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Historical Events

Results 1 - 96 of 96

1st - Actress Kelly McGillis gets married
1st - NYC transit fare rises from $1.00 to $1.15
1st - Year of the Young Reader begins
2nd - Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship
2nd - UCLA wins a record 7th consecutive bowl game
3rd - Jim & Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!)
3rd - Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement
4th - Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion
4th - US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean
4th - VP Bush is 1st since VP Van Buren to declare himself president
5th - 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test
5th - Baseball signs $400M with ESPN, showing 175 games in 1990
7th - Akhito becomes emperor of Japan
7th - Intl Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris
7th - NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers longest win streak (11)
7th - Cleve Cavs block 21 NY Knick shots tying NBA regulation game record
8th - "42nd Street" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 3,486 perfs
8th - "Starlight Express" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 761 perfs
8th - Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die
8th - Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
8th - Beginning of Japanese Heisei era.
9th - "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS
9th - Johnny Bench & Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
11th - 140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc)
11th - Denver Nuggets' rookie Jerome Lane misses 7 free throws in a game against Milwaukee, one missed by 2 feet
11th - Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school
12th - 6 claim to survive in rubble, 35 days after Armenian quake (hoax)
12th - Idi Amin expelled from Zaire
13th - "Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain
13th - "Ryan's Hope" ends 13½ year run on ABC-TV
13th - Computers across Britain hit by "Friday the 13th" virus
13th - Jerry Parks, Okla defensive back, charged with shooting a teammate
13th - Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq
13th - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence
14th - "Romance/Romance" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 297 perfs
14th - 1,000 muslims burn Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradfort England
14th - 29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris
14th - Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped
15th - "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 176 perfs
15th - 10th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 35 awards
15th - Betsy King wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
15th - Big John Studd wins WWF's 1st Royal Rumble
15th - Cerberal Palsy telethon raises 22,600,000
16th - Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague
16th - USSR announces plan for 2-yr manned mission to Mars
17th - Al Arbour wins his 600th NHL game as coach
17th - Gunman opens fire in Calif schoolyard; 5 students slain, 30 wounded
17th - Murden & Metz are 1st women to reach South Pole overland (on skis)
17th - Phoenix Suns cancel game at Miami Heat, due to racial unrest in Miami
18th - Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC)
18th - Candace Thomas marries Steve Garvey
18th - IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988
18th - Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations & Stevie Wonder
18th - West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win the World Series Cup
19th - Pres Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon
20th - Bush inaugurated as 41st president & Quayle becomes 44th vice pres
20th - Wayne Holdsworth takes a wicket 1st ball in 1st-class cricket
20th - Reagan becomes 1st pres elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive
21st - A woman is assaulted & raped in room of an Okla football player
21st - Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer
22nd - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
22nd - Superbowl XXIII: SF 49ers beat Cin Bengals, 20-16 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Jerry Rice, San Francisco, WR
23rd - Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court
23rd - NBA New Jersey Nets begin a 32+ game road losing streak
24th - 1st reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex
25th - Augusto Alcalde, 1st S Amer Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission
25th - Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season
25th - Yank owner George Steinbrenner meets with Pope John Paul II
26th - "Black & Blue" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 829 performances
26th - AT&T reports 1st loss in 103 years; $1.67 B in 1988
26th - Allan Border takes 7-46 against the West Indies at the SCG
26th - Madison Sq Garden announces 2-year $100 M renovation plan
26th - Test debut of Mark Taylor, Australia v West Indies, Sydney
26th - US computer security expert warns of catastrophic virus
27th - German war criminals Fischer & Aus der Funten freed
27th - Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games
27th - Okla's linebacker, Mark VanKeirsblilck assaults an Ok grad student
28th - 46th Golden Globes: Rainman, Working Girl
28th - 63rd Australian Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (64 64)
28th - Boon completes 7th Test century, 149 v WI at SCG
29th - 77th Australian Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (62 62 62)
29th - Cleveland's Chris Dudley misses 5 free throws during 1 foul attempt
29th - Dottie Mochrie wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
29th - Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-pt loss since Oct 1987; index at 2,256.43
29th - Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop
29th - L I preacher Gene Profeta pleads guilty to tax-evasion
29th - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 34-3
29th - Orlando Arena opens
29th - USSR's Phobos II enters Martian orbit
29th - Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of use NY Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129
30th - 16th American Music Award: Randy Travis & George Michael wins
30th - 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor
30th - Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter
30th - Last day of 1st class cricket for Dav Whatmore
30th - Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident
30th - The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 14 of 14

1st - Marvin Austin, American football player
3rd - Anya Kop, Russian model and America's Next Top Model contestant
3rd - Alex D. Linz, American actor
4th - Graham Rahal, American race car driver
5th - Krisztián Németh, Hungarian footballer
6th - Baby lion-tailed macaques, at Woodland Park Zoo (Seattle)
7th - Emiliano Insúa, Argentine footballer
9th - Michaella Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
13th - Bryan Arguez, American soccer player
13th - Triinu Kivilaan, Estonian singer
14th - Sextuplets, Paris France, (to a 29-year-old woman)
25th - Sheryfa Luna, French singer
26th - Emily Hughes, American figure skater
30th - Khleo Thomas, American actor and rapper

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 29 of 29

3rd - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
6th - Hirohito, Japan`s emperor (1922-89), dies at 87 after 62-year reign
8th - Johnny Jordaan, [Jan van Musscher], Dutch folk singer, dies at 64
8th - Ken McMillan, actr (Malone, Concrete Beat), dies of heart attack at 56
8th - Kenneth McMillan, actor (Our Family Honor, Malone), dies at 67
9th - Bill Terry, baseball player (b. 1898)
10th - Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter (b. 1905)
10th - Colin Winchester, Australian Assistant Police Commissioner, murdered (b. 1933)
13th - Joe Spinell, actor (Maniac, Star Crash, Strike Force), dies at 51
15th - Wilf Slack, cricketer (whilst bat in Gambia England player 1986), dies
16th - Pierre Boileau, screenwriter (Vertigo), dies at 82
16th - Romo Vincent, actor (Naked Jungle), dies
16th - Trey Wilson, actor (Bull Durham, Twins, Raising Arizona), dies
17th - Sterling A Brown, US poet/critic (Southern Road), dies at 87
18th - Bruce Chatwin, British writer, dies at 49
19th - Norma Varden, actress (Loose in London), dies
20th - Beatrice Lillie, actress (Thoroughly Modern Millie), dies at 94
20th - Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi film director (b. 1938)
21st - Billy Tipton, American musician (b. 1914)
21st - Carl Furillo, American Baseball player (b. 1922)
23rd - Salvador Dalí, Catalan artist (b. 1904)
24th - Ted Bundy, serial killer of up to 100 women, executed in Florida at 42
24th - George Knudson, Canadian golfer (b. 1937)
26th - Paul Daels, Flemish chairman (IJzerbedevaart committee), dies
27th - Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (b. 1888)
27th - Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (b. 1918)
29th - Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (b. 1900)
31st - Jack Douglas, humorist (My Brother Was an Only Child), dies at 80
31st - Yasushi Akutagawa, composer, dies at 63