Notable Historical Events - 1991
1991 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
5% sales tax on consumer goods & services goes into effect in USSR |
Jan 1 |
Iraq rejects peace proposal from Egyptian Pres Hosi Mubarak |
Jan 1 |
Les Miserables opens at Festival Theatre, Adelaide |
Jan 2 |
Colorado wins its 1st AP national title poll |
Jan 3 |
Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years |
Jan 3 |
LA King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against NY Islanders |
Jan 4 |
AT&T workers in Newark accidentally snap a cable |
Jan 4 |
Fu Mingxia, 12, of China wins World Swimming Championships gold medal |
Jan 4 |
Iraq agrees to send Aziz to Geneva to meet Baker on Jan 9th |
Jan 4 |
Jan Krzystof Bielecki becomes premier of Poland |
Jan 5 |
"Oh, Kay!" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 77 performances |
Jan 5 |
Edwin Jongejans of Neth wins 1-meter springboard diving title |
Jan 5 |
Kevin Bradshaw of US Intl scores NCAA Div 1 record 72 pts |
Jan 6 |
"Gypsy" closes at St James Theater NYC after 477 performances |
Jan 6 |
"Real Life With Jane Pauley" premieres on NBC-TV |
Jan 6 |
Jorge Serrano Elias elected president of Guatemala |
Jan 6 |
Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 sec) |
Jan 7 |
"Nia Peeples Party Machine" premieres on TV |
Jan 7 |
Saddam Hussein prepares his troops for what he says will be a long violent war against the US |
Jan 8 |
"Davis Rules," with Jonathan Winters & Randy Quaid premieres on ABC-TV |
Jan 8 |
Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins & Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame |
Jan 8 |
Rod Carew is 22nd player elected to Hall of Fame on 1st try |
Jan 8 |
Tamas Darnyi swims world record 400m medley (4:12.36) |
Jan 9 |
Baker & Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse gulf crisis |
Jan 9 |
Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame |
Jan 9 |
Dean Smith of NC is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games |
Jan 10 |
Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans |
Jan 10 |
US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis |
Jan 11 |
Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq |
Jan 11 |
Ric Flair wins NWA/WCW wrestling title |
Jan 11 |
Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence |
Jan 11 |
Ben Johnson 1st race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished 2nd |
Jan 12 |
Largest crowd to watch Atlantic Coast Womens Basketball game (11,520) |
Jan 12 |
Melvin Stewart swims world record 200 m butterfly (1:55.69) |
Jan 12 |
US Congress gives George Bush authority to wage war against Iraq |
Jan 13 |
12th ACE Cable Awards: Weather Channel wins the Golden CableACE for the coverage of the hurricane "Hugo" |
Jan 13 |
42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg, South Africa |
Jan 13 |
Phil Mickelson wins PGA Northern Telecom Golf Open |
Jan 13 |
Pres Mario Soares of Portugal re-elected |
Jan 13 |
Soccer stadium riot in Orkney, South Africa, at least 40 die |
Jan 13 |
UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam |
Jan 14 |
"Barbara DeAngelis Show" premieres on CBS-TV |
Jan 14 |
Jorge Serrano Elias sworn in as president of Guatemala |
Jan 14 |
Tyne Daly arrested for drunk driving in Van Nuys, Calif |
Jan 14 |
Valentin Pavlov become new premier of USSR |
Jan 15 |
Australia beat NZ 2-0 to win the World Series Cup |
Jan 15 |
UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't) |
Jan 16 |
7th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins |
Jan 16 |
US & 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait (US time) |
Jan 17 |
Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles on Israel |
Jan 17 |
Mountie Jacques Rougeau beats Hart for WWF intercontinental title |
Jan 17 |
Operation Desert Storm begins-US led allies vs Iraq |
Jan 17 |
Operation Desert Storm: 1st US pilot shot down (Jeffrey Zahn) |
Jan 17 |
Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V. |
Jan 18 |
Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel |
Jan 18 |
US acknowledges CIA & US Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career |
Jan 18 |
WLAF's NY Knights become NY-NJ Knights |
Jan 18 |
Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 hours & 11 mins |
Jan 18 |
Eastern Air Lines goes out of business after 62 years, citing financial problems. |
Jan 19 |
42nd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 11-5 at Chicago |
Jan 19 |
48th Golden Globes: Dances with Wolves |
Jan 19 |
Eastern Airlines shuts down operation |
Jan 19 |
Jumbo Tsuruta beats Stan Hansen to win All Japan Triple Crown title |
Jan 19 |
Sgt Slaughter defeats Ultimate Warrior for WWF championship belt |
Jan 20 |
"Black & Blue" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 829 performances |
Jan 20 |
"Les Miserables," opens at Pantages Theatre, LA |
Jan 20 |
"Peter Pan" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC or 45 performances |
Jan 20 |
"Shogun - The Musical" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 72 perfs |
Jan 20 |
13th UCP Telethon |
Jan 20 |
Buffalo Bills beat LA Raiders 51-3 for AFC title |
Jan 20 |
Jane Geddes wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic |
Jan 20 |
US Patriot missiles begins shooting down Iraqi missiles |
Jan 20 |
Matt Barr's field goal with no time left gives NY Giant 15-13 Victory over defending champs SF 49ers, for NFC title |
Jan 20 |
Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south. |
Jan 21 |
CBS News correspondant Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf |
Jan 22 |
Gulf War. Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart attacks. |
Jan 22 |
Kuwaiti oil facilities are destroyed by Iraq and more Iraqi missile attacks on Saudi Arabia |
Jan 23 |
"seinfeld" debuts on NBC-TV |
Jan 23 |
World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait |
Jan 24 |
"Les Miserables," opens at Theatre St Denis, Montreal |
Jan 25 |
Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 50 goals in less than 50 games (49) |
Jan 25 |
Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by US government |
Jan 25 |
Mark Waugh scores ton in 1st Test Cricket innings, v England Adelaide |
Jan 25 |
Soap opera "Generation's" last episode after a 2½ year run |
Jan 26 |
"Few Good Men" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 497 performances |
Jan 26 |
65th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats J Novotna (57 63 61) |
Jan 26 |
Alfaro Vive guerrilla group of Ecuador gives arms to Catholic church |
Jan 26 |
Houston guard Vernon Maxwell is 4th NBAer to score 30 pts in a quarter |
Jan 26 |
Jan Stenerud becomes 1st pure placekicker to make NFL Hall of Fame |
Jan 26 |
NY Lotto pays $90 million to nine winner (#s are 5-15-30-35-46-50) |
Jan 27 |
79th Australian Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (1-6, 6-4. 6-4, 6-4) |
Jan 27 |
Dutch Pacifist Socialistic Party disbands |
Jan 27 |
Nadine Strossen is 1st female president of the ACLU |
Jan 27 |
Super Bowl XXV: NY Giants beat Buffalo Bills, 20-19 in Tampa Super Bowl MVP: Ottis Anderson, NY Giants, RB ("Wide Right" |
Jan 28 |
"A Closer Look" with Faith Daniels premieres on NBC-TV |
Jan 28 |
18th American Music Award: M C Hammer & Janet Jackson |
Jan 28 |
Boon completes ninth Test century, 121 v England at Adelaide |
Jan 28 |
Dictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending 22 year rule |
Jan 29 |
"Piano Lesson" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 320 perfs |
Jan 29 |
Nelson Mandela and Mangosuthu Buthelezi meet after 28 years |
Jan 31 |
Nugget's Michael Adams becomes shortest NBAer to get a triple-double |
Jan 31 |
Robert Gibson flies record 27,040 feet altitude |
Feb 1 |
Afghanistan/Pakistan hit by earthquake, 1,200 die |
Feb 1 |
Craig McDermott takes 8-97 v England at the WACA |
Feb 1 |
President F W de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws |
Feb 1 |
US Air & Skywest Fairchild jet collide at LA Airport killing 32 |
Feb 2 |
Aravinda De Silva scores 267 v NZ at Wellington |
Feb 2 |
NH snaps its 32-game losing streak at home beating Holy Cross, 72-56 |
Feb 2 |
US postage is raised from 25 cents to 29 cents |
Feb 2 |
Sting scores his second UK No.1 album with 'The Soul Cages' |
Feb 3 |
Meg Mallon wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic |
Feb 3 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-21 |
Feb 4 |
Hall of Fame's board of directors vote 12-0 to bar Pete Rose |
Feb 4 |
Martin Crowe & Andrew Jones make 467 stand v SL, world record |
Feb 4 |
US postage raises from 25 cents to 29 cents |
Feb 5 |
A Michigan court bars Dr Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides |
Feb 5 |
All American Bowl ends after 14 years |
Feb 5 |
Big East Football conference forms |
Feb 5 |
Joni Mitchell inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame |
Feb 5 |
LA King Dave Taylor becomes 29th NHler to score 1000 points |
Feb 5 |
Howard Stern kisses NY Giant Leonard Marshall's ass over bet, Stern lost claiming the Giants would lose the Superbowl |
Feb 6 |
Mousey Davis becomes 1st coach of NY-NJ Knights |
Feb 7 |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected president |
Feb 7 |
Bob Knight, Larry O'Brien, Tiny Archibald, Dave Cowens, Harry Gallatin & Larry Fleisher elected to NBA Hall of Fame |
Feb 7 |
The IRA launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting. |
Feb 8 |
Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract |
Feb 9 |
"This Is Ponderous" by 2nu peaks at #46 |
Feb 9 |
Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5k (6:41:73) |
Feb 9 |
Terry Norris knocks down Sugar Ray Leonard twice & beats him |
Feb 9 |
US Supreme Court agrees to hear Joseph Doherty case |
Feb 9 |
Wally Joyner wins record $2.1 million salary arbitration |
Feb 10 |
"La Bete" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 24 performances |
Feb 10 |
41st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 116-114 at Charlotte |
Feb 10 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament |
Feb 10 |
Johann Koss skates world record 10 km (13:43.54) |
Feb 10 |
Lithuania votes for independence from USSR |
Feb 10 |
NBA All Star Game at Charlotte NC |
Feb 11 |
UNPO, Unrepresented Nations & People Org forms in Hague Neth |
Feb 12 |
Iceland recognizes Lithuania's independence |
Feb 12 |
North & South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition |
Feb 13 |
Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel |
Feb 13 |
US bombs Iraqi air raid shelter, killing 334 |
Feb 13 |
US air raid on the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad kills more than 408 civilians |
Feb 14 |
"Mule Bone" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 67 performances |
Feb 14 |
NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 mil salary arbitration |
Feb 14 |
"The Silence of the Lambs", starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, is released |
Feb 15 |
Freighter with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand, 120 die |
Feb 15 |
Troy State sets NCAA Div II record with 103 points in 2nd half routing DeVry Institute 187-117 |
Feb 15 |
Daily market volatility as Hussein mentions withdrawal, but Bush calls his offer a "cruel hoax" |
Feb 16 |
Dutch PPR, Political Party Radicals, disbands |
Feb 16 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding |
Feb 17 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge |
Feb 18 |
Edmonton Oiler goalie Grant Fuhr returns to NHL after season-long suspension for substance abuse & shuts out NJ Devils 4-0 |
Feb 20 |
"Taking Steps" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 78 performances |
Feb 20 |
33rd Grammy Awards: Another Day in Paradise, Mariah Carey |
Feb 20 |
A gigantic statue of Albania's long-time dictator, Enver Hoxha, is brought down in the Albanian capital, Tirana, by mobs of angry protesters. |
Feb 21 |
"Lost in Yonkers" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 780 perfs |
Feb 21 |
Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers," premieres in NYC |
Feb 21 |
USSR announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War US calls the plan unacceptable |
Feb 22 |
