Events 201 - 400 of 428
Event of Interest
Jun 25 Kim Campbell becomes the 19th Prime Minister of Canada (although she would remain in office for less than five months)
- Jun 25 Parliamentary election in Morocco
- Jun 26 Rebecca Jones, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Junior Miss
Event of Interest
Jun 26 The U.S. launches a cruise missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H. W. Bush in April in Kuwait.
- Jun 30 Richard Jacobs announces Chief Wahoo will go to Jacobs Field
- Jul 1 1 second "leap" adjustment added to the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) clock
- Jul 1 Richard Riordan elected as Los Angeles first Republican mayor in 36 years
- Jul 1 Russian manned space craft TM-17, launches into orbit
- Jul 1 STS-57 (Endeavour) lands
- Jul 2 Boat sinks at Bocaue Philippines, 325 die
- Jul 2 F-28 crashes at Sorong Irian Barat, 41 die
- Jul 2 Muslim fundamentalists in Sivas, Turkey, set hotel on fire, kill 36
Event of Interest
Jul 2 Pope John Paul II hospitalized for Cat Scan test
Event of Interest
Jul 6 John F. Kennedy Jr, gives notice of quitting as ADA in Manhattan
- Jul 7 Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia
- Jul 7 Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers
- Jul 10 Melchior Ndadaye becomes 1st Hutu Burundi President, Sylvie Kinigi Prime Minister
- Jul 10 Yobes Ondieki runs world record 10km (26:58.38)
- Jul 12 7.8 earthquake hits Hokkaido Japan, 160 killed
- Jul 14 Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow and NY
- Jul 16 President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville
- Jul 16 S van Ruysdael's "Winter Landscape" sold for £705,500 in London
Event of Interest
Jul 18 Afghan President Ishaq Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resign
- Jul 18 Liberal-Democratic Party loses Japan's parliamentary election
- Jul 19 Glen Chapple (Lancs) scores fastest F-C century, 21 minutes
Event of Interest
Jul 19 President Clinton fires FBI director William s. Sessions
- Jul 20 Fire in the press box at Atlanta Fulton County Stadium
- Jul 22 Soyuz TM-17 lands
- Jul 23 China Northwest Airlines BAe146-300 crashes at Yinchuan, 55 killed
- Jul 25 Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon
- Jul 25 The St James' Church massacre in Kenilworth, Cape Town by Azanian Peoples' Liberation Army
- Jul 26 Boeing 737-500 crashes in South Korea, 66 killed
- Jul 26 The first of four photos of Mars is taken by the Mars Observer, just under a month before the spacecraft failed in flight
- Jul 27 Javier Sotomayor jumps world record 2.45 m high
- Jul 27 Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome, Milan and Vatican City, 5 killed
- Jul 29 Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible
- Jul 31 Inkatha-arm forces killed 49 ANC-followers in Johannesburg
- Jul 31 Prince Ronald "Ronnie" Mutebi crowned king of Uganda
- Aug 2 Train crash in tunnel at Vega de Anzo Spain, 12 killed
- Aug 4 Angolan air force bombs Huambo
- Aug 4 Rwandian Hutus and Tutsis sign peace treaty in Arusha, Tanzania
- Aug 5 Republican Guard kills 64 civilians at Gninguilimin marketplace, in Chad
- Aug 6 Japan Hosokawa government begins
- Aug 6 Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical Veritatis splendor
- Aug 7 Tropical storm Brett ravages Venezuela, 118 killed
- Aug 8 Tropical storm Bret ravages Venezuela, about 100 killed
- Aug 9 King Albert II of Belgium, crowned
- Aug 10 Earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hits the South Island of New Zealand
Event of Interest
Aug 10 Ruth Bader Ginsburg sworn in as a US Supreme Court Justice
- Aug 11 Pope John Paul II visits Mexico
- Aug 12 Pope John Paul II begins visit of US
- Aug 13 Hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima Thailand, collapses, 114 killed
- Aug 13 US Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail
- Aug 14 Nigerian presidential election
- Aug 14 St Louis reliever Lee Smith is fastest to get 40 saves
- Aug 15 Televangelist Robert Tilton announces he is divorcing Marte
- Aug 16 South Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay
- Aug 16 The Debian distribution first announced by Ian Murdock, a student at Purdue University (Murdock initially called his system the "Debian Linux Release")
- Aug 18 Historical Kapelbrug in Luzern Switzerland, destroyed by fire
- Aug 19 Dow Jones hits record high of 3612.13
- Aug 19 George Tiller, abortion doctor, shot in his arms by Rachelle Shannon
- Aug 19 Mattel & Fisher Price toy companies merge
- Aug 20 Howard Stern is fired from WLUP-AM, Chicago
Event of Interest
Aug 20 Mother Teresa hospitalized with malaria
Appointment of Interest
Aug 26 Ernest Shonekan is appointed interim president of Nigeria by General Ibrahim Babangida
- Aug 27 The Rainbow Bridge connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba is completed.
