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| Aug 20 | U.N. Comdemns Israel for Claiming All of Jerusalem As Its Capital |
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| Reinhold Messner Completes First Successful Solo Ascent of Mount Everest |
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| Aug 26 | Macauley Culkin |
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| Sept 05 | St. Gothard's (world's longest) Tunnel Opens in Switzerland |
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| Sept 12 | The April Six Movement Bombs Nine Buildings in Metro Manila Area |
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| Sept 17 | Former Nicaraguan President Somoza Assassinated while in Exile in Paraguay. |
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| Sept 18 | Katherine Anne Porter |
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| Sept 18 | Cuba's Arnoldo Tamazo First Black Man in Space Aboard Soviet Soyuz 38. |
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| Sept 20 | Iran & Iraq Begin Eight-year War |
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| Sept 30 | Martina Hingis |
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| Oct 10 | "Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front" (FMLN) Founded in El Salvador |
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| Oct 23 | Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin Resigns |
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| Aug 19 |
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| Aug 26 | Steve Ovett Sets World Record for the Mile Run (3:48.4) |
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| Sept 10 | Town of Guernica Receives Picasso Mural |
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| Sept 17 | Indoneasian Army Assassinates East Timor Resistance Party President |
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| Sept 25 | Sandra Day O'Connor Sworn in As First Female Justice, U.S. Supreme Court. |
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| Sept 26 | Maiden Flight of the Boeing 767 |
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| Oct 07 | Hosni Mubarak Selected to Succeed Assassinated Anwar Sadat |
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| Oct 08 | President Reagan Greets Nixon, Ford & Carter at White House |
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| Oct 22 | Air Traffic Controllers Organization Decertified because of Strike |
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| Oct 24 | Ariel Durant |
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| Aug 19 | Russian Soyuz T-7 Launched (2 Men, 1 Woman: 113 days) |
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| Aug 27 | A Turkish Military Attache Is Assassinated in Canada by Armenian Extremists |
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| Aug 29 | Ingrid Bergman |
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| Sept 16 | Christian Militia Massacre of Hundreds of Palestinians in Beirut Refugee Camps |
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| Sept 30 | H. Ross Perot & Jay Colburn Complete First World Circumnavigation in a Helicopter |
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| Sixth and Final Chicago Victim Dies from Cyanide-laced Tylenol |
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| Oct 07 |
Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice |
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| Oct 08 | All Labor Organizations in Poland Are Banned |
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| Oct 11 |
The Sunken (1545) |
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| Aug 21 | Filipino Opposition Leader Benigno S. Aquino, Jr. Assassinated at Manila Airport |
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| Aug 30 | Guy Bluford Becomes First African-American in Space |
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| Sept 17 | Vanessa Williams Is First African American Crowned as Miss America |
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| Sept 19 | St. Kitts and Nevis Gain Independence from the United Kingdom |
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| Final Episode of "M*A*S*H" Airs |
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| Sept 23 | Bomb Destroys Omani Aircraft In Flight: 111 dies |
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| Oct 04 | Richard Noble Breaks 1-mile Land Speed Record: 633.468 mph |
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| Oct 11 | Last Crank Telephones Taken Out of U.S. Service |
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| Oct 23 | Islamic Jihad Bombings Kill 241 U.S. Marines & 58 French Paratroopers |
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| Oct 25 | U.S. Invades Grenada to Restore Order and Evacuate American Citizens |
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| Aug 27 | Christa McAuliffe Selected to be First Teacher in Space |
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| Aug 30 |
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| Sept 10 | Sean O'Keefe Is Youngest Person to Bicycle across the US (24 days) |
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| Sept 12 | Michael Jordan Signs 7-year Contract with Chicago Bulls |
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| Sept 19 | British Agree to Transfer Hong Kong to Chinese by 1997s |
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| Sept 20 | Terrorist Van Explodes in Front of U.S. Embassy, Lebanon: 14 die |
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| Oct 07 | Walter Payton Passes Jim Brown's NFL Career Rushing Record of 12,312 Yards |
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| Ronald Reagan & Walter Mondale Meet in a Presidential Debate (Economics) |
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| Oct 08 | Anne Murray Wins Country Music Association Award |
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| Oct 11 | Mario Lemieux Scores a Goal on His First NHL Shot |
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| Oct 16 | Bishop Desmond Tutu Awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
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| Baboon Heart Transplanted into 15-day-old Baby Fae |
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| Aug 20 | Original Xerox 914 Copier Is Donated to the Smithsonian Institution |
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| Aug 26 | Yugo Is Introduced to the American Market |
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| Aug 27 | General Ibrahim Babangida Overthrows Nigeria's Buhari Regime |
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| Aug 28 | Colombia Government Troops Kill April 19 Movement (M-19) Leader Ivan Ospina |
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| Sept 11 | Pete Rose Breaks Ty Cobb's Record with Hit 4,192 |
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| Sept 18 | Steve Jobs Resigns at Apple |
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| Sept 19 | Mexico City Earthquake Kills Thousands |
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| Sept 20 | Second Major Earthquake Hits Mexico City |
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| Sept 27 | Hurricane Gloria Shuts Down Wall Street |
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| Sept 30 | Charles Richter (seismologist) |
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| Oct 01 | E.B. White |
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| Oct 01 | Israeli Air Force Bombs Palestinian Liberation Organization Headquarters in Tunis. |
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| Oct 02 | Rock Hudson |
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| Oct 07 | Palestinians Hijack Italian Cruise Ship "Achille Lauro": 1 Passenger Will Die |
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| Oct 07 | Lynette Woodard Is the First Female Member of the Harlem Globetrotters |
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| Oct 08 |
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| Oct 10 | Orson Welles |
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| Oct 15 | Morris Brown College is Founded |
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| Oct 16 | Intel Introduces the 386 Processor |
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| Sept 05 | 4 Arab Gunmen Kill 21 in Aborted Airline Hijacking in Pakistan |
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| Sept 06 | Terrorists Murder 21 Jewish Worshipers in an Istanbul Synagogue |
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| Oct 10 | 1,500 Die in San Salvador Earthquake (7.5) |
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| Oct 11 | Reagan and Gorbachev Meet in Reykjavik |
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| Oct 14 | Holocaust Survivor Elie Wiesel Named Laureate for the Nobel Peace Prize |
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| Oct 15 | Edward J. Perkins First African-American Ambassador to South Africa. |
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| Oct 17 | Congress Approves $100M Aid for Nicaraguan Contras |
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| Oct 22 | President Reagan Signs Tax Reform Act into Law |
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| Aug 27 | Mutinous Soldiers Fail to Overthrow the Philippines' Aquino Government |
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| Aug 28 | John Huston |
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| Sept 16 | 24 Countries Sign the Montreal Protocol to Save Earth's Ozone Layer |
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| Sept 25 | Duffy Daugherty (coach) |
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| Oct 01 | Eight Killed in Los Angeles Earthquake |
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| Oct 15 | Coup in Ouagadougou Overthrows Sankara, Brings Compaore |
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| Sept 13 | Hurricane Gilbert Becomes Strongest Ever Recorded |
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| Sept 18 | General Saw Maung Seizes Power in Burma Military Coup |
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| Sept 19 | U.S. Senate Ratifies Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement |
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| Sept 20 | Prodigy On-line Internet Is Service Launched |
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| Sept 23 | Joes Conseco Is Baseball's First 40-40 Man (homeruns & steals) |
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| Oct 01 | Mikhail Gorbachev Becomes Soviet President |
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| Oct 11 | Computers Successfully Factor 100-digit Number |
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| Oct 21 | NY Grand Jury Indicts Ferdinand & Imelda Marcos on Fraud & Racketeering |
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| Aug 19 | Lil' Romeo (rapper) |
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| Aug 19 | Bishop Desmond Tutu Defies Apartheid with South African Beach Walk |
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| Aug 22 | Nolan Ryan - First Pitcher to Record 5000 Strikeouts |
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| Aug 28 | John Steptoe |
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| Sept 05 | Chris Evert Retires from Professional Tennis |
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| Sept 10 | Hungary Opens Borders for East Germans |
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| Sept 19 | Bomb Destroys UTA flight 772 in the Air over Niger: all on board die |
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| Sept 20 | F.W. de Klerk Sworn in As President of South Africa |
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| Sept 26 | Soviet Legislature Approves Anti-Censorship Law |
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| Sept 27 | SONY Buys Columbia Pictures |
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| Oct 02 | Quantum Changes Its Name to America Online |
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| Oct 03 | Attempted Coup Fails Against Panamá's Manuel Noriega |
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| Art Shell Selected as First Black Head Coach in the NFL |
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| Oct 07 | Hungary's Communist Party Adopts Democratic Socialism |
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| Oct 15 | President de Klerk Frees Imprisoned African National Congress (ANC) Members |
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| Wayne Gretzky Sets NHL Scoring Record: 1,850 Career Pts |
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| Oct 17 | San Francisco Earthquake |
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| Oct 18 | Hungarian Constitution Amended for Open and Free Elections |
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| Erich Honecker Removed as Head of East Germany |
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| Oct 23 | Hungary Becomes a Republic Independent of Soviet Rule |
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This guide last edited 03/31/2003
This guide created 03/31/2003