Jan 13 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence

Jan 26 Test debut of Mark Taylor, Australia vs West Indies, Sydney

Jan 04 US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean

Jan 15 Cerberal Palsy telethon raises 22,600,000

Jan 03 Jim &Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!)

Jan 17 Gunman opens fire in California schoolyard; 5 students slain, 30 wounded

Jan 16 Three days of riots begin in Miami after a police officer shoots and kills a black motorcyclist, which also claims the life of the passenger in the ensuing crash.

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

Feb 01 Princess Diana of England visits New York NY

Feb 25 First independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms

Feb 02 F[rederik] W[illem] de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's Nationalist Party leader

Feb 11 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary

Feb 22 31st Grammy Awards Don't Worry Be Happy, Faith, Tracy Chapman

Feb 22 UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"

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