| January 1 | David Dinkins sworn in as 1st black mayor of New York City |
| January 1 | FCC implements "SYNDEX" giving independent stations more rights over cable TV outlets for exclusive syndicated programs |
| January 1 | Mitsuko Nishiwaki beats Nakano to become Japan Women wrestling champ |
| January 1 | New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority stops token redemption at subway stations |
| January 1 | Sports News Network begins operation on cable TV |
| January 2 | Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15) |
| January 2 | Sting joins wrestlings 4 Horsemen (Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson) |
| January 3 | Panama's leader General Manuel Noriega surrenders to U.S. authorities |
| January 5 | J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL |
| January 6 | New York Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (18-25-26-32-42-44) |
| January 7 | Lynn Jennings runs world record 5K indoor at 15:22.64 |
| January 7 | Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far |
| January 9 | 64th U.S. manned space mission STS-32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit |
| January 9 | Boston Celtics worst ever (6 pts in 2nd vs New Jersey Nets) and lose 87-78 |
| January 9 | Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| January 9 | Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses |
| January 10 | China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre) |
| January 10 | "Les Miserables," opens at Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore |
| January 10 | NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players |
| January 11 | 200,000 demand return of Lithuania's independence |
| January 11 | Actor Joseph Cotton undergoes vocal cancer operation at 84 |
| January 11 | Bobby Knight becomes basketball's Big 10 winningest coach (229) |
| January 11 | Pat Lafontaine sets New York Islander record of scoring goals in 11 straight |
| January 12 | Civil Rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst Bkln |
| January 12 | Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so) |
| January 13 | 1st elected U.S. black governor inaugurated (Douglas Wilder-Virginia) |
| January 14 | 11th ACE Cable Awards |
| January 14 | Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in Gulf |
| January 15 | 42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds |
| January 15 | 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing wins |
| January 15 | AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch |
| January 15 | Blue Jay Cecil Fielder signs with Detroit as a free agent |
| January 15 | New York Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 sec, beats Bulls, 109-106 |
| January 16 | 2 Bank of Credit and Commerce members plea guilty to money laundering |
| January 17 | 5th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Awards: Bobby Darin |
| January 17 | Dave Stewart signs record $3,500,000 per year Oak A's contract |
| January 17 | Kinks inducted into Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
| January 17 | Who, Simon and Garfunkel, 4 Seasons, 4 Tops, Hank Ballard, Platters & |
| January 18 | South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African National Congress |
| January 18 | Washington D.C., Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting |
| January 19 | Test debut of Mushtaq Ahmed, vs. Australia at Adelaide |
| January 20 | 47th Golden Globes: Born on 4th of July, Driving Miss Daisy win |
| January 20 | U.S. 64th manned space mission STS-32 (Columbia 10) returns from space |
| January 21 | 41st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 12-7 at Pittsburgh |
| January 21 | Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association executive director |
| January 21 | John McEnroe becomes 1st ever expelled from Australian Open |
| January 21 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic |
| January 22 | 17th American Music Award: Milli Vanilli |
| January 22 | Wasim Akram scores Test century (123) at Adelaide |
| January 22 | Will Clark, NL's MVP signs a $15M 4-year contract with San Francisco Giants |
| January 23 | Dean Jones scores twin Test tons vs. Pakistan at Adelaide Oval |
| January 24 | Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon |
| January 25 | Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel and crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die |
| January 25 | Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail |
| January 25 | West-Europe's strongest hurricane |
| January 26 | Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica and South Atlantic |
| January 26 | Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asstistant General Manager (highest-ranking black female in a major-league front office) |
| January 27 | 64th Australian Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats MJ Fernandez (63 64) |
| January 28 | 78th Australian Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats S Edberg (46 76 52-ret) |
| January 28 | "Independent on Sunday" begins publishing in London |
| January 28 | Superbowl XXIV: San Francisco 49ers beat Denver Broncos, 55-10 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Joe Montana, San Francisco, quarterback |
| January 29 | Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill |
| January 31 | 1st ever all-sports daily "National" begins publishing |
| January 31 | 1st McDonalds in Russia opens in Moscow, world's biggest McDonalds |
| January 31 | Jushin "Thunder" Liger beats Naoki Sano to become New Japan IWGP champ |
