Aug 25 Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42

Aug 07 5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala

Aug 02 Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH)

Aug 07 Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from US to USSR in 39o F (4o C) Bering Sea

Aug 21 Clayton Lonetree, first marine court-martialed for spying, convicted

Aug 30 Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump women's record (6'10¬")

Aug 22 Madonna's "Who's "That Girl," single goes #1

Aug 29 Academy Award-winner Lee Marvin dies in Tucson, AZ, at age 63.

Aug 24 Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes

Aug 04 FCC vote 4-0 to rescind fairness doctrine for broadcasters

Aug 01 Mike Tyson beats Tony Tucker to become undisputed boxing champion

Aug 18 Philip Rush of NZ, set record for triple crossing English Channel. His time 28:21, 10 hours faster than the first man to do it

Aug 17 Dow Jones Industrial Avg closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57)

Aug 16 156 die as Northwest Flight 255 crashes at take off in Detroit

Aug 20 The Canadian federal government slaps a total ban on smoking in public service offices, starting Jan. 1, 1988. Smoking by government employees at all public service counters ends immediately, well maybe not quite??

Aug 01 Crossbow flight record (2,005 yds 1'9") set by Harry Drake in Nevada

Aug 30 Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec

Sep 06 Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal

Sep 27 NFL players' strike

Sep 02 West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, goes on trial in Russia

Sep 09 Gary Hart admits to cheating on his wife on "Nightline"

Sep 13 Paul Lynch of Great Britain does 32,573 push-ups in 24 hours

Sep 02 Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan

Sep 10 Pope John Paul II arrives in Miami to begin a 10 day tour of the US.

Sep 16 NASA launches space vehicle S-209

Sep 06 Kurdish leaders appeal to the UN for protection from Iraqi attacks

Sep 11 Lorne Greene broadcaster, actor died at Santa Monica California

Sep 17 Phila celebrates 200th anniversary of the Constitution

Feb 05 Dow Jones average closes above 2,200 for first time

Feb 26 The first release of Beatles compact discs

Feb 04 Stars &Stripes beats Australia's Kookaburra 3, sweeps America's Cup

Feb 19 Anti-smoking ad airs for first time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner

Feb 11 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Feb 16 John Demjanjuk, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" trial begins

Feb 15 Nikolai Guljajev becomes world champion skater

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