Sep 10 Hungary opens its borders to the West, allowing thousands to leave East Germany

Sep 10 Boris Becker beats Yvan Lendl for the US Open championship

Sep 18 Hungary begins transition to a Western style democracy

Sep 05 Deborah Norville becomes news anchor of the Today Show

Sep 13 Fay Vincent succeeds the late A. Bartlett Giamatti as commissioner of Major League Baseball.

Sep 06 Amateur Atheletic Fed strips Ben Johnson of all track records

Sep 17 NYC court of appeals overturns lower court decision and returns America's Cup back to the US (from New Zealand)

Sep 19 Vietnamese troops withdraw from Cambodia

Sep 19 Chase Manhattan Discovery Center at Brooklyn Botanic Garden opens

Sep 19 Appeals court restores America's Cup to US after NY Supreme Court gave it to New Zealand (NZ protested US's use of a catamaran)

Sep 01 Princess Anne &Mark Phillips announce their seperation

Sep 27 Sony purchases Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion cash

Sep 14 Calgary Flames become first NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2

Feb 28 Memo by Brian Gumbel criticizing Today Show co-workers becomes public

Feb 08 144 people die when a Boeing 707 jetliner crashes into a fog-shrouded mountain in the Azores.

Feb 12 US male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman

Feb 15 Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt

Feb 20 Total eclipse of the Moon

Feb 10 To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport, in a New Jersey court

Feb 28 Gretchen Polhemus, 23, (Texas), crowned 38th Miss USA

Feb 22 US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals"

Feb 15 Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends

Feb 16 William Hayden becomes governor-General of Australia

Feb 01 Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion

Feb 06 Lech Walesa begins negotiating with the Polish government

Feb 09 Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election

Feb 10 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Feb 03 Uruguayan president Alfredo Stroessner is overthrown in a military coup.

Feb 07 Tennis superstar Björn Börg, apparently attempts suicide in Milan

Feb 14 African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam

Feb 10 Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed, Pakistan vs New Zealand age 16 years 189 days

Feb 21 Pete Rose meets with Commissioner Ueberroth to discuss his gambling

Feb 21 US bust Chinese heroin ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1 billion street value)

Feb 24 US Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die

Feb 26 California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs

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