David A Broad
A personal story
More than 40 years, told day by day
Léon Zitrone, Russian-born French journalist and the oldest host of the Eurovision Song Contest, aged 63, dies at 81
Zitrone was born in Petrograd, Russia. He arrived in France with his family fleeing communism at the age of six. He graduated from the ESJ Paris. He began by training in scientific studies but his mastership of Russian, French, English and German gave him entrance in 1948 to the radio foreign broadcasting services of Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF).
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In a historic referendum, Ireland voted to end its long-standing ban on divorce, marking a significant social and legal transformation.
The vote was incredibly close, with 50.28% supporting the referendum and 49.72% opposing it.
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Bernard Oliver, American engineer at HP and inventor (first hand-held calculators, SETI, Pulse Code Modulation), dies aged 79
Buena Vista Pictures releases Toy Story, the first feature film completely animated by computers.
The ground-breaking film was created using an impressive 800,000 hours of computing time across 300 Sun Microsystems microprocessors.
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The Dayton Peace Agreement was initialled at Wright Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, effectively ending three and a half years of devastating conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The agreement was formally ratified in Paris on December 14, 1995, marking a significant diplomatic breakthrough in resolving the Bosnian War
Apple Records releases The Beatles "Anthology 1" (double CD/triple LP), the first of a 3-part series of rare recordings and outtakes by the Beatles; set covers the years 1955-64.
This as well as new collaboration "Free as a Bird" - a John Lennon demo augmented by additional lyrics and performances by the surviving three; album tops Billboard chart in US and peaks at no. 2 in UK