Events 601 - 798 of 798
Television Debut
Sep 26 "Knight Rider", starring David Hasselhoff, debuts on NBC
- Sep 27 Cards clinching NL East title
Film & TV History
Sep 27 Filming begins on "Never Say Never Again" with Sean Connery playing James Bond for the final time
- Sep 27 Jan Wolkers awarded but refuses Constantine Huygens-prize
- Sep 27 John Palmer becomes news anchor of Today Show
- Sep 28 1st reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules
- Sep 28 NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 505
- Sep 29 Situation comedy "Cheers" premieres on NBC-TV, starring Ted Danson and Shelley Long
- Sep 29 Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kills 7 in Chicago
- Sep 29 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 30 National railroad strike in Belgium
- Sep 30 12th Commonwealth Games open in Brisbane, Australia
Album Release
Sep 30 Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen's sixth studio album "Nebraska", a solo record, made without a backing band
Historic Event
Oct 1 West Germany's Christian Democrat Union ousts Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor, replacing him with Helmut Kohl
- Oct 1 The Sony CDP-101, world's first commercially released Compact Disc player released in Japan for 168,000 yen ($730)
Album Release
Oct 1 Marvin Gaye releases his last studio album "Midnight Love" featuring single "Sexual Healing"
- Oct 2 Bomb attack in Tehran, kills 60, injures 700
Historic Event
Oct 2 The Portland Building, designed by Michael Graves, considered the 1st postmodern building is opened in Portland Oregon
- Oct 3 Center fielder Robin Yount homers twice as Milwaukee whips Baltimore, 10-2 at Memorial Stadium to win the Brewers only AL East Championship
- Oct 4 West German parliament officially confirms Helmut Kohl as the country's new Chancellor
- Oct 5 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- Oct 5 Hernan Siles Zuazo appointed president of Bolivia
- Oct 5 Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, NM
- Oct 5 First regular season NHL game is played in New Jersey (Newark; NJ Devils play a 3-3 tie against Pittsburgh Penguins at Brendan Byrne Arena; Don Lever scores first Devils' goal
- Oct 5 Pakistan cricket leg-spin bowler Abdul Qadir takes 7-142 as Australia is dismissed for 330 in 2nd Test in Faisalabad; Greg Ritchie scores maiden Test century (106 no) but home side prevails by an innings & 3 runs
- Oct 6 Auburn's Al Del Greco kicks 6 field goals
- Oct 6 Fokker Fellowship crashes at Moerdijk Neth, 17-22 die
- Oct 7 Olof Palme forms Swedish government
- Oct 7 Musical "Cats" opens at Winter Garden Theater on Broadway, NYC; runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000, wins 7 Tony and 1 Grammy Award
- Oct 8 New Jersey Devils 1st NHL victory; beat New York Rangers 3-2 at Meadowlands
- Oct 8 Poland bans Solidarity & all labor unions
- Oct 9 Attack on synagogue in Rome leaves 1 dead
- Oct 10 Hernan Siles Zuazo installed as president of Bolivia
Canonization
Oct 10 Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev Maximilian Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint
Music Awards
Oct 11 16th Country Music Association Award: Willie Nelson & Ricky Skagg
Baseball Record
Oct 12 Milwaukee Brewer Paul Molitor gets World series record 5 hits
Olympic Gold
Oct 13 IOC Executive Committee approves the reinstatement of Jim Thorpe's gold medals from the 1912 Olympics
Historic Event
Oct 14 US President Reagan proclaims a war on drugs
- Oct 16 Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return
Historic Event
Oct 16 Secretary of State George P. Shultz warns the US will withdraw from the UN if they vote to exclude Israel
- Oct 16 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Oct 17 1st live orchestra on a US commercial network since 1954 (National Symphony)
- Oct 17 Robin Yount is 1st to have 2 4-hit games in a World Series
- Oct 17 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Oct 19 Automaker John DeLorean arrested on cocaine charges (Not guilty)
Sports History
Oct 20 Billy Martin fired as manager of Oakland A's
- Oct 20 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to George Stigler
- Oct 20 Sri Lanka President Jayewardene re-elected
- Oct 20 Baseball World Series: St. Louis Cardinals beat Milwaukee Brewers, 6-3 at Busch Stadium for 4 games to 3 series triumph; MVP: St. Louis catcher Darrell Porter
- Oct 20 During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.
