Notable Historical Events - 1986
1986 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Aruba becomes independent from neighbor island Curacao |
Jan 1 |
Barbra Striesand & Jon Peters relationship breaks up |
Jan 1 |
International Peace Year begins |
Jan 1 |
NYC transit fare rises from 90 cents to $1.00 |
Jan 1 |
Oklahoma wins Orange Bowl for college football championship |
Jan 1 |
Spain & Portugal are 11th & 12th to join European Economic Community |
Jan 1 |
Iowa's All-American running back, Ronnie Harmon, fumbles the ball 4 times in his last game-the Rose Bowl |
Jan 1 |
South African Government closes its borders with Lesotho, cutting off important food and fuel supplies, after Lesotho refuses to sign a non-aggression pact. |
Jan 2 |
191.66 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange |
Jan 2 |
NY Islander, Mike Bossy, scores his 500th goal |
Jan 4 |
David Boon's second Test century, 131 v India at Adelaide |
Jan 4 |
NCAA basketball's David Robinson blocks a record 14 shots |
Jan 6 |
British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns |
Jan 6 |
Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg |
Jan 6 |
Last day in Test cricket for Bob Holland |
Jan 6 |
STS 61-C scrubbed at T-31sec because of liquid oxygen valve problem |
Jan 7 |
Netherlands Bank issues 250 guilder notes |
Jan 7 |
STS 61-C mission scrubbed at T -9m because of weather problems |
Jan 7 |
US President Reagan announces economic sanctions against Libya |
Jan 8 |
Willie McCovey is 16th elected to Hall of Fame in his 1st year |
Jan 9 |
NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins |
Jan 9 |
After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak must give up its instant camera business. |
Jan 10 |
Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US |
Jan 10 |
STS 61-C mission scrubbed T -9m because of bad weather at Kennedy |
Jan 11 |
1st black lt gov since reconstruction sworn in (Douglas Wilder of Va) |
Jan 12 |
24th space shuttle (61-C) mission-Columbia 7-launched |
Jan 12 |
Chic Blackhawk Denis Savard scores at 4 seconds of 3rd period |
Jan 12 |
New England Patriots defeat Miami Dolphins 31 14 to win US AFC football championship |
Jan 13 |
NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams |
Jan 13 |
South Yemen Pres Ali Nasser Mohammed's bodyguard shoots opponents |
Jan 14 |
Constitution of Guatemala takes effect |
Jan 14 |
Vinicio Cerezo becomes only 2nd freely elected president of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954 |
Jan 15 |
Living Seas opens (Disneyland) |
Jan 16 |
Police arrested 3 IRA-terrorists in Amsterdam |
Jan 16 |
First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force. |
Jan 17 |
Tim Witherspoon beats Tony Tubbs in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jan 18 |
24th Space Shuttle (61-C) Mission-Columbia 7-returns to Earth |
Jan 18 |
AIDS charity record "That's What Friends are For," hits #1 |
Jan 18 |
NY Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46) |
Jan 19 |
Cerebral Palsy telethon |
Jan 19 |
Israeli premier Simon Peres visits Netherlands |
Jan 19 |
Spain recognizes Israel |
Jan 20 |
1st federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr |
Jan 20 |
Chunnel announced (railroad tunnel under Canal) |
Jan 20 |
Milt coup in Lesotho under gen-mjr Lekhanya & premier Leabua Jonathan |
Jan 21 |
100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38°F (3°C), Indiana |
Jan 21 |
Allison J Brown, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 4th Miss Teen USA |
Jan 21 |
Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed |
Jan 22 |
Ghorbanifar 1st suggests diversion of cash to contras, says North |
Jan 23 |
"Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 13 perfs |
Jan 23 |
Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB |
Jan 23 |
1st induction of Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Domino, Everly Bros, B Holly, J L Lewis & Elvis Presley) |
Jan 24 |
43th Golden Globes: Whoopi Goldberg, Color Purple win |
Jan 24 |
NY Islander Mike Bossy scores his 1,000th point |
Jan 24 |
South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president |
Jan 24 |
Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons |
Jan 25 |
General Tito Okello's government flees Kampala Uganda |
Jan 26 |
Hein Vergeer becomes European skating champ |
Jan 26 |
Val Skinner wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic |
Jan 26 |
Yoweri Museveni's rebel army conquerors Kampala Uganda |
Jan 26 |
Super Bowl XX: Chicago Bears beat NE Patriots, 46-10 in New Orleans Super Bowl MVP: Richard Dent, Chicago, DE |
Jan 27 |
13th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Huey Lewis & C Gayle |
Jan 28 |
"Uptown... It's Hot!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 24 perfs |
Jan 28 |
25th Space Shuttle (51L)-Challenger 10 explodes 73 sec after liftoff |
Jan 28 |
Angolan Unity Leader Jonas Savimbi visits Washington, DC |
Jan 29 |
193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange |
Jan 29 |
Yoweri Museveni sworn in as president of Uganda |
Jan 31 |
Mary Lund of Minn, is 1st female recipient of an artificial heart |
Feb 1 |
KHJ-AM in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KRTH |
Feb 2 |
"Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" closes at Ritz NYC after 13 perfs |
Feb 2 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
Feb 2 |
Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India |
Feb 2 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 28-24 |
Feb 2 |
Oscar Arias Sanchez elected president of Costa Rica |
Feb 3 |
US President Reagan announces formation of Comm on Challenger Accident |
Feb 3 |
OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) fails to agree upon a production accord after a two-day meeting in Vienna |
Feb 4 |
38th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 (OT) at Hartford |
Feb 4 |
Israeli fighters intercept Libyan passenger airliner |
Feb 5 |
Corazon Aquino & Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline" |
Feb 6 |
NJ Devil Peter McNab becomes 42nd NHLer to score 350 goals |
Feb 7 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas |
Feb 7 |
Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France Henri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti |
Feb 7 |
Corazon Aquino defeats incumbent filippino dictator Ferdinand Marcos but fraudulent returns gave the election to Marcos |
Feb 8 |
5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition |
Feb 8 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano |
Feb 8 |
1984 Summer Olympics head of the LAPD bomb squad, Arleigh McCree, and his partner Officer Ronald Ball of the Firearms and explosives unit were killed while trying to dismantle two pipe bombs when they responded to a call. McCree was recognized as one of the top explosive experts in the world. |
Feb 8 |
The crime film "A Better Tomorrow", starring Yun Fat Chow, premieres in Hong Kong |
Feb 9 |
36th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 139-132 at Dallas |
Feb 9 |
Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun) |
Feb 9 |
Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen |
Feb 9 |
Marvin Johnson wins record 3rd time, light heavyweight boxing title |
Feb 9 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
Feb 9 |
Tomb of Tutanchamon's treasurer Maya found in Egypt |
Feb 9 |
West German team swims world record 4x200 m freestyle (7:05.17) |
Feb 10 |
"John Lennon: Live in NYC" album is released posthumously |
Feb 11 |
Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country |
Feb 11 |
Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup |
Feb 11 |
Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq |
Feb 12 |
1st-class cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, Leeward Is v Guyana |
Feb 15 |
44,180 largest NBA crowd to date-Phila at Detroit |
Feb 15 |
Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged Philippines presidential election |
Feb 15 |
Philipines National Assembly authorizes 6 more years for Ferdinand Marcos |
Feb 16 |
"Uptown... It's Hot!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 24 perfs |
Feb 16 |
French air force bombs Ouadi Doum airport in Chad |
Feb 16 |
Hein Vergeer becomes world champion skater |
Feb 16 |
Karlstad skates world record 10 km (14:12.14) |
Feb 16 |
Mario Soares (Socialist) elected Portugal's 1st civilian pres |
Feb 17 |
1st Francophone Summit convenes at Versailles |
Feb 17 |
Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC morning radio (WXRK 92.3 FM) |
Feb 17 |
Johnson & Johnson announces it no longer sell capsule drugs |
Feb 17 |
Libyan bombers attack N'djamena Airport in Chad |
Feb 18 |
San Antonio's Alvin Robertson scores NBA 2nd quadruple double-20 pts, 11 rebounds, 10 assists & 10 steals against Phoenix |
Feb 19 |
King Hussein of Jordan severs ties with PLO |
Feb 19 |
US Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later |
Feb 19 |
USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit |
Feb 20 |
LA Dodger Orel Hershiser is 1st to win a $1M salary by arbitration |
Feb 20 |
Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany NY |
Feb 21 |
AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle School |
Feb 21 |
Tennis star Jimmy Connors fined $20,000 & suspended for 10 weeks |
Feb 22 |
Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines. |
Feb 23 |
Despite losing, Red Sox Wade Boggs gets largest arbitration ($1.35M) |
Feb 23 |
Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA Standard Register/Samaritan Golf Classic |
Feb 23 |
Nelli Fiere-Cooman runs world record 60 m indoor (7.00 sec) |
Feb 24 |
Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million |
Feb 24 |
Voyager 2, 1st Uranus flyby |
Feb 25 |
28th Grammy Awards: We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins wins |
Feb 25 |
Corazon Aquino becomes President of the Philippines, Marcos flees |
Feb 25 |
Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao |
Feb 25 |
Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel |
Feb 26 |
Evert van Benthem wins 14th Frisian 11-Cities skating race (6:55:16) |
Feb 26 |
People Power Revolution in the Philippines. |
Feb 27 |
The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis. |
Feb 28 |
European Economic Community sign "Special Act" for Europe free trade |
Feb 28 |
Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs |
Mar 2 |
1st million-dollar purse for a handicap race won at Santa Anita |
Mar 2 |
Mary Beth Zimmerman wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational |
Mar 2 |
Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to US |
Mar 4 |
Border completes twin Test tons (140 & 114*) v NZ |
Mar 5 |
"Today" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national color newspaper) |
Mar 6 |
Ken Ludwig's "Lend me a Tenor" premieres in London |
Mar 6 |
USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km |
Mar 7 |
South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant & Limburg ends |
Mar 7 |
Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist |
Mar 8 |
4 French TV crew members are abducted in west Beirut Lebanon |
Mar 8 |
Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km |
Mar 8 |
Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million |
Mar 9 |
16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000 |
Mar 9 |
Juli Inkster wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
Mar 9 |
NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts |
Mar 9 |
Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km |
Mar 10 |
Ernie Lombardi, NL MVP in 1938, & Bobby Doerr, elected to Hall of Fame |
Mar 11 |
1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC |
Mar 11 |
187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange |
Mar 11 |
Islander Mike Bossy, 1st NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons |
Mar 11 |
Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km |
Mar 11 |
NFL adopts instant replay rule |
Mar 12 |
210.25 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange |
Mar 12 |
Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race |
Mar 13 |
12th People's Choice Awards: Sylvester Stallone & Meryl Streep win (Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby, Linda Evans win (TV) |
Mar 13 |
Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir |
Mar 13 |
Microsoft has its Initial public offering. |
Mar 14 |
European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km) |
