Historical Events in August 1993

Aug 1 14-time MLB All Star Reggie Jackson is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY

Aug 1 Walter Koenig, Chekov of Star Trek, suffers a heart attack
Aug 1 England wins the women's cricket World Cup for the first time since the inaugural event in 1973 with a 67 run victory over New Zealand at Lord's
Aug 2 NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes
Aug 2 Maryland investors led by Baltimore attorney Peter Angelos buy the Baltimore Orioles at auction in New York for $173m, nearly $50m more than ever paid for a baseball team
Aug 2 Train crash in tunnel at Vega de Anzo Spain, 12 killed
Aug 2 Shamrock Broadcasting, a Disney company, officially takes ownership of Cleveland's WMMS-FM/100.7 & WHK-AM/1420
Aug 4 Angolan air force bombs Huambo
Aug 4 Rwandian Hutus and Tutsis sign peace treaty in Arusha, Tanzania
Aug 4 Tony Gwynn gets 6 hits, 4th time in 1993 a Padre gets 5 or more hits
Aug 6 Japan Hosokawa government begins

Aug 6 Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical Veritatis splendor

Aug 7 "Camelot" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 56 performances
Aug 7 Tropical storm Brett ravages Venezuela, 118 killed
Aug 8 Dana Lofland wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic Dormann at Stratton Mt
Aug 8 Tropical storm Bret ravages Venezuela, about 100 killed
Aug 9 King Albert II of Belgium, crowned
Aug 10 Charlotte Anne Lopez, 16, of Vermont, crowned 11th Miss Teen USA
Aug 10 An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hits the South Island of New Zealand.
Aug 11 NY Islander Brian Mullen, 31, suffers a mild stroke
Aug 11 Pope John Paul II visits Mexico

Aug 11 Red Sox Roger Clemens pitches 2,000th strike out (Danny Tartabul-NY)

Aug 13 Blue Jay Rickey Henderson pays Turner Ward $25,000 for his #24

Aug 13 Hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima Thailand, collapses, 114 killed
Aug 13 US Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail
Aug 13 4th Athletics World Championships open at Stuttgart, Germany
Aug 14 Nigerian presidential election
Aug 14 Reggie Jackson Day - NY Yanks retire 13th # (#44)
Aug 14 St Louis reliever Lee Smith is fastest to get 40 saves
Aug 15 "Goodbye Girl" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 188 performances
Aug 15 75th PGA Championship: Paul Azinger shoots a 272 at Inverness Club Oh
Aug 15 Cindy Schreyer wins LPGA Sun-Time Challenge Golf Tournament
Aug 15 NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes for 2nd time

Aug 15 Nolan Ryan, 324th & final victory, Rangers 4, Indians 1

Aug 15 Televangelist Robert Tilton announces he is divorcing Marte
Aug 16 The Debian distribution first announced by Ian Murdock, a student at Purdue University (Murdock initially called his system the "Debian Linux Release")
Aug 16 South Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay
Aug 18 Historical Kapelbrug in Luzern Switzerland, destroyed by fire
Aug 19 34th Walker Cup: US, 19-5
Aug 19 Dow Jones hits record high of 3612.13
Aug 19 George Tiller, abortion doctor, shot in his arms by Rachelle Shannon
Aug 19 Mattel & Fisher Price toy companies merge
Aug 19 Sally Gunnell runs women's world record 400m hurdles (52.74")
Aug 19 26th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Doubletree Hotel
Aug 20 Colin Jackson runs world record 110m hurdles (12.91)
Aug 20 Howard Stern is fired from WLUP-AM, Chicago

Aug 20 Mother Teresa hospitalized with malaria

Aug 20 Oslo Peace Accords signed, after secret negotiations in Norway, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month
Aug 21 NASA loses contact with Mars Observer
Aug 22 "In the Summer House" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 25 performances
Aug 22 Hiromi Kobayash wins Minnesota LPGA Golf Classic
Aug 23 NY Dow Jones index reaches record high of 3,638.96 points

Aug 23 Fred McGriff & David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back HRs twice in same game

Aug 24 Mars Observer comes closest to Mars
Aug 24 Padres scores 14 in 1st vs Cardinals
Aug 26 Ernest Shonekan is appointed interim president of Nigeria by General Ibrahim Babangida
Aug 27 Yak-40 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 79 killed/1 lives
Aug 27 The Rainbow Bridge connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba is completed.
Aug 28 Dam breaks in Qinghai West China, 223 killed
Aug 28 Jakovlev-42 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 76 killed
Aug 28 Long Beach California beats Panama for little league world championship
Aug 28 Singapore vice-premier Teng Cheong elected president

Aug 29 Canadian Open Golf (du Maurier Classic), London Hunt GC: Brandie Burton wins in a playoff from Betsy King

Aug 30 150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower

Aug 30 Hassan II mosque opens in Casablanca, second largest mosque in the world
Aug 31 Minnesota Twins beat Cleveland Indians 5-4 in 22 innings
Aug 31 Venezuela president Carlos Perez flees
Aug 31 HMS Mercury, the Royal Navy's communications training establishment, closes after 52 years in commission.
Aug 31 50th Venice Film Festival: "Short Cuts" directed by Robert Altman and "Three Colors: Blue" directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski jointly awarded Golden Lion