April: Television evangelist Oral Roberst tells his audience that God had spared his life because he had raised the required $8 million.
May 24: First major minority ethnic Serbian protest in Kosovo over real or alleged prosecution by the ethnic Albanian majority.
August 6: Membership of the British Social Democratic Party agrees to merge with the British Liberal Party in a vote of 25,897 (57.4%) to 19,228 (42.6%) with a turnout of 45,125 (77.7%).
September 17: British Liberal Party annual conference votes 998 to 21 to begin negotiations to merge with the British Social Democratic Party.
October: Slobodan Milosevic purges Serbian Communist Party and mnes media of opponents. Stalinist S.O.P.
October 6: Fijian military coup leader Maj. Gen. Sitiveni Rabuka formally declares Fiji to be a republic.
October 19: the second "Black Monday" was the largest single-day decline in the U.S. stock market. The first "Black Monday" was in 1929.
November: Tunisian Prime Minister Gen. Zine el Abidine Ben Ali overthrows president for Life Habib Bourguiba in a "medical coup," with the help of Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi. Ben Alio becomes President.
