UWF Events

• The John C. Pace Library is renovated and expanded
• UWF begins feasibility study for first doctorate degree
• Foundation capital campaign nets $32 million
• Campus closes as Hurricanes Erin and Opal strike Pensacola

World Events

• Terrorists bomb Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bomb in Oklahoma City killing 168
• Occidental Chemical Company agrees to pay $129 million for cleanup of Love Canal
• U.S. commits soldiers to Bosnian peace effort
• Federal budget impasse
• Internet booms
• Many die in mid-western heat wave
• O.J. Simpson on trial
• Stock market soars to new highs
• House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Republican led Congress forge “contract” with America
• Jonas Salk and Mickey Mantle die