| January 1 | Czechoslovakian born tennis star Hana Mandikova becomes an Australian Citizen |
| January 1 | Miami beats Oklahoma for college football championship |
| January 1 | Year of the Reader begins |
| January 2 | Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Penn |
| January 2 | Mulroney and Reagan sign Canada-U.S. free trade agreement |
| January 3 | Israel orders 9 Palestinian "instigators" deported from W Beirut |
| January 3 | Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British Prime Minister this century |
| January 8 | 9th largest NBA crowd 38,873-Chicago at Detroit |
| January 8 | Dow Jones down 140.58 points |
| January 8 | Hewlett-Packard introduces HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator |
| January 8 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas |
| January 9 | August Wilson's "Piano Lesson," premieres in Boston |
| January 9 | English earl of St. Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli |
| January 9 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano |
| January 10 | "Don't Get God Started" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 86 performances |
| January 11 | Test debut of Phil Simmons, WI vs. India, Madras |
| January 11 | U.S.S.R. announces it will participate in Seoul Summer Olympics |
| January 12 | Willie Stargell (Pittsburgh Pirate), elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| January 13 | LA Dodger/SD Padre Steve Garvey retires |
| January 13 | Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers to censor school newspapers, plays and other expressive activities |
| January 15 | Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes |
| January 15 | Kiran More stumps five WI batsman at Madras, world Test record |
| January 15 | Narendra Hirwani takes 16-136 (8-61 and 8-75) vs. WI on Test debut |
| January 16 | 4th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins |
| January 16 | Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder fired from CBS for racial remarks |
| January 16 | NFL St. Louis Cardinals announce move to Phoenix |
| January 17 | Leslie Manigay elected president of Haiti |
| January 17 | "Teddy and Alice" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 77 performances |
| January 18 | Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board |
| January 19 | "48 Hours" premiers on CBS-TV |
| January 20 | Andre Hoffman skates world record 1500m (1:52.06) |
| January 20 | Arizona committee opens hearing on impeachment of Governor Evan Mecham |
| January 21 | U.S. accept immigration of 30,000 U.S. - Vietnamese children |
| January 22 | 1st-class cricket debut of Brian Lara, Trinidad and Tobago vs. Leeward Is |
| January 22 | 1st-class cricket debut of Hansie Cronje, OFS vs. Transvaal |
| January 22 | Mike Tyson TKOs Larry Holmes in 4 for heavyweight boxing title |
| January 23 | 45th Golden Globes: Last Emperor, Sally Kirkland, Michael Douglas |
| January 23 | 62nd Australian Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Chris Evert (61 76) |
| January 23 | Bob Benoit bowls 1st 300-pt game in a televised title match |
| January 23 | Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands |
| January 24 | 1st WWF Royal Rumble - Jim Duggan wins |
| January 24 | 76th Australian Mens Tennis: M Wilander beats P Cash (63 67 36 61 86) |
| January 24 | 9th ACE Cable Awards |
| January 24 | Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win the World Series Cup |
| January 24 | Cerebral Palsy telethon |
| January 25 | 15th American Music Award: Anita Baker, Paul Simon and Whitney Houston |
| January 25 | George Harrison releases "When We Was Fab" |
| January 25 | Longest winless streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (15 games) |
| January 25 | Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as President of Suriname |
| January 25 | Vice President Bush and Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush about his role in Iran-Contra affair |
| January 26 | Australia's 200th anniversary-parade of tall ships in Sydney Harbor |
| January 26 | "Phantom of the Opera" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 4,000+ performances |
| January 27 | Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy to U.S. Supreme Court |
| January 28 | Canada's Supreme court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional |
| January 28 | "Saratina!" opens at Cort Theater New York City for 597 performances |
| January 29 | Canadian Ben Johnson breaks own 50-yard dash world record at 5.15 |
| January 29 | Detroit's Kirk Gibson signs a 3-year contract with Dodgers |
| January 29 | Largest NBA crowd-Boston Celtics at Detroit (61,938) |
| January 29 | United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36h54m15s |
| January 30 | Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS vs. N Tvl) |
| January 31 | Barge sinks near Anacortes, WA, spills 70,000 gallons of oil |
| January 31 | Superbowl XXII: Washington Redskins beat Denver Broncos, 42-10 in San Diego Superbowl MVP: Doug Williams, Washington, quarterback |
| February 2 | David Boon's 6th Test Cricket century, 184* vs. England at Sydney |
| February 4 | Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega indicted on drug charges |
| February 5 | Andre beats Hulk Hogan in 1st prime-time wrestling match in 30 years |
| February 5 | Arizona House of Representatives vote to impeach Republican Governor Evan Mecham |
| February 5 | Panamanian General Manuel Noriega indicted by U.S. grand jury for drugs |
| February 6 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| February 7 | 38th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 138-133 at Chicago |
| February 7 | Heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson marries actress Robin Givens |
| February 7 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic |
| February 7 | NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 15-6 |
| February 8 | NASA launches DOD-2 |
| February 9 | 39th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-5 (OT) at St. Louis |
| February 10 | 3-judge panel of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal) |
| February 10 | Rocky Malebane-Metsing coup in Bophuthatswana fails |
| February 11 | Anthony M. Kennedy appointed to Supreme Court |
| February 13 | 15th Winter Olympic games open at Calgary, Canada |
| February 13 | Christine Wachtel runs world record 800m indoor (1:56:40) |
| February 13 | European Community plans removal of inner boundaries on Jan 1, 1992 |
| February 13 | Heike Dreschler long jumps world record indoor (7.37m) |
| February 13 | Ronald Weigel runs unofficial world record speed walking (18:11.41) |
| February 14 | 49th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player |
| February 14 | Alfredo Stroessner re-elected president of Paraguay |
| February 14 | Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500 |
| February 14 | General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden |
| February 14 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
| February 15 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 16 | 1st documented combat action by U.S. military advisors in El Salvador |
| February 17 | Lebanese terrorists kidnap United Nations truce observer Lieutenant Colonel William Higgins |
| February 17 | U.S. Lt. Col Wm Higgins kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists and later killed |
| February 18 | Anthony M. Kennedy, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
| February 19 | Helga Arendt, Silke-Beate Knoll, Mechthild Kluth, Gisela Kinzel walk indoor female world record 4x200m (1:32.55) |
| February 20 | 500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil |
| February 20 | Andre Hoffmann skates world record 1500m (1:52.06) |
| February 20 | Brian Boitano wins Olympic gold medal in figure skating |
| February 20 | Cornelia Oschkenat hurdles indoor world record 50m (6.58 sec) |
| February 20 | Kelly Hrudy's 5th Islander shut-out win-Hartford 3-0 |
| February 20 | Peter Kalikow purchases New York Post from Rupert Murdoch for $37.6 million |
| February 20 | Rob Druppers runs world record indoor 1000m (2:16.2) |
| February 20 | Stefka Kostadinova high jumps indoor world record (2.06 m) |
| February 21 | Actor Dudley Moore marries actress Brogan Lane |
| February 21 | Gustafson skates world record 10km (13:48.20) |
| February 21 | Televangelist Jimmy Swaggert confesses his sins to his congregation |
| February 22 | Bonnie Blair skates world record 500m (39.10 sec) |
| February 23 | 15th Winter Olympic games opens in Calgary, Alberta |
| February 23 | Chicago gives Cubs right to install lights and play up to 18 night games |
| February 23 | Yvonne van Gennip skates female record 3k (4:11.94) |
| February 24 | Matti Nykanen becomes winter olympics 1st triple gold medalist |
| February 24 | South African apartheid regime bans the UDF |
