| January 1 | 60 bodies recovered in Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in Puerto Rico |
| January 1 | China's rudimentary civil code in effect |
| January 1 | International Year of Shelter for Homeless begins |
| January 2 | Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ |
| January 2 | Troops of Chad President Habre conquer Fada oasis |
| January 3 | "Oh Coward!" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 56 performances |
| January 3 | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin |
| January 3 | Singer/Miss America Vanessa Williams marries Ramon T Hervey in New York City |
| January 3 | "Smile" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 48 performances |
| January 4 | 16 die in a train crash in Chase Md |
| January 5 | Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack, New Jersey |
| January 6 | 100th U.S. Congress convenes |
| January 6 | Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy |
| January 7 | French airplanes harass Libyan positions in Duadi Doum |
| January 7 | Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket, at 28 the youngest |
| January 8 | Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25) |
| January 8 | Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games |
| January 9 | Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed |
| January 9 | New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect |
| January 9 | Sir Rudolph Bing (of New York Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass |
| January 11 | Largest crowd (76,633) at NFL New York Giant Stadium (beat Washington 17-0) |
| January 12 | Britain's Prince Edward resigns from his Royal Marines training |
| January 13 | 7 top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each |
| January 13 | West German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking |
| January 14 | Catfish Hunter and Billy Williams are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| January 17 | President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran |
| January 18 | 11th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Days of Our Live wins |
| January 19 | Guy Hunt becomes Alabama's 1st Republican governor since 1874 |
| January 20 | Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon |
| January 20 | Rhino Records 1st #1-Billy Vera and Beaters' "At This Moment" |
| January 21 | BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to the University of Mississippi |
| January 22 | "334" club forms as 334 brave Devil fans journey through 20" of snow to attend New Jersey Devils 7-5 victory over Calgary at Meadowlands |
| January 22 | Blizzard in New Jersey, as 334 attend Devils-Flame NHL game, New Jersey wins 7-5 |
| January 23 | Dow Jones rises 64 points then drops 110 points (44.15 pt loss) |
| January 23 | Japan 1st exceeds military spending cap of 1% of GNP ($23 billion) |
| January 24 | 61st Australian Womens Tennis: H Mandlikova beat M Navratilova (75 76) |
| January 25 | 75th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Pat Cash (63 64 36 57 63) |
| January 25 | Superbowl XXI: New York Giants beat Denver Broncos, 39-20 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: Phil Simms, New York Giants, quarterback |
| January 26 | 14th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie and Alabama |
| January 26 | Hart Foundation beat British Bulldogs for WWF tag team title |
| January 27 | Midnight Rockers beat Buddy Rose and Doug Somers for AWA World Tag Team |
| January 28 | U.S. Foreign minister George Shultz meets ANC-leader Oliver Tambo |
| January 28 | Wrestler Jim Neidhart indicted for assaulting a flight attendant |
| January 29 | Lisa files for separation from husband New York Met Darryl Strawberry |
| January 29 | William J Casey, ends term as 13th director of CIA |
| January 31 | 44th Golden Globes: Platoon, Marlee Matlin win |
| January 31 | United Steel workers union ratified a concessionary with USX Corp |
| February 1 | 163 day strike against Deere and Co ends, workers accept wage freeze |
| February 1 | 38,873 NBA crowd watch Chicago at Detroit |
| February 1 | Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic |
| February 1 | NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 10-6 |
| February 2 | Kansas City Royal pitcher Dennis Leonard (3X 20 game winner), retires |
| February 2 | Philippines adopts constitution |
| February 3 | Expos trade Jeff Reardon to Twins for Neal Heaton |
| February 3 | San Diego Yacht Club celebrates return of America's Cup |
| February 4 | President Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress |
| February 4 | Sacramento Kings score only 4 points 1st quarter against Lakers; fewest in a period since introduction of 24 second shot-clock in 1954 |
| February 4 | Stars and Stripes beats Australia's Kookaburra 3, sweeps America's Cup |
| February 5 | Dow Jones avg closes above 2,200 for 1st time |
| February 5 | Soyuz TM-2 launches |
| February 6 | No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings |
| February 6 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary |
| February 7 | Dennis Conner and Stars and Stripes bring America's Cup back to US |
| February 7 | Madonna's "Open Your Heart," single goes #1 |
| February 7 | "Ronnies Rap" by Ron and DC Crew peaks at #93 |
| February 7 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano |
| February 8 | 37th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 154-149 (OT) at Seattle |
| February 8 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
| February 9 | Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide |
| February 9 | New York Stock Exchange installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club |
| February 10 | Philippine troops murder 17 civilians-Lupao Massacre |
| February 11 | British Airways begins trading stocks |
| February 11 | England beat Australia 2-0 to win the World Series Cup |
| February 11 | Philippines constitution goes into effect |
| February 11 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 13 | Tigers' Jack Morris awarded $1.85 million salary by arbitrator |
| February 14 | 53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Philadelphia at Detroit |
| February 15 | ABC-TV begins broadcasting "Amerika" mini-series |
| February 15 | Karlstad skates world record 10km (14:03,92) |
| February 15 | Nikolai Guljajev becomes world champion skater |
| February 16 | John Demjanjuk, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" trial begins |
| February 17 | Don Mattingly wins highest salary arbitration ($1,975,000 per year) |
| February 17 | Michelle Renee Royer, 21, Texas, crowned 36th Miss USA |
| February 19 | Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner |
| February 19 | Less than a month after re-signing, A's pitcher Vida Blue retires |
| February 19 | Minnesota sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G. Harrelson |
| February 19 | Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland |
| February 19 | "Stardust" opens at Biltmore Theater New York City for 102 performances |
| February 20 | Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City |
| February 20 | David Hartman quits ABC's "Good Morning America," after 11 years |
| February 21 | Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Tsumura Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open |
| February 21 | Syrian army marches into Beirut |
| February 22 | Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200m indoor (20.36 sec) |
| February 23 | Dick Howser retires from managing Kansas City Royals, due to brain tumor |
