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December 1, 1990
Construction workers from Britain and France drilled though the final section of rock between them to join the two halves of the Channel Tunnel and meet under the English Channel. -
September 14, 1991
PARIS— Air France, denying an allegation reported by NBC News that it helped France's spy agency garner corporate secrets, said Friday that it had never bugged its passengers or knowingly hired French intelligence officers as crew members. -
July 6, 1992
Trucker Strikes, NewsRevue Lyric. Another season, another round of French truckers on strike. This song did well when the strikes were topical that summer and I did subsequently try to revive it periodically whenever the French truckers went on strike again, like that next winter, in the Bowden submission of early January 1993. -
May 15, 1993
French police rescue child hostages. Masked police commandos have freed six girls with their nursery teacher and shot dead an armed man, ending a two-day hostage crisis at a nursery school in Paris. -
May 6, 1994
President and Queen open Chunnel. The Queen and France's President Francois Mitterrand have formally opened the Channel Tunnel during two elaborate ceremonies in France and Britain.
After travelling through the tunnel, which took eight years and billions of pounds to build, the Queen said it was one of the world's great technological achievements. -
May 8, 1995
France's former president Mitterrand dies. France is mourning the loss of its longest-serving president, Francois Mitterrand, who has died at the age of 79 from prostate cancer. -
November 3, 1997
Angry truckers blockade French ports. Thousands of Lorries are at a standstill in France as striking French drivers form roadblocks around the country.