Notable Historical Events - 1989
1989 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
NYC transit fare rises from $1.00 to $1.15 |
Jan 1 |
Year of the Young Reader begins |
Jan 2 |
Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship |
Jan 2 |
UCLA wins a record 7th consecutive bowl game |
Jan 3 |
Jim & Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!) |
Jan 3 |
Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement |
Jan 4 |
Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion |
Jan 4 |
US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean |
Jan 4 |
VP Bush is 1st since VP Van Buren to declare himself president |
Jan 5 |
2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test |
Jan 5 |
Baseball signs $400M with ESPN, showing 175 games in 1990 |
Jan 7 |
Akhito becomes emperor of Japan |
Jan 7 |
International Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris |
Jan 7 |
NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers longest win streak (11) |
Jan 7 |
Cleve Cavs block 21 NY Knick shots tying NBA regulation game record |
Jan 8 |
"42nd Street" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 3,486 perfs |
Jan 8 |
"Starlight Express" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 761 perfs |
Jan 8 |
Boeing 737-400 crashes at Kegworth, England, 46 die |
Jan 8 |
Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons |
Jan 8 |
Beginning of Japanese Heisei era. |
Jan 9 |
"Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS |
Jan 9 |
Johnny Bench & Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
Jan 11 |
140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc) |
Jan 11 |
Denver Nuggets' rookie Jerome Lane misses 7 free throws in a game against Milwaukee, one missed by 2 feet |
Jan 11 |
Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school |
Jan 12 |
6 claim to survive in rubble, 35 days after Armenian quake (hoax) |
Jan 12 |
Idi Amin expelled from Zaire |
Jan 13 |
"Ryan's Hope" ends 13½ year run on ABC-TV |
Jan 13 |
Computers across Britain hit by "Friday the 13th"/Jerusalem virus |
Jan 13 |
Jerry Parks, Oklahoma defensive back, charged with shooting a teammate |
Jan 13 |
Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq |
Jan 13 |
Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence |
Jan 14 |
"Romance/Romance" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 297 perfs |
Jan 14 |
1,000 muslims burn Salman Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradford England |
Jan 14 |
29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris |
Jan 14 |
Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped |
Jan 15 |
"Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 176 perfs |
Jan 15 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic |
Jan 15 |
Big John Studd wins WWF's 1st Royal Rumble |
Jan 15 |
Cerberal Palsy telethon raises 22,600,000 |
Jan 15 |
10th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins the Golden CableACE for "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam" |
Jan 16 |
Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague |
Jan 16 |
USSR announces plan for 2-yr manned mission to Mars |
Jan 16 |
5th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins |
Jan 17 |
Al Arbour wins his 600th NHL game as coach |
Jan 17 |
Gunman opens fire in California schoolyard; 5 students slain, 30 wounded |
Jan 17 |
Murden & Metz are 1st women to reach South Pole overland (on skis) |
Jan 17 |
Phoenix Suns cancel game at Miami Heat, due to racial unrest in Miami |
Jan 18 |
Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC) |
Jan 18 |
IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988 |
Jan 18 |
Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations & Stevie Wonder |
Jan 18 |
West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win the World Series Cup |
Jan 19 |
President Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon |
Jan 20 |
George H W Bush inaugurated as 41st US President & Dan Quayle becomes 44th Vice President |
Jan 20 |
Wayne Holdsworth takes a wicket 1st ball in 1st-class cricket |
Jan 20 |
Reagan becomes 1st pres elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive |
Jan 21 |
A woman is assaulted & raped in room of an Oklahoma football player |
Jan 21 |
Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer |
Jan 22 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jan 22 |
Super Bowl XXIII: San Francisco 49ers beat Cincinnati Bengals 20-16 in Miami Super Bowl MVP: Jerry Rice, San Francisco, WR |
Jan 22 |
After winning his third Super Bowl as head coach of the San Fransisco 49ers, Bill Walsh retires |
Jan 23 |
Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court |
Jan 23 |
NBA New Jersey Nets begin a 32+ game road losing streak |
Jan 24 |
1st reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex |
Jan 25 |
Augusto Alcalde, 1st South American Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission |
Jan 25 |
Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season |
Jan 25 |
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Jan 26 |
"Black & Blue" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 829 performances |
Jan 26 |
AT&T reports 1st loss in 103 years; $1.67 B in 1988 |
Jan 26 |
Allan Border takes 7-46 against the West Indies at the SCG |
Jan 26 |
Madison Sq Garden announces 2-year $100 M renovation plan |
Jan 26 |
Test debut of Mark Taylor, Australia v West Indies, Sydney |
Jan 26 |
US computer security expert warns of catastrophic virus |
Jan 27 |
German war criminals Fischer & Aus der Funten freed |
Jan 27 |
Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games |
Jan 27 |
Okla's linebacker, Mark VanKeirsblilck assaults an Ok grad student |
Jan 28 |
46th Golden Globes: Rainman, Working Girl |
Jan 28 |
63rd Australian Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (6-4 6-4) |
Jan 28 |
Boon completes 7th Test century, 149 v WI at SCG |
Jan 29 |
77th Australian Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (62 62 62) |
Jan 29 |
Cleveland's Chris Dudley misses 5 free throws during 1 foul attempt |
Jan 29 |
Dottie Mochrie wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic |
Jan 29 |
Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-pt loss since Oct 1987; index at 2,256.43 |
Jan 29 |
Episcopal Church of the United States appoints Barbara Harris as its first female bishop |
Jan 29 |
L I preacher Gene Profeta pleads guilty to tax-evasion |
Jan 29 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 34-3 |
Jan 29 |
Orlando Arena opens |
Jan 29 |
USSR's Phobos II enters Martian orbit |
Jan 29 |
Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of use NY Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129 |
Jan 30 |
16th American Music Award: Randy Travis & George Michael wins |
Jan 30 |
Five Pharaoh sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor |
Jan 30 |
Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter |
Jan 30 |
Last day of 1st class cricket for Dav Whatmore |
Jan 30 |
Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident |
Jan 30 |
The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes. |
Feb 1 |
Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion |
Feb 1 |
Diana, Princess of Wales visits NYC |
Feb 1 |
The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. |
Feb 2 |
0°F (-18°C) or below in 15 US states |
Feb 2 |
FW de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's National Party leader |
Feb 2 |
NL announces Yanks' broadcaster Bill White will be 1st black president |
Feb 3 |
Bill White named NL president; 1st black major-league sports head |
Feb 3 |
Military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay |
Feb 3 |
Start 1st Test Cricket, NZ v Pak, washed out |
Feb 4 |
Dean Jones scores 216 v WI at the Adelaide Oval |
Feb 5 |
Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points |
Feb 6 |
Solidarity union leader Lech Walesa begins negotiating with Polish government |
Feb 7 |
40th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-5 at Edmonton |
Feb 7 |
Tennis superstar Bjorn Borg, apparently attempts suicide in Milan |
Feb 8 |
5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles |
Feb 8 |
Jockey Chris Antley begins record of 64 consecutive winning days |
Feb 8 |
US Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die |
Feb 9 |
Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games |
Feb 9 |
Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election |
Feb 10 |
Celtic KC Jones & Cavalier Lenny Wilkens elected to NBA Hall of Fame |
Feb 10 |
Miami Vice's 100th episode seen on TV |
Feb 10 |
Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St Louis |
Feb 10 |
Ron Brown chosen 1st black chairman of a major US party (Democrats) |
Feb 10 |
Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed, Pak v NZ age 16 years 189 days |
Feb 10 |
Tony Robinson of Jamaica becomes Nottingham's 1st black sheriff |
Feb 10 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 10 |
To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport, in a NJ court |
Feb 11 |
Barbara Clementine Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcopalian) |
Feb 11 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary |
Feb 12 |
39th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 143-134 at Houston |
Feb 12 |
5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel |
Feb 12 |
50th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Larry Mowry |
Feb 12 |
Barbara Harris becomes 1st female bishop of a US Episcopal church |
Feb 12 |
Gretzky sets 2 records, his 45th hat trick & 10th 40+ goal season |
Feb 12 |
Thursday's Child sets sailing record, NY-Cape Horn-SF, 80 d 20 h |
Feb 12 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman |
Feb 13 |
Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden Boeynants freed |
Feb 13 |
Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients |
Feb 13 |
Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison |
Feb 14 |
African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam |
Feb 14 |
Ayatollah Khomeini orders Moslems to murder "Satanic Verses" novelist Rushdie |
Feb 14 |
Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster |
Feb 14 |
World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens |
Feb 14 |
The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System are placed into orbit. |
Feb 15 |
Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt |
Feb 15 |
Soviet military occupation of Afgh nist n ends |
Feb 16 |
Egypt, Iraq, Jordan & North Yemen form common market |
Feb 16 |
Orel Hershiser, Dodger pitcher signs $7.9M-3 year contract |
Feb 16 |
Roger Clemens, Red Sox pitcher signs $7.5M-3 year contract |
Feb 16 |
William Hayden becomes governor-general of Australia |
Feb 17 |
6-week study of Arctic atmosphere shows no ozone "hole" |
Feb 17 |
Former baseball player/manager Leo Durocher injured in a car crash |
Feb 17 |
Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia & Libya form common market |
Feb 17 |
Orel Hershiser, Dodger pitcher signs record $7.9M-3 year contract |
Feb 17 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Feb 18 |
Sherri Turner wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open/Itoki Pro-Am |
Feb 19 |
"Legs Diamond" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 64 perfs |
Feb 19 |
Edgar Bowers wins Bollingen Prize |
Feb 20 |
Members of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancelled an April reunion because of deplorable conduct of Oklahoma players |
Feb 20 |
An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England |
Feb 21 |
Pete Rose meets with Commissioner Ueberroth to discuss his gambling |
Feb 21 |
US bust Chinese ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1B st value) |
Feb 21 |
US capture record 820 lbs of heroin ($1 B street value)[dup] |
Feb 22 |
Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress |
Feb 22 |
NY Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50) |
Feb 22 |
UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud" |
Feb 22 |
US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals" |
Feb 22 |
31st Grammy Awards: Don't Worry Be Happy, Faith, Tracy Chapman |
Feb 22 |
1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award) |
Feb 24 |
150-million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found |
Feb 24 |
