Dec 08 The Carlton Trail Railway (Omnitrax) takes over the operation of the following CN lines in north western Saskatchewan Warman Junction to just north of Prince Albert. Speers Junction to Meadow Lake.

Dec 17 Microsoft and Silicon Graphics Inc ended their conflict over the display of three-dimensional graphics online. The companies had engaged in a long battle over technical standards, which delayed development of graphics technology.

Dec 29 Kmart announces the closure of 10 stores across Canada; finding it difficult to compete against WalMart.

Dec 22 Coca-Cola went Christmas shopping on this day and came home with a rather hefty present Orangina, the "sparkling" French beverage formerly owned by Pernod Richard

Dec 11 Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson of federal district court issues preliminary injunction forcing Microsoft to stop, at least temporarily, requiring manufacturers to install its Internet Explorer on PCs.

Dec 22 Coca-Cola went Christmas shopping on this day and came home with a rather hefty present: Orangina, the "sparkling" French beverage formerly owned by Pernod Richard

Dec 05 High-speed modem makers and longtime rivals 3Com and Rockwell International tentatively agreed to end their bitter feud over technical standards

Dec 09 Natalie Meadowcroft and Dan Meadowcroft are Married in Las Vegas, Nevada. "May their love last forever"

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.

Oct 15 Near Coast of Central Chile a 7.3 quake resulted in five people killed at Pueblo Nuevo, one person killed at Coquimbo, one person killed at La Chimba and another died of a heart attack at Punitaqui. More than 300 people injured, 5,000 houses destroyed, 5,700 houses severely damaged, another 10,000 slightly damaged

Oct 15 The Cyprus-registered Evoikos and an empty Thai supertanker Orapin Global collide in the Singapore strait, causing the worst oil spill in the country's history

Jul 09 Near Coast of Venezuela a 7.0 quaked killed at least 81 people, 522 injured, extensive damage and landslides in the Cariaco-Cumana area. At least 3,000 people were left homeless

Jul 01 China regains sovereignty of Hong Kong

Jul 12 Waterloo - St. Jacobs Railway commences passenger service over the former CN Waterloo Spur between Waterloo and Elmira, Ont.

Jul 04 Web surfers viewed the first-ever photos of the surface of Mars, transmitted by the Sojourner, a roving robot deposited by the Mars Pathfinder, an unmanned spacecraft

Jul 13 A 12-year-old Canberra girl is killed by a chunk of flying metal when the implosion to level the old Royal Canberra Hospital goes wrong.

Mar 25 The Australian Senate votes to overturn the Northern Territory's Rights of the Terminally Ill law, the world's only law allowing terminally ill patients to commit suicide with a doctor's help

Mar 04 President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research

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

Mar 07 Expos scores 13 in 6th at Giants

Mar 31 "Daytime to Remember" a series showing old soaps premieres on ABC-TV

Mar 23 Wrestlemania XIII in Chicago, Undertaker beats Psycho Sid for title

Mar 11 San Francisco Giant J T Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch

Mar 18 Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die

Mar 19 Supreme Court hears Internet indecency arguments

Mar 31 Pioneer 10, ends its mission

Mar 17 CNN begins Spanish broadcasts

Mar 27 Martin Luther King's son meets with James Earl Ray

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