to purchase cigarettes in US

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