| February 2 | Marina Ogilvy, daughter of English princess Alexandra, weds Paul Mowatt |
| February 2 | South Africa's President FW de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela and legalizes ANC and 60 other political orgs |
| February 3 | Darryl Strawberry enters Smither Center for Alcohol rehabilitation |
| February 3 | Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race |
| February 3 | New York Met Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Alcohol rehab center |
| February 4 | 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo |
| February 4 | Anders Holmertz swims world record 400 m freestyle (3:40.81) |
| February 4 | Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45:04) |
| February 4 | Lyudmila Narozhi-Lenko runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.69) |
| February 4 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-21 |
| February 4 | Pat Bradley wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic |
| February 4 | Richard Hadlee takes his 400th Test Cricket wicket (Sanjay Manjrekar) |
| February 4 | St. Petersburg Pelicans beat West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 to win 1st Senior Professional Baseball Association Championship |
| February 5 | Notre Dame becomes 1st team to sell its game to a major network (NBC) |
| February 6 | Brett Hull becomes 1st son of NHL 50 goal scorer (Bobby) to score 50 |
| February 6 | Ground breaking begins on Baltimore Orioles' new $102 million stadium |
| February 6 | Steve Briers of Wales recited the entire lyrics of Queen's album "A Night At The Opera" in 9 minutes and 58.44 seconds backwards! |
| February 7 | Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators |
| February 7 | Lisa Leslie of Morningside HS in Inglewood California scores 101 in 1st half, South Torrance HS decides not to play 2nd half and loses 102-24 |
| February 7 | U.S.S.R. Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties |
| February 8 | "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine |
| February 8 | David Hares "Racing Demon," premieres in London |
| February 9 | "Bradys" return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV |
| February 9 | Doina Melinte runs world indoor record 1.5k (4:00:27) and mile (4:17:13) |
| February 9 | Galileo flies by Venus |
| February 9 | Namibia's constitution ratified |
| February 10 | 6th Largest wrestling crowd (63,900-Tokyo Dome) |
| February 10 | Buster Douglas KOs Mike Tyson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
| February 10 | Pierrer Water pulls product from shelf due to benzine in water |
| February 10 | South Africa President de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be free Feb 11th |
| February 10 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary |
| February 11 | 40th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 130-113 at Miami |
| February 11 | James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win heavyweight boxing crown |
| February 11 | Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, freed in South Africa |
| February 11 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge |
| February 13 | 50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa |
| February 13 | Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games |
| February 13 | U.S., England, France and England give Germany OK to reunify |
| February 14 | Alan Ayckbourn's "Man of the Moment," premieres in London |
| February 14 | Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some |
| February 14 | Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system |
| February 15 | Baseball owners lock out players |
| February 18 | Jane Crafter wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament |
| February 19 | Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal |
| February 19 | Soyuz TM-9 lands |
| February 21 | 32nd Grammy Awards: Wind Beneath My Wings, Nick of Time wins |
| February 22 | 1st day India vs New Zealand cricket at Auckland New Zealand 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps |
| February 23 | Ian Smith 173* New Zealand vs. India, 136 balls, world record for no 9 bat |
| February 24 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Orix Hawaiia Ladies Golf Open |
| February 25 | Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win the Cricket World Series Cup |
| February 25 | Nicaraguans votes out Sandinistas |
| February 25 | On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children and no man can stand her for long |
| February 26 | U.S.S.R. agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czechoslovakia by July, 1991 |
| February 27 | Exxon Corp and Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez) |
| February 27 | No one elected to Hall of Fame for 2nd time in 3 years |
| February 28 | Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine |
| February 28 | U.S. 65th manned space mission STS-36 (Atlantis 6) launches into orbit |
| March 1 | Benin nullifies its constitution |
| March 1 | Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as president of Uruguay |
| March 2 | Greyhound Bus goes on strike |
| March 2 | Mark Tewsksbury swims world record 50m backstroke (25.06 sec) |
| March 3 | Carole Gist, 20, (Michigan 1st black), crowned 39th Miss USA |
| March 4 | 20th Easter Seal Telethon |
| March 4 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
| March 4 | U.S. 65th manned space mission STS-36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space |
| March 6 | SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17 |
| March 7 | 3 passengers killed and 162 injured as subway train derails in Philadelphia |
| March 7 | H. Wayne Huizenga buys Joe Robbie Stadium and 15% of Dolphins for $30M |
| March 9 | Dr. Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st hispanic/female U.S. surgeon general |
| March 10 | 4th American Comedy Award: When Harry Met Sally |
| March 10 | Ice Dance Championship at Halifax won by Klimova and Ponomarenko (URS) |
| March 10 | Ice Pairs Championship at Halifax won by Gordeeva and Grinkov (URS) |
| March 10 | Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Halifax won by Jill Trenary (USA) |
| March 10 | Lieutenant General Avril resigns as President of Haiti |
| March 10 | Mens Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Kurt Browning (CAN) |
| March 10 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 11 | 16th People's Choice Awards |
| March 11 | Lithuania declares it's Independence |
| March 11 | Maggie Will wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International |
| March 12 | Los Angeles Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland |
| March 13 | Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada |
| March 14 | 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson |
| March 14 | Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress |
| March 15 | Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as President of Brazil |
| March 17 | PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak |
| March 18 | 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists |
| March 18 | 32-day lockout by baseball owners ends |
| March 18 | A Tampa little leaguer, dies, after being struck by a pitch |
| March 18 | Colleen Walker wins Circle K Tucson LPGA Golf Open |
| March 18 | Largest Art robbery in the history (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston), where 12 paintings valued at $100 million are stolen |
| March 19 | 1st world ice hockey tournament for women held (Ottawa) |
| March 20 | Los Angeles Lakers retires Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's #33 |
| March 20 | Singer Gloria Estefan breaks her collarbone in a bus accident |
| March 21 | "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens at Eugene O'Neill New York City for 149 performances |
| March 21 | Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president |
| March 21 | "Normal Life" starring Moon Unit and Dweezil Zappa premieres on CBS-TV |
| March 21 | "Sydney" starring Valerie Bertinelli premieres on CBS-TV |
| March 22 | Anchorage jury finds Captain Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill |
| March 22 | "Grapes of Wrath" opens at Cort Theater New York City for 188 performances |
| March 22 | "Les Miserables," opens at Shunert Theatre, Boston |
| March 22 | The ML umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games |
| March 23 | Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound and pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill |
| March 24 | Indian troops leave Sri Lanka |
| March 24 | Tom Hunter swims world record 50m freestyle (21.81 sec) |
| March 25 | 10th Golden Raspberry Awards: Star Trek V wins |
| March 25 | Fire in illegal New York City social club, kills 87 |
| March 25 | "Lettice and Lovage" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 284 performances |
| March 25 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic |
| March 26 | 62nd Academy Awards - "Driving Miss Daisy," D Day-Lewis, J Tandy win |
| March 27 | Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die |
| March 27 | NSW beat Queensland by 345 runs to win Sheffield Shield Final |
| March 28 | Bengal beat Delhi in rained-out cricket Ranji Trophy final on quotient |
| March 28 | Michael Jordan scores 69 points, 4th time he scores 60 points in a game |
| March 28 | President Bush awards Jesse Owen the Congressional Gold Medal |
| March 30 | Jack Nicklaus made his debut in the "Seniors" golf tournament |
| March 31 | "Carol and Company" starring Carol Burnette premieres on NBC-TV |
| March 31 | Dionisio Castro cycles world record 20km (57:18.4) |
| March 31 | Riots began in London over the new poll tax laws |
| April 1 | 19th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King |
| April 1 | 2nd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus wins |
| April 1 | 9th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Stanford beats Auburn 88-81 |
| April 1 | CBS fires sportscaster Brent Mussburger |
| April 1 | Guns and Roses' Duff divorces Mandy Brix, lead singer for Lame Flames |
| April 1 | "Ha!" comedy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting |
| April 1 | It becomes illegal in Salem Oregon to be within 2' of nude dancers |
| April 1 | Jack Nicklaus wins 1st start on Senior PGA tour |
| April 1 | Wrestlemania VI, 67,678 in Toronto, Ultimate Warrior beats Hulk Hogan |
| April 2 | 52nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Nevada-LV beats Duke 103-73 |
| April 4 | Gloria Estefan released from hospital after her accident |
| April 4 | "Martian Chronicles" premieres on ABC-TV |
| April 4 | Security law violator Ivan Boesky is released from federal custody |
| April 5 | John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record 3 years in a row |
| April 5 | New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 2-1 in 1st game of preliminary |
| April 5 | Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity |
| April 7 | BPAA U.S. Open by Ron Palombi Jr |
| April 7 | Farm Aid IV concert |
