Notable Historical Events - 1988
1988 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Czech born tennis star Hana Mandikova becomes an Australian Citizen |
Jan 1 |
Miami beats Oklahoma for college football championship |
Jan 1 |
Year of the Reader begins |
Jan 2 |
Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Penn |
Jan 2 |
Mulroney & Reagan sign Canada-US free trade agreement |
Jan 2 |
Right-wing guerrillas ambush a train near Mozambique's western border, killing at least 22 people and injuring 71. |
Jan 3 |
Israel orders 9 Palestinian "instigators" deported from W Beirut |
Jan 3 |
Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British PM this century |
Jan 8 |
9th largest NBA crowd 38,873-Chicago at Detroit |
Jan 8 |
Dow Jones down 140.58 points |
Jan 8 |
Hewlett-Packard introduces HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator |
Jan 8 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas |
Jan 9 |
August Wilson's "Piano Lesson," premieres in Boston |
Jan 9 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano |
Jan 10 |
"Don't Get God Started" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 86 perfs |
Jan 11 |
Test debut of Phil Simmons, WI v India, Madras |
Jan 11 |
USSR announces it will participate in Seoul Summer Olympics |
Jan 12 |
Willie Stargell (Pitts Pirate), elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
Jan 13 |
LA Dodger/SD Padre Steve Garvey retires |
Jan 13 |
Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers to censor school newspapers, plays & other expressive activities |
Jan 15 |
Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes |
Jan 15 |
Kiran More stumps five WI batsman at Madras, world Test record |
Jan 15 |
Narendra Hirwani takes 16-136 (8-61 & 8-75) v WI on Test debut |
Jan 16 |
4th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins |
Jan 16 |
Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder fired from CBS for racial remarks |
Jan 16 |
NFL St Louis Cardinals announce move to Phoenix |
Jan 17 |
"Teddy & Alice" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 77 performances |
Jan 17 |
Leslie Manigay elected president of Haiti |
Jan 17 |
"The Fumble", trailing 38-31 with 1:12 left in the AFC Championship Game, the Browns' Earnest Byner fumbled at the Denver 3-yard line, sending the Broncos to their second consecutive Super Bowl appearance |
Jan 18 |
Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board |
Jan 19 |
"48 Hours" premiers on CBS-TV |
Jan 20 |
Andre Hoffman skates world record 1500m (1:52.06) |
Jan 20 |
Arizona committee opens hearing on impeachment of Gov Evan Mecham |
Jan 21 |
US accepts immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children |
Jan 22 |
1st-class cricket debut of Brian Lara, Trinidad & Tobago v Leeward Is |
Jan 22 |
1st-class cricket debut of Hansie Cronje, OFS v Transvaal |
Jan 22 |
Mike Tyson TKOs Larry Holmes in 4 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jan 23 |
45th Golden Globes: Last Emperor, Sally Kirkland, Michael Douglas |
Jan 23 |
62nd Australian Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Chris Evert (6-1 7-6) |
Jan 23 |
Bob Benoit bowls 1st 300-pt game in a televised title match |
Jan 24 |
1st WWF Royal Rumble - Jim Duggan wins |
Jan 24 |
76th Australian Mens Tennis: M Wilander beats P Cash (63 67 36 61 86) |
Jan 24 |
9th ACE Cable Awards: Discovery Channel wins the Golden CableACE for "Russia: Live From the Inside" |
Jan 24 |
Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win Cricket's World Series Cup |
Jan 24 |
Cerebral Palsy telethon |
Jan 25 |
15th American Music Award: Anita Baker, Paul Simon & Whitney Houston |
Jan 25 |
George Harrison releases "When We Was Fab" |
Jan 25 |
Longest winless streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (15 games) |
Jan 25 |
Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as pres of Suriname |
Jan 25 |
VP George Bush & Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush about his role in Iran-Contra affair |
Jan 26 |
"Phantom of the Opera" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 4,000+ perfs |
Jan 26 |
Australian 200th anniversary parade of tall ships in Sydney Harbour |
Jan 27 |
Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy to US Supreme Court |
Jan 28 |
"Saratina!" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 597 performances |
Jan 28 |
Canada's Supreme court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional |
Jan 29 |
Canadian Ben Johnson breaks own 50-yard dash world record at 5.15 |
Jan 29 |
Detroit's Kirk Gibson signs a 3-year contract with Dodgers |
Jan 29 |
Largest NBA crowd-Boston Celtics at Detroit (61,938) |
Jan 29 |
United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36h54m15s |
Jan 30 |
Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS v N Tvl) |
Jan 31 |
Barge sinks near Anacortes, WA, spills 70,000 gallons of oil |
Jan 31 |
Super Bowl XXII: Wash Redskins beat Denver Broncos, 42-10 in San Diego Super Bowl MVP: Doug Williams, Washington, QB |
Feb 2 |
David Boon's 6th Test Cricket century, 184* v England at Sydney |
Feb 4 |
Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega indicted on drug charges |
Feb 5 |
1st prime-time wrestling match in 30 yrs-Andre beats Hulk Hogan |
Feb 5 |
Arizona House of Reps vote to impeach Republican Gov Evan Mecham |
Feb 5 |
Panamanian Gen Manuel Noriega indicted by US grand jury for drugs |
Feb 6 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Feb 7 |
38th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 138-133 at Chicago |
Feb 7 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 15-6 |
Feb 7 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic |
Feb 8 |
NASA launches DOD-2 |
Feb 9 |
39th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-5 (OT) at St Louis |
Feb 9 |
NH begins a NCAA record 32-game losing streak at home (ends Feb 1991) |
Feb 10 |
Rocky Malebane-Metsing coup in Bophuthatswana fails |
Feb 10 |
3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in SF strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal) |
Feb 11 |
Anthony M Kennedy appointed to US Supreme Court |
Feb 13 |
15th Winter Olympic games opens at Calgary, Canada |
Feb 13 |
Christine Wachtel runs world record 800m indoor (1:56:40) |
Feb 13 |
