[Rikki]

I was reading a BBC blog earlier about news for 9 year olds, and the blogger made a short comment about remembering the news from the year he was nine. Thought it was interesting, so I looked up mine too...

1992 events

* George Bush Snr. was sick into the lap of the Japanese Prime Minister, then fainted
* Russia stops pointing nukes at the US
* The Maastricht treaty is signed
* The Premier League is formed
* Mike Tyson is jailed for rape
* John Major is re-elected
* Bill Clinton becomes president
* The Windsor Castle fire

The only one I actually remember from the time was the Windsor Castle fire.

What events happened when you were 9, and do you remember them?

[Watty]

Major Events of 1971

Intel introduces the 4004, the first microprocessor.

Britain adopts decimal currency

Indo-Pakistan war. East Pakistan becomes the separate state of Bangladesh.

Concert for Bangladesh.

First (and last) British launched satellite, "Prospero", launched from Woomera, Australia.

Idi Amin overthrows Ugandan President, Milton Obote.

Bahrain independent from UK.

Inoue Daisuke invents the the Karaoke machine.

Supreme Court rules unanimously that busing of students may be ordered to achieve racial desegregation (April 20). Anti-war militants attempt to disrupt government business in Washington (May 3)—police and military units arrest as many as 12,000; most are later released. Pentagon Papers published (June). Twenty-sixth Amendment to U.S. Constitution lowers voting age to 18. UN seats Communist China and expels Nationalist China (Oct. 25).

More stuff

More stuff:

The microprocessor is introduced
The foundation of all computers, or just about anything electric.


End of the Gold Standard for American Currency
Gold payments ended in 1971 in an attempt to halt the increasing inflation America was seeing.


NASA and the Soviets send probes to Mars
The NASA Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit another planet on November 14th. The Soviets Mars 2 and Mars 3 arrived a month later, and sent a probe down to the planet (which unfortunately didn't work for long).


Three cosmonauts die after record breaking trip
After a record breaking 24 days in space, the cosmonauts died on their return to Earth when their cabin depressurized.


The Pentagon Papers are released to newspapers
Despite an attempt to conceal the evidence researched by the government, the 47 volume study was given to the New York Times and The Washington Post who printed excerpts from the study. It revealed the Eisenhower had been warned against involvment by his generals, Kennedy had approved the overthrow of the Sout Vietnam president, and Johnson's covert operations had sparked the Tonkin Gulf incident.


Bangladesh is created
East Pakistan and West Pakistan split, and after a civil war which involved India and the US as well, the country was formed.


Cigarette ads are banned on TV


The first floppy disc is created for computers


Direct dial between New York and London


China joins the UN


Native Americans forced out of Alcatraz
Citing an 1868 treaty which allowed them to live on unoccupied land, they were protesting the US goverment's poor record of handling treaties. Alcatraz became a national park in 1972.


Attica State Prision riot in Buffalo, New York
The 1200 inmates took the 30 guards and other employees prision in an attempt for reforms. It ended in bloodbath four days later with 28 inmates and 9 gaurds killed, all by police gunfire when they took the prision back.


Supreme Court rules desegregation constitutional


Congress authorizes federal bailout of Lockheed


PBS begins Masterpiece Theater
This started a trend with us today, of importing British shows directly to PBS.


South Vietnam & The US invades Laos
In an attempt to shut down the Ho Chi Minh trail, the North Vietnam supply route. It wasn't successful.


Benefit Concert for Bangladesh organized
George Harrison organized the first benefit concert, which would be the model for many more benefit concerts (especially in the 80s)


CAT scanning was introduced
Computerizes Axial Tomograpghy (CAT), was the most important medical breakthrough since the X-ray


Black Admiral
Captain Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr. becomes the first black American Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy.


Cellular Phone Battery Invented
African-American Henry Thomas Sampson invents the gamma electric cell (US Patent # 3,591,860).


I remember "ATTICA"...

[Quillz]

