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Historical Events

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Jul 8th - Italy beats England in soccer's World Cup consolation game
Jul 8th - Tina Purtzer wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
Jul 8th - Trailing 7-0, Brewers tie Angels & then score 13 in 5th to win 20-7
Jul 9th - 104th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats B Becker (62 62 36 36 64)
Jul 9th - Richard Hadlee takes 5-53 to end his Test Cricket career with 431 wkts
Jul 10th - 61st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-0 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
Jul 10th - All star MVP: Julio Franco (Texas Rangers)
Jul 10th - Andrew Dice Clay cries on Arsenio Hall Show
Jul 10th - Last day of Test Cricket for Richard Hadlee
Jul 11th - NYC police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts)
Jul 11th - Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
Jul 12th - "Les Miserables," opens at National Theatre, Washington
Jul 12th - Boris Yeltsin quits Soviet Communist Party
Jul 12th - Chicago White Sox Melido Perez no-hits Yankees 8-0 in a rain shortened 6 inning game at Yankee Stadium (7th no-hitter of 1990)
Jul 14th - "Howard Stern's Summer Show" premieres on WWOR-TV (NYC)
Jul 14th - Sara Martin, of Illinois, crowned America's Junior Miss
Jul 15th - 45th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy King
Jul 16th - 400 die in a (7.7) earthquake in Philippines
Jul 16th - Bridgette LeAnn Wilson, 17, of Oregon, 8th crowned Miss Teen USA
Jul 16th - Civil trial by parents of Suicide victims against Judas Priest begins
Jul 16th - NYC's Empire State Building catches fire-No fatalities
Jul 16th - Rick Dee's "Into the Night," premieres on ABC-TV
Jul 16th - Ukraine declares independence
Jul 17th - Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq
Jul 17th - NY Yankee Deion Sanders hits an inside park homer
Jul 17th - PLO-leader Jasser Arrafat marries Soha Tawil in Tunis
Jul 17th - Minn Twins become 1st team to turn 2 triple plays in a game but lose to Boston Red Sox 1-0
Jul 19th - BASF plant in Cincinnati explodes in flames, 1 dies
Jul 19th - Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion
Jul 19th - Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, Calif
Jul 19th - Dave Raghetti pitches in his 499th game as a NY Yankee, passing Whitey Ford in most appearances as a NY Yankee
Jul 20th - Justice William Brennan resigns from Supreme Court after 36 years
Jul 21st - Goodwill Games opens in Seattle Wash
Jul 21st - Pink Floyds' "Wall" is performed where Berlin Wall once stood
Jul 22nd - 119th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots 270 at St Andrews Scotland
Jul 22nd - 90th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Phil Mickelson
Jul 22nd - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament
Jul 22nd - Greg LeMond of US wins his 3rd Tour de France
Jul 23rd - Rosie Jones, (St Louis), 26, crowned 22nd Miss Black America
Jul 23rd - South-Africa worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested
Jul 24th - Ms. Magazine hits newstands again after an 8 month hiatus
Jul 24th - US warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait
Jul 25th - "Les Miserables," opens at Princess Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver
Jul 25th - KC Royal George Brett hits for the cycle
Jul 25th - Nadezhda Ryashkina of USSR sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23)
Jul 25th - Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at San Diego Padre game
Jul 25th - US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute
Jul 25th - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
Jul 26th - General Hospital tapes its 7,000th episode
Jul 26th - President Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act
Jul 26th - Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at Reds-Padres game
Jul 26th - US beats Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at Goodwill Games
Jul 27th - Graham Gooch scores 333 v India at Lord's
Jul 27th - Tom Moody scores 100 in 26 mins in county cricket, world record
Jul 27th - White-Russia declares independence
Jul 27th - Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop
Jul 28th - Alberto Fujimoro installed as president of Peru
Jul 28th - Blackout hits Chicago
Jul 29th - 26th Curtis Cup: US wins 14-4
Jul 29th - 28th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats USSR in Atlanta Georgia (2-1)
Jul 29th - 36th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Beth Daniel
Jul 29th - Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game
Jul 29th - South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference
Jul 30th - 5 Bank of Credit & Commerce members found guilty of money
Jul 30th - Graham Gooch scores 123 v India to follow up 1st innings 333
Jul 30th - Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church, 200-600 die
Jul 30th - George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as prinicipal partner of NY Yankees
Jul 30th - The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
Jul 31st - Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence
Jul 31st - Nolan Ryan becomes 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games
Aug 1st - "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" closes at Eugene O'Neill NYC after 149 perfs
Aug 1st - Indians' Alex Cole sets club record with 5 stolen bases in one game
Aug 1st - Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait
Aug 1st - Soyuz TM-10 launches
Aug 1st - Stanton Cook becomes CEO of Chicago Cubs
Aug 2nd - Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia
Aug 2nd - Yankees rookie Kevin Maas hits his 10th home run in just 77 at bats
Aug 3rd - "Little Night Music" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 11 perfs
Aug 3rd - 98.8°F (37.1°C) in Cheltenham, Glos. (UK record)
Aug 3rd - NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 10th HR in 1st 72 at bats
Aug 3rd - Radio Kuwait resigns air, due to Iraqi invasion
Aug 3rd - US announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions
Aug 3rd - For 3rd time in 1990 a no-hitter is broken up with 2 outs in 8th inning. Doug Drabek of Pitts still beats Phila 11-0
Aug 4th - 95.5°F (35.3°C) in De Bilt Neth (highest Aug temp in Neth)
Aug 4th - European community proposes a boycott of Iraq
Aug 5th - Barb Mucha wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
Aug 5th - Jim Palmer & Joe Morgan inducted into hall of fame
Aug 6th - NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 11th HR in 1st 86 at bats
Aug 6th - Pres Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses premier Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan
Aug 6th - UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstensions Cuba & Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq
Aug 7th - Desert Shield begins - US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia
Aug 7th - NY Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 12th HR in 1st 92 at bats & becomes 21st to hit a ball into 3rd deck of Seattle's Kingdome
Aug 8th - Balt Orioles pull their 10th triple play (1-6-3 vs Oakland)
Aug 8th - Carlton Fisk ties Johnny Bench hitting 327 HRs as a catcher
Aug 8th - Iraq annexes Kuwait as its 19th province
Aug 8th - Pete Rose begins 5-ms prison term at Marion (IL) Federal prison camp
Aug 9th - 12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia
Aug 9th - Soyuz TM-10 lands
Aug 10th - US's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus
Aug 10th - The Massacre of more than 127 Muslims in North East Sri Lanka by paramilitaries.

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