Events in History
Events 201 - 300 of 440
- Jun 28 Bridge section along I-95 in Greenwich, Connecticutt collapses, killing 3
- Jun 28 NASA launches Galaxy-A
- Jun 29 Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly Air Force Base
- Jul 1 Arbitrator Raymond Goetz rules 43 players who are on Disabled List during 1981 players' strike not entitled to salaries for that period
- Jul 3 Calvin Smith of US becomes fastest man alive (9.93 for 100m)
- Jul 3 Rangers explode for 12 runs in 15th inning of a 16-4 win over the A's
- Jul 5 France invades Algeria
- Jul 5 Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death (Roanoke, Virginia)
- Jul 6 Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less
- Jul 6 Fred Lynn of Angels hits All Star game 1st grand slam (AL wins 13-3)
- Jul 7 11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for USSR
- Jul 12 Chad government troops reconquer Abéché
- Jul 13 The Transvaal Attorney General announces that Eugène Terre'Blanche, leader of the far-right Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and three associates will face terrorism charges, South Africa
- Jul 14 US politician Crane (Rep-R-Il) and Studds (Rep-D-Mas) admit to sex with pages
- Jul 14 Mario Bros. is first released by Nintendo in Japan as an arcade game about an Italian-American plumber
- Jul 15 8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France
- Jul 15 Linda Ronstadt debuts as Mabel in "Pirates of Penzance"
- Jul 16 Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities in Britain's worst helicopter accident
- Jul 17 1st USFL championship (Mich Panthers beats Philadelphia Stars 24-22)
- Jul 18 Despite being in 1st place in NL East, Phils fire manager Pat Corrales
- Jul 19 The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
- Jul 20 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll
- Jul 21 Polish government ends 19 months of martial law
- Jul 21 Storm cuts short Diana Ross' free concert in NY's Central Park
- Jul 21 US announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge
- Jul 21 World's lowest-ever natural temperature recorded −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F; 184.0 K) at Soviet Vostok Station, Antarctica
- Jul 22 Angels OF Brian Downing error ends his record streak at 244 games
- Jul 22 Dick Smith makes 1st solo helicopter flight around the world
- Jul 22 Polish Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski lifts martial law after 19 months
- Jul 23 Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
- Jul 24 Sonya Robinson, (Milwaukee), 23, crowned 16th Miss Black America
- Jul 25 1st non-human primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio
- Jul 25 Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion
- Jul 26 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-8
- Jul 26 Jarmila Kratochvilova of Czech sets 800m woman's record (1:53.28)
- Jul 26 Light flashes seen on Jupiter moon Io
- Jul 26 US threatens action to preserve navigation in Persian Gulf
- Jul 27 104°F (40.3°C) in Garmersdorf (German record)
- Jul 28 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Jul 28 NASA launches Telstar-3A
- Jul 29 Steve Garvey ends his NL record 1,207 consecutive game streak
- Jul 30 Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, California
- Jul 31 B Robinson, J Marichal, G Kell, and W Alston inducted into Hall of Fame
- Jul 31 Dutch July average temperature is 20.1°C; warmest July since 1852
- Aug 2 STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad
- Aug 2 US District Court begins trying Yonkers accused of race discrimination
- Aug 3 John Sain of South Bend, Indiana, builds 3.91 m house of cards
- Aug 3 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Aug 4 Bettino Craxi sworn in as premier of Italy
- Aug 4 France performs nuclear test
- Aug 4 Revolution in Republic of Upper Volta brings Thomas Sankara to power
Historic Publication
Aug 4 Danielle Steel’s romance novel “Thurston House” is published
Danielle Steel
- Aug 6 Supertanker Castillo de Bellvar catches fire and sinks northwest of Capetown, South Africa
- Aug 6 Bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of ANC, explodes at a synagogue in Johannesburg, South Africa
- Aug 7 1st World Track & Field Championships
- Aug 7 Bobby Murcer Day at Yankee Stadium
- Aug 7 Some 675,000 AT&T employees strike
- Aug 8 Jury in KC, Mo, awards TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in sex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV (later overturned)
Coup d'état
Aug 8 Military coup in Guatemala, Dictator and former General Efraín Rios Montt flees
Efraín Ríos Montt
Manuel Noriega
- Aug 17 -19] Hurricane Alicia, kills 17 in Texas
- Aug 18 Hurricane Alicia battered Houston & Galveston, Texas
- Aug 18 Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d becomes the youngest woman to swim English Channel
- Aug 18 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Aug 18 Royals defeat Yanks, 5-4, completing "pine-tar" game (12 minutes). Hal McRae strikes out & Dan Quisenberry retires Yankees in order
- Aug 20 The South African anti-apartheid umbrella organization, United Democratic Front (UDF) is launched at Rocklands Community Centre in Cape Town, South Afrca
- Aug 21 110°F (43°C) at Fayetteville, North Carolina (state record)
- Aug 25 US & USSR sign $10 billion grain pact
- Aug 26 Floods destroy most of the old town of Bilbao, Spain.
- Aug 27 Haiti adopts constitution
- Aug 27 US performs nuclear test
- Aug 28 Greg Luzinski is 1st player to put 3 HRs onto roof at Comiskey Park
Event of Interest
Aug 28 Israeli PM Menachem Begin announces his resignation
Menachem Begin
- Aug 28 Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour
- Aug 30 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days)
- Aug 30 WKBC-TV (channel 48) ends broadcasting in Philadelphia
- Aug 30 Guion Bluford becomes 1st African-American astronaut in space
- Aug 31 Edwin Moses of USA sets 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz
- Sep 1 Korean Boeing 747, flight 007, strays into Siberia & is shot down by a Soviet jet
- Sep 1 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Sep 1 WGH-AM in Newport News VA changes call letters to WNSY
- Sep 2 Yitzḥak Shamir (Likud party) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli PM
- Sep 4 Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed rec (119.36 mph)
- Sep 5 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB
- Sep 5 Elmer Trettr sets record for highest terminal velocity at 201.34 mph
- Sep 6 Soviet Union admits that it shot down the South Korean airliner KAL 007 on September 1st
- Sep 7 Drury Gallagher sets fastest swim around Manhattan (6h41m35s)
- Sep 8 NASA launches RCA-6
- Sep 9 Challenger returns to Kennedy Space Center via Sheppard AFB, Texas
- Sep 9 Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (Coco2)
- Sep 11 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Sep 12 Albert Rizzo trod water at sea for 108 hours 9 minutes
- Sep 12 Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million
- Sep 12 USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane
- Sep 13 Dan Quisenberry record 39th season save
- Sep 13 Steve O'Shaughnessy scores 100 in 35 mins, Lancs v Leics
- Sep 14 US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner
- Sep 14 Texan San Jacinto county sheriff James "Humpy" Parker convicted of violating inmates civil rights and of torture
- Sep 15 Police officers beat Michael Stewart to death for graffiting NYC subway
- Sep 15 Israel premier Menachem Begin resigns