| April 7 | Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma |
| April 7 | John Poindexter (National Security Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal |
| April 7 | Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations |
| April 7 | New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 5-2, Rangers lead 2-0 in preliminary |
| April 8 | 54th Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 278 |
| April 8 | "Aspects of Love" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 377 performances |
| April 8 | King Birendra of Nepal lifts 30-year ban on political parties |
| April 8 | Kris Monaghan wins LPGA Red Robin Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic |
| April 8 | Norwegian Scandinavian Star catches fire; about 170 die |
| April 8 | "Twin Peaks" with Peggy Lipton premieres on ABC-TV |
| April 9 | "Capital News" starring Lloyd Bridges premieres on ABC-TV |
| April 9 | Don Mattingly signs a $19.7 million 5-year contract with Yankees |
| April 9 | New York Islanders beat New York Rangers 4-3 in double overtime-Rangers lead 2-1 |
| April 9 | World's largest bunny hop at Radio City Music Hall in New York City |
| April 10 | CUNY/Lehman College, Bronx, opens a branch campus in Hiroshma Japan |
| April 10 | Curtly Ambrose takes 8-45 in cricket vs England at Bridgetown |
| April 11 | Angels Mark Langston and Mike Witt, no-hit Seattle, 1-0 |
| April 11 | New York Lotto pays $35 million to two winner (#s are 6-14-24-32-34-51) |
| April 11 | New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 6-1, Rangers lead 3-1 in preliminary |
| April 12 | 1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for Nazi holocaust and asks for forgivenesss |
| April 12 | Greyhound Bus hires new drivers to replace strikers |
| April 12 | James Brown moves to a work-release center after serving 15 months |
| April 13 | 4th largest NBA crowd (45,458) see Orlando play at Minneapolis |
| April 13 | Final episode of Pat Sajak's late night TV show on CBS |
| April 13 | New York Rangers beat New York Islanders 6-5, Rangers win preliminary, 4-1 |
| April 15 | Greenidge and Haynes make 298 opening stand (v Eng), their best |
| April 15 | "In Living Color" premieres on FOX-TV |
| April 16 | 19th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:23 |
| April 16 | 94th Boston Marathon won by Gelindo Bordin of Italy in 2:08:19 |
| April 16 | Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $260 per week |
| April 16 | "Piano Lesson" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City for 320 performances |
| April 16 | Supreme Court rejects appeal from retarded man, Dalton Prejean, condemned to death for murdering a Louisiana state trooper in 1977 |
| April 17 | Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar India, 80 die |
| April 18 | Bankruptcy court forces Frank Lorenzo to give up Eastern Airlines |
| April 18 | Birmingham Fire issued an original franchise in WLAF |
| April 19 | Contra guerrillas, leftist Sandinistas and incoming government agree to truce |
| April 19 | Marla Maples appears on ABC's Prime-Time |
| April 19 | Pistons and 76'ers get into a fight accruing $162,500 fines (NBA record) |
| April 19 | Truce in Nicaragua's civil war |
| April 20 | 8 2/3 inning perfect game pitched by Brian Holman of Oakland A's is spoiled by a home run hit by Ken Philips |
| April 20 | Pete Rose pleads guilty to hiding $300,000 in income |
| April 21 | "Cartoon All Stars to Rescue" shown on all 4 TV networks |
| April 21 | National League umpire is arrested for stealing baseball cards |
| April 21 | Reds win running their record to 9-0, best start in club history |
| April 22 | Lebanon release U.S. hostage Robert Polhill after 39 months |
| April 22 | "Truly Blessed" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 33 performances |
| April 23 | 11th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| April 24 | Brian Friel's "Dancing at Lughnasa," premieres in Dublin |
| April 24 | Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felonies |
| April 24 | U.S. 66th manned space mission STS-31 (Discovery 10) launches into orbit |
| April 24 | West and East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July 1st |
| April 25 | 25th Academy of Country Music Awards: Clint Black and Kathy Mattea win |
| April 25 | Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery |
| April 25 | Violeta Barrios de Chamorro begins a 6 year term as Nicaragua's president |
| April 26 | 126 die in a (6.9) earthquake in China |
| April 26 | "Accomplice" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City for 52 performances |
| April 26 | Danny Wood of New Kids, steps on a stuffed animal and twists his ankle |
| April 26 | New York court of appeals ends 2 year legal battle over 1988 America's Cup by refusing jurisdiction of case |
| April 26 | Nolan Ryan ties Bob Feller's record of pitching 12 1-hitters |
| April 27 | 50th annual barbershop quartet singing convention held in Michigan |
| April 27 | Dodger Orel Hershiser undergoes career-threatening shoulder surgery |
| April 27 | Villanova's women set a 6,000 m relay world record of 17:18:10 |
| April 28 | Boston Celtics score most points in a playoff, beat New York Knicks 157-128 |
| April 28 | "Chorus Line" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 6,137 performances |
| April 28 | Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Dave Ferraro |
| April 28 | Guns and Roses' Axl marries Erin Everly (annulled same year) |
| April 28 | Last issue of Dutch communist daily De Waarheid (The Truth) |
