Notable Historical Events - 1984
1984 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
AT&T's 22 owned Bell system companies divests into 8 companies |
Jan 1 |
Brunei becomes independent of UK |
Jan 1 |
NYC transit fare rises from 75 cents to 90 cents |
Jan 2 |
Darryl Cullinan, 16, scores his 1st first-class cricket century |
Jan 2 |
Miami beats Nebraska in Orange Bowl for college football championship |
Jan 2 |
Riot in Tunis kills over 100 |
Jan 2 |
Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Phila's 1st black mayor |
Jan 2 |
Major-General Muhammadu Buhari is declared Head of State in Nigeria, following a military coup. |
Jan 3 |
Syria frees captured US pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson |
Jan 4 |
"Night Court" starring Harry Anderson premieres on NBC TV |
Jan 4 |
Edmonton beats Minnesota 12-8 highest-scoring modern NHL game |
Jan 5 |
Adrian Dantly (Utah), ties NBA record of 28 free throws |
Jan 5 |
Greg Chappell scores 182* in his last Test innings |
Jan 6 |
Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41 B mission |
Jan 6 |
Last day of Test cricket for Chappell, Marsh & Lillee |
Jan 7 |
Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). |
Jan 8 |
NCAA announces that basketball tournament will have 64 teams |
Jan 8 |
Wash Caps Bengt Gustafsson scores 5 goals to beat Phila 7-1 |
Jan 9 |
"TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes" premieres on NBC TV (Whoops) |
Jan 9 |
Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession |
Jan 9 |
EAA moves operations to Oshkosh |
Jan 9 |
John Lennon single "Nobody Told Me" released posthumously |
Jan 10 |
Argentine ex-president/general Bignone arrested |
Jan 10 |
Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashs at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die |
Jan 10 |
Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the Beef?" |
Jan 10 |
Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew, & D Drysdale elected to Hall of Fame |
Jan 10 |
US establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years |
Jan 11 |
Denver Nuggets 163, San Antonio Spurs 155-highest-scoring NBA game |
Jan 11 |
STS 41-B vehicle moves to launch pad |
Jan 11 |
Supreme Court reinstated $10M award to Karen Silkwood's family |
Jan 13 |
TV anchor Christine Craft wins $325,000 in her case against KMBC-TV |
Jan 14 |
Madonna 1st sings "Holiday" on American Bandstand |
Jan 15 |
Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak |
Jan 15 |
Schonbrun skates world record 5 km (7:39.44) |
Jan 16 |
11th American Music Award: Pat Benatar & Michael Jackson win |
Jan 16 |
Paul & Linda McCartney arrested in Barbados-possession of cannabis |
Jan 17 |
Supreme Court rules (5-4) oks private use of home VCRs to tape TV programs for later viewing does not violate federal copyright laws |
Jan 18 |
80th Islander & 3rd dual hat trick (Carroll & Bossy) 9-1 win |
Jan 19 |
Francesco Moser bicycles world record time: 50,808 km |
Jan 19 |
California Supreme Court rejects quadriplegic Elizabeth Bouvia, who wants to starve herself to death in a public hospital |
Jan 20 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners |
Jan 21 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton |
Jan 22 |
Annette Kennedy of SUNY sets women's basketball record with 70 pts |
Jan 22 |
Hilbert van de Thumb becomes European all-round skates |
Jan 22 |
Super Bowl XVIII: LA Raiders beat Wash Red Skins, 38-9 in Tampa Super Bowl MVP: Marcus Allen, LA Raiders, RB |
Jan 23 |
Buffalo Sabres win NHL record 10th straight road game |
Jan 23 |
Greatest unpaced 1-hr bicycle distance, F Moser (Italy), 51.15 km |
Jan 23 |
Hulk Hogan defeats Iron Sheik to become WWF champ |
Jan 24 |
Apple Computer Inc unveils its revolutionary Macintosh personal computer |
Jan 26 |
Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders |
Jan 26 |
US navy exhibits Piasecki helistat-4 helicopters & a blimp able to lift 26 tons-Lakehurst, NJ |
Jan 27 |
John & Yoko release "Milk & Honey" album |
Jan 27 |
LA Kings end Wayne Gretzky's NHL-record 51-game scoring streak |
Jan 27 |
Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial |
Jan 28 |
41th Golden Globes: Thornbirds wins |
Jan 28 |
LA Kings stop Wayne Gretzky 51 game scoring streak |
Jan 28 |
Record 295,000 dominoes toppled, Fuerth, West Germany |
Jan 29 |
34th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 154-145 (OT) at Denver |
Jan 29 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 45-3 |
Jan 29 |
President Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term |
Jan 29 |
Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic of Deer Creek |
Jan 31 |
36th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-6 at NJ |
Jan 31 |
Edwin Newman retires from NBC News after 35 years with the network |
Jan 31 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 1 |
China & Netherlands regain diplomatic relations |
Feb 1 |
Daniel Stern becomes NBA commissioner |
Feb 1 |
Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203) |
Feb 2 |
8th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins |
Feb 2 |
Lebanese army fight in Beirut |
Feb 3 |
10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched |
Feb 4 |
"9" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 739 performances |
Feb 4 |
"Backstage Magic" opens at CommuniCore |
Feb 4 |
Frank Aquilera sets world frisbee distance record (168m) Las Vegas |
Feb 5 |
NZ beat England (82 & 93) by an innings in 3 days |
Feb 5 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
Feb 6 |
Moslem militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army |
Feb 7 |
Bruce McCandless makes 1st untethered space walk (US) |
Feb 7 |
