UWF Events

• President John C. Cavanaugh inaugurated
• University launches degree in hospitality, recreation and resort management
• Graduate classes in historic preservation are taught at Historic Pensacola Village
• UWF baseball field, renamed Pelican Park, becomes host to professional team, Pensacola Pelicans

World Events

• United States and Great Britain attack Iraq, capture Sadim Hussein
• Space shuttle Columbia explodes on re-entry
• Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger elected governor of California
• Hubble space telescope detects 12.7 billion-year-old planet
• Oldest remains of modern humans found in Ethiopia
• Williams sisters meet again for instant replay at Wimbledon
• Pirates of the Caribbean smash hit film.