Mar 05 Actor Richard Kiley dies in Warwick, NY, at age 76.

Mar 22 RaiLink Ltd.takes over operation of the CN Coronado, Bonnyville, and Lac La Biche subdivisions, northeast of Edmonton. The line extends from St. Paul Junction, immediately north of Edmonton, to Boyle and northeast to Grande Centre and Elk Point. It also connects with RaiLink's existing Lakeland and Waterways line at Boyle.

Mar 06 Sheik Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, emir of Bahrain, dies at age 65.

Mar 04 Retired US Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, author of a 1973 decision legalizing abortion, dies in Arlington, VA, at age 90.

Mar 04 A military jury in North Carolina clears a Marine pilot of reckless endangerment charges when his jet severed a gondola cable in the Alps, sending 20 people to their deaths.

Mar 15 Pluto again becomes outermost planet mar171916 Eight Curtiss "Jenny" planes of the First Aero Squadron take off from Columbus, Mexico, in the first combat air mission in U.S. history

Mar 31 Australian aid workers Steve Pratt and Peter Wallace are arrested by Serb authorities

Mar 30 A jury in Portland, Oregon, orders Philip Morris to pay $US81 million to the family of a man who died of lung cancer after smoking Marlboros for four decades.

Mar 02 Rock singer Dusty Springfield dies at her London area home at age 59.

Mar 14 MGM hosts the world's first online DVD event

Mar 28 In the Xizang-India Border Region a 5.5 earthquake occurred At least 61 people killed and 125 injured in the Chamoli district; 34 killed and 177 injured in the Rudraprayag district; 5 killed and 60 injured in the Tehri Garhwal district; 19 injured in the Bageshwar district; 13 injured in the Pauri Garhwal district, India

Aug 31 A Boeing 737 jet crashes during takeoff from Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 72 people.

Aug 31 Detroit area teachers begin a nine-day strike, postponing the first day of school for 170,000 students.

Aug 19 Panasonic anounces the first Progressive Scan DVD player

Sep 09 Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Jim Catfish" Hunter dies in Hertford, NC, at age 53.

Sep 18 Trillium Rail takes over operation of 41 miles of industrial trackage in Ontario's Niagara Peninsula comprising sections of the Cayuga sub. and the Thorold, Canal, Grantham, Fonthill, Town Line and West Welland spurs. The lines will be operated by a Trillium subsidiary, the Port Colborne Terminal Railway.

Sep 05 Candid Camera star Allen Funt dies in Pebble Beach, CA, at age 84.

Sep 07 Viacom announces it is buying CBS for $36 billion, making it the largest media acquisition in history.

Sep 21 A powerful earthquake shakes Taiwan, killing nearly 2500 people.

Sep 27 Detroit's Tiger Stadium closes after 87 years of hosting baseball and other sporting contests.

Sep 07 A magnitude 5.9 earthquake rocks Athens, Greece, killing 143 people.

Sep 20 In Taiwan a 7.7 quake resulted in at least 2,297 people killed, 8,700 injured, 600,000 people left homeless and about 82,000 housing units damaged by the earthquake and larger aftershocks

Feb 14 John Ehrlichman, presidential advisor during the Nixon administration and imprisoned for his role in the Watergate scandal, dies in Atlanta, at age 73.

Feb 23 Two avalanches in as many days are blamed for the death of 38 people in Austria.

Feb 27 Democratic rule returns to Nigeria as its citizens elect Olusegun Obasanjo as president.

Feb 24 R&B artist Lauryn Hill picks up a record five Grammys, including Album of the Year and Best New Artist.

Feb 12 American Airlines pilots defy a federal court order and continue their sickout, causing the airline to cancel over a thousand flights.

Feb 16 Testimony begins in the Jasper, TX, murder trial of John William King, charged in the dragging death of James Byrd, Jr.

Feb 05 Former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson is sentenced to a year in a Maryland jail for assaulting two motorists after a traffic accident.

Feb 20 Fifteen-year-old U.S. figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold medal winner in Winter Olympics history, as she wins the ladies figure skating category at Nagano, Japan.

Feb 07 King Hussein of Jordan dies of cancer at age 63, and is succeeded by his son, Abdullah.

Feb 11 In Afghanistan a 6.0 earthquake killed 70 and 500 injured, at least 14,000 homeless and 7,000 houses destroyed in Lowgar and Vardak Provinces

Feb 12 The U.S. Senate acquits President Bill Clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice in his impeachment trial.

Feb 08 A funeral service is held in Amman, Jordan, for King Hussein, who died the day before of cancer.

Feb 02 A Portland, Oregon jury decrees that a person who created an Internet site listing the names and addresses of abortionists pay $107 million in damages.

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