Major Events of 1997
* January 5 - NBC's Today Show host Bryant Gumbel signs off for the last time.
* January 8 - Mister Rogers receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
* January 9 - Yachtsman Tony Bullimore is found alive, five days after his boat capsized in the Southern Ocean.
* January 16 - Ennis Cosby, the only son of actor Bill Cosby, is killed by a gunman while changing a flat tire in Los Angeles, California.
* January 18 - In northwest Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.
* January 19 - Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years, and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
* January 20 - Bill Clinton starts his second term as President of the United States.
* January 21 - Newt Gingrich becomes the first Speaker of the House to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct.
* January 22 - Madeleine Albright becomes the first female secretary of state after confirmation by the United States Senate.
* January 23 - Mir Aimal Kasi receives the death sentence for a 1993 assault rifle attack outside CIA headquarters that killed two and wounded three others.
* January 26 - The Green Bay Packers defeat the New England Patriots, 35-21, in Super Bowl XXXI.
* January 27 - It is revealed that French museums had nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by Nazis.
* January 28 - Clive Davis receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
* February 4 - O. J. Simpson is found in civil court to be liable for the death of Ron Goldman and for the battery of Nicole Brown Simpson. Simpson is ordered to pay $35,000,000 in damages to the families of the two victims
* February 4 - On their way to Lebanon, two Israeli troop-transport helicopters collide, killing 73.
* February 4 - After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
* February 5 - The so-called "Big Three" banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
* February 5 - Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter investment banks announce a $10 billion merger.
* February 9 - The Simpsons surpasses The Flintstones as the longest-running prime-time animated series.
* February 10 - The United States Army suspends Sgt. Major Gene McKinney, its top-ranking enlisted soldier, after hearing allegations of sexual misconduct.
* February 10 - Australian newspapers publish stories that the government of Papua New Guinea has brought mercenaries onto Bougainville - the Sandline affair goes public.
* February 13 - The Washington Post reported that U.S. Justice Department investigators found evidence the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC may have coordinated financial contributions to the Democratic party in violation of U.S. law. This brings a new dimension to the growing 1996 U.S. campaign finance scandal.
* February 13 - Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope is started by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
* February 13 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 7,000 for the first time, gaining 60.81 to 7,022.44.
* February 19 - The last of the People's Republic of China's major revolutionaries, Deng Xiaoping, dies at 92, this was followed by weeks of mourning for the leader.
* February 22 - In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned, and was born in July 1996.
* February 23 - A large fire occurred in the Russian Space station, Mir.
* February 28 - The North Hollywood shootout takes place between two heavily armed bank robbers and officers of the Los Angeles Police Department.
* March 1 - The Osaka Dome opens in Chiyozaki, Nishi-ku, Osaka, Japan.
* March 4 - United States President Bill Clinton bars federal funding for any research on human cloning.
* March 6 - Picasso's Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery (it was recovered a week later).
* March 6 - In Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers overrun a military base and kill more than 200.
* March 9 - Rap legend Notorious B.I.G. is murdered in Los Angeles, just six months after the killing of Tupac Shakur.
* March 10 - The main office of Fuji TV moves from Kawadacho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan to Odaiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
* March 11 - An explosion at a nuclear waste reprocessing plant in Japan exposes 35 workers to low-level radioactive contamination, in the worst nuclear accident in Japan's history.
* March 12 - Mikail Markhasev is arrested in Los Angeles, California and charged with shooting Bill Cosby's 27-year-old son, Ennis Cosby.
* March 13 - India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
* March 16 - Sandline affair - On Bougainville, soldiers of commander Jerry Singirok arrest Tim Spicer and his mercenaries of the Sandline International.
* March 18 - The tail of a Russian An-24 charter plane breaks off while en-route to Turkey, causing the plane to crash, killing all 50 on board, and resulting in the grounding of all An-24s.
* March 21 - In Zaire, Etienne Tshiksekedi is appointed new prime minister - he ejects supporters of Mobutu Sese Seko from his cabinet.
* March 21 - Mercenaries of Sandline International withdraw from Papua New Guinea.
* March 22 - Fourteen year, 10 month old Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest champion of the women's world figure skating competition.
* March 22 - The comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to Earth.
* March 24 - Roberto Sanchez Vilella, the second Democratically Elected Governor of Puerto Rico, dies at age 84.
* March 26 - Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate cult compound, in San Diego, California, the result of a mass suicide.
* March 26 - Survey of a claimed gold site of Bre-X Minerals in Indonesia reveals it is worthless; Bre-X complains and accuses Internet rumours.
* March 26 - Julius Chan resigns as a prime minister of Papua New Guinea - the Sandline affair ends.
* April 1 - Comic strip switcheroo - Cartoonists of popularly syndicated comic strips swapped cartoons for the day.
* April 3 - Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
* April 11 - Fire damages the Turin Cathedral in Italy.
* April 14 - Fire breaks out in a pilgrim camp on the Plain of Mena, seven miles form Mecca - 343 die.
* April 14 - Former SS Captain Erich Priebke is retried. On July 22 he is sentenced for five years in prison.
* April 16 - Houston, Texas socialite Doris McGowen Beck Angleton is murdered in her River Oaks home. Roger Nicholas Angleton admits to the crime in the suicide note. Despite being found innocent of the crime by a Texas jury, he later gets arrested by the Department of Justice for similar charges.
* April 18 - The Red River of the North breaks through dikes and floods Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, causing $2 billion in damage.
* April 21 - First space burial, carrying the remains of 24 people on a Pegasus rocket into earth orbit.
* April 22 - Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria; 93 villagers killed.
* April 22 - A 126-day hostage crisis at the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, Peru ends after government commandos storm and capture the building rescuing 71 hostages. One hostage dies of a heart attack, two soldiers are killed from rebel fire, and all 14 Tupac Amaru rebels are slain.
* April 22 - France supports the new transitional government in Zaire, withdrawing its support of Mobutu.
* April 23 - Omaria massacre in Algeria; 42 villagers killed.
* April 27 - Andrew Cunanan murders Jeffrey Trail, beginning a murder spree that will last until July and terminate with the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace.
