Northern Ireland peace agreement signed. ETA is understood to have been heavily influenced by the Northern Ireland peace process. ETA has traditionally had relations with the Irish republicans and the political wing Herri Batasuna has been schooled by Sinn Fein on strategy for negotiation. The first and only meeting between ETA and the Spanish government in Zurich, Switzerland. ETA subsequently confirms that contact with Madrid has been severed.
Car bombs explode in Madrid.
Newspaper columnist Jose Luis de la Calle shot dead outside his home in the Basque region. Local politician Jesus Maria Pedrosa of Popular Party shot dead in Basque city Durango. Basque Socialist politician Juan Maria Jauregui shot dead in cafe in Tolosa. Army officer, second lieutenant Francisco Casanova Vicente, shot dead in Pamplona. A former town councillor from the governing Popular Party, Manuel Indiano Azaustre, is shot dead in Zumarraga, near the northern Basque port of San Sebastian.