UWF Events

• College of Education receives full accreditation
• First “fast food” restaurant, Taco Bell, opens on campus
• First eight Pace Scholars arrive on campus
• UWF joins NCAA Division II

World Events

• Slovakia negotiates divorce from Czechoslovakia
• Major earthquake strikes in Los Angeles
• Former football star O.J. Simpson accused of killing his ex-wife
• CIA agent Aldrich Ames caught working for Russians
• Republican’s sweep Congress in off-year elections
• Young American caned in Singapore
• Cubans and Haitians flee to America
• California bans immigrants’ access to public services
• Assault weapons banned
• Government privatizes internet
• Richard Nixon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis die
• Cartoonist Gary Larson retires Far Side strip
• Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan attacked by opponent Tonya Harding