* May 1 - Tasmania becomes the last state in Australia to decriminalize homosexuality
* May 1 - The UK's Labour Party ends 18 years of Conservative rule in the 1997 UK general election.
* May 1 - HM Prison Pentridge in Melbourne, Australia, is officially closed.
* May 2 - Tony Blair is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
* May 10 - An earthquake near Ardekul, in northeastern Iran, kills at least 2,400.
* May 11 - IBM's Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, the first time a computer beat a chess World champion in a match.
* May 12 - The Russian-Chechen Peace Treaty signed.
* May 14 - The Star Alliance is formed between Air Canada, Lufthansa, SAS, Thai Airways International and United Airlines.
* May 14 - Laurent Kabila does not attend a second meeting with Mobutu.
* May 16- Mobutu Sese Seko leaves Kinshasa (eventually settles in Morocco).
* May 16 - US President Bill Clinton issues a formal apology to the surviving victims of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and their families, 25 years after the 40 year "study" was exposed by reporter Jean Heller.
* May 17 - Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa
* May 22 - Women in the military: Kelly Flinn, the U.S. Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial.
* May 25 - Strom Thurmond becomes the longest serving member in the history of the United States Senate (41 years and 10 months).
* May 25 - A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
* May 27 - A strong tornado hits in Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people. It was the second deadliest tornado of the 1990s (see Jarrell Tornado).
* May 31 - Official opening of the Confederation Bridge, the longest bridge spanning ice covered waters, between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.
* June 1 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi military escorts on board an UNSCOM helicopter try to physically prevent the UNSCOM pilot from flying the helicopter in the direction of its planned destination, threatening the safety of the aircraft and their crews.
* June 1 - Chivas wins Verano '97 championship 7-2 against Toros Neza, winning their 10th championship.
* June 2 - Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
* June 5 - Kim Hyun Chul, son of Kim Young Sam, president of South Korea, is charged with bribery and corruption related to the awarding of government contracts.
* June 6 - Melissa Drexler, a high school senior in New Jersey, kills her newborn baby in a toilet.
* June 7 - A computer user known as "_eci" published his Microsoft C source code on a Windows 95 and Windows NT exploit, which would later become WinNuke. The source code gets wide distribution across the internet, and Microsoft is forced to release a security patch.
* June 10 - Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief, Son Sen, and 11 of Sen's family members, before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold (the news did not reach outside Cambodia for three days).
* June 11 - The British House of Commons votes for a total ban on handguns.
* June 12 - The United States Department of the Treasury unveils a new $50 bill, meant to be more counterfeit-resistant.
* June 13 - A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to the death penalty for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
* June 16 - Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; some 50 people killed.
* June 16 - Radiohead's landmark third album OK Computer is released.
* June 19 - The fast food chain McDonald's wins a partial victory in its libel trial, known as the McLibel case, against two environmental campaigners. The judge decides it was true that McDonald's targeted its advertising at children, who pestered their parents into visiting company's restaurants.
* June 21 - French musician Jean Michel Jarre's "Oxygene Tour" concert in Spodek (Katowice, Poland), for deaf and poorly hearing children of Europe.
* June 25 - An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian Space station, Mir.
* June 30 - The first book in the award winning Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling is published.
* July 1 - The United Kingdom hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
* July 4 - NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
* July 5 - In Cambodia, Hun Sen of the Cambodian People's Party overthrows Norodom Ranariddh in a coup.
* July 6 - A major wildfire burns approximately 40% of Seich Sou, a forest just north of Thessaloniki, also posing a significant threat to several areas in the city.
* July 8 - Mayo Clinic researchers warn that the dieting-drug "fen-phen" can cause severe heart and lung damage.
* July 8 - NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999.
* July 10 - In London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neanderthal skeleton, which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
* July 10 - Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Spanish city of Ermua and two days before, murdered by ETA. At this time the "Ermua spirit" was born.
* July 13 - The remains of Che Guevara are returned to Cuba for burial, alongside some of his other comrades.
* July 15 - Serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan shoots fashion designer Gianni Versace to death outside Versace's Miami, Florida residence.
* July 16 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 63.17 to close at 8,038.88. It is the Dow's first close above 8,000. The Dow has doubled its value in 30 months.
* July 17 - The F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business.
* July 21 - The fully restored USS Constitution (aka "Old Ironsides") celebrates her 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
* July 22 - The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
* July 23 - Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
* July 25 - K.R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India's 10th president and the first member of the Dalit caste to hold this office.
* July 27 - Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria; about 50 people killed.
* August 1 - Boeing and McDonnell Douglas complete merger.
* August 2 - Australian ski instructor Stuart Diver is rescued as the sole survivor from the Thredbo landslide in New South Wales, Australia, in which 18 lives were lost.
* August 3 - Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; 40-76 villagers killed.
* August 4 - 185,000 Teamsters union United Parcel Service drivers walk off the job.
* August 6 - Microsoft buys a $150 million share of financially troubled Apple Computer.
* August 13 - In Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Cruzeiro wins Sporting Cristal of Peru by 1-0 and are Copa Libertadores de América champions by second time. South Park premieres on Comedy Central.
* August 15 - India celebrated 50 years of independence from British rule.
* August 20 - Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people killed, 15 kidnapped.
* August 25 - Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, was convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy.
* August 26 - Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
* August 26 - The Independent International Commission on Decommissioning is set up in Northern Ireland, as part of the peace process.
* August 29 - Rais massacre in Algeria; over 98 (and possibly up to 400) people killed.
* August 29 - Christopher Maier of Lexington, Kentucky is bludgeoned to death by serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz. Angel also rapes and beats Christopher's girlfriend, who survives. This is the first of a string of murders that Angel commits.