European Community plans removal of internal boundaries on Jan 1, 1992 |
Feb 13 |
Heike Dreschler long jumps world record indoor (7.37m) |
Feb 13 |
Ronald Weigel runs unofficial world record speed walking (18:11.41) |
Feb 14 |
49th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player |
Feb 14 |
Alfredo Stroessner re-elected president of Paraguay |
Feb 14 |
Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500 |
Feb 14 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
Feb 15 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 16 |
1st documented combat action by US military advisors in El Salvador |
Feb 17 |
Lebanese terrorists kidnap UN truce observer Lt Col William Higgins |
Feb 17 |
US Lt Col Williamm Higgins kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists & later killed |
Feb 18 |
Anthony M Kennedy, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
Feb 19 |
Helga Arendt, Silke-Beate Knoll, Mechthild Kluth, Gisela Kinzel walk indoor female world record 4x200m (1:32.55) |
Feb 20 |
500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil |
Feb 20 |
Andre Hoffmann skates world record 1500m (1:52.06) |
Feb 20 |
Brian Boitano wins Olympic gold medal in figure skating |
Feb 20 |
Cornelia Oschkenat hurdles indoor world record 50m (6.58 sec) |
Feb 20 |
Kelly Hrudy's 5th Islander shut-out win-Hartford 3-0 |
Feb 20 |
Peter Kalikow purchases NY Post from Rupert Murdoch for $37.6 million |
Feb 20 |
Rob Druppers runs world record indoor 1000m (2:16.2) |
Feb 20 |
Stefka Kostadinova high jumps indoor world record (2.06 m) |
Feb 21 |
Gustafson skates world record 10km (13:48.20) |
Feb 21 |
Televangelist Jimmy Swaggert confesses his sins to his congregation |
Feb 22 |
Bonnie Blair skates world record 500m (39.10 sec) |
Feb 23 |
Chicago gives Cubs right to install lights & play up to 18 night games |
Feb 23 |
Yvonne van Gennip skates female record 3k (4:11.94) |
Feb 24 |
Matti Nykanen becomes winter olympics 1st triple gold medalist |
Feb 24 |
South African apartheid regime bans the UDF |
Feb 24 |
Supreme Ct votes 8-0 Jerry Falwell cannot collect for Hustler parody |
Feb 25 |
Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love Tour," begins in Worcester Mass |
Feb 25 |
South Korea adopts constitution |
Feb 26 |
Christa Rotherburger (GDR) skates ladies world record 1000m (1:17.65) |
Feb 27 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Orient Leasing Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open |
Feb 27 |
Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympic 500m speed skating in record 39.1 |
Feb 27 |
Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36:08:34 |
Feb 27 |
Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympic figure skating |
Feb 28 |
15th Winter Olympic games close at Calgary, Canada |
Feb 28 |
Anti-Armenian pogrom in Azerbaijan, 30 killed |
Feb 28 |
Pat Verbeek becomes 1st NJ Devil to score 4 goals in an NHL game |
Feb 28 |
Yvonne van Gennip skates world record 5 km ladies (7:14.13) |
Feb 29 |
KWK-FM in St Louis Missouri changes call letters to WKBG |
Feb 29 |
Mark Greatbatch scores 107* v England on Test Cricket debut |
Feb 29 |
NYC Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs |
Feb 29 |
Nazi document implicates Waldheim in WW II deportations |
Mar 1 |
Courtney Gibbs Eplin, 21, (Texas), crowned 37th Miss USA |
Mar 1 |
Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran |
Mar 1 |
Pontiac announces the end of the Fiero automobile |
Mar 1 |
Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howe with his record 1,050th NHL assist |
Mar 2 |
30th Grammy Awards: Graceland, Joshua Tree, Jody Watley |
Mar 2 |
Dutch Liberal Party merged with SDP |
Mar 5 |
Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised. |
Mar 6 |
18th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,200,000 |
Mar 6 |
3 IRA suspects shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers |
Mar 6 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am |
Mar 6 |
Julie Krone becomes winningest female jockey (1205 victories) |
Mar 6 |
Orville Moodey shoots 63 at Seniors golf tournament |
Mar 7 |
Howard Stern's 1st pay-per-view "Underpants & Negligee Party" |
Mar 7 |
Jim Abbott, 1-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E Sullivan Award |
Mar 7 |
Colombia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
Mar 9 |
President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp |
Mar 10 |
Avalanche at Swiss Ski resort Klosters nearly kills Prince Charles |
Mar 10 |
NY Islanders celebrate Mike Bossy night |
Mar 11 |
Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire |
Mar 11 |
British pound note ceases to be legal tender, replaced by one pound coin |
Mar 13 |
14th People's Choice Awards: Michael Douglas & Glenn Close win (Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Cybill Shepherd win (TV) |
Mar 15 |
Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop |
Mar 15 |
NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK |
Mar 15 |
NFL's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix |
Mar 16 |
Federal grand jury indicts North & Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair |
Mar 16 |
North Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed |
Mar 16 |
US sends 3,000 soldiers to Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras |
Mar 17 |
"Les Miserables," opens at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo |
Mar 17 |
Highest scoring NCAA basketball game; Loyola-Marymont 119, Wyoming 115 |
Mar 17 |
Iran says Iraq uses poison gas |
Mar 19 |
2 British soldiers lynched in Belfast, North Ireland |
Mar 19 |
Yvonne van Gennip skates un-official world record 10 km (15:25.25) |
Mar 20 |
David Henry Hwang's "M. Butterfly," premieres in NYC |
Mar 20 |
Laura Davies wins Circle K LPGA Tucson Golf Open |
Mar 20 |
Mike Tyson KOs Tony Tubbs in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
Mar 20 |
Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet. |
Mar 21 |
23rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis & Hank Williams Jr |
Mar 22 |
Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill |
Mar 22 |
WA beat Queensland by 5 wkts to win the Sheffield Shield Final |
Mar 24 |
"Gospel at Colonus" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 61 perfs |
Mar 24 |
Quarterback Dan Fouts retires |