| February 25 | Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love Tour," begins in Worcester Mass |
| February 25 | South Korea adopts constitution |
| February 26 | Christa Rotherburger (GDR) skates ladies world record 1000m (1:17.65) |
| February 27 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Orient Leasing Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open |
| February 27 | Bonnie Blair (U.S.) wins Olympic 500m speed skating in record 39.1 |
| February 27 | Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36:08:34 |
| February 27 | Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympic figure skating |
| February 28 | 15th Winter Olympic games close at Calgary, Canada |
| February 28 | Anti-Armenian pogrom in Azerbaijan, 30 killed |
| February 28 | Pat Verbeek becomes 1st New Jersey Devil to score 4 goals in an NHL game |
| February 28 | Yvonne van Gennip skates world record 5 km ladies (7:14.13) |
| February 29 | KWK-FM in St. Louis Missouri changes call letters to WKBG |
| February 29 | Mark Greatbatch scores 107* vs. England on Test Cricket debut |
| February 29 | Nazi document implicates Waldheim in WW II deportations |
| February 29 | New York City Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs |
| March 1 | Courtney Gibbs Eplin, 21, (Texas), crowned 37th Miss USA |
| March 1 | Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran |
| March 1 | Pontiac announces the end of the Fiero automobile |
| March 1 | Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howe with his record 1,050th NHL assist |
| March 2 | 30th Grammy Awards: Graceland, Joshua Tree, Jody Watley |
| March 2 | Dutch Liberal Party merged with SDP |
| March 6 | 18th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,200,000 |
| March 6 | 3 IRA suspects were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers |
| March 6 | Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am |
| March 6 | Julie Krone becomes winningest female jockey (1205 victories) |
| March 6 | Orville Moodey shoots 63 at Seniors golf tournament |
| March 7 | Howard Stern's 1st pay-per-view "Underpants and Negligee Party" |
| March 7 | Jim Abbott, 1-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E. Sullivan Award |
| March 9 | President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp |
| March 10 | Avalanche at Klosters, a Swiss Ski resort, nearly kills Prince Charles |
| March 10 | New York Islanders celebrate Mike Bossy night |
| March 11 | Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire |
| March 13 | 14th People's Choice Awards: Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby. win |
| March 15 | Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop |
| March 15 | NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK |
| March 15 | NFL's St. Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix |
| March 16 | Federal grand jury indicts North and Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair |
| March 16 | North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed |
| March 16 | U.S. sends 3000 soldiers to Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras |
| March 17 | Highest scoring NCAA basketball game; Loyola-Marymont 119, Wyoming 115 |
| March 17 | Iran says Iraq uses poison gas in the war |
| March 17 | "Les Miserables," opens at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo |
| March 19 | Yvonne van Gennip skates un-official world record 10 km (15:25.25) |
| March 20 | David Henry Hwang's "M. Butterfly," premieres in New York City |
| March 20 | Laura Davies wins Circle K LPGA Tucson Golf Open |
| March 20 | Mike Tyson KOs Tony Tubbs in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
| March 21 | 23rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis and Hank Williams, Jr. |
| March 22 | Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill |
| March 22 | WA beat Queensland by 5 wkts to win the Sheffield Shield Final |
| March 24 | "Gospel at Colonus" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 61 performances |
| March 24 | Quarterback Dan Fouts retires |
| March 25 | "Les Miserables," opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya Japan |
| March 25 | NASA launches space vehicle S-206 |
| March 25 | Robin Givens demands full access to husband Mike Tyson's money |
| March 26 | Janet Evans swims 1500m freestyle female world record (15:52.10) |
| March 27 | Ice Dance Championship at Budapest won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS) |
| March 27 | Ice Pairs Championship at Budapest won by E Valova and O Vasiliev (URS) |
| March 27 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Budapest won by Katarina Witt (GDR) |
| March 27 | Men's Figure Skating Champions in Budapest won by Brian Boitano (USA) |
| March 27 | Ok-Hee Ku wins Standard Register Turquoise Classic Golf Tournament |
| March 27 | Wrestlemania IV at Trump Plaza, "Macho Man" Savage pins Ted Dibiase |
| March 29 | "Oba Oba" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 46 performances |
| March 29 | U.S. Congress discontinues aid to Nicaraguan contras |
| March 30 | 2nd Soul Train Music Awards |
| March 30 | Tamil Nadu beat Railways by inns and 144 to win Ranji Trophy |
| March 31 | Last East Limburg coal mine closes in Gent Belgium |
| March 31 | New York Islanders celebrate Denis Potvin night |
| March 31 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for "Beloved" |
| April 2 | Simply Majestic sets horse racing's 1-1/8 mile record at 1:45 |
| April 2 | Test Cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, WI vs. Pakistan, Georgetown |
| April 3 | 17th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott |
| April 3 | 7th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Louisiana Tec beat Auburn 56-54 |
| April 3 | Mario Lemieux wins NHL scoring title, stopping Gretzky's 7 year streak |
| April 3 | New Jersey Devils beat Blackhawks, 4-3 in OT to join playoffs for 1st time |
| April 3 | Somalia and Ethiopia sign accord about Ogaden desert |
| April 3 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| April 4 | 50th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beat Oklahoma 83-79 |
| April 4 | Largest crowd (55,438) at a season game at Riverfront (Reds vs. Cards) |
| April 4 | Last broadcast of "Crossroads" on British TV |
| April 4 | Mets set Opening Day record with 6 home runs |
| April 5 | Democratic convention picks Michael Dukakis as their President candidate |
| April 6 | Black pole explorer M Henson buried next to R Peary in Arlington |
| April 6 | New Jersey Devils' 1st playoff game; lose to Isles 4-3 (OT) in 1st round |
| April 7 | Devils 3-2 over Isles, 1st round tied 1-1 |
| April 7 | Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested |
| April 7 | Russia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan |
| April 7 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| April 9 | Devils 3-0 over Islanders-Devils lead 2-1 in 1st round |
| April 9 | "Les Miserables," opens at Umeda-Koma Theatre, Osaka |
| April 9 | U.S. imposes economic sanctions on Panama |
| April 10 | 52nd Golf Masters Championship: Sandy Lyle wins, shooting a 281 |
| April 10 | 8th Golden Raspberry Awards: Leonard Part 6 wins |
| April 10 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA San Diego Inamori Golf Classic |
| April 10 | Herschel Walker performs Fort Worth Ballet |
| April 10 | Islanders beat Devils 5-4 (OT) 1st round tied at 2-2 |
| April 11 | Royal Concert building in Amsterdam reopens |
| April 12 | Devils 4-2 over Islanders-Devils lead 3-2 in 1st round |
| April 12 | Frank Robinson replaces Cal Ripken as manager of Baltimore Orioles |
| April 12 | Harvard University patents genetically engineered mouse |
| April 12 | Sonny Bono elected mayor of Palm Springs California |
| April 13 | Italy government of De Mita forms |
| April 14 | Devils 6-5 over Islanders-Devils take 1st round 4-2 |
| April 14 | "Mail" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 36 performances |
| April 14 | U.S.S.R., U.S., Pakistan and Afghanistan sign Afghanistan treaty |
| April 15 | Meteorite exploded above Indonesia |
| April 15 | Wendy Wasserstein's "Heidi Chronicles," premieres in New York City |
| April 17 | Ethiopian Belayneh Densimo runs world record marathon (2:06:50) |
| April 17 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA AI Star/Centinela Hospital Golf Classic |
| April 18 | 17th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:24:30 |
| April 18 | 92nd Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:08:43 |
| April 18 | Barbra Streisand records "Warm All Over" |
| April 20 | Baltimore Orioles set worst record to start a season 0-14 (will go 0-21) |
| April 20 | New Jersey Devils 1st playoff hat trick-Eric Broten |
| April 20 | U.S. accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians |
| April 20 | Yankees home run 9,999 (D Winfield) 10,000 (C Washington) 10,001 (J Clarke) |