Bush & US Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hrs to begin Kuwait withdrawal |
Feb 22 |
Kelli McCarty, 21, (Kansas), crowned 40th Miss USA |
Feb 22 |
Test Cricket debut of Sanath Jayasuriya, vs NZ at Hamilton |
Feb 23 |
Greg Haugen scores a split decision over Hector "Macho" Camacho |
Feb 23 |
Military coup in Thailand, Premier Choonhaven arrested |
Feb 23 |
NC is 1st NCAA basketball team to win 1,500 games |
Feb 23 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open |
Feb 23 |
US insists Iraq publicly announce it is leaving Kuwait by 12 PM EST |
Feb 24 |
"Those Were The Days" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 126 perfs |
Feb 24 |
End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft |
Feb 24 |
US & allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops |
Feb 25 |
Andrew Jones scores twin Test Cricket tons v Sri Lanka (122 & 100*) |
Feb 25 |
Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky & John Candy buy CFL's Toronto Argonauts |
Feb 25 |
US, barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by scud missile, kills 28 |
Feb 26 |
Asanka Gurusinha scores twin Test Cricket tons v NZ (119 & 102) |
Feb 26 |
Bill Veeck & Tony Lazzeri elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
Feb 26 |
Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital |
Feb 26 |
NY-NJ Knights (WLAF) players 1st come together |
Feb 26 |
Signs of Iran crude now an option for US refiners, but no imports from Iran likely in near future |
Feb 27 |
Ben Elton's "Silly Cow," premieres in London |
Feb 27 |
Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreat and Kuwait is re-taken by the US |
Feb 27 |
Noureddine Morcelli set 1500m mark at 3:34:16 |
Feb 27 |
Singer James Brown is released from prison |
Feb 28 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Theatre Carre, Amsterdam |
Feb 28 |
"Speed of Darkness" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 36 performances |
Feb 28 |
Don Mattingly named 10th NY Yankee Captain |
Feb 28 |
Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m indoor (3:34:16) |
Feb 28 |
US & allied forces grant Iraq a cease fire |
Feb 28 |
United Nations troops move into Kuwait City and Saddam Hussein orders troops out of Kuwait; Iraqi soldiers ignite Kuwaiti oil fields during their retreat |
Mar 1 |
US Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens |
Mar 2 |
"Aspects of Love" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 377 perfs |
Mar 2 |
"La Bete" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 24 performances |
Mar 2 |
Deb Richard wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
Mar 2 |
Del Ballard Jr throws most famous gutter ball in PBA Tour history |
Mar 2 |
NC State Chris Corchiani becomes 1st NCAAer to get 1,000 assists |
Mar 2 |
UN votes in favor of US resolutions for cease fire with Iraq |
Mar 2 |
Battle at Rumaila Oil Field brings end to the 1991 Gulf War. |
Mar 3 |
"Big Love" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 41 performances |
Mar 3 |
25 die as United Boeing 737 crashes in Colorado Springs |
Mar 3 |
Boon completes 10th Test Cricket century, 109* v WI at Kingston |
Mar 3 |
Iraqi generals & Gen Schwarzkopf meet to discuss cease fire |
Mar 3 |
LA Police severly beat motorist Rodney King, captured on amateur video |
Mar 3 |
Latvia & Estonia vote to become independent of the USSR |
Mar 3 |
Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (22.24 sec) |
Mar 3 |
Miguel Trovoada installed as president of Sao Tomé e Principal |
Mar 3 |
Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18 |
Mar 3 |
United Airlines crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25 |
Mar 4 |
Bank of Credit & Commerce Intl divests itself of 1st American Bank |
Mar 4 |
Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British & 1 Italian POW |
Mar 5 |
Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait |
Mar 5 |
Reggie Miller (Indiana) begins NBA free throw streak of 52 games |
Mar 6 |
Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over" |
Mar 7 |
Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait |
Mar 8 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 8 |
Planeloads of US troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists & 2 American soldiers it captured |
Mar 9 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Lyric Theatre, Brisbane |
Mar 9 |
5th American Comedy Award: Dennis Wolfberg |
Mar 9 |
Joe Dumaars (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 62 games |
Mar 9 |
US 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit |
Mar 10 |
Eddie Sutton is 1st NCAA coach to lead 4 schools into playoffs |
Mar 10 |
Laura Davies wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic |
Mar 10 |
Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg clinches his 4th slalom World Cup |
Mar 10 |
Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 m indoor (22.24 sec) |
Mar 10 |
Rico Lieder/Jens Carlowitz/Karsten Just/Thomas Schonlebe walk 4x400m indoor world record (3:03.05) |
Mar 11 |
17th People's Choice Awards: Mel Gibson & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Kirstie Alley win (TV) |
Mar 11 |
Janet Jackson signs $40M 3 album deal with Virgin records |
Mar 11 |
John Smith, amateur wrestler, wins James E Sullivan Award |
Mar 11 |
Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1 |
Mar 12 |
5th Soul Train Music Awards: Johnny Gill, Mariah Carey win |
Mar 12 |
OPEC announces oil production cut to 22.3 Mbbl/d (3,550,000 m3/d) |
Mar 13 |
Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill |
Mar 13 |
Saudi Arabia and Iran say OPEC oil production cuts will take effect April 1 |
Mar 14 |
Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave |
Mar 14 |
Ice Dance Championship at Munich won by Isabel & Phil Duchesnay (FRA) |
Mar 14 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Munich won by N Mishkutenok & A Dmitriev |
Mar 14 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kurt Browning (CAN) |
Mar 14 |
English Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment |
Mar 15 |
4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney King |
Mar 15 |
Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record 6.14m (20 feet 1 3/4) |
Mar 15 |
Territories of Amapa & Roraima become states in Brazil |
Mar 16 |
7 of Reba McEntire band members are killed in a plane crash |
Mar 16 |
Members of Irish Gay & Lesbian Organization march in NYC parade |
Mar 16 |
NJ Net coach Bill Fitch is 4th coach to win 800 NBA games |
Mar 16 |
NY Lotto pays $33.3 million to one winner (#s are 18-21-32-33-35-38) |
Mar 16 |
Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Munich won by Kristi Yamaguchi |
Mar 17 |
9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty |
Mar 17 |
Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St Patrick Day parade |
Mar 17 |
John Robin Baitz' "Substance of Fire" premieres in NYC |
Mar 17 |
NJ raises turnpike tolls 70% |
Mar 17 |
Penny Hammel wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International |
Mar 18 |
Mike Tyson beats Razor Ruddock in the 7th round |
Mar 18 |
Phila '76ers retires Wilt Chamberlain's #13 jersey |
Mar 18 |
Reggie Miller (Indiana) ends NBA free throw streak of 52 games |
Mar 19 |
KC Royals announce they are putting Bo Jackson on waivers |
Mar 19 |
Sacramento Kings set NBA record of 29 consecutive road loses |
Mar 19 |
St Louis Blues Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 80 goals in a season |
Mar 19 |
NFL owners strip Phoenix of 1993 Super Bowl game due to Arizona Not recognizing Martin Luther King Day |
Mar 19 |
Gorbachev says the Soviet Union will cut its oil exports by nearly half |
Mar 20 |
Court awards Peggy Lee $3 million in suit against Disney |
Mar 20 |
Michael Jackson signs $65M 6 album deal with Sony records |
Mar 20 |
Supreme Court rules unanimously employers can't exclude women from jobs where exposure to toxic chemicals could potentially damage fetus |
Mar 20 |
US forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland |
Mar 21 |
27 lost at sea when 2 US Navy anti-submarine planes collide |
Mar 21 |
Largest wrestling crowd in Japan (64,500) at Tokyo Dome |
Mar 21 |
Tatsumi Fujinami beats Ric Flair for NWA wrestling championship |
Mar 21 |
UN Security Council panel decided to lift the food embargo on Iraq |
Mar 22 |
Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at U of Va seizing drugs |
Mar 22 |
NY Daily News begins using motto "Forward with NY" |
Mar 22 |
Pamela Smart (HS teacher) found guilty in NH of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband |
Mar 23 |
20 Tornadoes kill 5 in Tennessee |
Mar 23 |
Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.12m) |
Mar 23 |
1st World League of American Football games, London beats Frankfurt 24-11, Sacramento beats Raleigh-Dur 9-3 & Mont beats Birmingham 20-5 |
Mar 24 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago |
Mar 24 |
11th Golden Raspberry Awards: Ford Fairlane & Ghosts Can't Do It wins |
Mar 24 |
Barcelona Dragons beat NY/NJ Knights 19-7 in their 1st WLAF game |
Mar 24 |
Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament |
Mar 24 |
Banks reopen in liberated Kuwait |
Mar 24 |
NY Yankees beat NY Mets, 9-3 |
Mar 24 |
Wrestlemania VII in LA, Hulk Hogan pins Sgt Slaughter |
Mar 25 |
63rd Academy Awards - "Dance with Wolves", Kathy Bates & Jeremy Irons win |
Mar 25 |
Allan Border takes 5-68 v WI at Bourda (!), Georgetown |
Mar 25 |
Nigerian crude becomes competitive in US Gulf Coast as Nigeria cuts crude prices |
Mar 26 |
Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street & Lexington Ave, NYC |
Mar 26 |
Marc Camoletti's "Don't Dress for Dinner" premieres in London |
Mar 26 |
Orlando Thunder beats San Antonio Riders in their 1st WLAF game 35-34 |
Mar 26 |
Victoria beat NSW by 7 wickets to win Sheffield Shield Final |
Mar 27 |
NCAA bans U of Minn football team from postseason play in 1992 |
Mar 27 |
New Kid Donnie Wahlberg, arrested on arson charges in Kentucky |
Mar 27 |
Scotty Bowman inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a "builder" of the game |
Mar 28 |
Mike Tyson admits paternity to Kimberly Scarborough's son |
Mar 30 |
"Speed of Darkness" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 36 perfs |
Mar 30 |
1st exhibition baseball games at Joe Robbie Stadium (Yanks-Orioles) |
Mar 30 |
Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "VrËœe Folk" (Free People) |
Mar 30 |
Northern Michigan wins its 1st NCAA hockey title |
Mar 30 |
PBA National Championship Won by Mike Miller |
Mar 30 |
William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman (found not guilty) |
Mar 31 |
10th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Virginia 70-67 |
Mar 31 |
20th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott |
Mar 31 |
Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years |
Mar 31 |
Danny Bonaduce attacks a transvestite prostitute in Phoenix Az |
Mar 31 |
Georgian SSR votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union |
Mar 31 |
Musical "Will Rogers Follies" premieres in NYC |
Mar 31 |
Soviet Rep of Georgia endorsed independence; Warsaw Pact dissolves |
Mar 31 |
St Louis Blues Brett Hull scores his 86th goal |
Mar 31 |
The Establishment of Islamic Constitutional Movement - Hadas in Kuwait. |
Apr 1 |
53rd NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: Duke Bluedevils beats Kansas 72-65 |
Apr 1 |
Dwight Gooden signs $5.15 million 3 year contract with NY Mets |
Apr 1 |
Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years |
Apr 1 |
US Supreme Court rules jurors cannot be barred from serving due to race |
Apr 1 |
US minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour |
Apr 1 |
Warsaw Pact officially dissolves |
Apr 2 |
Rotterdam Daily Newspaper begins publishing |
Apr 3 |
"Penn & Teller - Refrigerator Tour" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC |
Apr 3 |
12th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
Apr 3 |
Bo Jackson signs 1-year contract with Chicago White Sox |
Apr 3 |
Thomas Bos skates world record 3 km (3:65.16) |
Apr 3 |
UN Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution |
Apr 4 |