Mar 25 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya Japan |
Mar 25 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-206 |
Mar 25 |
Robin Givens demands full access to husband Mike Tyson's money |
Mar 26 |
Janet B Evans swims 1500m freestyle female world record (15:52.10) |
Mar 27 |
Ice Dance Championship at Budapest won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS) |
Mar 27 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Budapest won by E Valova & O Vasiliev (URS) |
Mar 27 |
Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Budapest won by Katarina Witt (GDR) |
Mar 27 |
Men's Figure Skating Champions in Budapest won by Brian Boitano (USA) |
Mar 27 |
Ok-Hee Ku wins Standard Register Turquoise Classic Golf Tournament |
Mar 27 |
Wrestlemania IV at Trump Plaza, "Macho Man" Savage pins Ted Dibiase |
Mar 29 |
"Oba Oba" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 46 performances |
Mar 29 |
US Congress discontinues aid to Nicaraguan contras |
Mar 30 |
2nd Soul Train Music Awards: Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston win |
Mar 30 |
Tamil Nadu beat Railways by inns & 144 to win Ranji Trophy |
Mar 31 |
Last East Limburg coal mine closes in Gent Belgium |
Mar 31 |
NY Islanders celebrate Denis Potvin night |
Mar 31 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for "Beloved" |
Apr 2 |
Simply Majestic sets horse racing's 1-1/8 mile record at 1:45 |
Apr 2 |
Test Cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, WI v Pakistan, Georgetown |
Apr 3 |
17th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott |
Apr 3 |
7th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Louisiana Tec beat Auburn 56-54 |
Apr 3 |
Mario Lemieux wins NHL scoring title, stopping Gretzky's 7 year streak |
Apr 3 |
NJ Devils beat Blackhawks, 4-3 in OT to join playoffs for 1st time |
Apr 3 |
Somalia & Ethiopia sign accord about Ogaden desert |
Apr 3 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Apr 4 |
50th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beat Oklahoma 83-79 |
Apr 4 |
Eddie Hill becomes the world's first driver to cover the quarter mile in under 5 seconds |
Apr 4 |
Largest crowd (55,438) at a season game at Riverfront (Reds Vs Cards) |
Apr 4 |
Last broadcast of "Crossroads" on British TV |
Apr 4 |
Mets set Opening Day record with 6 HRs |
Apr 5 |
Democratic convention picks Michael Dukakis as their pres candidate |
Apr 6 |
African American polar explorer Matthew Henson buried next to R Peary in Arlington National Cemetery |
Apr 6 |
NJ Devils' 1st playoff game; lose to Isles 4-3 (OT) in 1st round |
Apr 7 |
Devils 3-2 over Isles, 1st round tied 1-1 |
Apr 7 |
Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested |
Apr 7 |
Russia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan |
Apr 7 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 9 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Umeda-Koma Theatre, Osaka |
Apr 9 |
Devils 3-0 over Islanders-Devils lead 2-1 in 1st round |
Apr 9 |
US imposes economic sanctions on Panama |
Apr 10 |
52nd Golf Masters Championship: Sandy Lyle wins, shooting a 281 |
Apr 10 |
8th Golden Raspberry Awards: Leonard Part 6 wins |
Apr 10 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA San Diego Inamori Golf Classic |
Apr 10 |
Herschel Walker performs Fort Worth Ballet |
Apr 10 |
Islanders beat Devils 5-4 (OT) 1st round tied at 2-2 |
Apr 11 |
Royal Concert building in Amsterdam reopens |
Apr 11 |
60th Academy Awards - "The Last Emperor", Michael Douglas & Cher win |
Apr 12 |
Devils 4-2 over Islanders-Devils lead 3-2 in 1st round |
Apr 12 |
Frank Robinson replaces Cal Ripkin as manager of Balt Orioles |
Apr 12 |
Harvard U patents genetically engineered mouse (1st for animal life) |
Apr 12 |
Sonny Bono elected mayor of Palm Springs Calif |
Apr 13 |
Italy government of De Mita forms |
Apr 14 |
"Mail" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 36 performances |
Apr 14 |
Devils 6-5 over Islanders-Devils take 1st round 4-2 |
Apr 14 |
USSR, US, Pakistan & Afghanistan sign Afghanistan treaty |
Apr 15 |
Meteorite explode above Indonesia |
Apr 15 |
Wendy Wasserstein's "Heidi Chronicles" premieres in NYC |
Apr 17 |
Ethiopian Belayneh Densimo runs world record marathon (2:06:50) |
Apr 17 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA AI Star/Centinela Hospital Golf Classic |
Apr 18 |
17th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:24:30 |
Apr 18 |
92nd Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:08:43 |
Apr 18 |
Barbra Streisand records "Warm All Over" |
Apr 20 |
Balt Orioles set worst record to start a season 0-14 (will go 0-21) |
Apr 20 |
NJ Devils 1st playoff hat trick-Eric Broten |
Apr 20 |
US accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians |
Apr 20 |
Yanks HR 9,999 (D Winfield) 10,000 (C Washington) 10,001 (J Clarke) |
Apr 21 |
1st four-day games in County Cricket Championship commence |
Apr 21 |
Barbra Streisand records "You'll Never Know" |
Apr 22 |
Women are allowed to compete in Little 500 bicycle race (Indiana) |
Apr 22 |
NJ Devil Patrik Sundstrom sets NHL playoff record of 8 pts in a playoff game (hat trick & 5 assists) in 10-4 rout over the Capitals |
Apr 23 |
A Greek pedals self-powered aircraft, 74 miles |
Apr 23 |
Federal smoking ban during domestic airline flights of 2 hrs or less |
Apr 23 |
Karolina Szabo runs female world record 25k (1:29:30)/30k (1:47;06) |
Apr 24 |
Rosie Jones wins LPGA USX Golf Classic |
Apr 25 |
"Nightline" goes on location to Jerusalem Israel |
Apr 25 |
John Demjanjuk (Ivan the Terrible), sentenced to death in Jerusalem |
Apr 25 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-211 |
Apr 26 |
1st TNN Viewers choice awards-Randy Travis wins in 5 categories |
Apr 26 |
NBA approves addition of 3rd referee in 1988-89 season |
Apr 26 |
NY Met Davey Johnson becomes 2nd manager to record 400 victory in 1st 4 years (Al Lopez did it 1st) |
Apr 28 |
"Chess" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 68 performances |
Apr 28 |
Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess |
Apr 28 |
Baltimore Orioles lose AL record 21 games in a row |
Apr 28 |
NJ Devils set all time playoff mark for penalty minutes |
Apr 29 |
Orioles beat White Sox 9-0 for 1st 1988 win after 21 loses |
Apr 30 |
Baltimore Orioles win record 14th straight from beginning of season |
