Friday, 06 November 2026
Aug 11 "Nightmare on Elm Street 5 The Dream Child" premiers. 


Aug 11 John Meillon, actor (Wild Duck, Crocodile Dundee), dies. 


Aug 11 Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune 


Aug 13 Tim Richmond, race car driver (won 13 NASCAR races), dies of AIDS 


Aug 13 US space shuttle STS-28 lands 


Aug 15 F de Jong Edz, Dutch historian/director (IISG), dies. 


Aug 16 Amanda Blake, actress (Gunsmoke), dies at 58 


Aug 18 Bert Oosterbosch, cyclist, dies. 


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


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


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


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


Aug 21 Voyager 2 begins a flyby of the planet Neptune 


Aug 22 The inaugural complete ring around Neptune discovered. 


Aug 23 Helen le Clerq, Dutch dancer, dies 


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


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


Aug 24 Voyager 2 flies past Neptune. 


Aug 25 Gunnar Johnsen Berg, composer, dies at 80 


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


Aug 26 Henk Heidweiller, ambassador of Suriname, dies 


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


Aug 27 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings 


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 30 Joe De Santis, dies at 80 


Aug 30 Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner. 


Sep 01 A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commissioner, dies of heart attack at 51. 


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


Sep 01 Princess Anne and Mark Phillips announce their seperation 


Sep 02 A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commisioner, dies at 51 


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


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


Sep 04 Georges Simenon, Belgian/French writer/director (Maigret), dies at 86 


Sep 05 Deborah Norville is recorded as becoming news anchor of the Today Show. 


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