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- 1983 STS-9 vehicle moves to launch pad
- 1984 1st floodlit ODI outside of Australia (India v Aust, New Delhi)
- 1984 Cleveland Indians down 0-10 to Minnesota Twins, win 11-10
- 1985 "Every Step Of The Way" single by John Waite peaks at #25
- 1985 "Freedom" by Wham! peaks at #3
- 1985 "Janet" by Commodores peaks at #87
- 1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA F-12
- 1985 Riots in Brixton, London, rompted by police shooting of Dorothy Groce by police
- 1986 Cleveland Browns' Gerald McNeil sets the team record for the longest punt return with an 84-yard run (and TD), Browns 24, Detroit 21
- 1986 Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City)
Star Trek: The Next Generation,
1987 "Star Trek: The Next Generation," starring Patrick Stewart debuts on syndicated TV
- 1987 Star Trek: The Next Generation premieres with the episode 'Encounter at Farpoint'
- 1988 American athletes go 1-2-3 in the 400m at the Seoul Olympics with Steve Lewis taking the gold medal in 43.87 ahead of teammates Butch Reynolds & Danny Everett
- 1988 Australian Debbie Flintoff-King wins the 400m hurdles gold at the Seoul Olympics in 53.17, just 0.01 ahead of Tatyana Ledovskaya of the Soviet Union
- 1988 Bronx Museum for Arts opens
- 1988 Despite totally dominating his sport for 14 years, Ukrainian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka wins his only Olympic gold medal with a vault of 5.90m at the Seoul Games
- 1988 Javed Miandad scores his 19th Test Cricket century (v Aus, Faisalabad)
Sports History
1988 LA Dodger Orel Herschiser breaks former Dodger Don Drysdale's record by pitching 59 consecutive scoreless innings
- 1990 Exiled emir of Kuwait visits White House
- 1991 "Commish" debuts on ABC-TV
- 1991 "Good Time" single by Ziggy Marley & Melody Makers peaks at #85
- 1991 "Love Of A Lifetime" by Firehouse peaks at #5
- 1991 "Shiny Happy People" by REM peaks to #10
- 1991 NY Yankees set record of 75 games without a complete pitched game
- 1991 UN weapons inspectors ends 5-day standoff with Iraq
- 1992 "Barry Manilow's Showstoppers" closes at Paramount Theater NYC
- 1992 "Dog City" cartoon debuts on Fox-TV
- 1992 Oakland A's win AL West title
- 1992 Pakistani Airbus A-300 crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 167 dies
The Big Breakfast
1992 UK morning TV show "The Big Breakfast" presented by Chris Evans, Gaby Roslin and Paula Yates, produced by Bob Geldof premieres
- 1993 Gas field in Caracas explodes, 53 killed
- 1993 Ron Wood releases "Slide On Live"
- 1994 "Cats" 5,000th Broadway performance, joining "A Chorus Line" and "Oh! Calcutta!" in the 5,000 club
- 1994 909 people die when an Estonian ferry capsizes & sinks in Baltic sea
Television Finale
1994 Ken Burn's documentary miniseries "Baseball" TV Miniseries last airs on PBS
- 1995 American singer Bobby Brown escapes injury in gun battle in Roxbury, Massachusetts; his friend Steven Sealy is killed
- 1995 Dennis Martínez' fastball breaks Minnesota Twins Kirby Puckett's jaw, in what becomes his final career plate appearance, in Cleveland Indians 12-4 win
- 1995 Frenchman Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros (off of southeast Africa) in a coup
Event of Interest
1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Oslo 2 Accord to transfer West Bank to the PLO (Taba, Egypt)
Film & TV History
1995 Mary Tyler Moore returns to series TV in "New York News" on CBS; cancelled after 8 episodes
- 1995 Superhero film "Batman Forever" released in Czech Republic
- 1995 Troy Dixon scores cricket century on 1st-class debut for Qld v W Prov
- 1996 1st ODI played in Kenya between home team & Sri Lanka
- 1996 Joyce Giraud, crowned 8th Ms Venus Swimwear
- 1996 Nebraska & Penn State are 5th & 6th major colleges to win 700
- 1996 NY Yankee Jim Leyitz is 2nd catcher to wear a hockey mask
- 1996 Orioles' Roberto Alomar suspended 5 games for spitting at ump
- 1996 Troy Davis of Iowa State ran for 378 yards, 3rd highest in college football games (others: Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas & Alabama)
Film & TV History
1997 Newscaster David Brinkley, 74, retires after 54 years in broadcasting
Baseball Record
1997 St Louis Cardinals Mark McGwire hits his 58th HR of 1997 (34 with Oak A's)
Second Intifada
2000 Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem sparking the outbreak of violence known as the Second Intifada
- 2003 Final game played at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium, Atlanta Braves defeat Phillies, 5-2
- 2008 MLB Boston Red Sox retire Johnny Pesky's jersey (number 6)
Launch of Falcon 1
2008 SpaceX launches the first ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
- 2008 The last game played at Shea Stadium before its demolition happens between baseball teams The New York Mets and the Florida Marlins, the Marlins win 4-2
- 2009 The military junta leading Guinea, headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, sexually assaulted, killed and wounded protesters during a protest rally in a stadium called Stade du 28 Septembre.