* August 31 - Diana, Princess of Wales is taken to a hospital after a car crash shortly after midnight in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris. She is pronounced dead at 4:00 am that morning.
* September 3 - Arizona Governor Fife Symington is convicted for various crimes tied to his real estate business, effectively forcing him out of office.
* September 4 - In Lorain, Ohio, the last Ford Thunderbird for three years rolls off the assembly line.
* September 5 - Beni-Messous massacre in Algeria; over 87 killed.
* September 5 - The IOC picks Athens to be the host city for the 2004 Summer Olympics.
* September 5 -Mother Theresa of Calcutta dies of heart failure in Kolkata, India.
* September 6 - The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place at Westminster Abbey, watched by over 1 billion people worldwide.
* September 6 - 3.5 million people attended a Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygen in Moscow concert celebrating the 850th anniversary of Moscow.
* September 7 - First test flight of the F-22 Raptor.
* September 11 - Scotland votes to create its own Parliament after 290 years of union with England.
* September 13 - Iraq disarmament crisis: An Iraqi military officer attacks an UNSCOM weapons inspector on board an UNSCOM helicopter while the inspector was attempting to take photographs of unauthorized movement of Iraqi vehicles inside a site designated for inspection
* September 15 - Norwegian parliamentary election, 1997
* September 17 - Iraq disarmament crisis: While waiting for access to a site, UNSCOM inspectors witness and videotape Iraqi guards moving files, burning documents, and dumping waste cans into a nearby river.
* September 18 - Wales votes in favour of devolution and the formation of a National Assembly.
* September 19 - Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed.
* September 21 - The AIS, the FIS' armed wing, declares a unilateral ceasefire in Algeria.
* September 22 - Bentalha massacre in Algeria; over 200 villagers killed.
* September 25 - Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM inspector Dr. Diane Seaman catches several Iraqi men sneaking out the back door of an inspection site, with log books for the creation of prohibited bacteria and chemicals.
* September 26 - An air crash in Indonesia kills 234 people. Probable cause is the smoke rising from numerous forest fires in the area.
* September 26 - An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
* September 27 - The Požega Diocese (Catholic) is founded.
* October 1 - The main office of Kansai TV moves from Nishi-Temma, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan to Ogimachi, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan.
* October 1 - Luke Woodham walked into Pearl High School in Pearl, Mississippi and opened fire, killing two girls, after earlier in the morning killing his mother.
* October 2 – UK scientists Moira Bruce and John Collinge, with their colleagues, independently show that the new variant form of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is the same disease as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or "mad-cow disease".
* October 4 - One million men gather for Promise Keepers' "Stand in the Gap" event in Washington, DC.
* October 12 - Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria; 43 killed at a fake roadblock.
* October 15 - Andy Green sets the first supersonic land speed record for the ThrustSSC team, led by Richard Noble of the United Kingdom. ThrustSSC goes through the flying mile course at Black Rock Desert, Nevada at an average speed of 1,227.985 km/h (763.035 mph).
* October 26 - Naveen Lakhanpal marries Seema
* October 17 - The remains of Che Guevara are laid to rest with full military honours in a specially built mausoleum in the city of Santa Clara, Cuba, where he had won the decisive battle of the Cuban Revolution thirty-nine years before.
* October 27 - The Florida Marlins win Game 7 of the 1997 World Series agaist the Cleveland Indians 3-2 in 11 innings.
* October 27 - Stock markets around the world crash because of a global economic crisis scare. The Dow Jones Industrial Average follows suit and plummets 554.26, or 7.18%, to 7,161.15. The points loss exceeds the loss from Black Monday. Officials at the New York Stock Exchange for the first time invoke the "circuit breaker" rule to stop trading (this was a very controversial move and prompted a quick change in the rule; trading stops will only occur when the DJIA drops at least 10 or 20 percent) (see October 27, 1997 mini-crash).
* October 28 - The bulls come running back as the Dow Jones Industrial Average gains a record 337.17 to 7,498.32. One billion shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange for the first time ever.
* October 29 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq says it will begin shooting down U-2 surveillance planes being used by UNSCOM inspectors.
* October 30 - British au pair Louise Woodward is found guilty of the baby-shaking death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen.
* October 15: NASA launches the Cassini-Huygens probe to Saturn.
* November 3 - In France, striking truck drivers blockade ports during a pay dispute.
* November 10 - Telcoms WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a US$37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom (the largest merger in US history).
* November 10 - A jury in Fairfax, Virginia finds Mir Aimal Kasi guilty of the murder of two CIA employees in 1993.
* November 11 - Mary McAleese is elected the 8th President of Ireland.
* November 11 - The last Pentium 586 MMX cpu (233 MHz) is made (until the Pentium II).
* November 12 - Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
* November 16 - After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.
* November 17 - In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut (police killed the assailants).
* November 19 - In Carlisle, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all 7 babies were born alive.
* November 27 - Second Souhane massacre in Algeria: 25 killed.
* December 1 - Michel Carneal fires at his classmates at Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky, leaving 3 dead and 5 wounded.
* December 3 - In Ottawa, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign a treaty prohibiting the manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, the People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.
* December 16 - An episode of Pokémon (called Electric Soldier Porygon) in Japan causes 685 children to have epileptic seizures. The majority of these seizures are later determined to be the result of collective hysteria.
* December 24 - Sid El-Antri massacre in Algeria: 50-100 villagers are killed.
* December 27 - Loyalist paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, inside Long Kesh prison.
* December 29 - Hong Kong begins to kill all the chickens within its territory (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
* December 30 - In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres of December 30, 1997, 400 people are killed from 4 villages in the wilaya of Relizane: Khrouba (176 deaths), Sahnoun (113 deaths), El-Abadel (73 deaths), and Ouled-Tayeb (50 deaths). Six days later they are followed by another set of local massacres.
* December 31 - After 26 years in operation, the Opryland USA theme park in Nashville, Tennessee closes permanently.
* December 31 - X Japanperforms their last live concert at the Tokyo Dome.

