UWF Events

• The university confers first doctoral degrees in education
• Additional land purchase brings the size of Pensacola’s campus to 1,600 acres
• Archaeology Institute raises anchor from deLuna ship in Pensacola Bay
• New psychology building and University Village apartments open

World Events

• Britain’s Princess Diana Paris dies in Paris car crash
• Mother Teresa dies prompting requests of early sainthood
• Timothy McVeigh convicted in Oklahoma City bombing
• Unstoppable Asian economy stumbles after Hong Kong is returned to Chinese
• Pathfinder crash-lands on Mars
• Rover, Sojourner, sends back photographs, reams of scientific data
• Scottish scientist introduces first cloned animal—a sheep named Dolly
• Septuplets born in Iowa
• Hale-Bopp comet is a celestial star
• Congress investigates allegations of campaign finance violations
• Jimmy Stewart and Robert Mitchum die
• New golf star Tiger Woods wins Masters