- 2012 Aircraft crash kills 16 people in Kathmandu, Nepal
- 2012 Nigeria suspends flights to Saudi Arabia after hundreds of Nigerian women travelled without a male escort
- 2013 27 villagers are killed by Boko Harem in northeast Nigeria
- 2013 Hawthorn defeats Fremantle to win the 2013 Australian Rules Premiership
- 2015 DNA controllers for the age women go into menopause announced in "Nature Genetics" by research team from Exeter and Cambridge universities
- 2015 NASA scientists announce the discovery of flowing water on Mars
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
2015 South African comedian Trevor Noah succeeds Jon Stewart as host of late-night talk and satirical news program "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central in US
- 2016 Hurricane Matthew forms near the Windward Islands, will go on to kill over 1000 in Haiti, the Caribbean and the US
- 2018 7.5 magnitude earthquake hits just off island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, setting off a tsunami that hits cities of Donggala and Palu, at least 1649 people killed
Ronaldo Case Dismissed
2018 Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo accused of rape in 2009 in US lawsuit filed in Nevada; case dismissed based on improper breach of attorney-client privileged communications
- 2018 Up to 50 million Facebook accounts hacked due to a code weakness
Dancing Queen
2018 Warner Bros. Records releases American singer Cher's 26th solo studio album "Dancing Queen"; album contains cover versions of 11 songs of Swedish pop group ABBA, and lands in top 10 of charts in 19 countries
- 2019 Elon Musk unveils SpaceX spacecraft Starship, designed to travel to Mars and the solar system and land back on earth
- 2019 Hurricane Lorenzo becomes 1st category 5 storm to be recorded so far north and east, 1,420 miles southwest of the Azores
- 2020 COVID-19 recorded global death toll passes 1 million with over 33 million known cases (Johns Hopkins)
- 2020 Stanley Cup Final, Rogers Place, Edmonton, Alberta: Tampa Bay Lightning claim second championship in franchise history with a 2-0 Game 6 win over Dallas Stars; win series 4-2
No Time To Die
2021 James Bond film "No Time To Die", the last starring Daniel Craig, premieres after an 18 month delay due to the pandemic
- 2021 Russia reports its highest daily COVID-19 death toll of 852 amid its third wave of infections with less than half of the population vaccinated with one dose [1]
- 2021 US National Inventors Hall of Fame announces it will induct two Black women for the first time; Engineer Marian Croak and ophthalmologist Dr. Patricia Bath
- 2022 Bank of England forced to step in to calm markets after mini-budget with tax-cuts by Kwasi Kwarteng drives the pound to its lowest level against the US dollar (close to $1.03) [1]
- 2022 Hurricane Ian makes landfall as a high-end category 4 hurricane near Cayo Costa, Florida with winds at 150mph (National Hurricane Center), will go on to kill at least 148 people in FloridaS
Aaron Judge Ties HR Record
2022 New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge hits his 61st home run of the season, tying Roger Maris's AL record from 1961 in an 8-3 win over Blue Jays in Toronto
- 2023 "My Dad Wrote a Porno" hosted by host Jamie Morton becomes the first inductee into the British Podcast Awards' Hall of Fame [1]
- 2023 Nearly 1,000 people have died of dengue in Bangladesh in just a few weeks, with authorities calling it the country's worst-ever outbreak [1]
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