Harold E Ballard sells CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats to David Braley |
Feb 24 |
Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife |
Feb 24 |
US Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die |
Feb 24 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 24 |
Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1M-$3M bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses" |
Feb 25 |
1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms |
Feb 25 |
Javed Miandad scores 271 v NZ at Eden Park |
Feb 25 |
Lowest baramotric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt) |
Feb 25 |
Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
Feb 26 |
Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career |
Feb 26 |
"Jerome Robbins' Broadway" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 634 perfs |
Feb 26 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am |
Feb 26 |
Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (95.5 hPa) |
Feb 26 |
NY Yankees announce that Tom Seaver is their new TV sportscaster |
Feb 26 |
California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs |
Feb 27 |
German war criminals Aus der Funten/Fischer, freed in Holland |
Feb 27 |
Venezuela is rocked by the riots of Caracazo. |
Feb 28 |
Gretchen Polhemus, 23, (Texas), crowned 38th Miss USA |
Feb 28 |
Memo by Brian Gumbel criticizing Today Show co-workers becomes public |
Feb 28 |
Red Schoendienst & Al Barlick elected to baseball's Hall of Fame |
Mar 1 |
Ben Johnson's coach testifies Johnson began using steroids in 1981 |
Mar 1 |
Comet du Toit at perihelion |
Mar 1 |
The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
Mar 2 |
12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000 |
Mar 2 |
Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil |
Mar 2 |
Madonna's "Like a Prayer" premieres on worldwide Pepsi commercial |
Mar 2 |
NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers win 22nd straight home game |
Mar 2 |
NY Met Darryl Strawberry swings at teammate Keith Hernandez |
Mar 3 |
Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines |
Mar 3 |
Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 yrs probation for Iran-Contra |
Mar 4 |
Eastern Airlines machinists strike |
Mar 4 |
Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m) |
Mar 5 |
19th Easter Seal Telethon raises $37,002,000 |
Mar 5 |
Blains McCallister wins Honda Golf Classic shooting 266 |
Mar 5 |
Elly Verhulst runs world record 3000 m indoor (8:33.82) |
Mar 6 |
Yanks beat Mets 6-4 in exhibition game (1st meeting since 1985) |
Mar 7 |
Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie's book "Satanic Verses" |
Mar 7 |
Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America, Greenland) |
Mar 7 |
Dino Ciccarelli is traded by the Minnesota North Stars to the Washington Capitals |
Mar 8 |
"Heidi Chronicles" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 621 performances |
Mar 8 |
Roger Kingdom runs indoor world record 60m hurdles (7.37 secs) |
Mar 9 |
Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy |
Mar 9 |
Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 sec) |
Mar 9 |
US Senate rejects President Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary |
Mar 9 |
Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court |
Mar 9 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 12 |
15th People's Choice Awards: Dustin Hoffman & Meryl Streep win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Phylicia Rashad win (TV) |
Mar 12 |
2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia) |
Mar 12 |
Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election |
Mar 13 |
27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown |
Mar 13 |
FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US |
Mar 13 |
US space shuttle STS-29 launched |
Mar 15 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto |
Mar 15 |
Dept of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position |
Mar 15 |
NY Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform |
Mar 17 |
"Chu Chem" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 44 performances |
Mar 17 |
Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade |
Mar 18 |
27th space shuttle mission, STS-29 (Discovery 8), returns to Earth |
Mar 18 |
California Quake amusement ride opens at Universal Studios |
Mar 18 |
Dino Ciccarelli sets Washington Capital record of 7 pts in a game |
Mar 18 |
In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found in the Pyramid of Cheops. |
Mar 19 |
Boeing B-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft makes maiden flight |
Mar 19 |
Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by M Klimova & S Ponomarenko (USR) |
Mar 19 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by E Gordeeva & S Grinkov (USSR) |
Mar 19 |
Lori Garbacz wins Circle K LPGA Golf Open Tucson |
Mar 19 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Kurt Browning (CAN) |
Mar 19 |
Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Paris won by Midori Ito (Japan) |
Mar 20 |
Baseball announces Reds manager Pete Rose is under investigation |
Mar 20 |
Richard J Kerr replaces Robert M Gates as deputy director of CIA |
Mar 21 |
1st sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral |
Mar 22 |
Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner after 29 years |
Mar 22 |
US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of NYC Board of Estimate |
Mar 22 |
Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat. |
Mar 23 |
2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature |
Mar 23 |
Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 yrs for killing his adopted daughter |
Mar 24 |
Mary Martin in "Peter Pan" 1st seen on TV since 1973 |
Mar 24 |
Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska |
Mar 25 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago |
Mar 26 |
1st free elections in USSR; 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins |
Mar 26 |
Allison Finney wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic |
Mar 27 |
1st half-black soap opera, "Generations" premieres on NBC-TV |
Mar 27 |