| April 29 | "Change in the Heir" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 16 performances |
| April 29 | Dan Quisenberry (all-time AL save king, 238) announces his retirement |
| April 29 | STS-31 (Discovery 10) lands |
| April 29 | Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate |
| April 30 | As Met pitcher David Cone argues a call at 1st base, 2 Braves score |
| April 30 | Seattle's Brian Holman's perfect game broken up with 2 outs in 9th |
| April 30 | U.S. 66th manned space mission STS-31 (Discovery 10) returns from space |
| April 30 | U.S. hostage Frank Reed freed after 4 years in hands of pro-Iranians |
| May 1 | "Prelude to a Kiss" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City |
| May 2 | "Some Americans Abroad" opens at Vivian Beaumont New York City for 62 performances |
| May 2 | South Africa and African National Congress open talks to end apartheid |
| May 4 | Latvia's parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence |
| May 4 | Oriole Gregg Olson sets relief pitcher rec of 41 cons scoreless inns |
| May 4 | Pakistan beat Australia by 36 runs to win Austral-Asia Cup, Sharjah |
| May 5 | 116th Kentucky Derby: Craig Perret aboard Unbridled wins in 2:02 |
| May 5 | ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Chris Warren |
| May 5 | Paul Hogan and Linda Koslowski wed in Byron Bay, Eastern Australia |
| May 6 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic |
| May 6 | Former president PW Botha quit South Africa's ruling National Party |
| May 8 | Cuyahoga County voters approve sin tax to build Cleveland Gateway |
| May 9 | New York Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for a racial slur |
| May 9 | Sampdoria wins 30th Europe Cup II |
| May 10 | French TGV-train hits record speed of 510.6 kph |
| May 10 | Howard Stern holds a mock funeral for rival John DeBella |
| May 10 | "Zoya's Apartment" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 45 performances |
| May 11 | New York Yankees trade Dave Winfield to Angels for Mike Witt |
| May 12 | 3rd time Saturday Night Live uses time delay (Andrew Dice Clay hosts) |
| May 12 | Comic Relief '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million |
| May 12 | Nora Dunn and Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest Andrew "Dice" Clay's hosting |
| May 13 | "Change in the Heir" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 16 performances |
| May 13 | Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic |
| May 14 | 46th time opposing pitchers hit home run, Valenzuela (Dodgers)/Gross (Expos) |
| May 14 | Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,821.53 |
| May 15 | "Cemetery Club" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City for 56 performances |
| May 15 | Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,822.45 |
| May 15 | Edmonton Oiler Klima beats Boston Bruins in 6th period |
| May 15 | Mona Grudt, 19, of Norway, crowned 39th Miss Universe |
| May 15 | "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" by Vincent Van Gogh sold for $825 million |
| May 16 | Dominican Republic President Joaquin Ricardo Balaguer re-elected |
| May 16 | Juventus wins 19th UEFA Cup in Avellino |
| May 17 | Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI |
| May 17 | Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,831.71 |
| May 17 | European court rules pension rights for both men and women |
| May 17 | WIBC Bowling Queens won by Patty Ann |
| May 18 | 2 Germanys sign a monetary union treaty |
| May 18 | Cubs Ryne Sandberg ends 2nd baseman record 123 errorless game streak |
| May 18 | Judy Carne arrested at JFK airport on an 11 year old drug warrant |
| May 18 | Return To Green Acres TV movie airs |
| May 19 | 116th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Summer Squall wins in 1:53.6 |
| May 19 | General Elvis, TV Drama last airs on ABC |
| May 20 | Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Planters Pat Bradley Golf International |
| May 20 | Hubble Space Telescope sends 1st photograph's from space |
| May 20 | "Truly Blessed" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 33 performances |
| May 21 | Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,844.68 |
| May 21 | Last episode of "Newhart" airs on CBS-TV |
| May 22 | Andre Dawson sets record being intentionally walked 5 times |
| May 22 | Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,852.23 |
| May 22 | Final episode of "Newhart" airs |
| May 22 | Microsoft releases Windows 3.0 |
| May 22 | North and South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen |
| May 23 | A. C. Milan wins 35th Europe Cup 1 at Vienna |
| May 23 | Cost of rescuing savings and loan failures is put at up to $130 billion |
| May 23 | Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,856.26 |
| May 23 | New York Yankees hit 6 home runs to beat Minnesota Twins 12-0 |
| May 24 | Andre Dawson receives a record 5 intentional walks in a game |
| May 24 | Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1 |
| May 26 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| May 26 | Philadelphia Phillies retire Mike Schmidt's uniform #20 |
| May 27 | 74th Indianapolis 500 runs |
| May 27 | Cesar Gaviria Trujillo chosen President of Colombia |
| May 27 | Jan Stephenson wins J C Penney LPGA Golf Skins Game |
| May 27 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| May 27 | Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow |
| May 28 | Cesar Gaviria Trujillo installed as president of Colombia |
