Lark Frantz, a court reporter from Florida who completed the typing of 500 pages of court hearings for which officials had been waiting since May 1994. A judge had become so angry at the delay that he ordered her jailed until the job was done.
A bad day for:
Kite-fliers, as a kite-flying festival in Lahore, Pakistan, ended with five dead and 150 injured. Celebratory gunfire killed one, others fell from roofs, and three were electrocuted trying to retrieve a kite from a high-voltage wire.
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