"Lucifer's Child" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 28 performances |
Apr 4 |
Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania. |
Apr 5 |
Joe Dumaars (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 62 games |
Apr 5 |
Kitty Kelly publishes a book knocking Nancy Reagan |
Apr 5 |
Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Georgia, killing 23 |
Apr 5 |
Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) launched |
Apr 5 |
US begins air drops to Kurd refugees in Northern Iraq |
Apr 6 |
Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy |
Apr 6 |
NY-NJ Knights 1st home game (Giant Stad) lose to Frankfurt 27-17 |
Apr 6 |
Subhana, becomes 1st Australian woman to become a Zen teacher |
Apr 6 |
Argentine soocer star Diego Maradona suspended for 15 month by Italian League for testing positive for cocaine use |
Apr 7 |
"Big Love" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 41 performances |
Apr 7 |
"Shadowlands" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 169 perfs |
Apr 7 |
3rd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus |
Apr 7 |
chris johnson wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship |
Apr 7 |
Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth |
Apr 7 |
George Washington Bridge raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00 |
Apr 7 |
Wrestlemania VII scheduled in LA, actually performed 03/24 |
Apr 8 |
"I Hate Hamlet" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 88 performances |
Apr 8 |
Jockey, Bill Shoemaker, paralyzed in a car accident |
Apr 8 |
Major league umpires & baseball reach a 4-year agreement |
Apr 8 |
Michael Landon announces he has inoperable cancer of pancreas |
Apr 8 |
Oakland A's stadium becomes 1st outdoor arena in USA to ban smoking |
Apr 9 |
Georgia SSR votes to secede from USSR |
Apr 10 |
Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138 |
Apr 10 |
LA King Wayne Gretzky scores NHL record 93rd playoff goal |
Apr 10 |
Last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd & 42nd St, NYC) |
Apr 10 |
Martin Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:52.51) |
Apr 10 |
A rare tropical storm develops in the Southern Hemisphere near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites. |
Apr 11 |
"Miss Saigon" opens at Broadway Theater NYC |
Apr 11 |
NYC's Museum of Broadcasting becomes "Museum of Radio & Television" |
Apr 11 |
Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) lands |
Apr 11 |
UN Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration |
Apr 12 |
2,500th episode of Entertainment Tonight airs |
Apr 12 |
Nepalese Congress party wins general elections |
Apr 12 |
US announces closing of 31 major US military bases |
Apr 13 |
BPAA US Open by Pete Weber |
Apr 14 |
"Mule Bone" closes at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC after 67 perfs |
Apr 14 |
"Oh, Kay!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC |
Apr 14 |
55th Golf Masters Championship: Ian Woosnam wins, shooting a 277 |
Apr 14 |
Chic Blackhawks becomes 1st NHL regular season champion in 20 years to lose in 1st round of the playoffs (To Minn North Stars) |
Apr 15 |
"Secret Garden" opens at St James Theater NYC for 706 performances |
Apr 15 |
20th Boston Women's Marathon won by Wanda Panfil of Poland in 2:24:18 |
Apr 15 |
95th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:11:06 |
Apr 15 |
East-Europe Bank forms in London |
Apr 15 |
Europe foreign ministers lift most remaining sanctions against S Afr |
Apr 15 |
Former child actor Adam Rich charged with burglary |
Apr 15 |
Magic Johnson sets NBA record for career assistswith 9,898 |
Apr 15 |
Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $280 per week |
Apr 15 |
Sacramento Kings set NBA record, losing 35th consecutive game on road |
Apr 15 |
Ton Sijbrands improves world record blind checker games (15 wins) |
Apr 16 |
M Leander & E Seago's musical "Matador" premieres in London |
Apr 16 |
St Louis Blues becomes 8th NHL team in Play-off to come back from a 3-1 deficit as they beat the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 in game 7 |
Apr 17 |
Dow Jones closes above 3,000 for 1st time (3,004.46) |
Apr 17 |
Railroad workers go on strike in US |
Apr 18 |
Census Bureau said it failed to count up to 63 million in 1990 census |
Apr 18 |
Congress ends railroad worker 1 day strike |
Apr 18 |
John Stockton breaks his own NBA season assist record at 1,136 |
Apr 19 |
Evander Holyfield beats George Foreman in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
Apr 19 |
Greyhound Bus posts $195 million loss for 1990 |
Apr 20 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Odense Teater, Odense |
Apr 20 |
1st non stop flight Schiphol-Flamingo airport Bonaire |
Apr 20 |
Mark Lenzi is 1st diver to score 100 pts on a dive (101.85) |
Apr 20 |
Raghib "Rocket" Ismael signs with Toronto Argonauts for $26.2 million |
Apr 21 |
52nd PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Jack Nicklaus |
Apr 21 |
Jakov Tolstikov wins 4th World Cup marathon (2:09:17) |
Apr 21 |
Rosa Mota wins 4th World Cup female marathon (2:26:14) |
Apr 21 |
Greatest extra-inning comeback, Pitts scores 6 in bottom of 11th erasing 5 run Cub lead, Pirates also trailed 7-2 in bottom of 9th |
Apr 22 |
Earthquake strikes Costa Rica & Panama, kills 95 |
Apr 22 |
Frank Thomas is 1st White Sox to homer at new Comiskey Park |
Apr 22 |
Intel releases 486SX chip |
Apr 22 |
Johnny Carson announces he will retire next year from Tonight Show |
Apr 22 |
Shalom America (Jewish cable network) is launched in Brooklyn & Queens |
Apr 23 |
Bjorn Borg loses 6-2, 6-3 to Jordi Arrese after 8 year lay off |
Apr 23 |
Gordon Greenidge scores 223 v Aus, his last Test Cricket knock at home |
Apr 23 |
USSR grants republics right to secede under certain conditions |
Apr 24 |
26th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks |
Apr 24 |
Freddie Stowers is awarded the posthumous Medal of Honor for which he had been recommended in 1918. |
Apr 25 |
"Grand Hotel" closes at Beck Theater NYC after 1018 performances |
Apr 25 |
Lisa Olson brings suit against NFL NE Patriots for sexual harassment |