I remember when Princess Diana was killed and Hong Kong was handed back to China. Both were "breaking news" stories that interrupted other shows that were already on. For some reason, I also recall the first F-22 test flight.

[Sam A]

* August 6 - Microsoft buys a $150 million share of financially troubled Apple Computer.

I didn't know about this.

[Dªn]

Christ, there's whole essays appearing in here! Rikki's was much shorter!

#January 26 - A man fires two blank shots at Charles, Prince of Wales in Sydney, Australia.
#In Gloucester, local police begins excavations at 25 Cromwell Street the home of Frederick West, suspected of multiple murders. On February 28, he and his wife are arrested.
#April 6 - Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and president of Burundi Cyprien Ntaryamira died when a missile shoots down their jet near Kigali, Rwanda. This is taken as a pretext to begin the Rwandan Genocide.
# May 6 - The Channel Tunnel, which took 15,000 workers over seven years to complete, opens between England and France. Passengers can now travel between the two countries in 35 minutes.
# May 9 - Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first Black president.
#May 12 - Death of Labour leader John Smith.
# August 31 - The Irish Republican Army announces a "complete cessation of military operations."

I remember, The IRA, John Smith dying, Nelson Mandel being in augurated, and the Chunnel opening. oh and the Fred West thing. Although I don't remember any of them very clearly, and most of what I know about them is retrospective.

[Brendon Koz]

Selected bits, 1989:

Communication
The Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry establishes the Laboratory for International Fuzzy Engineering Research. See also 1987 Transportation.

On June 3 Japan initiates daily broadcasts of its analog version of high-definition television (HDTV) with a one-hour program featuring the Statue of Liberty and New York Harbor. HDTV pictures are also transmitted between Japan and the United States. See also 1991 Communication.

At CERN, Tim Berners-Lee [b. London, June 8, 1955] presents a paper called "Information Management: A Proposal." Although originally intended for use by the physicists at CERN, it becomes the theoretical basis for links used on the Internet and the World Wide Web. See also 1990 Communication.

Computers
Computer Deep Thought becomes the first computer to beat a master human chess player when it defeats David Levy, who had been winning matches against computers since 1968. However, Gary Kasparov defeats Deep Thought in a two-game match on October 22. See also 1982 Computers; 1997 Computers.

Seymour Cray founds the Cray Computer Corporation to develop the Cray III supercomputer, which will employ gallium arsenide chips. These are faster than silicon chips but much more expensive. See also 1964 Computers; 1991 Computers.

Tools
At the end of October the first-ever conference on nanotechnology -- manufacture of devices on a nanometer (one-billionth of a meter) scale -- takes place in Palo Alto, California, led by K. Eric Drexler of the Foresight Institute. See also 1988 Tools.

[Sam A]

# August 31 - The Irish Republican Army announces a "complete cessation of military operations."

Ah yes, then they blow up Canary Wharf two years later.

That's what I remember the most from that year, it signalled some of the bloodiest years since the height of the troubles for us in Northern Ireland.

