February 24 – In
Gloucester, England, local
police begin excavations at 25 Cromwell Street, the home of
Fred West, a suspect in multiple murders. On February 28, he and his wife are arrested.
May 6 – The
Channel Tunnel, which took 15,000 workers more than seven years to complete, officially opens between England and France; it will enable passengers to travel by rail between the two countries in 35 minutes.
May 20 – After a funeral in Cluny Parish Church,
Edinburgh attended by 900 people and after which 3,000 people line the streets, UK Labour Party leader
John Smith is buried in a private family funeral on the island of
Iona, at the sacred burial ground of Reilig Odhráin, which contains the graves of several Scottish kings as well as monarchs of Ireland, Norway and France.[4]
June 6–
8 –
Ceasefire negotiations for the
Yugoslav War begin in
Geneva; they agree to a one-month cessation of hostilities (which does not last more than a few days).
An
Airbus A330 crashes during a test flight near
Toulouse, France, where
Airbus is based, killing the seven-person crew. The test was meant to simulate an engine failure at low speed with maximum
angle of climb.
July 25 –
Israel and
Jordan sign the Washington Declaration as a preliminary to signature on October 25 of the
Israel–Jordan peace treaty, which formally ends the state of war that has existed between the nations since 1948.
August
August 5 – Maleconazo: Groups of protesters spread from
Havana,
Cuba's Castillo de la Punta ("Point Castle"), creating the first protests against
Fidel Castro's government since 1959.
August 11 – Formation of
Hurricane John which will go on to become the longest-lasting tropical cyclone recorded worldwide. It will dissipate on September 13, lasting a little over 31 days.
Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants: a 12-person jury reaches its verdict to award Stella Liebeck $2,860,000 in
compensatory and
punitive damages, later reduced to $640,000, for burns she received from a spilled hot coffee. McDonald's and Liebeck will later settle out of court.
August 20 –
Tyke, a female
African bush elephant, injures her groomer and kills her trainer at the
Neal S. Blaisdell Center in
Honolulu,
Hawaii. She then escapes the arena, and runs amok in the streets for half an hour, before police officers shoot her 86 times. She eventually collapses from her wounds and dies.
September–October –
Iraq disarmament crisis:
Iraq threatens to stop cooperating with
UNSCOM inspectors and begins to once again deploy troops near its border with
Kuwait. In response, the U.S. begins to deploy troops to
Kuwait.
October 13 (UTC) –
NASA loses radio contact with the
Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of
Venus and is presumed to burn up in t6he atmosphere.
After three years of U.S. exile,
Haiti's president
Aristide returns to his country.
Iraq disarmament crisis: following threats by the U.N. Security Council and the U.S., Iraq withdraws troops from its border with Kuwait.
October 16 –
Robbery on the Bank of the Republic: In the Colombian city of Valledupar, a branch of the Colombian central bank Banco de la Republica (Bank of the Republic) is robbed of COP$24,075 million of non emitted bills (some US$33 million); this comes to be known as "El Robo del Siglo" (the bank heist of the century).[10][11]
Iraq formally rescinds its claims over
Kuwait, which it had claimed as a province since 1990 and had administered under military occupation until 1991 when it was ejected by an international coalition during the
Persian Gulf War.[12]
November 30 – The Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro catches fire in the
Indian Ocean off the coast of
Somalia with nearly a thousand passengers and crew aboard. After unsuccessful attempts by the crew to extinguish the fire, the vessel is evacuated and sinks two days later. During the evacuation, two die and eight are wounded.
c. November –
Online serviceAmerica Online purchases Booklink as a browser to offer its users a gateway to the
World Wide Web for the first time. This marks the beginning of easy accessibility of the Web to the average person in the U.S.[15] In 1996, AOL replaced Booklink with a browser based on Internet Explorer, allegedly in exchange for inclusion of AOL in Windows.[16]
Fred West, 53, a builder living in
Gloucester, England, is remanded in custody, charged with murdering 12 people (including two of his own daughters) whose bodies are mostly found buried at his house in Cromwell Street. His wife
Rosemary West, 41, is charged with 10 murders.
Astrid Lindgren, SERVOL (Service Volunteered for All), H. Sudarshan / VGKK (Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra),
Ken Saro-Wiwa /
MOSOP (Movement for the Survival of the
Ogoni People)
^Hwang Hyo-jin (May 1, 2012).
"EXO-K: My name is 카이, 세훈" [EXO-K: My name is Kai, Sehun]. TenAsia (in Korean). Archived from
the original on August 17, 2016. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
^"Pauline Ranvier". olympedia.org.
Archived from the original on February 8, 2023. Retrieved February 8, 2023.
^"Sayaka HIROTA (94519)". tournamentsoftware.com. Badminton World Federation.
Archived from the original on January 31, 2023. Retrieved January 31, 2023.
