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Results 1 - 54 of 54

1st - Neth decides definative sites for cruise missiles
1st - Nostalgia Television begins on cable
2nd - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge
3rd - Argentine pres Alfonsíns Radical Burgerunie wins elections
3rd - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament
5th - "News" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 4 performances
6th - 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61A) -Challenger 9- lands at Edwards AFB
6th - Exploratory well at Ranger Tx, explodes spilling 6.3 m gallons of oil
6th - M-19 guerrilla's occupies Palace of Justice Bogota Colombia
6th - Space shuttle Challenger lands at Edwards Calif
7th - Colombian troops end 27-hr siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice
8th - Atlantis moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-B mission
9th - "News" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 4 performances
9th - Gary Kasparov becomes world chess champion
9th - Richard Hadlee takes 9-52 v Australia at the Gabba
9th - Surprise attack on Belgium supermarket in Aalst, 8 killed
10th - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
11th - 1st AIDS theme TV movie - "An Early Frost"
11th - Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB
11th - Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools & housing
12th - R Hadlee takes 15-123 for Cricket match v Australia at Brisbane
12th - STS 61-B vehicle moves to launch pad
12th - Secretary in Ann Arbor Mich wounded by package bomb
12th - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life's Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge at Aqueduct
13th - Dwight Gooden, youngest 20 game winner, wins Cy Young award
13th - Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000
14th - Brewers release 39-year-old pitcher Rollie Fingers
14th - Holmfriour Karlsottir of Iceland, 22, crowned 35th Miss World
14th - Volcano Nevado del Ruiz Colombia erupts, 1000s killed
15th - A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
17th - Howard Stern begins broadcasting on 92.3 WXRK FM NY
17th - NY Jets best offensive production beating Tampa Bay 62-28
18th - Dwight Gooden (NL) & Bret Saberhagen (AL) win Cy Young
18th - Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport
18th - Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC (WXRK 92.3 FM-afternoons)
18th - Paul McCartney releases "Spies Like Us"
19th - Herb Gardner's "I'm Not Rappaport," premieres in NYC
19th - Pres Reagan & Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for 1st time
20th - NY Yankee Don Mattingly easily wins AL MVP
20th - Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
22nd - Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-C
22nd - Largest swearing-in ceremony, 38,648 immigrants become US citizens
22nd - PNP/MAN win Antilian parliamentary election
23rd - 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijack Egyptair jet in Malta
23rd - Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China
24th - 73rd CFL Grey Cup: BC Lions defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 37-24
24th - Egyptian commandos storm captured Boeing in Malta, 60 killed
25th - White Sox shortstop Ozzie Guillen, is named AL Rookie of Year
26th - 23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched
26th - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
26th - Random House buys Richard Nixons memoires for $3,000,000
27th - Cards Vince Coleman wins NL Rookie of Year
27th - Republic of Ireland gains consultative role in Northern Ireland
28th - 6th Belgium govt of Martens forms