- Burma, Liberia and the USA do not use the metric system of weights and measures.
- Skijoring is a winter sport where a skier is pulled by a dog, a horse or a motor vehicle.
- The Channel Tunnel opened in May,1994.
- The James Bond film Goldfinger first featured the Aston Martin DBS.
- John Buchan, who wrote the book on which the Hitchcock movie The Thirty-nine Steps is based, became Lord Tweedsmuir, and was appointed Canada’s 15th governor-general.
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