February 24 – In
Gloucester, England, local
police begin excavations at 25 Cromwell Street, the home of
Fred West, a suspect in multiple murders. On February 28, he and his wife are arrested.
May 6 – The
Channel Tunnel, which took 15,000 workers more than seven years to complete, officially opens between England and France; it will enable passengers to travel by rail between the two countries in 35 minutes.
May 20 – After a funeral in Cluny Parish Church,
Edinburgh attended by 900 people and after which 3,000 people line the streets, UK Labour Party leader
John Smith is buried in a private family funeral on the island of
Iona, at the sacred burial ground of Reilig Odhráin, which contains the graves of several Scottish kings as well as monarchs of Ireland, Norway and France.[4]
June 6–
8 –
Ceasefire negotiations for the
Yugoslav War begin in
Geneva; they agree to a one-month cessation of hostilities (which does not last more than a few days).
An
Airbus A330 crashes during a test flight near
Toulouse, France, where
Airbus is based, killing the seven-person crew. The test was meant to simulate an engine failure at low speed with maximum
angle of climb.
July 25 –
Israel and
Jordan sign the Washington Declaration as a preliminary to signature on October 25 of the
Israel–Jordan peace treaty, which formally ends the state of war that has existed between the nations since 1948.
August
August 5 – Maleconazo: Groups of protesters spread from
Havana,
Cuba's Castillo de la Punta ("Point Castle"), creating the first protests against
Fidel Castro's government since 1959.
August 11 – Formation of
Hurricane John which will go on to become the longest-lasting tropical cyclone recorded worldwide. It will dissipate on September 13, lasting a little over 31 days.
Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants: a 12-person jury reaches its verdict to award Stella Liebeck $2,860,000 in
compensatory and
punitive damages, later reduced to $640,000, for burns she received from a spilled hot coffee. McDonald's and Liebeck will later settle out of court.
August 20 –
Tyke, a female
African bush elephant, injures her groomer and kills her trainer at the
Neal S. Blaisdell Center in
Honolulu,
Hawaii. She then escapes the arena, and runs amok in the streets for half an hour, before police officers shoot her 86 times. She eventually collapses from her wounds and dies.
September–October –
Iraq disarmament crisis:
Iraq threatens to stop cooperating with
UNSCOM inspectors and begins to once again deploy troops near its border with
Kuwait. In response, the U.S. begins to deploy troops to
Kuwait.
October 13 (UTC) –
NASA loses radio contact with the
Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of
Venus and is presumed to burn up in t6he atmosphere.
After three years of U.S. exile,
Haiti's president
Aristide returns to his country.
Iraq disarmament crisis: following threats by the U.N. Security Council and the U.S., Iraq withdraws troops from its border with Kuwait.
October 16 –
Robbery on the Bank of the Republic: In the Colombian city of Valledupar, a branch of the Colombian central bank Banco de la Republica (Bank of the Republic) is robbed of COP$24,075 million of non emitted bills (some US$33 million); this comes to be known as "El Robo del Siglo" (the bank heist of the century).[10][11]
Iraq formally rescinds its claims over
Kuwait, which it had claimed as a province since 1990 and had administered under military occupation until 1991 when it was ejected by an international coalition during the
Persian Gulf War.[12]
November 30 – The Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro catches fire in the
Indian Ocean off the coast of
Somalia with nearly a thousand passengers and crew aboard. After unsuccessful attempts by the crew to extinguish the fire, the vessel is evacuated and sinks two days later. During the evacuation, two die and eight are wounded.
c. November –
Online serviceAmerica Online purchases Booklink as a browser to offer its users a gateway to the
World Wide Web for the first time. This marks the beginning of easy accessibility of the Web to the average person in the U.S.[15] In 1996, AOL replaced Booklink with a browser based on Internet Explorer, allegedly in exchange for inclusion of AOL in Windows.[16]
Fred West, 53, a builder living in
Gloucester, England, is remanded in custody, charged with murdering 12 people (including two of his own daughters) whose bodies are mostly found buried at his house in Cromwell Street. His wife
Rosemary West, 41, is charged with 10 murders.
Astrid Lindgren, SERVOL (Service Volunteered for All), H. Sudarshan / VGKK (Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra),
Ken Saro-Wiwa /
MOSOP (Movement for the Survival of the
Ogoni People)
^Hwang Hyo-jin (May 1, 2012).
"EXO-K: My name is 카이, 세훈" [EXO-K: My name is Kai, Sehun]. TenAsia (in Korean). Archived from
the original on August 17, 2016. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
^"Pauline Ranvier". olympedia.org.
Archived from the original on February 8, 2023. Retrieved February 8, 2023.
^"Sayaka HIROTA (94519)". tournamentsoftware.com. Badminton World Federation.
Archived from the original on January 31, 2023. Retrieved January 31, 2023.