| May 28 | Dave Thomas Comedy Show, debuts on CBS-TV |
| May 28 | Eugenia Charles' Dom'n Freedom Party wins election in Dominica |
| May 28 | Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5h12m33s (Channel Islands) |
| May 29 | An earthquake hit Peru, killing 56 |
| May 29 | Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian republic |
| May 29 | Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,870.49 |
| May 29 | Mets replace manager Davey Johnson with Buddy Harrelson |
| May 29 | New York Mets fire manager Davey Johnson and hire Bud Harrelson |
| May 29 | Rickey Henderson steals record 893rd base, breaking Ty Cobb's record |
| May 30 | 135 die in a (6.4) earthquake in Peru |
| May 30 | Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,878.56 |
| May 30 | Earthquake hit Peru, killing 135 |
| May 31 | 63rd National Spelling Bee: Amy Marie Dimak wins spelling fibranne |
| May 31 | BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Dana Miller-Mackie |
| May 31 | Seinfeld starring Jerry Seinfeld, debuts on NBC as Seinfeld Chronicles |
| June 1 | "Cemetery Club" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City after 56 performances |
| June 1 | Cowboy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting |
| June 1 | Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland for 1st time since 1974 |
| June 1 | Dow Jones Avg hits a record high of 2,900.97 |
| June 2 | Seattle's Randy Johnson, no-hits Tigers, 2-0 |
| June 2 | "Turtle Power" by Partners In Kryme hits #13 |
| June 3 | 3rd Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $894,560 |
| June 3 | 44th Tony Awards: Grapes of Wrath and City of Angels win |
| June 3 | Cathy Gerring wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| June 4 | 24th Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton and Patty Loveless |
| June 4 | Dr. Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die |
| June 4 | Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy |
| June 4 | Los Angeles Dodger Ramon Martinez strikes out 18 Atlanta Braves |
| June 4 | New York Telephone company announces that it wants Bronx area code 917 |
| June 5 | South African troops plunder Mandela's dwelling |
| June 6 | 2nd International Rock Awards |
| June 6 | For 2nd time this season, Cecil Fielder belts 3 home runs in a game |
| June 6 | Stump Merrill replaces Bucky Dent as New York Yankee manager |
| June 7 | Michael Jackson hospitalized for chest pains |
| June 7 | South Africa President F W de Klerk lifts 4 year of state of emergency |
| June 8 | "It's Garry Shandling's Show," last airs on Fox-TV |
| June 8 | Phil Bradley hits 18th inside-the-park home run in Oriole history |
| June 9 | 122nd Belmont: Michael Kinane aboard Go and Go wins in 2:27.2 |
| June 9 | 60th French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf (76 64) |
| June 9 | Czechoslovakia beats U.S. 5-1 in World Cup soccer |
| June 9 | Dodger Eddie Murray ties Mickey Mantle with switch hit home runs in 10 games |
| June 9 | Kerry Kennedy (daughter of Robert) and Andrew Coumo (Mario's son) wed |
| June 9 | Michael Jackson is hospitalized with inflamed rib cartilage |
| June 9 | Monica Seles beats Steffi Graf for French Open title |
| June 10 | 60th French Mens Tennis: Andres Gomez beats A Agassi (63 26 64 64) |
| June 10 | 8th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Jack Nicklaus |
| June 10 | "Accomplice" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City after 52 performances |
| June 10 | Burger King begins using Newman's Own Salad Dressing |
| June 10 | Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers for 1st time since 1974 in Portland |
| June 10 | "Meet Me in St. Louis" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 253 performances |
| June 10 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
| June 10 | Rap group 2 Live crew members arrested in Florida for obscenity |
| June 11 | Federal judge sentenced former national security adviser John M Poindexter to 6 months for making false statements to Congress |
| June 11 | Nolan Ryan pitches his 6th no-hitter beating Oakland, in 9th he retires Ken Phelps, Rickey Henderson and Willie Randolph (all ex Yankees) |
| June 11 | Supreme Court says law prohibiting desecration of U.S. flag unconstitutional |
| June 11 | U.N. appoints Olivia Newton-John environmental ambassador |
| June 12 | Egypt (500-1 longshot) ties favorite Netherlands 1-1 in World Cup game |
| June 12 | New York Mets beat Chicago Cubs 19-8 at Wrigley Field, Cubs outfielder Doug Dazcenzo pitched a scoreless 9th inning |
| June 12 | New York Yankee reliever Dave Righetti becomes 9th to record 200 saves |
| June 12 | Oakland A's Rickey Henderson becomes 2nd to steal 900 bases |
| June 12 | Orioles Cal Ripken plays in his 1,308th consecutive game to move past Everett Scott into 2nd place on the all-time list |
| June 13 | Boeing 767 sets nonstop commercial flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya |
| June 13 | "Les Miserables," opens at S Alberta Jubilee Centre, Calgary |
| June 13 | Nelson and Winnie Mandela welcomed in New York City |
| June 13 | Washington D.C. mayor Marion Barry announces he will not seek a 4th term, |
| June 14 | 44th NBA Championship: Det Pistons beat Por Trailblazers, 4 games to 1 |
| June 14 | NL announces plans to expand from 12 to 14 teams for 1993 season |
| June 14 | Supreme Court rules police check for drunk drivers constitutional |
| June 15 | "Dick Tracy" with Warren Beatty and Madonna premieres |
| June 16 | Nelson and Winnie Mandela visit Leidseplein, Amsterdam |
