Today in History for August 1992

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 56 of 56

1st - "Salome" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 9 performances
1st - NBC's "Saturday Today" premieres
1st - USA/USSR Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica
2nd - "Death & the Maiden" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 159 perfs
2nd - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Welch's Golf Classic
2nd - Tom Seaver, R Fingers, Hal Newhouser, & B McGowan enter Hall of Fame
3rd - Dodgers win 3,000th game since moving to Los Angeles (3,000-2,531)
3rd - Paramount inaugurates New York Street on TV/movie lot
5th - 4 cops in Rodney King beating case indicted on civil rights charge
6th - Harold Wilson's academy award is auctioned for $60,500
7th - Cleveland Indians turn a triple play
7th - Tampa Bay group purchases SF Giants
8th - Lou Whitaker hits his 200th career HR
9th - "Streetcar Named Desire" closes at Ethel Barrymore NYC after 137 perf
9th - 25th Olympic Summer games closes in Barcelona, Spain
9th - Florence Descampe wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mt
9th - Last day of Test Cricket for David Gower
9th - Record temperature in Berlin-Dahlem 99.3°F (37.4°C)
10th - Satellite TOPEX/Poseidon launched
10th - Soyuz TM-15 lands
11th - Oakland A's rip Jose Canseco for leaving stadium before end of game
12th - Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
15th - Colombo '92 closes in Genoa Italy
16th - 20th du Maurier Golf Classic: Sherri Steinhaur
16th - 74th PGA Championship: Nick Price shoots a 278 at Bellerive St Louis
16th - Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k (7:28.96)
17th - Kevin Gross of Dodgers tosses only 9-inning no-hitter of season, a 2-0
18th - "Real Inspector Hound" opens at Criterion NYC for 61 perfs
19th - Romesh Kaluwitharana scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (SL v Australia)
19th - Sri Lanka make their highest cricket score ever 8-547 v Australia
20th - England get 7-363 in 55 overs vs Pakistan, then world ODI record
22nd - Matthews & Warne spin Australia to a famous win v Sri Lanka
22nd - FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
23rd - Kris Tschetter wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic
23rd - Dennis Eckersley, who previously set record for most consecutive saves (40), is 1st pitcher to record 40 saves in 4 different seasons
24th - 1st structural steel beams are erected at Gateway (Jacobs Field)
24th - Cleveland Browns suffer their worst preseason loss, 56-3, to Vikings
24th - Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida; 35 die
24th - Screw magazine superimposed a gunsight over a picture of Larry Flint
24th - Diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and South Korea.
25th - Jamie Solinger, of Iowa, crowned 10th Miss Teen USA
26th - "Anna Karenina" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 46 performances
27th - CFL revokes BC Lions franchise
27th - Mets trade David Cone to Toronto for Jeff Kent & Ryan Thompson
28th - Test Cricket debut of Muttiah Muralitharan, vs Australia at Colombo
29th - Largest wrestling crowd out side of US (75,000) at Wembley Stadium
29th - Randy Myers blows his 6th save of the season & it marks the 5th time he's blown a potential win for Greg Harris
29th - Brave's Charlie Leibrandt 1,000th strikeout & decides to keep the ball He rolls it to the dugout, allows Ricky Jordan to take 2nd on error
30th - "2 Trains Running" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 160 perfs
30th - "Most Happy Fella" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 229 performances
30th - 92nd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonard
30th - David Lewett & Jane Luu discovers comet: "1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun
30th - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Sun-Times Golf Challenge
31st - 44th Emmy Awards: Northern Exposure, Christopher Lloyd & Dana Delane
31st - Dynamite explosion in Philipines mine; 500 die
31st - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Cleveland OH on WNCX 98.5 FM

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 14 of 14

2nd - Hallie Kate Eisenberg, American actress
4th - Cole Sprouse, Arezzo Italy, actor (Patrick Kelly-Grace Under Fire)
4th - Dylan Sprouse, Arezzo Italy, actor (Patrick Kelly-Grace Under Fire)
4th - Tiffany Evans, American singer
10th - Ko Ah-seong, South Korean actress
11th - Allison Lozano, Mexican actress
13th - Katharine Close, Scripps National Spelling Bee champion
18th - Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain & Courtney Love
18th - Riko Narumi, Japanese actress
20th - Demi Lovato, American Actress
21st - Brad Kavanagh,English songwriter and actor
25th - Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer
26th - Yang Yilin, Chinese gymnast
29th - Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer-songwriter

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 3 of 3

8th - Actress Barbara Hershey weds artist Stephen Douglas
15th - Actress Susan Anton marries actor Jeff Lester
20th - Rocker Sting weds Trudie Styler at an 11th century chapel in Wiltshire, England

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 67 of 67

1st - Chico Alvarez, trumpeteer (Stan Kenton Orch), dies of cancer at 72
1st - Kenny Sacha, actor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), dies of AIDS at 39
1st - Stanley Dudek, US platform diver (watershows), dies
2nd - Ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies
2nd - Jim Whaley, TV host (Cinema Showcase), dies of heart attack at 44
2nd - Julio C Fernandez, Cuban/US journalist (founder Alma Mater), dies
2nd - Michel Berges, French composer, dies of a heart attack at 44
3rd - Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Comm Party (1973-76), dies
4th - Frantisek Tomasek, archbishop of Prague/cardinal, dies at 93
4th - Ralph Cooper, creator (Amateur Night at the Apollo), dies of cancer
5th - Jeff Porcaro, drummer (Toto-Africa), dies of cardiac arrest at 38
5th - Robert Muldoon, premier NZ (1975-84)/President IMF, dies
7th - John Anderson, actor, dies of heart attack at 69
7th - Titti Sotto, Cuban composer (La Esquina Habanera), dies
8th - Abul Qassim Khoei, Iraqi great-ayatollah/leader of Sjiieten, dies
8th - Alison L Gertz, US aids-activist/Esquire women of year, dies of aids
8th - Arthur Lang, US boxer/businessman, dies at 115
8th - Eitan Berglas, Israeli banker/advisor, dies
8th - Lou Krugman, actor (I Want to Live), dies of cancer at 78
8th - Thomas J McIntyre, US, senator/writer (Fear Brokers), dies
9th - Christopher Todd, [Todd Wangberg], dies of AIDS at 30
9th - Jan van Baal, antropologist/gov Dutch New-Guinea, dies
9th - Patrick A Devlin, England, judge/lead house of Lords, dies
9th - Thomas J McIntyre, (Sen-NH, 1963-79), dies at 77
12th - Beverley Brooks, dies of a stroke at 63
12th - John Cage, avante-garde composer, dies of a stroke at 79
12th - Lady Rothermere, [Bubbles], wife of British newspaper magnate, dies
12th - Queen Mother of Oman, dies
13th - Bill Elverman, playwright/actor (After Hours), dies at 40
13th - Clifford Allison, US stock-car racer, dies in an accident
13th - David Kaplan, news director (ABC), killed in Sarajevo Yugoslavia
13th - Jan Elburg, [Joannes G], poet (Geen letterheren), dies
14th - Alexander Rosemeier, Indonesian/Dutch painter, dies at 104
14th - Flora SA Benson, US, wife of pres Ezra Taft B of mormon church, dies
14th - John J Sirica, US, judge (Watergate), dies at 88
14th - Marion P Ames, US, advocate/activist, dies
14th - Tony Williams, US, singer (Platters-Great Pretender), dies at 64
15th - Evelyn Wesler Zemel, US author (American Glass Animals), dies
15th - Giorgio Perlasca, Italian anti-fascist (saved 5,200 Jews), dies
15th - Marie Paxton, entertainer, dies after brief illness
15th - Martha Blackburn, Canada newspaper publisher (London Free Press), dies
15th - Osamu Inaba, Japanese min of justice, dies
16th - Mark Heard, Christian musician, dies at 41 of a heart attack
17th - Andre de Villiers, South African, murdered
17th - Barbara Morgan, photographer (Martha Graham), dies at 92
17th - Tommy Nutter, fashion designer (bell bottom pants), dies of AIDs at 49
18th - Gerard Sonder, Dutch radio host (AVRO), dies
18th - John Stuges, director (Gunfight at OK Corral), dies of emphysema at 82
18th - Christopher McCandless, subject of the book Into the Wild (b. 1968)
19th - Feliks Arons, Dutch director/actor (A Bridge Too Far), dies at 48
20th - Ivan Nikolayevich Anikeyev, cosmonaut, dies at 59
20th - William Taylor, chairman (FDIC), dies at 53
21st - Lucille Brown, actress (Farina-Our Gang), dies after illness at 74
21st - Theo van Tijn, Marxist/social-historian, dies at 65
21st - Dai Vernon, Canadian magician (b. 1894)
23rd - Malcolm Atterbury, actor (7 Days in May, Wild River), dies at 85
23rd - Virginia Sale-Wren, entertainer, dies of heart failure at 92
23rd - Wayne McLaren, Marlboro Man, dies of lung cancer at 51
24th - Andreas M Donner, Dutch state leader/jurist (Constitution), dies at 74
24th - Larrie Londin, jazz drummer, dies at 48
25th - Alma Graciela Haro Esmerelda, singer, dies of diabetes at 65
25th - Frederick O'Neal, actor (Anna Lucasta, Free White & 21), dies at 86
25th - Jan G Toonder, writer (Castle in Ireland), dies at 78
26th - Bob the Moor, Flemish comic strip artist (Kuifje), dies
26th - Arthur Leigh Allen, American suspected murderer (b. 1933)
29th - Mary Norton, children book author (Borrowers), dies at 88
29th - Teddy Turner, comedian, dies at 75