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Environmental and
Weather
Change
January-February
March
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March
2 - Government of
John
Cain reelected in
Victoria for second consecutive term.
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March
3 -
Women Against Pornography award their "Pig Award" to
Kimberly-Clark Corporation's
Huggies
diapers,
claiming that their
television commercials had "crossed the line between eye-catching
and
porn."
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March
4 - The
Food and Drug Administration approves a
blood test for
AIDS, used
since then for screening all
blood donations in the United States.
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March 11 -
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the
General Secretary of the
Soviet Communist Party and
de
facto leader of the
Soviet Union.
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March 11 -
Mohammed Al Fayed buys the London-based department store company,
Harrods.
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March 11 - The
Prague Appeal by
Jiří Dienstbier, Czech dissident.
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March 14 - Five
lionesses
at the
Singapore Zoo are put on
birth control because the lion population had increased from two to
16.
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March 15 -
José Sarney takes oath as acting president of
Brazil,
because the president-elect
Tancredo Neves becomes severely ill.
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March 16 -
Associated Press newsman
Terry Anderson is taken hostage in
Beirut.
He would later be released on
December 4,
1991.
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March 17 -
Serial killer
Richard Ramirez (the "Night Stalker") commits his first two
murders
in
Los Angeles,
California.
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March 20 -
Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile
Iditarod
dog
sled race.
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March 31 -
Wrestlemania I occurs at
Madison Square Garden,
New
York. The Main Event features
Hulk Hogan and
Mr. T
with
Jimmy Snuka vs.
Roddy Piper and
Paul Orndorff with
Bob Orton, Jr.
April
May-June
July
August-September
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August 2 -
Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashes in
Dallas,
Texas,
killing 137 people.
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August 6 - In
Hiroshima, tens of thousands mark the 40th anniversary of the
atomic bombing of the city.
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August 7 -
Takao
Doi,
Mamoru Mohri and
Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be
Japan's
first
astronauts.
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August 12 -
Japan Airlines Flight 123, a
Boeing 747SR-46 plane en route from
Tokyo to
Osaka,
crashed northwest of Tokyo, killing 520 of the 524 people on board.
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August 22 - 55 people killed at in the
Manchester air disaster at
Manchester International Airport when a British Airtours
Boeing 737 burst into flames after the pilot aborts the takeoff.
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August 31 -
Richard Ramirez arrested for the "Night Stalker" murders.
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September 1 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck
of the
RMS Titanic.
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September 5 -
John Howard replaces
Andrew Peacock as
Australian Federal Opposition Leader.
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September 6 -
Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a
Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
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September 15 - U.S. hostage
Benjamin Weir released in
Lebanon.
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September 19 - An earthquakes hits
Mexico City causing a serious damages over privates and public
buildings and houses with a thousand deaths and homeless.
October
November
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November 6 - In
Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the
M-19
movement
seize control of the Palace of Justice in
Bogotá.
By the next day, 115 people are dead, including 11
Supreme Court justices.
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November 15 - In separate events,
mail
bombs kill two people in
Salt Lake City, Utah; a third bomb explodes the next day, injuring
Mark Hoffman. The ensuing police investigation leads to the arrest
of Hoffman for these murders, as well as
forgery.
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November 16 - When 1,800 staff of
Baragwanath hospital in
Soweto,
South Africa go on strike for better pay, they are dismissed and
troops called in to help run the hospital.
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November 18 - First
Calvin and Hobbes comic strip printed in a handful of newspapers;
the strip is not carried in the hometown newspaper of its creator,
Bill Watterson.
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November 19 -
Cold
War: In
Geneva,
U.S. President
Ronald Reagan and
Soviet Union leader
Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
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November 19 -
Pennzoil wins a $10.53 billion verdict from
Texaco
in the largest civil verdict in U.S. history (Texaco established a
signed contract to buy
Getty
Oil after Pennzoil entered into an unsigned, yet still binding,
buyout contract with Getty).
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November 21 -
United States Navy intelligence analyst
Jonathan Jay Pollard is arrested for
spying (he was caught giving
Israel
classified information on
Arab
nations and was eventually sentenced to life in prison).
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November 23 - Gunmen
hijack
EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from
Athens
to
Cairo
(when the plane lands in
Malta,
Egyptian
commandos storm the hijacked jetliner but 60 people die in the raid).