[blush]

When I was 9 (ones I remember highlighted):

1992

* February 7 - The Maastricht treaty is signed, founding the European Union.
* February 10 - In Indianapolis, Indiana, boxer Mike Tyson is convicted of raping Desiree Washington.
* February 11 - An F-16 jet crashes into a residential district of Hengelo, the Netherlands; no casualties are reported.
* February 17 - A court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin sentences Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison.
* February 18 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The Executive Chairman of UNSCOM details Iraq's refusal to abide by UN Security Council disarmament resolutions.
* February 20 - The English FA Premier League is officially formed.
* February 21 - The United Nations Security Council approves United Nations Resolution 743 to send a UNPROFOR peacekeeping force to the Yugoslavia.
* February 25-February 26 - Massacre of 613 Azerbaijani civilians in Khojaly. Among them are 106 women and 83 children. 56 people are killed especially brutally. 8 families are totally exterminated. 25 children are totally, and 130 children partly orphaned. 476 people (of which 76 children) become disabled. 1275 people are taken hostage and even though afterwards most of the hostages were released from captivity, the fates of 150 of them are still unknown. Reported to be carried out by the Armenian forces.
* February 26 - Supreme Court of Ireland rules that a 14-year-old rape victim may travel to England to have an abortion.

* March - Boxer Mike Tyson is given a 6 year sentence for raping Desiree Washington.
* March 1 - After a majority of the Bosniak and Bosnian Croat communities vote for Bosnian independence, Serb snipers fire on civilians.
* March 12 - Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
* March 12 - A tram-car crashes into a crowd of people at the tram-station at Vasaplatsen in Gothenburg, Sweden; 13 are killed and several injured.
* March 13 - In eastern Turkey, an earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500.
* March 17 - A suicide car-bomb goes off in the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, killing 29 and injuring 242.
* March 25 - Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.

* April 2 - In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of the murder of mob boss Paul Castellano and racketeering, and is later sentenced to life in prison.
* April 6 - The Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (without the presence of Serbian political delegates) proclaims independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
* April 6 - Robert Schumann (record-breaker), 10, becomes the youngest person to visit the North Pole.
* April 6 - Serbian troops, as a result of a mass rebellion of Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina against the Bosnian declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, besiege the city of Sarajevo (the beginning of the Bosnian War).
* April 8 - Punch magazine publishes its final issue.
* April 9 - A Miami jury convicts former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega of assisting Colombia's cocaine cartel.
* April 9 - United Kingdom general election: John Major is unexpectedly re-elected.
* April 10 - An IRA bomb explodes in the Baltic Exchange in the City of London; 3 are killed, 91 injured.
* April 13 - Roermond, the Netherlands, is rocked by an earthquake along the Peel Fault.
* April 14-October 15 - The trial of the Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo ends with a death sentence.
* April 15 - The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
* April 20 - Seville's 6-month Universal Exhibition opens, called Seville Expo '92, in the city of Seville, Spain.
* April 20 - The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, held at Wembley Stadium, is televised live to over 1 billion people and raises thousands of dollars for AIDS research.
* April 21 - Maria Vladimirovna of Russia succeeds her father as Head of the Imperial Family of Russia, and Titular Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias.
* April 22 - Fuel that has leaked into a sewer explodes in Guadalajara, Mexico; 215 are killed, 1500 injured.
* April 27 - Betty Boothroyd is elected the first woman to be Speaker of the British House of Commons.
* April 28 - The 2 remaining countries of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Montenegro form a new state under name - the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (after 2003, Serbia and Montenegro), bringing to an end the union of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Bosnian Muslims and Macedonians that existed from 1918 (with the exception of the period during World War II).
* April 29 - In Simi Valley, California, the LAPD police officers accused of excessive force in their severe beating of Rodney King, are found "not guilty". The verdict results in several days of riots in L.A. and smaller riots around the country.

* May 5 - Alabama ratifies a 202-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a midterm or retroactive pay raise.
* May 5 - Russian leaders in Crimea declare their separation from Ukraine as a new republic. They withdraw the secession on May 10.
* May 10 - Sweden wins the Ice Hockey World Championships in Prague.
* May 15 - The Genoa Expo '92 World's Fair opens in Genoa, Italy.
* May 16 - STS-49: Space Shuttle Endeavour lands safely after a successful maiden voyage.
* May 19 - Amy Fisher shoots at Mary Jo Buttafuoco.
* May 23 - A Mafia bomb kills Italian anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone.
* May 26 - Charles Geschke, President of Adobe Systems, is kidnapped from his company car park. Kidnappers demand ransom for $650,000 - they are later apprehended.

* June 1 - Kentucky celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
* June 1 - Terrorist Carlos (the Jackal) is sentenced to life imprisonment.
* June 1 - The Pittsburgh Penguins sweep the Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games in the 1992 Stanley Cup Finals.
* June 8 - The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
* June 12 - Medical doctor Pravin Thakkar is sentenced to 16 years for aborting the fetuses of 2 of his former lovers without their permission.
* June 15 - During a spelling bee at a Trenton, New Jersey elementary school, U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle erroneously corrects a student's spelling of the word potato, by indicating it should have an e at the end.
* June 17 - A 'Joint Understanding' agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this is later codified in START II). [2]
* June 22 - Two skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg are identified as Czar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.
* June 23 - Mafia boss John Gotti is sentenced to life in prison, after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering on April 2. [3]
* June 26 - Denmark beats Germany 2-0 to win Euro 92 at Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden.
* June 29 - A bodyguard assassinates president Muhammad Boudiaf of Algeria.

