Notable Historical Events - 1993
1993 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
12 member European Economic Community set up vast free trade zone |
Jan 1 |
Blockbuster Bowl 3: Stanford beats Penn State, 24-3 |
Jan 1 |
Cigarette advertisements are banned in NYC's MTA |
Jan 1 |
Czechoslovakia separates into Czech Republic (Bohemia) & Slovakia |
Jan 2 |
"Gypsy Passion" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 55 performances |
Jan 3 |
"Catskills on Broadway" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 452 perfs |
Jan 3 |
"Christmas Carol" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 22 perfs |
Jan 3 |
"Lost in Yonkers" closes at Richard Rodgers NYC after 780 perfs |
Jan 3 |
"Secret Garden" closes at St James Theater NYC after 706 performances |
Jan 3 |
"Tommy Tune Tonite!" closes at Gershwin NYC after 10 performances |
Jan 3 |
Junk bond king Michael Milkin is released from jail after 22 months |
Jan 3 |
"The Comeback", QB Frank Reich led the Buffalo Bills back from a 32-point deficit, to defeat the Houston Oilers 41-38 in overtime in a wild card playoff game, the greatest comeback ever in pro football history |
Jan 4 |
7th largest wrestling crowd (63,500-Tokyo Dome) |
Jan 5 |
Brian Lara completes 277 v Australia at cricket SCG |
Jan 5 |
Price is Right model Janice Pennington sues CBS for show accident |
Jan 5 |
Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame |
Jan 5 |
The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil. |
Jan 5 |
Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965). |
Jan 6 |
Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones |
Jan 6 |
Jean Mueller discovers comet Mueller/1993a |
Jan 6 |
Last day of Test cricket for Greg Matthews |
Jan 7 |
The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President. |
Jan 8 |
Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point |
Jan 8 |
Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale |
Jan 8 |
NBC offers "Tonight Show" to David Letterman |
Jan 9 |
Franziska van Almsick swims world record 100 m free style (53.33) |
Jan 10 |
"My Favorite Year" closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 37 perfs |
Jan 10 |
"Sea Gull" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 48 performances |
Jan 10 |
Maiden flight of Ultrair (Houston to LA) |
Jan 11 |
Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Buffalo NY (WKBW) |
Jan 11 |
Independent pres candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics |
Jan 12 |
Doctors announce Pitts Penguin Mario Limeux has Hodgkin's disease |
Jan 12 |
NHL great Mario Lemieux announces that he has been diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma |
Jan 13 |
STS-54 (Endeavour) launches into orbit |
Jan 13 |
Super Bowl XXVII in Pasadena - Cowboys beat Bills |
Jan 14 |
"Anna Christie" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 54 performances |
Jan 14 |
David Letterman announces his show is moving from NBC to CBS |
Jan 14 |
Polish ferry boat capsizes in storm, 50 die |
Jan 15 |
7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, 2 die |
Jan 15 |
Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV |
Jan 15 |
Top mafia leader Salvatore "Toto" Riina arrested in Palermo |
Jan 17 |
14th ACE Cable Awards: Bravo! wins the Golden CableACE for its dedication to films, cultural arts and performing arts programming |
Jan 17 |
Russian Irina Privalova cycles world record 300m indoor (35.45") |
Jan 18 |
Martin Luther King Jr. holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time |
Jan 18 |
West Indies win the World Series Cup, beating Australia 2-0 |
Jan 19 |
Israel recognizes PLO as no longer criminal |
Jan 19 |
Oakland A's unveil new elephant logo |
Jan 19 |
Robert M Gates, ends term as 15th director of CIA |
Jan 19 |
STS-54 (Endeavour) lands |
Jan 20 |
Adm Studeman, serves as acting director of CIA |
Jan 20 |
Bill Clinton inaugurated as 42nd US President |
Jan 21 |
Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77 |
Jan 21 |
Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder |
Jan 22 |
Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77 |
Jan 23 |
50th Golden Globes: Scent of a Woman, wins |
Jan 23 |
Graham Gooch scores his 100th 100, on tour at Cuttack |
Jan 23 |
Indian Airlines B737 crashes art Aurangabad, 61 die |
Jan 23 |
NY Newsday reports Ore Sen Bob Packwood sexually harassed 23 women |
Jan 23 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Nancy Kerrigan |
Jan 24 |
14th annual star-athon $24,000,000 |
Jan 24 |
Polish ferry boat John Heweliusz sinks, 52 killed |
Jan 24 |
Soyuz TM-16 launches |
Jan 24 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis |
Jan 24 |
Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara. |
Jan 25 |
20th American Music Award: Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey win |
Jan 25 |
Puerto Rico adds English as its 2nd official language |
Jan 25 |
Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales dept after 97 years |
Jan 25 |
Five people were shot outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders. |
Jan 26 |
West Indies defeat Australia by one run in 4th Test at Adelaide |
Jan 27 |
DC-3 crashes in Kinshasa, killing 12 |
Jan 29 |
Test debut of Vinod Kambli, prolific Indian batsman |
Jan 30 |
100,000 Europeans demonstrate against fascism & racism |
Jan 30 |
67th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Monica Seles beat Graf (4-6 6-3 6-2) |
Jan 31 |
"St Joan" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 49 performances |
Jan 31 |
81st Australian Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats S Edberg (62 61 26 75) |
Jan 31 |
Super Bowl XXVII: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 52-17 in Pasadena Super Bowl MVP: Troy Aikman, Dallas, QB |
Feb 1 |
NY Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman |
Feb 1 |
Soyuz TM-16 lands |
Feb 2 |
Frito Lay pays court ordered $2,500,000 to Tom Wait for using his song |
Feb 2 |
Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.05 sec) |
Feb 3 |
Cin Red owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments |
Feb 3 |
General Hospital's Tristan Rogers convicted of drunk driving |
Feb 3 |
Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in LA Calif |
Feb 4 |
Admiral William Studeman ends term as acting director of CIA |
Feb 4 |
Russian space agency tests a 82-foot wide space mirror |
Feb 5 |
Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 & injuring 160 |
Feb 5 |
R James Woolsey, becomes 16th director of CIA |
Feb 6 |
44th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 16-6 at Montreal |
Feb 6 |
Riddick Bowe TKOs Michael Dokes in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
Feb 7 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-20 |
Feb 7 |
Pebbles Flintstone & Bamm Bamm Rubble wed |
Feb 7 |
Tammie Green wins LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic |
Feb 8 |
Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die |
Feb 8 |
GM sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires |
Feb 9 |
Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma |
Feb 10 |
Jani Sievinen swims world record 200m backstroke (1:55.59) |
Feb 10 |
US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia |
Feb 10 |
"Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey" airs on ABC & drew an astounding 39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people |
Feb 11 |
Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY (WRQI) |
Feb 11 |
Irina Privalova runs world record 60m indoor (6.92 secs) |
Feb 11 |
Janet Reno selected by President Clinton as US Attorney General |
Feb 13 |
Ljubow Kremljowa runs world record 1000m indoor (2:34:84) |
Feb 13 |
Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (21.87 sec) |
Feb 13 |
Sergei Bubka pole vaults indoor record (6.14 m) |
Feb 14 |
Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79 |
Feb 15 |
Bombings by mafia drug lords kill 14 in Bogota, Colombia |
Feb 15 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Rochester NY on WNVE 95.1 FM |
Feb 16 |
Sandra Völker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.33 sec) |
Feb 16 |
Western Australia's and Australia's first woman Premier, Carmen Lawrence, is voted out of office. |
Feb 17 |
Haitian ferry boat capsize in storm, 800-2,000 die |
Feb 17 |
Mark Foster swims world record 50m free style (21.60 sec) |
Feb 18 |
Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY |
Feb 19 |
Kenya Moore, 22, (Michigan), crowned 42nd Miss USA |
Feb 20 |
Florida Marlins open their 1st spring training camp |
Feb 20 |
Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open |
Feb 20 |
NY Islanders retire Billy Smith's number 31 |
Feb 21 |
43rd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 135-132 (OT) at Salt Lake City |
Feb 21 |
Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 m) |
Feb 22 |
Vinod Kambli scores 224 v England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours |
Feb 23 |
Gary Coleman wins $1,280,000 lawsuit against parents for high fees |
Feb 23 |
India complete a 3-0 series drubbing of England |
Feb 23 |
Sacramento Gold Miners admitted as CFL's 9th franchise (1st US team) |
Feb 24 |
35th Grammy Awards: Tears in Heaven, Eric Clapton wins |
Feb 25 |
"Fool Moon" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 207 performances |
Feb 25 |
Florida Marlins introduce their mascot "Billy" |
Feb 25 |
Pakistan all out 43 v West Indies, world one-day int record low |
Feb 26 |
2nd tallest building in world, NYC World Trade Center bombed, 7 die |
Feb 26 |
9th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins |
Feb 26 |
Allan Border beats Gavaskar's record for most Test Cricket runs 10,123 |
Feb 27 |
PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr |
Feb 28 |
"Anna Christie" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 54 performances |
Feb 28 |
7th American Comedy Award: seinfeld wins |
Feb 28 |
Gun battle erupts near Waco, Texas at Branch Davidian compound after FBI attempts a raid |
Feb 28 |
Iolanda Chen triple jumps world indoor record hop step (14.46m) |
Mar 1 |
Authorities near Waco, Texas negotiate with Branch Davidians |
Mar 1 |
George Steinbenner is reinstated as owner of NY Yankees |
Mar 1 |
New expansion NHL team, owned by Disney, is named the Mighty Ducks |
Mar 2 |
Claudette Colbert, suffers a stroke at 89 |
Mar 3 |
Howard Stern radio show premieres in Boston (WBCN 104.1 FM-evenings) |
Mar 4 |
"Goodbye Girl" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 188 performances |
Mar 4 |
Katharine Hepburn admitted to hospital suffering from exhaustion |
Mar 4 |
1st ESPY Awards: Michael Jordan, Monica Seles win |
Mar 5 |
Boston Celtic Larry Bird undergoes backfusion surgery |
Mar 5 |
Fokker 100 crashes at Skopje Macedonia, 81 die |
Mar 5 |
Marlins beat Astros 12-8 in their 1st spring training game |
Mar 7 |
23rd Easter Seal Telethon raises |
Mar 7 |
Diff'rent Stroke actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant |
Mar 8 |
Katharine Hepburn released from the hospital after exhaustion |
Mar 8 |
Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder |
Mar 9 |
7th Soul Train Music Awards: Michael Jackson, Mary J. Blige win |
Mar 9 |
Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak |
Mar 9 |
Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs |
Mar 11 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Kurt Browning CAN |
Mar 12 |
317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay |
Mar 12 |
Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney |
Mar 12 |
Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show |
Mar 12 |
Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2½ week speech |
Mar 13 |
Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US |
Mar 14 |
"Conversations with My Father" closes at Royale NYC after 462 perfs |
Mar 14 |
"Face Value" closes at Cort Theater NYC after * performances |
Mar 14 |
"Saint Joan" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 49 performances |
Mar 14 |
3,000th performance of "Nunsense" |
Mar 14 |
Johan Koss skates world record 5km (6:36.57) |
Mar 14 |
