Today in History for September 1986

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 87 of 87

1st - Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1st - Jerry Lewis' 21st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $34,096,733
1st - Paul McCartney releases "Press to Play" album
1st - Texas Rangers O McDowell & Porter are 7th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
2nd - Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi
3rd - Alan Ayckbourn's "Woman in Mind," premieres in London
3rd - Astros & Cubs use a record 53 players in an 18 inning game
4th - 189.42 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
4th - Claude Brochu becomes CEO of Montreal Expos
5th - 3rd MTV Awards: Whitney Houston wins
5th - Karachi Pakistan army storms hijacked US B-747, 19 killed
5th - MTV Music Awards - Dire Straits "Money For Nothing" wins
5th - NASA awards study contracts to 5 aerospace firms
5th - NASA launches DOD-1
6th - 300 invitees pay $5,000 to hear Barbra Striesand's benefit concert
6th - Attack on synagogue in Istanbul, 23 killed
6th - Jozef Pribilinec speed walking world record time (15,447k)
6th - Michael Spinks TKOs Steffen Tangstad in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
6th - USSR charges correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying
Singer Whitney Houston 7th - 100th US Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Helena Sukova (63 62)
7th - 106th US Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (64 62 60)
7th - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
7th - Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican archbishop of Capetown
7th - Failed assassination attempt on Chilean dictator Pinochet, 5 killed
7th - Ivan Lendl defeats Miloslav Mecir for US Tennis open title
7th - Cleveland Browns becomes 1st team in NFL history to have a play reviewed by instant replay, Chicago 41, Browns 31
8th - Westinghouse sells Muzak
9th - Minn Tommy Krammer passes for 6 touchdowns vs Green Bay (42-7)
9th - NYC jury indicts Gennadly Zakharov (Soviet UN employee) of spying
10th - Bryan O'Connor named chairman of Space Flight Safety Panel
11th - Pres Mubarak receives Israeli premier Peres
11th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
11th - Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded
12th - 240.49 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
12th - Twins fire manager Ray Miller & replace him with coach Tom Kelly
12th - US professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped & held hostage in Beirut
13th - Bert Blyleven gives up a record 44 HRs in a season
13th - Kellye Cash (Tenn), 21, crowned 60th Miss America 1987
14th - Bo Jackson's 1st HR-a 475-foot blast (longest at Royal Stadium)
14th - Bomb attack in Paris, 2 killed
14th - Bomb explosion on airport Kimpo at Seoul, 5 killed
14th - Judy Dickinson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
14th - Saskatchewan & Hamilton play 1st CFL regular-season overtime game
15th - 1st broadcast of "LA Law" on NBC-TV
15th - Bomb attack in Paris, 1 dead
16th - Fire in Kinross gold mine, Transvaal South Africa, 177 killed
17th - Bomb attack in Paris, 6 killed
17th - Marina Stepanova of USSR sets 400m hurdle woman's record (52.94)
17th - Mets clinch NL East Championship
17th - US Senate confirms William Rehnquist as 16th chief justice
18th - David Boon's 3rd Test cricket century, 122 v India at Madras
19th - "Captain EO" with Michael Jackson premieres
19th - Chic White Sox Joe Crowley no-hits California Angels, 7-1
19th - Dean Jones scores 210 v India at Madras
19th - Fed health officials announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients
20th - Wichita State Shockers blow a 35-3 lead; lose 36-35 to Morehead State
Actor Michael J. Fox 21st - 38th Emmy Awards: Golden Girls, Cagney & Lacey & Michael J Fox win
21st - Miami Dan Marino passes for 6 touchdowns vs NY Jets (51-45)
21st - NY Jets beat Miami Dolphins 51-45 in OT; record 884 passing yards
21st - New Orleans Saints Mel Gray returns kickoff 101 yards for a touchdown
21st - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
21st - SD Padre Jimmy Jones pitchs 1-hitter in his major league debut
21st - Kerry GAA beat Tyrone GAA in Croke Park during the All-Ireland Football Final by 2-15 to 1-10 thus winning the championship and a three-in-a-row.
22nd - 35 countries signs disarmament accord in Stockholm
22nd - India v Australia Test Cricket at Madras finishes in a tie
22nd - LA Dodger Fernando Valenzuela is 1st Mexican to win 20 games
23rd - Astro Jim Deshaies strikes out 1st 8 Dodger of game (ends with 10)
23rd - Congress selects the rose as US national flower
25th - Antonin Scalia appointed to Supreme Court
25th - Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits SF Giants, 2-0
26th - Antonin Scalia, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
Hall of Fame NFL Quarterback Dan Marino 26th - RUN-DMC is 1st rap group to hit top 10 (Raisin' Hell)
26th - William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court
26th - Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season)
27th - Senate joins House of Reps voting for sweeping tax reforms
28th - Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City)
28th - Tight end Brian Foster of RI catches NCAA record 18 passes for 327 yds
28th - Cleveland Browns' Gerald McNeil sets the team record for the longest punt return with an 84-yard run (and TD), Browns 24, Detroit 21
29th - "Airwolf," TV Adventure; moves to USA
29th - "Designing Women," TV Comedy, debuts on CBS
29th - Cubs Greg Maddux defeats Phillies Mike Maddux (1st rookie brothers)
29th - Indians Jay Bell is 10th to hit a HR on 1st major league pitch he sees
29th - Mary Lou Retton retires as a gymnast
29th - USSR releases US journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges
30th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
30th - US releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov
30th - Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel covert nuclear program to British media, was kidnapped in Rome, Italy.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 38 of 38

