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The flood in the Midwest
drew people together to help
save their homes and proper-
ty from the rising waters. Five
states were declared federal
disaster areas, and damages
were estimated at $10 billion.

; Charlotte, .C., and
: Jacksonville, Fla., were
; awarded new National
~ Football League franchises.
: The Carolina Panthers and
; the Jacksonville Jaguars
~ brought the total number of
; NFL teams to 30.

; CIA counterintelligence chief
; Aldrich Ames was arrested in
; March on e pionage charges.
; Ames sold U.S. secrets to
~ the Russians for nine years
; and could be responsible for
; betraying at least 10 opera-
~ tives executed by the KGB.

~ Conway Twitty, whose 55
; o. 1 hits were the most by a
; country singer, died in June
; of an abdominal aneurysm at
~~Sifi~~i1: theageofs9.

; Damian William and Henry
; Watson were acquitted on
; charges of attempted murder
; for the beating of trucker
A military aircraft accident in ; Barbra Streisand, who had Betfrly Hills :x!210 tar Shannen ~ Reginald Denny during the
which two planes collided at ; not given a paid concert in 22 ; Doherty married Ashley ; LA. riots in 1992. William
Fort Bragg, N.C., in late ~ years, sold out Las Vegas ; Hamilton in September. ~ was sentenced to lO years in
.
March killed 23 paratroopers. : shows on ew Year's Eve and : Doherty, whose character on ; jail for the as ault, and
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The two planes struck each ; ew Year's Day. Ticket prices ; :xl2JOwas jailed for breaking ; Watson received four years
other on their approach to ~ ranged from 50- $1000. ; into an animal research lab, left ~ probation.
Pope Air Force base. ; the show amid rumors that she
; had been fired.