David A Broad
A personal story
More than 40 years, told day by day
Cool and unseasonably changeable weather at home but much worse for those climbing Mount Everest where a catastrophic storm struck, resulting in eight fatalities.
A bad earthquake occurred in Inner Mongolia, and a deadly and destructive tornado struck north-central Bangladesh.
This daft UK government’s introduced sanctions against the EEC for declining to accept our BSE-stricken beef products.
Accidents and fatalities dominated the news as fourteen U.S. servicemen were killed one morning when two U.S. Marine helicopters collided during massive U.S.-British war games.
Then a ValuJet Airlines Flight 592, a Douglas DC-9, crashed into the Florida Everglades after a fire broke out in its cargo hold.
When the MV Bukoba ferry tragically sank in Lake Victoria, Tanzania, resulting in one of Africa's most devastating maritime accidents with nearly 1,000 lives lost.
A big month for space exploration as The European Space Agency successfully launched the Ariane 5 rocket for its first test flight from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana.
Then STS 77 (Endeavour 11), launches into orbit and was the 77th Space Shuttle mission and the 11th mission for the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Iraq agreed to UN Resolution 986, which provided Iraq with the opportunity to sell $1 billion of oil.
In Europe, right-wing José María Aznar was appointed Prime Minister of Spain and German voters decisively rejected a proposed merger between the states of Berlin and Brandenburg.
In Africa, South Africa's Constitutional Assembly adopted a permanent post-apartheid constitution further consolidating the democratic transformation initiated by Nelson Mandela's ANC presidency.
Elsewhere, Conservative politician Benjamin Netanyahu was elected as Israel's prime minister, marking a significant shift in the country's political landscape.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, was elected as Prime Minister of India, replacing P. V. Narasimha Rao.
Iraqi forces deliberately impeded United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) inspection teams, refusing initial access to five designated inspection sites.
The Burmese military regime arrested 71 supporters of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.The Armed Islamic Group (GIA) claimed it had murdered seven monks two days earlier.
At the 49th Cannes Film Festival: "Secrets & Lies" directed by Mike Leigh wins the Palme d'Or. “Primal Fear”, a film starring Richard Gere Independence Day dominated the ratings.
I was resuming my journal in Horning after a break as Wiggly was good company with some nice play between times! I was struggling to recover from a worrying spell of dizziness but woke up the next day feeling much better.
There was more work to do fixing the water leak in The Jolly and also in Harnser after taking the boat out for breakfast in the village.
A strange occurrence at the shop this month as Sarah called anxiously after the computer had printed out a report for a £1,700 day!
Also a call from Sarah about us possibly taking on an early-morning paper organiser from rival Farrant’s, which proved to be a good scheme.
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Independence Day was an 1996 American science fiction action film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Emmerich and the film's producer Dean Devlin and it dominated the ratings on this day.
The film stars an ensemble cast of Wil Smith, Bill Pulman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, Vivacia A. Fox, James Rebhorn and Harvey Fierstein.
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Israel was waking up with a new political landscape. For the first time, the prime minister was elected on a separate ballot from the remaining members of the Knesset.
The elections for prime minister resulted in a surprise victory for Benjamin Netanyahu, by a margin of 29,457 votes, less than 1% of the total number of votes cast, and much smaller than the number of spoiled votes.
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Conservative politician Benjamin Netanyahu was elected as Israel's prime minister, marking a significant shift in the country's political landscape.
His election was controversial, as he was widely criticized for potentially obstructing the peace process initiated by his predecessor, Yitzhak Rabin.
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Waking up feeling much better and then leaving Horning on a fine and much brighter day which was still unseasonably changeable and cool.
This, after tidying up the gardens and commissioning the boats this trip we drove home to St Neots via Redgrave and Suton.
The morning TV news today was about this daft government’s sanctions against the EEC for declining to accept the BSE-stricken UK beef products.
I slept reasonably well and woke up feeling much better but still was awake much earlier than I would have liked.
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I spent this dull day in Horning that rained later struggling to recover from this dizziness by watching the final match of the Division 1 playoffs whilst Wiggly drove into Wroxham to get some shopping.
Then to arrive on time to see “Primal Fear”, a film starring Richard Gere.
A call later from Sarah this evening about us possibly taking on an early-morning paper organiser from rival Farrant’s
A restless night for me as the room was warm and I kept needing to get up for the toilet after the extra liquids I had forced myself to drink.
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