* July 6-July 29 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses a U.N. inspection team access to the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture. UNSCOM claims that it has reliable information that the site contains archives related to illegal weapons activities. U.N. Inspectors stage a 17-day "sit-in" outside of the building, but leave when their safety is threatened by Iraqi soldiers.
* July 10 - In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
* July 13 - Britain's former executioner Albert Pierrepoint dies.
* July 16 - Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton is nominated for U.S. President at the Democratic National Convention in New York City.
* July 20 - Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia
* July 22 - Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison, fearing extradition to the United States.

* August 10 - The UK government bans the Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary organisation that had been legal for twenty years.
* August 17 - U.S. Marshalls start the siege of Ruby Ridge.
* August 18 - Wang Laboratories files for bankruptcy.
* August 20 - Kristiansund's connection to the main land of Norway, Krifast, opens.
* August 21 - At the Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas, U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle are renominated. Pat Buchanan, one of Bush's opponents in the primaries, delivers a controversial convention speech, in which he refers to a "religious war" in the country.
* August 21-August 22 - Events at Ruby Ridge are sparked by a Federal Marshal survellience team, resulting in the death of a Marshal, Sam Weaver and his dog and the next day the wounding of Randy Weaver, the death of his wife Vicki and the wounding of Kevin Harris.
* August 24-August 28 - Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida and dissipates over the Tennessee valley when it merges with a storm system; 23 are killed. (I was in Florida at the time)

* September 11 - Hurricane Iniki hits the Hawaiian Islands, Kauai and Oahu.
* September 12 - STS-47: Dr. Mae Jemison becomes the first African-American woman to travel into space, going into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
* September 15 – Mihkel Mathiesen assumes presidency of the pre-WW II Republic of Estonia in exile, and appoints a new government in pursuit to avoid abolition of the government in exile.
* September 16 - The Pound Sterling and the Italian Lira are forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (Black Wednesday).
* 17 September - Two Kurdish opposition leaders are assassinated by the Iranian Kazem Darabi and the Lebanese Abbas Rhayel.
* September 23 - A large IRA bomb destroys the forensic laboratories in Belfast.
* September 24 - The Kentucky Supreme Court in Kentucky v. Wasson holds that laws criminalizing same-sex sodomy are unconstitutional, and accurately predicts that other states and the nation will eventually rule the same way.
* September 30 - José Eduardo dos Santos wins the first democratically-held elections in Angola, defeating Jonas Savimbi.

* October 1 - Pittsburgh International Airport's new facility is opened in Findlay Township, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The new terminal is built as an expansion for U.S. Air and an upgrade from the older Pittsburgh International Airport facility.
* October 2 - A riot breaks out in the Carandiru prison system in São Paulo, Brazil, which leads up to the Carandiru Massacre.
* October 4 - The Bijlmerramp disaster: An Israeli plane crashes in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 43 are killed, many more injured.
* October 7 - In Turkey, the farmer Tevfik Esenç, the last fluent speaker of the Ubykh language, dies.
* October 9 - A 13-kilogram (29-pound) meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu.
* October 15 - In Russia, Andrei Chikatilo is found guilty of 52 serial murders.
* October 17 - Yoshihiro Hattori, a 16-year-old Japanese exchange student, mistakes the address of a party and is shot after knocking on the wrong door in Baton Rouge,Louisiana. The shooter, Rodney Peairs, is later acquitted, sparking outrage in Japan.
* October 24 - The Toronto Blue Jays win the World Series in 6 games, making them the first Canadian team to win.
* October 26 - In Canada, the Charlottetown Accord is defeated in a national referendum.
* October 29 - The Food and Drug Administration approves Depo Provera for use as a contraceptive in the United States.
* October 31 - Pope John Paul II issues an apology, and lifts the edict of the Inquisition against Galileo Galilei.

* November 3 - Bill Clinton defeats incumbent U.S. president George H. W. Bush and H. Ross Perot in the U.S. presidential election.
* November 5 - In Detroit, Michigan, black motorist Malice Green dies after a struggle with white policemen Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn. The officers are later convicted and sentenced to prison.
* November 11 - The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
* November 20 - In England, a fire breaks out in the Private Chapel room of Windsor Castle, rages for 15 hours, and seriously damages the northwest side of the building (an investigation found that the fire was ignited after a spotlight came into contact with a curtain over an extended period).
* November 24 - In the People's Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.
* November 24 - Queen Elizabeth II describes this year as an Annus Horribilis (horrible year), due to various scandals damaging the image of the Royal Family, as well as the Windsor Castle fire.
* November 25 - The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, starting on January 1, 1993.
* November 30 - The trial of 14 South Vietnamese accused of murdering 24 North Vietnamese begins in Hong Kong (ends November 29, 1994).

* December 3 - UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, tasked with ensuring humanitarian aid gets distributed and establishing peace in Somalia.
* December 3 - The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while on approach to La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.
* December 4 - U.S. military forces invade Somalia.
* December 5 - Kent Conrad of North Dakota resigns his seat in the United States Senate and is sworn into the other seat from North Dakota, becoming the only U.S. Senator ever to have held two seats on the same day.
* December 6 - Hindu extremists demolish Babri Masjid (a 16th century mosque) in Ayodhya, India.
* December 8 - The last blast is fired at the Falu Copper Mine in Falun, Sweden, after a millennium of continuous operation.
* December 20 - The Folies Bergere music hall in Paris, France closes.
* December 29 - Brazil's president Fernando Collor de Mello resigns, following charges that he stole more than $32 million from the government and impeachment proceedings.

1993

* January 1 - The Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Slovakia and the Czech Republic separate in the so-called Velvet Divorce.
* January 3 - In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
* January 5 - Washington State executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
* January 9 - Jean-Claude Romand kills his family and tries to burn himself inside his home in France.
* January 14 - The Polish ferry Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen in the Baltic Sea, killing 54 people.
* January 15 - Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as 'The Beast', is arrested in Palermo, Sicily after 23 years as a fugitive.
* January 18 - For the first time, the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday is officially observed in all 50 U.S. states.
* January 19 - IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992 (the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history).
* January 19 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM inspectors to use its own aircraft to fly into Iraq, and begins military operations in the demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait, and the northern No-Fly Zone. U.S. forces fire approximately 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Baghdad factories linked to Iraq's illegal nuclear weapons program. Iraq then informs UNSCOM that it will be able to resume its flights.
* January 20 - Bill Clinton succeeds George H. W. Bush as the 42nd President of the United States of America.
* January 25 - Catherine Callbeck becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, becoming the first elected female premier in Canada (Rita Johnston was Canada's first female Premier but was not elected).
* January 25 - Mir Aimal Kasi fires a rifle and kills 2 employees outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
* January 26 - Václav Havel is elected President of the Czech Republic.
* January 31 - The Buffalo Bills become the first team to lose 3 consecutive Super Bowls, as they are defeated by the Dallas Cowboys, 52-17, in Super Bowl XXVII.

I also remember the summer olympics in Barcelona, but they aren't listed there.

[CTerry]

I didn't know about this.

I do believe the share has since been sold.

Well I technically turned was 9 from July 29th 1994 to July 28th 1995 ([/anal]) So using wikipedia some choice events from then.

1994

31 August - The Irish Republican Army announces a "complete cessation of military operations."
22 September - The long-running American sitcom Friends premieres on NBC, eventually becoming part of NBC's Must See TV comedy blocks on Thursdays.
5 November - A letter by former US President Ronald Reagan is released that announces he has Alzheimer's disease.
8 November - Georgia Representative Newt Gingrich leads the United States Republican Party in taking control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections, the first time in 40 years the Republicans secured control of both houses of U.S. Congress. George W. Bush is elected Governor of Texas.
11 December - Boris Yeltsin orders troops into Chechnya.
19 December - A planned exchange rate correction of the Mexican Peso to the US Dollar, becomes a massive financial meltdown in Mexico, unleashing the 'Tequila' effect on global financial markets. This will prompt a US$ 50 billion 'bailout' by the Clinton administration.

1995

1 January - Swedish band Rednex's techno version of Cotton Eyed Joe goes #1 in the UK, and becomes a standard DJ song worldwide, much like YMCA and Macarena.
20 March - Terrorist incident: Members of the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult release sarin gas on five separate railway trains in Tokyo, killing 12 and injuring hundreds.
24 April - Unabomber bomb kills lobbyist Gilbert Murray in Sacramento, California.
4 July - The UK Prime Minister, John Major, wins his battle to remain leader of the Conservative Party.

[Rikki]

I didn't know about this.

You need to find the Keynote speech where Steve Jobs announced it, and had Bill Gates on live video... It didn't go down well with the Apple fans in the audience.

[Michael Merritt]

All of Chris' things also apply to me, but I'll also add:

1994
July 25 - Israel and Jordan sign the Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace which formally ends the state of war that has existed between the nations since 1948.

1995
June 15 - While on trial for murder, O.J. Simpson put on a pair of gloves that were found soaked with blood at the murder scene. The gloves appear not to fit.

[JasonIPS]

For 1991, the only section that matters :

Super Bowl
NY Giants d. Buffalo (20-19)

World Series
Minnesota d. Atlanta Braves (4-3)

NBA Championship
Chicago d. LA Lakers (4-1)

Stanley Cup
Pittsburgh d. Minnesota (4-2)

Wimbledon
Women: Steffi Graf d. G. Sabatini (6-4 3-6 8-6)
Men: Michael Stich d. B. Becker (6-4 7-6 6-4)

Kentucky Derby Champion
Strike the Gold

NCAA Basketball Championship
Duke d. Kansas (72-65)

NCAA Football Champions
Miami-FL (AP) (12-0-0) & Washington (USA, FW, NFF) (12-0-0)

[elj]

I feel so young. I can't actually remember anything that happened the year I was 9 (1999), looking at the list of Wikipedia events. :/