| February 23 | Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member |
| February 23 | Supernova 1987A in LMC 1st seen; 1st naked-eye supernova since 1604 |
| February 24 | 29th Grammy Awards: Higher Love, Graceland, Bruce Hornsby wins |
| February 24 | Los Angeles Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point |
| February 24 | Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack |
| February 25 | LaMarr Hoyt is banned from baseball for 1987, due to drug abuse |
| February 25 | Michael Jordan, scores Chicago Bulls record 58 points in a game |
| February 25 | U.S. Supreme Court upholds affirmative action, 5-4 |
| February 26 | 1st release of Beatles compact discs |
| February 26 | NASA launches GEOS-H |
| February 26 | NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points is a Chicago Bull record |
| February 26 | Tower Commission probes Iran-Contra affair |
| February 26 | U.S.S.R. resumes nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| February 26 | Washington blocks 20 Indiana shots tying NBA regulation game record |
| February 27 | Donald Regan resigned as White House chief of staff |
| February 27 | Mike Conley triple jumps world indoor record (17.76m) |
| February 27 | NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption |
| February 27 | "Washington Week In Review," 20th anniversary on PBS |
| March 1 | Jane Geddes wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
| March 6 | 6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, kills 100 |
| March 6 | Belgium ferry boat "Herald of Free Enterprise" capsizes/sinks; 192 die |
| March 7 | Gavaskar becomes 1st cricket batsman to score 10,000 Test runs |
| March 7 | Mike Tyson beats Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| March 8 | 17th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,184,425 |
| March 8 | David Hookes (306*) Wayne Phillips make 462 stand for South Australia |
| March 8 | FBI apprehends most wanted Claude L Dallas, Jr. in California |
| March 8 | Jane Geddes wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic |
| March 8 | Nelli Cooman becomes world champion 60m indoor |
| March 9 | Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion |
| March 10 | Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization and embryo transfer |
| March 11 | Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point |
| March 12 | David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game |
| March 12 | Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North |
| March 12 | Ice Pairs Championship at Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva and Grinkov (URS) |
| March 12 | "Les Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial New York City for 4000+ performances |
| March 12 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (CAN) |
| March 12 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| March 13 | Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS) |
| March 13 | John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering |
| March 13 | Washington Caps score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 minutes and 3 seconds |
| March 14 | New York Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl |
| March 14 | Providence, with Billy Donovan's 25 points, beats Austin Peay 90-87 |
| March 14 | Skier Piotr Fijas jumps record 194m |
| March 14 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt |
| March 15 | 13th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby |
| March 15 | Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes and Joel Garner |
| March 15 | New Zealand beat WI by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket |
| March 15 | "Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City for 761 performances |
| March 15 | "Sweet Charity" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 368 performances |
| March 15 | U.S. Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay |
| March 17 | IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3 |
| March 17 | Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 vs. Pak |
| March 18 | Gerber survey find most popular names for newborns (Jessica and Matthew) |
| March 18 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 19 | Bonnie Blair skates ladies world record 500 m (39.43 sec) |
| March 19 | Fred Currey acquires Greyhound Bus Company |
| March 19 | Hassanali inaugurated as president of Trinidad and Tobago |
| March 19 | PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns after sex scandal with Jessica Hahn |
| March 19 | Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 3 km (4:16.85) |
| March 20 | FDA approves sale of AZT (AIDS treatment) |
| March 20 | NASA launches Palapa B2P |
| March 20 | Soap opera "Capitol" final episode |
| March 20 | Soviet filmmakers arrive in Hollywood for an entertainment summit |
| March 20 | Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 5 km (7:20.36) |
| March 22 | Betsy King wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open |
| March 23 | Soap "Bold and Beautiful" premieres |
| March 23 | U.S. offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf |
| March 23 | West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns |
| March 24 | 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross |
| March 24 | WA win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria |
| March 25 | Supreme Court rules women/minorities may get jobs if less qualified |
| March 26 | August Wilson's "Fences," premieres in New York City |
| March 26 | Hyderabad beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy |
| March 26 | NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit |
| March 26 | National Federation of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet) |
| March 27 | President Habre's troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad |
| March 28 | Stacking of Discovery's SRBs gets underway |
| March 29 | 6th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Tennessee routs Louisiana 67-44 |
| March 29 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic |
| March 29 | Wrestlemania III-93,173 watch Hulk Hogan beat Andre the Giant |
| March 29 | Yitzhak Shamir re-elected chairman of right wing Herut Party |
| March 30 | 59th Academy Awards - "Platoon," Paul Newman and Marlee Matlin win |
| March 30 | Vincent van Goghs "Sunflowers" sells for record 22.5M pounds ($39.7 million) |
| March 31 | 49th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Syracuse 74-73 |
| April 2 | Doc Gooden undergoes cocaine rehabilitation |
| April 2 | IBM introduces PS/2 and OS/2 |
| April 2 | "Mikado" opens at Virginia Theater New York City for 46 performances |
| April 3 | Bill Elliott sets NASCAR qualify record of 212.809 mph at Talladega |
| April 3 | Cubs trade Dennis Eckersley to A's for 3 minor leaguers |
| April 3 | Duchess of Windsors jewels auctioned for 31,380,197 pounds |
| April 3 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| April 4 | Dow Jones up 69.89 points, ending at record 2,390.34 pts |
| April 5 | 16th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King |
| April 5 | Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children |
| April 5 | Wayne Gretzky wins 7th straight NHL scoring title |
| April 6 | 22nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis and Hank Williams Jr |
| April 6 | Al Campanis appears on Niteline saying blacks may not be equiped to be in baseball management, sparking a racial controversy |
| April 6 | Sugar Ray Leonard upsets Marvelous Marvin Hagler |
| April 7 | Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on "Nightline" |
| April 7 | National Museum of Female Physician opens in Washington D.C. |
| April 9 | For 3rd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 goals in a Stanley Cup game Wayne Gretzky passes Jean Beliveau as all time playoff scoring champ |
| April 11 | Yankees score 12 runs in 7th inning vs Kansas City Royals |
| April 11 | Zoja Ivanova wins 2nd female World Cup marathon (2:30:39) |
| April 12 | 51st Golf Masters Championship: Larry Mize wins, shooting a 285 |
| April 12 | Ahmed Salah wins 2nd World Cup marathon (2:10:55) |
| April 12 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic |
| April 12 | Texaco files for bankruptcy |
| April 13 | 1st 3 San Diego Padres hit home runs off San Francisco starter Roger Mason |
| April 13 | Portugal signs agreement to return Macau to China (in 1999) |
| April 14 | Turkey asks to join European market |
| April 15 | Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss Daisy," premieres in New York City |
| April 15 | "Barbara Cook: A Concert..." opens at Ambassador New York City for 13 performances |
| April 16 | August Wilson's "Fences" wins 1987 Pulitzer Prize for drama |
| April 16 | FCC imposes a broader definition of indecency over airwaves |
| April 16 | Howard Stern and Infinity Broadcasting are warned by FCC |
| April 16 | Michael Jordon, becomes 2nd NBA to score 3000 points in a season |
| April 16 | Peter Taylor's "Summons to Memphis" wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
| April 16 | Pulitzer prize awarded to August Wilson for "Fences" |
| April 17 | Julius Erving becomes 3rd NBA player to score 30,000 points |
| April 17 | New York Richard Wilbur appointed as U.S. poet laureate |
| April 17 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| April 18 | An unconscious skydiver is rescued by another diver in mid-air |
| April 18 | Bob Land wins his 6th straight Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race |
| April 18 | Mike Schmidt hits 500th home run vs Robinson-Pirates |
| April 18 | Pat Knauff, France sets 1-leg downhill ski speed record (115.012 mph) |
| April 18 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
| April 19 | Brendon Kuruppu scores 201* on Test Cricket debut (Sri Lanka vs. New Zealand ) |
| April 19 | Brewers score 5 runs in 9th to win 6-4 and record 12th straight AL win |
| April 19 | Gregory Robertson does 200-mph free fall to save unconscious skydiver |
| April 19 | Jacqueline Blanc, sets women's downhill ski speed record, 124.9 mph |
| April 19 | Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Santa Barbara Golf Open |
| April 19 | Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve |
| April 19 | Los Angeles Clippers end season with a terrible 12-70 record |
| April 19 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| April 20 | 16th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:21 |
| April 20 | 91st Boston Marathon won by Toshihiko Seko of Japan in 2:11:50 |
| April 20 | Sri Lanka: Tamils shoot 122 Singalezen dead |
| April 20 | U.S. deports Karl Linnas, charged with nazi war crimes, to U.S.S.R. |
| April 21 | Brewers lose, ending AL season-opening winning streak at 13 games |
| April 21 | Dow Jones Avg soared 664.7; 2nd biggest one-day gain in history |
| April 21 | Milwaukee Brewers lose after 13th straight victory to start season |
| April 21 | Richard Hadlee makes highest Test Cricket score of 151* (v Sri Lanka) |
| April 21 | Tamil bomb attack in Colombo Sri Lanka, 115 killed |
| April 22 | Sri Lanka Air Force bomb Tamil, 100s killed |
| April 23 | 28 construction workers killed in an apt collapse in Bridgeport, Ct |
| April 23 | New Jersey Devils farm team Maine Mariners (AHL) move to Utica (Devils) NY |
| April 24 | Howard Stern holds a free speech rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza New York City |
| April 26 | "Barbara Cook: A Concert..." closes at Ambassador New York City after 13 performances |
| April 27 | U.S. Justice Department bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering U.S., due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WW II |
| April 28 | NBA announces expansion to Charlotte North Carolina and Miami Florida in 1988 and Minneapolis Minnesota and Orlando Florida in 1989 |
| April 29 | Chicago Cub Andre Dawson hits for cycle |
| April 29 | Japan's premier Nakasone visits the U.S. |
| April 30 | Lou Lamoriello is named New Jersey Devils President |
| April 30 | New York Islander Mike Bossy plays his final game |
| May 1 | 46 home runs hit in 13 baseball games |
| May 1 | Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun |
| May 2 | 113th Kentucky Derby: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 2:03.4 |
| May 3 | Cindy Hill wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
| May 3 | Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday and Saturday with Gary Hart |
| May 3 | "Mikado" closes at Virginia Theater New York City after 46 performances |
| May 5 | Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings |
| May 5 | Detroit Tigers are 11 games back in AL, but go on to win AL East |
| May 5 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| May 6 | Gary Hart denies affair with model Donna Rice |
| May 6 | Mario Andretti sets one-lap speed record at Indy at 218.204 MPH |
| May 6 | Niroslav Milhailovic begins 54 hours of telling jokes |
| May 6 | PTL's Jim Bakker and Rich Dortch dismissed from Assemblies of God |
| May 6 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| May 7 | 105 degrees F in Sacramento, California |
| May 7 | Diane Chambers' (Shelley Long) final episode on Cheers |
| May 8 | Gary Hart quits democratic presidential race due to Donna Rice affair |
| May 9 | 183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw |
| May 9 | Actor Tom Cruise (27) and actress Mimi Rogers (33), marry |
| May 9 | Oriole Eddie Murray is 1st to switch hit home runs in 2 consecutive games |
| May 10 | Jody Rosentha wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
| May 11 | 1st heart-lung transplant take place (Baltimore) |
| May 11 | Corazon Aquino is elected president in the Philippines |
| May 13 | Ajax wins 27th Europe Cup II |
| May 14 | Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for $242,000 |
| May 14 | "Little Shop of Horrors" is released in Germany |
| May 15 | 1st Energiya Launch (U.S.S.R.) |
| May 15 | Record archery score for a pair over 24 hours, is set |
| May 16 | 113th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 1:55.8 |
| May 16 | "Bobro 400," a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage, set sail from NY, beginning an unsuccesful 8-week search for a dumping site |
| May 16 | "Mystery of Edwin Drood" closes at Imperial New York City after 608 performances |
| May 16 | Rocker David Crosby weds Jan Dance in Los Angeles |
| May 16 | Weird Al Yankovic performs live at 72nd National Orange Show |
| May 17 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic |
| May 17 | "Stardust" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 102 performances |
| May 17 | USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die |
| May 19 | 1st American Comedy Award |
| May 20 | Gotenborg wins 16th UEFA Cup at Dundee |
| May 20 | Wrestler Jerry Lawler sues WWF and Harley Race for trademark name "king" |
| May 21 | Military coup in Fiji Islands under Lieutenant Colonel Sitivani Rabuka |
| May 21 | Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama |
| May 22 | 30 killed in a Texas tornado |