Apr 30 |
Largest banana split ever, at 455 miles long, was made in Pennsylvania |
Apr 30 |
NJ Devils beat Caps 3-2 taking 7th game of Patrick Division final |
Apr 30 |
NY Knights 1st arena football game beats Cobras 60-52 (10,157 in LA) |
Apr 30 |
NY Yank Dave Winfield gets his 29th RBI of April-Sets AL & ties ML Rec |
Apr 30 |
World Exposition, Expo 88 opens in Brisbane Australia |
May 1 |
"Romance/Romance" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 297 perfs |
May 1 |
Two IRA attacks in and near Roermond, Netherlands, kills 3 British servicemen and wounds 3 more |
May 1 |
Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic |
May 2 |
Balt Orioles sign a 15 year lease to remain in Balt & get a new park |
May 2 |
David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow" premieres in NYC |
May 2 |
Jackson Pollock's "Search" sold for $4,800,000 |
May 2 |
Reds manager Pete Rose is suspended for 30 days for pushing an ump |
May 3 |
4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida |
May 3 |
Jasper Johns' "Diver" sold for $4,200,000 |
May 4 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
May 5 |
Eugene A Marino installed as 1st black US archbishop |
May 6 |
Graeme Hick scores 405 for Worcs v Somerset 35 fours 11 sixes |
May 6 |
Doughnutgate incident: NJ Devils' coach Jim Schoenfeld tells referee Don Koharski to 'eat another doughnut you fat pig!,' he is suspended |
May 7 |
114th Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens on Winning Colors wins in 2:02.2 |
May 7 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
May 8 |
"Oba Oba" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 46 performances |
May 8 |
Francois Mitterrand elected president of France |
May 8 |
Juli Inkster wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic |
May 8 |
Mike Tyson crashes his $183,000 Bently on Varick St in NYC |
May 8 |
Amateur referees work NJ Devil-Boston Bruin playoff games, as NHL referees walk-off, due to a restraining order brought by Devils |
May 9 |
Australia's new parliament house is opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Canberra |
May 9 |
Belgium: 8th government of Martens forms |
May 10 |
Edgar Degas' "Danseresje of 14" sold for $10,120,000 |
May 11 |
France performs nuclear test |
May 11 |
KV Mechelen wins 28th Europe Cup II |
May 11 |
Mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis 500 lap (221.565 mph) |
May 12 |
"Carrie" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 5 performances |
May 14 |
"Mail" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 36 performances |
May 14 |
1st non-pitcher (Jose Oquendo) in 20 years to get a decision in a baseball game, he & St Louis Cards lose to Braves 7-5 in 19 inn |
May 14 |
Carrollton bus collision: a drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, United States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. The crash and ensuing fire kill 27. |
May 15 |
"Carrie" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 5 performances |
May 15 |
"Gospel at Colonus" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 61 perfs |
May 15 |
2nd American Comedy Award: Robin Williams & Tracey Ullman |
May 15 |
USSR begins withdrawing its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan |
May 15 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic |
May 16 |
US Surgeon Gen C Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin |
May 16 |
US Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant |
May 18 |
Bayer Leverkusen wins 17th UEFA Cup at Leverkusen |
May 18 |
In just Oakland's 39th of the season, pitcher Dave Stewart breaks record with his 12th balk en route to 16 |
May 19 |
Red Sox retire Bobby Doerr's #1 |
May 19 |
Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US |
May 20 |
Howard Stern fans disrupt WMMR's & John DeBella's "Louie Louie" parade |
May 20 |
Mike Schmidt hits his 535th HR, moving into 8th place |
May 21 |
"Da'Butt" by EU hits #35 |
May 21 |
"Fat" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #99 |
May 21 |
114th Preakness: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 1:56.2 |
May 21 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 22 |
34th LPGA Championship won by Sherri Turner |
May 22 |
Károly Grósz succeeds party leader Janos Kádár in Hungary |
May 23 |
Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990 |
May 24 |
John Moschitta set record for fast talking: 586 words per minute |
May 24 |
Porntip Nakhirunkanok, 19, of Thailand, crowned 37th Miss Universe |
May 24 |
Power outage in Boston Garden in NHL's Stanley Cup finals |
May 24 |
Section 28 is passed as law by Parliament in the United Kingdom (prohibiting promotion of homosexuality). Repealed 2001/2004 |
May 25 |
PSV wins Europe Cup |
May 26 |
Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games |
May 27 |
Senate ratified a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles |
May 29 |
Graeme Hick scores his 1,000th run of 1st-class cricket season |
May 29 |
Pakistan President Zia ul-Haq dismisses government and disbands parliament |
May 29 |
Sherri Turner wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
Jun 1 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Shubert Theatre, LA |
Jun 1 |
"Morton Downey Jr Show" debuts in TV syndication |
Jun 1 |
Train crash in Zeeland Neth, kills 2 |
Jun 2 |
61st National Spell Bee: Rageshree Ramachandran wins spelling elegiacal |
Jun 2 |
Consumer Reports calls for a ban on the Suzuki Samurai automobile |
Jun 3 |
"Big" premieres in US |
Jun 3 |
Margo Adams sues Red Sox 3rd baseman Wade Boggs for palimony |
Jun 4 |
"Cabaret" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 262 performances |
Jun 4 |
42nd Tony Awards: M Butterfly & Phantom of the Opera win |
Jun 4 |
58th French Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats N Zvereva (6-0 6-0) |
Jun 4 |
Longest game in Balt Memorial Stadium (5:46) 14 inn (beat NY 7-6) |
Jun 4 |
Rickey Henderson steals 2 bases for record 249 as a NY Yankee |
Jun 5 |
1st Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $590,000 |
Jun 5 |
58th French Men's Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Henri Leconte (75 62 61) |
Jun 5 |
Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle globe alone |
Jun 5 |