Historic Event
Oct 21 Private funeral service held for Bess Truman, former First Lady of the United States
NYC Women's Marathon
Oct 24 12th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:14
- Oct 24 13th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:29
Sports History
Oct 24 Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match
- Oct 25 David Hookes scores Cricket century in 34 balls 43 mins, SA v Victoria
Sports History
Oct 26 MLB Philadelphia Phillies Steve Carlton became 1st pitcher to win 4 Cy Young awards
- Oct 26 US budget deficit reaches more than $110 trillion for fiscal year 1982
- Oct 27 China announces its population has reached 1 billion plus people
- Oct 27 IBM ROM is capable of EGA graphics
- Oct 28 NASA launches RCA-E
- Oct 28 Spain's socialists win/communists lose elections
- Oct 29 Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted
Music Single
Oct 29 Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson release single "The Girl is Mine"; peaks at # 2 in US, and #8 in UK
- Oct 30 Portugal revises constitution
- Oct 31 "Rock 'n Roll!: The 1st..." closes at St James NYC after 9 performances
- Oct 31 Pope John Paul II becomes first pontiff to visit Spain
Canonization
Oct 31 Pope John Paul II canonizes Canadian Marguerite Bourgeoys, founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal, as a saint
- Nov 1 Andrew "Dice" Clay & George Wendt appear in "Trick or Treatment"
Appointment of Interest
Nov 1 MLB owners vote not to renew Commissioner Bowie Kuhn's contract; AL owners vote for Kuhn, 11-3, and NL, 7-5, 2 shy of 3/4 majority required for re-election; eventually replaced by Peter Ueberroth
Baseball Record
Nov 3 Pitcher Pete Vuckovich becomes Milwaukee Brewers' second consecutive American League Cy Young Award winner; edges Jim Palmer of the Baltimore Orioles; Vuckovich, 18-6 with 105 strikeouts and 3.34 ERA
Album Release
Nov 5 George Harrison releases "Gone Troppo", his tenth solo album
Sports History
Nov 9 Sugar Ray Leonard retires for 1st time
- Nov 10 IMF lends Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankruptcy
- Nov 11 Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn's stage drama with songs "Foxfire", strring Jesica Tandy, Keith Carradine, and Cronyn, opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC; runs for 213 performances and wins a Tony Award for Tandy
- Nov 11 5th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Columbia makes the first officially "operational" shuttle mission
- Nov 11 Gas explosion in Israeli army headquarters near Tyre; kills 60
Sports History
Nov 11 Joe Altobelli succeeds retiring Earl Weaver as Baltimore Orioles manager
- Nov 12 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Historic Event
Nov 12 KGB Chief Yuri Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as leader of the Soviet Union
- Nov 12 Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket for Pakistan v India, goes to 215
- Nov 12 Aaron Pryor scores a 14th round KO of Alexis Argüello in Miami to retain his WBA super lightweight boxing title in the first of 2 meetings between the Hall of Famers; The Ring’s 'Fight of the Decade'
- Nov 13 Vietnam Veterans Memorial opens in Washington, D.C., featuring the names of over 58,000 US soldiers killed or missing in the Vietnam War
- Nov 13 WBA lightweight champion Ray Mancini beats South Korean challenger Duk Koo Kim by TKO in 14th round in Las Vegas; Kim collapses, falls into a coma and dies 4 days later; as a result, WBC shortens title bouts to 12 rounds; WBA & WBO follow in 1988, and IBF in 1989
Historic Event
Nov 14 Polish Solidarity chairman Lech Wałęsa freed
Historic Event
Nov 15 Funeral service held in Moscow's Red Square for Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev
Theater Premiere
Nov 16 Tom Stoppard's play "The Real Thing" premieres in London starring Felicity Kendal and Roger Rees
- Nov 17 Dale Murphy wins NL MVP
- Nov 18 Mariasela Alvarez of Dominican Republic, crowned 32nd Miss World