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November 26 -
U.S. President
Ronald Reagan signs over rights to his
autobiography to
Random House for a record US$3 million.
December
Unknown Date
Births
- Date Unknown -
Risen Star American race horse (d.
1998)
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February 5 -
Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
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February 9 -
Rachel Melvin, actress
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February 10 -
Anette Sagen, Norwegian ski jumper
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February 18 -
Lee Boyd Malvo, American serial killer
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February 28 -
FeFe Dobson, Canadian singer
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March
2 -
Robert Iler, actor
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March 13 -
Emile Hirsch, American actor
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March 15 -
Antti Autti, Finnish snowboarder
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March 24 -
Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and model
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March 26 -
Keira Knightley, English actress
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May 2
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Sarah Hughes, American figure skater
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June
26 -
Urgyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader
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June
27 -
Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
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June
30 -
Michael Phelps, American swimmer
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July
24 -
Teagan Presley,
pornographic actress
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September 14 -
Aya
Ueto, Japanese actress
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October 11 -
Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
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October 22 -
Zachary Hanson, American musician
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October 24 -
Wayne Rooney, English footballer
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October 25 -
Ciara,
singer
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November 8 -
Jack Osbourne, English actor
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December 5 -
Frankie Muniz, American actor
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December 10 -
Raven Symone, American actress
Deaths
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January 4 - Sir
Brian Horrocks, British general (b.
1895)
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February 8 - Sir
William Lyons, English automobile designer and entrepreneur (b.
1901)
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February 11 -
Henry Hathaway American actor and director (b.
1898)
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February 11 -
Heinz Eric Roemheld, American composer (b.
1901)
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February 20 -
Clarence Nash, American voice actor (b.
1904)
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February 22 -
Alexander Scourby, American actor (b.
1913)
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February 27 -
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American politician (b.
1902)
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February 27 - Sir
Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk, British genealogist (b.
1919)
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February 28 -
Ray Ellington, British singer (b.
1916)
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March 10 -
Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet politician (b.
1911)
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March 12 -
Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor (b.
1899)
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March 28 -
Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b.
1887)
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April 11 -
Enver Hoxha, Albanian dictator (b.
1908)
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May 5
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Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (b.
1901)
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May 8
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Theodore Sturgeon, American science fiction writer (b.
1918)
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May 9
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Edmond O'Brien, American actor (b.
1915)
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May 10
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Chester Gould, American cartoonist (b.
1900)
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May 12
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Jean Dubuffet, French artist (b.
1901)
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May 16
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Margaret Hamilton, American actress (b.
1902)
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May 17
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Abe Burrows, songwriter, composer, and writer (b.
1910)
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June
15 -
Andy Stanfield, American athlete (b.
1927)
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July 2
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David Purley, British racing driver (b.
1945)
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July 9
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Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish founder of
Narcotics Anonymous (b.
1911)
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July
16 -
Heinrich Böll, German writer (b.
1917)
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July
19 -
Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish science fiction writer (b.
1938)
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July
23 -
Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (b.
1923)
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August 12 -
Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b.
1951)
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August 25 -
Samantha Smith, American schoolgirl activist (b.
1972)
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September 6 -
Isabel Cox-Meighen, First Lady of Canada (b.
1882)
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September 6 -
Little Brother Montgomery, American jazz musician
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September 11 -
William Alwyn, English composer (b.
1905)
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September 19 -
Italo Calvino, Italian writer (b.
1923)
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October 2 -
Rock Hudson, American actor (b.
1925)
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October 6 -
Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b.
1921)
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October 10 -
Yul Brynner, American actor (b.
1915)
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October 11 -
Orson Welles, American film director (b.
1915)
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October 12 -
Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (b.
1910)
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October 22 -
Thomas Townsend Brown, American scientist (b.
1905)
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November 5 -
Spencer W. Kimball, president of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b.
1895)
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November 24 -
Big Joe Turner, American blues singer (b.
1911)
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December 7 -
Robert Graves, English writer (b.
1895)
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December 23 -
Ferhat Abbas, Algerian nationalist (b.
1899)
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December 27 -
Dian Fossey, American biologist (b.
1932)
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December 31 -
Ricky Nelson, American singer and actor (b.
1940)
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