Mar 15 |
Funeral services held for Swedish PM Olaf Palme |
Mar 16 |
chris johnson wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic |
Mar 17 |
Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF |
Mar 18 |
Exciting draw in final gives NSW the Sheffield Shield over Qld |
Mar 18 |
Treasury Dept announces plans to alter paper money |
Mar 20 |
228 KPH gust of wind strikes Cairngorm (UK record) |
Mar 20 |
Jacques Chirac forms French government |
Mar 21 |
199.22 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange |
Mar 21 |
Kania skates ladies world record 500 m (39.52 sec) & 3 km (4:18.02) |
Mar 21 |
Pittsburgh Associates buy Pittsburgh Pirates for $218 million |
Mar 22 |
Ehrig skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.99) |
Mar 22 |
HBO launches boxing's heavyweight-title-unification-tournament |
Mar 22 |
Heart's "These Dreams," single goes #1 |
Mar 22 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Geneva won by Gordeeva & Grinkov (URS) |
Mar 22 |
Kania skates ladies world record 1500m (1:59.30) |
Mar 22 |
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Debi Thomas (USA) |
Mar 22 |
Trevor Berbick beats Pinklon Thomas in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Mar 23 |
6th Golden Raspberry Awards: Rambo: First Blood Part II wins |
Mar 23 |
Heavyweight Trevor Berbick KOs Pinklon Thomas |
Mar 23 |
Penny Pulz wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open |
Mar 24 |
58th Academy Awards - "Out of Africa", William Hurt & G Page win |
Mar 24 |
Suriname army capt Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling |
Mar 24 |
US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra |
Mar 24 |
NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status" |
Mar 25 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Brian Boitano (USA) |
Mar 25 |
Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes |
Mar 25 |
Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes 1st skater to land a quadruple jump |
Mar 26 |
Geffen records signs Guns & Roses |
Mar 27 |
Disney-MGM Studio Tour ground breaking |
Mar 28 |
Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India |
Mar 28 |
John N McMahon, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
Mar 29 |
Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia |
Mar 30 |
"Tango Argentino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 198 perfs |
Mar 30 |
5th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: Texas beats Southern Cal 97-81 |
Mar 31 |
167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes |
Mar 31 |
48th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats Duke 72-69 |
Mar 31 |
English Hampton Court palace destroyed by fire, 1 dead |
Mar 31 |
Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England. |
Apr 1 |
Delhi beat Haryana by innings & 141 to win Ranji Trophy |
Apr 1 |
US submarine Nathaniel Green runs aground in Irish Sea |
Apr 1 |
World oil prices dip below $10 a barrel |
Apr 2 |
4 US passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece |
Apr 2 |
George Corley Wallace (Gov-D-Ala) announces retirement plans |
Apr 2 |
NCAA adopts 3-point basketball rule (19 feet 9 inch distance) |
Apr 3 |
Maureen O'Boyle (future host of Current Affair) is raped |
Apr 3 |
US national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000 |
Apr 4 |
Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 213th point of season |
Apr 5 |
Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m) |
Apr 5 |
US soldier & Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing |
Apr 6 |
15th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley |
Apr 6 |
Soccer ball juggled non-stop for 14:14 hrs |
Apr 7 |
Wrestlemania II at 3 locations, Hulk Hogan beats King Kong Bundy |
Apr 8 |
Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel California, Make his day |
Apr 9 |
"Dallas" announces it will revive killed Bobby Ewing character |
Apr 10 |
"Big Deal" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 70 performances |
Apr 10 |
Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan |
Apr 10 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 11 |
A Canadain 1921 50 cent piece auctioned in NYC for $22,000 |
Apr 11 |
Dodge Morgan sailed solo nonstop around world in 150 days |
Apr 11 |
Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km |
Apr 11 |
KXA-AM in Seattle WA changes call letters to KRPM |
Apr 12 |
20,000 mine workers protest closing of Hasselt Belgium mines |
Apr 13 |
50th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 279 |
Apr 13 |
Boston Celtics end season with a 40-1 home win record |
Apr 13 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic |
Apr 13 |
Pope John Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue |
Apr 13 |
Spanish Grand Prix decided by 0.014 of a second |
Apr 14 |
21st Academy of Country Music Awards: G Strait, Alabama, R McEntire |
Apr 14 |
Desmond Tutu elected Anglican archbishop of Capetown |
Apr 14 |
Double-decker ferry sinks in stormy weather in Bangladesh killing 200 |
Apr 14 |
US aircraft attacks 5 terrorist locations in Libya |
Apr 15 |
US air raids Libya, responding to La Belle disco, Berlin bombing |
Apr 15 |
Viv Richards century off 56 balls v England in Antigua Test Cricket |
Apr 15 |
The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon against Libya. |
Apr 16 |
To dispel rumors he's dead, Moammar Gadhafi appears on TV |
Apr 16 |
West Indies complete 5-0 demolition of England |
Apr 17 |
IBM produces 1st megabit-chip |
Apr 17 |
Netherlands & Scilly Islands sign peace treaty (war of 1651) |
Apr 17 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Larry McMurtry for "Lonesome Dove" |
Apr 18 |
Robert M Gates, becomes deputy director of CIA |
Apr 18 |
Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg AFB |
Apr 19 |
Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Apr 20 |
"Jerry's Girls" closes at St James Theater NYC after 139 performances |
Apr 20 |
Michael Jordan sets NBA playoff record with 63 points in a game |
Apr 20 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 20 |
Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland |
Apr 21 |
15th Boston Women's Marathon won by I Kristiansen of Norway in 2:24:55 |