| May 24 | 33rd LPGA Championship won by Jane Geddes |
| May 24 | Al Unser, Sr., 47, wins his 4th Indy 500 |
| May 26 | Cecilia Bolocco, 22, of Chile, crowned 36th Miss Universe |
| May 26 | Great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka |
| May 26 | Supreme Court ruled dangerous defendants could be held without bail |
| May 26 | William H. Webster replaces Robert M. Gates as 14th director of CIA |
| May 27 | Jim and Tammy Bakker appear on "Nightline" after PTL scandal |
| May 27 | Postage wins 32nd Europe Cup 1 in Vienna |
| May 27 | Yank Phil Niekro is 3rd pitcher to make 700th start (Young and Sutton) |
| May 28 | 60th National Spelling Bee: Stephanie Petit wins spelling staphylococci |
| May 28 | Mathias Rust, 19, W. German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in U.S.S.R. |
| May 28 | Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot |
| May 28 | Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard in Augusta |
| May 28 | Southern League no-hit record-Bob Milacki pitches 11 1/3 no-hit inn |
| May 28 | Stacking of Discovery's SRBs completed |
| May 29 | Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains |
| May 29 | Robin Ventura set a college baseball record with hits in 57 games |
| May 29 | "Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent in death of actor |
| May 30 | Mike Tyson TKOs Pinklon Thomas in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
| May 30 | North American Philips Company unveils compact disc video |
| May 30 | Tony Tucker TKOs Buster Douglas in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
| May 30 | West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square |
| May 31 | Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| May 31 | Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4 games to 3 |
| June 1 | Phil Niekro 314th combines with Joe to have most wins by bros (530) |
| June 2 | Mariners draft Ken Griffey, Jr. #1 |
| June 3 | Cubs and Astro tie Oriole and Ranger record of 3 grand slams in a game |
| June 3 | "Little Shop of Horrors," released in France |
| June 3 | "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," released in France |
| June 4 | Danny Harris beats Edwin Moses, ends streak of 122 cons hurdle wins |
| June 5 | Dwight Gooden returns from drug rehabilitation and allows wins game |
| June 5 | "Nightline" presents it's 1st "Town Meeting" the subject is AIDS and the show runs until 3:47 AM |
| June 6 | 119th Belmont: Craig Perret aboard Bet Twice wins in 2:28.2 |
| June 6 | 57th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (64 46 86) |
| June 6 | New York Yankees play their 13,000th game |
| June 7 | 41st Tony Awards: Fences and Les Miserables win |
| June 7 | 57th French Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (75 62 36 76) |
| June 7 | Andy Van Slyke home runs off R. McDowell in both ends of double header |
| June 7 | Betsy King wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
| June 8 | 21st Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis |
| June 8 | Oliver North's secretary Fawn Hall tesifies at Iran-Contra hearing |
| June 10 | Discovery's SRBs and External Tank are mated |
| June 11 | Margaret Thatcher is 1st British Prime Minister in 160 years to win 3rd term |
| June 12 | Central Afr Rep ex-emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa sentenced to death |
| June 13 | Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel and Anne Knabe complete cycling journey of 15,266 mi from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Argentina |
| June 14 | 41st NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2 |
| June 14 | 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor |
| June 14 | "A Team," last aired on NBC-TV after 4 years |
| June 14 | Colleen Walker wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
| June 15 | Bettino Craxi's Socialist Party wins election in Italy |
| June 15 | Michael Spinks TKOs Gerry Cooney in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
| June 16 | Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens |
| June 16 | Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted after shooting 4 youths who tried to rob him |
| June 18 | Charles Glass, ABC journalist, kidnapped in Lebanon |
| June 19 | Ben and Jerry Ice Cream and Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia announce new Ice Cream flavor, Cherry Garcia |
| June 19 | ETA bomb attack in Barcelona, 15 killed |
| June 19 | Geffen records sign their 1st artist, Donna Summer |
| June 19 | Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation |
| June 20 | Chuti Tiu, 17, of Wisconsin, crowned America's Junior Miss |
| June 20 | Johnny Carson marries 4th wife Alexis Mass |
| June 21 | 87th U.S. Golf Open: Scott Simpson shoots a 277 at Olympic Club in SF |
| June 21 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| June 21 | Discovery rolls over from OPF to Vandenberg AFB |
| June 21 | Mike Tyson sexually harasses a parking lot attendant |
| June 22 | Tom Seaver retires after 3rd try with New York Mets |
| June 24 | CFL's Montreal Alouettes fold |
| June 24 | Salt Lake City Trappers begin pro baseball record 29 consec win streak |
| June 25 | Pope John Paul II receives Austrian President Kurt Waldheim |
| June 26 | Losing 9-0 to Red Sox, Yankees score 11 in 3rd and win 12-11 in 10 inn |
| June 26 | Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. announces his retirement |
| June 28 | Deb Richard wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
| June 28 | Don Baylor sets career hit-by-pitch mark at 244 (Pitcher Rick Rhoden) |
| June 28 | "Dreamgirls" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 177 performances |
| June 29 | Phil's Steve Bedrosian is 1st to record 12 saves in 12 attempts |
| June 29 | Yankees blow 11-4 lead but trailing 14-11 Dave Winfield's 8th inning grand slammer beats Toronto 15-14; Mattingly also grand slams |
| June 30 | Emmy 14th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 8th time |
| June 30 | Patrik Sjoberg of Sweden set a new world record in high jump |
| July 1 | Bork nominated to Supreme Court, rejected in October by senate |
| July 1 | New York City radio station WFAN-AM becomes 1st 24 hour all sports radio |
| July 1 | WHN-AM in New York City changes call letters to WFAN (now WEVD) replacing WHN's country music, WYNY-FM adopts country music format |
| July 2 | Jim Eisenreich, comeback after nervous disorder in 1984 |
| July 3 | 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic |
| July 3 | New York Met Darryl Strawberry threatens teammates Wally Backman and Lee Mazzilli for criticizing his play |
| July 4 | 94th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (75 63) |
| July 4 | Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission |
| July 4 | Imran Khan takes 300th Test Cricket wicket, only Pakistani to do so |
| July 4 | Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life in France |
| July 5 | 101st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pat Cash beats Ivan Lendl (76 62 75) |
| July 5 | A's Mark McGwire is 1st rookie to hit 30 home runs before All Star break |
| July 5 | Jane Geddes wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
| July 6 | 1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India |
| July 6 | Pakistan score their 1st innings win over England, at Leeds |
| July 6 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| July 7 | Alan and Colin Wells make 303* partnership for Sussex vs. Kent |
| July 7 | Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women |