- Aug 27 Yak-40 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 79 killed/1 lives
- Aug 28 Dam breaks in Qinghai West China, 223 killed
- Aug 28 Jakovlev-42 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 76 killed
- Aug 28 Long Beach California beats Panama for little league world championship
- Aug 28 Singapore vice-premier Teng Cheong elected president
Dictator Bokassa I
Sep 2 Central African Republic ex-emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa freed
- Sep 2 Day of Peace in South Africa
- Sep 5 Noureddine Morceli runs world record mile (3:44,39)
- Sep 7 Brazil votes over importing monarchy
- Sep 8 Wang Junxia creates a women's world record 10,000m (29:31.78) at the Chinese National Games
- Sep 9 Croupier of casino in Bristol, England, shoots a 4 a record eight times
- Sep 9 Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization exchange letters of mutual recognition
- Sep 10 1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo plane produced
- Sep 11 Junxia Qu runs 1500m ladies' world record (3:50.46)
- Sep 12 STS-51 (Discovery) launches into orbit
- Sep 12 Wang Junxia runs a women's 3000 m world record (8:12.29) at the Chinese National Games
Agreement of Interest
Sep 13 Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement initiated by Norway, signed by Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres and PLO official Mahmoud Abbas
- Sep 13 Queens, NYC begins required recycling
- Sep 13 Wang Junxia runs a new women's 3000m world record (8:06.11) 1 day after setting previous record at the Chinese National Games
- Sep 15 Liechtenstein prince Hans-Adam II disbands parliament
- Sep 17 Last Russian troops leave Poland.
- Sep 19 Parliamentary election in Poland
- Sep 21 Ukraine government of Kutshma resigns
- Sep 22 A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia
- Sep 22 STS-51 (Discovery) lands
Event of Interest
Sep 22 Supreme Soviet dismisses President Boris Yeltsin
Event of Interest
Sep 24 Norodom Sihanouk again installed as King of Cambodia
Event of Interest
Sep 30 US Army General Colin Powell retires at 56
Ostankino Tower
Oct 3 Battle at TV station Ostankino, Moscow townhall, about 25 killed
- Oct 3 Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organization in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Army Rangers and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting.
- Oct 3 Boris Yeltsin declares state of emergency in Moscow
- Oct 4 Troops and tanks of President Boris Yeltsin shell and occupy the Russian White House in Moscow, the house of government of the Russian Federation
- Oct 5 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
Nobel Prize
Oct 7 Nobel prize for literature awarded to American writer Toni Morrison
- Oct 8 UN lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa
- Oct 10 Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed
- Oct 11 Norwegian Rushdie publisher William Nygaard injured in attack
- Oct 11 US warship Harlan County anchors off Port-au-Prince Haiti
- Oct 13 Greek government of Papandreou forms
- Oct 13 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Kary Mullis & Michael Smith
- Oct 13 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse & Joseph Taylor
- Oct 15 Amstel brewery on Curacao produces 1,000,000,000th bottle
Nobel Prize
Oct 15 Nelson Mandela and South African President F. W. de Klerk awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- Oct 16 Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching British National Party headquarters
Appointment of Interest
Oct 16 General Omar al-Bashir appointed Sudan president
- Oct 16 IRA bomb attack on fish & chips restaurant in Belfast, 10 killed
- Oct 18 STS-58 (Columbia) launches into orbit
- Oct 19 UN authorizes arms, military and police supply embargo against Haiti
- Oct 21 Failed military coup in Burundi, led by ex-President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, includes assassination President Ndadaye; 525,000 Hutus flee
- Oct 22 Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov makes record 9th space walk
- Oct 23 Paramilitia kills 22 demonstrators at Bijbihara in Indian-controlled Kashmir
- Oct 23 Seven people killed by IRA bomb attack in Belfast
