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

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

Dec 01 "Day Without Art"-Artists demonstrate against AIDS

Dec 14 Andrei D. Sakharov, author and Nobel laureate, dies in Moscow at age 68.

Dec 20 US troops invade Panama and oust Manuel Noriega, but don't catch him

Dec 26 A provisional government takes control of Romania, following the secret trial and execution of President Nicolae Ceausescu.

Dec 22 Cold wave: -4øF in Oklahoma City, -6øF in Tulsa, -12øF in Pittsburgh PA, -18øF in Denver CO, -23øF in Kansas City MO, -42øF in Scottsbluff NB, -47øF in Hardin MT and -60øF in Black Hills SD

Dec 13 Forced repatriation of Vietnamese in Hong Kong

Dec 22 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu

Dec 03 George Bush & Mikhail Gorbachev end summit in Malta

Dec 22 Cold wave -4øF in Oklahoma City, -6øF in Tulsa, -12øF in Pittsburgh PA, -18øF in Denver CO, -23øF in Kansas City MO, -42øF in Scottsbluff NB, -47øF in Hardin MT and -60øF in Black Hills SD

Dec 02 V.P. Singh is sworn in as prime minister of India.

Dec 29 Wayne Gretzky and Martina Navratilova are named athletes of the decade by the Associated Press

Dec 01 East Germany drops the communist monopoly from its constitution

Dec 25 Japanese scientist achieve -271.8øC, coldest temp ever recorded

Dec 18 "I Love Lucy" Christmas episode, shown for first time in over 30 years

Dec 27 Egypt resumes full diplomatic relations with Syria, after a ten year break

Dec 12 First revenue train runs through the CP Rail 9.1 mile Mount MacDonald Tunnel. This is the longest rail tunnel in the Americas.

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