May 17 USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die

May 11 First heart-lung transplant take place (Baltimore)

May 11 Corazon Aquino is elected President in the Philippines

May 16 "Bobro 400", a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage, set sail from New York, beginning an unsuccesful 8-week search for a dumping site

May 28 60th National Spelling Bee Stephanie Petit wins spelling staphylococci

May 27 Jim & Tammy Bakker appear on "Nightline" after PTL scandal

May 09 183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw

May 21 Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama

May 29 Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains

May 16 Weird Al Yankovic performs live at 72nd National Orange Show

May 13 Ajax wins 27th Europe Cup II

May 28 Mathias Rust, 19, West German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in USSR

May 28 60th National Spelling Bee: Stephanie Petit wins spelling staphylococci

May 06 Black South African workers go on strike over whites only election

Jan 03 Former Miss America Vanessa Williams marries Ramon T Hervey in New York City NY

Jan 03 Rock &Roll Hall of Fame inducts first female artist Aretha Franklin

Jan 29 William J Casey, ends term as 13th director of CIA

Jan 05 Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack NJ

Jan 06 The 100th US Congress convenes

Jan 27 Midnight Rockers beat Buddy Rose &Doug Somers for AWA World Tag Team

Jan 09 New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect

Jan 04 16 die in a train crash in Chase MD

Jan 17 President Reagan signed a secret order permitting the covert sale of arms to Iran.

Jan 13 7 top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each

Jan 09 Sir Rudolf Bing (of New York Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass

Jan 02 Troops of Chad President Habré conquer Fada oasis

Jan 31 Cut-price airline People Express flies its last flights before becoming part of Continental Airlines.

Jan 03 Rock &Roll Hall of Fame inducts first female artist Aretha Franklin

Jan 18 11th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Days of Our Live wins

Jan 28 US Foreign minister George Shultz meets ANC-leader Oliver Tambo

Jan 01 China's rudimentary civil code in effect

Jan 31 United Steelworkers union ratified a concessionary contract with USX Corp

Jan 31 Cut-price airline People Express flies its last flights before becoming part of Continental Airlines.

Jan 13 W German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking

Jan 17 President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran

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