Meg Mallon wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship |
Mar 14 |
Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days |
Mar 14 |
Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Prague won by Oksana Baiul (UKR) |
Mar 15 |
Vinod Kambli scores 227 v Zimbabwe, his 2nd consecutive Test 200 |
Mar 17 |
19th People's Choice Awards: Kevin Costner & Demi Moore win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Candice Bergen win (TV) |
Mar 17 |
86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta |
Mar 18 |
"Sisters Rosensweig" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 556 perfs |
Mar 18 |
Amsterdam stock exchange hits record Ÿ12.2 billion |
Mar 18 |
Sri Lanka beat England in Test match by 5 wickets |
Mar 19 |
Ice Dance Championship in Prague won by M Usova & A Zhulin (RUS) |
Mar 19 |
Ice Pairs Championship in Prague won by I Brasseur & L Eisler (CAN) |
Mar 19 |
US Supreme Court Justice Byron R White announced plans to retire |
Mar 20 |
Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (36.02 sec) |
Mar 20 |
IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington England |
Mar 21 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament |
Mar 21 |
Pope John Paul II declares Duns Scotus, a saint |
Mar 21 |
South Africa White Wolves kill 5 year old black girl |
Mar 22 |
Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS |
Mar 23 |
Belgian government of Dehaene, resigns |
Mar 23 |
NY Knicks & Phoenix Suns get into a major brawl |
Mar 24 |
Ezer Weizman elected president of Israel |
Mar 25 |
"Candida" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances |
Mar 27 |
Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China. |
Mar 28 |
13th Golden Raspberry Awards: Shining Through wins |
Mar 28 |
22nd Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Helen Alfredsson |
Mar 28 |
Conservatives win French parliamentary election |
Mar 28 |
Type II supernova detected in M81 (NGC 3031) |
Mar 29 |
65th Academy Awards - "Unforgiven", Al Pacino & Emma Thompson win |
Mar 29 |
Queensland all out for 75 v NSW in Sheffield Shield Final |
Mar 29 |
Actress Elizabeth Taylor presented the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for work for AIDs causes at 65th Academy Awards |
Mar 30 |
"Redwood Curtain" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 40 perfs |
Mar 30 |
French government of Balladur forms |
Mar 30 |
Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election |
Mar 30 |
Lanford Wilson's "Redwood Curtain" premieres in NYC |
Mar 30 |
New South Wales beat Qld by eight wkts to win Sheffield Shield |
Mar 30 |
Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy |
Apr 1 |
Alan Bennett's "Madness of George III" premieres in London |
Apr 2 |
1st test flight of Fokker 70 (Amsterdam) |
Apr 2 |
Venezuelan DC-10 crashes at Margarita, killing 10 |
Apr 4 |
12th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Texas Tech beats OH State 84-82 |
Apr 4 |
5th Seniors Golf Tradition: Tom Shaw |
Apr 4 |
Trish Johnson wins Las Vegas LPGA at Canyon Gate Golf Tournament |
Apr 4 |
Wrestlemania IX at Caesar's Palace Las Vegas, Hulk Hogan pins Yokozuna |
Apr 5 |
55th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: NC beats Michigan 77-71 |
Apr 5 |
73,293 see Yankees beat Indians 9-1 |
Apr 5 |
Colorado Rockies 1st game - lose to NY Mets 3-0 |
Apr 5 |
Construction begins on Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame |
Apr 5 |
Florida Marlins 1st game - beat LA Dodgers 6-3 |
Apr 5 |
Republican Guard kills 64 in Chad |
Apr 6 |
1st test flight of Ilyushin IL-96M (Moscow) |
Apr 6 |
Florida Marlins 1st lost ever (4-2 to LA Dodgers) |
Apr 7 |
Dante Bichette hits the 1st Colo Rockie HR (Shea Stadium NY) |
Apr 8 |
Indians' Carlos Baerga is 1st to switch hit HRs in same inn (vs Yanks) |
Apr 8 |
STS-56 (Discovery) launches into orbit |
Apr 9 |
Colorado Rockies 1st home game & 1st victory, 11-4 over Mont Expos |
Apr 10 |
BPAA US Open by Del Ballard Jr |
Apr 10 |
Ottawa Senators win 1st road game (Islanders) after 38 straight loses |
Apr 10 |
Pittsburgh Penguins win their NHL record 17 game winning streak |
Apr 11 |
57th Golf Masters Championship: Bernhard Langer wins, shooting a 277 |
Apr 11 |
Jeff Rouse swims world record 100m backstroke (51.43 sec) |
Apr 11 |
Kirsan Ilumzjinov installed as president of Kalmukkie |
Apr 11 |
450 prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs. It was Easter Sunday. |
Apr 13 |
"3 Men on a Horse" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 40 performances |
Apr 13 |
14th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
Apr 13 |
Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" premieres in London |
Apr 16 |
Jury reaches guilty verdict in Federal case against police officer who beat Rodney King, but the verdict is not read until April 17th |
Apr 17 |
Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney Kings civil rights |
Apr 17 |
STS-56 (Discovery) lands |
Apr 18 |
"Ain't Broadway Grand" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 25 perfs |
Apr 18 |
54th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Tom Wargo |
Apr 18 |
David Lee Roth arrested in NYC for purchasing marijuana for $10 |
Apr 18 |
Trish Johnson wins LPGA Atlanta Women's Golf Championship |
Apr 19 |
22nd Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:25:27 |
Apr 19 |
97th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas N'deti of Kenya in 2:09:33 |
Apr 19 |
After a 51 day siege by the FBI 76 Branch Davidians die in a fire near Waco Texas (accident, suicide, tear gas are disputed causes) |
Apr 19 |
Fire in psychiatric institute in South Korea, kills 40 |
Apr 19 |
South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashed lands in Iowa. |
Apr 20 |
Uranus passes Neptune (once every 171 years) |
Apr 21 |
"Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" opens at Circle in Sq NYC for 30 perfs |
Apr 21 |
Brazil votes against a monarchy |
Apr 22 |
"Who's Tommy" opens at St James Theater NYC for 899 performances |
Apr 22 |
Candid Camera creator Allen Funt suffers a stroke at 78 |
Apr 22 |
Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Wash DC |
Apr 22 |
Seattle Mariner Chris Basio no-hits Boston Red Sox |
Apr 22 |
The web browser Mosaic version 1.0 is released. |
Apr 23 |
Eritrea votes to secede from Ethiopia |
Apr 23 |
Peter Townshend's musical "Tommy" premieres in NYC |
Apr 24 |
The IRA explodes a 1000kg car bomb in Bishopsgate, London, killing a news photographer and injuring 44 others |
Apr 24 |
Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by George Branham |
Apr 25 |
"Blood Brothers" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 839 performances |
Apr 25 |
Russia elects Boris Yeltsin leader |
Apr 26 |
"Shakespeare for My Father" opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 266 perfs |
Apr 26 |
Boeing 737 crashes at Aurangabad, kills 56 |
Apr 26 |
NBC announces Conan O'Brien to replace David Letterman |
Apr 26 |
STS-55 (Columbia) launches into orbit |
Apr 27 |
Afghan Antonov AN-32 crashes at Tashqurgan, kills 76 |
Apr 28 |
"Tango Passion" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 5 performances |
Apr 28 |
Carlo Ciampi forms Italian government with ex-communists |
Apr 28 |
Zambian plane crashes at Libreville, Gabon, 30 soccer players die |
Apr 28 |
NY Islanders beat Wash Caps 4 to 1 in playoffs, Caps Dale Hunter attacks Pierre Turgeon after scoring, in hockey's worst cheap shot |
Apr 30 |
The World Wide Web is born at CERN. |
Apr 30 |
Virgin Radio broadcasts for the first time in the United Kingdom. |
May 1 |
119th Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Sea Hero wins in 2:02.4 |
May 1 |
Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die) |
May 2 |
"5 Guys Named Moe" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 445 perfs |
May 2 |
"Candida" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances |
May 2 |
"Redwood Curtain" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 40 perfs |
May 2 |
"Tango Passion" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances |
May 2 |
Kristi Albers wins Sprint Golf Classic |
May 2 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Sprint Senior Challenge Golf Tournament |
May 3 |
"Kiss of the Spider Woman" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 906 perfs |
May 4 |
"Angels in America-Millennium Approaches" opens at Kerr for 367 perfs |
May 6 |
STS-55 (Columbia) lands |
May 7 |
South Africa agrees to multi-racial elections |
May 8 |
ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Phil Ware |
May 8 |
Lennox Lewis beats Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
May 8 |
16 year old Keron Thomas disguises himself as a motorman & takes NYC subway train & 2,000 passengers on a 3 hour ride |
May 9 |
"Ain't Broadway Grand" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 perfs |
May 9 |
"Song of Jacob Zulu" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 53 perfs |
May 9 |
Landslide in Nambija Ecuador, kills 300 |
May 9 |
Meg Mallon wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic |
May 9 |
Mustapha Matura's "Playboy of West Indies" premieres in NYC |
May 9 |
Paraguay holds its 1st pres & parliamentary elections in 50 years |
May 10 |
Fire in clothing factory at Bangkok kills 145 |
May 10 |
Last TV appearance of Mies Bouwman |
May 10 |
Paul Cézanne still life painting sells for US$28,600,000 in NYC |
May 10 |
Premier Lubbers opens Terminal West on Schiphol |
May 10 |
Bill Walton is inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |
May 11 |
28th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins |
May 11 |
Paramaribo Suriname TV studio destroyed by fire |
May 12 |
Final episode of 6 year run of ABC's "Wonder Years" in Netherlands |
May 12 |
Last broadcast of "Knots landing" on CBS |
May 12 |
Last broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV |
May 12 |
Parma wins 33rd Europe Cup II |
May 13 |
6th annual business person run held in Wall Street |
May 13 |
Arsenio Hall's 1,000th show retrospective seen in Netherlands |
May 13 |
CBS' Knots Landing ends 14 year run with 334th show in Netherlands |
May 13 |
KC Royal George Brett hits his 300th HR |
May 13 |
Methane gas explosion in Secunda coal mine South-Africa, kills 50 |
May 15 |
119th Preakness: Mike Smith aboard Prairie Bayou wins in 1:56.6 |
May 15 |
Alamodome in San Antonio TX opens |
May 15 |
Montreal Expo retires their 1st #, #10 for Rusty Staub |
May 16 |
"3 Men on a Horse" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 40 performances |
May 16 |
"Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" closes at Circle in Sq NYC after 30 perfs |
May 16 |
Farmer Sugeng finds 1.2 million year old Pithecanthropus IX skull |
May 16 |
Judd Nelson pleads no contest to kicking Kim Evans in the head |
May 16 |
Laura Davies wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
May 16 |
Suleyman Demirel elected president of Turkey |
May 17 |
Intel's new Pentium processor is unveiled |
May 18 |
Danish people vote in favor of ratifying the Maastricht Treaty |
May 18 |
Italian police arrest Mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola |
May 19 |
Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medellin Colombia, kills 132 |
May 19 |
Dow Jones closes above 3,500 for 1st time (3,500.03) |
May 19 |
Juventus wins 22th UEFA Cup at Torino |
May 20 |
10m meteor comes within 150,000 km of Earth (1993KA) |
May 20 |
274th & final "Cheers" on NBC |
May 20 |
Ukraine Premier Leonid Koetsjma (Kuchma) resigns |
May 21 |
Dayanara Torres, 18, of Puerto Rico, crowned 42nd Miss Universe |
May 21 |
Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life |
May 21 |
Robin Smith scores 167 in England Texaco Trophy loss v Australia |
May 21 |
Venezuela president Carlos Andres Perez fired |
May 22 |
Riddick Bowe TKOs Jesse Ferguson in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
May 23 |
Val Skinner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
May 24 |
Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia after 30-year civil war |
May 24 |
Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy to avoid paying $7.4M settlement |
May 24 |
