Departed
Jagan Mehta
A.C. Chowdhury
Ron Ziegler, 63, press secretary during the Nixon presidency. The regime’s voiceduring Watergate, he dismissed it as a ‘third-rate burglary’.
Bishnu Charan Bandopadhyay, freedom fighter and trade union leader.
Awarded
Aung San Suu Kyi, the $1 million Free Spirit prize, by Freedom Forum, US.
Appointed
First Indian Origin President/CEO
Reopened
The Charminar, though only till the first floor, 16 years after it was closed when a family committed suicide by jumping off it.
Named
Tarlochan Singh
Dissolved
The state of Yugoslavia. Renamed Serbia and Motenegro—after the regions that constitute it—it adopts a new federal charter.