Delhi beat Bengal by innings & 210 to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy |
Mar 28 |
New Zealand wins America's Cup over Stars & Stripes, in a NY court |
Mar 29 |
1st Soviet hockey players are permitted to play for the NHL |
Mar 29 |
1st US private commercial rocket makes suborbital test flight (NM) |
Mar 29 |
61st Academy Awards - "Rainman", Dustin Hoffman & Jodie Foster win |
Mar 29 |
9th Golden Raspberry Awards: Cocktail wins |
Mar 29 |
I M Pei's pyramidal entrance to the Louvre opens in Paris |
Mar 29 |
Michael Milken, junk bond king, indicted in NY for racketeering |
Mar 31 |
Donald Trump purchases Eastern's Northeast Shuttle |
Apr 1 |
1st NY Met-NY Yankee game in NYC since 1983, Yanks win 4-3 |
Apr 1 |
A Bartlett Giamatti replaces Ueberroth as 7th commissioner of baseball |
Apr 2 |
18th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster |
Apr 2 |
8th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Auburn 76-60 |
Apr 2 |
Wrestlemania V at Trump Plaza, Hulk Hogan beats "Macho Man" Savage |
Apr 2 |
Yanks beat Mets 4-0, sweeping 1989 mayor's trophy series in 2 games |
Apr 3 |
"Sunrise" a Gannett newspaper begins publishing for Bronx |
Apr 3 |
51st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Mich beats Seton Hall 80-79 (OT) |
Apr 3 |
Mets win 11th consecutive home opener 8-4 over St Louis at Shea Stad |
Apr 4 |
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's last NBA game in Seattle |
Apr 4 |
NY Yankee Tommy John ties record of playing 26 seasons, his 287th win puts him 19th overall as Yanks beat Twins on opening day 4-2 |
Apr 5 |
David Letterman becomes 1st network TV series to use dolby stereo |
Apr 5 |
Orel Hershiser ends his 59 consecutive scoreless pitched inning streak |
Apr 5 |
Solidarity grants legal status in Poland |
Apr 6 |
Orel Hershiser ends his record 59 consecutive scoreless streak |
Apr 7 |
Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths |
Apr 7 |
NY Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from SD Yacht Club for using a catamaran against NZ. Appeals court eventually overrules |
Apr 8 |
1-handed pitcher Jim Abbott debut but lasts only 4 2/3 inn |
Apr 9 |
53rd Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 283 |
Apr 9 |
Mike Tyson strikes a parking attendant when asked to move his car |
Apr 9 |
Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Red Robin Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic |
Apr 9 |
Rickey Henderson steals his 800th career base in NY's 4-3 loss to Clev |
Apr 9 |
Scott Hoch chokes on 18 inch putt & loses Masters golf tournament |
Apr 9 |
Wash DC march supporting 1973 Roe vs Wade decision (allow abortions) |
Apr 10 |
10th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
Apr 10 |
24th Academy of Country Music Awards: Hank Williams Jr, Alabama |
Apr 10 |
Intel corp announces shipment of 80-486 chip |
Apr 10 |
H J Heinz, Van Camp Seafood & Bumble Bee Seafood say they would not buy tuna caught in nets that also trap dolphins |
Apr 11 |
1st playoff goal scored by a goalie, Ron Hextall of Philadelphia |
Apr 11 |
Flyers, scores short-handed into an empty net beating Caps 8-5 |
Apr 12 |
3rd Soul Train Music Awards: Anita Baker, Bobby Brown win |
Apr 12 |
Peter Ueberroth deal to purchase Eastern Airlines falls through |
Apr 13 |
"Welcome to the Club" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 12 perfs |
Apr 14 |
1,100,000,000th Chinese born |
Apr 14 |
In the Iran-Contra trial, Oliver North's case goes to the jury |
Apr 15 |
96 crushed to death at Hillsborough Football Stadium, Sheffield England |
Apr 15 |
Students in Beijing pro-democracy protests |
Apr 15 |
Sue Marchiano wins 3rd World Cup female marathon (2:30:48) |
Apr 15 |
Then largest lottery in North America ($69M) drawn in Illinois |
Apr 16 |
1st Seniors Golf Tradition: Don Bies wins |
Apr 16 |
Berendrechtsluis opens in Antwerp, biggest flood lock in world |
Apr 16 |
Costa Rica beats US 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup |
Apr 16 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA AI Star/Centinela Hospital Golf Classic |
Apr 16 |
Zeleka Metaferia wins 3rd World Cup marathon (2:10:28) |
Apr 17 |
18th Boston Women's Marath won by Ingrid Kristiansen of Nor in 2:24:33 |
Apr 17 |
93rd Boston Marathon won by Abebe Mekonen of Ethiopia in 2:09:06 |
Apr 17 |
Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $245 per week |
Apr 17 |
Polish labor union granted legal status |
Apr 17 |
Soviet-US agreement allows Soviets to fight US pros |
Apr 18 |
Zimbabwe gains independence |
Apr 19 |
Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors |
Apr 19 |
Kevin Elster (NY Mets), sets errorless shortstop mark at 73 |
Apr 19 |
Republic Day in Sierra Leone |
Apr 21 |
George W Bush & Edward W Rose become CEO of Texas Rangers |
Apr 21 |
Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom |
Apr 22 |
"Welcome to the Club" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 12 perfs |
Apr 23 |
Betsy King wins LPGA USX Golf Classic |
Apr 23 |
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar plays his last game as a Laker |
Apr 23 |
Nolan Ryan blows a no hitter in 9th inning |
Apr 23 |
Students in Beijing China announce class boycotts |
Apr 24 |
10s of thousands of students strikes in Beijing China |
Apr 24 |
Massachusetts declares today "New Kids on the Block Day" |
Apr 25 |
Mike Tyson gets a speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany NY |
Apr 25 |
Penguin Mario Lemuix ties NHL playoff record of 4 goals in 1st period |
Apr 26 |
AT&T announces NJ's 201 area code will split into 908 & 201 |
Apr 26 |
Mike Tyson is ticketed for driving 71 MPH in 30 mile zone in Albany |
Apr 27 |
"Starmites" opens at Criter Ctr SR Theater NYC for 60 performances |
Apr 27 |
Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China |
Apr 27 |
Hurricane in Bangladesh, kills 500 |
Apr 27 |
Mandatory seatbelt law goes into effect in Italy |
Apr 28 |
Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money |
Apr 28 |
Iran protests sale of "Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie |
Apr 29 |
2nd government of Lubbers falls |
Apr 30 |
Critics Siskel & Ebert film their 500th TV movie-review show |