| April 21 | 1st four-day games in County Cricket Championship commence |
| April 21 | Barbra Streisand records "You'll Never Know" |
| April 22 | New Jersey Devil Patrik Sundstrom ties NHL playoff record of 8 pts in a playoff game (hat trick and 5 assists) in 10-4 rout over the Capitals |
| April 22 | Women are allowed to compete in Little 500 bicycle race (Indiana) |
| April 23 | A Greek pedals self-powered aircraft, 74 miles |
| April 23 | Federal smoking ban during domestic airline flights of 2 hours or less |
| April 23 | Karolina Szabo runs female world record 25k (1:29:30)/30k (1:47;06) |
| April 24 | Rosie Jones wins LPGA USX Golf Classic |
| April 25 | John Demjanjuk (Ivan the Terrible), sentenced to death in Jerusalem |
| April 25 | NASA launches space vehicle S-211 |
| April 25 | "Nightline" goes on location to Jerusalem Israel |
| April 26 | 1st TNN Viewers choice awards - Randy Travis wins in 5 categories |
| April 26 | NBA approves addition of 3rd referee in 1988-89 season |
| April 26 | New York Met Davey Johnson becomes 2nd manager to record 400 victory in 1st 4 years (Al Lopez did it 1st) |
| April 28 | Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess |
| April 28 | Baltimore Orioles lose AL record 21 games in a row |
| April 28 | "Chess" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 68 performances |
| April 28 | New Jersey Devils set all time playoff mark for penalty minutes |
| April 29 | "60 Minutes" newscaster Diane Sawyer weds Mike Nichols |
| April 29 | Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson marry |
| April 29 | Orioles beat White Sox 9-0 for 1st 1988 win after 21 loses |
| April 30 | Baltimore Orioles win record 14th straight from beginning of season |
| April 30 | New Jersey Devils beat Caps 3-2 taking 7th game of Patrick Division final |
| April 30 | New York Knights 1st arena football game beats Cobras 60-52 (10,157 in Los Angeles) |
| April 30 | New York Yankees Dave Winfield gets his 29th RBI of April - Sets AL and ties ML Record |
| April 30 | World Exposition, Expo 88 opens in Brisbane, Australia |
| May 1 | IRA attack in Roermond, kills 3 |
| May 1 | Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic |
| May 1 | "Romance/Romance" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 297 performances |
| May 2 | Baltimore Orioles sign a 15 year lease to remain in Baltimore and get a new park |
| May 2 | David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow," premieres in New York City |
| May 2 | Jackson Pollock's "Search" sold for $4,800,000 |
| May 2 | Reds manager Pete Rose is suspended for 30 days for pushing an ump |
| May 3 | 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida |
| May 3 | Jasper Johns' "Diver" sold for $4,200,000 |
| May 4 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| May 5 | Eugene Marino installed as 1st black U.S. archbishop |
| May 6 | Doughnutgate incident: New Jersey Devils' coach Jim Schoenfeld tells referee Don Koharski to 'eat another doughnut you fat pig!,' he is suspended |
| May 6 | Graeme Hick scores 405 for Worcs vs. Somerset 35 fours 11 sixes |
| May 7 | 114th Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens on Winning Colors wins in 2:02.2 |
| May 7 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| May 8 | Amateur referees work New Jersey Devil-Boston Bruin playoff games, as NHL referees walk-off, due to a restraining order brought by Devils |
| May 8 | Francois Mitterrand elected president of France |
| May 8 | Juli Inkster wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic |
| May 8 | Mike Tyson crashes his $183,000 Bently on Varick St. in New York City |
| May 8 | "Oba Oba" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 46 performances |
| May 9 | Australia's new parliament house is opened by Queen Elizabeth |
| May 9 | Belgium: 8th government of Martens forms |
| May 10 | Edgar Degas' "Danseresje of 14" sold for $10,120,000 |
| May 11 | France performs nuclear test |
| May 11 | KV Mechelen wins 28th Europe Cup II |
| May 11 | Mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis 500 lap (221.565 mph) |
| May 12 | "Carrie" opens at Virginia Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| May 14 | 1st non-pitcher, Jose Oquendo, in 20 years to get a decision in a baseball game, he and St. Louis Cardinals lose to Braves 7-5 in 19 inn |
| May 14 | "Mail" closes at Music Box Theater New York City after 36 performances |
| May 15 | 2nd American Comedy Award: Robin Williams and Tracey Ullman |
| May 15 | "Carrie" closes at Virginia Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| May 15 | "Gospel at Colonus" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 61 performances |
| May 15 | Moscow began withdrawing its 115,000 troops in Afghanistan |
| May 15 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic |
| May 16 | Surgeon General C. Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin |
| May 16 | U.S. Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant |
| May 18 | Bayer Leverkusen wins 17th UEFA Cup at Leverkusen |
| May 18 | In just Oakland's 39th of the season, pitcher Dave Stewart breaks record with his 12th balk en route to 16 |
| May 19 | Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US |
| May 19 | Red Sox retire Bobby Doerr's #1 |
| May 20 | Howard Stern fans disrupt WMMR's and John DeBella's "Louie Louie" parade |
| May 20 | Mike Schmidt hits his 535th home run, moving into 8th place |
| May 21 | 114th Preakness: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 1:56.2 |
| May 21 | "Da'Butt" by EU hits #35 |
| May 21 | "Fat" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #99 |
| May 21 | Jane Powell weds Dickie Moore |
| May 21 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 22 | 34th LPGA Championship won by Sherri Turner |
| May 22 | Karoly Grosz succeeds party leader Janos Kadar in Hungary |
| May 23 | Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990 |
| May 24 | John Moschitta set record for fast talking: 586 words per minute |
| May 24 | Porntip Nakhirunkanok, 19, of Thailand, crowned 37th Miss Universe |
| May 24 | Power outage in Boston Garden in NHL's Stanley Cup finals |
| May 25 | PSV wins Europe Cup |
| May 26 | Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games |
| May 27 | Senate ratified a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles |
| May 28 | Genie Francis (General Hospital) weds Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek TNG) |
| May 29 | Graeme Hick scores his 1,000th run of 1st-class cricket season |
| May 29 | President Zia ul-Haq fires government/disbands parliament in Pakistan |
| May 29 | Sherri Turner wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| June 1 | "Les Miserables," opens at Shubert Theatre, Los Angeles |
| June 1 | "Morton Downey, Jr. Show," debuts in TV syndication |
| June 1 | Train crash in Zeeland, Netherlands, kills 2 |
| June 2 | 61st National Spell Bee: Rageshree Ramachandran wins spelling elegiacal |
| June 2 | Consumer Reports calls for a ban on the Suzuki Samurai automobile |
| June 3 | "Big," premieres in U.S. |
| June 3 | Margo Adams sues Red Sox 3rd baseman Wade Boggs for palimony |
| June 4 | 42nd Tony Awards: M Butterfly and Phantom of the Opera win |
| June 4 | 58th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats N Zvereva (60 60) |
| June 4 | "Cabaret" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 262 performances |
| June 4 | Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle the globe alone |
| June 4 | Longest game in Baltimore Memorial Stadium (5:46) 14 inn (beat New York 7-6) |
| June 4 | Rickey Henderson steals 2 bases for record 249 as a New York Yankee |
| June 5 | 1st Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $590,000 |
| June 5 | 58th French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Henri Leconte (75 62 61) |
| June 5 | Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle globe alone |
| June 5 | Laura Davies wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
| June 5 | Longest champagne cork flight is 177'9 in New York |
| June 5 | Russian orthodox church celebrates 1,000th anniversary |
| June 6 | 22nd Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis and Statler Brothers |
| June 6 | 3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant |
| June 7 | Aluminum contaminates Cornish England's water supply |
| June 8 | Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20% |
| June 9 | Attorney General Meese orders Joseph Doherty deported to U.K. |
| June 10 | Greatest number of participants, 31,678, on a bicycle tour, London |
| June 11 | 120th Belmont: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 2:26.6 |
| June 11 | 25th Curtis Cup: British Isles, 11-7 |
| June 11 | "Everything Your Heart Desires" by Daryl Hall and John Oates peaks at #3 |
| June 11 | Freedomfest - Mandela addresses Wembley Stadium London |
| June 11 | Galina Chistyakova of U.S.S.R. sets long jump woman's record (24"8") |
| June 11 | "Rooty Toot Toot" by John Cougar Mellencamp peaks at #61 |
| June 11 | "We All Sleep Alone" by Cher peaks at #14 |
| June 11 | Yankees' Rick Rhoden becomes 1st pitcher to DH (0 for 1 with an RBI) |
| June 12 | 6th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Billy Casper |
| June 12 | Andy Hampton is 1st American to win Round of Italy |
| June 12 | Mei-Chi Cheng wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
| June 13 | 45th time opposing pitchers hit home runs, Mark Davis (Padres)/Mike Krukow |
| June 13 | Boston Red Sox are 10 games back in AL, and go on to win AL East |
| June 13 | George Harrison releases "This is Love" |
| June 13 | U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist |
| June 14 | Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000 alleges he hit her |
| June 15 | NASA launches space vehicle S-213 |
| June 15 | Turkish premier zal meets Greek premier Papandreou in Athens |
| June 16 | Boston Red Sox Barrett steals home |
| June 16 | In Santa Barbara, California, a team of 32 divers begin cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 miles in 75 hours 20 minutes |
| June 17 | Bruce Springsteen separates from Juliette Phillips |
| June 17 | Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens |
| June 17 | Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0 |
| June 17 | Soyuz TM-5 launches |
| June 17 | Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case |
| June 18 | Jeff Hamilton, hits 8,000th Dodger home run |
| June 19 | 32 divers finish cycling underwater on a standard tricycle,to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hours 20 minutes |
| June 19 | 88th U.S. Golf Open: Curtis Strange shoots a 278 at Country Club Mass |
| June 19 | Danny Spitz, heavy metal artist (Anthrax), weds Valerie |
| June 19 | Namphy takes control of Haitian government |
| June 19 | Shirley Furlong wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| June 19 | World's Largest Sausage completed at 13 miles long |
| June 20 | Curtis Strange wins U.S. Open golf tournament |
| June 20 | Haiti's general assembly dissolves |
| June 20 | New York City WABC-AM becomes flagship radio station of New Jersey Devils |
| June 20 | "Price is Right" model Janice Pennington is knocked out by a TV camera |
| June 20 | Supreme Court upholds a law that made it illegal for private clubs to discriminate against women and minorities |
| June 20 | WABC officially becomes the New Jersey Devils new home radio |
| June 21 | 42nd NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers beat Detroit Pistons, 4 games to 3 |
| June 21 | Many killed at demonstration against general Ne Win in Rangoon |
| June 21 | Rascals begin 1st tour in 20 years |
| June 23 | Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat begin their NBA expansion draft |
| June 23 | Yank manager Billy Martin's 5th term ends, Lou Pinella named manager |
| June 24 | Cleveland pitcher Doug Jones sets record of 14 consecutive saves |
| June 24 | Red Sox begin AL record 23rd consecutive home win streak |
| June 25 | 104 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June |
| June 25 | Cal Ripken, Jr. plays in his 1,000th consecutive game |
| June 25 | "Chess" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 68 performances |
| June 25 | Expos Pitcher Floyd Youmans suspended for 60 days due to drugs |
| June 25 | Iceland's president Vigdis Finnbogadottir elected (90+%) |
| June 25 | Kristen Logan, 17, of Mississippi, crowned America's Junior Miss |
| June 25 | Netherlands soccer team wins European Cup (2-0 against U.S.S.R.) |
| June 26 | Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
| June 27 | Mike Tyson KOs Michael Spink in 91 seconds, in Atlantic City ($67m) |
| June 27 | Reds bat out of order against Padres in 1st inning |
| June 28 | Mike Tyson sues to break contract with manager Bill Cayton |
| June 29 | Emmy 15th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 9th time |
| June 30 | Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason |
| June 30 | Chicago agrees to build a new stadium so White Sox won't move to Fla |
| June 30 | "Sledge Hammer!" last aires on ABC-TV |
| July 2 | 95th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Navratilova (57 62 61) |
| July 3 | 16th du Maurier Golf Classic: Sally Little |
| July 3 | A's Gene Nelson is 1st AL pitcher to steal a base since 1973 |
| July 3 | U.S. Vincennes in Strait of Hormoez shoots Iran Airbus A300, kills 290 |
| July 4 | 102nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Becker (46 76 64 62) |
| July 4 | KC releases pitcher Dan Quisenberry, whose 238 saves are the 4th most |
| July 4 | U.S. Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290 |
| July 5 | Malcolm Marshall takes 7-22 at Old Trafford, England all out 93 |
| July 6 | Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected president of Mexico |
| July 6 | North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha explodes, 166 die |
| July 6 | Wrestler Jake Roberts convicted of battery |
| July 7 | Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful) |
| July 7 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| July 8 | Indians' Bud Black sets club record for most batters hit in inning (3) |
| July 8 | Miami Arena opens |
| July 8 | Rockers Jonathan "Chico" and Robert DeBarge indicted on drug trafficking |
| July 8 | Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992 |
| July 9 | Chris Speier hits for the cycle and Ernest Riles hits 10,000th Giant home run |
| July 9 | "Facts of Life," Lisa Whelchel weds Steve Cauble |
| July 9 | Jessye Norman begins recording Bizets "Carmen" |
| July 9 | Nolan Ryan is 7th to win 100 game on 2 teams, as Astro beat Mets 6-3 |
| July 10 | Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
| July 11 | Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor |
| July 12 | 59th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-1 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin |
| July 12 | All star MVP: Terry Steinbach for the Oakland A's |
| July 12 | Margo Adams alleges Red Sox Wade Bogg's had an affair with her |
| July 12 | U.S.S.R. launches Phobos II for Martian orbit |
| July 13 | 9th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| July 13 | Red Sox replace manager John McNamara with Joe Morgan |
| July 13 | Sting performs his 1st Rain Forest benefit concert |
| July 14 | 200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorp of Nagorno-Karabak |
| July 14 | Mike Schmidt passes Mickey Mantle with his 537th home run into 7th place |
| July 14 | WYHY radio offers $1M to anyone who can prove Elvis is still alive |
| July 16 | Carl Lewis runs a wind-assisted 100 m in 9.78 sec |
| July 16 | Florence Joyner runs 100 m in women's world record 10.49 seconds |
| July 16 | Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets women's heptathlete record of 7,215 pts |
| July 16 | Michael J. Fox marries Tracy Pollan |
| July 16 | San Antonio (Texas League) beats Jackson 1-0 in 26 innings |
| July 16 | Wayne Gretzky (NHL) and Janet Jones (Police Academy 5) wed in Edmonton |
| July 17 | 117th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots 273 at Royal Lytham |
| July 17 | 4 Billion tv-viewers watch Mandela's 70th Birthday Tribute |
| July 17 | Colleen Walker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
| July 17 | Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 100m woman's record (10.49) |
| July 17 | Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 103 degrees F (39 degrees C) |
| July 18 | Abu Nidal terrorists kill 9 on City of Poros cruise ship |
| July 18 | Shooting begins on "License to Kill" |
| July 20 | Michael Dukakis selected Democratic presidential nominee |
| July 21 | ESA's Ariane-3 launches 2 communications satellites (1 Indian) |
| July 22 | 500 U.S. scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research |
| July 23 | Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks record 8 field goals vs Edmonton |
| July 24 | 43rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Liselotte Neumann |
| July 24 | U.S. and Jamacia play scoreless tie, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup |
| July 25 | Mindy Duncan, 16, of Oregon, crowned 6th Miss Teen USA |
| July 25 | Pedro Delgado wins Tour de France |
| July 26 | Mike Schmidt sets NL record appearing in 2,155 games at 3rd base, as Phillies and New York Mets end that game at 2:13 AM |
| July 27 | Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years |
| July 27 | General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as President of Burma |
| July 27 | Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer |
| July 27 | Tommy John commits rec 3 errors on 1 play as Yankees rout Brewers 16-3 |
| July 28 | IBM announces price hike on older models |
| July 28 | Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years |
