25 June – The Far right National Democratic Party (Austria) was banned by a verdict of the Constitutional Court of Austria on the basis of the Verbotsgesetz 1947. In its explanatory statement the court determined that the NDP's "key principles and demands" are based on "biological-racist ideology ("Volksbegriff")" and also that its "pan-German Propaganda" is in agreement with the main goals of the Nazi Party.
19 October – The newspaper Der Standard is first published.[4]
26 October – 20 year old Alexandra Schriefl is murdered in Favoriten, Vienna. Her murder remains unsolved until September 2000.[5]