| July 7 | Oliver North began public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing |
| July 7 | Yankees trailing by 7 score 7 in 7th on 7/7 and 5 in 8th-Beat Twins 12-7 |
| July 8 | Kitty Dukakis, revealed addiction to amphetamines for 26 years |
| July 9 | 1 million South Koreans demonstrate against Chun Doo Hwan regime |
| July 9 | Oliver North admits to shredding Iran-Contra evidence |
| July 11 | Heart's "Alone," single goes #1 for 3 weeks |
| July 11 | Orioles Cal Ripken becomes 1st to manage 2 sons, as Billy joins Cal |
| July 12 | 15th du Maurier Golf Classic: Jody Rosenthal |
| July 12 | 1st time in 20 years a delegation from U.S.S.R. lands in Israel |
| July 12 | 50 white South Africans meets ANCers in Dakar |
| July 12 | 8th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Gary Player |
| July 12 | Phillies Kent Tekulve pitches his 900th game in relief |
| July 13 | Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against Ford Motor Co, who used a sound alike voice for their TV commercials |
| July 14 | 58th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-0 in 13 at Oakland-Alameda Stad |
| July 14 | All star MVP: Tim Raines (Montreal Expos) |
| July 14 | Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million |
| July 14 | Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North concludes 6 days of Congressional testimony |
| July 14 | Rookie of the Year Award is renamed to honor Jackie Robinson |
| July 14 | Steve Miller's star is unveiled on Hollywood's Walk of Fame |
| July 14 | Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law |
| July 15 | Boy George barred from British TV show, he may be a bad influence |
| July 15 | John Poindexter testifies at Iran-Contra hearings |
| July 15 | State of siege ends in Taiwan |
| July 16 | Don Mattingly hits his 4th grand slam of season and ties AL record of homers in 6 straight games (on way to tie major league record of 8) |
| July 16 | Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| July 16 | Said Aouita runs world record 2000m (4:50.81) |
| July 17 | 10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood, Comfort, Texas |
| July 17 | Don Mattingly is 2nd to hit home runs in 7 straight AL games (en route to 8) |
| July 17 | Dow Jones closes above 2,500 (2,510.04) for 1st time |
| July 17 | Iran and France breaks diplomatic relations |
| July 17 | "Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo |
| July 18 | Molly Yard elected new President of National Org for Women |
| July 18 | New York Yankees Don Mattingly ties record of home runs in 8 cons games |
| July 19 | 116th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 279 at Muirfield Gullane |
| July 19 | Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games |
| July 19 | Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
| July 20 | Don Mattingly ties 1st base fielding record with 22 put-outs |
| July 21 | Kristi Addis, of Mississippi, crowned 5th Miss Teen USA |
| July 22 | Said Aouita of Morocco sets 5k record (12:58.39) in Rome |
| July 22 | Soyuz TM-3 launched with 3 cosmonauts (1 Syrian) |
| July 22 | U.S. began escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers in Persian Gulf |
| July 23 | Petra Felke (E Ger) throws javelin 78.89 m (women's record) |
| July 23 | Red Sox waive Bill Buckner, the goat of last years World Series |
| July 23 | Said Aouita of Morocco runs world record 5,000 m (12:58.39) |
| July 24 | IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released |
| July 24 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear Test |
| July 25 | Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt |
| July 25 | U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite |
| July 26 | Catfish Hunter Billy Williams and Ray Dandridge inducted in Baseball HOF |
| July 26 | Stephen Roche wins Tour de France |
| July 27 | John Demjanjuk, accused Nazi "Ivan the Terrible" testifies in Israel |
| July 27 | Salt Lake City Trappers lose 7-5 to Billings Mustangs, ending their professional-record winning streak at 29 consecutive |
| July 28 | 42nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Laura Davies |
| July 28 | Angel Cordero, Jr. becomes 4th jockey to win 6,000 races |
| July 29 | Ben and Jerry's and Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia |
| July 31 | Battle between Iranian pilgrims and Saudi-Arabian troops, 402 killed |
| July 31 | Eddie Murray hits his 300th home run |
| July 31 | Guns and Roses song "Appetite for Destruction" is released |
| July 31 | "Living Daylights" premieres in U.S. |
| July 31 | Oriole Eddie Murray hits his 299th and 300th career home runs |
| July 31 | Rockwell International awarded contract to build a 5th shuttle |
| August 1 | Bananarama's Siobhan Fahey marries Eurythmics Dave Stewart |
| August 1 | Crossbow flight record (2,005 yards 1'9") set by Harry Drake in Nevada |
| August 1 | Mike Tyson beat Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| August 1 | Nurse Mary R. Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America |
| August 2 | 25th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats USA in Vancouver Canada (2-1) |
| August 2 | Chris Johnson wins Columbia Savings LPGA National Golf Pro-Am |
| August 2 | Cincinnati Red Eric Davis becomes 7th and earliest 30 home run - 30 steal man |
| August 2 | Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yards 1'3") |
| August 2 | Eric Davis is 7th to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in one season |
| August 2 | Kevin Seitzer (Kansas City Royals), gets 6 hits in one baseball game |
| August 2 | Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH) |
| August 2 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| August 3 | Chicago Bears beat Dallas Cowboys 17-6 in London, England (NFL expo) |
| August 3 | Discovery in Orbital Processing Facility is powered up for STS-26 |
| August 3 | Jack Morris ties AL record with 5 wild pitches in a 4-2 lose |
| August 3 | Twins Joe Niekro is caught with a file on the mound and is ejected |
| August 4 | At the Kingdome, Ruppert Jones hits a foul ball that sticks in speaker |
| August 4 | FCC vote 4-0 to rescind fairness doctrine for broadcasters |
| August 7 | 5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala |
| August 7 | Javed Miandad scores 260 vs. England at The Oval, 28 fours 1 six |
| August 7 | Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from U.S. to U.S.S.R. in 39 degrees F (4 degrees C) Bering Sea |
| August 8 | Brewers' Rob Deer struck-out 5 times in a game |
| August 8 | Lynne Cox became 1st to swim from U.S. to Russia across Bering Strait |
| August 8 | Pakistan all out 708 vs. England at The Oval, Botham 3-217 |
| August 9 | 69th PGA Championship: Larry Nelson shoots 287 at PGA National Palm Beach |
| August 9 | "Les Miserables," opens at Cameri Theatre, Tel Aviv |
| August 9 | Los Angeles Rams beat Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in London, England (NFL expo) |
| August 9 | Mary Beth wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
| August 10 | Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successfully |
| August 10 | Kevin Gross is 2nd pitcher in 8 days to be ejected for scuffing ball |
| August 11 | France and Great Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf |
| August 12 | Charles Cole climbs 870'Tyrolean Traverse from top of Elephant Rock |
| August 13 | Cards outfie ld sets record of no putouts in a 4-2 in 13 inning |
| August 13 | Jackie Joyner-Kersee ties world record with 24'5 " jump |
| August 14 | "Les Miserables," opens at Rock Theatre, Szeged Hungary |
| August 14 | Oakland's Mark McGwire sets rookie home run record at 39, en route to 49 |
| August 15 | U.S. beats Cuba in Pan-Am baseball |
| August 16 | Astrological Harmonic Convergence - Dawn of New Age |
| August 16 | New York Mets beat Chicago Cubs, 23-9 |
| August 16 | Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives) |
| August 16 | Val Skinner wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am |
| August 17 | Bunt single gives Paul Molitor longest hit streak of 1980s at 32 games |
| August 17 | Dow Jones Industrial Avg closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57) |
| August 17 | Mohammad Ali elected to "Ring" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame |
| August 18 | Houston Oiler Earl Campbell, retires from NFL |
| August 18 | Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentence to triple life (poisoned 24) |
| August 18 | Philip Rush of New Zealand, set record for triple crossing English Channel his time 28:21, 10 hours faster than 1st man to do it |
| August 18 | Straatsburg: Manuela Stellmach/Astrid Strauss/Anke Mohring/ Heike Friedrich swims female world record 4x200m freestyle (7:55.47) |
| August 21 | Clayton Lonetree, 1st marine court-martialed for spying, convicted |
| August 21 | "Mack Lobell" set harness racing's trotting mil (1:52) |
| August 21 | Silke Horneer swims female world record 100m breaststroke (1:07.91) |
| August 22 | Madonna's "Who's That Girl," single goes #1 |
| August 23 | 15-years old boy hijacks KLM B737, demands $1 billion |
| August 23 | Betsy King wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic |
| August 23 | Violent rainfall/floods in Bangladesh, kills 100s |
| August 24 | Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes |
| August 25 | Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42 |
| August 26 | Paul Molitor goes 0-for-4 ends hitting streak at 39 consecutive games |
| August 28 | Mike Schmidt passes Ted Williams and Willie McCovey with 522 home runs |
| August 29 | Nolan Ryan passes the 200-strikeout barrier for record 11th time |
| August 29 | Rosa Mota becomes wins female Rome marathon (2:25:17) |
| August 30 | 87th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair |
| August 30 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship |
| August 30 | Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec |
| August 30 | Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with 2 home runs in Minnesota 10-6 win over Milwaukee |
| August 30 | Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls |
| August 30 | Stefka Kostadonova of Bulgaroa sets high jump woman's record (6'10") |
| August 30 | Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57) |
| August 31 | Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for year record ($697,385) |
| August 31 | Michael Jacskon's "Bad" video premieres on CBS TV |
| August 31 | South Africa longest mine strike in history ends |
| September 1 | 15 yr old Michael Chang is youngest man to win U.S. Tennis Open match |
| September 1 | Smoking forbidden in public buildings in Belgium |
| September 2 | Donald Trump takes out a full page New York Times ad lambasting Japan |
| September 2 | Kevin Bass is 1st NLer to switch hit home runs in a game twice in 1 season |
| September 2 | Philips introduces CD-video |
| September 2 | West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia |
| September 3 | Coup in Burundi suspends constitution |
| September 5 | Carlton Fisk clubs his 300th career home run off Danny Jackson |
| September 5 | John McEnroe is fined $17,500 for tirades at U.S. Tennis Open |
| September 6 | Benjamin and Patrick Binder separated at John Hopkins Hospital |
| September 6 | Douglas Wakiihuri wins marathon (2:11:48) |
| September 6 | Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal |
| September 7 | Jerry Lewis' 22nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $39,021,723 |
| September 7 | Netherlands routes 2 minesweepers to Persian Gulf |
| September 7 | Rosie Jones wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| September 7 | South Africa frees Dutch anthropologist/Anc'er Klaas de Young |
| September 8 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| September 9 | Gary Hart admits on "Nightline," to cheating on his wife |
| September 9 | Largest U.S. Tennis Open single night session (total) 21,016 |
| September 9 | Larry Bird (Celtics), begins NBA free throw streak of 59 |
| September 9 | Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter |
| September 11 | 4th MTV Awards: Peter Gabriel wins |
| September 11 | Shoot out at Jean-Bertrand Aristides' church in Haiti, 12 die |
| September 12 | 101st U.S. Womens Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (76 61) |
| September 12 | Ethiopia adopts constitution |
| September 12 | Vince Coleman steals his 100th base for 3rd straight year |
| September 13 | Cesium-137 stolen from abandoned hospital in Rio de Janeiro |
| September 13 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship |
| September 13 | Paul Lynch of Great Britain does 32,573 push-ups in 24 hours |
| September 14 | 107th U.S. Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (67 60 76 64) |
| September 14 | Cal Ripken's streak of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games) is broken |
| September 14 | Ivan Lendl defeat Mats Wilander to win U.S. Tennis Open in 4 hours 47 minutes |
| September 14 | "Les Miserables," opens at Rock Theatre, Vigzinhaz Budapest |
| September 14 | Toronto Blue Jays hit a record 10 home runs vs Baltimore Orioles |
| September 16 | Calif's Bob Boone catches record 1,919th major league game |
| September 16 | NASA launches space vehicle S-209 |
| September 16 | New York's WNET-TV channel 13 begins round clock broadcasting |
| September 16 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| September 17 | Philadelphia celebrates 200th anniversary of Constitution |
| September 18 | Detroit Tiger Darrell Evans is 1st 40 year old to hit 30 home runs |
| September 18 | U.S. and Russia sign accord to remove mid range missiles |
| September 18 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| September 19 | Kaye Lani Rae Rafko (Michigan), 24, crowned 61st Miss America |
| September 20 | 39th Emmy Awards: LA Law, Bruce Willis and Sharon Gless wins |
| September 20 | Alain Prost wins record 28th Formula one auto race |
| September 20 | "Big River" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 1005 performances |
| September 20 | Dwight Clark ends NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions |
| September 20 | Jan Stephenson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
| September 20 | Walter Payton scores NFL record 107th rushing touchdown |
| September 21 | 3 Belgian minesweepers depart to Persians Gulf |
| September 22 | 2nd regular-season National Football League player strike begins |
| September 22 | Dow-Jones index rises record 75.23 points |
| September 22 | Janet Evans swims female world record 400m freestyle (4:03.85) |
| September 22 | NFL players go on strike for 24 days |
| September 22 | Red Sox Wade Boggs ties AL record of 200 hits for 5 straight seasons |
| September 24 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 25 | 2nd coup on Fiji led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka |
| September 26 | Padres Benito Santiago sets rookie hitting streak to 28 games |
| September 27 | 27th Ryder Cup: Europe beats U.S., 15-13 at Muirfield Village Golf Club, Ohio |
| September 27 | Jan Stephens wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic |
| September 27 | NFL players' strike |
| September 27 | Phil Niekro final appearance and is pounded for 5 runs in 3 innings |
| September 28 | Gladys Knight and Smokey Robinson on "$10,000 Pyramid" |
| September 28 | "Star Trek: The Next Generation," debuts on syndicated TV |
| September 29 | 8th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| September 29 | "Didn't We Almost Have It All," by Whitney Houston hits #1 |
| September 29 | New York Yankee Don Mattingly hits record 6th grand slam of year |
| September 29 | "thirtysomething," debuts on ABC-TV |
| September 30 | Suriname constitution ratified |
| October 1 | 6 killed by an earthquake measuring 6.1 in LA |
| October 1 | Fiji's constitution is suspended |
| October 1 | "Roza" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 12 performances |
| October 3 | Benito Santiago ends longest catcher/rookie hitting streak at 34 |
| October 3 | Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 MPH at Portillo, Chile |
| October 3 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| October 4 | 1st "Scrub Sunday" of NFL football with replacement players |
| October 4 | Blues Jays lose final 7 games allowing Tigers to win AL pennant |
| October 4 | James Jefferson of Winnipeg scores 2 TDs on interception returns without making an interception. (He scored on laterals) |
| October 6 | Military coup leader Major-General Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a republic |
| October 9 | Japanese bank buys "Lady McGill" stamp for $1,100,000 |
| October 10 | Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love" |
| October 10 | Garfield Park Nature Center opens, latest in Cleveland Metroparks |
| October 10 | Giant's Jeffrey Leonard hits playoff record home run in his 4th cons game |
| October 11 | 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington |
| October 12 | 21st Country Music Association Award: Hank William, Jr. wins |
| October 12 | George Harrison releases "Got My Mind Set On You" |
| October 12 | Minnesota Twins beat Detroit Tigers for AL pennant |
| October 12 | Oscar Arias (Costa Rican president) wins Nobel Peace Prize |
| October 13 | 1st military use of trained dolphins by the U.S. Navy |
| October 13 | Costa Rican President Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize |
| October 13 | West Indies score 4-360 in 50 overs in Cricket World Cup vs. Sri Lanka |
| October 14 | In Midland, Texas 1 -year-old Jessica McClure falls 22' (7m) down a well |
| October 14 | St. Louis Cardinals beat San Francisco Giants, 4 games to 3 in NLCS |
| October 15 | 6th Belgium government of Martens falls |
| October 15 | Coup in Burkina Faso, president Sankara dies |
| October 15 | Lanford Wilson's "Burn This," premieres in New York City |
| October 15 | "Late Nite Comic" opens at Ritz Theater New York City for 4 performances |
| October 15 | NFL Players Association orders an end to 24 day strike |
| October 16 | 175-kph winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England |
| October 16 | 338,500,000 shares traded on New York stock exchange (record) |
| October 16 | Dow Jones for 1st time falls more than 100 pts (108.35) |
| October 16 | Jessica McClure rescued 58 hours after falling 22' into a well shaft |
| October 16 | Mike Tyson TKOs Tyrell Biggs in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
| October 16 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| October 17 | 1st indoor World Series game (Minnesota Metrodome) |
| October 17 | 1st lady Nancy Reagan undergoes a modified radical mastectomy |
| October 17 | "Late Nite Comic" closes at Ritz Theater New York City after 4 performances |
| October 19 | "Anything Goes" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 804 performances |
| October 19 | "Black Monday"-Dow Jones down 508.32, 4 times previous record |
| October 19 | Dow Jones Index drops 508.32 points (22%) (record) |
| October 19 | U.S. warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf |
| October 19 | Woody Woodward resigns as New York Yankee General Manager, Lou Piniella is named General Manager and Billy Martin is named New York Yankee manager for 5th and final time |
| October 20 | 10 die as Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis |
| October 20 | Dow-Jones increases 102.27 pts/608,120,000 shares traded (record) |
| October 20 | Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail |
| October 21 | 7th Belgium government of Martens forms |
| October 21 | Nobel prize for economy awarded to Robert M. Solow |
| October 21 | Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination |
| October 22 | "Cabaret" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 262 performances |
| October 22 | Nobel prize for literature awarded to Joseph Brodsky |
| October 23 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| October 23 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| October 24 | NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike |
| October 25 | Minnesota Twins win their 1st World Series championship beating St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 84th World Series |
| October 26 | Dow Jones down 156.83 points |
| October 26 | Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Commission assassinated by death squads |
| October 27 | Lucas Mangopes Democratic Party wins Bophuthatswana elections |
| October 27 | Peter Shaffer's "Lettice and Lovage," premieres in London |
| October 27 | South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution |
| October 29 | "Don't Get God Started" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 86 performances |
| October 29 | Thomas Hearns wins unprecidented 4th different weight boxing title |
| October 31 | 1st jockey to win 9 races in 1 day (Chris Antley at Belmont) |
| November 1 | 17th New York City Women's Marathon won by Priscilla Welch in 2:30:17 |
| November 1 | 18th New York City Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein in 2:11:01 |
| November 1 | 22,000 run in New York City Marathon (won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya 2:11:01) |
| November 1 | Fukumi Tani wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship |
| November 1 | New Orleans Saints shutout Atlanta Falcons 38-0 |
| November 1 | New York Jets retire Don Maynards #13 |
| November 2 | Entertainer Lola Falona is diagnosed with multiple schlerosis |
| November 2 | Harrison releases "Cloud 9" and McCartney releases "All the Best" |
| November 3 | Oakland 1st baseman Mark McGwire wins AL Rookie of Year |
| November 3 | On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56 |
| November 4 | Benito Santiago, Padres catcher, wins NL Rookie of Year |
| November 4 | Lisa Steinberg, battered into coma by her adoptive father Joel |
| November 4 | NBA announces 4 new franchises; Charlotte and Miami for 1988 and Minneapolis and Orlando for 1989 |
| November 5 | France performs nuclear test |
| November 5 | Iceberg twice size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic |
| November 5 | "Into the Woods" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 764 performances |
| November 5 | South Africa ANC-leader Govan Mbeki freed |
| November 5 | Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine's musical "Into the Stars," premieres |
| November 5 | Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg admitted using marijuana |
| November 7 | Tunisian premier Zine al-Abidine fires president Habib Bourguiba |
| November 8 | 11 die as a bomb planted by Irish Republican Army explodes |
| November 8 | Australia beat England by 7 runs to win cricket World Cup |
| November 8 | IRA-bomb attack in Enniskillen North Ireland, 11 killed |
| November 8 | Yuko Moriguchi wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
| November 10 | Steve Bedrosian edges Rick Sutcliffe 57-55 to win NL Cy Young Award |
| November 11 | Judge Anthony M. Kennedy nominated to Supreme Court |
| November 11 | Moscow party secretary Boris Jerusalem resigns |
| November 11 | "Roza" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 12 performances |
| November 11 | Van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 M at auction |
| November 12 | Heavy snow closes schools from Washington D.C. to Maine |
| November 12 | "Teddy and Alice" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 77 performances |
| November 12 | Ulla Weigerstorfer of Austria, 20, crowned 37th Miss World |
| November 13 | 1st condom commercial on BBC TV |
| November 14 | "La Cage aux Folles" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 1761 performances |
| November 14 | Sam's Town National Bowling Pro-Am won by Debbie Bennett |
| November 15 | 28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9, die in crash at Denver |
| November 15 | Carla Beurskens runs Dutch female record marathon (2:26:34) |
| November 15 | Leile McBridge (Denver), crowned Miss Black America |
| November 15 | New York Giant Raul Allegre kicks 2, 50 or more yard field goals in a game |
| November 15 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| November 16 | Actress Lisa Bonet marries singer Lenny Kravitz |
| November 16 | Paul McCartney releases "Once Upon a Long Ago" |
| November 17 | George Bell is 1st Blue Jay ever to win the AL MVP |
| November 18 | 31 die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station |
| November 18 | Congressional committee reports on Iran-Contra affair |
| November 18 | Cubs Andre Dawson is 1st from last-place club ever to win an MVP |
| November 19 | France performs nuclear test |
| November 21 | Actress Demi Moore marries actor Bruce Willis |
| November 21 | Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Epitome, Ferdinand, Miesque, Sacahuista, Success Express, Theatrica, Very Subtle at Hollywood |
| November 22 | Patriots shutout Indianapolis 24-0 |
| November 24 | Li Peng succeeds premier Zhao Ziyang in China PR |
| November 25 | Abdul Qadir takes 9-56 against England at Lahore |
| November 25 | India all out for 75 vs. West Indies at Delhi, Patterson 5-24 |
| November 27 | "Les Miserables," opens at Theatre Royal, Sydney |
| November 27 | Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset England |
| November 28 | South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die |
| November 29 | 75th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Toronto Argonauts, 38-36 |
| November 29 | "Dreamgirls" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 177 performances |
| November 29 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| November 29 | Joe Montana of 49ers completes NFL record 22 consecutive passes |
| November 29 | Korean Air jetliner disappears off Burma, all 115 lost |
| November 29 | New Orleans Saints win, assuring their 1st winning NFL season |
| November 29 | Ranger's Bob Frosse becomes 2nd goalie to score a goal (vs Isles) It is later ruled that he should not be credited with goal |
| November 30 | Afghanistan Constitution adopted |
| December 1 | Digging begins to link England and France under English Channel |
| December 2 | Chicago City Council elects Eugene Sawyer acting mayor |
| December 2 | Jennifer Steele, 17, of Colorado becomes Miss Teen of America |
| December 2 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| December 4 | Karlstad skates world record 10 km (13:48.51) |
| December 5 | 53rd Heisman Trophy Award: Tim Brown, Notre Dame (WR) |
| December 5 | David Boon's 5th Test Cricket century, 143 vs. New Zealand at Brisbane |
| December 5 | Schonbrunn skates world record 3 km ladies (4:16.76) |
| December 6 | 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun" |
| December 6 | Christa Rothenburger skates female world record 500m (39.39 sec) |
| December 6 | Jane Crafter/Steve Jones wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| December 7 | 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots) |
| December 7 | Gorbachev arrives in U.S. for a summit meeting |
| December 7 | Pacific Southwest crashes near Los Angeles, kills 43 |
| December 7 | Palestinian uprising against Israel in West Bank |
| December 8 | Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games |
| December 8 | Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel |
| December 8 | President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles |
| December 9 | Larry Bird, ends streak of 59 consecutive free throws |
| December 9 | Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank |
| December 10 | "Nightline" is seen in U.S.S.R. for 1st time |
| December 11 | Test debut of Carl Hooper, WI vs. India at Bombay |
| December 12 | Mookie Blaylock sets NBA record of 13 steals in a game |
| December 12 | Okla's sets NCAA record of 33 steals vs Centenary |
| December 12 | Rollermania at MSG, Eastern Express beats Midwest Pioneers |
| December 13 | Belgium Christian Democrats (CVP) loses parliamentary election |
| December 13 | Browns set club record for most points scored in a quarter, 28 |
| December 13 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 14 | Allan Border scores 205 vs. New Zealand to become Australia's top rungetter |
| December 14 | Chrysler pleads no contest to selling driven vehicles as new |
| December 15 | "Les Miserables" opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston |
| December 16 | Roh Tae Woo elected president of South Korea |
| December 17 | Czechoslovakian party leader Gustav Husak resigns |
| December 18 | Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's future president, marries Asif Ali Zardari |
| December 18 | Ivan F. Boesky sentenced to 3 years for insider trading |
| December 19 | Bruins' Linseman and Blues' Doug Gilmore score goals, 2 seconds apart |
| December 19 | Gari Kasparov becomes world chess champ |
| December 20 | 76th Davis Cup: Sweden beats India in Gothenburg (5-0) |
| December 20 | Dona Paz ferry sinks after crash with oil tanker Vector, 4386 die |
| December 20 | Nancy Lopez/Miller Barber wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship |
| December 20 | "Nuts" with Barbra Striesand premieres |
| December 21 | 3 white New York teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man |
| December 21 | Soyuz TM-4 launches 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir |
| December 21 | Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov launched |
| December 23 | Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison |
| December 25 | Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who escaped 2 days earlier, recaptured |
| December 26 | "Les Miserables" opens at National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik |
| December 27 | Steve Largent sets all-time NFL record for career catches when he catches his 752nd pass |
| December 27 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 28 | In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 2, later bodies of 14 of his relatives are found at his home near Dover Ark |
| December 30 | Australia hang on for draw vs. New Zealand at MCG, 1 wkt left 17 runs short |
| December 30 | Premier Mugabe elected president of Zimbabwe |
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