Laura Davies wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
Jun 5 |
Longest champagne cork flight is 177'9 in NY |
Jun 5 |
Russian orthodox church celebrates 1,000th anniversary |
Jun 6 |
22nd Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis & Statler Brothers |
Jun 6 |
3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant |
Jun 6 |
George H W Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II to Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989) |
Jun 7 |
Aluminum contaminates Cornwall's water supply |
Jun 8 |
Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20% |
Jun 9 |
"Bloodsport (1987)" premieres in Germany |
Jun 9 |
Attorney General Meese orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK |
Jun 10 |
Greatest number of participants (31,678) on a bicycle tour (London) |
Jun 11 |
"Everything Your Heart Desires" by Daryl Hall & John Oates peaks at #3 |
Jun 11 |
"Rooty Toot Toot" by John Cougar Mellencamp peaks at #61 |
Jun 11 |
"We All Sleep Alone" by Cher peaks at #14 |
Jun 11 |
120th Belmont: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 2:26.6 |
Jun 11 |
25th Curtis Cup: British Isles, 11-7 |
Jun 11 |
Freedomfest - Mandela addresses Wembley Stadium London |
Jun 11 |
Galina Chistyakova of USSR sets long jump woman's record (24"8½") |
Jun 11 |
Yanks' Rick Rhoden becomes 1st pitcher to DH (0 for 1 with an RBI) |
Jun 12 |
6th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Billy Casper |
Jun 12 |
Andy Hampton is 1st American to win Round of Italy |
Jun 12 |
Mei-Chi Cheng wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
Jun 12 |
The Republic of Ireland beats England 1-0 at Euro88 thanks to a headed goal by Ray Houghton. This is Ireland's first competitive match at a major football tournament. |
Jun 13 |
45th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, Mark Davis (Padres)/Mike Krukow |
Jun 13 |
Boston Red Sox are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win AL East |
Jun 13 |
Fed jury finds Liggett liable in death of NJ woman of lung cancer |
Jun 13 |
George Harrison releases "This is Love" |
Jun 13 |
US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist |
Jun 14 |
Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000 alleges he hit her |
Jun 15 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-213 |
Jun 15 |
Turkish premier Özal meets Greek premier Papandreou in Athens |
Jun 16 |
Boston Red Sox Barrett steals home |
Jun 16 |
In Santa Barbara, CA, a team of 32 divers begin cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins |
Jun 17 |
Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens |
Jun 17 |
Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0 |
Jun 17 |
Soyuz TM-5 launches |
Jun 17 |
Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case |
Jun 18 |
Jeff Hamilton, hits 8,000th Dodger home run |
Jun 19 |
88th US Golf Open: Curtis Strange shoots a 278 at Country Club Mass |
Jun 19 |
Coup in Haiti |
Jun 19 |
Namphy takes control of Haitian government |
Jun 19 |
Shirley Furlong wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
Jun 19 |
World's Largest Sausage completed at 13 1/8 miles long |
Jun 19 |
32 divers finish cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins |
Jun 20 |
Curtis Strange wins US Open golf tournament |
Jun 20 |
Haiti's general assembly dissolves |
Jun 20 |
NYC WABC-AM becomes flagship radio station of NJ Devils |
Jun 20 |
Price is Right model Janice Pennington is knocked out by a TV camera |
Jun 20 |
WABC officially becomes the NJ Devils new home radio |
Jun 20 |
Supreme Court upholds a law that made it illegal for private clubs to discriminate against women & minorities |
Jun 21 |
42nd NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Detroit Pistons, 4 games to 3 |
Jun 21 |
Many killed at demonstration against general Ne Win in Rangoon |
Jun 21 |
Rascals begin 1st tour in 20 years |
Jun 23 |
Charlotte Hornets & Miami Heat begin their NBA expansion draft |
Jun 23 |
Yank manager Billy Martin's 5th term ends, Lou Pinella named manager |
Jun 24 |
Cleve pitcher Doug Jones sets record of 14 consecutive saves |
Jun 24 |
Red Sox begin AL record 23rd consecutive home win streak |
Jun 25 |
"Chess" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 68 performances |
Jun 25 |
104°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June |
Jun 25 |
Cal Ripken Jr plays in his 1,000th consecutive game |
Jun 25 |
Expos Pitcher Floyd Youmans suspended for 60 days due to drugs |
Jun 25 |
Iceland's President Vigdis Finnbogadóttir elected (90+%) |
Jun 25 |
Kristen Logan, 17, of Mississippi, crowned America's Junior Miss |
Jun 25 |
Neth soccer team wins European Cup (2-0 against USSR) |
Jun 25 |
Roger Rabbit Cartoon Character debuts in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" |
Jun 26 |
Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
Jun 27 |
Mike Tyson KOs Michael Spink in 91 seconds, in Atlantic City ($67m) |
Jun 27 |
Reds bat out of order against Padres in 1st inning |
Jun 28 |
Mike Tyson sues to break contract with manager Bill Cayton |
Jun 29 |
Emmy 15th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 9th time |
Jun 30 |
"Sledge Hammer!" last aires on ABC-TV |
Jun 30 |
Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason |
Jun 30 |
Chicago agrees to build a new stadium so White Sox won't move to Fla |
Jun 30 |
French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church. |
Jul 1 |
In New Zealand, Bastion Point land returned to the local Maori iwi (tribe), Ngāti Whātua |
Jul 2 |
95th Wimbledon Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats Navratilova (5-7 6-2 6-1) |
Jul 2 |
Lester Dumakude, commander of an Umkhonto we Sizwe special operations unit, detonate a car bomb by remote control outside Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa |
Jul 3 |
16th du Maurier Golf Classic: Sally Little |
Jul 3 |
A's Gene Nelson is 1st AL pitcher to steal a base since 1973 |
Jul 3 |
US Vincennes in Strait of Hormoez shoots Iran Airbus A300, kills 290 |
Jul 3 |
The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus. |
Jul 4 |
102nd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Boris Becker (46 76 64 62) |
Jul 4 |
KC releases pitcher Dan Quisenberry, whose 238 saves are the 4th most |
Jul 4 |
US Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290 |
Jul 5 |