- Nov 18 South Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim dies from injuries sustained during a 14-round beating by Ray Mancini in Las Vegas; WBC shortens title bouts to 12 rounds; WBA and WBO follow in 1988, and IBF in 1989
Film & TV History
Nov 20 Drew Barrymore at age 7 hosts "Saturday Night Live"
Sports History
Nov 21 32nd NASCAR Sprint Cup: Darrell Waltrip wins
Sports History
Nov 24 Orioles Cal Ripken is named AL Rookie of Year
Historic Event
Nov 26 Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch
Davis Cup
Nov 27 Davis Cup, Grenoble, France: US takes unassailable, 3-0 lead over France as John McEnroe & Peter Flemming take the doubles 6-3, 6-4, 9-7 over Henri Leconte & Yannick Noah; tie ends 4-1
- Nov 27 47th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 23-22 in Birmingham, Auburn's first win in the series in 10 years
- Nov 28 "Pirates of Penzance" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 772 performances
- Nov 28 CFL Grey Cup, CNE Stadium, Toronto: Edmonton Eskimos' record 5th straight Championship; defeat Toronto Argonauts, 32-16
Sports History
Nov 28 Germany's Sylvia Hanika stages remarkable comeback to upset tennis icon Martina Navratilova 1–6, 6–3, 6–4 and win her only WTA Tour Championship in NYC
- Nov 29 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Nov 30 STS-6 vehicle moves to launch pad
- Nov 30 US submarine Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in South China Sea
- Nov 30 USSR performs nuclear test
- Nov 30 "Thriller", 6th studio album by Michael Jackson is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1984, best-selling album of all time, Billboard Album of the Year 1983)
- Nov 30 Ottumwa, Iowa, declared "Video Game Capital of the World" by mayor Jerry Parker
Film Premiere
Nov 30 "Gandhi" directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Ben Kingsley and John Gielgud premieres in New Delhi (Best Picture 1983)
Film Premiere
Dec 1 "Tootsie" directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Lange premieres in Hollywood
- Dec 2 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (U of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with Jarvic-7 heart
- Dec 2 American track and field record holder Steve Scott sets record for fastest round of golf played on a regulation course; posts a 95, completing 18 holes in 29:33.05s at Miller Golf Club in Anaheim, California; he used only two clubs, and ran between holes
- Dec 3 35.7 cm rainfall at Big Fork, Arkansas (state record)
- Dec 3 77°F highest December temperature ever recorded in Cleveland, Ohio
- Dec 3 After losing his world welterweight boxing titles to Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns wins WBC Super Welterweight crown in a majority points decision over Wilfred Benitez at Superdome, New Orleans
Film Release
Dec 3 "Frances", film depicting life of actress Frances Farmer and starring Jessica Lange, first released in the US
- Dec 4 48th Heisman Trophy Award: Herschel Walker, Georgia (RB)
- Dec 4 China adopts its constitution
- Dec 4 Police and racist demonstrators clash in Antwerp
- Dec 5 NFL Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets club record with 33 pass completions
- Dec 5 Ingrid Berghmans (Neth) retains judo's world championship
- Dec 5 Mel Gray ends NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions
- Dec 5 Seattle Univ Baptist Ch declares sanctuary for Cen Am refugees
- Dec 5 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Dec 5 15th NAACP Image Awards: "An Officer and a Gentleman" wins Outstanding Motion Picture
- Dec 5 PGA Seniors' Championship Men's Golf, PGA National GC: Don January wins his lone Champions Tour major title by 1 stroke over Julius Boros
- Dec 6 Droppin Well bombing: 11 British soldiers and 6 civilians are killed by an Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) time bomb at the Droppin’ Well Bar in Ballykelly, County Londonderry
- Dec 7 Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building
- Dec 7 In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the US.
