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Historical Events

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Sep 18th - Atlanta is chosen to host 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics
Sep 18th - Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
Sep 20th - Both Germanys ratify reunification
Sep 20th - Saddam Hussein demands US networks broadcast his message
Sep 20th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Sep 20th - South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
Sep 21st - Oakland A's Bob Welch becomes 1st 25 game winner in 10 years
Sep 21st - Pirate Bobby Bond is 2nd to hit 30 HRs & steal 50 bases in a season (so he can play in 6 decades) because it is a publicity stunt
Sep 21st - Faye Vincent turns down White Sox bid to reinstate Minnie Minoso, 68
Sep 22nd - Saudi Arabia expels many Jordanian & Yemeni envoys
Sep 22nd - Andre Dawson steals his 300th base & is only player other than Willie Mays to have 300 HRs, 300 steals & 2,000 hits
Sep 23rd - Nancy Lopez wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic
Sep 23rd - PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on Civil War
Sep 23rd - Saddam says he will destroy Israel
Sep 24th - East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact
Sep 24th - South African president F W de Klerk meets Pres Bush in Wash DC
Sep 24th - Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market
Sep 24th - West German Pres Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty
Sep 24th - Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn
Sep 25th - "Les Miserables," opens at Forrest Theatre, Phila
Sep 25th - 1st 8 NY Yankees hit safely vs Balt Orioles to tie record
Sep 25th - Oakland A's clinch 3rd straight AL West title
Sep 25th - Saddam Hussein warns that US will repeat Vietnam experience
Sep 25th - UN Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq
Sep 26th - Motion Picture Assn of America creates new NC-17 rating
Sep 27th - Dee Dee Ramone arrested on marijuana possession
Sep 27th - Deposed emir of Kuwait address UN General Assembly
Sep 27th - Gunman holds 33 people (killing 1) hostage in Berkeley Calif
Sep 27th - Senate Judiciary committee approves Souter's Supreme Court
Sep 27th - Tour de France champion Greg LeMond visits White House
Sep 27th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Sep 28th - Exiled emir of Kuwait visits White House
Sep 28th - Marvin Gaye gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame
Sep 29th - "Love & Affection" by Nelson peaks at #1 on pop singles chart
Sep 29th - "Street Scene" closes at NY State Theater NYC after 6 perfs
Sep 29th - Brook Yeaton weds Traci Lords
Sep 29th - Reds are 1st NL team to clinch title, staying in 1st place all year
Sep 29th - US Sect of State James Baker meets with Vietnam's foreign minister
Sep 29th - Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years
Sep 29th - "Millie's Book" written by 1st Lady Barbara Bush for president's dog is a best-selling non-fiction book
Sep 29th - The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
Sep 30th - Chic White Sox beat Seattle 2-1 in last game at Comiskey Park
Sep 30th - Pitts Pirates wins NL East title
Sep 30th - The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.
Oct 1st - 10,000 Uganda RPF rebels move into Rwanda
Oct 1st - Meteorite explode above Pacific Ocean
Oct 1st - Pres Bush at UN, condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait
Oct 1st - Serbs in Croatia proclaim autonomy
Oct 2nd - "Michael Feinstein in Concert -" opens at Golden NYC for 30 perfs
Oct 2nd - Allies cede any remaining rights as occupiers of Germany
Oct 2nd - Chinese plane explodes, about 100 die
Oct 2nd - US Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter to Supreme Court
Oct 2nd - Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by Doors
Oct 3rd - East Germany & West Germany merge to become Germany
Oct 3rd - George Brett becomes 1st to lead league in batting in 3 decades
Oct 3rd - Tiger Cecil Fielder becomes 11th, to hit 50 HRs (& 51st)
Oct 3rd - Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obsenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records
Oct 4th - "Stand Up Tragedy" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 13 performances
Oct 4th - Regional elections held, in what is East Germany
Oct 5th - Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obsentity (Mappelthorpe photos)
Oct 6th - Spacecraft Ulysses launched towards pole of Sun
Oct 6th - US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit
Oct 6th - Ulysses launched (Solar Polar Orbiter)
Oct 7th - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
Oct 7th - Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens
Oct 8th - 24th Country Music Assn Award: George Strait wins
Oct 8th - Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters
Oct 8th - US doctors Joseph E Murray & E Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize
Oct 9th - David Hackett Souter, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
Oct 9th - Radio stations around world play "Imagine" honoring John Lennon
Oct 9th - Saddam threatens to hit Israel with a new missile
Oct 10th - Oakland A's sweep Red Sox in 4 games to win ALCS
Oct 10th - US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space
Oct 11th - "Miser" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 93 performances
Oct 11th - Center for Urban archaeology opens in NYC South Street Seaport Museum
Oct 11th - Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature
Oct 11th - Oil hits a record $40.42 per barrel
Oct 12th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Oct 13th - 1st Russian Orthodox service in 70 yrs held in St Basil's Cathedral
Oct 13th - Target Center in Minneapolis opens
Oct 14th - Cathy Gerring wins LPGA Trophee Urban World Golf Championship
Oct 14th - Jeff Goldblum & wife Geena Davis file for divorce
Oct 14th - SF 49er Joe Montana passes for 6 touchdowns vs Atlanta (45-35)
Oct 15th - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 16th - "Stand Up Tragedy" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 13 perfs
Oct 16th - Reds Eric Davis is 22nd player to homer in his 1st World Series at bat
Oct 16th - Reds beat A's 7-0, ending Oakland's 10-game post-season winning streak
Oct 16th - US forces reach 200,000 in Persian Gulf
Oct 17th - "Jackie Mason - Brand New" opens at Neil Simon NYC for 216 perfs
Oct 17th - "Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, NY & His Majesty's Theatre, Perth
Oct 18th - "Once on this Island" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 469 performances
Oct 19th - HCA, Helsinki Citizens Assembly, forms in Prague
Oct 20th - 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obsenity charges in Florida
Oct 20th - Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq)
Oct 20th - Cincinnati Reds sweep Oakland A's in 86th World Series
Oct 21st - Esther Canseco calls Oakland A's manager Tony La Russa a "punk" for not starting husband Jose in the World Series
Oct 21st - The first Apple Day, is held in Covent Garden, London.
Oct 23rd - Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages
Oct 24th - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Oct 25th - Evander Holyfield KOs Buster Douglas in 3 for heavyweight boxing title

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