Malcolm Marshall takes 7-22 at Old Trafford, England all out 93 |
Jul 6 |
Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico |
Jul 6 |
North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha explodes, 166 die |
Jul 6 |
Wrestler Jake Roberts convicted of battery |
Jul 7 |
Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful) |
Jul 7 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Jul 7 |
Five prominent anti-apartheid activists are released in Cape Town, South Africa after being detained for up to two years under the Internal Security Act |
Jul 8 |
Indians' Bud Black sets club record for most batters hit in inning (3) |
Jul 8 |
Miami Arena opens |
Jul 8 |
Rockers Jonathan "Chico" & Robert DeBarge indicted on drug trafficking |
Jul 8 |
Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992 |
Jul 9 |
Chris Speier hits for the cycle & Ernest Riles hits 10,000th Giant HR |
Jul 9 |
Jessye Norman begins recording Bizet's "Carmen" |
Jul 9 |
Nolan Ryan is 7th to win 100 game on 2 teams, as Astro beat Mets 6-3 |
Jul 10 |
Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
Jul 11 |
Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor |
Jul 12 |
59th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-1 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin |
Jul 12 |
All star MVP: Terry Steinbach (Oakland A's) |
Jul 12 |
Margo Adams alleges Red Sox Wade Bogg's had an affair with her |
Jul 12 |
USSR launches Phobos II for Martian orbit |
Jul 13 |
9th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
Jul 13 |
Red Sox replace manager John McNamara with Joe Morgan |
Jul 13 |
Sting performs his 1st Rain Forest benefit concert |
Jul 14 |
200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorporation of Nagorno-Karabak |
Jul 14 |
Mike Schmidt passes Mickey Mantle with his 537th HR into 7th place |
Jul 14 |
WYHY radio offers $1M to anyone who can prove Elvis is still alive |
Jul 16 |
Carl Lewis runs a wind-assisted 100 m in 9.78 sec |
Jul 16 |
Florence Joyner runs 100 m in women's world record 10.49 seconds |
Jul 16 |
Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets women's heptathlete record of 7,215 pts |
Jul 16 |
San Antonio (Texas League) beats Jackson 1-0 in 26 innings |
Jul 16 |
Wayne Gretzky (NHL) & Janet Jones (Police Acad 5) wed in Edmonton |
Jul 17 |
117th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots 273 at Royal Lytham |
Jul 17 |
4 Billion tv-viewers watch Mandela's 70th Birthday Tribute |
Jul 17 |
Colleen Walker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
Jul 17 |
Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 100m woman's record (10.49) |
Jul 17 |
Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 103°F (39°C) |
Jul 18 |
Abu Nidal terrorists kill 9 on City of Poros cruise ship |
Jul 18 |
Shooting begins on "License to Kill" |
Jul 20 |
Michael Dukakis selected Democratic presidential nominee |
Jul 21 |
ESA's Ariane-3 launches 2 communications satellites (1 Indian) |
Jul 21 |
Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis accepts Democratic nomination for president |
Jul 22 |
500 US scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research |
Jul 23 |
Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks record 8 field goals vs Edmonton |
Jul 24 |
43rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Liselotte Neumann |
Jul 24 |
US & Jamacia play scoreless tie, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup |
Jul 25 |
Mindy Duncan, 16, of Oregon, crowned 6th Miss Teen USA |
Jul 25 |
Pedro Delgado wins Tour de France |
Jul 26 |
Mike Schmidt sets NL record appearing in 2,155 games at 3rd base, as Phillies & NY Mets end that game at 2:13 AM |
Jul 27 |
Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years |
Jul 27 |
General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as pres of Burma |
Jul 27 |
Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer |
Jul 27 |
Baseball star Tommy John commits rec 3 errors on 1 play as Yanks rout Brewers 16-3 |
Jul 28 |
IBM announces price hike on older models |
Jul 28 |
Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years |
Jul 28 |
Jordan cancels $1.3 billion development plan in West Bank |
Jul 28 |
Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa, destroyed by arson |
Jul 29 |
FDIC bails out 1st Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion |
Jul 29 |
Gorbachev pushes plan electing president & parliament in March, 1989 |
Jul 29 |
Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit |
Jul 29 |
Last US Playboy Club (Lansing Mich) closes |
Jul 29 |
South African government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom" |
Jul 29 |
Baltimore trades Mike Boddicker to the Red Sox for Brady Anderson & Curt Schilling |
Jul 29 |
Rick Sutcliffe swipes home, 1st pitcher since Pascual Perez in 1984 to steal home |
Jul 30 |
Cin Red pitcher John Franco sets a record of 13 saves in 1 month |
Jul 30 |
Harry Drake shoots arrow record 1873m |
Jul 30 |
John Franco saves record 13th game of July |
Jul 30 |
Jordanian King Hussein renounces sovereignity over West Bank to PLO |
Jul 30 |
King Hussein dissolves Jordan's House of Representatives |
Jul 30 |
Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hr, 4 min) |
Jul 31 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open |
Jul 31 |
Jose Canseco is 1st to hit 30 HRs in 1st 3 years |
Jul 31 |
Last Playboy club closes (Lansing Michigan) |
Jul 31 |
Miami Dolphins beat SF 49ers 27-21 in London |
Jul 31 |
Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame |
Jul 31 |
32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia. |
Aug 1 |
Deep Rover 1-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon |
Aug 1 |
Rush Limbaugh begins his national radio show. |
Aug 2 |
Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo |
Aug 2 |
System Enhancement Association settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC) |
Aug 3 |
Skip Storch swims 246 km of Hudson River from Albany to NYC |
Aug 4 |
Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II |
Aug 4 |
Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case |
Aug 5 |
Mario Biaggi (Rep-D-NY) convicted of racketeering resigns seat |
Aug 6 |
Oakland A's Jose Canseco becomes 11th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases |
Aug 6 |
