Events in History
Events 401 - 500 of 532
- Oct 9 Dennis Eckersley, 1st to save all 4 games in a championship series
- Oct 10 Royals announce that Dick Howser, who underwent surgery for a brain tumor in July, will return to manage the club in 1989
- Oct 12 George H. W. Bush and Michael Dukakis meet in their second presidential debate
- Oct 12 Israel & China sign trade deal, plan diplomatic relations
Event of Interest
Oct 12 Pope John Paul II is the target of anti-papal heckling by Protestant leader Ian Paisley at a European Parliament meeting in Strasbourgh, France
John Paul II
- Oct 13 Concert at Masada ends Israel's 40th-anniversary festival
- Oct 13 Shroud of Turin, revered by many Christians as Christ's burial cloth, is shown by carbon-dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages
- Oct 13 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Oct 14 Naguib Mahfouz is the 1st Arabic writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Oct 14 Crude oil prices jump in anticipation of possible production accord at Gulf Cooperation Council meeting set for October 16
- Oct 15 Amnesty International's Global Concert Tour ends in Buenos Aires
- Oct 16 "Smile Jamaica" concert for Hurricane Gilbert victims held in London
- Oct 17 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome
- Oct 17 Lyndon LaRouche pleads innocent to fraud, conspiracy indictment
- Oct 17 Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft
- Oct 17 Traveling Wilburys Volume 1 is released
- Oct 18 Israel's supreme court uphold's ban on Kahane`s Kach Party as racist
- Oct 18 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Oct 19 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel
- Oct 19 Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members
- Oct 19 Car bomb kills 7 Israelis, wounds 11 near Lebanon border
- Oct 19 Roxette releases "Roxette Look Sharp!" album
- Oct 19 South African anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize
- Oct 20 Britain ends suspects' right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA
- Oct 20 Gastineau sacks Jets, retires from football "for personal reasons"
- Oct 20 Man armed with explosives blows himself up in 125 St subway station (NYC)
Event of Interest
Oct 21 Philippine former first couple Ferdinand & Imelda Marcos indicted on racketeering charges
Imelda Marcos
- Oct 22 Supreme Ct Justice Sandra Day O'Connor OK after breast cancer surgery
- Oct 23 Robert Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by US Senate
- Oct 24 Typhoon Ruby sinks Philippine ferry; hundreds drown
- Oct 25 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- Oct 26 US-Soviet effort to free 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic, Barrow, AK
- Oct 27 Larry Flynt paid hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione & Sinatra
- Oct 28 Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister
Event of Interest
Oct 28 Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen gives $10 million to University of Washington library
Paul Allen
- Oct 29 2,000 US anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics
- Oct 29 China announces a herbal male contraceptive
- Oct 29 Jim Elliott (US) begins 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
- Oct 29 First scheduled Soviet shuttle launch (postponed)
- Oct 30 2 gambling clubs & 1 player share 61.38 M California lotto jackpot
- Oct 30 Jim Elliott (US) completes 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
- Oct 31 19°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct
- Oct 31 Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia
- Nov 1 Staten Island ferry gets 1st pay phones
- Nov 2 Walt Weiss wins AL rookie of year (3rd straight for Oakland A's)
- Nov 2 The Morris worm, first internet-distributed computer worm to gain mainstream media attention launched from MIT, strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab & 6 universities
- Nov 3 Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane
- Nov 3 Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew
- Nov 3 Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at TV taping
- Nov 5 Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage
- Nov 5 France performs nuclear test
- Nov 5 Gulch wins Breeder's Cup
- Nov 7 Sugar Ray Leonard KO's Donnie LaLonde
- Nov 8 900 die as earthquake hits China
- Nov 8 Vice President George H. W. Bush is elected President of the United States, defeating Democrat candidate Michael Dukakis
- Nov 8 Rafael Fernandez Colón elected as president of Puerto Rico
- Nov 10 China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 938
- Nov 10 NY's MTA announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes
- Nov 10 Orel Hershiser (23-8) is a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young Award
- Nov 11 Oldest known insect fossils (390 million yrs) reported in Science
- Nov 12 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Nov 15 91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV, collapses
- Nov 15 Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits)
- Nov 15 The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
- Nov 16 Estonia declares sovereignty in internal affairs
Election of Interest
Nov 16 Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto's PPP wins 1st free Pakistani elections in 11 years
Benazir Bhutto
Event of Interest
Nov 17 Neil Simon's "Rumors" premieres in NYC
Neil Simon
- Nov 23 France performs nuclear test
- Nov 25 Chuck Berry pays $250 fine to resolve NYC assault charges
- Nov 25 Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed
- Nov 25 US & Soviet chess grand masters Donaldson & Akhmilovskaya wed
- Nov 25 Widespread earthquake hits North East US, Canada, no damage reported
- Nov 25 German politician Rita Süssmuth becomes president of the Bundestag.
- Nov 26 Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev & Jean-Loup Chretien launch
- Nov 26 Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km)
Pablo Picasso
- Nov 30 Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed
- Nov 30 France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
- Nov 30 Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; 1st time in 38 yrs
- Nov 30 UN General Assembly (151-2) censures US for refusing PLO's Arafat visa
- Nov 30 Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25.07 billion USD.
- Dec 1 596 dead after cyclone hits Bangladesh, half a million homeless
- Dec 1 Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Muslim country (Pakistan)
- Dec 1 Chinese minister of Foreign affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow
- Dec 2 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet surrender in Israel
- Dec 2 STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission)
- Dec 2 UN votes 151-2 (Israel and US) to move PLO debate to Geneva, Great Britain abstains
- Dec 3 NY Lotto pays $45 million to twelve winner (#s are 1-8-13-18-28-48)
- Dec 4 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Dec 5 NC federal grand jury indict PTL founder Jim Bakker on fraud & conspiracy
- Dec 5 Shuttle Atlantis launches world's 1st nuclear-war-fighting satellite
Meeting of Interest
Dec 6 Yasser Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden
Yasser Arafat
Event of Interest
Dec 6 Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown
Nelson Mandela
- Dec 6 STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission
- Dec 7 PLO delegation lead by Yasir Arafat proclaims the State of Palestine, recognizing the existence of the State of Israel for the first time
- Dec 7 6.9 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia kills 25,000-50,000 people and leaves up to 500,000 homeless
- Dec 7 Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN
Event of Interest
Dec 7 Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St crowds upon arrival in NYC
Mikhail Gorbachev