Kurd rebellion kills 33 soldiers & 5 citizens in Turkey |
May 26 |
Emmy 20th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 14th time |
May 26 |
Olympique Marseille wins 38th Europe Cup I at Munich |
May 26 |
Long fly ball by Indians' Carlos Martinez bounces off Jose Canseco's head & goes over fence for a home run |
May 27 |
Dale Murphy ends carreer at 398 HRs |
May 27 |
Mafia bombs Uffizi Museum in Florence, killing 6 |
May 28 |
200,000 demonstrate against mafia terror |
May 28 |
Polish government of Suchocka falls |
May 29 |
Neo-Nazis kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen, Germany |
May 29 |
Texas Ranger Jose Canseco pitches 8th inning in 15-1 loss to Red Sox, he gives up 3 runs on 2 hits & 3 walks, he damages his arm |
May 30 |
Betsy King wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game Golf Tournament |
May 30 |
Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Emerson Fittipaldi wins in 3:10:49.860 (253.000 km/h) |
May 31 |
President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees |
Jun 1 |
Brooklyn NY begins recycling |
Jun 1 |
Connie Chung joins Dan Rather as anchors of CBS Evening News |
Jun 1 |
Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army |
Jun 1 |
Melchior Ndadaye elected pres of Burundi |
Jun 3 |
66th National Spelling Bee: Geoff Hooper wins spelling kamikaze |
Jun 5 |
"Livin' On The Edge" by Aerosmith hits #18 |
Jun 5 |
125th Belmont: Julie Krone aboard Colonial Affair wins in 2:29.8 |
Jun 5 |
63rd French Women's Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats M J Fernandez (4-6 6-2 6-4) |
Jun 5 |
Liberian Charles Taylors rebellion kills 550 fugitives |
Jun 5 |
Somali warlord Aidids murders 23 Pakistani |
Jun 6 |
47th Tony Awards: Angels in America & Kiss of the Spider Woman win |
Jun 6 |
63rd French Mens Tennis: S Bruguera beats Jim Courier (64 26 62 36 63) |
Jun 6 |
6th Children's Miracle Network Telethon |
Jun 6 |
Jane Geddes wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic |
Jun 6 |
Punsalmaagiyn Otsjirbat recognized as president of Mongolia |
Jun 6 |
Ramiro de Leon Carpio elected pres of Guatemala |
Jun 7 |
27th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & Vince Gill |
Jun 7 |
Cleveland breaks ground for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame |
Jun 7 |
Crickets Graham Gooch dismissed handled the ball v Australia, Old Trafford |
Jun 7 |
Prince celebrated his birthday by changing his name to a symbol |
Jun 8 |
Premier Marc Bazin of Haiti resigns |
Jun 9 |
"Amantes" (1991) premieres in France |
Jun 9 |
"Body Snatchers" (1993) premieres in France |
Jun 9 |
"Ce que femme veut" (1993) premieres in France |
Jun 9 |
"Passion Fish" (1992) premieres in France |
Jun 9 |
"Tout capour ca!" (1993) premieres in France |
Jun 9 |
"What's Love Got to Do with It" (1993) premieres |
Jun 9 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat LA Kings, 4 games to 1 |
Jun 9 |
Tickets for Indians 1st season in Jacobs Field go on sale |
Jun 10 |
"She Loves Me" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 61 performances |
Jun 11 |
"Jurassic Park" (starring Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum) opens, sets box office weekend record of $502 million |
Jun 11 |
"Scattergories" game show last airs on NBC-TV |
Jun 11 |
"Scrabble," second run," TV Game Show; last airs on NBC-TV |
Jun 12 |
"Three Little Pigs" by Green Jelly hits #17 |
Jun 13 |
"Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" closes at Booth NYC after 232 perfs |
Jun 13 |
39th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Patty Sheehan |
Jun 13 |
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani re-elected president of Iran |
Jun 13 |
YokoZuna beats Hulk Hogan to become WWF champ |
Jun 14 |
Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth |
Jun 14 |
Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey |
Jun 16 |
Ken Griffey Jr slugs his 100th career home run in Seattle's |
Jun 17 |
Indians' Carlos Baerga hits 3 home runs against Detroit |
Jun 18 |
Expo's Dennis Martinez is 92nd to win 200 games |
Jun 18 |
Toru Takemitsu's "Archipelago" premieres in Aldeburgh England |
Jun 19 |
Boon completes 15th Test cricket century, 164* v England at Lord's |
Jun 20 |
47th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2 |
Jun 20 |
93rd US Golf Open: Lee Janzen shoots a 272 at Baltusrol GC NJ |
Jun 20 |
Tammie Green wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament |
Jun 21 |
"Camelot" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 56 performances |
Jun 21 |
English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of Fermat |
Jun 21 |
STS-57 (Endeavour) launches into orbit |
Jun 22 |
NY Met Anthony Young ties record of 23rd straight lose |
Jun 22 |
Wilson Pickett plead guilty to auto assault due to drunk driving |
Jun 23 |
Lorena Gallo Bobbitt amputates husband's John Wayne Bobbitt's penis |
Jun 23 |
UN authorizes worldwide oil embargo against Haiti |
Jun 23 |
Nigeria's military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida, annuls results of presidential elections and halts a return to democracy |
Jun 24 |
Arab terrorist group planning bombing of Holland and Lincoln Tunnels caught |
Jun 24 |
Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber. |
Jun 25 |
NY Islander goalie Billy Smith elected to NHL Hall of Fame |
Jun 25 |
Parliamentary election in Morocco |
Jun 25 |
Kim Campbell becomes the 19th Prime Minister of Canada (although she would remain in office for less than five months) |
Jun 26 |
"Late Night with David Letterman" airs for last time on NBC-TV |
Jun 26 |
Actress Julia Roberts & country singer Lyle Lovett wed |
Jun 26 |
NY Met Eddie Murray is 20th to get 1,600 RBIs |
Jun 26 |
Rebecca Jones, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Junior Miss |
Jun 26 |
The U.S. launches a cruise missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H.W. Bush in April in Kuwait. |
Jun 27 |
"Falsettos" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 487 performances |
Jun 27 |
11th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Jim Colbert |
