Aug 10 Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle songs) for $47 million

Aug 17 Dave Kingman hits his 400th HR

Aug 23 Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games

Aug 31 Night Stalker suspect that terrorized S Calif captured in East LA

Aug 02 NASA launches space vehicle S-209

Aug 12 Japanese Boeing 747 crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll)

Aug 26 Ryan White, the 13-year-old AIDS patient barred from attending school in Kokomo, Indiana, begins attending middle school via computer.

Aug 24 STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather

Aug 23 Said Aouita of Morroco sets the 1.5k record (3 29.46) in Berlin

Aug 02 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo

Aug 23 In the Southern Xinjiang, China region a 7.3 quake killed at least 71, 162 injured, about 15,000 homeless and about 85 percent of the buildings destroyed in the Wuqia-Shufu area

Aug 27 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I)-Discovery 6-launched

Aug 16 Singer Madonna weds actor Sean Penn

Aug 17 Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India

Aug 28 Launch of Aussat, Australia's first domestic communications satellite

Aug 20 Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of the US

Aug 19 Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei

Aug 11 Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz

Aug 25 STS 51-I scrubbed at T -9m because of an onboard computer problem

Aug 08 Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet

Aug 23 Said Aouita of Morroco sets the 1.5k record (3:29.46) in Berlin

Aug 06 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB

Aug 21 Premier Neville Wran ratifies legislation in NSW to make AIDS a notifiable disease.

Aug 21 Near Coast of Northern Peru a 6.3 quake injured at least 100 people, 60 homes destroyed and damage to other buildings in the Chimbote area

Aug 01 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo

Aug 01 NASA launches space vehicle S-209

Aug 29 Atlantis moves to launch pad for the 51-J mission

Aug 01 Frank Faylen vaudevillian, dies at 79 of pneumonia

Aug 05 Flexible-wing glider altitude record set

Oct 26 Montreal constable Jacinthe Fyfe is the first Canadian female police officer killed on duty.

Oct 09 Hijackers of the cruise liner Achille Lauro surrender after the ship arrives in Port Said, Egypt.

Oct 02 Rock Hudson actor (MacMillian & Wife), dies at 59 of aids

Oct 07 Lynette Woodward, chosen as First woman on the Harlem Globetrotters

Oct 15 Shuttle Columbia carries Spacelab into orbit

Oct 30 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61-A)-Challenger 9-launched

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