Feb 18 Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic is warned by the U.S. to make peace with ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, or face military intervention.

Feb 26 Ontario Southland commenced operation over the CP Port Burwell subdivision from Ingersoll to Tillsonburg, ON.

Feb 15 Fire blazes through a nightclub in Taichung, Taiwan, killing 64 people.

Feb 11 Pluto is once again the farthest planet from the sun in our solar system

Feb 14 Quebec Railway Corporation takes over the former CN Mont Joli and Matane subdivisions linking Matane to Riviere du Loup, QC. The Matane sub. was the former Canada and Gulf Terminal Railway.

Feb 10 A federal judge orders American Airlines pilots back to work after their sickout grounds 2500 flights, stranding 200,000 travelers and crippling cargo carriers.

Apr 18 NATO launches its most active day of airstrikes in its assault on Yugoslavia,

Apr 20 "A bug's Life" is the first DVD to be transfered directly from the digital source making it the first 100 percent digital DVD

Nov 02 "Saving Private Ryan" becomse the first major Spielberg movie to be released on DVD

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

Jun 27 Alberta RailNet takes over the former CN Grande Cache (from Swan Landing to Grande Prairie, m. 1.80 to m. 232.90), Grande Prairie (from Rycroft to Hythe, m. 0 to m. 89.19) and Smoky (Tangent to Spirit River, m. 306.2 to m. 357.80) subdivisions in Alberta.

Jun 30 Southern Rails Cooperative (Red Coat Road and Rail) takes over operation of the 71.5 mile CP line from Pangman to Assiniboia in Saskatchewan.

Jun 06 Central Manitoba Railway, a subsidiary of Cando Contracting, takes over the operation of the former CN Carman sub. from m. 0.13 to m. 50.50.

Jun 09 Yugoslav and NATO generals sign a Kosovo peace pact, ending 78 days of NATO airstrikes.

Dec 28 Clayton Moore, star of the 1950s TV show The Lone Ranger, dies in Los Angeles at age 85.dec29

Dec 31 Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama

Dec 26 R&B artist Curtis Mayfield dies in an Atlanta hospital at age 57. Mayfield, famous for the Superfly soundtrack, had been paralyzed since 1990 during an onstage accident.

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

Oct 17 Former US nurse Orville Lynn Majors is convicted of murdering six patients at a western Indiana hospital; the jury deadlocked on a seventh count. (Majors is serving a 360-year prison sentence.)

Oct 02 China and Russia hail 50 years of diplomatic ties with the two neighbours' first joint naval exercises

Oct 25 The dress that Marilyn Monroe wore to sing "Happy Birthday, Mr President" to President John F Kennedy is sold for $US1,267,500 -- a record for an item of clothing at auction.

Oct 26 Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.

Oct 26 "Pinocchio" becomes the first animated classic to make its way to DVD

Jul 11 In the Honduras a 7.0 quake resulted in 1 person killed and another person died from a heart attack; at least 40 people injured

Jul 26 "Eagles:Hell Freezers" Over becomes the best selling music DVD

Jul 26 "Eagles Hell Freezers" Over becomes the best selling music DVD

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