Kent Christopher Kasha

The price of a barrel of American crude leaped over the hundred-dollar threshold. Temperatures rose to fifteen degrees Celsius and meteorologists noted than there will likely be no more winter this year.

News Agencies reported that the recently-deceased Maharishi Mahesh was cremated in his native Allahabad at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers. The Government sent Parliament a draft bill for people to retire at 65 years of age. Christians celebrated the 150th anniversary of the miraculous moment when the Virgin Mary appeared to fourteen-year-old Bernardette Soubirous in a cave in Lourdes.

Karl Ludwig Habsburg, son of the last Austrian-Hungarian Emperor, was buried in Vienna. The enrolment of first-graders commenced. The American financial crisis arrived in Europe. Nobody will avoid it.

High winds gave way to black ice. A small boy perished below a weir on the Opava River not far from the village of Háj ve Slezsku when he broke through the ice he was walking on. Mortgages went up in price.