Feb 25 Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

Feb 26 Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (95.5 hPa)

Feb 12 5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel

Feb 24 Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife

Feb 16 Jane Fonda & Tom Hayden separate after 16 years of marriage

Feb 25 Rob Boyd wins a World Cup downhill race in home town of Whistler; first Canadian to win a FIS World Cup Ski race in Canada

Feb 14 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million damages for Bhopol disaster

Feb 15 The last Soviet troops leave Afghanistan, ending nine years of military involvement.

Feb 14 Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dominican Republic

Feb 13 Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison

Feb 10 Miami Vice's 100th episode seen on TV

Feb 22 New York Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50)

Feb 14 Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1 million-$3 million bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses"

Feb 24 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Feb 14 World's first satellite Skyphone opens

Feb 10 The Democratic National Committee elects Ron Brown as chair, making him the first African-American to head a major political party.

Feb 11 Barbara Clementine Harris consecrated first female bishop (Episcopalian)

Feb 25 Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt)

Feb 04 Dean Jones scores 216 vs West Indies at the Adelaide Oval

Feb 27 German war criminals Austria der Fünten/Fischer, freed in Holland

Feb 13 Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden Boeynants freed

Feb 26 "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 634 performances

Feb 03 Twenty villages evacuated in Russia, after high radiation fall-out from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

Feb 24 150-million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found

Feb 22 The first Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)

Feb 08 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles

Feb 16 Egypt, Iraq, Jordan & North Yemen form common market

Feb 09 Neo-Nazi groups outlawed in West Germany

Feb 13 Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients

Feb 12 Thursday's Child sets sailing record, New York-Cape Horn-San Francisco, 80 days 20 hours

Feb 05 Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes first NBA player to score 38,000 points

Feb 22 Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress

Apr 18 Zimbabwe gains independence

Apr 27 Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China

Apr 10 Intel corp announces shipment of the 80486 chip

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