Apr 25 |
Lucy Simon & Marsha Norman's musical premieres in NYC |
Apr 25 |
Iraq expects to resume crude oil and product exports by July |
Apr 26 |
"Dinosaurs" premieres on ABC-TV |
Apr 26 |
23 killed in Kansas & Oklahoma by tornadoes |
Apr 26 |
Soccer star Diego Maradona, suspended for using cocaine, arrested in Argentina for possession & distribution of illegal narcotics |
Apr 27 |
"Lucifer's Child" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 28 perfs |
Apr 27 |
Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by David Ozio |
Apr 28 |
"Gypsy" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 105 performances |
Apr 28 |
"Taking Steps" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 78 perfs |
Apr 28 |
Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) launched |
Apr 29 |
"Our Country's Good" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 48 perfs |
Apr 29 |
Croatia declares independence |
Apr 29 |
Cyclone strikes Bangladesh, 139,000 die/10 million homeless |
Apr 29 |
Earthquake in Georgia, kills 100 |
Apr 30 |
In Bangladesh a cyclone killed over 131,000 & left 9 million homeless |
May 1 |
"Will Rogers Follies" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 983 performances |
May 1 |
A's Rickey Henderson steals an all time record 939th base vs Yanks |
May 1 |
Angolan civil war ends |
May 1 |
Last day of Test cricket for Gordon Greenidge |
May 1 |
Milwaukee Brewers beat Chicago Cubs, 10-9, in 19 innings |
May 1 |
Rickey Henderson breaks Lou Brocks record with his 939th steal |
May 1 |
Texas Ranger Nolan Ryan pitches record 7th no hitter (beats Toronto 3-0) |
May 1 |
Skin-Spit-Skin featuring lesbian, homosexual & hetrosexual nude couples caressing, is seen by 5,000 in NYC |
May 2 |
Pope John Paul II's encyclical on Centesimus annus |
May 3 |
356th & final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke |
May 3 |
The Declaration of Windhoek is signed. |
May 3 |
Cam Neely is injured on a cheap shot by Ulf Samuelsson, an injury that would limit him to only 162 games for the remainder of his NHL career and force him to retire at 31 |
May 4 |
117th Kentucky Derby: Chris Antley aboard Strike the Gold wins in 2:03 |
May 4 |
ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Doug Kent |
May 4 |
Actress Sharon Gless & producer Barney Rosenzeig wed |
May 4 |
Indians' Chris James sets club record for most RBIs in a game (9) |
May 4 |
Morris K Udall, (Rep-D-Ariz), resigns due to Parkinson disease |
May 4 |
NY Mets M Sasser & Mark Carreon are 8th to hit consecutive pinch HRs |
May 4 |
President Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat |
May 5 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic |
May 5 |
A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after a Salvadoran man is shot by police. |
May 6 |
Phillie Lenny Dykstra slams his sports car into 2 trees |
May 6 |
Seppo Raty of Finland sets javelin record to 301' 9" |
May 6 |
Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) lands |
May 7 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
May 7 |
Haryana beat Bombay in the Ranji Cricket Trophy final by 2 runs |
May 8 |
CIA director William H Webster resigns |
May 9 |
Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession |
May 9 |
Michael Landon appears on Tonight Show to talk about his cancer |
May 10 |
Oakland A's Jose Canseco is seen leaving Madonna's apt |
May 12 |
Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Crestar-Fresh Farm Golf Classic |
May 12 |
A new cancer drug is announced which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest |
May 13 |
"Michael Jackson: Magic & Madness" goes on sale |
May 13 |
Apple releases Macintosh System 7.0 |
May 13 |
South African activist Winnie Mandela convicted of abducting 4 blacks |
May 13 |
Yankee Stadium fans sing "Like a Virgin" to Jose Canseco |
May 14 |
42 die in a train collision in Japan |
May 14 |
Robert M Gates becomes head of CIA |
May 14 |
World's Largest Burrito created at 1,126 lbs |
May 14 |
Winnie Mandela sentenced to 6 years for complicity in kidnapping & beating of four youths, one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal |
May 15 |
Defense releases docs claiming Noriega is "CIA's man in Panama" |
May 15 |
Edith Cresson becomes France's 1st female premier |
May 15 |
Manchester United wins 31th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam |
May 15 |
Nepal premier Bhattarai resigns |
May 15 |
President Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland A's-Balt Oriole game |
May 15 |
Red Sox & White Sox play then slowest 9 inning game (4:11) |
May 16 |
Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character) (fiction!) |
May 16 |
Queen Elizabeth II becomes 1st British monarch to address US congress |
May 17 |
Lupita Jones, 23, of Mexico, crowned 40th Miss Universe |
May 18 |
117th Preakness: Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in 1:54 |
May 18 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
May 18 |
USSR launches 2 cosmonauts to MIR space station |
May 19 |
"Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" closes at Shubert NYC after 225 perfs |
May 19 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic |
May 19 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge |
May 19 |
Willy T Ribbs becomes 1st black driver to make Indianapolis 500 |
May 20 |
Chic Bull Michael Jordan, named NBA's MVP |
May 20 |
Jeff Reardon gains his 300th career save |
May 20 |
Soviet parliament approves law allowing citizens to travel abroad |
May 21 |
Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns |
May 22 |
Inter Milan wins 20th UEFA Cup at Rome |
May 22 |
NFL Owners agree to add 2 teams in 1994 |
May 22 |
Roh Jai Bong resigns as premier of South Korea |
May 23 |
Last Cubans troops leave Angola |
May 23 |
Phillie Tommy Greene no-hits Mont Expos, 2-0 |
May 23 |
San Diego Sockers win 4th consecutive Major Soccer League championship |
May 23 |
US Supreme Court bars subsidized clinics from discussing abortion |
May 25 |
"People Are Still Having Sex" by LaTour hits #35 |
May 25 |
Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews |
May 25 |
Stanley Cup: Pittsburgh Penguins beat Minn North Star, 4 games to 2 |
May 26 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
May 27 |
Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die |
May 28 |
Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa |
May 29 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Aotea Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand |
May 29 |
Crevena Zvezda wins 36th Europe Cup I |
May 30 |
64th National Spelling Bee: Joanne Lagatta wins spelling antipyretic |
May 30 |
Arturo Barrios runs world record one-hour distance (21,096 km) |
May 30 |
Supreme Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they give police & can be held accountable |
May 31 |
Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war |
Jun 2 |
45th Tony Awards: Lost in Yonkers & Will Rogers Follies win |
Jun 2 |
4th Children's Miracle Network Telethon |
Jun 2 |
Rosie Jones wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
Jun 2 |
Seppo Raty of Finland improves his world javelin record to 318' 1" |
Jun 2 |
Three Andrettis finished 1-2-3 in the Miller 200 at Wisconsin |
Jun 3 |
Mount Unzen erupts in Japan, worst eruption in Japanese history |
Jun 3 |
NY Yankees selected 19-year-old Brien Taylor, #1 in amateur draft |
Jun 3 |
Thomas Hearns captures WBA light-heavyweight title |
Jun 3 |
Kuwait asks Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members to produce 800,000 bbl/d (130,000 m3/d) of oil on its behalf |
Jun 4 |
1st post WW II non-communist government in Albania |
Jun 4 |
Pope John Paul II compares abortion with nazi murders |
Jun 4 |
Robert Strauss becomes US ambassador to Soviet Union |
Jun 5 |
Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in Episcopal Church, Washington DC |
Jun 5 |
Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize |
Jun 5 |
Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) launched |
Jun 6 |
Albert Belle is shipped to minors for not running out a ground ball |
Jun 6 |
Dana Plato receives 6 yr suspended sentence for robbing a video store |
Jun 6 |
NBC announces Jay Leno will replace Johnny Carson on May 25, 1992 |
Jun 6 |
Test Cricket debut of Graeme Hick, v West Indies at Headingley |
Jun 7 |
Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time |
Jun 8 |
"Our Country's Good" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 48 perfs |
Jun 8 |
123rd Belmont: Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in 2:28 |
Jun 8 |
61st French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A S Vicario (63 64) |
Jun 8 |
College World Series: Louisiana State defeats Wichita State 6-3 |
Jun 8 |
Former NY Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds |
Jun 8 |
Victory parade held in Wash DC (Persian Gulf War) |
Jun 8 |
Warren Schutte, is 1st non American to win NCAA Div 1 golf title |
Jun 9 |
61st French Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats A Agassi (36 64 26 61 64) |
Jun 9 |
9th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Jim Albus |
Jun 9 |
Jack La Lanne, 76, arrested for suspicion of DWI |
Jun 9 |
Jane Geddes wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic |
Jun 9 |
WLAF 1st world bowl London Monarchs defeat Barlecona Dragons 21-0 |
Jun 10 |
"Twin Peaks" on ABC-TV |
Jun 10 |
25th Music City News Country Awards: Ricky Van Shelton |
Jun 10 |
Mother of All Parades-NYC welcomes desert storm troops |
Jun 10 |
South Florida & Denver picked for 1993 NL franchises |
Jun 11 |
Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0 |
Jun 12 |
45th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 1 |
Jun 12 |
Boris Yelstin elected president of Russian Federation |
Jun 13 |
A spectator is killed by lightning at US Open Golf tournament |
Jun 13 |
NHL owners present contract to players (leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike) |
Jun 13 |
The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication |
Jun 14 |
"Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" opens |
Jun 14 |
Leroy Burrell of USA sets 100m record (9.90) in NYC |
Jun 14 |
Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands |
Jun 15 |
Carolyn Tanny & Bob Trischel wed |
Jun 15 |
Climactic eruption of the Mount Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines |
Jun 15 |
Birth of the first federal political party in Canada that supports Quebec nationalism, le Bloc Québécois. |
Jun 16 |
"Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 241 perfs |
Jun 16 |
-23] NYC Mayor Dinkins declares "Joseph Doherty Week" |
Jun 16 |
91st US Golf Open: Payne Stewart shoots a 282 at Hazeline Natl GC Minn |
Jun 16 |
Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR |
Jun 16 |
Colleen Walker wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
Jun 16 |
Minnesota Twins win a team record 15 games in a row |
Jun 16 |
Otis Nixon steals NL record 6 bases in 1 day |
Jun 16 |
With 3 runs in 9th, Balt ends Twins 15 game win streak 6-5 |
Jun 17 |
Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78 |
Jun 17 |
Pres Zachary Taylors body is exhumed to test how he died |
Jun 17 |
South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws |
Jun 18 |
Boris Yeltsin, president of Russia, arrives in US |
Jun 18 |
Mud storm in Antofagasta Chile, kills 80 |
Jun 18 |
SF Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky's cancerous left arm is amputated |
Jun 18 |
Yankee pitchers pick-off 3 Toronto Blue Jays |
Jun 19 |
2 of Mia Farrow's daughters arrested for shoplifting lingerie |
Jun 19 |
Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar surrenders to police |
Jun 19 |
NY Yankee Steve Howe records his 1st major league save since 1987 |
Jun 20 |
The German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin. |
Jun 21 |
Jirg Haider resigns as premier of Karinthia |
Jun 21 |
NY Islanders Denis Potvin & Mike Bossy, elected to Hockey Hall of Fame |
Jun 22 |
"I Hate Hamlet" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 88 perfs |
Jun 22 |
Quebec Nordiques pick Eric Lindros #1 at NHL entry draft |
Jun 22 |