| June 17 | 90th U.S. Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 280 at Medinah CC in Medinah Il |
| June 17 | Chris Johnson wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic |
| June 17 | "Some Americans Abroad" closes at Vivian Beaumont New York City after 62 performances |
| June 17 | "Zoya's Apartment" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 45 performances |
| June 18 | 1st ever loss for Cameroon in Soccer World Cup, U.S.S.R. - 4 Cameroon - 0 |
| June 18 | 1st sudden death U.S. Open Golf Championship is won by Hale Irwin |
| June 19 | Gary Carter catches his 1,862nd career game breaks Al Lopez's NL mark |
| June 20 | 50,000 die in a 7.6 earthquake in Iran |
| June 20 | Nelson Mandela lands in New York City to begin a tour of U.S. |
| June 21 | At Yankee Stadium rally, Nelson Mandela dons a New York Yankee baseball cap and proclaims "I am a Yankee!" |
| June 21 | Little Richard gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame |
| June 21 | Parliament of W and E Germany recognize Oder-Neissegrens |
| June 21 | U.S. House of Representatives vote 254-177 to stop U.S. flag burning, doesn't pass |
| June 22 | Billy Joel performs a concert at Yankee Stadium |
| June 22 | Braves replace manager Russ Nixon with General Manager Bobby Cox |
| June 22 | Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit |
| June 22 | Longest game in Toronto, Yankees beat Blue Jays 8-7 in 15 inns |
| June 23 | A rally to save Alien Nation from cancellation held at Statue of Liberty |
| June 23 | Moldavia declares independence |
| June 23 | Police find marijuana at Chuck Berry's home |
| June 23 | TV Guide selects Arsenio Hall as TV personality of year |
| June 23 | Zimbabwe beat the Netherlands by 6 wickets to win ICC Trophy |
| June 24 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
| June 25 | 120 degrees F in Phoenix, Arizona |
| June 25 | "Dave Thomas Comedy Show," last airs on CBS-TV |
| June 25 | NBC decides to air episodes of "Quantum Leap" for 5 straight days |
| June 25 | Supreme Court rules family members cannot end lives of comatose relatives unless those relatives previously made their wishes known |
| June 26 | 122 degrees F in Phoenix, Arizona |
| June 26 | 8 KS and OK radio stations boycott k d lang, due to her anti-meat ad |
| June 26 | New Kid on the Block Donnie Wahlberg release from hospital after fall |
| June 27 | Jose Canseco signs record $4,700,000 per year Oak A's contract |
| June 28 | 17th annual Daytime Emmy Awards |
| June 28 | Emmy 17th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 11th time |
| June 29 | A's Dave Stewart no-hits Blue Jays and Dodger's Fernando Valenzuela no-hits St. Louis 6-0, 1st time no-hitters in both leagues |
| June 29 | Marla Maples father sues National Enquirer for $12M |
| June 29 | New York Mets tie their team career high 11 game win streak |
| June 30 | East and West Germany merge their economies |
| July 1 | 11th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Lee Trevino |
| July 1 | 18th du Maurier Golf Classic: Cathy Johnston |
| July 1 | 1st Zen winter session in Sydney Zen Center's Gorrick's Run Zendo |
| July 1 | Despite Andy Hawkins no-hitting White Sox, Yankees lose 4-0 |
| July 1 | Dordrecht '90 soccer team forms in Dordrecht |
| July 1 | FC Swells soccer team forms in Swells |
| July 1 | German Democratic Republic accepts Deutsche Mark as its currency |
| July 1 | In Victoria, Australia, helmetless bike riding becomes illegal |
| July 1 | New York Yankee Andy Hawkins throws no-hitter in Comiskey Park, losing 4-0 |
| July 2 | Imelda Marcos and Adnan Khashoggi found not guilty of racketeering |
| July 2 | Panic in tunnel of Mecca, 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death |
| July 3 | Members of 2 Live Crew formally charged with obscenity in Florida |
| July 4 | 2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star Spangled Banner and Gettysburg Address |
| July 4 | 400 New Kids on the Block fans treated for heat exhaustion in Minn |
| July 4 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| July 4 | Wrestler Brutus Beefcake injured during para-sailing |
| July 5 | Zina Garrison upsets Steffi Graf in Wimbledon semi-finals |
| July 6 | After pitching a no-hitter lose, New York Yankee Andy Hawkins pitches a complete 12 inn game and loses 2-0 |
| July 6 | "Jetson's the Movie" with Tiffany, premieres |
| July 7 | 97th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Zina Garrison (64 61) |
| July 7 | New Jersey Devils sign Russians Viacheslav Fetisov and Sergei Starikov |
| July 8 | 12:34:56 on 7/8/90 (1234567890) |
| July 8 | Brewers beat Angels 20-7, including 13 in 5th inning |
| July 8 | Germany beats Argentina 1-0 for soccer's 14th World Cup at Rome |
| July 8 | Greg Lemond wins his 3rd Tour de France (90:43:20 avg 23.3 mph) |
| July 8 | Italy beats England in soccer's World Cup consolation game |
| July 8 | Tina Purtzer wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
| July 8 | Trailing 7-0, Brewers tie Angels and then score 13 in 5th to win 20-7 |
| July 9 | 104th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats B Becker (62 62 36 36 64) |
| July 9 | Richard Hadlee takes 5-53 to end his Test Cricket career with 431 wkts |
| July 10 | 61st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-0 at Wrigley Field, Chicago |
| July 10 | All star MVP: Julio Franco (Texas Rangers) |
| July 10 | Andrew Dice Clay cries on Arsenio Hall Show |
| July 10 | Last day of Test Cricket for Richard Hadlee |