Jun 27 |
NY Met pitcher Anthony Young loses record 24th straight game |
Jun 27 |
Shelley Hamlin wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic |
Jun 27 |
Don Henley booed in Milwaukee when he dedicates the song "It's Not Easy Being Green" to President Clinton |
Jun 28 |
Doctors recommend ligament transplant to Jose Canseco's arm |
Jun 28 |
Jacques Lemaire is named NJ Devils 8th Head Coach |
Jun 28 |
NCRV shows last "Cheers" in Netherlands |
Jun 28 |
Carlton Fisk, 45, released by White Sox, as all time leader of most games caught & most HRs by a catcher |
Jun 30 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Point Theatre, Dublin |
Jun 30 |
Richard Jacobs announces Chief Wahoo will go to Jacobs Field |
Jul 1 |
1 second is added to the clock |
Jul 1 |
Russian manned space craft TM-17, launches into orbit |
Jul 1 |
STS-57 (Endeavour) lands |
Jul 2 |
Boat sinks at Bocaue Philippines, 325 die |
Jul 2 |
F-28 crashes at Sorong Irian Barat, 41 die |
Jul 2 |
Kansas Royals rename stadium Ewing Kaufman Stadium after founder |
Jul 2 |
Moslem fundamentalists in Sivas, Turkey, set hotel on fire, kill 36 |
Jul 2 |
NY Met Anthony Young loses a record 25th straight game (goes to 27) |
Jul 2 |
Pope John Paul II hospitalized for Cat Scan test |
Jul 3 |
100th Wimbledon Women's Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats Jana Novotna (7-6 1-6 6-4) |
Jul 3 |
Boon completes 16th Test Cricket century, 101 at Trent Bridge |
Jul 4 |
107th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Courier (76 76 36 63) |
Jul 4 |
Brandie Burton wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
Jul 4 |
Dave Winfield hits 442nd HR to move into 19th place |
Jul 4 |
Pilar Fort crowned 25th Miss Black America |
Jul 4 |
Pizza Hut blimp deflates & lands safely on W 56th street in NYC |
Jul 5 |
As' Rickey Henderson is 2nd to hit leadoff homers in doubleheader |
Jul 5 |
Kurd guerrillas murder 32 villager in East Turkey |
Jul 5 |
Richard Chelimo run world record 10 km (27:07.91) |
Jul 6 |
Graham Thorpe scores 114 on Test Cricket debut, England v Australia |
Jul 6 |
John F. Kennedy Jr, gives notice of quitting as ADA in Manhattan |
Jul 7 |
Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia |
Jul 7 |
NY Met Anthony Young, loses his 26th straight game (goes to 27) |
Jul 7 |
Philadelphia Phillies beat SF Giants 7-6 in 20 innings |
Jul 7 |
Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers |
Jul 7 |
Red Tom Browning decides to watch his team play at Wrigley Field from the roof of a building across Sheffield Ave, he is fined $500 |
Jul 10 |
Melchior Ndadaye becomes 1st Hutu Burundi pres/Sylvie Kinigi, PM |
Jul 10 |
Yobes Ondieki runs world record 10km (26:58.38) |
Jul 11 |
14th US Seniors Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus |
Jul 11 |
Nancy Lopez wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic |
Jul 12 |
7.8 earthquake hits Hokkaido Japan, 160 killed |
Jul 12 |
Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Sunset Promenade" opens in London |
Jul 12 |
Don Imus begins broadcasting to Boston on WEEI (590 AM) |
Jul 13 |
64th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-3 at Camden Yards, Baltimore |
Jul 13 |
All star MVP: Kirby Puckett (Minnesota Twins) |
Jul 14 |
Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow & NY |
Jul 16 |
President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville |
Jul 16 |
S van Ruysdael's "Winter Landscape" sold for £705,500 in London |
Jul 16 |
SF outfielder Darren Lewis sets record of 267 consec errorless games |
Jul 17 |
Graeme Obree bicycles world record time, 51,596 km |
Jul 18 |
122nd British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 267 at Royal St George |
Jul 18 |
Afghan president Ishaq Khan & prime minister Nawaz Sharif resign |
Jul 18 |
Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (51,596 K) |
Jul 18 |
Hiromi Kobayash wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
Jul 18 |
Liberal-Democratic Party loses Japan's parliamentary election |
Jul 19 |
Glen Chapple (Lancs) scores fastest F-C century, 21 minutes |
Jul 19 |
Last day of 1st-class cricket for Ian Botham |
Jul 19 |
President Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions |
Jul 20 |
Fire in the press box at Altanta Fulton County Stadium |
Jul 21 |
Angela Kennedy swims world record 50 m butterfly stroke (26.93) |
Jul 22 |
NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits his 200th HR |
Jul 22 |
Soyuz TM-17 lands |
Jul 23 |
Boon completes 17th Test Cricket century, 107 at Headingley |
Jul 23 |
China Northwest Airlines BAe146-300 crashes at Yinchuan, 55 killed |
Jul 23 |
Chris Boardman bicycles world record 1 hour distance (52,270 km) |
Jul 23 |
NY Yankee Mark Hutton is 1st Australian to be a starting pitcher, He beats Angels 5-2; Yanks, Red Sox, Blue Jays 3 way tie for 1st |
Jul 24 |
Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans |
Jul 24 |
NY Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight |
Jul 25 |
31st Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0) |
Jul 25 |
48th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Lauri Merten |
Jul 25 |
Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon |
Jul 25 |
Miguel Indurain wins his 3rd Tour de France |
Jul 25 |
The St James' Church massacre in Kenilworth, Cape Town by Azanian Peoples' Liberation Army |
Jul 26 |
Boeing 737-500 crashes in South Korea, 66 killed |
Jul 26 |
Mars Observer takes 1st photo of Mars, from 5 billion km |
Jul 27 |
Detroit Tiger Fryman hits for cycle but loses 12-7 to Yankees |
Jul 27 |
Javier Sotomayor jumps world record 2.45 m high |
Jul 27 |
Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome/Milan/Vatican City, 5 killed |
Jul 27 |
NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million |
Jul 27 |
NY Met Anthony Young wins ending his losing streak at 27 games |
Jul 28 |
Mariner Ken Griffey Jr is 3rd to hit HRs in 8 straight games |
Jul 29 |
Cin Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession |
Jul 29 |
Walter Koenig (Checkov-Star Trek) suffers a mild heart attack |