Apr 21 |
90th Boston Marathon won by Rob de Castella of Australia in 2:07:51 |
Apr 21 |
Bob Hering sets Formula One power boat record (165.338 mph, Ariz) |
Apr 21 |
Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV & finds nothing |
Apr 22 |
Consumer Price Index drops .04% for 2nd month in a row |
Apr 22 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 23 |
Grand Floridian Beach Resort groundbreaking |
Apr 23 |
Madrid-Nelli Cooman runs world record 60m indoor (7 sec) |
Apr 25 |
ETA bomb attacks Madrid killing 5 |
Apr 25 |
Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II. |
Apr 26 |
Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Marshall Holman |
Apr 26 |
France performs nuclear test |
Apr 26 |
Game between Angels & Twins delayed for 9 minutes by strong winds |
Apr 26 |
World's worst nuclear disaster: 4th reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in USSR explodes, 31 die, contamination reach much of Western Europe |
Apr 27 |
"Sweet Charity" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 368 performances |
Apr 27 |
Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO |
Apr 27 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
Apr 27 |
Soviet authorities order the evacuation of the city of Pripyat (pop. 50,000) 1 day after the Chernobyl nuclear accident |
Apr 28 |
Soviet TV news program Vremya annouces a nuclear accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station, 2 days after the event |
Apr 29 |
800,000 books destroyed by fire in LA Central Library |
Apr 29 |
Boston Red Sox Roger Clemens strikes out 20 Seattle Mariners |
Apr 30 |
Ashrita Furman peformed 8,341 somersaults over 12 miles |
Apr 30 |
Mariners strike out 16 times, set record of 36 in 2 consecutive games |
May 1 |
Bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph |
May 1 |
Russian news agency Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap |
May 1 |
Will Stegers expedition reaches North Pole |
May 2 |
Dynamo Kiev wins 26th Europe Cup II |
May 2 |
Transportation Expo 86 opens in Vancouver, BC |
May 3 |
112th Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker aboard Ferdinand wins in 2:02.8 |
May 3 |
Air Lanka crashes, killing 22 |
May 3 |
Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th & 301st HR |
May 3 |
NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit |
May 3 |
NY Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game |
May 4 |
President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan |
May 5 |
Hall of Fame & Museum announced to be built in Cleveland |
May 6 |
Berlin: Real Madrid wins 15th UEFA Cup |
May 6 |
Donald E Pelotte becomes 1st native American bishop |
May 6 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
May 7 |
Bucharest wins 31st Europe Cup I |
May 7 |
Phillies outfielder Garry Maddox, retires |
May 7 |
Iraq bombs a Tehran oil refiner |
May 10 |
"Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco hit #1 on UK pop chart |
May 11 |
Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
May 12 |
President Reagan appoints Dr James C Fletcher NASA Administrator |
May 12 |
Fred Markham (US), unpaced & unaided by wind, is 1st to pedal 65 mph on a level course, Big Sand Flat, Calif |
May 14 |
Netherlands Institute for War Documentation publishes Anne Frank's complete diary |
May 14 |
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May 14 |
Pride of Baltimore lost at sea. |
May 15 |
Argentine ex-president Galtieri sentenced to 12 years |
May 16 |
"Top Gun" premieres |
May 16 |
Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) comes back from dead on Dallas |
May 16 |
JoaquÃn Balaguers PRSC wins Dominican Rep parliamentary election |
May 16 |
South African Pres P W Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela |
May 16 |
The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain. |
May 17 |
"Chicken Song" by Spitting Image hit #1 on the UK pop chart |
May 17 |
112th Preakness: Alex Solis aboard Snow Chief wins in 1:54.8 |
May 18 |
"Singin' in the Rain" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 367 perfs |
May 18 |
Becky Pearson wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic |
May 18 |
Chung Kwung Ying did 2,750 atomic hand-stand push-ups |
May 18 |
David Goch finishes swimming 55,682 miles in a 25-yd pool |
May 18 |
South African army occupies Botswana, Zimbabwe & Zambia |
May 18 |
Chung Kwung Ying did 2,750 "atomic" hand-stand push-ups |
May 19 |
Anti-apartheid activist HClane Pastoors sentenced to 10 yrs in S Afr |
May 20 |
Christy Fichtner, 23, (Texas), crowned 35th Miss USA |
May 20 |
Flintstones 25th Anniversary Celebration airs on CBS-tv |
May 21 |
Atlanta Brave Rafael Ramirez hits 4 doubles in a game |
May 21 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 22 |
Cher calls David Letterman an asshole on Late Night on NBC |
May 23 |
US & West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa |
May 24 |
Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British PM to visit Israel |
May 24 |
Reginald Huffstetler trod water for 985 hrs |
May 24 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Calgary Flames, 4 games to 1 |
May 25 |
30,000,000 people watch "Live Aid", a benefit concert for the Ethiopian famine |
May 25 |
95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida |
May 25 |
Ferry boat Shamia sinks on Maghna River Bangladesh, 600 killed |
May 25 |
Hands Across America - 6.5 million people hold hands from California to NY |
May 25 |
KC Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit |
May 25 |
Laurie Rinker wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
May 25 |
Virgilio Barco elected president of Colombia |
May 27 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
May 27 |
Norway Showcase groundbreaking |
May 27 |
President Reagan orderes 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled |
May 28 |
Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados |
May 28 |
White Sox Joe Cowley sets record striking out 1st 7 Rangers he faces |
May 29 |
59th National Spelling Bee: Jon Pennington wins spelling odontalgia |
May 30 |
Ariane-2 (ESA) launched |
May 30 |
Bobby Rahal is 1st to average over 170 mph in Indianapolis 500 |
May 30 |
France performs nuclear test |
May 30 |
Barry Bonds makes his MLB debut for the Pittsburgh Pirates |
Jun 1 |
32nd LPGA Championship won by Pat Bradley |
Jun 1 |
40th Tony Awards: I'm Not Rappaport & Mystery of Edwin Drood win |
Jun 2 |
NYC transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token |
Jun 2 |
Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins |
Jun 3 |
Battles in Beirut; 53 killed |
Jun 4 |
Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in US court |
Jun 5 |
SD Padre Steve Garvey ejected for 1st time |
Jun 6 |
Jurgen Schull sets world discus record (74.07 m) |
Jun 6 |
Kathy Ormsby, a 21-year-old member of NC State track team jumps off a bridge permanently paralyzing herself |
Jun 7 |
118th Belmont: Chris McCarron aboard Danzig Connect wins in 2:29.8 |
Jun 7 |
56th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 63 63) |
Jun 7 |
Madonna's single "Live to Tell" goes #1 |
Jun 7 |
Pirates draft 3rd baseman Jeff King #1 |
Jun 8 |
"Big Deal" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 70 performances |
Jun 8 |
40th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Hous Rockets, 4 games to 2 |
Jun 8 |
56th French Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mikael Pernfors (6-3 6-2 6-4) |
Jun 8 |
Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria |
Jun 8 |
Juli Inkster wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
Jun 8 |
Longest 9 inning AL game (4h16m), Balt Orioles beat Yankees 18-9 |
Jun 8 |
Iraqi jets attack Assadabad satellite station |
Jun 9 |
20th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers & Loretta Lynn |
Jun 9 |
Angel Don Sutton (298 wins) beats White Sox Tom Seaver (306 wins) 3-0 |
Jun 9 |
Dow Jones-index hits record 45.71 points |
Jun 9 |
Rogers Comm report on Challenger disaster blames Morton Thiokol |
Jun 10 |
A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's NL |
Jun 10 |
In South Africa, the three-year-old 'State of Emergency' is renewed for another twelve months, followed by an organized campaign of civil disobedience against it. |
Jun 11 |
"Blacke's Magic" last airs on NBC-TV |
Jun 11 |
Amnesty International megaconcert |
Jun 12 |
P W Botha declares South African national emergency |
Jun 13 |
Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency |
Jun 13 |
Steve Garvey 1st ejection from a game, after Atlanta's triple-play |
Jun 15 |
86th US Golf Open: Ray Floyd shoots a 279 at Shinnecock Hills GC NY |
Jun 15 |
Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
Jun 15 |
Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity |
Jun 16 |
1 day general strike in South Africa |
Jun 17 |
Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated |
Jun 18 |
De Havilland Twin Otter & Bell 206 helicopter collide, kills 25 |
Jun 18 |
Don Sutton becomes 19th pitcher to win 300 games |
Jun 18 |
Heike Friedrich swims female world record 200m freestyle (1:57.55) |
Jun 18 |
Papua New Guinea score 9-455 in 60 overs v Gibraltar, ICC Trophy |
Jun 18 |
US House of Representatives approves Bill to impose stricter sanctions on Apartheid South Africa |
Jun 19 |
Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 in soccer's 13th World Cup |
Jun 20 |
Drs at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan's colon |
Jun 20 |
Jim Fregosi replaces Tony La Russa as White Sox manager |
Jun 21 |
"Living on Video" by Trans-X peaks at #61 |
Jun 21 |
"Vienna Calling" by Falco peaks at #18 |
Jun 21 |
Bo Jackson, Heisman Trophy winner, singns with KC Royals |
Jun 21 |
Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record) |
Jun 21 |
President Reagan gives speech defending his judicial appointments |
Jun 22 |
Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
Jun 22 |
Pirate Radio Euro Weekend (Holland) begins transmitting |
Jun 22 |
Spain's premier Gonzalez' Socialist Party wins elections |
Jun 23 |
Pedro Morales swims world record 100m butterfly (52.84) |
Jun 23 |
Tip O'Neill refuses to let President Reagan address House |
Jun 24 |
Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years |
Jun 24 |
US Senate approves "tax reform" |
Jun 24 |
In Britain, Foreign Office Minister Lynda Chalker, meets Oliver Tambo, president of the African National Congress to discuss means of ending Apartheid without violence |
Jun 25 |
Former Belgium premier Vanden Boeynants sentenced for fraud |
Jun 25 |
Phillies give Steve Carlton, 41, his unconditional release |
Jun 26 |
South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested |
Jun 27 |
Anne White shocks Wimbledon by wearing only a body stocking |
Jun 27 |
In referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce |
Jun 27 |
Robby Thompson (SF) sets record, caught stealing 4 times in 1 game |
Jun 27 |
SF Giant Robby Thompson is caught stealing record 4 times |
Jun 27 |
US informs NZ it will not defend it against attack |
Jun 27 |
World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal |
Jun 27 |
South African Journalist and founder of the 'New Nation' newspaper, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted; he was released 721 days later on 2 December 1988 |
Jun 28 |
Irish population condemns divorce |
Jun 28 |
Kenneth & Nellie Pike challenge Ala Dem runoff win by AG C Graddick |
Jun 28 |
West European leaders, meeting in the Netherlands, delay indefinitely imposing economic sanctions against South Africa |
Jun 29 |
Argentina becomes world champion soccer team (3-2 against W-Germany) |
Jun 29 |
Boston Red Sox trade for Tom Seaver |
Jun 29 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
Jun 29 |
Sparky Anderson is 1st to win 600 games as manager in both leagues |
Jun 29 |
Moses Mayekiso, who was the General Secretary of the Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) and became a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP), is detained for a second time and spends several months in solitary cofinement |
Jun 30 |
Georgia sodomy law upheld by US Supreme Court (5-4) |
Jul 2 |
After 14 wins, Roger Clemens suffer his 1st loss of year |
Jul 2 |
General strike against Pinochet regime in Chile |
Jul 2 |
US Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in 2 rulings |
Jul 3 |
Kuwait's National Assembly (Majlis al Umma) dissolves |
Jul 3 |
