David A Broad
A personal story
More than 40 years, told day by day
A tragic aviation disaster occurred when Cameroon Airlines Flight 3701 crashed on approach to Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, resulting in the deaths of 71 out of 76 people on board.
The crash highlighted significant aviation safety concerns in the region.
The aircraft involved in the accident was a Boeing 737-200 Advanced. Registration TJ-CBE (MSN 23386) was built in 1985 and delivered to Cameroon Airlines on 30 August.
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Mariah Carey, in collaboration with Boyz II Men, achieved a groundbreaking musical milestone by becoming the first artist in history to have two consecutive singles debut simultaneously at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with their duet 'One Sweet Day'.
This unprecedented achievement highlighted Carey's immense popularity and commercial success in the mid-1990s music industry.
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A ground-breaking educational technology milestone occurred when LEARNZ conducted the first recorded virtual field trip via audioconference.
Two teachers and two schools in Canterbury, New Zealand, interactively connected with researchers in Antarctica, enabling students nationwide to participate in a live, remote learning experience.
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No major world climactic disasters this month but many cultural successes such as the "Swan Lake" ballet premieres with all-male swans at Sadler's Wells.
The 17th James Bond film "Golden Eye", stared Pierce Brosnan for the first time and the Beatles "Anthology 1" (double CD/triple LP) is released.
Sadly, Alan Hull, British folk singer-songwriter, and guitarist died of a heart attack at 50 and English-Australian WWII bomber pilot and stockbroker, died at the age of 75.
Better news as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother successfully underwent hip surgery.
Further afield, Russian chess prodigy Gary Kasparov defeated Anatoly Karpov to become the youngest World Chess Champion ever; stunning Jacqueline Aguilera Marcano (19), of Venezuela, is crowned 45th Miss World.
Buena Vista Pictures released Toy Story, the first feature film completely animated by computers.
More sadness as Bernard Oliver, American engineer at HP and inventor (first hand-held calculators, SETI, Pulse Code Modulation), dies aged 79.
However, The US Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully docked with the Russian space station Mir, marking another significant milestone in international space cooperation.
Elsewhere, South Africa held its first all-race local government elections, a landmark moment symbolizing the definitive end of the apartheid system as the former South African Defence Minister and ten retired military officers are formally charged with the murder of 13 people in a black township near Durban.
Leaders of Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia after being invited to the United States to officially sign The Dayton Agreement laying the groundwork for ending three and a half years of the devastating Bosnian War.
In the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir, a right-wing Jewish extremist, who opposed his peace efforts with the Palestinians.
PLO leader Yasser Arafat makes a surprising and significant diplomatic gesture by visiting Israel to pay respects to the family.
André Dallaire attempted to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, but was thwarted by his wife.
Nigerian playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was hanged by government forces, along with eight others.
More violence as a truck-bomb attack targeted a US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training centre in Riyadh, killing five Americans and two Indians.
Next, A suicide bomber attacks the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, resulting in 16 fatalities in a tragic act of terrorism.
Better news as Ireland voted to end its long-standing ban on divorce, twenty-seven nations signed the Barcelona Treaty, establishing the foundation for the Union for the Mediterranean.
US President Bill Clinton lifts ban on exports of oil from the Alaskan North Slope
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Operation Desert Storm officially concluded, marking the end of a major military intervention in the Persian Gulf War that had liberated Kuwait from Iraqi occupation in early 1991
The timeline of the Gulf War details the dates of the major events of the 1990–1991 war. It began with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990 and ended with the Liberation of Kuwait by Coalition forces.
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