Apr 30 |
Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic |
Apr 30 |
Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo of Madagascar |
Apr 30 |
US beats Costa Rica 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup |
May 1 |
135 acre Disney's MGM studio officially opens to public |
May 1 |
Jockey Chris Antley ends record of 64 consecutive winning days |
May 1 |
US Supreme Court rules employees have legal burden to prove non- discriminatory reasons for not hiring or promoting |
May 4 |
Junior Felix of Toronto becomes 53rd to hit HR on 1st at bat |
May 4 |
US launches Magellan to Venus |
May 4 |
US space shuttle STS-30 launched |
May 5 |
Mike Tyson gets 2nd speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany NY |
May 6 |
115th Kentucky Derby: Pat Valenzuela on Sunday Silence wins in 2:05 |
May 7 |
Juli Inkster wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic |
May 7 |
Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 mins in Nepal at 21,030 feet |
May 7 |
Panamanian voters reject dictator Manuel Noriega's bid for presidency |
May 8 |
Paul McCartney releases remake of "Ferry Cross the Mersey" in aid of those affected by the Hillsborough disaster, which claimed the lives of 95 Liverpool football fans |
May 8 |
US space shuttle STS-30 lands |
May 9 |
"Saratina!" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 597 performances |
May 9 |
Journalist petition Chinese government for freedom of press |
May 9 |
NY Mets Kevin Elster, errors after 88 errorless games at shortstop |
May 9 |
NY Mets Rick Cerone, errors after 159 errorless games as catcher |
May 9 |
VP Quayle say in United Negro College Fund speech: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind" instead of "a mind is terrible thing to waste" |
May 10 |
FC Barcelona wins 29th Europe Cup II |
May 10 |
Gen Manuel Noriega's government nullifies country's elections, which the opposition had won by a 3-1 margin |
May 11 |
217th & final episode of "Dynasty" is aired |
May 11 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
May 11 |
Kenya announces worldwide ban on ivory to preserve its elephant herds |
May 11 |
President Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panama |
May 12 |
"Entertainment Tonight" makes 2,000th TV performance |
May 12 |
Last graffiti covered NYC subway car retired |
May 12 |
Retired Brit pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists |
May 13 |
Approx 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China |
May 13 |
Minn Twin Kirby Puckett becomes 35th to hit 4 doubles in a game |
May 13 |
Trinidad & Tobago ties US 1-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup |
May 14 |
1st Tour de Trump bicycle race run (Atlanta) |
May 14 |
1st time since 1948 a player hit 6 consecutive doubles (Kirby Puckett) |
May 14 |
Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic |
May 14 |
Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen square |
May 14 |
Final TV episode of "Family Ties" airs |
May 14 |
Moonlighting, TV Crime Drama last airs on ABC |
May 15 |
"Chu Chem" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 44 performances |
May 15 |
Blue Jays fire manager Jimy Williams & replace him with Cito Gaston |
May 15 |
Soviet Pres Gorbachev in Beijing for 1st Sino-Soviet summit in 30 yrs |
May 15 |
US Basketball League cancels its summer schedule |
May 15 |
Maxwell House coffee runs ads during "Roe vs Wade" movie despite threat of boycott by right-to-lifers |
May 16 |
Soviet president Mikhail S Gorbachev & Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing |
May 17 |
Longest Cab Ride Ever: 14,000 miles cost $16,000! |
May 17 |
Napoli wins 18th UEFA Cup in Stuttgart |
May 17 |
Nelson Mandela receives a BA from University of South Africa |
May 19 |
Dow Jones Avg passes 2,500 mark for 1st time, closes at 2,501.1 |
May 19 |
Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas |
May 20 |
115th Preakness: Pat Valenzuela aboard Sunday Silence wins in 1:53.8 |
May 20 |
China declares martial law in Beijing |
May 20 |
Toonces The Cat takes the wheel on Saturday Night Live |
May 20 |
Walter McConnel, 57, is oldest to reach 27,000' Mt Everest top |
May 21 |
35th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez |
May 23 |
3rd American Comedy Award: Paula Poundstone |
May 23 |
Angela Visser, 22, of Holland, crowned 38th Miss Universe |
May 23 |
Lincoln Square in Bronx named |
May 23 |
Cleve loses & drop to 21-22, this is the latest a sub .500 team is in 1st place (AL East) |
May 24 |
"Indiana Jones & Last Crusade" premieres |
May 24 |
AC Milan wins 34th Europe Cup 1 at Barcelona |
May 24 |
French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice |
May 24 |
NHL's NY Rangers fire GM & coach Phil Esposito |
May 24 |
Weird Al Yankovic records his UHF soundtrack |
May 24 |
NY Yankee hurler Lee Gutterman sets record of pitching 30-2/3 innings before giving up his 1st run of season |
May 24 |
Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper, is awarded £600,000 in damages after winning a libel action against satyrical magazine Private Eye (later reduced to £60,000 on appeal) . |
May 25 |
Eastern Airlines graduates it 1st class of non-union pilots |
May 25 |
Mariners trade Mark Langston to Montreal for Randy Johnson |
May 25 |
Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union |
May 25 |
Stanley Cup: Calgary Flames beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 2 |
May 25 |
Weird Al Yankovic records "She Drives Like Crazy" |
May 26 |
At 7:42 AM, radio has a 30 2nd silence, honoring radio |
May 26 |
Danish parliament allows same-sex marriage |
May 26 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 28 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
May 28 |
Indianapolis 500: Emerson Fittipaldi wins |
May 29 |
Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt, 39, retires |
May 29 |
Student protesters in China construct a replica of Statue of Liberty |
May 30 |
Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house |
May 31 |
"Rambling with Gambling" 20,000th radio program on WOR-AM (NYC) |
May 31 |
1st International Rock Awards |
May 31 |
1st presentation of rock n roll Elvis awards |
May 31 |
Speaker of US House of Representatives Jim Wright resigns |
Jun 1 |
62nd National Spelling Bee: Scott Isaacs wins spelling spoliator |
Jun 2 |
"Dead Poets Society" starring Robin Williams premieres |
Jun 2 |
14 year old Scott Isaacs spells spoliator to win 1989 Spelling Bee |
Jun 2 |
Cincinnati Red Eric Davis hits for cycle |
Jun 2 |
10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing |
Jun 3 |
Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing |
Jun 3 |
Houston Astros beat LA Dodgers, 5-4, in 22 innings (7:14:09) |
Jun 3 |
Leaking pipe in Asha, USSR, causes 2 trains to catch fire; 460 die |
Jun 3 |
Nolan Ryan pitches his 2nd one-hitter this season & 11th overall |
Jun 3 |
Sportscasting legend Vin Scully broadcasts 23 innings in two different cities on one day |
Jun 4 |
2nd Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $770,000 |
Jun 4 |
43rd Tony Awards: Heidi Chronicles & Jerome Robbin's Broadway win |
Jun 4 |
Beijing policeman shoots & wounds Chinese priemer Li Ping |
Jun 4 |
Eastern Europe's 1st partial free elections in 40 years held in Poland, Solidarity Party comes to power |
Jun 4 |
Gas explodes near 2 passenger trains in USSR, kills 100s |
Jun 4 |
Largest parade in Bronx history honors 350th anniversary |
Jun 4 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
Jun 4 |
Red Sox lead Blue Jays 10-0 in 7th, but lose 12-11 in 12 for Blue Jays 12th consecutive victory at Fenway |
Jun 4 |
Tiananmen Square Massacre: Chinese troops clear the square of student protesters, unofficial figures place death toll near 1,000. |
Jun 5 |
23rd Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton & Randy Travis |
Jun 5 |
Billy Smith, last original NY Islander, retires |
Jun 5 |
Paul McCartney releases "Flowers in the Dirt" |
Jun 5 |
Toronto Blue Jays Skydome stadium opens, Milwaukee Brewers win 5-3 |
Jun 6 |
Mets turn their 1st triple play in 7 years but lose to Cubs 8-4 |
Jun 7 |
23 year old olympic barefoot South African runner Zola Budd retires |
Jun 7 |
Atlanta Fulton County Comm approves $210M stadium for the Falcons |
Jun 7 |
For one second this morning, the time is 01:23:45, 6-7-89 |
Jun 7 |
Suriname SLM-173 (DC-8) crashes near Paramaribo Airport killing 173 |
Jun 7 |
Wayne Gretzky wins his 9th NHL Hart (MVP) Trophy in 10 years |
Jun 7 |
1st Baseball game to start outdoors & end indoors, as Toronto Blue Jays stadium closes roof during game at 8:48, & beat Brewers 4-2 |
Jun 8 |
Pirates score 10 in 1st (their best inning since 1942), prompts Pirate broadcaster Jim Rooker to say he would walk from Pitts to Phila if Pirates lost, Phillies beat them 15-11, Rooker walks at end of season |
Jun 9 |
"Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" premieres in USA |
Jun 9 |
Barry Switzer resigns as head coach of Oklahoma's football |
Jun 9 |
Michael Chang's French Open tennis win makes him youngest male to go to finals |
Jun 9 |
Rare tornado in Philadelphia kills 1 |
Jun 10 |
"Tales From The Crypt" TV Anthology debuts on HBO |
Jun 10 |
121st Belmont: Pat Day aboard Easy Goer wins in 2:26 |
Jun 10 |
59th French Womens Tennis Open: A Sanchez Vicario beats S Graf (7-6 3-6 7-5) favored Steffi Graf, also 1st Spaniard to win a grand slam title |
Jun 11 |
59th French Mens Tennis: Michael Chang beats S Edberg (61 36 46 64 62) |
Jun 11 |
7th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Orville Moody |
Jun 11 |
Robin Hood 16 wins LPGA Planters Pat Bradley Points Golf International |
Jun 12 |
"Doctor Doctor," TV Comedy starring Matt Frewer, debuts on CBS-TV |
Jun 12 |
Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids |
Jun 13 |
43rd NBA Championship: Detroit Pistons sweeps LA Lakers in 4 games |
Jun 13 |
Houston's Terry Puhl plays in his 1,403rd game (most by a Canadian) |
Jun 13 |
Jerry Lee Lewis gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame |
Jun 14 |
Ground breaking begins in Minn on world's largest mall |
Jun 14 |
Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams |
Jun 14 |
Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II (honorary knighthood) |
Jun 14 |
Singer-songwriter Carol King gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame |
Jun 14 |
Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slaping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman |
Jun 15 |
Balt Orioles pull their 9th triple play (vs Yankees) |
Jun 16 |
"Ghostbusters II" premieres |
Jun 16 |
Funeral for Imre Nagg, leader of Hungarian uprising in 1956 |
Jun 16 |
Only 17 hole-in-ones recorded since US open began, today 4 more are made all on 6th hole (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate & Price) |
Jun 17 |
US beats Guatemala 2-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup |
Jun 18 |
"Starmites" closes at Criter Ctr SR Theater NYC after 60 performances |
Jun 18 |
89th US Golf Open: Curtis Strange shoots a 278 at Oak Hill CC NY |
Jun 18 |
Comet Churyunov-Gerasimenko at perihelion |
Jun 18 |
Laura Davies wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
Jun 19 |
Mets Dwight Gooden wins his 100th game (100-37) |
Jun 21 |
Carlton Fisk becomes AL catcher HR hitter, 307th at Yankee stadium |
Jun 21 |
Supreme Court rules ok to burn US flag as a political expression |
Jun 21 |
Yankees trade Rickey Henderson to A's for Plunk, Cadaret & Polonia |
Jun 22 |
Business Day reports that SA is about to test an intermediate range ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads |
Jun 23 |
Movie "Batman" premieres |
Jun 24 |
Cards Vince Coleman steals record 39th & 40th consecutive bases |
Jun 25 |
"Day By Day" last airs on NBC-TV |
Jun 25 |
1st US postmark dedicated to Lesbian & Gay Pride (Stonewall, NYC) |
Jun 25 |
Betsy King wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
Jun 25 |
Mets' defense does not record a single assist in a 5-1 win over Phils |
Jun 26 |
Canada updates coins with a new potrait of the Queen |
Jun 26 |
Supreme Court rules 16 year olds can receive death penalty |
Jun 29 |
Emmy 16th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 10th time |
Jun 29 |
The National Party adopts a five year programme of its objectives which included a political "reform" plan to give South Africa's Black majority a role in national as well as local government spheres; the African National Congress (ANC) said that it would consider nothing less than a one-man, one-vote system |
Jun 30 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Theatre Muzyczyny, Gdynia |
Jun 30 |
US Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK |
Jun 30 |
Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl |
Jun 30 |
NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile & Guam |
Jun 30 |
NY State Legislature passes Staten Island secession bill |
Jun 30 |
Sudan suspends interim constitution following coup |
Jul 1 |
NFL owners vote unanimously to form WLAF |
Jul 1 |
Yanks beat Milwaukee Brewers 4-1, score is changed to 5-1 after game is over. Umpire rules Roberto Kelly scored before a double-play |
Jul 2 |
10th US Seniors Golf Open: Orville Moody |
Jul 2 |
17th du Maurier Golf Classic: Tammie Green |
Jul 3 |
Peter Koech of Kenya sets 3k steeplechase rec (8:05.39) in Stockholm |
Jul 3 |
US Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions |
Jul 3 |
The movie "Batman" set record of quickest $100 million (10 days) |
Jul 4 |
14 year old actress Drew Barrymore, attempts suicide |
Jul 4 |
Unmanned Russian Mig-23 crashes in Bellegem-Kooigem, Belgium (1 dies) |
Jul 4 |
Red's Tom Browning is 3 outs away from his 2nd career perfect game when Phillie Dickie Thon doubles |
Jul 5 |
Barry Bond's HR sets father-son (Bobby) HR record at 408 |
Jul 5 |
Mark McGwire's gets 100th HR, 2nd fastest (1400 at bats) (to Kiner) |
Jul 5 |
Rod Stewart hits his head while on stage & knocks himself out |
Jul 5 |
South African President Pieter Botha visits ANC leader Nelson Mandela |
Jul 5 |
Toronto Blue Jays are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win AL East |
Jul 6 |
Despite retiring May 29, Mike Schmidt elected to start All Star game |
Jul 6 |
US marshals & FCC seize pirate radio station WHOT in Brooklyn |
Jul 8 |
Carlos Saul Menum becomes president of Argentina |
Jul 8 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jul 9 |
103rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: B Becker beats Stefan Edberg (60 76 64) |
Jul 9 |
96th Wimbledon Women's Tennis Open: S Graf beats M Navratilova (6-2 6-7 6-1) |
Jul 9 |
Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
Jul 9 |
Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others. |
Jul 10 |
Paula Ivan runs female world record 1 mile (4:15.61) |
Jul 11 |
60th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim All star MVP: Bo Jackson (KC Royals) |
Jul 11 |
President Ronald Reagan sportscasts All Star Game |
Jul 12 |
NY Yankee pitching great Ron Guidry retires (170-91 .651, 3.29 ERA) |
Jul 14 |
16th James Bond movies "Licence to Kill" premieres |
Jul 16 |
44th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy King |
Jul 16 |
South Africa's largest labour federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, holds its third annual congress and intensifies its campaign against apartheid |
Jul 17 |
1st Test flight of US stealth-bomber |
Jul 17 |
Paul McCartney releases "This One" |
Jul 17 |
Reds reliever Kent Tekulve retires after 1,070 appearances |
Jul 18 |
48 cm rainfall at Rockport, West Virginia (state record) |
Jul 19 |
Cleveland Indians Joe Carter has his 4th 3 HR game |
Jul 19 |
United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112 |
Jul 20 |
93°F, highest overnight low ever recorded in Phoenix Arizona |
Jul 20 |
Burma government puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest |
Jul 20 |
Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's show opens at Washington, D.C.'s Project for the Arts after the Smithsonian Institution's Corcoran Gallery cancels it. |
Jul 21 |
Eastern Airlines submits a reorganization plan to creditors |
Jul 21 |
Greg LeMond (US) wins Tour de France in fastest time |
Jul 21 |
Mike Tyson KOs Carl Williams in 1:33 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jul 22 |
Kristin Huxhold, 18, of Missouri, crowned America's Junior Miss |
Jul 23 |
118th British Golf Open: Mark Calcavecchia shoots a 275 at Royal Troon |
Jul 23 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
Jul 23 |
FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC & CBS for 1st time (America's Most Wanted) |
Jul 23 |
Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith, Arkansas |
Jul 24 |
Paula Gwynn, 22, crowned 21st Miss Black America |
Jul 25 |
Brandi Sherwood of Idaho crowned 7th Miss Teen USA |
Jul 27 |
Atlanta Brave Dale Murphy is 10th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th) |
Jul 28 |
Braves Dale Murphy, hits 2 3-run HRs in an inning, 14th man to hit 2 HRs in an inning. Also ties record of 6 RBIs in an inning |
Jul 28 |
Cards' Vince Coleman is caught stealing ends record streak at 50 |
Jul 28 |
NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleve, announce new high-temperature superconductors able to operate at 33 to 37 Gigahertz |
Jul 29 |
Javier Sotomayor of Cuba sets high jump record (8'0") in San Juan |
Jul 29 |
Phillies retire Steve Carlton's # 32 |
Jul 29 |
Vince Coleman, record streak stopped at 50 straight stolen bases |
Jul 29 |
White Sox trade Harold Baines to Rangers for Scott Fletcher & Sam Sosa |
Jul 30 |
Chile amends its constitution |
Jul 30 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic |
Jul 31 |
Twins trade AL Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola to Mets |
Aug 1 |
Australia take 3-0 series lead over England to regain Cricket Ashes |
Aug 2 |
NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24 |
Aug 3 |
5th jockey to win 6,000 races (Jorge Valesquez) |
Aug 3 |
Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river |
Aug 3 |
Rickey Henderson sets AL mark of 50 steals in 9 seasons |
Aug 3 |
Cin Reds send record 20 men to bat with a record 16 hits in 1 inning as they score 14 runs in 1st inning |
Aug 4 |
Blue Jays Dave Steib's perfect game broken up in 9th with 2 outs by NY Yankee Roberto Kelly |
Aug 5 |
General elections are held in Nicaragua with the Sandinista Front winning a majority. |
Aug 6 |
"Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 5959 performances |
Aug 6 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open |
Aug 6 |
Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8 |
Aug 6 |
Jaime Paz Zamora inaugurated as president of Bolivia |
Aug 6 |
Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines |
Aug 6 |
Twenty former South African political prisoners, in defiance of the restriction orders, launch a campaign against apartheid laws |
Aug 7 |
U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia. |
Aug 8 |
US space shuttle STS-28 launched |
Aug 10 |
A's bat out of order against White Sox in 3rd inning |
Aug 10 |
Australia 0-301 at end of day one, 5th Test Cricket at Trent Bridge |
Aug 11 |
"Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child" premieres |
Aug 11 |
Geoff Marsh & Mark Taylor complete 329 opening stand v England |
Aug 11 |
Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune |
Aug 13 |
2 hot-air balloons crash at Alice Springs, Australia, 13 killed |
Aug 13 |
71st PGA Championship: Payne Stewart shoots 276 at Kemper Lakes GC Ill |
Aug 13 |
US space shuttle STS-28 lands |
Aug 14 |
President Pieter W Botha of South Africa, resigns |
Aug 15 |
Frederik de Klerk becomes president of South Africa |
Aug 15 |
Giorgio Lamberti swims world record 200m free style (1:46.69) |
Aug 15 |
US Venus probe Magellan launched from Space shuttle |
Aug 15 |
In 2nd start since after cancer treatment, Giants Dave Dravecky breaks his pitching arm while throwing to Tim Raines |
Aug 16 |
Roger Kingdom of USA sets 110m hurdle record (12.92) in Zurich |
Aug 16 |
A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market. |
Aug 17 |
32nd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 12½-11½ |
Aug 17 |
Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken moves into 3rd place (1,208th cons game) |
Aug 18 |
Arturo Barrios of Mexico sets 10K record (27:08.23) in Berlin |
Aug 18 |
Bucky Dent replaces Dallas Green as NY Yankee manager |
Aug 18 |
Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia. |
Aug 19 |
Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist president of Poland |
Aug 20 |
Dredger "Bow Belle" collides with pleasure boat "Marchioness" on the River Thames in central London; the "Marchioness" sinks in 30 seconds, drowning 51 |
Aug 20 |
Howard Johnson joins Barry Bonds & Willie Mays to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases |
Aug 20 |
Janet B Evans swims female world record 800m freestyle (8:16.22) |
Aug 20 |
Said Aouita runs world record 3,000 m (7:29.45) |
Aug 21 |
Voyager 2 begins a flyby of planet Neptune |
Aug 22 |
1st complete ring around Neptune discovered |
Aug 22 |
Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson) |
Aug 23 |
LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings (Rick Dempsey HR) |
Aug 23 |
Lewis/Everett/Burrell/Heard run world record 4x200 m (1:19.38) |
Aug 24 |
British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain |
Aug 24 |
Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling |
Aug 24 |
Voyager 2 flies past Neptune |
Aug 25 |
After 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloudtops of Neptune & its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps |
Aug 25 |
Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary. |
Aug 26 |
Trumbull Conn, is 1st US team since 1983 to win Little League WS |
Aug 27 |
100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings |
Aug 27 |
89th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Chris Patton |
Aug 27 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship |
Aug 27 |
Tina Barrett wins LPGA Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State Golf Open |
Aug 28 |
1st regular-season matchup of defending Cy Young Award winners |
Aug 28 |
Frank Viola & Mets outduel Orel Hershiser & Dodgers 1-0 |
Aug 31 |
Aeromexico DC-9 collides over LA, 82 die (15 on the ground) |
Aug 31 |
Arbitrator T Roberts orders owners to pay $105 million for collusion |
Sep 1 |
"Anything Goes" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 804 performances |
Sep 1 |
Princess Anne & Mark Phillips announce their separation |
Sep 2 |
Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst |
Sep 3 |
"Into the Woods" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 764 perfs |
Sep 3 |
Iljushin-62 crashes down on residential area of Havana, 170 die |
Sep 3 |
Chris Evert defeats 15-year-old Monica Seles for her 101st & last US Tennis Open singles victory |
Sep 4 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
Sep 4 |
Jerry Lewis' 24th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $42,737,219 |
Sep 5 |
Chris Evert last US Open match, she is defeated by Zina Garrison |
Sep 5 |
Deborah Norville becomes news anchor of Today Show |
Sep 6 |
6th MTV Awards: Living Colour wins |
Sep 6 |
Amateur Athletic Fed strips Ben Johnson of all track records |
Sep 6 |
Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution |
Sep 8 |
George Brett gets his 2,500th hit |
Sep 8 |
Mausoleum of Beatrice of Brabant (1288) discovered in Kortrijk, Belgium |
Sep 8 |
Norwegian Convair 580 crashes at Jutland in sea (55 murder) |
Sep 9 |
103rd US Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (3-6 7-5 6-1) |
Sep 10 |
109th US Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (76 16 63 76) |
Sep 10 |
5 days after hitting a HR for Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Mariners |
Sep 10 |
Browns allow Pittsburgh only 53 net yards, a team defensive record |
Sep 10 |
East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary & Czechoslovakia) |
Sep 10 |
Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship |
Sep 10 |
Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown, the first in his career |
Sep 11 |
Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud |
Sep 11 |
KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa changes call letters to KGGO |
Sep 12 |
Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation |
Sep 13 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Fisher Theatre, Detroit |
Sep 13 |
Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa |
Sep 13 |
Fay Vincent elected baseball's 8th commissioner |
Sep 14 |
Calgary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2 |