President Reagan presided over relighting of renovated Statue of Liberty |
Jul 5 |
93rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats H Mandlikova (76 63) |
Jul 5 |
Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 10K woman's record (30:13.74) |
Jul 5 |
Nancy Reagan cuts red, white & blue ribbon, reopening Statue of Liberty after refurbishment |
Jul 6 |
100th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (64 63 75) |
Jul 6 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship |
Jul 6 |
Bob Horner becomes 11th player to hit 4 home runs in a game |
Jul 6 |
Ex-minister Arturo Tolentino failed coup in Philippines |
Jul 6 |
Premier Nakasones Liberal Democr Party wins Japan's election |
Jul 7 |
IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released |
Jul 7 |
It is reported That Boy George is being treated for heroin addiction |
Jul 7 |
Jordan government shuts al-Fatah offices |
Jul 7 |
Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law |
Jul 8 |
Farthest thrown object-an "Aerobie" flying ring, 383 m (1,257') |
Jul 8 |
NASA establishes Safety, Reliability Maintain & Quality Assurance |
Jul 8 |
Zimbabwe beats Netherlands by 25 runs to win ICC Trophy |
Jul 9 |
Atlanta's Dale Murphy doesn't play ending consecutive streak at 740 |
Jul 9 |
Attorney General's Commission on pornography links hard-core porn to sex crimes |
Jul 9 |
Padres trade pitcher Tim Stoddard to Yankees for pitcher Ed Whitson |
Jul 9 |
The New Zealand parliament pass the Homosexual Law Reform Bill legalising consensual sex between men aged 16 and older |
Jul 11 |
Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway runs 10,000 m in world record 30:13.74 |
Jul 11 |
Maricica Puica of Romania runs 2,000 m in 5:28.69 (record for women) |
Jul 11 |
Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M, Sara |
Jul 13 |
Zola Budd and Annette Cowley are banned from the Commonwealth Games, a direct consequence of Britain's refusal to support economic sanctions against the apartheid government of South Africa |
Jul 14 |
10 killed & 60 injured at ETA-bomb attack in Madrid |
Jul 14 |
2nd government of Lubbers sworn in |
Jul 14 |
41st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jane Geddes |
Jul 14 |
Motley Crue's Vince Neil begins 30 day sentence for vehicular homicide |
Jul 14 |
NASA's plan to implement recommendations of Rogers commission |
Jul 14 |
Paul McCartney releases "Press" |
Jul 14 |
Richard W Miller became 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage |
Jul 14 |
Shalamar's Howard Hewett acquitted in Miami of drug charges |
Jul 15 |
57th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-2 at Astrodome, Houston |
Jul 15 |
All star MVP: Roger Clemens (Boston Red Sox) |
Jul 17 |
Emmy 13th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 7th time |
Jul 18 |
115th British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 280 at Turnberry Scotld |
Jul 18 |
Royals announce that manager Dick Howser, 50, has a brain tumor |
Jul 18 |
Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains |
Jul 19 |
Indian pitcher Phil Niekro wins his 307th game tying him with |
Jul 19 |
Tim Witherspoon KOs Frank Bruno in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jul 20 |
Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
Jul 21 |
Barbara Palacios Teyde, 22, of Venezuela, crowned 35th Miss Universe |
Jul 21 |
Pleasure Island plans unveiled |
Jul 22 |
House of Reps impeaches Judge Harry E Claiborne on tax evasion |
Jul 23 |
King Hassan II meets with Israeli premier Simon Peres |
Jul 24 |
SF Federal jury convicts navy radioman Jerry Whitworth of espionage |
Jul 25 |
Sikhs extremist kill 16 hindus in Muhktsar India |
Jul 26 |
Lebanese kidnappers released Rev Lawrence Martin Jenco |
Jul 27 |
14th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley |
Jul 27 |
24th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Czechoslovakia in Prague Czech (3-0) |
Jul 27 |
Greg Lemond is 1st American to win Tour de France |
Jul 27 |
Iraqi jets attack central Iranian city of Arak; Iran threatens missile attack of gulf states supporting Iraq |
Jul 28 |
Bomb attack in East Beirut, 25 killed |
Jul 28 |
NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying, "Uh-oh!" as spacecraft disintegrated |
Jul 29 |
Bomb attack in West-Beirut, 30 killed |
Jul 29 |
Dennis Amiss scores his 100th 100, Warwickshire v Lancashire |
Jul 29 |
NY jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages |
Aug 1 |
Bert Blyleven becomes 10th pitcher to strike out 3,000 |
Aug 1 |
Cleveland sets AL attendance record for twi-night doubleheader, 65,934 |
Aug 1 |
Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia release from hospital after 3 week coma |
Aug 2 |
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts) |
Aug 2 |
TODAY/PC born today |
Aug 2 |
Saddam Hussein offers peace in open letter to Iran |
Aug 3 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA National Golf Pro-Am |
Aug 3 |
Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr, & Ernie Lombardi inducted in Hall of Fame |
Aug 4 |
Reports of probable OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) agreement on output quotas sends oil prices higher |
Aug 5 |
Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 5km woman's record (14:37.33) |
Aug 5 |
Steve Carlton is 2nd to pitch 4,000 strikeout |
Aug 5 |
US Senate votes for SDI-project ("Star Wars") |
Aug 5 |
It's revealed Andrew Wyeth of Chadds Ford, Pa, had, secretly created 240 drawings & paintings of his neighbor Helga Testorf |
Aug 6 |
Orioles (Dwyer & Sheets) & Rangers (Harrah) hit record 3 grand slams |
Aug 6 |
Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for IBM |
Aug 6 |
Record 3 grand slams hit in game Tx vs Balt (Harrah, Sheets & Dwyer) |
Aug 7 |
"Honky Tonk Nights" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 4 performances |
Aug 7 |
Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe begin cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay Alaska to Argentina |
Aug 8 |
Record 3 grandslams in a game-(Harrah-Tex, Sheets & Dwyer-Orioles) |
Aug 8 |
Altaf Hussain's address at Nishtar Park Karachi, announcing the establishment of the MQM political movement. |
Aug 9 |
"Honky Tonk Nights" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 4 perfs |
Aug 10 |
"Me & My Girl" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 1420 performances |
Aug 10 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
Aug 10 |
Billy Martin Day, his uniform number 1 retired |
Aug 10 |
Marquis Theater opens at 1535 Broadway NYC |
Aug 10 |
Pitcher Bob Forsch grand slams to lead Cards to a 5-4 win over Pirates |
Aug 11 |
68th PGA Championship: Bob Tway shoots a 276 at Inverness Club Toledo |
Aug 12 |
Iran fires missile at refinery near Baghdad; Iraq raids Iranian terminal at Sirri Island severely disrupting Iranian exports |
Aug 12 |
Don Baylor gets hits by a pitch for a record 25th time in a season |
Aug 12 |
Red Sox pitcher Tim Lollar gets a pinch-hit single |
Aug 13 |
KRE-AM in Berkeley CA changes call letters to KBLX (now KBFN) |
Aug 14 |
Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrested |
Aug 14 |
Phillies & Pirates play a 6 game series in 4 days |
Aug 15 |
President Reagan decides to support a replacement for Challenger |
Aug 16 |
Sudan rebels shoot a Fokker's F-27 down, 57 killed |
Aug 16 |
"Papa Don't Preach" goes #1 for 2 weeks |
Aug 16 |
Madonna's "True Blue" album goes #1 for 5 weeks & her single |
Aug 17 |
Bronze pig statue unveiled at Seattle's Pike Place Market |
Aug 17 |
Cindy Mackey wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am |
Aug 17 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship |
Aug 17 |
Rioting at DMC concert, 40 injured |
Aug 17 |
Red Sox trade shortstop Rey Quinones & pitcher Mike Trujillo to Mariners for shortstop Spike Owen & outfielder Dave Henderson |
Aug 18 |
Crockett's Tavern opens in Fort Wilderness |
Aug 18 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Philadelphia PA on WYSP 94.1 FM |
Aug 18 |
Jim Kelly signs with NFL Buffalo Bills ($75 million for 5 years) |
Aug 18 |
John Tesh's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight |
Aug 18 |
WYSP-FM Philadelphia begins simulcasting Howard Stern Show |
Aug 19 |
Car bomb kills 20 in Tehran Iran |
Aug 20 |
Postal worker Patrick Sherrill shot 14 fellow workers dead in Edmond, Oklahoma |
Aug 20 |
Phils Don Carmen perfect game bid is broken in 9th |
Aug 21 |
"Rags" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 4 performances |
Aug 21 |
Ian Botham takes world-record 356th Test Cricket wkt (v NZ, The Oval) |
Aug 21 |
Lake Nios Volcano in Cameroon kills 1,746 |
Aug 21 |
Red Sox Spike Owens scores 6 runs in a 24-5 rout of Cleve Indians |
Aug 21 |
Surinames Ronnie Brunswijks Jungle commandos kill 2 government officials |
Aug 21 |
Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 2,000 |
Aug 21 |
With 2 outs in 6th inning, Red Sox score 11 runs |
Aug 22 |
Gas from Volcano Chamberoen kills 1,734 (Cameroon) |
Aug 22 |
NASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics |
Aug 23 |
"Rags" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 4 performances |
Aug 23 |
Vrijkomend vulkaangas kills 1500 people in Nyos-more, Cameroon |
Aug 24 |
Juli Inkster wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic |
Aug 25 |
A's Mark McGwire hits his 1st major league home run |
Aug 26 |
Rosa Mota wins Stuttgart female marathon (2:28:38) |
Aug 27 |
38th Emmy Awards presentation - Golden Girls and Cagney & Lacey dominate |
Aug 27 |
Protest erupt in Soweto, South Africa, demonstrating against evictions which had been carried out after an eleven week rent boycott |
Aug 28 |
Bolivia president Victor Paz Estensoro calls state of siege |
Aug 28 |
Largest wrestling crowd in Canada (69,300) at Toronto Stadium |
Aug 28 |
Tina Turner's star unveiled in Hollywood |
Aug 28 |
US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying |
Aug 29 |
Heike Drechsler of East Germany ties world women's 200 m mark (21.71s) |
Aug 29 |
Morocco king Hassan II signs unity treaty with Libya |
Aug 30 |
Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon (2:10:54) |
Aug 30 |
Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report) |
Aug 31 |
Aeromexico DC-9 & small plane collide in LA, killing 82 |
Aug 31 |
Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die |
Sep 1 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
Sep 1 |
Jerry Lewis' 21st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $34,096,733 |
Sep 1 |
Paul McCartney releases "Press to Play" album |
Sep 1 |
Texas Rangers O McDowell & Porter are 7th to hit consecutive pinch HRs |
Sep 2 |
Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi |
Sep 3 |
Alan Ayckbourn's "Woman in Mind" premieres in London |
Sep 3 |
Astros & Cubs use a record 53 players in an 18 inning game |
Sep 4 |
189.42 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange |
Sep 4 |
Claude Brochu becomes CEO of Montreal Expos |
Sep 5 |
3rd MTV Awards: Whitney Houston wins |
Sep 5 |
Karachi Pakistan army storms hijacked US B-747, 19 killed |
Sep 5 |
NASA awards study contracts to 5 aerospace firms |
Sep 5 |
NASA launches DOD-1 |
Sep 6 |
300 invitees pay $5,000 to hear Barbra Striesand's benefit concert |
Sep 6 |
Attack on synagogue in Istanbul, 23 killed |
Sep 6 |
Jozef Pribilinec speed walking world record time (15,447k) |
Sep 6 |
Michael Spinks TKOs Steffen Tangstad in 4 for heavyweight boxing title |
Sep 6 |
USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying |
Sep 7 |
100th US Women's Tennis: M Navratilova beats Helena Sukova (63 62) |
Sep 7 |
106th US Men's Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (64 62 60) |
Sep 7 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship |
Sep 7 |
Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican archbishop of Capetown |
Sep 7 |
Failed assassination attempt on Chilean dictator Pinochet, 5 killed |
Sep 7 |
Cleveland Browns becomes 1st team in NFL history to have a play reviewed by instant replay, Chicago 41, Browns 31 |
Sep 7 |
Dan Marino throws his 100th career touchdown pass, the fastest QB in NFL history to do so |
Sep 8 |
Westinghouse sells Muzak |
Sep 8 |
'The Oprah Winfrey Show' is first broadcast nationally. |
Sep 9 |
Minn Tommy Krammer passes for 6 touchdowns vs Green Bay (42-7) |
Sep 9 |
NYC jury indicts Gennadly Zakharov (Soviet UN employee) of spying |
Sep 10 |
Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel |
Sep 11 |
Pres Mubarak receives Israeli premier Peres |
Sep 11 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 11 |
Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded |
Sep 12 |
240.49 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange |
Sep 12 |
Twins fire manager Ray Miller & replace him with coach Tom Kelly |
Sep 12 |
US professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped & held hostage in Beirut |
Sep 13 |
Bert Blyleven gives up a record 44 HRs in a season |
Sep 13 |
Kellye Cash (Tenn), 21, crowned 60th Miss America 1987 |
Sep 14 |
Bo Jackson's 1st HR-a 475-foot blast (longest at Royal Stadium) |
Sep 14 |
Bomb attack in Paris, 2 killed |
Sep 14 |
Bomb explosion on airport Kimpo at Seoul, 5 killed |
Sep 14 |
Judy Dickinson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
Sep 14 |
Saskatchewan & Hamilton play 1st CFL regular-season overtime game |
Sep 15 |
1st broadcast of "LA Law" on NBC-TV |
Sep 15 |
Bomb attack in Paris, 1 dead |
Sep 16 |
Fire in Kinross gold mine, Transvaal South Africa, 177 killed |
Sep 17 |
Bomb attack in Paris, 6 killed |
Sep 17 |
Marina Stepanova of USSR sets 400m hurdle woman's record (52.94) |
Sep 17 |
Mets clinch NL East Championship |
Sep 17 |
US Senate confirms William Rehnquist as 16th chief justice |
Sep 18 |
David Boon's 3rd Test cricket century, 122 v India at Madras |
Sep 19 |
"Captain EO" with Michael Jackson premieres |
Sep 19 |
Chicago White Sox Joe Crowley no-hits California Angels, 7-1 |
Sep 19 |
Dean Jones scores 210 v India at Madras |
Sep 19 |
Fed health officials announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients |
Sep 20 |
Wichita State Shockers blow a 35-3 lead; lose 36-35 to Morehead State |
Sep 21 |
38th Emmy Awards: Golden Girls, Cagney & Lacey & Michael J Fox win |
Sep 21 |
Miami Dan Marino passes for 6 touchdowns vs NY Jets (51-45) |
Sep 21 |
NY Jets beat Miami Dolphins 51-45 in OT; record 884 passing yards |
Sep 21 |
New Orleans Saints Mel Gray returns kickoff 101 yards for a touchdown |
Sep 21 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic |
Sep 21 |
SD Padre Jimmy Jones pitchs 1-hitter in his major league debut |
Sep 21 |
Kerry GAA beat Tyrone GAA in Croke Park during the All-Ireland Football Final by 2-15 to 1-10 thus winning the championship and a three-in-a-row. |
Sep 22 |
35 countries signs disarmament accord in Stockholm |
Sep 22 |
India v Australia Test Cricket at Madras finishes in a tie |
Sep 22 |
LA Dodger Fernando Valenzuela is 1st Mexican to win 20 games |
Sep 23 |
Astro Jim Deshaies strikes out 1st 8 Dodger of game (ends with 10) |
Sep 23 |
Congress selects the rose as US national flower |
Sep 25 |
Antonin Scalia appointed to Supreme Court |
Sep 25 |
Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits SF Giants, 2-0 |
Sep 26 |
Antonin Scalia, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
Sep 26 |
RUN-DMC is 1st rap group to hit top 10 (Raisin' Hell) |
Sep 26 |
William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court |
Sep 26 |
Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season) |
Sep 27 |
Senate joins House of Reps voting for sweeping tax reforms |
Sep 28 |
Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City) |
Sep 28 |
Tight end Brian Foster of RI catches NCAA record 18 passes for 327 yds |
Sep 28 |
Cleveland Browns' Gerald McNeil sets the team record for the longest punt return with an 84-yard run (and TD), Browns 24, Detroit 21 |
Sep 29 |
"Airwolf" TV Adventure; moves to USA |
Sep 29 |
"Designing Women" TV Comedy, debuts on CBS |
Sep 29 |
Cubs Greg Maddux defeats Phillies Mike Maddux (1st rookie brothers) |
Sep 29 |
Indians Jay Bell is 10th to hit a HR on 1st major league pitch he sees |
Sep 29 |
Mary Lou Retton retires as a gymnast |
Sep 29 |
USSR releases US journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges |
Sep 30 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 30 |
US releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov |
Sep 30 |
Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel covert nuclear program to British media, was kidnapped in Rome, Italy. |
Oct 1 |
President Carter's presidential library/museum dedicated in Atlanta |
Oct 1 |
New Zealand's Labour Government introduces a Goods and Services Tax (GST), adding 10% to the cost of most goods and services |
Oct 2 |
Mike Scott is 3rd NL pitcher to strike out 300 in a season (306) |
Oct 2 |
NY Met Dwight Gooden is 1st to strike out 200 or more in 1st 3 seasons |
Oct 2 |
Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi |
Oct 3 |
Baltimore loses assuring Orioles of their 1st last-place finish |
Oct 3 |
Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die |
Oct 3 |
TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, was officially opened. |
Oct 4 |
NY Yank Dave Righetti saves doubleheader for then record 46 saves |
Oct 4 |
Queen Beatrice installs dam at Oosterschelde |
Oct 4 |
Rachel Oliver (Mass), 20, crowned 19th Miss Black America |
Oct 5 |
London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms |
Oct 6 |
Russian nuclear sub K291 sinks in Atlantic Ocean |
Oct 7 |
First edition of new British newspaper "Independent" published |
Oct 7 |
Steve Yzerman is named captain of the Detroit Red Wings, a title he would hold for over 1,300 games |
Oct 8 |
Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts, beats Mets 1-0 |
Oct 8 |
RUN DMC calls for a day of peace among LA street gangs |
Oct 9 |
"Phantom of the Opera" premeires in London |
Oct 9 |
Gilbert Perreault, Buffalo, became 12th NHLer to score 500 goals |
Oct 9 |
Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment |
Oct 10 |
7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador |
Oct 10 |
Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns |
Oct 11 |
Reagan & Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland |
Oct 12 |
California Angels within 1 pitch of pennant victory lose to Red Sox |
Oct 12 |
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China |
Oct 13 |
20th Country Music Association Award: Reba McEntire wins |
Oct 13 |
25th NY, NL appearance in World Series (Mets vs A's) |
Oct 13 |
IOC announces baseball will become a medal sport in 1992 |