Underwater volcano, Mount Didicas, erupts in Philippines |
Jun 23 |
"Odd Couple" opens & closes at Belasco Theater NYC |
Jun 23 |
"Weird Al" Yankovic records "Babalu Music" |
Jun 23 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
Jun 23 |
Mazda becomes 1st Japanese car to capture Le Mans 24 hour race |
Jun 23 |
A peace summit, brokered by the clergy and business and attended by all major political parties, but boycotted by the Conservative Party, is held to end the violence in South Africa |
Jun 24 |
NHL adopts instant-replay & tenth of second clock in final minute |
Jun 25 |
Martina Navratilova wins record 100th singles match at Wimbledon |
Jun 25 |
Slovenia & Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia |
Jun 25 |
Japan lifts its call for voluntary restraint on expanding trade with South Africa |
Jun 25 |
Six persons are killed and eighteen injured when gunmen open fire on a crowded commuter train in Soweto, South Africa |
Jun 26 |
"Getting Married" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 70 perfs |
Jun 26 |
ANC leader Nelson Mandela addresses congress |
Jun 26 |
Amy Elizabeth Goodman, of California, crowned America's Junior Miss |
Jun 26 |
Charlotte Hornets make Larry Johnson of UNLV, NBA's #1 draft pick |
Jun 26 |
Ky medical examiner announces Zachary Taylor died of natural causes |
Jun 27 |
Emmy 18th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 12th time |
Jun 28 |
South Africa signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty |
Jun 29 |
"Jackie Mason - Brand New" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 216 perfs |
Jun 29 |
6.0 earthquake hits southern Calif |
Jun 29 |
Britain's Nick Brown, 591st rank beats 10th-seeded Goran Ivanisevic 4-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 in 2nd round at Wimbledon |
Jun 30 |
37th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Meg Mallon |
Jun 30 |
South Africa Government repeal the 1913 Native Land Act, an important part of the system of Apartheid (Racially Based Land Measures Act) |
Jul 2 |
Riot at Guns N' Roses concert in St Louis |
Jul 2 |
Donald Trump proposes to Marla Maples and gives her a 7.5 carat diamond ring |
Jul 3 |
Gateway Board of Trustees approve a 20-year lease with Cleve Indians |
Jul 5 |
Colorado Rockies & Florida Marlins given final approval by owners |
Jul 5 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Jul 5 |
Lillian Cucuzza wins name Florida baseball team contest (Marlins) |
Jul 6 |
98th Wimbledon Women's Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats G Sabatini (6-4 3-6 8-6) |
Jul 7 |
105th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Michael Stich beats B Becker (64 76 64) |
Jul 7 |
Alice Miller wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
Jul 7 |
Nolan Ryan possible 8th no-hitter ends in the 8th inning |
Jul 8 |
Pitts Pirate Pres Carl Barger becomes 1st pres of Fla Marlins |
Jul 8 |
Major league umpire Steve Palermo & former NFL defensive lineman Terence Mann were shot trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed |
Jul 9 |
"Little Night Music" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 7 perfs |
Jul 9 |
62nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-2 at SkyDome, Toronto |
Jul 9 |
All star MVP: Cal Ripken Jr (Balt Orioles) |
Jul 9 |
South Africa readmitted to Olympics |
Jul 10 |
Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected president of Russian Federation |
Jul 10 |
L'Express Airlines Beechcraft C-99 crashes in Alabama, killing 13 |
Jul 10 |
Foreign Minister R.F. Botha of South Africa signs accession to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty on behalf of South Africa |
Jul 11 |
Calumet Farm, home to 8 Kentucky Derby winners, files bankruptcy |
Jul 11 |
Nigerian DC-8 crashes near Djeddah, 261 die |
Jul 11 |
Total solar eclipse is seen in Hawaii |
Jul 13 |
Bob Milacki & 3 other Balt Oriole pitchers no-hit A's 2-0 |
Jul 14 |
46th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Meg Mallon |
Jul 14 |
Failed military coup in Mali |
Jul 15 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
Jul 15 |
US troops leave northern Iraq |
Jul 15 |
Sandhi Ortiz-DelValle is 1st woman to officiate a men's pro basketball (USBL) game, game between New Haven Skyhawks & Phila Spirit |
Jul 18 |
Florida Marlins' logo unveiled |
Jul 18 |
Mike Tyson meets Miss Black America contestants |
Jul 19 |
Cal Ripken plays in his 1,500th consecutive game |
Jul 19 |
Mike Tyson rapes a Miss Black America contestant (Desiree Washington) |
Jul 19 |
With NY Yankee victory, 10 of 14 AL teams are at .500 or better |
Jul 20 |
Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant |
Jul 21 |
120th British Golf Open: Ian Baker-Finch shoots 272 at Royal Birkdale |
Jul 21 |
Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
Jul 21 |
Sharmell Sullivan (Gary Indiana), 20, crowned 23rd Miss Black America |
Jul 21 |
Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Rod Carew, Tony Lazzeri, & Bill Veeck are elected into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY |
Jul 22 |
Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978 |
Jul 23 |
James Farentino of Dynasty arrested in Canada for cocaine possession |
Jul 23 |
Rob Dibble back from 3-game suspension, is ejected for throwing at & hitting Cubs baserunner Doug Dascenzo Cubs win, 8-5 |
Jul 24 |
Ottawa Rough Riders Board of Directors resign |
Jul 24 |
U of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system |
Jul 25 |
Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (KLSX FM-97.1 Los Angeles) |
Jul 25 |
Seattle Jay Buhner hits a 479' HR in Yankee Stadium |
Jul 25 |
Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long treated for an apparent suicide attempt after he learned he tested positive for steroid use |
Jul 26 |
CFL assumes ownership of Ottawa Rough Riders |
Jul 26 |
Expo's Mark Gardner no hits Dodgers for 9 innings, but loses in 10th |
Jul 26 |
Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) is arrested in Florida, for exposing himself at an adult movie theater |
Jul 27 |
TV Guide publishes its 2000th edition |