| July 28 | Jordan cancels $1.3 billion development plan in West Bank |
| July 28 | Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa destroyed by arson |
| July 28 | Yankees' Tommy John makes 3 errors on 1 play yet beats Brewers 16-3 |
| July 29 | Baltimore trades Mike Boddicker to the Red Sox for Brady Anderson and Curt Schilling |
| July 29 | FDIC bails out 1st Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion |
| July 29 | Gorbachev pushes plan electing president and parliament in March, 1989 |
| July 29 | Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit |
| July 29 | Last U.S. Playboy Club, Lansing, Michigan, closes |
| July 29 | Rick Sutcliffe swipes home, 1st pitcher since Pascual Perez in 1984 to steal home |
| July 29 | South African government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom" |
| July 30 | Cincinnati Red pitcher John Franco sets a record of 13 saves in 1 month |
| July 30 | Harry Drake shoots arrow record 1873m |
| July 30 | James Ogilvy, under English princess Alexandra, marries Julia Rawlinson |
| July 30 | John Franco saves record 13th game of July |
| July 30 | Jordanian King Hussein renounces sovereignity over West Bank to PLO |
| July 30 | King Hussein dissolves Jordan's House of Representatives |
| July 30 | Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hours, 4 minutes) |
| July 31 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open |
| July 31 | Jose Canseco is 1st to hit 30 home runs in 1st 3 years |
| July 31 | Miami Dolphins beat San Francisco 49ers 27-21 in London |
| July 31 | Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame |
| August 1 | Deep Rover 1-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon |
| August 2 | Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo |
| August 2 | System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC) |
| August 3 | Skip Storch swims 246 km of Hudson River from Albany to New York City |
| August 4 | Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II |
| August 4 | Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case |
| August 5 | Mario Biaggi, Representative-D-New York, convicted of racketeering resigns seat |
| August 6 | Oakland A's Jose Canseco becomes 11th to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases |
| August 6 | Rich Gossage 300th career save, beats Phillies |
| August 7 | Martha Nause wins Planters Pat Bradley International Golf Tournament |
| August 7 | Writers guild end their 6 months strike |
| August 8 | 9th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Gary Player |
| August 8 | Angola, Cuba and South Africa sign cease fire treaty |
| August 8 | Army in Rangoon shoots on students, 5-10,000 killed |
| August 8 | Cubs and Phillies attempt to play 1st night game ever at Wrigley Field but are rained out in 4th inning with Chicago leading, 3-1 |
| August 8 | Duchess of York gives birth to 6 lb 12 oz baby girl |
| August 8 | Goose Gossage registers 300th career save |
| August 8 | Jennifer Levin's parents file $25M suit against Dorrian Red Hand Bar |
| August 8 | Jose Canseco becomes 11th to get 30 home runs and 30 steals in a season |
| August 8 | Matt Biondi swims U.S. record 200m freestyle (1:47.72) |
| August 8 | Minnesota Twins pull 2nd triple-play of year and beat Cleveland 6-2 |
| August 8 | Renovated Central Park Zoo reopens after 4 years |
| August 8 | Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war |
| August 8 | Secretary of State Shultz narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia |
| August 8 | South Africa declares cease-fire in Angola |
| August 8 | Temperature hits high of 88 on 8/8/88 in New York City |
| August 9 | Cubs beat Mets 6-4 in their 1st official night game at Wrigley Field |
| August 9 | Edmonton Oilers trade Wayne Gretzky to Los Angeles Kings for $15-$20 millions |
| August 9 | Just 1 day after 8/8/88 New York's daily number is 888 |
| August 10 | Matt Biondi swims world record 100m free style (48.42 sec) |
| August 10 | Rodrigo Borja installed as president of Ecuador |
| August 10 | U.N. estimates Asia's population hits 3 billion |
| August 11 | 225 at bats after #299, Met Gary Carter is 59th to hit 300th home run |
| August 11 | Charlotte Colisieum in Charlotte North Carolina opens |
| August 11 | Meir Kahane renounced U.S. citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament |
| August 12 | Boston Red Sox set AL consecutive home victories at 23 |
| August 12 | Movie "Last Temptation of Christ" is released |
| August 12 | Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at hospital |
| August 12 | Red Sox beat Tigers 9-4 for AL record 23rd consecutive win at home |
| August 12 | Richard Thornburgh becomes U.S. Attorney General |
| August 13 | Boston Red Sox win AL record 24 straight home games |
| August 13 | Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit Opens |
| August 13 | Ronald J. Dossenbach sets world record for pedaling across Canada from Vancouver, BC to Halifax, NS in 13 days, 15 hours, 4 minutes |
| August 13 | U.S. beats Jamacia 5-1, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup |
| August 14 | 70th PGA Championship: Jeff Sluman shoots a 272 at Oak Tree Golf Club Edmond |
| August 14 | Detroit beats Sox, 18-6, at Fenway, ends Boston winning streak at 24 |
| August 15 | "Ain't Misbehavin'" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 176 performances |
| August 15 | At 4PM LILCO consumers used a record 3,813 megawatts |
| August 15 | New York City begins $70 million program to rebuild 900 Bronx apartments |
| August 16 | Butch Reynolds runs world record 400 m (43.29) |
| August 16 | IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence |
| August 16 | Jailed black nationalist Nelson Mandela struck with tuberculosis |
| August 16 | Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers |
| August 17 | Butch Reynolds runs world record 400m (43.29) |
| August 17 | LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991 |
| August 17 | New York City 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy) |
| August 17 | Republicans nominate George H. W. Bush for president |
| August 17 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| August 18 | FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment |
| August 18 | Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million |
| August 18 | Republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket |
| August 19 | Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT) |
| August 19 | Muang Muang succeeds General Sein Lwin as President of Burma |
| August 19 | New York Rangers sign ex-Canadien great Guy LaFluer |
| August 20 | 6.5 earthquake strikes India/Nepal, 1,000s killed |
| August 20 | Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21) |
| August 21 | Cease fire between Iran and Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war |
| August 21 | Juli Inkster wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic |
| August 21 | Yordanka Donkova runs world record 100 m hurdles (12.21) |
| August 22 | Australia unveils 1st platinum coin (Koala) |
| August 22 | NBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee) |
| August 22 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| August 23 | Mike Tyson and Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem |
| August 25 | Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston |
| August 25 | Heavy fire destroys historic center of Lisbon |
| August 25 | Iran and Iraq begin talks to end their 8 year war |
| August 25 | NASA launches space vehicle S-214 |
| August 27 | Dodger Tommy Lasorda wins 1,000th game as manager tops Philadelphia, 4-2 |
| August 28 | 40th Emmy Awards: 30something, Wonder Years and Richard Kiley |
| August 28 | 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany |
| August 28 | 88th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Eric Meeks |
| August 28 | Italian stunt flyers crashes in flames in West Germany, killing 50 |
| August 28 | Patty Jordan wins LPGA Ocean State Golf Open |
| August 28 | Rosie Jones wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship |
| August 29 | Macy's Tap-o-Mania sets Guiness record |
| August 29 | U.S.S.R. launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir |
| August 30 | France performs nuclear test |
| August 30 | Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen |
| August 30 | Kent Tekulve is 2nd pitcher in majors to appear in 1,000 games |
| August 30 | Tennis star Chris Everett weds skier Andy Mills |
| August 31 | 5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins |
| August 31 | Arbitrator George Nicolau rules owners conspired against free agents |
| August 31 | Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches |
| September 1 | Timberlake Westenbaker's "Our Country's Good," premieres in London |
| September 2 | Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley |
| September 3 | Dennis Eckersley sets A's record with his 37th save en route to 45 |
| September 4 | Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills, New York |
| September 4 | Phoenix Cardinals play 1st regular-season NFL game |
| September 5 | Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| September 5 | CFL's Earl Winfield (Ham) scores TDs on 101-yd punt return, 100-yd kickoff return and 58-yd pass reception |
| September 5 | Jerry Lewis' 23rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $41,132,113 |
| September 6 | Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard |
| September 6 | Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Canal |
| September 6 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| September 7 | 5th MTV Awards |
| September 7 | Guy Lafleur, Tony Esposito and Brad Park inducted in NHL Hall of Fame |
| September 7 | New York Daily News reports boxer Mike Tyson is seeing a psychiatrist |
| September 7 | Security and Exchange Commission accuses Drexel of violating security laws |
| September 8 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| September 8 | Javier Sotomayer of Cuba high jumps world record 2.43 m (7' 11 ") |
| September 8 | NL President Bart Giamatti is unanimously elected baseball's 7th commish |
| September 9 | Braves Bruce Sutter joins Fingers and Gossage to save 300 games |
| September 9 | Chris Evert defaults at U.S. Open due to a stomach flu |
| September 9 | U.S. swamps New Zealand at 27th America's Cup: New Zealand set to appeal |
| September 10 | 102nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini (63 36 61) |
| September 10 | Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (Minn), 22, crowned 62nd Miss America 1989 |
| September 10 | Hurricane Gilbert, kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas and Yucatan |
| September 11 | 1/3 of population argues for Estonia autonomy |
| September 11 | 108th U.S. Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64) |
| September 11 | 108th U.S. Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64) in 4 hours 55 minutes - longest men's final in U.S. Open history |
| September 11 | Betsy King wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship |
| September 11 | Sports Aid - jogging to feed the world |
| September 12 | 1st NFL regular-season game played in Phoenix; Cowboys beat Card |
| September 12 | Gilbert, strongest hurricane ever (160 mph), devastates Jamaica |
| September 13 | 10th time, 4 players hit baseball major-league record grand slams |
| September 13 | 9 hard/software manufacturers announce EISA computer bus in New York |
| September 13 | Gilbert is strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane in Western Hemisphere |
| September 14 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| September 15 | "Les Miserables," opens at Raimund Theatre, Vienna |
| September 15 | Lillehammer, Norway upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter olympics |
| September 15 | Museum of Moving Image in London opens |
| September 15 | Test Cricket debut of Ian Healy, vs Pakistan at Karachi |
| September 16 | Cincinnati Reds Tom Browning pitches a perfect game, beats Dodgers, 1-0 |
| September 16 | Fish leaves rock group Marillion |
| September 16 | Javed Miandad completes 211, his 5th Test Cricket double, vs. Australia |
| September 16 | Jury awards Valerie Harper $1.6 M in dispute over TV series |
| September 16 | Tom Browning of Cincinnati Reds pitches a perfect game against LA |
| September 17 | 24th Olympic games open at Seoul, Korea |
| September 17 | Jeff Reardon becomes 1st to record 40 or more saves in both AL and NL |
| September 17 | Military coup in Haiti: Lieutenant General Avril takes control, Henri Namphy flees |
| September 18 | Burma suspends its constitution |
| September 18 | Coup in Haiti |
| September 18 | Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
| September 19 | Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance |
| September 19 | U.S. Olympic diver Greg Louganis hits his head on diving board |
| September 20 | Darrell Evans hits his 400th career home run |
| September 20 | Greg Louganis wins Olympic gold medal in springboard diving |
| September 20 | Wade Boggs is 1st player to get 200 hits for 6 consecutive seasons |
| September 21 | Mike Tyson smashes TV camera outside his Bernardsville New Jersey home |
| September 22 | Canada begins production of a $5 silver Maple Leaf bullion coin |
| September 22 | South Korean coaches attack New Zealand referee after disputing his decision, Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in |
| September 23 | Fiji's new constitution is proposed |
| September 23 | Jose Canseco is baseball's 1st to steal 40 bases and hit 40 home runs |
| September 23 | Rosa Mota wins 2nd female olympic marathon (2:25:39) |
| September 24 | Barbara C Harris of Massachusetts, elected 1st woman Episcopal bishop |
| September 24 | Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100 m in 9.79 sec |
| September 24 | Carl Lewis runs world record 100m (9.92 sec) |
| September 24 | Dave Stieb has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in the 9th |
| September 24 | Jackie Joyner-Kersee of USA sets heptathlon woman's record (7,291) |
| September 25 | Christopher Jacobs, Troy Dalbey, Tom Hunter and Matt Biondi, swim world record 4x100 m freestyle (3:16.53) |
| September 25 | Florence Griffith Joyner runs Olympic record 100m in 10.54s |
| September 25 | Kathy Guadagnino wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic |
| September 26 | Canada's Ben Johnson stripped of his 100-m gold failing drug test |
| September 26 | New York City's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark |
| September 26 | Polish Communist Party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM |
| September 26 | U.S. space shuttle STS-26 launched |
| September 27 | Lab tests reportedly show Shroud of Turin not Christ's burial cloth |
| September 27 | Senate votes for major federal tax code changes |
| September 28 | Bronx Museum for Arts opens |
| September 28 | Javed Miandad scores his 19th Test Cricket century (v Aus, Faisalabad) |
| September 28 | Los Angeles Dodger Orel Hershiser sets record for consecutive scoreless inns |
| September 29 | 26th Space Shuttle mission, Discovery 7 launched |
| September 29 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| September 29 | Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 200m woman's record (21.34) |
| September 29 | U.N. peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize |
| September 29 | Union Station reopens in Washington D.C. |
| September 30 | Andrei Gromyko retires |
| September 30 | Dave Stieb, loses 2nd consecutive no hitter bid with 2 outs in 9th |
| September 30 | IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer |
| September 30 | Los Angeles Dodger Orel Herschiser breaks former Dodger Don Drysdale mark by pitching 59 consecutive scoreless innings |
| September 30 | Louise Ritter, U.S., jumps 6'8" to win Olympic gold medal |
| September 30 | Robin Givens and Mike Tyson appear on Barbara Walter's Show |
| October 1 | Bradley Center in Milwaukee opens |
| October 1 | Lowest batting avg for NL champion (Tony Gwynn .313) |
| October 1 | Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of Soviet Union |
| October 1 | Robert Englund, actor who plays Freddie Kruger weds Nancy Booth |
| October 2 | 24th Olympic games close at Seoul, Korea |
| October 2 | Gelindo Bordin wins 21st Olympics marathon (2:10:32) |
| October 2 | Mike Tyson wrecks furniture in his Bernardsville New Jersey Mansion |
| October 2 | Minn Twins are 1st AL club ever to break 3 million season attendance |
| October 2 | Pakistan's Supreme Court orders free elections |
| October 2 | Police breakup domestic disturbance between Mike Tyson and Robin Givens |
| October 3 | 26th Space Shuttle Mission, Discovery 7 returns to Earth after 4-days |
| October 3 | Criterion Center Theater opens at Broadway between 44th and 45th Streets New York City |
| October 3 | Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months) |
| October 4 | Pillsbury stock soars $18.37 to $57.37 on takeover bid |
| October 5 | Brazil adopts its Constitution |
| October 5 | Chilean population agrees at referendum against Pinochet regime |
| October 5 | Israel bans Meir Kahane's Kach Party on grounds of racism |
| October 6 | Oakland A's sweep Boston Red Sox in 4 games for AL pennant |
| October 7 | Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as New York Yankee manager |
| October 7 | Jim Fregosi is fired as manager of White Sox |
| October 7 | Latvian flag raised in Riga for 1st time since annexation by U.S.S.R. |
| October 7 | Lou Piniella is fired as manager of Yankees for 2nd time |
| October 7 | Robin Givens files for divorce after 8-month marriage to Mike Tyson |
