The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.

The decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.

Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa.

German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.

Two-year-old James Bulger is abducted from New Strand Shopping Centre by two ten-year-old boys, who later torture and murder him.

A Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star.

HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships, is christened

Bombing of Genoa: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy, is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate.

The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked in a riot during a match in Sydney

The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.