- Dec 7 Dos Erres massacre in Guatemala during country's civil war, 171 people killed led by Santos López Alonzo
- Dec 8 "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" opens at Ambassador NYC for 6 performances
- Dec 8 Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot
- Dec 8 Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents
- Dec 8 Norman Mayer holds Washington Monument hostage, demanding an end to nuclear weapons. Is killed by police after 10 hrs (he had no explosives)
Nobel Prize
Dec 8 Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
Film Release
Dec 8 "Sophie's Choice", directed by Alan J. Pakula and based on William Styton's 1979 novel of the same name, starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline, is released (Academy Awards Best Actress 1983)
- Dec 9 World Boxing Council first to reduce the length of championship fights from 15 to 12 rounds, and allows referees to order standing 8-count for fighters in trouble
Boxing Title Fight
Dec 10 Heavyweight Michael Doakes KOs Mike Weaver in 1:03 in Las Vegas
- Dec 10 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
- Dec 10 CDC report on a transfusion recipient who developed AIDS symptoms
- Dec 12 "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" closes at Ambassador NYC after 6 performances
- Dec 12 $9,800,000 in cash stolen from money transport car in NYC
- Dec 12 The "Snowplow Game": when a snowstorm holds a New England vs Miami game scoreless, Mark Henderson, a convict on work release, on Patriots coach Ron Meyer order, clears the path for John Smith's attempt, which wins the game for the Patriots, 3-0
Australian Open Women's Tennis
Dec 12 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Chris Evert-Lloyd wins her first Australian title; beats Martina Navratilova 6-3, 2-6, 6-3
Sports History
Dec 14 LA Kings' Marcel Dionne becomes 9th NHLer to score 500 goals
Sports History
Dec 15 Bill Parcells becomes 12th head coach of NY Giants
- Dec 15 Teamsters president Roy Williams and 4 others convicted of bribery
- Dec 15 Sao Tome & Principe constitution approved
- Dec 15 Spain reopens border with Gibraltar
- Dec 16 The Federal Reserve announces that the operating capacity of factories has gone down to 67.8%.
- Dec 18 Flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 20 seconds
- Dec 22 William Mastrosimone's play "Extremities" premieres in NYC
- Dec 23 The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.
- Dec 24 Chaminade, with a student body of only 850 students, beats #1 ranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic
Sports History
Dec 25 Mudassar Nazar scores 119 in Pakistan's 2nd innings 452 before Imran Khan takes 6 Indian wickets in 2nd Test in Karachi; he finished with 8/60 on the final day
- Dec 26 TIME's Man of the Year is a computer
- Dec 26 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Dec 27 Imran Khan 8-60 to bring innings victory v India at Karachi
- Dec 28 Ballon d'Or: Juventus striker Paolo Rossi is named best European football player; beats Bordeaux midfielder Alain Giresse and Juventus' Polish midfielder Zbigniew Boniek
Music History
Dec 29 Bob Marley postage stamp issued in Jamaica
- Dec 29 American college football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant ends his career with University of Alabama (323 wins)
- Dec 30 Anthony Shaffer's "Whodunnit" premieres in NYC
- Dec 30 England defeat Australia by three runs at cricket MCG
- Dec 30 US Assay Office in New York City, NY closes
- Dec 31 CBS Mystery Theater final episode on radio after 8 years
- Dec 31 NBC radio cancels almost all of its network daily features
- Dec 31 TV soap "Doctors" ends 19 year run