Jul 29 |
Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible |
Jul 31 |
A's trade Rickey Henderson to Blue Jays |
Jul 31 |
Allman Bros guitarist Dickey Betts arrested for shoving 2 cops |
Jul 31 |
Inkatha-arm forces killed 49 ANC-followers in Johannesburg |
Jul 31 |
Prince Ronald "Ronnie" Mutebi crowned king of Uganda |
Aug 1 |
"In the Summer House" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 25 perfs |
Aug 1 |
"She Loves Me" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 performances |
Aug 1 |
Missie Berteott wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship |
Aug 1 |
Reggie Jackson enshrined in Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY |
Aug 1 |
Walter Koenig, Checkov of Star Trek, suffers a heart attack |
Aug 2 |
NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes |
Aug 2 |
Peter Angelos & William DeWitt purchase Orioles |
Aug 2 |
Train crash in tunnel at Vega de Anzo Spain, 12 killed |
Aug 2 |
Shamrock Broadcasting, a Disney company, officially takes ownership of Cleveland's WMMS-FM/100.7 & WHK-AM/1420 |
Aug 4 |
Angolan air force bombs Huambo |
Aug 4 |
Rwandian Hutus & Tutsis sign peace treaty in Arusha |
Aug 4 |
Tony Gwynn gets 6 hits, 4th time in 1993 a Padre gets 5 or more hits |
Aug 6 |
Japan Hosokawa government begins |
Aug 6 |
Pope John Paul II publishes Veritatis splendor encyclical |
Aug 7 |
"Camelot" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 56 performances |
Aug 7 |
Tropical storm Brett ravages Venezuela, 118 killed |
Aug 8 |
Dana Lofland wins McCall's LPGA Golf Classic Dormann at Stratton Mt |
Aug 8 |
Tropical storm Bret ravages Venezuela, about 100 killed |
Aug 9 |
King Albert II of Belgium, crowned |
Aug 10 |
Charlotte Anne Lopez, 16, of Vermont, crowned 11th Miss Teen USA |
Aug 10 |
An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hits the South Island of New Zealand. |
Aug 11 |
NY Islander Brian Mullen, 31, suffers a mild stroke |
Aug 11 |
Pope John Paul II visits Mexico |
Aug 11 |
Red Sox Roger Clemens pitches 2,000th strike out (Danny Tartabul-NY) |
Aug 12 |
Pope John Paul II begins visit of US |
Aug 13 |
Blue Jay Rickey Henderson pays Turner Ward $25,000 for his #24 |
Aug 13 |
Hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima Thailand, collapses, 114 killed |
Aug 13 |
US Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail |
Aug 14 |
Nigerian presidential election |
Aug 14 |
Reggie Jackson Day - NY Yanks retire 13th # (#44) |
Aug 14 |
St Louis reliever Lee Smith is fastest to get 40 saves |
Aug 15 |
"Goodbye Girl" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 188 performances |
Aug 15 |
75th PGA Championship: Paul Azinger shoots a 272 at Inverness Club Oh |
Aug 15 |
Cindy Schreyer wins LPGA Sun-Time Challenge Golf Tournament |
Aug 15 |
NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes for 2nd time |
Aug 15 |
Nolan Ryan, 324th & final victory, Rangers 4, Indians 1 |
Aug 15 |
Televangelist Robert Tilton announces he is divorcing Marte |
Aug 16 |
The Debian distribution was first announced by Ian Murdock, then a student at Purdue University. Murdock initially called his system the "Debian Linux Release" |
Aug 16 |
South Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay |
Aug 18 |
Historical Kapelbrug in Luzern Switz, destroyed by fire |
Aug 19 |
34th Walker Cup: US, 19-5 |
Aug 19 |
Dow Jones hits record high of 3612.13 |
Aug 19 |
George Tiller, abortion doctor, shot in his arms by Rachelle Shannon |
Aug 19 |
Mattel & Fisher Price toy companies merge |
Aug 19 |
Sally Gunnell runs women's world record 400m hurdles (52.74") |
Aug 20 |
Colin Jackson runs world record 110m hurdles (12.91) |
Aug 20 |
Howard Stern is fired from WLUP-AM, Chicago |
Aug 20 |
Mother Teresa hospitalized with malaria |
Aug 20 |
After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Peace Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month. |
Aug 21 |
NASA loses contact with Mars Observer |
Aug 22 |
"In the Summer House" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 25 perfs |
Aug 22 |
Hiromi Kobayash wins Minnesota LPGA Golf Classic |
Aug 23 |
NY Dow Jones index reaches record high of 3,638.96 points |
Aug 23 |
Fred McGriff & David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back HRs twice in same game |
Aug 24 |
Mars Observer comes closest to Mars |
Aug 24 |
Padres scores 14 in 1st vs Cardinals |
Aug 27 |
Yak-40 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 79 killed/1 lives |
Aug 27 |
The Rainbow Bridge connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba is completed. |
Aug 28 |
Dam breaks in Qinghai West China, 223 killed |
Aug 28 |
Jakovlev-42 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 76 killed |
Aug 28 |
Long Beach California beats Panama for little league world championship |
Aug 28 |
Singapore vice-premier Teng Cheong elected president |
Aug 29 |
21st du Maurier Golf Classic: Brandie Burton |
Aug 29 |
93rd US Golf Amateur Championship won by John Harris |
Aug 30 |
150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower |
Aug 30 |
Hassan II mosque opens in Casablanca, 2nd largest mosque in the world |
Aug 31 |
Minnesota Twins beat Cleve Indians 5-4 in 22 innings |
Aug 31 |
Venezuela president Carlos Perez flees |
Aug 31 |
HMS Mercury, the Royal Navy's communications training establishment, closes after 52 years in commission. |
Sep 1 |
"White Liars/Black Comedy" opens at Criterion NYC for 38 perfs |
Sep 1 |
Goran Ivanisevic & Daniel Nestor play longest tie-break in US Tennis |
Sep 2 |
10th MTV Awards: Pearl Jam, En Vogue wins |
Sep 2 |
Central African Republic ex-emperor Bokassa freed |
Sep 2 |
Day of Peace in South Africa |
Sep 4 |
Jim Abbott pitches 4-0, no-hit win over Indians at Yankee Stadium |
Sep 4 |
Mats Wilander defeats Mikael Pernfors 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 1-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-4 in 4 hrs 1 min US Open Tennis match concluding at 2:26 AM |
Sep 5 |
"Fool Moon" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 207 perfs |
Sep 5 |
"Jelly's Last Jam" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 569 perfs |
Sep 5 |
"Will Rogers Follies" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 983 perfs |
Sep 5 |
F Murray Abraham released from hospital after car accident |
Sep 5 |
Largest US Tennis Open 2 sessions (total) daily gate (43,502) |
Sep 5 |
Noureddine Morceli runs world record mile (3:44,39) |
Sep 6 |
Helen Dobson wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic |
Sep 6 |
Jerry Lewis' 28th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $46,014,922 |
Sep 7 |
Brazil votes over importing monarchy |
Sep 7 |
Cards Mark Whiten, hits 4 HRs & 12 RBIs in 2nd game of doubleheader |
Sep 8 |
Baseball's proposed switch to a three-division format OKed in AL |
Sep 8 |
Cheek Junxia wins world record ladies 10 km (29:31.78) |
Sep 8 |
Houston's Darryl Kile throws 3rd no-hitter of season in 7-1 over Mets |
Sep 9 |
Croupier of casino in Bristol, England, shoots a 4 a record eight times |
Sep 9 |
PLO recognizes state of Israel |
Sep 9 |
Ukraine premier Leonid Koetsjma, (Kuchma) resigns |
Sep 10 |
1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo plane produced |
Sep 10 |
Israel & PLO sign joint recognition statements |
Sep 11 |
107th US Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (6-3 6-3) |
Sep 11 |
Junxia Qu runs 1500m ladies' world record (3:50.46) |
Sep 12 |
113rd US Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Cedric Pioline (64 64 63) |
Sep 12 |
Donna Andrews wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship |
Sep 12 |
Junxia Cheek runs 3000 m ladies world record (8:12.29) |
Sep 12 |
Paul Molitor at 37 is oldest to reach 100 RBIs for 1st time in career |
Sep 12 |
STS-51 (Discovery) launches into orbit |
Sep 13 |
Israeli min of Foreign affairs Peres & PLO-Abu Mazen sign peace accord |
Sep 13 |
Junxia Cheek runs ladies world record 3000m (8:06.11) |
Sep 13 |
Queens NY begins required recycling |
Sep 13 |
Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement initiated by Norway. |
Sep 15 |
Liechtenstein prince Hans-Adam II disbands parliament |
Sep 16 |
Minnesota Twins Dave Winfield, is 19th to get 3,000 hits |
Sep 17 |
Last Russian troops leave Poland. |
Sep 18 |
Kimberly Clarice Aiken (SC), 18, crowned 67th Miss America 1994 |
Sep 18 |
LA Mighty Ducks play their 1st NHL pre-season game against Penguins |
Sep 18 |
Trailing 3-1 with 2 outs in 9th, time is called prior to Mike Stanley pop out, gets a 2nd chance, & Yanks rally to beat Boston 4-3 |
Sep 19 |
45th Emmy Awards: seinfeld, Picket Fences & Ted Danson win |
Sep 19 |
Actress Michele Phillips (Knots Landing) is robbed at gunpoint |
Sep 19 |
Brandie Burton wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
Sep 19 |
Kimberly Clarice Aiken, 18, Miss SC wins 67th Miss America |
Sep 19 |
Parliamentary election in Poland |
Sep 19 |
Tom Glavine wins 20 games in 3 straight years |
Sep 21 |
Ukraine government of Kutshma resigns |
Sep 22 |
Nolan Ryan, 46, pitches his last game |
Sep 22 |
STS-51 (Discovery) lands |
Sep 22 |
Supreme Soviet dismisses president Boris Yeltsin |
Sep 22 |
A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia. |
Sep 23 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Playhouse, Edinburgh |
Sep 23 |
Paul Chu group reports super conduction at -123°C (record high) |
Sep 24 |
1st Israeli killed by Islamics after PLO signs peace accord |
Sep 24 |
Norodom Sihanouk again installed as King of Cambodia |
Sep 26 |
30th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 15-13 at The Belfry, England |
Sep 26 |
Cubs bat out of order against Pirates in 2nd inning |
Sep 26 |
Indians win their last game at Cleveland Stadium, beating Brewers 6-4 |
Sep 26 |
Kris Monaghan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic |
Sep 26 |
Seattle's Randy Johnson joins 300-strikeout club |
Sep 27 |
Actor Daniel Day Lewis pleads guilty to speeding charges |
Sep 27 |
The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia. |
Sep 28 |
Dennis Martinez is 7th to win 100 games in AL & NL |
Sep 28 |
Gas field in Caracas explodes, 53 killed |
Sep 28 |
Ron Wood releases "Slide On Live" |
Sep 29 |
"Grace Under Fire" starring Brett Butler debuts on ABC-TV |
Sep 29 |
27th Country Music Association Award: Vince Gill wins |
Sep 30 |
6.4 earthquake at Latur, India, 28,000 killed |
Sep 30 |
US General Colin Powell retires at 56 |
Sep 30 |
MS Dos 6.2 released |
Oct 1 |
Lennox Lewis TKOs Frank Bruno in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
Oct 3 |
"White Liars/Black Comedy" closes at Criterion NYC after 38 perfs |
Oct 3 |
Battle at TV station Ostankino/Moscow townhall, about 25 killed |
Oct 3 |
Boris Yeltsin declares state of emergency in Moscow |
Oct 3 |
Harry Belafonte performs in Tivoli Copenhagen |
Oct 3 |
Indians play their last game at Cleve Stadium, Chicago wins 4-0 |
Oct 3 |
Somali General Aidids arm forces kill 18 US Rangers |
Oct 3 |
Giants need to beat Dodgers to force a playoff game with Braves for NL West title, but Dodgers destroy Giants 12-1, Giants end year 103-59 |
Oct 3 |
Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Soldiers and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting. |
Oct 4 |
Troops of pres Yelsin occupy Russian White House (parliament) |
Oct 5 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
Oct 5 |
Last honor guard at Lenin's mausoleum |
Oct 5 |
Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical Veritatis splendor |
Oct 6 |
Sydney Australia Stock Market index above 2000, for 1st time |
Oct 7 |
"Les Miserables," opens at Meralco Theatre, Philippines |
Oct 7 |
"She Loves Me" opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 294 performances |
Oct 7 |
Massive Moslem demonstrate in Xining China PR, 12 killed |
Oct 7 |
Nobel prize for literature awarded to Toni Morrison |
Oct 8 |
Howard Stern releases his 1st book "Private Parts" |
Oct 8 |
UN lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa |
Oct 10 |
Browns Najee Mustafaa sets club rec for longest interception (97 yds) |
Oct 10 |
Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed |