Historical Events for Year 1992 (Part 5)

Months in Year 1992: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Events 601 - 750 of 906

Aug 3rd - Paramount inaugurates New York Street on TV/movie lot
Aug 5th - 4 cops in Rodney King beating case indicted on civil rights charge
Aug 6th - Harold Wilson's academy award is auctioned for $60,500
Aug 7th - Cleveland Indians turn a triple play
Aug 7th - Tampa Bay group purchases SF Giants
Aug 8th - Lou Whitaker hits his 200th career HR
Aug 9th - "Streetcar Named Desire" closes at Ethel Barrymore NYC after 137 perf
Aug 9th - 25th Olympic Summer games closes in Barcelona, Spain
Aug 9th - Florence Descampe wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic at Stratton Mt
Aug 9th - Last day of Test Cricket for David Gower
Aug 9th - Record temperature in Berlin-Dahlem 99.3°F (37.4°C)
Aug 10th - Satellite TOPEX/Poseidon launched
Aug 10th - Soyuz TM-15 lands
Aug 11th - Oakland A's rip Jose Canseco for leaving stadium before end of game
Aug 12th - Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Aug 15th - Colombo '92 closes in Genoa Italy
Aug 16th - 20th du Maurier Golf Classic: Sherri Steinhaur
Aug 16th - 74th PGA Championship: Nick Price shoots a 278 at Bellerive St Louis
Aug 16th - Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k (7:28.96)
Aug 17th - Kevin Gross of Dodgers tosses only 9-inning no-hitter of season, a 2-0
Aug 18th - "Real Inspector Hound" opens at Criterion NYC for 61 perfs
Aug 19th - Romesh Kaluwitharana scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (SL v Australia)
Aug 19th - Sri Lanka make their highest cricket score ever 8-547 v Australia
Aug 20th - England get 7-363 in 55 overs vs Pakistan, then world ODI record
Aug 22nd - Matthews & Warne spin Australia to a famous win v Sri Lanka
Aug 22nd - FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
Aug 23rd - Kris Tschetter wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic
Aug 23rd - Dennis Eckersley, who previously set record for most consecutive saves (40), is 1st pitcher to record 40 saves in 4 different seasons
Aug 24th - 1st structural steel beams are erected at Gateway (Jacobs Field)
Aug 24th - Cleveland Browns suffer their worst preseason loss, 56-3, to Vikings
Aug 24th - Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida; 35 die
Aug 24th - Screw magazine superimposed a gunsight over a picture of Larry Flint
Aug 24th - Diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and South Korea.
Aug 25th - Jamie Solinger, of Iowa, crowned 10th Miss Teen USA
Aug 26th - "Anna Karenina" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 46 performances
Aug 27th - CFL revokes BC Lions franchise
Aug 27th - Mets trade David Cone to Toronto for Jeff Kent & Ryan Thompson
Aug 28th - Test Cricket debut of Muttiah Muralitharan, vs Australia at Colombo
Aug 29th - Largest wrestling crowd out side of US (75,000) at Wembley Stadium
Aug 29th - Randy Myers blows his 6th save of the season & it marks the 5th time he's blown a potential win for Greg Harris
Aug 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
Aug 30th - "2 Trains Running" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 160 perfs
Aug 30th - "Most Happy Fella" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 229 performances
Aug 30th - 92nd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonard
Aug 30th - David Lewett & Jane Luu discovers comet: "1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun
Aug 30th - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Sun-Times Golf Challenge
Aug 31st - 44th Emmy Awards: Northern Exposure, Christopher Lloyd & Dana Delane
Aug 31st - Dynamite explosion in Philipines mine; 500 die
Aug 31st - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Cleveland OH on WNCX 98.5 FM
Sep 1st - NYC police commisioner Brown resigns
Sep 1st - Tommy Smothers undergoes arthroscopic surgery
Sep 2nd - Nicaragua struck by earthquake/floodings; 118 die
Sep 2nd - US dollar valued at 156.50 guilder (record)
Comedian Jerry Lewis Sep 3rd - Jerry Lewis' 27th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,759,368
Sep 4th - "Scared Silent" is 1st non news program to be seen on 3 networks simultaneously. (CBS, NBC & PBS), about child abuse hosted by Oprah
Sep 5th - Dan O'Brien sets world record decathlon (8891 pts)
Sep 6th - Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m (3:28.86)
Sep 7th - Army of Ciskei homeland kills 28 ANC demonstrators
Sep 7th - Baseball commissioner Faye Vincent resigns
Sep 7th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
Sep 8th - Danny Tartabull has 9 RBIs as Yanks beat Orioles 16-4
Sep 8th - Howard Stern Radio Show begins broadcasting in Dallas (KGEL-FM 97.1)
Sep 9th - 1st time Baltimore Orioles draw 3 million fans at home
Sep 9th - 9th MTV Awards: Howard Stern appears as Fartman
Sep 9th - Robin Yount, is 17th to get 3,000 hits
Sep 10th - Bud Selig becomes interm commissioner of baseball
Sep 10th - Lucy in Peanuts comics raises her Pyschiatric Help from 5 cents to 47 cents
Sep 11th - Hurricane Iniki hits Kauai Hawaii; 3 die & 8,000 injured
Radio shock jock Howard Stern Sep 12th - 106th US Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A Sanchez Vicario (63 63)
Sep 12th - Hurricane Inuki pounds Hawaii
Sep 12th - STS-47 (Endeavour 2) launches
Sep 12th - Stefan Edberg beats Michael Chang in what is believed to be the longest match in US Open history (5hr 26min)
Sep 13th - 112th US Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Pete Sampras (36 64 76 62)
Sep 13th - NY Giants trailing Dallas Cowboys 34-0 in 3rd, lose 34-28
Sep 13th - Nancy Lopez wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship
Sep 13th - Steffan Edberg beats Pete Sampress to win US Open
Sep 14th - 1st subway car completed to be exported from US (to Taiwan)
Sep 15th - Ted Weiss, despite dying on 14th, wins congressional NYC seat
Sep 16th - "Les Miserables," opens at Nuevo Apolo, Madrid
Sep 16th - 900 die in flood in Pakistan
Sep 16th - FCC votes to allow competition for local phone service
Sep 17th - Amsterdam stock exchange hits record Ÿ8.8 billion
Sep 17th - House votes 280 to 128 to give FCC control of cable TV rates
Champion Tennis Player Pete Sampras Sep 17th - NFL decides to suspend World League Football
Sep 19th - Sergei Boebka pole vaults world record (6.13m)
Sep 19th - UN Security Council votes 12-0 (3 abstentions) to dump Yugoslavia
Sep 19th - Barry Bonds joins Willie Mays, Howard Johnson & Ron Gant as having (2) 30-HR/30-steal seasons
Sep 20th - Colleen Walker wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
Sep 20th - France votes in favor of Maastricht treaty
Sep 20th - Leanza Cornett (Florida), 21, crowned 66th Miss America 1993
Sep 20th - Phils' Mickey Moradini makes an unassisted triple play
Sep 20th - Space shuttle STS-47 (Endeavour 2) lands
Sep 22nd - Heavy storm in South France, 34 die
Sep 23rd - Bill Comrie purchases BC Lions from CFL
Sep 23rd - Bradlees announces it will take over Alexander's dept stores in NYC
Sep 23rd - Jackson Browne reportedly beats girlfriend Daryl Hannah
Sep 23rd - Mud storm kills 30 in South France
Sep 23rd - 1st female to play in a NHL exhibition game (Manon Rheaume, goalie) for Tampa Bay Lightning - gives up 2 goals on 9 attempts in 1 period
Sep 24th - John Jaha ties record of 11 teammates to steal 10 bases (Brewers)
Sep 24th - Scott Stevens is named 5th Captain in NJ Devils history
Sep 24th - Toronto's Dave Winfield, 40, is oldest player to reach 100-RBI
Musician Barry Manilow Sep 25th - "Barry Manilow's Showstoppers" opens at Paramount NYC
Sep 25th - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
Sep 25th - Opening Main-Donau canal (North Sea-Black Sea)
Sep 25th - Sparky Anderson ties Hughie Jennings as Detroit's winningest manager
Sep 25th - US Mars Observer launched from Space shuttle
Sep 25th - Gregory Kingsley, 12, wins right to divorce his parents & live with his foster parents, he takes name Shawn Russ
Sep 26th - Jimmy Connors beats Martina Navratilova, 7-5, 6-3
Sep 26th - Nigerian Hercules C-130 crashes at Lagos, 163 die
Sep 26th - Roseanne Barr Arnold gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
Sep 26th - Tsuruhiko Kiuchi discovers comet Swift-Tuttle
Sep 26th - 1st time a positional player pitches for NY Mets, Phil Pecota, in 19-2 lose to Pirates
Sep 27th - ASPCA stops Santeria ceremony in Bronx halts sacrifice of 42 animals
Sep 27th - LA Dodgers for 1st time in history clinch last place
Sep 27th - Military transport plane crashes in Lagos, Nigeria killing 163
Sep 27th - Nancy Scranton wins Los Coyotes LPGA Golf Classic
Comedienne/Actor Roseanne Sep 27th - Pittsburgh Pirates win their 3rd straight NL East title
Sep 27th - Seattle's Randy Johnson ties AL record for lefties with 18 strike outs
Sep 28th - "Barry Manilow's Showstoppers" closes at Paramount Theater NYC
Sep 28th - "Dog City," cartoon debuts on Fox-TV
Sep 28th - Oakland A's win AL West title
Sep 28th - Pakistani Airbus A-300 crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 167 dies
Sep 29th - Atlanta Braves wins 2nd straight NL West title
Sep 29th - Magic Johnson announces return to play basketball (he doesn't)
Sep 29th - Parliament suspends president Fernando Collor
Sep 30th - 26th Country Music Association Award: Garth Brooks wins
Sep 30th - KC Royal George Brett gets 4 hits to become 18th to get 3,000 hits
Sep 30th - Mariel Hemmingway appears nude on TV show Civil Wars
Oct 1st - "Oba Oba '93" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 22 performances
Oct 1st - Cartoon Cable Network premieres
Oct 1st - Greater Pittsburgh International Airport opens
Oct 1st - Ross Perot re-enters presidental race
Oct 2nd - VP Itamar Franco becomes pres of Brazil
Oct 2nd - The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil.
Oct 3rd - Atlanta Braves win franchise record 98th game (old record 95 in 1957)
Pop Star Madonna Oct 3rd - Madonna premieres her "Erotica" video on MTV
Oct 3rd - Sinead O'Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live
Oct 3rd - Toronto Blue Jays win AL East title
Oct 4th - "Anna Karenina" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 46 perfs
Oct 4th - "Real Inspector Hound" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 perfs
Oct 4th - 1st time AL East & West champs have same record (96-66)-Tor & Oak
Oct 4th - 2nd Solheim Cup: Europe beats US, 11½-6½ at Dalmahoy CC Scotland
Oct 4th - El Al cargo plane crashes at Amsterdam Bijlmer, 43 die
Oct 4th - Miami Dolphin Louis Oliver returns record tying interception 103 yards
Oct 4th - The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.
Oct 5th - 1st overturn of a George Bush veto (cable bill)
Oct 5th - NY senator Alphonse D'Mato fillerbusters for 15 hours 20 mins
Oct 5th - US Air goes on strike
Oct 7th - Tampa Bay Lightning become 1st NHL expansion team to win opener (7-2)
Oct 8th - Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott