Notable Historical Events - 1983
1983 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
PGA inaugurates all-exempt tour |
Jan 1 |
Penn State beats Georgia in Sugar Bowl for college football title |
Jan 1 |
World Communications Year begins |
Jan 1 |
TCP/IP protocols become the only approved protocol on the ARPANET, replacing the earlier NCP protocol |
Jan 2 |
"Annie" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 2,377 performances |
Jan 2 |
"Sophisticated Ladies" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 767 perfs |
Jan 2 |
Don Muraco beats Pedro Morales to become WWF Intercontinental Champ |
Jan 2 |
Gary Trudeau takes a 20-month break from writing "Doonesbury" |
Jan 2 |
Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive passes |
Jan 2 |
Several African National Congress(ANC) members detained in Swaziland decide to leave the country voluntarily for Mozambique. |
Jan 3 |
Tony Dorsett sets NFL record with 99-yd rush, Dallas vs Minnesota |
Jan 4 |
US Football League holds its 1st player draft |
Jan 7 |
Australia regain the Ashes with a 2-1 series win v England |
Jan 7 |
President Reagan ends US arms embargo against Guatemala |
Jan 9 |
British PM Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands |
Jan 10 |
NY Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring NY Yankees from playing season-opening series against Tigers in Denver |
Jan 11 |
Billy Martin named NY Yankee manager for 3rd time |
Jan 12 |
Brooks Robinson & Juan Marichal elected to Hall of Fame |
Jan 12 |
NCAA creates football Kickoff Classic to begin in August |
Jan 13 |
AMA urges ban on boxing sites Muhammad Ali's deteriorating condition |
Jan 13 |
Quebec Nordiques play 251st NHL game without being shut out |
Jan 15 |
Dutch political party DS'70 disbands |
Jan 15 |
Hartford Whalers smallest crowd 4,812 (beat Devils) during blizzard |
Jan 15 |
Javed Miandad & Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand v India |
Jan 15 |
Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours |
Jan 17 |
10th American Music Award: John Cougar & Rick Springfield, Olivia Newton-John |
Jan 17 |
Alabama Gov George C Wallace, becomes governor for record 4th time |
Jan 17 |
Nigeria expels 2 million illegal aliens, mostly Ghanaians |
Jan 18 |
IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball |
Jan 19 |
Klaus Barbie, SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-France, arrested in Bolivia |
Jan 20 |
American gangster Roy DeMeo is found murdered in his car trunk after disappearing a few days earlier |
Jan 21 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht |
Jan 21 |
President Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for US military aid |
Jan 22 |
2nd flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 22 seconds |
Jan 22 |
Houston is 1st NBA team to be held scoreless in an overtime Portland Trail Blazers out score them 17-0 & win 113-96 |
Jan 23 |
"A-Team" with Mr T premieres on NBC |
Jan 23 |
Bjorn Borg announces his retirement from tennis |
Jan 23 |
Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $14,700,000 |
Jan 23 |
In NBA, Portland scores all 17 pts in overtime to beat Houston 113-96 |
Jan 23 |
Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean |
Jan 23 |
Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:40.97) |
Jan 23 |
"Mud Bowl", Miami Dolphins beat the New York Jets 14-0 in the AFC Championship Game on a wet, muddy field, which negated the Jets significant speed and skill advantage |
Jan 24 |
Hulk Hogan pins Iron Sheik for World Wrestling Federation title |
Jan 25 |
China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life |
Jan 25 |
Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit |
Jan 25 |
Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia |
Jan 26 |
Dutch/British infrared satellite IRAS launched from Calif |
Jan 27 |
World's longest underwater tunnel (53.90 km) opens, Honshu-Hokkaid |
Jan 29 |
"Down Under" by Men At Work hit #1 on UK pop chart |
Jan 29 |
40th Golden Globes: Gandhi, ET & Tootsie win |
Jan 30 |
Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champ |
Jan 30 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Mazda of Deer Creek Golf Classic |
Jan 30 |
Super Bowl XVII: Wash Red Skins beat Miami Dolphins, 27-17 in Pasadena Super Bowl MVP: John Riggins, Washington, RB |
Feb 1 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Feb 2 |
Chicago Archbishop Joseph L Bernardin is among 18 new cardinals invested |
Feb 2 |
Pope John Paul II names 18 new cardinals |
Feb 3 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners |
Feb 4 |
Jose Happart becomes mayor of Voeren Belgium |
Feb 4 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton |
Feb 5 |
Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial |
Feb 6 |
13th NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 20-19 |
Feb 6 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
Feb 7 |
1st female secretary of transportation sworn-in (Elizabeth Dole) |
Feb 8 |
35th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-3 at NY Islander |
Feb 8 |
Baseball orders Mickey Mantle to sever ties with Claridge Casino |
Feb 8 |
Eric Peters sets transatlantic sailboat record (E-W)-46 days |
Feb 8 |
Tina Howe's "Painting Churches," premieres in NYC |
Feb 8 |
Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in 1 period |
Feb 8 |
Champion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never found Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance |
Feb 9 |
Belgium buys 44 F-16s |
Feb 10 |
Anglican synod vote 338-100 against unilateral UK nuclear disarmament |
Feb 11 |
"Weird Al" Yankovic records "Ricky" & "Buckingham Blues" debut LP |
Feb 11 |
4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18"(46 cm)) |
Feb 13 |
"Merlin" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 199 performances |
Feb 13 |
33rd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 132-123 at LA |
Feb 13 |
Australia beats NZ 2-0 to win World Series Cup |
Feb 13 |
Donna White wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
Feb 13 |
E Bernstein, Levinson & Link's musical "Merlin" premieres in NYC |
Feb 13 |
World Boxing Council becomes 1st to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds |
Feb 16 |
The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 75 people in Australia's worst ever fires. |
Feb 17 |
Bob Bourne fails on 8th Islander penalty shot |
Feb 17 |
Netherlands adopts constitution |
Feb 17 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 18 |
NBA Indiana Pacers begin a 28 game road losing streak |
Feb 19 |
Fernando Valenzuela wins his salary arbitration of $1 million |
Feb 19 |
Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 400 m free style swimming record |
Feb 20 |
Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km) |
Feb 20 |
Roland Liboton becomes world champ cross-country cycling |
Feb 21 |
Donald Davis runs 1 mile backwards in 6 m 7.1 s |
Feb 21 |
NBA San Diego Clippers begin a 29 game road losing streak |
Feb 22 |
Harold Washington wins Chicago's Democratic mayoral primary |
Feb 22 |
Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India |
Feb 22 |
Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 1500m free style swimming record |
Feb 23 |
25th Grammy Awards: Roxanna, Toto IV, Men at Work wins |
Feb 23 |
USFL NJ Generals sign Heisman winner Herschel Walker (3 years-$5 mil) |
Feb 23 |
The Spanish Socialist government of Felipe González and Miguel Boyer nationalizes Rumasa, a holding of José MarÃa Ruiz Mateos. |
Feb 23 |
The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri. |
Feb 24 |
Dow Jones closes above 1100 mark for 1st time |
Feb 24 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Feb 24 |
A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II. |
Feb 26 |
Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 37 weeks |
Feb 26 |
Shortwave pirate Radio USA (Wellsville, NY) begins transmission |
Feb 27 |
Eamonn Coghlan set indoor mile record of 3:49.78 |
Feb 27 |
Jan Stephenson wins Tucson Conquistadores LPGA Golf Tournament |
Feb 28 |
Final TV episode of "M*A*S*H" airs (CBS); record 125 million watch in the US |
Mar 1 |
Tamara McKinney becomes 1st US woman skier to win the World Cup |
Mar 1 |
Tornado tears through LA, injuring 33 people |
Mar 2 |
Compact Disc recordings developed by Phillips & Sony introduced |
Mar 2 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Mar 5 |
Bob Hawke (Labour) defeats Australian PM Malcolm Fraser (Cons) |
Mar 5 |
NSW beat Western Australia by 54 runs to win Sheffield Shield |
Mar 6 |
"On Your Toes" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 505 performances |
Mar 6 |
Anne-Marie Palli wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic |
Mar 6 |
Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU wins West German parliament elections |
Mar 6 |
New Bedford, Mass woman charges she was gang-raped atop a pool table |
Mar 6 |
US Football League begins its 1st season |
Mar 7 |
TNN (The Nashville Network) begins on Cable TV |
Mar 8 |
House Foreign Affairs Com endorses nuclear weapons freeze with USSR |
Mar 8 |
IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0 |
Mar 8 |
President Reagan calls the USSR an "Evil Empire" |
Mar 9 |
Caryl Churchill's "Fen" premieres in London |
Mar 9 |
Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana |
Mar 10 |
Walter Alston, Dodgers manager, elected to Hall of Fame |
Mar 11 |
Ice Dance Championship at Helsinki Finland won by Torvill & Dean (GRB) |
Mar 11 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Helsinki won by Valova & Vasiliev (URS) |
Mar 11 |
Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Helsinki won by Rosalynn Sumners (USA) |
Mar 11 |
Men's Fig Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Scott Hamilton (USA) |
Mar 11 |
9th People's Choice Awards: Burt Reynolds, Jane Fonda & Katharine Hepburn win (Motion Picture) and Tom Selleck, Linda Evans & Loretta Swit win (TV) |
Mar 12 |
Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4:51:49) |
Mar 13 |
"Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 770 perfs |
Mar 13 |
1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14 |
Mar 14 |
OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years |
Mar 15 |
Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy |
Mar 16 |
Smallest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Nets-1,814) |
Mar 17 |
70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy |
Mar 20 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
Mar 21 |
Only known typo on Time Magazine cover (control=contol), all recalled |
Mar 22 |
Chaim Herzog elected Israeli president |
Mar 23 |
US President Ronald Reagan introduces "Star Wars"-plan (SDI) |
Mar 25 |
Christa Rothenburger skates world record 500 m ladies (39.69 sec) |
Mar 25 |
Pavel Pegov skates world record 1000m (1:12.58) |
Mar 26 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 27 |
13th Easter Seal Telethon |
Mar 27 |
Larry Holmes beats Lucien Rodriguez in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
Mar 27 |
Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" premieres in NYC |
Mar 30 |
Ray Cooney's "Run for your Wives" premieres in London |
Mar 30 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Mar 30 |
New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) begins trading in crude oil future |
Mar 31 |
Earthquake in Colombia kills some 5,000 people |
Mar 31 |
Marsha Norman's "'night, Mother" premieres in NYC |
Apr 1 |
Anti-nuclear demonstrators link arms in 14-mile human chain in England |
Apr 1 |
NY Isle Mike Bossy becomes 1st to score 60 goals in 3 cons seasons |
Apr 1 |
Iraq increases missile attacks on Iran |
Apr 3 |
12th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott |
Apr 3 |
2nd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: South Cal beats LA Tech 69-67 |
Apr 4 |
45th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: NC State beats Houston 54-52 |
Apr 4 |
6th space shuttle mission, Challenger 1 launched |
Apr 5 |
France throws out 47 Soviet diplomats |
Apr 5 |
NY Met Tom Seaver's sets record 14th NL Opening Day assignment |
Apr 6 |
Caps 2-Isles 5-Patrick Div Semifinals- Isles hold 1-0 lead |
Apr 7 |
Caps 4-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals-series tied 1-1 |
Apr 7 |
Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt |
Apr 7 |
STS-6 specialist Story Musgrave & Don Peterson 1st STS spacewalk |
Apr 7 |
WIBC Championship Tournament in Las Vegas, attracts 75,480 women bowlers for 83-day event |
Apr 9 |
6th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 1 returns to Earth |
Apr 9 |
Caps 2-Isles 6 -Patrick Semis-Denis Potvin fails on penalty shot |
Apr 10 |
Baltimore's Eddie Murray hits his 1,000 career hit |
Apr 10 |
Caps 3-Isles 6-Patrick Div Semifinals-Isles win series 3-2 |
Apr 10 |
Hennie Kuiper (Neth) wins Paris-Roubaix cycle race |
Apr 10 |
Jordan king Hussein ceases negotiations with PLO |
Apr 10 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
Apr 11 |
3rd Golden Raspberry Awards: Inchon! wins |
Apr 11 |
47th Golf Masters Championship: Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 280 |
Apr 11 |
55th Academy Awards - "Gandhi", Ben Kingsley & Meryl Streep win |
Apr 11 |
NASA launches RCA-F |
Apr 11 |
In the first 'supergrass' trial in Northern Ireland, fourteen Ulster Volunteer Force members are jailed for a total of two hundred years |
Apr 12 |
Harold Washington elected Chicago's 1st black mayor |
Apr 12 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Apr 13 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 13 |
Undefeated middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault |
Apr 14 |
Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Ranger |
Apr 14 |
President Reagan signs $165 billion Social Security rescue |
Apr 14 |
Rangers 1-Isles 4-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 1-0 lead |
Apr 15 |
Rangers 0-Isles 5-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 2-0 lead |
Apr 15 |
Tokyo Disneyland opens |
Apr 16 |
Steve Garvey sets NL record by playing in 1,118 consecutive games |
Apr 17 |
1st National Coin Week begins |
Apr 17 |
Grete Waltz runs female world record marathon (2:25:29) |
Apr 17 |
In Warsaw, police route 1,000 Solidarity supporters |
Apr 17 |
India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket |
Apr 17 |
Lynn Adams wins LPGA Combanks Orlando Golf Classic |
Apr 17 |
Nolan Ryan strikes out his 3,500th batter |
Apr 17 |
Islanders tie NHL record with 3 shorthanded playoff goals vs Rangers Rangers 7-Isles 6-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 2-1 lead Wayne Gretzky scores 7 points in one Stanley Cup playoff game |
Apr 18 |
12th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit Samuelson in 2:22:43 |
Apr 18 |
87th Boston Marathon won by Greg Meyer of Mass in 2:09:00 |
Apr 18 |
A lone suicide bomber kills 63, at US Embassy in Lebanon |
Apr 18 |
KMO-AM in Tacoma Wash changes call letters to KAMT (now KKMO) |
Apr 18 |
Pulitzer Prize awarded to Alice Walker for "The Color Purple" |
Apr 18 |
Rangers 3-Isles 1-Patrick Div Finals-Series tied at 2-2 |
Apr 19 |
France performs nuclear test |
Apr 20 |
President Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social Security |
Apr 20 |
Rangers 2-Isles 7-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 3-2 lead |
Apr 20 |
Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule fails to dock |
Apr 20 |
Soyuz T-8 is launched (lands 2 days later) |
Apr 21 |
1 pound coin introduced in United Kingdom |
Apr 22 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 22 |
Rangers 2-Isles 5-Patrick Div Finals-Isles win series 4-2 |
Apr 22 |
Soyuz T-8 returns to Earth |
Apr 22 |
Start of 1st Sri Lanka-Australia Test Cricket match (at Kandy) |
Apr 22 |
Stern mag announces major historical find-discovery of 60 volume personal diaries written by Adolf Hitler (turned out to be a hoax) |
Apr 23 |
David Hookes scores his only Test Cricket century, 143* v Sri Lanka |
Apr 24 |
"Show Boat" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 73 performances |
Apr 24 |
Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election |
Apr 24 |
Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
Apr 25 |
"Nightline" expands from ½ hour to a full hour |
Apr 25 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Apr 25 |
Portugal's Soares' Partido Socialista wins parliamentary election |
Apr 25 |
Yuri Andropov invites US schoolgirl Samantha Smith to USSR |
Apr 25 |
Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit. |
Apr 26 |
Bruins 2-Isles 5-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 1-0 lead |
Apr 26 |
Dow Jones Industrial Avg breaks 1,200 for 1st time |
Apr 26 |
San Antonio spurs beat Denver Nuggets, 152-133 in NBA playoff game |
Apr 27 |
Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3,509), passing Walter Johnson |
Apr 28 |
Argentine government declares all 15-30,000 missing persons dead |
Apr 28 |
Bruins 4-Isles 1-Wales Conference Championship-Series tied 1-1 |
Apr 28 |
NASA launches Geos-F |
Apr 29 |
Harold Washington sworn in as Chicago's 1st black mayor |
Apr 30 |
Bruins 3-Isles 7-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 2-1 lead |
May 1 |
"My One & Only" opens at St James Theater NYC for 767 performances |
May 1 |
Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC International Golf Tournament |
May 2 |
6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga Calif |
May 3 |
Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 3-1 lead |
May 3 |
Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe |
May 3 |
US bishops condemn nuclear weapons |
May 4 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
May 5 |
Bruins 5-Isles 1-Wales Conference Championship-Isles hold 3-2 lead |
May 5 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 7 |
109th Kentucky Derby: Ed Delahoussaye on Sunny's Halo wins in 2:02.2 |
May 7 |
August Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups |
May 7 |
Bruins 4-Isles 8-Wales Conference Championship-Isles win series 4-2 |
May 8 |
Janet Coles wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament |
May 9 |
18th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama & Willie Nelson |
May 10 |
"Laverne & Shirley" last airs on ABC-TV |
May 10 |
Lee Chin Yong performs 170 continuous chin-ups in Seoul |
May 10 |
Oilers 0-Isles 2-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 1-0 lead |
May 11 |
"Dance a Little Closer" opens & closes at Minskoff Theater NYC |
May 11 |
Aberdeen wins 23rd Europe Cup II |
May 11 |
Comet C/1983 H1 (IRAS-Araki-Alcock) approaches 0.0312 AUs of Earth |
May 12 |
Julie Lynne Hayek, (California), crowned 32nd Miss USA |
May 12 |
Oilers 3-Isles 6-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 2-0 lead |
May 13 |
Reggie Jackson is 1st major leaguer to strike out 2,000 times |
May 14 |
"She Blinded Me with Science" by Thomas Dolby hits #5 |
May 14 |
Oilers 1-Isles 5-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 3-0 lead |
May 14 |
Rosa Mota runs female world record 20k (1:06:55.5) |
May 15 |
Lenore Muraoka wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
May 15 |
Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion |
May 16 |
Lebanese parliament accept peace accord with Israel |
May 16 |
Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government. |
May 17 |
Israel & Lebanon sign a peace treaty |
May 17 |
Stanley Cup: NY Islanders sweep Edmonton Oilers in 4 games |
May 18 |
Senate revises immigration laws, gives millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program |
May 19 |
NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 506 |
May 19 |
Weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Wash DC |
May 20 |
Larry Holmes beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
May 20 |
Michael Dokes & Mike Weaver fight to a draw in 15 for hw boxing title |
May 20 |
Phillies Steve Carlton passes W Johnson with 2nd most strike outs |
May 21 |
"Bang The Drum All Day" by Todd Rundgren hits #63 |
May 21 |
109th Preakness: Donald Miller Jr on Deputed Testamony wins in 1:55.4 |
May 21 |
Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB, for mating for STS-7 mission |
May 21 |
David Bowie's "Let's "Dance" single goes #1 |
May 22 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Tournament |
May 22 |
Toronto Blue Jay Cliff Johnson hits record 18th pinch hit HR |
May 23 |
Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air |
May 24 |
Fred Sinowatz succeeds Bruno Kreisky as chancellor of Austria |
May 24 |
Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students |
May 25 |
"Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars part VI) released |
May 25 |
1st US National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed |
May 25 |
Fire in Nassermeer, Egypt, kills 357 |
May 25 |
France performs nuclear test |
May 25 |
Kirk Gibson (Tigers) & Jorge Orta (Blue Jays) hit inside park HRs |
May 26 |
29th Walker Cup: US, 13½ - 10½ |
May 26 |
Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7 |
May 26 |
LA Lakers set NBA playoff game record of fewest free throws |
May 26 |
NASA launches Exosat |
May 26 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 27 |
Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress |
May 28 |
"Ricky" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #63 |
May 28 |
Hamburger ZV wins 28th Europe Cup 1 in Athens |
May 29 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
May 29 |
Yuri Dumchev of USSR throws discus a record 71.86 m |
May 29 |
Indianapolis 500: Tom Sneva wins in 3:05:03.092 (260.902 km/h) |
May 30 |
Surrey all out for 14 vs Essex, their lowest score ever |
May 30 |
AL Pres Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for one week, for his public criticism of umpires |
May 31 |
37th NBA Championship: Phila 76ers sweep LA Lakers in 4 games |
Jun 2 |
1980 movie "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" released in Germany |
Jun 2 |
Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinnati |
Jun 4 |
53rd French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Mima Jausovec (61 62) |
Jun 5 |
37th Tony Awards: Torch Song Trilogy & Cats win |
Jun 5 |
53rd French Men's Tennis: Yannick Noah beats Mats Wilander (62 75 76) |
Jun 5 |
Alice Miller wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic |
Jun 6 |
17th Music City News Country Awards: Marty Robbins & Roy Acuff |
Jun 6 |
Bottle with note of June 9, 1910 found in Queensland |
Jun 6 |
Emmy 10th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 4th time |
Jun 6 |
Li Xiannian becomes pres/Deng Xiaoping supreme commander of China PR |
Jun 6 |
Nicaragua expels 3 US diplomats |
Jun 6 |
Twins draft pitcher Tim Belcher #1 |
Jun 7 |
Steve Carlton temporarily passes Nolan Ryan with his 3,552 strike out |
Jun 8 |
"Trading Places", "Ghostbusters" & "Gremlins" premiere |
Jun 8 |
Charlos Vieira begins 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria, Portugal |
Jun 8 |
Marlies Gohr runs female European record 100m (10.81) |
Jun 9 |
56th National Spelling Bee: Blake Giddens wins spelling purim |
Jun 9 |
Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party wins British parliamentary election |
Jun 9 |
Zimbabwe win their 1st one-day cricket international, v Australia |
Jun 11 |
"Always Something There To Remind Me" by Naked Eyes peaks at #8 |
Jun 11 |
"Cool Places" by Sparks & Jane Wiedlin peaks at #49 |
Jun 11 |
"Faithfully" by Journey peaks at #12 |
Jun 11 |
"My Love" by Lionel Richie peaks at #5 |
Jun 11 |
"Theme From Doctor Detroit" by Devo peaks at #59 |
Jun 11 |
"When I'm With You" by Sheriff peaks at #61 |
Jun 11 |
115th Belmont: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Caveat wins in 2:27.8 |
Jun 11 |
Cards outfielder Lonnie Smith checks into a drug rehab |
Jun 11 |
Don Genalo needs just 3 of 5 pins to win Southern California Open bowling tournament, miscalculates his score & intentionally gutters his ball |
Jun 11 |
Zhu Jianhua of China set a new world record in high jump at 7-9 14 |
Jun 12 |
29th LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan |
Jun 12 |
Comet C/1983 (Sugano-Saigusa-Fujikawa) approaches 0.0628 AUs of Earth |
Jun 12 |
Winston Davis takes 7-51 in Cricket World Cup match v Australia |
Jun 13 |
Pioneer 10 is 1st man-made object to leave Solar System |
Jun 14 |
5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx |
Jun 15 |
Cards trade Keith Hernandez to Mets for Neil Allen & Rick Ownbey |
Jun 15 |
Supreme Court struck down state & local restrictions on abortion |
Jun 16 |
Charlos Vieira completes 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria Portugal |
Jun 16 |
European Space Agency launches European Comm Satellite 1, Oscar 10 |
Jun 16 |
Pope John Paul II visits Poland |
Jun 16 |
Ringo releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany |
Jun 16 |
USSR party leader Yuri Andropov elected president |
Jun 17 |
Ed Warren and Lorraine Warren exorcise a "werewolf demon" from Bill Ramsey, although the lack of photo or video evidence has called this claim into question |
Jun 18 |
"Pump Boys & Dinettes" closes at Princess Theater NYC after 573 perfs |
Jun 18 |
7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launched-Sally Ride 1st US woman |
Jun 18 |
IRA's Joseph Doherty arrested in NYC |
Jun 19 |
"Octopussy" premieres in US |
Jun 19 |
Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
Jun 20 |
83rd US Golf Open: Larry Nelson shoots a 280 at Oakmont CC PA |
Jun 20 |
NY Yankee Bobby Murcer retires |
Jun 20 |
Iran moves into northern Iraq (casualties top 13,800 in ten days) |
Jun 21 |
Stephanie Kay Ashmore, of Alabama, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss |
Jun 21 |
Tennis ace Arthur Ashe undergoes double bypass heart surgery |
Jun 22 |
"Monty Python's The Meaning of Life," released in France |
Jun 22 |
1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle |
Jun 22 |
NHL institutes a 5 minute sudden death overtime period |
Jun 23 |
Syria throws out PLO leader Arafat |
Jun 23 |
US Supreme Court ruled Congress could not veto presidential decisions |
Jun 24 |
7th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 lands at Edwards AFB |
Jun 24 |
Don Sutton becomes 8th pitcher to strikeout 3,000 batters |
Jun 25 |
"Evita" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 1568 performances |
Jun 25 |
India beat West Indies by 43 runs to win Cricket World Cup |
Jun 25 |
Udo Beyer of East Germany sets record for shot put, 22.22 m |
Jun 26 |
"Loving" premieres on TV |
Jun 26 |
"Show Boat" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 73 performances |
Jun 26 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
Jun 27 |
Highest price paid for painting by a living artist 960,200 pounds - Miro |
Jun 27 |
Mariners bat out of order against White Sox in 2nd inning |
Jun 27 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-205 |
Jun 27 |
Soyuz T-9 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station |
Jun 28 |
Bridge section along I-95 in Greenwich, Ct collapsed kills 3 |
Jun 28 |
NASA launches Galaxy-A |
Jun 29 |
Angel Cordero wins his 5,000th horse races |
Jun 29 |
Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB |
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 2 |
90th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats A Jaeger (60 63) |
Jul 3 |
11th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Hollis Stacy |
Jul 3 |
97th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: John McEnroe beats Chris Lewis (6-2 6-2 6-2) |
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 4 |
NY Yankee Dave Righetti no-hits the Red Sox |
Jul 5 |
France invades Algeria |
Jul 5 |
NJ Devils purchase AHL Maine Mariners as their farm team |
Jul 5 |
Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death (Roanoke, VA) |
Jul 6 |
54th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-3 at Comiskey Park, Chicago |
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 8 |
Rudi Koopmans retains European middleweight title |
Jul 11 |
Lorraine Elizabeth Downes, 19, of NZ, crowned 32nd Miss Universe |
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 |
Crane (Rep-R-Il) & Studds (Rep-D-Mas) admit to sex with pages |
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 |
20 killed in Britain's worst helicopter accident |
Jul 16 |
Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities. |
Jul 17 |
112th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 275 at Royal Birkdale |
Jul 17 |
1st USFL championship (Mich Panthers beats Phila Stars 24-22) |
Jul 17 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA McDonald's Kids Golf Classic |
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 Muruora Island |
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 22 |
-128.6°F (-89.2°C) recorded, Vostok, Antarctica (world record) |
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 |
Poland's PM Januzelski lifts martial law |
Jul 23 |
Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba. |
Jul 24 |
"Mame" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 41 performances |
Jul 24 |
21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Germany in Zurich Switz (2-1) |
Jul 24 |
Lauren Howe wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
Jul 24 |
Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France |
Jul 24 |
Pine Tar Game: Brett's HR disallowed against Yanks (overturned) |
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 27 |
Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan & Steve Carlton to reach 3,500 career strikeouts this season, he also wins his 1st game as a Royal |
Jul 28 |
AL Pres Lee MacPhail threw out umpire's decision & allows |
Jul 28 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jul 28 |
George Brett's 2 run HR against Yanks on July 24 (pine tar game) |
Jul 28 |
NASA launches Telstar-3A |
Jul 29 |
"Friday Night Videos" premieres on NBC TV |
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, Calif |
Jul 30 |
Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg |
Jul 31 |
38th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jan Stephenson |
Jul 31 |
B Robinson, J Marichal, G Kell, & W Alston inducted into Hall of Fame |
Jul 31 |
Dutch July avg temp is 20.1°C; warmest July since 1852 |
Aug 1 |
New Zealand score their 1st Test Cricket match victory in England |
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, Ind, 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 Burkina Faso |
Aug 4 |
While warming up before 5th inning Yankee Dave Winfield accidentally kills a seagull |
Aug 6 |
Minnesota Vikings beat St Louis Cards 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo) |
Aug 6 |
Supertanker Castillo de Bellvar crashes at 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 |
"Merlin" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 199 performances |
Aug 7 |
1st World Track & Field Championships |
Aug 7 |
65th PGA Championship: Hal Sutton shoots a 274 at Riviera CC LA |
Aug 7 |
Bobby Murcer Day at Yankee Stadium |
Aug 7 |
Grete Waitz of Norway wins 1st all-women Marathon (Helsinki, Finland) |
Aug 7 |
Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
Aug 7 |
Some 675,000 AT&T employees strike |
Aug 8 |
Brig Gen Efrain Rios Montt deposed as president of Guatemela |
Aug 8 |
Jury in KC, Mo, awards TV anchorwoman Christine Craft $500,000 in sex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV (later overturned) |
Aug 8 |
Military coup in Guatemala, Pres Rios Montt flees |
Aug 12 |
General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army |
Aug 14 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
Aug 14 |
Robert de Castella wins Helsinki marathon (2:10:03 |
Aug 15 |
Ramones guitarist Joey Ramone, beaten in fight-undergoes brain surgery |
Aug 17 |
-19] Hurricane Alicia, kills 17 in Texas |
Aug 18 |
Hurricane Alicia battered Houston & Galveston, Texas |
Aug 18 |
Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is 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 19 |
LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 yrs for counterfeiting |
Aug 19 |
Dodgers trade Dave Stewart & Ricky Wright to Texas for Rick Honeycut |
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 |
"La Cage aux Folles" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 1761 performances |
Aug 21 |
110°F (43°C) at Fayetteville, North Carolina (state record) |
Aug 21 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf |
Aug 24 |
Cin Red Pete Rose ends consecutive games played streak at 745 |
Aug 25 |
Triple A baseball's Louisville Redbirds breaks 1 million fan mark |
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 |
"Mame" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 41 performances |
Aug 28 |
Greg Luzinski is 1st player to put 3 HRs onto roof at Comiskey Park |
Aug 28 |
Israeli PM Menachem Begin announces his resignation |
Aug 28 |
Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour |
Aug 28 |
Pat Bradley wins Columbia Savings Golf Classic |
Aug 30 |
8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-launched (6 days) |
Aug 30 |
Elizabeth R Zakarian (Devon Pierce), 17, NY, crowned 1st Miss Teen USA |
Aug 30 |
WKBC-TV (channel 48) ends broadcasting in Phila |
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 |
Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli PM |
Sep 4 |
"Joseph & the Amazing Dreamcoat" closes at Royale NYC after 747 perfs |
Sep 4 |
83rd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jay Sigel |
Sep 4 |
Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship |
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 5 |
Jerry Lewis' 18th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $30,691,627 |
Sep 5 |
Lauri Peterson wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
Sep 6 |
USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2 |
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 9 |
Vitas Gerulatis bets his house that Martina Navratilova can't beat 100th ranked male tennis player |
Sep 10 |
97th US Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert L Mills (61 63) |
Sep 10 |
Larry Holmes TKOs Scott Frank in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
Sep 11 |
103rd US Men's Tennis: Jimmy Connors beats Ivan Lendl (63 67 75 60) |
Sep 11 |
Franco Harris becomes 3rd NFL to rush 11,000 yards |
Sep 11 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship |
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 |
Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
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 |
Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
Sep 13 |
Oakland's Rickey Henderson 3rd straight 100 steals for season |
Sep 13 |
Steve O'Shaughnessy scores 100 in 35 mins, Lancs v Leics |
Sep 13 |
US mint strikes 1st gold coin in 50 years (Olympic Eagle) |
Sep 14 |
US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner |
Sep 15 |
Cops beat to death Michael Stewart for graffiting NYC subway |
Sep 15 |
Israel premier Begin resigns |
Sep 16 |
Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a US citizen |
Sep 17 |
Chicago White Sox clinch their 1st-ever AL West championship |
Sep 17 |
Vanessa Williams (NY), 20, crowned 56th Miss America 1984, 1st black |
Sep 18 |
George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere |
Sep 18 |
Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
Sep 18 |
Lebanese & Syrian army battle |
Sep 18 |
New Orleans Saints 1st OT victory; beating Chic Bears 34-31 |
Sep 19 |
David Slowinski on 2 CRAY-1 comp's find 2^132049-1 prime # |
Sep 19 |
St Kitts & Nevis declares independence from UK |
Sep 20 |
3,112 turn out to see Pirates play NY Mets at Shea Stadium |
Sep 20 |
Cryptographic Communications System & Method (RSA) patented |
Sep 21 |
11 killed in anti Marcos demonstrations in Manila |
Sep 21 |
David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross," premieres in London |
Sep 21 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 22 |
Everly Brothers reunite after 10 years (Royal Albert Hall) |
Sep 22 |
NASA launches Galaxy-B |
Sep 22 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Sep 22 |
Zhu Jianhau (China) sets high jump record at 7'9 3/4" |
Sep 23 |
Argentina milt regime gives amnesty to military/political assassins |
Sep 23 |
Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation of STS-9 |
Sep 23 |
Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
Sep 23 |
Heavyweight Gerrie Coetzee KOs Michael Dokes in Ohio |
Sep 23 |
Phillies Steve Carlton is 16th to wins 300 game (beating Cards) |
Sep 24 |
Braves Dale Murphy is 6th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases in season |
Sep 24 |
Test cricket debut of Shoaib Mohammad, son of Hanif, v India Jullundur |
Sep 24 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Sep 25 |
35th Emmy Awards: Hill St Blue, Cheers, Ed Flanders & Shelley Long win |
Sep 25 |
Bob Forsch pitches 2nd career no-hitter, Cards beat Expos 3-0 |
Sep 25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 26 |
Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks NY Giant record 56 yard field goal |
Sep 26 |
Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st non-US winner) |
Sep 26 |
Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10 |
Sep 26 |
Lebanon premier Chafiq Wazzan offers to resigns |
Sep 26 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic |
Sep 26 |
St Louis Card Bob Forsch 2nd no-hitter beats Montreal Expos, 3-0 |
Sep 26 |
Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by judging missile attack from the US an error. |
Sep 27 |
South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu freed after 19 years |
Sep 27 |
Tim Raines is 1st since Ty Cobb to steal 70 & drive in 70 runs |
Sep 28 |
STS-9 vehicle moves to launch pad |
Sep 29 |
"A Chorus Line" 3,389 performance to become longest running Bdwy show |
Sep 29 |
1st time Congress invokes War Powers Act |
Sep 29 |
Airport of Beirut reopens |
Sep 29 |
Congress authorized President Reagan to keep 1,600 US Marines in Lebanon |
Sep 29 |
Oakland A's Mike Warren no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0 |
Oct 1 |
Denise Wallace, 18, of Virginia, crowned Miss Teen of America |
Oct 2 |
Art Monk begins NFL streak of 136 plus consecutive game receptions |
Oct 2 |
Carl Yastrezemski's last at bat |
Oct 2 |
Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA San Jose Golf Classic |
Oct 3 |
Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "Say, Say, Say" in UK |
Oct 4 |
Richard Noble reaches record 1019 kph in jet-powered car |
Oct 5 |
Lech Walesa wins Nobel Peace Prize |
Oct 6 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
Oct 6 |
Islander's Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick |
Oct 6 |
NY Jets announce they are leaving Shea for Meadowlands |
Oct 6 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Oct 8 |
1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7 |
Oct 8 |
Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to NY Islanders 8-7 |
Oct 9 |
Buffalo Bill QB Joe Ferguson passes 419 yards with 5 TDs |
Oct 9 |
4 South Korean government ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma |
Oct 10 |
17th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins |
Oct 10 |
Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM |
Oct 10 |
Tom Monaghan becomes CEO of Detroit Tigers |
Oct 11 |
Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial |
Oct 12 |
5225 Loral & 5424 Covington |
Oct 13 |
Ameritech Mobile Communications (now Cingular) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois. |
Oct 14 |
Grenada leftist coup under vice-premier Coard |
Oct 14 |
US Marine peacekeeper Sgt Allen Soifert killed by sniper in Beirut |
Oct 15 |
Black Hawks & Maple Leafs combine for fastest 5 goals (84 seconds) |
Oct 15 |
Columbia beats Yale 21-18 in football, will lose next 44 games |
Oct 15 |
US Marine sharpshooters kill 5 snipers at Beirut International Airport |
Oct 16 |
"Zorba" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 362 performances |
Oct 16 |
25th Ryder Cup: US, 14½-13½ at PGA National Golf Club (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, US) |
Oct 16 |
Balt Orioles beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 3 in 80th World Series |
Oct 17 |
Nobel prize for economy awarded to Gerard Debreu |
Oct 17 |
STS-9 vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB due to SRB nozzle problem |
Oct 19 |
Columbia moves to Orbiter Processing Facility |
Oct 19 |
Grenada general Hudson Austin forms "revolutionary council" |
Oct 19 |
Phila Flyers begin 13 NHL game win streak |
Oct 19 |
Senate establishes Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday |
Oct 20 |
IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released |
Oct 21 |
Pope John Paul II names 3 new Dutch bishops |
Oct 22 |
Two correctional officers are killed by inmates in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspired the Supermax model of prisons. |
Oct 23 |
13th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:00 |
Oct 23 |
14th NYC Marathon won by Rod Dixon in 2:08:59 |
Oct 23 |
400,000 demonstrate in Brussels, against cruise missile |
Oct 23 |
Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 US personnel in Beirut |
Oct 25 |
US invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (US Wins!) |
Oct 26 |
Hugh Williams' "Pack of Lies" premieres in London |
Oct 26 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Oct 29 |
550,000 Dutch demonstrate against cruise missile |
Oct 29 |
Notre Dame's Gil Fenerty rushes for 337 yards & 6 touchdowns |
Oct 30 |
The first democratic elections are held in Argentina after seven years of military rule. |
Oct 31 |
Paul McCartney releases "Pipes of Peace" album |
Oct 31 |
Ron Grant completes a 217 day, 8,316 mile run around Australia |
Nov 2 |
President Reagan signs bill establishing Dr Martin Luther King Jr. holiday |
Nov 2 |
Abp Hickey conducts papal investigation of Abp Hunthausen, Seattle |
Nov 3 |
Jesse Jackson launches his 1st campaign for presidency (D) |
Nov 3 |
Nashville Network begins on cable TV |
Nov 4 |
Bomb attack on Israeli headquarter in Tyrus Lebanon, 60 killed |
Nov 4 |
Washington Capitals first NHL overtime victory beating Vancouver 5-4 |
Nov 5 |
NY Rangers & Quebec Nordiques both score in 1st 14 secs of 3rd period |
Nov 5 |
Orbiter Discovery (OV-103) moves overland to Dryden |
Nov 6 |
Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Sports Nippon Team Match Golf Tournament |
Nov 6 |
Discovery transported to Vandenberg AFB, Calif |
Nov 6 |
Tor Bay Buccaneers' James Wilder rushes for 219 yards vs Minnesota Vikings |
Nov 6 |
Turkey Turgut Özals Moederland party wins elections |
Nov 7 |
Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks his 2nd NY Giant record 56 yard field goal |
Nov 7 |
Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries |
Nov 8 |
Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky |
Nov 8 |
STS-9 vehicle again moves to launch pad |
Nov 8 |
W Wilson Goode (D) elected 1st black mayor of Philadelphia |
Nov 9 |
Amsterdam brewer Freddie Heineken kidnapped |
Nov 9 |
Discovery flies from Vandenberg AFB to Kennedy Space Center |
Nov 10 |
"Amen Corner" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 83 performances |
Nov 10 |
Federal government shut down |
Nov 11 |
1st US cruise missiles arrive in Great Britain |
Nov 11 |
President Reagan became 1st US president to address Japanese legislature |
Nov 11 |
Wayne Phillips scores 159 on Test Cricket debut, v Pakistan at WACA |
Nov 12 |
4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas |
Nov 12 |
NJ Devils 1st overtime game, lose to Calgary Flames 4-3 |
Nov 13 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
Nov 14 |
First cruise missile placed at Greenham Common, England |
Nov 15 |
75th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy |
Nov 15 |
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus proclaimed |
Nov 16 |
Kapil Dev takes 9-83 v WI at Ahmedabad, but India still lose |
Nov 17 |
"La Tragedie de Carmen" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 187 perfs |
Nov 17 |
Harm Wiersma retains checkers world championship |
Nov 17 |
Phila Flyers win 13th straight NHL game |
Nov 19 |
Edmonton Oilers beat NJ Devils, 13-4, Wayne Gretzky calls the Devils "a Mickey Mouse organization" |
Nov 19 |
Jari Kurri becomes the first (and only) Finnish player to score five goals in a game |
Nov 20 |
"Marilyn: An American Fable" opens at Minskoff NYC for 16 perfs |
Nov 20 |
100 million watch ABC-TV movie "Day After" about nuclear war |
Nov 20 |
Cleveland Browns shutout Patriots 30-0 |
Nov 20 |
NY Giants Butch Woolfolk ties NFL record of 43 attempts rushing |
Nov 21 |
"Doonesbury" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 104 performances |
Nov 23 |
Soyuz T-9 lands |
Nov 23 |
USSR leave weapon disarmament talks |
Nov 24 |
PLO exchanges 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians & Lebanese |
Nov 24 |
Test Cricket debut of Richie Richardson, WI v India Bombay |
Nov 25 |
Larry Holmes TKOs Marvis Frazier in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
Nov 25 |
Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off |
Nov 25 |
Syria & Saudi Arabia announce cease-fire in PLO civil war in Tripoli |
Nov 25 |
World's greatest robbery 25,000,000 pounds of gold, Heathrow, England |
Nov 26 |
Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million |
Nov 27 |
71st CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats BC Lions, 18-17 |
Nov 27 |
Colombian jetliner Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 181 |
Nov 27 |
Desmond Haynes out handled the ball v India |
Nov 28 |
9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-is launched |
Nov 29 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |