Dec 14 In the worst attack on merchant shipping in the 'Gulf War', 21 crewmen from a Norwegian tanker are killed

Dec 22 Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx overdoses from Heroin

Dec 18 Federal Judge Morris E. Lasker sentenced Ivan Boesky,the once mighty arbitrageur to a three-year prison term

Dec 21 3 white New York teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man

Dec 28 In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 16

Dec 06 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun"

Dec 18 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's future pres, marries Asif Ali Zardari

Dec 22 Canada beats Finland 4-1 to win first-ever gold medal at the annual Izvestia hockey tournament.

Dec 10 "Nightline" is seen in the USSR for first time

Dec 08 President Reagan & Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles

Dec 08 Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel

Dec 01 Digging begins to link England and France under the English Channel

Dec 20 Worst peacetime shipping disaster, Dona Paz collides with Vector 1,749 confirmed deaths (probably closer to 3,000)

Dec 07 Gorbachev arrives in the US for a summit meeting

Dec 16 Roh Tae Woo wins Presidential Election in South Korea

Dec 07 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots)

Aug 31 Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for the year record ($697,385)

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

Aug 08 Lynne Cox became first to swim from US to Russia across Bering Strait

Aug 02 Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3")

Aug 17 Rudolph Hess Nazi, dies at 93, after 46 years in Spandau Prison

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)

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