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Clockwise from top-left: the 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; an earthquake strikes the San Fernando Valley, killing 57 people and becoming one of the costliest earthquakes on record; a model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson Mandela casts his vote in the South African general election, in which he was elected South Africa's first president, and which ...
P.L. Prattis becomes the first African American news correspondent allowed in the United States House of Representatives and Senate press galleries. February 5. Bolesław Bierut becomes the President of Poland. The Government of the United Kingdom announces the £25 million Tanganyika groundnut scheme, for cultivation of peanuts in the ...
Clockwise from top-left: the funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; an earthquake in İzmit kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootings in the United States; the year 2000 problem ("Y2K"), perceived as a major concern in the lead-up to the year 2000; the Millennium Dome (currently The O2 Arena) opens in London ...
Clockwise from top-left: an earthquake in Nicaragua kills 4,000–11,000 people; the first commercial home video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey, is released; a photo of the Earth known as The Blue Marble is taken during Apollo's final mission; during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, a terrorist attack carried out; Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty is signed; Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 ...
London Daily News, short-lived newspaper (24 February – 23 July) Iain M. Banks' novel Consider Phlebas. Iain Banks' novel Espedair Street. William Golding's novel Close Quarters, second of the To the Ends of the Earth trilogy. Paul Kennedy's historical study The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. Penelope Lively's novel Moon Tiger.
July 23 – Marshal Philippe Pétain, former Prime Minister and Head of State of France, Chief of State of Vichy France during World War II, hero commander of World War I who led the French Army to victory at the nine-month-long Battle of Verdun, for which he was called "the Lion of Verdun", dies while serving a sentence of life-imprisonment on ...
October 3 – An X-15 research aircraft with test pilot William J. Knight establishes an unofficial world fixed-wing speed record of Mach 6.7. October 12 Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile, because of North Vietnam's opposition.
The News of the World was a weekly national "red top" tabloid newspaper published every Sunday in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the world's highest-selling English-language newspaper, and at closure still had one of the highest English-language circulations. [4]