Historical Events for August 1992
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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
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