Rich Gossage 300th career save (beats Phillies) |
Aug 6 |
The Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City spurs reform of the NYPD, who were responsible for the melee that transpired the night of August 6-7. |
Aug 7 |
Martha Nause wins Planters Pat Bradley International Golf Tournament |
Aug 7 |
Writers guild end their 6 months strike |
Aug 7 |
Rioting in New York City's Tompkins Square Park. |
Aug 7 |
Angola, Cuba and South Africa allegedly signed a cease fire treaty |
Aug 8 |
-11] Army in Rangoon shoots on students, 5-10,000 killed |
Aug 8 |
9th US Seniors Golf Open: Gary Player |
Aug 8 |
Angola, Cuba & South Africa sign cease fire treaty |
Aug 8 |
Discovery of most distant galaxy (15 * 10 ^ 12 light yrs) announced |
Aug 8 |
Duchess of York gives birth to 6 lb 12 oz baby girl |
Aug 8 |
Goose Gossage registers career save #300 |
Aug 8 |
Jennifer Levin's parents file $25M suit against Dorrian Red Hand Bar |
Aug 8 |
Jose Canseco becomes 11th to get 30 HRs & 30 steals in a season |
Aug 8 |
Matt Biondi swims US record 200m freestyle (1:47.72) |
Aug 8 |
Minnesota Twins pull 2nd triple-play of year & beat Cleve 6-2 |
Aug 8 |
Renovated Central Park Zoo reopens after 4 years |
Aug 8 |
Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war |
Aug 8 |
US Secretary of State Shultz narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia |
Aug 8 |
South Africa declares cease-fire in Angola |
Aug 8 |
Temperature hits high of 88 deg F on 8/8/88 in NYC |
Aug 8 |
Cubs & Phillies attempt to play 1st night game ever at Wrigley Field but are rained out in 4th inning with Chicago leading, 3-1 |
Aug 8 |
Cease fire between Iran & Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war |
Aug 8 |
The "8888 Uprising" occurs in Burma. |
Aug 9 |
Cubs beat Mets 6-4 in their 1st official night game at Wrigley Field |
Aug 9 |
Edmonton Oilers trade Wayne Gretzky to LA Kings for $15-$20 millions |
Aug 9 |
Just 1 day after 8/8/88 NY's daily number is 888 |
Aug 10 |
Matt Biondi swims world record 100m free style (48.42 sec) |
Aug 10 |
Rodrigo Borja installed as president of Ecuador |
Aug 10 |
UN estimates Asia's population hits 3 billion |
Aug 11 |
225 at bats after #299, Met Gary Carter is 59th to hit 300th HR |
Aug 11 |
Charlotte Colisieum in Charlotte NC opens |
Aug 11 |
Meir Kahane renounced US citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament |
Aug 11 |
Al-Qaeda formed |
Aug 12 |
Boston Red Sox set AL consecutive home victories at 23 |
Aug 12 |
Movie "Last Temptation of Christ" is released |
Aug 12 |
Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at hospital |
Aug 12 |
Red Sox beat Tigers 9-4 for AL record 23rd consecutive win at home |
Aug 12 |
Richard Thornburgh becomes US Attorney General |
Aug 13 |
Boston Red Sox win AL record 24 straight home games |
Aug 13 |
Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit opens |
Aug 13 |
US beats Jamacia 5-1 in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup |
Aug 13 |
Ronald J Dossenbach sets world record for pedaling across Canada from Vancouver, BC to Halifax, NS in 13 days, 15 hr, 4 min |
Aug 14 |
70th PGA Championship: Jeff Sluman shoots a 272 at Oak Tree GC Edmond |
Aug 14 |
Detroit beats Sox, 18-6, at Fenway, ends Boston winning streak at 24 |
Aug 15 |
"Ain't Misbehavin'" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 176 perfs |
Aug 15 |
At 4PM LILCO consumers used a record 3,813 megawatts |
Aug 15 |
NYC begins $70 million program to rebuild 900 Bronx apartments |
Aug 16 |
Butch Reynolds runs world record 400 m (43.29) |
Aug 16 |
IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence |
Aug 16 |
Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers |
Aug 17 |
Butch Reynolds runs world record 400m (43.29) |
Aug 17 |
LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991 |
Aug 17 |
NYC 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy) |
Aug 17 |
US Republicans nominate George W H Bush for President |
Aug 17 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Aug 17 |
Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash. |
Aug 18 |
FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment |
Aug 18 |
Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million |
Aug 18 |
Republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket |
Aug 19 |
Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT) |
Aug 19 |
Muang Muang succeeds Gen Sein Lwin as president of Burma |
Aug 19 |
NY Rangers sign ex-Canadien great Guy LaFluer |
Aug 20 |
6.5 earthquake strikes India/Nepal, 1,000s killed |
Aug 20 |
Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21) |
Aug 20 |
"Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park |
Aug 20 |
Peru becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
Aug 21 |
Juli Inkster wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic |
Aug 22 |
Australia unveils 1st platinum coin (Koala) |
Aug 22 |
NBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee) |
Aug 22 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Aug 23 |
Mike Tyson & Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem |
Aug 25 |
Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston |
Aug 25 |
Serious fire destroys historic center of Lisbon |
Aug 25 |
Iran & Iraq begin talks to end their 8 year war |
Aug 25 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-214 |
Aug 26 |
Mehran Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport. |
Aug 27 |
Dodger Tommy Lasorda wins 1,000th game as manager tops Philadelphia, 4-2 |
Aug 28 |
40th Emmy Awards: 30something, Wonder Years & Richard Kiley win |
Aug 28 |
70 killed in crash of three Italian air force fighters at air show at Ramstein, Germany |
Aug 28 |
88th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Eric Meeks |
Aug 28 |
Patty Jordan wins LPGA Ocean State Golf Open |
Aug 28 |
Rosie Jones wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship |
Aug 29 |
Macy's Tap-o-Mania sets Guiness record |
Aug 29 |
USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir |
Aug 30 |
France performs nuclear test |
Aug 30 |
Kent Tekulve is 2nd pitcher in majors to appear in 1,000 games |
Aug 31 |
5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins |
Aug 31 |
Arbitrator George Nicolau rules owners conspired against free agents |
Aug 31 |
Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches |
Sep 1 |
Timberlake Westenbaker's "Our Country's Good" premieres in London |
Sep 2 |
Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley |
Sep 3 |
Dennis Eckersley sets A's record with his 37th save en route to 45 |
Sep 3 |
Estimated by this date 50,000 Kurdish civilians and soldiers killed by Iraq, many using chemical weapons, in aftermath of Iran-Iraq War |
Sep 4 |
Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills NY |
Sep 4 |
Phoenix Cardinals play 1st regular-season NFL game |
Sep 5 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
Sep 5 |
Jerry Lewis' 23rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $41,132,113 |
Sep 5 |
CFL's Earl Winfield (Ham) scores TDs on 101-yd punt return, 100-yd kickoff return & 58-yd pass reception |
Sep 6 |
Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard |
Sep 6 |
Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Channel |
Sep 6 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Sep 7 |
5th MTV Awards: INXS wins |
Sep 7 |
Guy Lafleur, Tony Esposito & Brad Park inducted in NHL Hall of Fame |
Sep 7 |
NY Daily News reports boxer Mike Tyson is seeing a psychiatrist |
Sep 7 |
Security & Exchange Commission accuses Drexel of violating security laws |
Sep 8 |
Javier Sotomayer of Cuba high jumps world record 2.43m |
Sep 8 |
NL pres Bart Giamatti is unanimously elected baseball's 7th commissioner |
Sep 9 |
Braves Bruce Sutter joins Fingers & Gossage to save 300 games |
Sep 9 |
Chris Evert defaults at US Open due to a stomach flu |
Sep 9 |
US Stars & Stripes H3 defeats NZ's KZ-1 at the 27th America's Cup: NZ appeal in court but eventually lose |
Sep 10 |
-18] Hurricane Gilbert, kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas & Yucatan |
Sep 10 |
102nd US Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini (6-3 3-6 6-1) |
Sep 10 |
Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (Minn), 22, crowned 62nd Miss America 1989 |
Sep 11 |
1/3 of population argues for Estonia autonomy |
Sep 11 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship |
Sep 11 |
Sports Aid-jogging to feed the world |
Sep 11 |
108th US Men's Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64) in 4hrs 55 min - longest men's final in US Open history |
Sep 12 |
1st NFL regular-season game played in Phoenix; Cowboys beat Card |
Sep 12 |
Gilbert, strongest hurricane ever (160 mph), devastates Jamaica |
Sep 13 |
10th time, 4 players hit baseball major-league record grand slams |
Sep 13 |
9 hard/software manufacturers announce EISA computer bus in NY |
Sep 13 |
Gilbert is strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane in Western Hemisphere |
Sep 14 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Sep 15 |
"Les Miserables," opens at Raimund Theatre, Vienna |
Sep 15 |
Lillehammer, Norway upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter olympics |
Sep 15 |
Museum of Moving Image in London opens |
Sep 15 |
Test Cricket debut of Ian Healy, vs Pakistan at Karachi |
Sep 16 |
Cin Reds Tom Browning pitches a perfect game, beats Dodgers, 1-0 |
Sep 16 |
Fish leaves rock group Marillion |
Sep 16 |
Javed Miandad completes 211, his 5th Test Cricket double, v Australia |
Sep 16 |
Jury awards Valerie Harper $1.6 M in dispute over TV series |
Sep 16 |
Tom Browning of Cincinnati Reds pitches a perfect game against LA |
Sep 17 |
24th Olympic games open at Seoul, Korea |
Sep 17 |
Jeff Reardon becomes 1st to record 40 or more saves in both AL & NL |
Sep 17 |
Military coup in Haiti: Lt Gen Avril takes control, Henri Namphy flees |
Sep 18 |
Burma suspends its constitution |
Sep 18 |
Coup in Haiti |
Sep 18 |
Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
Sep 19 |
Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance |
Sep 19 |
US Olympic diver Greg Louganis hits his head on diving board |
Sep 20 |
Darrell Evans hits his 400th career home run |
Sep 20 |
Greg Louganis wins Olympic gold medal in springboard diving |
Sep 20 |
Wade Boggs is 1st player to get 200 hits for 6 consecutive seasons |
Sep 21 |
Mike Tyson smashes TV camera outside his Bernardsville NJ home |
Sep 22 |
Canada begins production of a $5 silver Maple Leaf bullion coin |
Sep 22 |
South Korean coaches attack NZ referee after disputing his decision, Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in |
Sep 23 |
Fiji's new constitution is proposed |
Sep 23 |
Jose Canseco is baseball's 1st to steal 40 bases & hit 40 HRs |
Sep 23 |
Rosa Mota wins 2nd female olympic marathon (2:25:39) |
Sep 24 |
Barbara C Harris of Mass, elected 1st woman Episcopal bishop |
Sep 24 |
Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100 m in 9.79 sec |
Sep 24 |
Carl Lewis runs world record 100m (9.92 sec) |
Sep 24 |
Dave Stieb has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in the 9th |
Sep 24 |
Jackie Joyner-Kersee of USA sets heptathlon woman's record (7,291) |
Sep 25 |
Florence Griffith Joyner runs Olympic record 100m in 10.54s |
Sep 25 |
Kathy Guadagnino wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic |
Sep 25 |
Christopher Jacobs, Troy Dalbey, Tom Hunter & Matt Biondi, swim world record 4x100 m freestyle (3:16.53) |
Sep 26 |
Canada's Ben Johnson stripped of his 100-m gold failing drug test |
Sep 26 |
NYC's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark |
Sep 26 |
Polish communist party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM |
Sep 26 |
US space shuttle STS-26 launched |
Sep 27 |
Grand jury evidence shows Tawana Brawley fabricated rape story |
Sep 27 |
Senate votes for major federal tax code changes |
Sep 27 |
The National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi is founded in Burma (Myanmar) |
Sep 28 |
Bronx Museum for Arts opens |
Sep 28 |
Javed Miandad scores his 19th Test Cricket century (v Aus, Faisalabad) |
Sep 28 |
LA Dodger Orel Hershiser sets record for consecutive scoreless inns |
Sep 29 |
26th Space Shuttle mission, Discovery 7 launched |
Sep 29 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
Sep 29 |
Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 200m woman's record (21.34) |
Sep 29 |
UN peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize |
Sep 29 |
Union Station reopens in Wash DC |
Sep 30 |
Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko retires as Soviet Foreign Minister |