1st - H Debehogne discovers asteroid #8265 La Silla
1st - Gaël Monfils, French tennis player
1st - Anthony Allen, English rugby union player
3rd - Shaun White, San Diego, California, snowboarder (Olympic gold - 2006, 2010)
4th - James Younghusband, Philippine footballer
7th - Colin Delaney, American Professional Wrestler
7th - Spectacular Blue Smith, American musician (Pretty Ricky)
8th - João Moutinho, Sporting Lisbon midfielder
8th - Matt Grothe, American football player
9th - Justice Chibhabha, Zimbabwean cricketer
9th - Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, Cameroonian basketball player
9th - Michael Bowden, American baseball player
10th - Hiroki Uchi, Japanese Idol
11th - Chiliboy Ralepelle, South African rugby player
11th - Dwayne Jarrett, American football player
12th - Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer
12th - Yang Mi, Chinese actress
13th - Kamui Kobayashi, Japanese racing driver
13th - Sean Williams, American basketball player
Snowboarder Shaun White (3rd) 14th - Ai Takahashi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
14th - A.J. Trauth, American actor
14th - Alan Sheehan, Irish footballer
15th - Heidi Montag, American reality television star
16th - Kyla Pratt, American actress
17th - Landry Mulemo, Belgian footballer
17th - Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter
18th - Keeley Hazell, British model
19th - Gerald Ciolek, German cyclist
19th - Ken Gushi, Japanese racing driver
19th - Peter Vack, American voice actor
21st - Faris Rotter, English vocalist (The Horrors)
23rd - Martin Cranie, English footballer
24th - Leah Dizon, model, singer and Japanese television
26th - Ashley Leggat, Canadian actress
27th - Ricardo Risatti, Argentine racing driver
28th - Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer
29th - Benoît Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
29th - Mark Fraser, Canadian ice hockey player

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

26th - Fashion designer Calvin Klein (43) weds socialite Kelly Rector on a civil ceremony in Italy

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 19 of 19

1st - Murray Hamilton, actor (Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 63
4th - Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (b. 1911)
6th - Blanche Sweet, US actress (DW Griffith movies), dies at 90
7th - Ruth Polsky, record promoter, dies after being run over by a cab at 30
7th - Vladimir Alexandrovich Vlasov, composer, dies at 83
12th - Frank Nelson, actor (Ralph-I Love Lucy, Jack Benny Show), dies at 75
12th - Jacques-Henri Lartigue, French photographer, dies at 92
15th - Virginia Gregg, actress (Little Women), dies at 69
17th - Patricia Phoenix, English actress (Coronation Street), dies at 62
19th - Vivian Duncan, entertainer (Duncan Sisters), dies
21st - Pierre Wigny, Belgium minister of Foreign affairs (1958-61), dies at 81
25th - Ben Sajet, physician/politician, dies at 99
25th - Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist (b. 1909)
25th - Donald MacDonald, Canadian politician (b.1909)
26th - Hugh Franklin, American soap opera actor (b. 1916)
27th - Cliff Burton, rock bassist (Metallica), dies in bus crash at 24
28th - Carmen DeRue, entertainer, dies
28th - Robert Helpmann, actor (Second Time Lucky, Patrick), dies at 77
29th - Betty Kean, actress (Amy Tucker-Leave it to Larry), dies at 69