UWF Events

• UWF named one of “America’s Best College Buys”
• Distance Learning Labs open
• Math Professor Donald Byrkit named as one of 2,000 Outstanding Scientists of the 20th Century

World Events

• Senate acquits President Clinton of impeachment charges
• Two balloonists complete first non-stop around the world flight in 20 days
• Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes first female to command space shuttle mission
• NASA accidentally loses spacecraft orbiting Mars
• John F. Kennedy Jr. and wife die in private plane crash
• Earthquake in Turkey kills 17,500 people
• 15 students die in Columbine High School shooting
• Court rules Microsoft is a monopoly
• U.S. Women’s Soccer team wins the World Cup
• The world awaits 2000 and the Y2K bug