Aug 18 Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million

Aug 16 Jailed black nationalist Nelson Mandela struck with tuberculosis

Aug 17 Franklin D Roosevelt Jr (Rep-D-NY, 1949-55), dies on 74th birthday

Aug 22 NBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee)

Aug 01 Raymond Carver poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50

Aug 10 UN estimates Asia's population hit 3 billion

Aug 30 Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen

Aug 08 Temperature hits high of 88 on 8/8/88 in NYC

Aug 12 Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at the hospital

Aug 08 Duchess of York gives birth to baby girl

Aug 17 NYC 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy)

Aug 08 Renovated Central Park Zoo reopens after 4 years

Aug 12 Richard Thornburgh becomes US Attorney General

Aug 08 Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war

Aug 29 USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir

Aug 16 IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence

Aug 17 LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991

Aug 30 Tennis star Chris Everett weds skier Andy Mills

Aug 01 One-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon

Aug 09 Edmonton Oilers trade Wayne Gretzky to LA Kings for $15-$20 millions

Aug 13 US beats Jamaicia 5-1, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup

Aug 01 System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC)

Aug 25 Romanian Chess master Mihai Suba and his son defect to the West during an international tournament in London

Aug 04 Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case

Aug 19 Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT)

Aug 12 Movie "Last Temptation of Christ" is released

Aug 02 Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo

Aug 02 System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC)

Aug 23 Mike Tyson & Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem

Aug 20 In the Nepal-India border region a 6.6 quake killed 721, 6,553 injured and 64,470 buildings damaged in eastern Nepal

Aug 13 Ronald J Dossenbach sets record for pedaling across Canada from Vancouver to Halifax in 13 days 15 hr 4 minutes.

Aug 01 Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo

Aug 18 Republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket

Aug 10 In the Solomon Islands 2 events about 10 seconds apart. One person killed and about 100 homes washed away in 13 villages

Aug 21 Cease fire between Iran and Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war

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