Events in History
Events 201 - 300 of 426
- Jun 28 Former member of South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), Jeannette Schoon, and her six-year old daughter, Katryn, are killed by a letter bomb at Lubango, in northern Angola
- Jun 29 Orel Hershiser begins string of making every sched start until 1990
- Jun 29 USSR offers to start talking about banning SDI
- Jun 30 Failed coup by cocaine growers in Bolivia
- Jun 30 Last sixpence minted in Great-Britain (in use since 1551)
- Jun 30 Longest pro football game, LA Express beats Mich Panthers 27-21 in USFL playoffs, games lasts 93 minutes 33 seconds
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Jun 30 Pierre Trudeau officially steps down as Prime Minister of Canada after serving two separate terms for a total of 15 years
Pierre Trudeau
- Jul 1 The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA
- Jul 3 Derek Underwood's maiden FC century after 22 yrs of trying
- Jul 3 Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island
- Jul 3 Greenidge scores brilliant 214 off 241 balls to win Lord's Test
- Jul 3 Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members
- Jul 4 Funeral for S Nakagawa and burial of half his ashes next to N Senzaki
- Jul 4 Kallicharran gets 206 & 6-32 in a NatWest Trophy game
- Jul 4 Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m
- Jul 5 Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials
- Jul 7 5 die in a train crash in Williston, Vermont
- Jul 9 12th Century York Minster damaged in lightning storm
- Jul 11 All star MVP: Gary Carter (Mont Expos) awarded for 2nd time
- Jul 11 Government orders air bags or seat belts would be required in cars by 1989
- Jul 11 Lucas Mangope re-elected president of Bophuthatswana
- Jul 12 Geraldine Ferraro becomes 1st US female major-party VP candidate
- Jul 12 A car bomb set off by the military wing of the ANC, explodes in Durban South Africa killing 5 and injuring 27 people
- Jul 13 Jeff Beck quits Rod Stewart's tour after 7 shows
- Jul 13 The last sitting of an all-white Parliament in South Africa
- Jul 14 STS 41-D vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB for remanifest of payloads
- Jul 14 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Jul 15 John Lennon's "I'm Stepping Out" released posthumously
- Jul 17 Pierre Mauroy resigns as Premier of France
- Jul 17 Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7
- Jul 17 US passes National Minimum Drinking Age Act, prohibiting under 21's from buying or possessing alcohol as a condition of receiving State highway funds
- Jul 18 Walter Mondale wins the Democratic Party presidential nomination in San Francisco
- Jul 18 21 people are killed and 19 are injured in a massacre in a McDonalds restaurant in San Ysidro, California; it ends with the shooting of its perpetrator, James Oliver Huberty
- Jul 19 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)
- Jul 19 Geraldine A Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY), wins Democratic VP nomination
- Jul 21 Marita Koch of East Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s
- Jul 21 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
- Jul 25 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space
- Jul 30 Alvenus tanker at Cameron Louisiana, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
- Jul 30 Holly Roffey aged 11 days is the youngest ever to receive a heart transplant
- Jul 31 Venz commandos terminate hijacking of an aircraft, 2 killed
- Aug 2 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Aug 3 365.7 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
- Aug 3 Bomb attack on Madras India airport, 32 killed
- Aug 4 Cliff Johnson sets a record with his 19th pinch hit HR
- Aug 4 Republic of Upper Volta becomes Burkina Faso (National Day)
- Aug 5 Lou Pinella Day at Yankee Stadium
- Aug 5 Toronto's Cliff Johnson hits record 19th career pinch HR
- Aug 6 203.05 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
- Aug 7 David Rabe's "Hurlyburly" premieres in NYC
- Aug 7 Jim Deshales becomes 1,000th playing Yankee
- Aug 8 Milwaukee 10-game losing streak ends
- Aug 9 Daley Thompson of Britain sets decathalon record (8,847) in California
- Aug 9 STS 41-D vehicle again moves out to launch pad
- Aug 11 Men's choir Maranatha Netherlands forms
- Aug 11 USSR performs (underground) nuclear test
- Aug 12 Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, & Luis Aparicio inducted into Hall of Fame
- Aug 13 Morocco & Libya sign "Arabic-African Union" treaty
- Aug 14 IBM releases PC DOS version 3.0
- Aug 14 West Indies complete 5-0 series annihilation of England
- Aug 15 The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military
- Aug 16 Sunken liner Andrea Doria's safe opened
- Aug 16 LA federal jury acquits auto maker John Z DeLorean on cocaine charges
- Aug 16 Largest harness racing purse ($2,161,000-Nihilator wins $1,080,500)
- Aug 16 NASA launches Ampte
- Aug 18 Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire
- Aug 22 Evelyn Ashford of US ties world women's mark for 100 m, 10.76 sec
- Aug 22 Last Volkswagen Rabbit produced
- Aug 22 The United Democratic Front, an internal coalition of anti-apartheid groups in South Africa, organizes a highly successful boycotts of the Colored and Indian elections to parliament
- Aug 25 French airship capsizes
- Aug 25 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Aug 26 Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 3k woman record (8:22.62) in Leningrad
- Aug 27 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Aug 27 War Against Indiscipline is launched by the Buhari regime in Nigeria
- Aug 28 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Aug 30 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days)
- Sep 3 28 year old Chicagoan wins $40 million in Illinois state lottery
- Sep 3 Bruce Sutter breaks NL record for saves in a season with his 38th
- Sep 3 South Africa adopts constitution
- Sep 5 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) -Discovery 1- lands at Edwards AFB
- Sep 6 Lanford Wilson's "Balm in Gilead" premieres in NYC
- Sep 6 Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow
- Sep 7 Met Dwight Gooden's 11 strikeouts gives him NL rookie record 236
- Sep 8 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41G mission
- Sep 10 Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Oklahoma
- Sep 10 Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across US (24 days)
Event of Interest
Sep 10 First episode of daily syndicated version of Jeopardy! with Alex Trebek as host
Alex Trebek
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Sep 13 Shimon Peres forms Israeli government with Likud
Shimon Peres
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Sep 17 Brian Mulroney sworn in as Canada's 18th Prime Minister, succeeding John Turner
Brian Mulroney
John Turner
- Sep 17 Dwight Gooden ties record of 32 strikeouts in consecutive games
- Sep 17 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Sep 18 Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic
- Sep 18 Tigers clinch AL East championship (spent all year in 1st place)
- Sep 19 Britain & China complete a proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997