Aug 02 NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24

Aug 20 In Ethiopia a 6.3 earthquake killed 2, injured 2 and damage and rockslides caused in the Galafi-Yoboki area

Aug 21 Soviet Union reveals deadliest weapon in its air force arsenal, needle-nosed bomber that NATO calls the Blackjack

Aug 26 Trumbull Conn, is first US team since 1983 to win Little League WS

Aug 30 Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner

Aug 21 Voyager 2 begins a flyby of the planet Neptune

Aug 01 NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24

Aug 19 Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected first non-communmist president of Poland

Aug 11 Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune

Aug 06 Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern Airlines picket lines

Aug 25 Voyager 2 makes its closest approach to Neptune (0400 GMT)

Aug 24 Voyager 2 flies past Neptune

Aug 22 The first complete ring around Neptune discovered

Aug 13 US space shuttle STS-28 lands

Aug 06 Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8

Aug 11 "Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child" premiers

Aug 29 Off the coast of Jalisco, Mexico a 6.7 quake was felt along the coast of Jalisco. Also felt at Guadalajara and in the southern part of the Mexico City area

Aug 24 Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling

Aug 21 Fifty-one people drown in the River Thames, London when a dredger rams the pleasure cruiser Marchioness.

Aug 27 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings

Aug 03 Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river

Aug 24 Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.

Aug 11 "Nightmare on Elm Street 5 The Dream Child" premiers

Sep 02 Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst

Sep 18 Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico

Sep 10 East Germans begin their flight to the west (via Hungary &Czech)

Sep 17 Hurricane Hugo begins 4 day sweep through Caribbean, killing 62

Sep 03 A Cuban jetliner crashes shortly after takeoff in Havana, killing 152 people.

Sep 16 Singer Natalie Cole marries record producer Andre Fisher

Sep 21 Poland's Sejm (National Assembly) approves prime minister Mazowiecki

Sep 09 Steffi Graf beats Martina Navratalova for the US Open championship

Sep 01 Major League Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti dies of a heart attack at age 51.

Sep 21 Hurricane Hugo bashes Charleston, SC, with winds of up to 135 miles per hour, causing an estimated $8 billion in damage.

Sep 22 After Hurricane Hugo, Sailors and Marines provide assistance to Charleston, SC, through 10 October.

Sep 30 NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii and Ascension

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