David (born without immunity system) at 12, touches mom for 1st time |
Feb 7 |
Michael Jackson awarded a 4-ft-high platinum disc by CBS |
Feb 8 |
14th Winter Olympic games opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia |
Feb 8 |
1st time 8 people in space |
Feb 8 |
A's take Yankees pitcher Tim Belcher as Type A free agent compensation |
Feb 8 |
Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7 |
Feb 9 |
"Rink" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 204 performances |
Feb 11 |
10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth |
Feb 11 |
Wayne Gretzky sets NHL short handed season scoring record at 11 |
Feb 12 |
Alice Miller wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
Feb 12 |
Cale Yarborough, becomes 1st Daytona 500 qualifier, above 200 MPH |
Feb 12 |
Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean skate "Bolero" at Olympics |
Feb 12 |
West Indies beat Australia 2-0-1 to win cricket World Series Cup receiving all perfect scores for quality & gold medal |
Feb 13 |
6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart & liver transplant |
Feb 13 |
Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as USSR leader |
Feb 15 |
500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq |
Feb 16 |
Bill Johnson becomes 1st American to win Olympic downhill skiing gold |
Feb 16 |
NJ Devils 1st OT goal, Jan Ludvig beats Hartford Whalers 6-5 |
Feb 18 |
Revised concordat between Italy & Vatican signed |
Feb 19 |
"Doonesbury" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 104 performances |
Feb 19 |
14th winter Olympic games close at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia |
Feb 19 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Feb 19 |
1st brother combo to win Gold & Silver in same event at Olympics (Phil & Steve Mahre-Slalom) |
Feb 22 |
Brothers Anton & Peter Stastny score 8 pts each for NHL Quebec |
Feb 24 |
Iraq resumes air attack on Iran |
Feb 25 |
Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500 |
Feb 26 |
Last US marines in multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon left Beirut |
Feb 26 |
Rev Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called NYC, "Hymietown" |
Feb 26 |
Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st US poet laureate |
Feb 27 |
Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8,675 m) |
Feb 27 |
WRC-AM in Washington DC changes call letters to WWRC |
Feb 27 |
Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa |
Feb 28 |
26th Grammy Awards: Michael Jackson wins 8 Grammys |
Feb 29 |
Canadian PM Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he is stepping down |
Mar 1 |
Landsat 5 & ham satellite Oscar 11 launched into polar orbit |
Mar 1 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR #3931 Batten, #4529 Webern, #4530 Smoluchowski, #4818 Elgar, #5502 Brashear & #5943 Lovi |
Mar 2 |
Iran offensive against Iraq fails |
Mar 2 |
John Long (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games |
Mar 3 |
NY Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Tor Maple Leafs (6) |
Mar 3 |
Peter Ueberroth elected baseball commissioner (Effective Oct 1) |
Mar 4 |
Nancy Lopez wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational |
Mar 4 |
Pee Wee Reese & Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
Mar 5 |
Supreme Court (5-4): city may use public money for Nativity scene |
Mar 5 |
US accuse Iraq of using poison gas |
Mar 6 |
Twelve-month-long strike in British coal industry begins. |
Mar 7 |
The United States attacks San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua. |
Mar 9 |
Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections |
Mar 9 |
John Lennon single "Borrowed Time" released posthumously |
Mar 9 |
Phila 76'ers block 20 Seattle shots tying NBA regulation game record |
Mar 9 |
Tim Witherspoon beats Greg Page in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
Mar 9 |
The Competitive Enterprise Institute in founded in Washington, D.C. |
Mar 10 |
Heavyweight Tim Witherspoon KOs Greg Page |
Mar 11 |
chris johnson wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic |
Mar 12 |
National Union of Mine Workers in Britain begins a 51 week strike |
Mar 12 |
British ice dancing team, Torvill & Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships |
Mar 13 |
Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird |
Mar 13 |
WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield |
Mar 14 |
Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-C mission |
Mar 14 |
Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast. |
Mar 15 |
10th People's Choice Awards: Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds & Meryl Streep win (Motion Picture) and Tom Selleck, Linda Evans win (TV) |
Mar 15 |
Tanzania adopts constitution |
Mar 16 |
Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut |
Mar 16 |
South-Africa & Mozambique sign non attack treaty |
Mar 18 |
chris johnson wins LPGA Tucson Conquistadores Golf Open |
Mar 19 |
"Kate & Allie" premieres |
Mar 19 |
John J O'Connor named 8th archbishop of NY |
Mar 19 |
KSD-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KUSA |
Mar 19 |
Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River |
Mar 19 |
Pitcher Denny McLain indicted on charges of racketeering |
Mar 19 |
STS 41-C vehicle moves to launch pad |
Mar 20 |
Andy Kaufman & Fred Blassie's "My Breakfast With Blassie" premieres |
Mar 20 |
Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools |
Mar 21 |
Border scores 100* v WI Trinidad after 98* in 1st cricket innings |
Mar 21 |
NFL owners passed the infamous anti-celebrating rule |
Mar 21 |
Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon |
Mar 21 |
Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan |
Mar 22 |
Islander Bryan Trottier ties NHL record scores 5 seconds into game |
Mar 22 |
Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded. |
Mar 23 |
Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 3 km (4:20.91) |
Mar 23 |
Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa won by J Torvill & Chris Dean (GRB) |
Mar 23 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Underhill & Paul Martini (CAN) |
Mar 23 |
Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Katarina Witt (GDR) |
Mar 23 |
Men's Fig Skating Championship in Ottawa won by Scott Hamilton (USA) |
Mar 24 |
Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:34.52) |
Mar 24 |
IOC agrees to 6-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics |
Mar 24 |
Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (14:21.51) |
Mar 25 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
Mar 27 |
Andrew Lloyd Webber/Richard Stilgoe's "Starlight Express" premieres |
Mar 27 |
Beginning of "tanker war": over the next 9 months, 44 ships, including Iranian, Iraqi, Saudi Arabian and Kuwaiti tankers, are attacked by Iraqi or Iranian warplanes or damaged by mines |
Mar 29 |
NFL Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis |
Mar 29 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Mar 30 |
US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force |
Mar 31 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 1 |
14th Easter Seal Telethon raises $24,600,000 |
Apr 1 |
3rd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: Southern Cal beats Tenn 72-61 |
Apr 1 |
8 men record longest distance (13 miles) rowed in 24 hours |
Apr 2 |
46th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: Georgetown beats Houston 84-75 |
Apr 3 |
Bombay beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy |
Apr 3 |
Guinea suspends constitution after coup |
Apr 3 |
Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7 |
Apr 4 |
Michael Frayn's "Benefactors" premieres in London |
Apr 4 |
Winston Smith in Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary |
Apr 5 |
"Human Comedy" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 13 performances |
Apr 5 |
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record of 31,419 points (31,421) |
Apr 6 |
11th Space Shuttle Mission (41-C)-Challenger 5 is launched |
Apr 6 |
1st time 11 people in space |
Apr 6 |
Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya. |
Apr 7 |
Detroit Tiger Jack Morris no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0 |
Apr 8 |
13th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster |
Apr 8 |
4th Golden Raspberry Awards: Lonely Lady wins |
Apr 9 |
56th Academy Awards - "Terms of Endearment", Robert Duvall & Shirley MacLaine win |
Apr 10 |
Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle |
Apr 10 |
John Long (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 51 games |
Apr 10 |
US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors |
Apr 11 |
Challenger astronauts complete 1st in space satellite repair |
Apr 11 |
Chinese troops invade Vietnam |
Apr 11 |
Gen Sec Konstantin U Chernenko named pres of Soviet Union |
Apr 11 |
Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth |
Apr 11 |
USSR party leader Chernenko elected president |
Apr 13 |
11th Space Shuttle Mission (41C)-Challenger 5-returns to Earth |
Apr 13 |
India beat Pak by 58 runs to win 1st Asia Cricket Cup in Sharjah |
Apr 13 |
Pete Rose becomes 1st NL to get get 4,000 hits in a career |
Apr 14 |
Farewell concert of "Doe Maar" in Den Bosch Neth |
Apr 15 |
"Human Comedy" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 13 performances |
Apr 15 |
48th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 277 |
Apr 15 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
Apr 15 |
Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab India |
Apr 15 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Apr 16 |
13th Boston Women's Marathon won by Lorraine Moller of NZ in 2:29:28 |
Apr 16 |
88th Boston Marathon won by Geoff Smith of Great Britain in 2:10:34 |
Apr 16 |
Oakland A Dave Kingman hits 3 HRs including a grand slam |
Apr 16 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for "American Primitive" |
Apr 17 |
Braves pitcher Pascual Perez suspended due to cocaine usage |
Apr 17 |
During Libyan Embassy demonstration in London, British police officer Yvonne Fletcher shot dead |
Apr 18 |
Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB |
Apr 18 |
Joan Benoit runs world record female marathon (2:22:43) |
Apr 19 |
Nemesis, death star of dinosaurs 1st appears in print (Nature magazine) |
Apr 20 |
Russian offensive in Panshirvallei Afghanistan |
Apr 21 |
"Nightline" reverts back from 1 hour to ½ hour |
Apr 21 |
After 37 weeks "Thriller" is knocked off as top album by "Footloose" |
Apr 21 |
Centers for Disease Cont says virus discovered in France causes AIDS |
Apr 21 |
Franz Weber of Austria skis downhill at a record 209.8 kph |
Apr 21 |
Montreal Expo David Palmer no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0 in a perfect 5 inn game |
Apr 22 |
Vicki Fergon wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
Apr 23 |
AIDS-virus identified (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) |
Apr 24 |
Oiler's Wayne Gretzky is 3rd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot |
Apr 25 |
Rock group Wings disbands |
Apr 25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Apr 26 |
Liverpool's Cavern Club reopens |
Apr 26 |
President Reagan visits China |
Apr 27 |
Cleve Indians beat Detroit Tigers, 8-4, in 19 innings |
Apr 27 |
Over 70 inches of snow falls on Red Lake Montana |
Apr 28 |
"La Tragedie de Carmen" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 187 perfs |
Apr 29 |
"Oliver!" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 17 performances |
Apr 29 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Freedom/Orlando Golf Classic |
Apr 30 |
1,700 skiers participate in an alpine event at Are, Sweden |
Apr 30 |
Strong winds cause a 30 min delay in Toronto Blue Jays game |
May 1 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 1 |
Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) files for bankruptcy |
May 2 |
"Sunday in the Park with George" opens at Booth NYC for 604 perfs |
May 2 |
Indians' Andre Thornton ties record for most walks (6 in 16 inn) |
May 2 |
Mattingly's single breaks up Lamarr Hoyt's perfect game bid |
May 2 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 4 |
Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling) |
May 5 |
110th Kentucky Derby: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Swale wins in 2:02.4 |
May 6 |
Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken Jr hits for cycle |
May 6 |
Jose Napoleon Duarte wins El Salvador presidential election |
May 7 |
$180m out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit |
May 7 |
Sharon Barrett wins LPGA Potamkin Cadillac Golf Classic |
May 8 |
Chicago White Sox beat Milwaukee Brewers, 7-6, in 25 inn (completed 5/9) |
May 8 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
May 8 |
Minnesota Twins Kirby Puckett debuts with 4 singles |
May 8 |
Thames Barrier to stop flooding in London officially completed |
May 8 |
USSR announces it will not participate in LA Summer Olympics |
May 9 |
Alexander Calder's "Big Crinkly" sells for $852,000 |
May 9 |
Chicago White Sox beat Milwaukee Brewers, 7-6, in 25 inn (started 5/8) |
May 9 |
White Sox & Brewers play 8:06, game, longest timed baseball game |
May 10 |
Intl Court of Justice rules on US blockade of Nicaragua |
May 11 |
Johan Cruijff quits soccer |
May 11 |
Tigers set best 30 game start record (26-4) |
May 11 |
Transit of Earth as seen on Mars |
May 12 |
Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-D |
May 12 |
France performs nuclear test |
May 12 |
Joe Lucius scored his 13th hole-in-one on same hole |
May 12 |
South African prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years |
May 12 |
White Horse by Laid Back hits #26 |
May 12 |
World of Rivers world exposition opens in New Orleans |
May 13 |
"Oliver!" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 17 performances |
May 13 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
May 13 |
Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff's last competitive match |
May 14 |
19th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama |
May 16 |
Guinea-Bissau adopts constitution |
May 16 |
Juventus wins 24th Europe Cup II in Basel |
May 16 |
Phillie pitcher Steve Carlton hits a grand slam homer |
May 16 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
May 16 |
Mackay pays $218,718 for 44,166 tickets to keep Twins in Minnesota Twins sell 51,863 tickets but only 6,346 fans show up for the game |
May 17 |
Cincinnati Reds Mario Soto throws 4 strikeouts in one inning |
May 17 |
Mai Shanley, 21, (NM), crowned 33rd Miss USA |
May 17 |
Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend," sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture. |
May 19 |
"King Of Suede" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #62 |
May 19 |
110th Preakness: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Gate Dancer wins in 1:53.6 |
May 19 |
STS 41-D vehicle moves to launch pad |
May 19 |
Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat NY Islanders, 4 games to 1 |
May 19 |
Pat LaFontaine scores 2 goals within 22 sec in an NHL playoff game |
May 20 |
"On Your Toes" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 505 performances |
May 20 |
Barb Bunkowsky wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Classic |
May 20 |
Boston's Roger Clemens beats Twins, 5-4, for his 1st victory |
May 23 |
Tottenham Hotspur win 13th UEFA Cup at London against Anderlecht |
May 23 |
Detroit Tigers win AL record tying 16th straight road game |
May 24 |
"Wiz" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 13 performances |
May 24 |
Det Tigers win AL record 17th straight road game |
May 25 |
Det Tigers lose to Seattle 7-3 ends record tying 17 consecutive wins |
May 25 |
Red Sox trade pitcher Dennis Eckersley to Cubs for Bill Buckner |
May 26 |
Floods kill 14 in Tulsa Okla |
May 26 |
Frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia |
May 26 |
Tulsa Oklahoma gets 13" of rain, 14 die |
May 26 |
US President President Ronald Reagan rules out US military intervention in Iran-Iraq war |
May 27 |
Beth Henley's "Miss Firecracker contest" premieres in NYC |
May 27 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
May 27 |
Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day |
May 27 |
Indianapolis 500: Rick Mears wins in 3:03:21.638 (263.308 km/h) |
May 29 |
Boston Red Sox retires #9 (Ted Williams) & #4 (Joe Cronin) |
May 30 |
Bomb explodes in rebel leader Eden Pastora's headquarters in Nicaragua |
May 30 |
Liverpool wins 29th Europe Cup 1 in Rome |
May 30 |
NL suspends Mario Soto 5 days for Reds-Cubs fight on May 27th |
May 31 |
57th National Spelling Bee: Daniel Greenblatt wins spelling luge |
May 31 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
May 31 |
Viv Richards hits 189* (170 balls) v England, ODI cricket record |
Jun 1 |
Douglas H Mitchell, QC of Calgary becomes 6th CFL Commissioner |
Jun 1 |
KWK-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD |
Jun 1 |
Netherlands' Lubbers government gives 48 sites for cruise missiles |
Jun 1 |
Weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of USSR snatches a record 211 kg |
Jun 2 |
"Welcome To Fun Zone" hosted by Dr Demento airs on NBC-TV |
Jun 2 |
Actress Jill Ireland has a radical mastectomy |
Jun 2 |
Flight readiness firing of Discovery's main engines |
Jun 3 |
"Wiz" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 13 performances |
Jun 3 |
30th LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan |
Jun 3 |
38th Tony Awards: Real Thing & La Cage Aux Folles win |
Jun 4 |
18th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers |
Jun 4 |
Arnold Palmer fails to make US Open golf tournament 1st time in 32 yrs |
Jun 4 |
Bruce Springsteen releases "Born in the USA" |
Jun 4 |
DNA is successfully cloned from an extinct animal |
Jun 4 |
NY Mets draft Shawn Abner, 17, #1 |
Jun 5 |
Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" becomes #1 |
Jun 5 |
Indira Gandhi orders attack on Sikh's holiest site (Golden Temple) |
Jun 5 |
Frederick Russell, English Marine Biologist (plankton life history and long-term changes in marine ecosystems), dies at 86 |
Jun 6 |
1,200 die in Sikh "Golden Temple" uprising India |
Jun 8 |
Homosexuality is declared legal in the state of New South Wales, Australia. |
Jun 9 |
"Laserphonic Fantasy" premieres |
Jun 9 |
116th Belmont: Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Swale wins in 2:27.2 |
Jun 9 |
54th French Womens Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats C Evert (63 61) |
Jun 9 |
Cyndi Lauper's 1st #1 "Time After Times" |
Jun 9 |
Donald Duck's 50th birthday celebrated at Disneyland |
Jun 9 |
Jurgen Hingsen of West Germany sets record for decathlon, 8,798 pts |
Jun 9 |
NASA suffers a launch vehicle failure launching Intelsat 509 |
Jun 9 |
Polygram's Hanover Germany plant produces its 10 millionth CD |
Jun 9 |
Weird Al Yankovic gives a live performance at Starlight Amphitheater |
Jun 10 |
38th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3 |
Jun 10 |
54th French Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (3-6 2-6 6-4 7-5 7-5) |
Jun 10 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA McDonald's Kids Golf Classic |
Jun 10 |
US missile shoots down an incoming missile in space for first time |
Jun 10 |
Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 7'10" (2.39m) |
Jun 11 |
Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial of half of his ashes |
Jun 11 |
US Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally |
Jun 14 |
Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members |
Jun 15 |
"Thicke Of The Night" TV Talk Show last airs in syndication |
Jun 15 |
Thomas Hearns KOs Roberto Duran |
Jun 15 |
Vitesse soccer team forms in Arnhem |
Jun 16 |
Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race |
Jun 16 |
Matt de Waal finishes 14,290-mi round trip from Salt Lake City (106d) |
Jun 17 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
Jun 17 |
John Turner succeeds Pierre Trudeau as premier of Canada |
Jun 18 |
84th US Golf Open: Fuzzy Zoeller shoots a 276 at Winged Foot GC NY |
Jun 19 |
"Weird Al" Yankovic gives free live performance at Del Mar Fair |
Jun 19 |
1st live TV appearance by Chief Justice Warren Burger (Nightline) |
Jun 20 |
Oakland A's Dave Kingman hits his 3rd grand slam & 14th lifetime |
Jun 20 |
Amber Kvanli, of Minnesota, crowned America's Junior Miss |
Jun 22 |
Calvin Griffith signs letter of intent to sell ownership of Twins |
Jun 22 |
Carl Pohlad becomes CEO of Minnesota Twins |
Jun 22 |
Jolande van de Meer swims Dutch record 800 m freestyle (8:39.30) |
Jun 22 |
Joseph Luns resigns as secretary-general of NATO |
Jun 24 |
Joe Morgan sets career HR mark for 2nd basemen with #265 |
Jun 24 |
Laurie Rinker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
Jun 25 |
Lydia Garrett, 24, crowned 17th Miss Black America |
Jun 25 |
STS 41-D launch attempt scrubbed because of computer problem |
Jun 26 |
1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4 |
Jun 26 |
Barbra Streisand records "Here We Are at Last" |
Jun 27 |
Emmy 11th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 5th time |
Jun 27 |
Fire destroys a set in "A View to the Kill" |
Jun 27 |
France wins soccer's European Cup |
Jun 27 |
Late Night's 1st Tower Drop |
Jun 27 |
Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts |
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 |
Pete Rose plays in record 3,309th game, surpassing Carl Yastrzemski |
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 |
Jun 30 |
Pierre Trudeau officially steps down as Prime Minister of Canada after serving two separate terms for a total of 15 years |
Jul 1 |
"Baby" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 241 performances |
Jul 1 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
Jul 1 |
Royals pitcher Paul Splittorff, retires |
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 & burial half his ashes next to N Senzaki |
Jul 4 |
Kallicharran gets 206 & 6-32 in a NatWest Trophy game |
Jul 4 |
NY Yankee Phil Niekro is 9th to strikeout 3,000 |
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 7 |
91st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (76 62) |
Jul 8 |
98th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: John McEnroe beats Jimmy Connors (6-1 6-1 6-2) |
Jul 8 |
Lauri Peterson wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
Jul 9 |
12th Century York Minster damaged in lightening storm |
Jul 9 |
Yvonne Ryding of Sweden crowned 33rd Miss Universe |
Jul 11 |
55th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at Candlestick Park, SF |
Jul 11 |
All star MVP: Gary Carter (Mont Expos) |
Jul 11 |
Britain's MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe |
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, NY becomes 1st woman 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 |
Eddie Van Halen joins in, in a Jacksons concert |
Jul 13 |
Jeff Beck quits Rod Stewart's tour after 7 shows |
Jul 13 |
Sergei Bubka of USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m |
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 |
39th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy |
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 18 |
James Huberty kills 21 McDonald's patrons in San Ysidro Calif |
Jul 18 |
Walter F Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in SF |
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 20 |
Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m |
Jul 20 |
Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America |
Jul 21 |
Marita Koch of E Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s |
Jul 21 |
USSR performs underground nuclear Test |
Jul 22 |
113th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 276 at St Andrews |
Jul 22 |
22nd Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Australia in Sao Paulo Brazil (2-1) |
Jul 22 |
Kathy Whitworth wins Rochester Golf International (her 85th win) |
Jul 22 |
Laurent Fignon wins Tour de France |
Jul 23 |
KC Royals Dan Quisenberry gets his 200th career save |
Jul 23 |
Suzette Charles (NJ), 21, replaces Williams as 57th Miss America 1984 |
Jul 23 |
Vanessa Williams, 1st African American Miss America, resigns due to posing nude |
Jul 25 |
Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space |
Jul 26 |
Expos Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with his 3,052nd single |
Jul 26 |
Kuhn announces Vida Blue is suspended due to cocaine conviction |
Jul 26 |
Pitcher Vida Blue suspended for rest of 1984 due to drug use |
Jul 27 |
Reds' Pete Rose collects record 3,053rd career single (vs Phila) |
Jul 28 |
23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles |
Jul 29 |
12th du Maurier Golf Classic: Juli Inkster |
Jul 29 |
23rd Summer Olympics opens in LA |
Jul 30 |
Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil |
Jul 30 |
Holly Roffey (11 days) gets heart transplant |
Jul 30 |
Soap Opera "Santa Barbara" premieres on NBC TV |
Jul 31 |
Leeza Gibbon's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight |
Jul 31 |
US men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics |
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 |
Carl Lewis wins gold medal in 100-meter dash at LA Summer Olympics |
Aug 4 |
Cliff Johnson sets a record with his 19th pinch hit HR |
Aug 4 |
Prince's "Purple Rain" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 24 weeks |
Aug 4 |
Republic of Upper Volta becomes Bourkina Faso (National Day) |
Aug 5 |
Alice Miller wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic |
Aug 5 |
Joan Benoit (US) wins 1st Olympic marathon for women (2:24:52) |
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 6 |
Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in Summer Olympics |
Aug 7 |
David Rabe's "Hurlyburly" premieres in NYC |
Aug 7 |
Japan beats US for olympic gold medal in baseball |
Aug 7 |
Jim Deshales becomes 1,000th playing Yankee |
Aug 8 |
"Rink" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 204 performances |
Aug 8 |
Carl Lewis wins 3rd (200m) of 4 gold medals in Summer |
Aug 8 |
Milwaukee 10-game losing streak ends |
Aug 9 |
Daley Thomas of Britain sets decathalon record (8,847) in LA Cal |
Aug 9 |
STS 41-D vehicle again moves out to launch pad |
Aug 10 |
Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during 3,000m Olympic run |
Aug 11 |
101,799 fans at soccer match Brazil vs France |
Aug 11 |
Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens' 1936 feat, wins 4 Olympic track golds |
Aug 11 |
Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench's #5 uniform |
Aug 11 |
During radio voice test US President Reagan jokes he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes" |
Aug 11 |
Men's choir Maranatha Netherlands forms |
Aug 11 |
USSR performs (underground) nuclear test |
Aug 12 |
23rd Olympic games close at Los Angeles, Calif |
Aug 12 |
Braves beat Padres 5-3, features 2 brawls & 19 ejections |
Aug 12 |
Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, & Luis Aparicio inducted into Hall of Fame |
Aug 12 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
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 17 |
Pete Rose returns to Cin Reds as player-manager (gets 2 hits) |
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 19 |
66th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 273 at Shoal Creek Ala |
Aug 19 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf |
Aug 19 |
Republican convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan for President |
Aug 19 |
Sally Quinlan wins LPGA MasterCard Golf International Pro-Am |
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 |
Met pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes 11th rookie to strikeout 200 |
Aug 22 |
Republican convention in Dallas renominates President Reagan & VP Bush |
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 24 |
Pat Bradley set LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 at Denver |
Aug 25 |
French airship capsizes |
Aug 25 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Aug 26 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic |
Aug 26 |
Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 3k woman record (8:22.62) in Leningrad |
Aug 26 |
Zdena Silvaha (Cz) throws discus 74.55 m (women's world record) |
Aug 27 |
US President Ronald Reagan announces Teacher in Space project |
Aug 27 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Aug 28 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Aug 30 |
12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days) |
Aug 30 |
Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation |
Aug 30 |
Red Sox Jim Rice grounds into record 33rd double play en route to 36 |
Aug 30 |
Sotheby's in London begins 2 day auction of rock memorabilla |
Aug 31 |
Pinklon Thomas beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
Sep 2 |
"Zorba" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 362 performances |
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 |
Cindy Hill wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
Sep 3 |
Jerry Lewis' 19th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $32,074,566 |
Sep 3 |
South Africa adopts constitution |
Sep 4 |
Nigerian singer Fela Kuti sentenced to 2 years |
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 |
98th US Women's Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris E L Mills (46 64 64) |
Sep 8 |
Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41G mission |
Sep 9 |
104th US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Ivan Lendl (6-3 6-4 6-1) |
Sep 9 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Portland Ping Golf Championship |
Sep 10 |
Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Okla |
Sep 10 |
Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across US (24 days) |
Sep 12 |
Country singer Barbara Mandrell is badly injured in a car accident |
Sep 12 |
Cyndi Lauper sings "She-Bop" on Tonight Show |
Sep 12 |
Ethiopia forms socialist republic |
Sep 12 |
NY Met Dwight Gooden sets rookie strike out record at 251 |
Sep 13 |
STS 41-G launch vehicle moves to launch pad |
Sep 13 |
Simon Peres forms Israeli government with Likoed |
Sep 14 |
1st MTV awards-Bette Midler & Dan Aykroyd host |
Sep 15 |
Morocco Showcase opens |
Sep 15 |
Sharlene Wells (Utah), 20, crowned 58th Miss America 1985 |
Sep 15 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Sep 16 |
"Miami Vice" premieres |
Sep 16 |
Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
Sep 16 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
Sep 17 |
Brian Mulroney sworn in as Canada's 18th PM succeeding John Turner |
Sep 17 |
Dwight Gooden ties record of 32 strikeouts in consecutive games |
Sep 17 |
Reggie Jackson is 13th to hit 500 HRs |
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 18 |
Tim Raines is 1st player with 4 consecutive 70-stolen-base seasons |
Sep 19 |
Britain & China complete a proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997 |
Sep 20 |
"Cosby Show" premieres on NBC-TV |
Sep 20 |
Cubs break 2 million in home attendance for 1st time |
Sep 20 |
Suicide car bomb attacks US Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23 |
Sep 21 |
NASA launches Galaxy-C |
Sep 23 |
36th Emmy Awards: Hill St Blue, Cheers, John Ritter & Tyne Daly win |
Sep 23 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA San Jose Golf Classic |
Sep 23 |
SF 49er Joe Montana misses his 1st start in 49 games |
Sep 23 |
Sparky Anderson is 1st manager to win 100 games in both leagues |
Sep 24 |
Cubs clinch NL East title |
Sep 24 |
Paul McCartney release "No More Lonely Nights" |
Sep 25 |
"Quilters" opens at Jack Lawrence Theater NYC for 24 performances |
Sep 25 |
1st London performance of musical "Stepping Out" presented |
Sep 25 |
Egypt & Jordan regain diplomatic relations |
Sep 25 |
NY Met Rusty Staub joins Ty Cobb, who hit HRs as a teen & in 40s |
Sep 26 |
5,251 turn out to see Phillies play NY Mets at Shea Stadium |
Sep 26 |
Berlin appeals court clears Paul McCartney in a paternity suit |
Sep 26 |
Britain & China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997 |
Sep 26 |
Dutch Queen Beatrice opens University |
Sep 26 |
Phila's Juan Samuel sets record for steals by a rookie with his 72nd |
Sep 26 |
President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa |
Sep 28 |
1st floodlit ODI outside of Australia (India v Aust, New Delhi) |
Sep 28 |
Cleve Indians down 0-10 to Minnesota Twins, win 11-10 |
Sep 29 |
"(What) In Name Of Love" by Naked Eyes peaks at #39 |
Sep 29 |
"Cruel Summer" by Bananarama peaks at #9 |
Sep 29 |
"Drive" by Cars peaks at #3 |
Sep 29 |
"Layin' It On Line" by Jefferson Starship peaks at #66 |
Sep 29 |
"Let's Go Crazy" by Prince & Revolution peaks at #1 |
Sep 29 |
"Pretty Mess" by Vanity peaks at #75 |
Sep 29 |
"Torture" by Jacksons peaks at #17 |
Sep 29 |
"When You Close Your Eyes" by Night Ranger peaks at #14 |
Sep 29 |
"Yes Or No" by Go-Go's peak at #84 |
Sep 29 |
Elizabeth Taylor undergoes rehabilitation at the Betty Ford Clinic |
Sep 30 |
California Angels Michael Witt is 11th to pitch a perfect baseball game |
Sep 30 |
Bowie Kuhn ends career as Baseball Commissioner |
Sep 30 |
Browns set a team record for allowing most sacks (11), KC wins 10-6 |
Sep 30 |
California Angel Mike Witt, pitches a perfect game over Texas Rangers, 1-0 |
Sep 30 |
NY Yankee Don Mattingly wins AL batting crown with .343 avg |
Oct 1 |
Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip resumes after 2-year hiatus |
Oct 1 |
Peter Ueberroth replaces Bowie Kuhn as 6th commissioner of baseball |
Oct 2 |
3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit |
Oct 2 |
In 1st LCS game played with replacement umps, Cubs cbeat Padres 13-0 |
Oct 2 |
Richard Miller, becomes 1st (former) FBI agent, charged with espionage |
Oct 4 |
US government closes down due to budget problems |
Oct 4 |
Detroit Tigers clinch AL East |
Oct 5 |
13th Space Shuttle Mission (41-G)-Challenger 6-launched |
Oct 6 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Hitachi Ladies British Golf Open |
Oct 7 |
Striking umps return for Game 5 of NLCS, SD Padres win pennant |
Oct 7 |
Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader |
Oct 8 |
18th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins |
Oct 9 |
Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st US woman to walk in space |
Oct 11 |
1st space walk by US woman (Dr Kathryn D Sullivan) |
Oct 11 |
August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" premieres in NYC |
Oct 11 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-208 |
Oct 11 |
VP candidates' debate - Geraldine Ferraro (D) & George H W Bush (R) |
Oct 12 |
IRA bombs hotel where British PM Margaret Thatcher is staying, 5 die |
Oct 13 |
Blackhawk Bill Gardner scores on 10th penalty shot against Islanders |
Oct 13 |
John Henry becomes 1st thoroughbred to win $6 million |
Oct 13 |
STS 41-G mission; lands at Kennedy Space Center |
Oct 14 |
"Quilters" closes at Jack Lawrence Theater NYC after 24 performances |
Oct 14 |
Browns' Ozzie Newsome sets club records with 14 receptions for 191 yds |
Oct 14 |
Detroit Tigers beat SD Padres, 4 games to 1 in 81st World Series |
Oct 14 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Smirnoff Ladies Irish Golf Open |
Oct 15 |
Central Intelligence Agency Information Act passes |
Oct 15 |
Centrum party expels 2nd Member of parliament Janmaat due to fraud |
Oct 16 |
Baboon heart transplanted into a 15-day-old baby girl |
Oct 16 |
Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins Nobel Peace Prize |
Oct 17 |
Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield |
Oct 18 |
Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51A mission |
Oct 18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Oct 20 |
Cleveland Metroparks' Valley Parkway All Purpose Trails are completed |
Oct 20 |
Islander's Mike Bossy's 30th career hat trick-4 goals |
Oct 20 |
The Monterey Bay Aquarium opens in Monterey Bay, California. |
Oct 21 |
Cleveland Browns' Steve Cox sets club record with a 60-yd field goal |
Oct 21 |
Niki Lauda becomes 3rd time motor racing world champ |
Oct 21 |
Steve Jones runs Chicago Marathon in world record 2:08:05 |
Oct 22 |
NFL quarterback Ken Stabler retires |
Oct 22 |
Paul McCartney releases "Give My Regards to Broad Street" soundtrack |
Oct 23 |
Cubs Rick Sutcliffe, selected as a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young |
Oct 23 |
NBC airs BBC footage of Ethiopian famine |
Oct 23 |
STS 51-A launch vehicle moves to launch pad |
Oct 24 |
11 members of Colombo crime family arrested |
Oct 24 |
Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after it failed |
Oct 25 |
"Give My Regards to Broad Street" premieres (Gotham Theater-NYC) |
Oct 25 |
Hepatitis virus is discovered |
Oct 25 |
King Boudouin opens Museum for Modern Art in Brussels |
Oct 25 |
Rangers beat Devils 11-2 |
Oct 25 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Oct 25 |
West German Chancellor Rainer Barzel resigns due to corruption |
Oct 26 |
Stephanie Fae Beauclair ("Baby Fae") gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days |
Oct 27 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Oct 27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Oct 27 |
Wash State's Rueben Mayes sets col football rec of 357 yards rushing |
Oct 28 |
14th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:29:30 |
Oct 28 |
15th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:14:53 |
Oct 28 |
Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament |
Oct 29 |
Orlando Pizzolato (2:14:53) & Greta Weitz (2:29:30) win NY Marathon |
Oct 30 |
Tigers reliever Willie Hernandez wins AL Cy Young Award |
Oct 31 |
Howard Goodall & Melvyn Bragg's musical "Hired Man" premieres in London |
Oct 31 |
Puerto Rican tanker 'San Francisco' explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as ship caught fire |
Oct 31 |
Indian PM Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her bodyguards Satwant Singh and Beant Singh at her home in New Delhi |
Nov 1 |
1st NBA game at LA Memorial Sports Arena - Clipper beat Knick, 107-105 |
Nov 1 |
Larry Shue's "Foreigner" premieres in NYC |
Nov 1 |
Willem de Kooning's "Two Women" sells for $1,980,000 |
Nov 1 |
Despite Mike Bossy 4 goals Islanders lose 5-6 to Canadians making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-77-3-4 |
Nov 2 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Nov 2 |
Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962. |
Nov 3 |
3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India |
Nov 3 |
Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated |
Nov 4 |
Nayoko Yoshikawa wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
Nov 4 |
Nicaragua holds first free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63% |
Nov 6 |
President Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D) |
Nov 6 |
Willie Hernandez wins AL MVP Award |
Nov 7 |
STS 51-A launch scrubbed because of high shear winds |
Nov 8 |
1st-class cricket debut of Wasim Akram, 2 months before his 1st Test |
Nov 8 |
Anna Fisher becomes 1st "mom" to go into orbit |
Nov 8 |
STS 51-A mission launches |
Nov 9 |
1st-class cricket debut for Brian McMillan, Transvaal B v N Tvl B |
Nov 9 |
Larry Holmes TKOs Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
Nov 9 |
Most shots in an Islander game-88-Isles 45, Rangers 43 |
Nov 9 |
Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed |
Nov 10 |
Australia all out for 76 v West Indies at cricket WACA, Holding 6-21 |
Nov 10 |
Miami Hurricanes blows 31-0 lead in 3rd quarter lose to Md 42-40 |