| October 7 | WNBC 660 final transmission, WFAN moves from 1050 to 660 and WUKQ begins on 1050 at 5:30 PM (New York City radio) |
| October 8 | Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage |
| October 8 | Jay Howell ejected in NLCS game 3 for having pine tar on his glove |
| October 9 | 17% vote extremely-right Flemish Block in Belgium |
| October 9 | Dennis Eckersley, 1st to save all 4 games in a championship series |
| October 10 | 22nd Country Music Association Award: Highway 101, K T Oslin win |
| October 10 | Royals announce that Dick Howser, who underwent surgery for a brain tumor in July, will return to manage the club in 1989 |
| October 12 | George Bush and Michael Dukakis meet in 2nd debate |
| October 12 | Israel and China sign trade deal, plan diplomatic relations |
| October 13 | Concert at Masada ends Israel's 40th-anniversary fest |
| October 13 | Nobel prize for literature awarded to Naguib Mahfouz |
| October 13 | Shroud of Turin, revered by many Christians as Christ's burial cloth, is shown by carbon-dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages |
| October 13 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| October 14 | Mike Tyson countersues Robin Givens for divorce and annulment |
| October 14 | Naguib Mahfouz is 1st Arabic writer to win Nobel literature prize |
| October 14 | New Jersey Devils raise their 1st pennant (Patrick Div Playoff Champs) |
| October 15 | Amnesty International's Global Concert Tour ends in Buenos Aires |
| October 15 | NCAA record rushing yardage (768 yards-Oklahoma) |
| October 15 | With 2 outs in bottom of 9th, an injured Kirk Gibson hits dramatic 2 run home run to gives Dodgers a 5-4 win in 1st game of World Series |
| October 16 | Orel Hirsheiser, 1st to pitch shutout in playoff and World Series |
| October 17 | 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome |
| October 17 | Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as manager of New York Yankees |
| October 17 | Lyndon LaRouche pleads innocent to fraud, conspiracy indictment |
| October 17 | Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft |
| October 17 | Rockin Robin beats "Sensational" Sherri Martel for WWF woman's title |
| October 17 | Traveling Wilbury's 1st release "Handle With Care" |
| October 18 | Israel's supreme court uphold's ban on Kahane's Kach Party as racist |
| October 18 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| October 19 | 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel |
| October 19 | Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members |
| October 19 | Car bomb kills 7 Israelis, wounds 11 near Lebanon border |
| October 19 | Roxette releases "Roxette Look Sharp!" album |
| October 19 | Senate passes bill curbing ads during children's TV shows |
| October 19 | South Africa anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize |
| October 20 | Britain ends suspects right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA |
| October 20 | Dodgers win World Series, LA 1st to have both NBA and baseball champs as LA beats Oakland A's, 4 games to 1 in 85th World Series |
| October 20 | Gastineau sacks Jets, retires from football "for personal reasons" |
| October 20 | "Les Miserables," opens at Forrest Theatre, Philadelphia |
| October 20 | Los Angeles Dodgers beat Oakland A's in World Series 4 games to 1 |
| October 20 | Man armed with explosives blows self up in 125 St. subway station (New York City) |
| October 20 | Reggie Rogers, Det Lion's # 1 pick, kills 3 by driving intoxicated |
| October 21 | Boston Celtics beat Yugoslavia 113-85 in Madrid |
| October 21 | Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos indicted on racketeering charges |
| October 22 | Elton John sells out MSG for a record 26th time |
| October 22 | Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor OK after breast cancer surgery |
| October 23 | Boston Celtics play Spain in Madrid |
| October 23 | Robert Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by U.S. Senate |
| October 24 | New York Islander's and NHL high scorer, Mike Bossy retires |
| October 24 | Traveling Wilburys Volume One is released |
| October 24 | Typhoon Ruby sinks Philippine ferry; hundreds drown |
| October 25 | ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy porkers' popularity as pets |
| October 25 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| October 26 | Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 month advisory service |
| October 26 | U.S. - Soviet effort free 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic, Barrow, AK |
| October 27 | "ET" released to home video (14 million presold) |
| October 27 | Larry Flynt paid hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione and Sinatra |
| October 28 | Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister |
| October 28 | Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gives $10 million to University Washington library |
| October 29 | 2,000 U.S. anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics |
| October 29 | China announces a herbal male contraceptive |
| October 29 | Jim Elliott (U.S.) begins 24-hour paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi |
| October 29 | Soviets 1st scheduled shuttle launch (postponed) |
| October 30 | 2 gambling clubs and 1 player share 61.38 M California lotto jackpot |
| October 30 | Beth Daniel wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship |
| October 30 | Jim Elliott (U.S.) completes 24-hour paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi |
| October 30 | New York Jets finally beat Pittsburgh Steelers for 1st time |
| October 31 | 19 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct |
| October 31 | 1st Monday Night NFL game in Indianapolis, Colts beat Denver 55-23 |
| October 31 | Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia |
| November 1 | Actor Jeff Goldblum and actress Gena Davis wed in Las Vegas |
| November 1 | Chris Sabo, wins NL Rookie of Year award |
| November 1 | Staten Island ferry gets 1st pay phones |
| November 2 | 1st Mrs. America beauty pageant |
| November 2 | Computers virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab and 6 universities |
| November 2 | Mexican radio station erronously reports Mike Tyson dies in car crash |
| November 2 | Walt Weiss wins AL rookie of year (3rd straight for Oakland A's) |
| November 3 | Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane |
| November 3 | Reagan signs credit-card disclosure-bill |
| November 3 | Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew |
| November 3 | Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at TV taping |
| November 4 | 1st NBA game at Charlotte Coliseum - Hornets lose to Cavs, 133-93 |
| November 5 | 1st NBA game at Bradley Center, Milwaukee Bucks lose to Los Angeles Clippers 111-9 |
| November 5 | 1st NBA game at Miami Arena, Miami Heat loss to Los Angeles Clippers, 111-91 |
| November 5 | 1st NBA game at Palace of Auburn Hills, Pistons beat Hornets 94-85 |
| November 5 | Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage |
| November 5 | France performs nuclear test |
| November 5 | Gulch wins Breeder's Cup |
| November 5 | Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Alysheba, Gt Communicator, Gulch, Is It True, Miesque, Open Mind, Personal Ensign at Churchill Downs |
| November 5 | Japan beats MLB all stars 2-1 in Tokyo (Game 1 of 7) |
| November 6 | 18th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:07 |
| November 6 | 19th New York City Marathon won by Steve Jones in 2:08:20 |
| November 6 | Japan and MLB all stars played to a 6-6 draw (Game 2 of 7) |
| November 6 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
| November 6 | Steve Jones wins New York men's marathon; Grete Waitz 9th women's title |
| November 7 | MLB all stars beats Japan 16-8 (Game 3 of 7) |
| November 7 | Sugar Ray Leonard KO's Donnie LaLonde |
| November 8 | 900 die as earthquake hits China |
| November 8 | Arco Arena in Sacramento, California opens, Sac Kings lose to Seattle, 97-75 |
| November 8 | George Bush beats Mike Dukakis for presidency |
| November 8 | Rafael Fernandez Colon elected if President of Puerto Rico |
| November 9 | MLB All-Star team beat Japan 8-2 in Nishinomya, (Game 4 of 7) |
| November 9 | "Prince of Central Park" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 4 performances |
| November 10 | China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 938 |
| November 10 | MLB All-Star team beats Japan 3-1 in Tokyo (Game 5 of 7) |
| November 10 | New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes |
| November 10 | Orel Hershiser (23-8) is a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young Award |
| November 11 | Oldest known insect fossils (390 million yrs) reported in Science |
| November 12 | Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7) |
| November 12 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| November 15 | 91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV collapses |
| November 15 | Dodgers outfielder Kirk Gibson wins NL MVP Award |
| November 15 | PLO proclaims State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence |
| November 15 | Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits) |
| November 16 | Benazir Bhutto wins 1st free Pakistani elections in 11 years |
| November 16 | Estonia declares sovereignty in internal affairs |
| November 16 | Jose Canseco is 1st unanimous AL MVP since Reggie Jackson |
| November 16 | Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto's PPP wins parliamentary election |
| November 16 | Robin Givens sues Mike Tyson for $125 million for libel |
| November 17 | Linda Petursdottir of Iceland, 18, crowned 38th Miss World |
| November 17 | Neil Simon's "Rumors," premieres in New York City |
| November 19 | LA Law's Corbin Bernsen marries actress Amanda Pays |
| November 20 | "Les Miserables," opens a Bus and Truck tour in Tampa |
| November 23 | France performs nuclear test |
| November 23 | Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th NHL goal |
| November 23 | Yankees sign free agent 2nd-baseman Steve Sax to 3-year contract |
| November 25 | Chuck Berry pays $250 fine to resolve New York City assault charges |
| November 25 | Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed |
| November 25 | U.S. and Soviet chess grand masters Donaldson and Akhmilovskaya wed |
| November 25 | Widespread earthquake hits NE U.S., Canada; no damage reported |
| November 26 | Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev and Jean-Loup Chretien launch |
| November 26 | Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km) |
| November 27 | 76th CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeats BC Lions, 22-21 |
| November 28 | Picasso's "Acrobat and Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million |
| November 30 | Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed |
| November 30 | France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island |
| November 30 | New York City furrier sues Mike Tyson for $92,000 for non payment of purchase |
| November 30 | Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; 1st time in 38 yrs |
| November 30 | U.N. General Assembly (151-2) censures U.S. for refusing PLO's Arafat visa |
| December 1 | 596 dead after cyclone hits Bangladesh, half a million homeless |
| December 1 | Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Moslem country, Pakistan |
| December 1 | Chinese minister of Foreign affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow |
| December 1 | NBC bids record $401M to capture rights to 1992 Barcelona Olympics |
| December 1 | New York Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs St. Louis Blues |
| December 2 | 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel |
| December 2 | "Naked Gun" premieres, a movie based on TV's "Police Squad" |
| December 2 | STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission) |
| December 2 | U.N. votes 151-2 (Isr and U.S.) to move PLO debate to Geneva, British abstains |
| December 3 | 54th Heisman Trophy Award: Barry Sanders, Oklahoma State (RB) |
| December 3 | New York Lotto pays $45 million to twelve winner (#s are 1-8-13-18-28-48) |
| December 4 | Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash |
| December 4 | Amy Benz/John Huston wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| December 4 | Orioles trade veteran 1B Eddie Murray to the Dodgers |
| December 4 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| December 5 | North Carolina federal grand jury indict PTL founder Jim Bakker on fraud and conspiracy |
| December 5 | Shuttle Atlantis launches world's 1st nuclear-war-fighting satellite |
| December 6 | Agnes Neil Williams purchases Baltimore Orioles for $70 million Eli Jacobs becomes CEO of Baltimore Orioles |
| December 6 | Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden |
| December 6 | Carlos Andres Perez re-elected president of Venezuela |
| December 6 | Merv Hughes takes 13 wickets vs. WI at the WACA but Australia lose |
| December 6 | Milwaukee Bucks win their 1,000th NBA game (2nd fastest) |
| December 6 | Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown |
| December 6 | STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission |
| December 7 | 6.9 earthquake in Armenia, Spitak destroyed, 60,000 killed |
| December 7 | Armenian SSR rocked by earthquake, 8 on Richter scale (55,000 die) |
| December 7 | Earthquake in Armenia (>25,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless) |
| December 7 | Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN |
| December 7 | Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St. crowds upon arrival in New York City |
| December 7 | New York Islanders fire Simpson, Arbour new coach |
| December 7 | Rangers sign free-agent pitcher Nolan Ryan to a one-year contract |
| December 8 | Knick's set NBA record of 11 3-pointers and sink Bucks, 113-109 |
| December 9 | New York Yankees sign 12-year television contract with MSG for $500M |
| December 10 | Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie, vs Mont Canadiens |
| December 12 | 3 trains collide in London, 40 die |
| December 12 | New York City Subway system adds new stations (Z line) |
| December 12 | PLO leader Yasi Arafat accepts Israel's right to exist |
| December 12 | Sandra Miller of Queens sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment |
| December 13 | 3 men end 29-hour all-466-station subway ride in New York City |
| December 13 | Arafat addresses United Nations in Geneva |
| December 14 | CBS' $1.1 B bid wins exclusive 1990-94 major-league baseball rights |
| December 14 | NBA's Miami Heat wins 1st game ever, 89-88 (Clippers), after 17 loses |
| December 14 | Spanish General strike to protest austerity measures |
| December 14 | U.S. agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org (1st time in 13 yrs) |
| December 15 | Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks |
| December 16 | Political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche convicted of tax, mail fraud |
| December 17 | 77th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Gothenburg (4-1) |
| December 17 | Bryan Murray becomes 17th NHL coach to win 300 games (Washington Caps) |
| December 17 | New York Islanders break 12 game losing streak, beat Devils 5-2 |
| December 17 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 17 | USS Tennessee, 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned |
| December 18 | 5th meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets win and eliminate Giants from playoffs |
| December 18 | Seattle Seahawks win their 1st ever division title with 9-7 record |
| December 19 | NASA unviels plans for lunar colony and manned missions to Mars |
| December 19 | Oklahoma's College football team gets 3 year probation |
| December 19 | Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany - 5,000 evacuated |
| December 20 | Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's department store, London |
| December 20 | NBC signs lease to stay in New York City, 33 more years |
| December 20 | Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected President of Sri Lanka |
| December 21 | Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine |
| December 21 | New York bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die |
| December 21 | Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov return to earth (a year) with Chretien |
| December 22 | 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 Million in New Jersey |
| December 22 | South Africa signs accord granting independence to South West Africa |
| December 22 | Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 mi of WA and BC coast |
| December 26 | Anti African student rebellion in China PR |
| December 26 | "Legs Diamond" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 64 performances |
| December 27 | Bulgaria stops jamming Radio Free Europe after more than 3 decades |
| December 28 | John Tarrant, 1st Australia born Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission |
| December 28 | U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism |
| December 28 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 29 | Soviet Red Army Team edges New York Islanders, 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum |
| December 29 | Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes |
| December 30 | Canadian Senate OK's free trade pact; with US |
| December 30 | Former Soviet President Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery) |
| December 30 | Mercedes-Benz pays $20.2-M fine failed to meet '86 government fuel standard |
| December 30 | North subpoenas Reagan and Bush as defense witnesses for upcoming trial |
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