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Results 1 - 70 of 70

1st - Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center
1st - Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases the Milwaukee Bucks
1st - Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter
2nd - US approves screening test for AIDS
3rd - "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard & Bruce Willis, premieres
3rd - "My One & Only" closes at St James Theater NYC after 767 performances
3rd - Betsy King wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic
3rd - Bill Shoemaker is 1st jockey to surpass $100 million
3rd - National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike
3rd - Willie Shoemaker becomes 1st jockey to win $100 million
4th - STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled
4th - Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA
4th - War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"
5th - NY Islander Mike Bossy is 1st to score 50 goals in 8 straight seasons
6th - Enos Slaughter & Arky Vaughan are elected to baseball Hall of Fame
6th - Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes in 1 round in his 1st pro fight
6th - Mexican authorities find body of US drug agent Enrique C Salaazar
6th - Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "King & I"
7th - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released
8th - Ice Dance Championship at Tokyo won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
9th - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
9th - Laura Johnson (Falcon Crest) & Harry Hamlin (LA Law) wed
10th - Bonnie Lauer wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
10th - Dallas Maverick coach Dick Motta is 4th NBA coach to win 700 games
10th - French socialists lose election (National Front 9%)
10th - Ice Pairs Championship at Tokyo won by Elena Valova & O Vasiliev (URS)
10th - India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket"
10th - Mens Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Alexandr Fadeev (URS)
11th - Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
12th - Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points
13th - Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
13th - Michael Secrest (US) begins 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
14th - 11th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins 4 awards
14th - Michael Secrest (US) completes 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
15th - Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
15th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
15th - The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
16th - Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut
16th - Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 yrs
17th - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
17th - Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623'
18th - Capital Cities Communications Inc acquires ABC
18th - Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Willie Mays & Mickey Mantle
19th - "Spin Magazine" begins publishing
19th - NSW wins cricket Sheffield Shield by beating Queensland by 1 wicket
19th - Senate votes 55-45, to authorize production of the MX missile
20th - Libby Riddles is 1st woman to win Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race
21st - Arthur Ashe is named to Intl Tennis Hall of Fame
21st - Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South-Africa, 19 killed
22nd - NASA launches Intelsat VA
23rd - Billy Joel weds supermodel Christie Brinkley
23rd - Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-D mission
23rd - Julian Lennon's 1st concert (San Antonio Texas)
23rd - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
24th - 5th Golden Raspberry Awards: Bolero wins
24th - Golden Raspberry Awards presented to parody Oscar Awards (Bolero wins)
24th - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA GNA Golf Classic
24th - Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Aust, Sharjah)
25th - 57th Academy Awards - "Amadeus," F Murray Abraham & Sally Field win
25th - Edwin Meese III becomes US Attorney General
27th - Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
28th - International Cometary Explorer measures solar wind ahead of Halley
28th - Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues," premieres in NYC
28th - STS 51-D vehicle moves to launch pad
29th - Christos Sartzetakis elected president of Greece
29th - Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 126th assist
31st - 15th Easter Seal Telethon raises $27,400,000
31st - 4th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Old Dominion beats Ga 70-65
31st - El Salvador's Pres Duartes Christian-Democrats win election
31st - Wrestlemania I at MSG NY, Hogan & Mr T beat Piper & Orndorf