- Oct 25 Airbus A310 of Air Nigeria hijacked, 1 dead
- Oct 25 Canada Liberal Party and Bloc Québécois wins parliamentary election
- Oct 27 Howard Stern's radio show begins broadcasting in El Paso Texas
- Oct 28 Cleveland Metroparks lease Brookside Park from Cleveland for 99-years
- Oct 28 Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters resigns
- Oct 29 Dow Jones index reaches record 3687.86
- Oct 31 German unemployment hits national record of 3.5 million
- Nov 1 Atlantic Radio (20 radio stations) becomes American Radio Systems
- Nov 1 STS-58 (Columbia) lands
Maastricht Treaty
Nov 1 The Maastricht Treaty, the Treaty on European Union comes into effect
- Nov 2 Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected 1st woman governor of New Jersey
- Nov 2 Dow Jones hits record 3697.64
- Nov 2 Ehud Olmert elected mayor of Jerusalem
Election of Interest
Nov 2 Rudy Giuliani wins the New York mayoral election, becomes 1st Republican mayor since 1965
- Nov 4 Bolivia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
Appointment of Interest
Nov 4 Jean Chretien is appointed the Prime Minister of Canada by Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn
- Nov 9 Serbian army fires on school in Sarajevo, 9 children died
- Nov 9 Stari Most (the "old bridge", built in 1566) in Mostar, Bosnia, collapses after several days of bombing.
- Nov 10 Slovakian government of Vladimír Mečiar forms
- Nov 11 Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 2 days for fractured shoulder
- Nov 13 7.1 seaquake east of Kamchatka
- Nov 13 Chinese MD82 makes crash landing at Urumqi, 12 killed
- Nov 13 Pakistani minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president
- Nov 14 Puerto Rico votes against becoming the 51st US state
- Nov 15 13 Cuban refugees land in Florida after stealing a crop-duster in Cuba.
- Nov 15 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Myrtle Beach SC on WYAV 104.1 FM
Event of Interest
Nov 15 Joe Buttafuoco sentenced to 6 months for statutory rape of Amy Fisher
Coup d'état
Nov 17 General Sani Abacha leads a military coup against Ernest Shonekan's transitional administration and returns the Nigerian government to military control
- Nov 17 US House of Representatives approve Nafta
- Nov 18 27 killed at prison in Morazan, El Salvador
- Nov 18 Black and white leaders in South Africa approve new democratic constitution
- Nov 18 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) passes US House of Representatives
- Nov 18 North-Siberia record cold for November (-55°C)
- Nov 19 Algerian Muslim fundamentalists uprising, 27 killed
- Nov 19 Curacaose vote to remain part of Dutch Antilles
- Nov 20 Jakovlev-42 crashes into mountain at Ohrid Macedonia, 116 killed
- Nov 20 Savings and Loan scandal: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
Murder of Interest
Nov 20 Winnie Mandela's driver and bodyguard murdered in Johannesburg
- Nov 21 Neo-fascist MSI wins 36% of municipal elections in Rome
- Nov 24 11 year old Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are convicted of the murder of English 2 year old James Bulger
- Nov 24 Brady bill passes establishing 5-day waiting period for US handgun sales
- Nov 24 End of world, according to Ukrainian sect White Brotherhood
- Nov 25 Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters falls
- Nov 25 Failed bomb attack on Egyptian premier Atef Sedki, 1 dead
- Nov 28 Carlos Reina wins Honduras presidential election
- Nov 30 President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill
- Dec 1 Northwest Airlink plane crashes in Minn, killing 18
- Dec 2 Dow-Jones hits record 3702.11
- Dec 2 Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), launches
- Dec 4 A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels.
- Dec 4 Johann Koss skates world record 5K (6:35.53)
- Dec 5 Astronauts begin repair of Hubble telescope in space
- Dec 5 Rafael Caldera elected President of Venezuela
- Dec 5 The mayor of Wien (Vienna), Helmut Zilk, is wounded by a letter bomb.
- Dec 6 Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 5 km 7:13.29
- Dec 7 Henri Konan Bedie names himself President of Ivory coast
- Dec 7 The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.