| July 11 | New York City police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts) |
| July 12 | Boris Yeltsin quits Soviet Communist Party |
| July 12 | Chicago White Sox Melido Perez no-hits Yankees 8-0 in a rain shortened 6 inning game at Yankee Stadium (7th no-hitter of 1990) |
| July 12 | "Les Miserables," opens at National Theatre, Washington |
| July 14 | "Howard Stern's Summer Show" premieres on WWOR-TV in New York City |
| July 14 | Sara Martin, of Illinois, crowned America's Junior Miss |
| July 15 | 45th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy King |
| July 16 | 400 die in a, 7.7, earthquake in Philippines |
| July 16 | Bridgette LeAnn Wilson, 17, of Oregon, 8th crowned Miss Teen USA |
| July 16 | New York City's Empire State Building catches fire - no fatalities |
| July 16 | Rick Dee's "Into the Night," premieres on ABC-TV |
| July 16 | Ukraine declares independence |
| July 17 | Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq |
| July 17 | Minn Twins become 1st team to turn 2 triple plays in a game but lose to Boston Red Sox 1-0 |
| July 17 | New York Yankee Deion Sanders hits an inside park homer |
| July 17 | PLO-leader Jasser Arrafat marries Soha Tawil in Tunis |
| July 19 | BASF plant in Cincinnati explodes in flames, 1 person dies |
| July 19 | Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion |
| July 19 | Dave Raghetti pitches in his 499th game as a New York Yankee, passing Whitey Ford in most appearances as a New York Yankee |
| July 19 | Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, California |
| July 20 | Justice William Brennan resigns from Supreme Court after 36 years |
| July 21 | Goodwill Games opens in Seattle, Washington |
| July 21 | Pink Floyds' "Wall" is performed where Berlin Wall once stood |
| July 22 | 119th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots 270 at St. Andrews Scotland |
| July 22 | 90th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Phil Mickelson |
| July 22 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament |
| July 22 | Greg LeMond of U.S. wins his 3rd Tour de France |
| July 23 | Rosie Jones, (St. Louis), 26, crowned 22nd Miss Black America |
| July 23 | South Africa worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested |
| July 24 | Ms. Magazine hits newstands again after an 8 month hiatus |
| July 24 | U.S. warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait |
| July 25 | Kansas City Royal George Brett hits for the cycle |
| July 25 | "Les Miserables," opens at Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver |
| July 25 | Nadezhda Ryashkina of U.S.S.R. sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23) |
| July 25 | Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at San Diego Padre game |
| July 25 | U.S. Ambassador tells Iraq, U.S. won't take sides in Iraq - Kuwait dispute |
| July 25 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| July 26 | General Hospital tapes its 7,000th episode |
| July 26 | President Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act |
| July 26 | Roseanne Barr sings National Anthem at Reds-Padres game |
| July 26 | U.S. beats Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at Goodwill Games |
| July 27 | Graham Gooch scores 333 vs. India at Lord's |
| July 27 | Tom Moody scores 100 in 26 minutes in county cricket, world record |
| July 27 | Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop |
| July 28 | Alberto Fujimoro installed as president of Peru |
| July 29 | 26th Curtis Cup: U.S. wins 14-4 |
| July 29 | 28th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats U.S.S.R. in Atlanta Georgia (2-1) |
| July 29 | 36th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Beth Daniel |
| July 29 | Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game |
| July 29 | South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference |
| July 30 | 5 Bank of Credit and Commerce members found guilty of money |
| July 30 | George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as prinicipal partner of New York Yankees |
| July 30 | Graham Gooch scores 123 vs. India to follow up 1st innings 333 |
| July 30 | Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church, 200-600 die |
| July 31 | Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence |
| July 31 | Nolan Ryan becomes 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games |
| August 1 | "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" closes at Eugene O'Neill New York City after 149 performances |
| August 1 | Indians' Alex Cole sets club record with 5 stolen bases in one game |
| August 1 | Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait |
| August 1 | Soyuz TM-10 launches |
| August 1 | Stanton Cook becomes CEO of Chicago Cubs |
| August 2 | Iraq invades and occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia |
| August 2 | Yankees rookie Kevin Maas hits his 10th home run in just 77 at bats |
| August 3 | 98.8 degrees F (37.1 degrees C) in Cheltenham, Glos. (UK record) |
| August 3 | For 3rd time in 1990 a no-hitter is broken up with 2 outs in 8th inning. Doug Drabek of Pitts still beats Philadelphia 11-0 |
| August 3 | "Little Night Music" opens at New York State Theater New York City for 11 performances |
| August 3 | New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 10th home run in 1st 72 at bats |
| August 3 | Radio Kuwait resigns air, due to Iraqi invasion |
| August 3 | U.S. announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions |
| August 4 | 95.5 degrees F (35.3 degrees C) in De Bilt Netherlands (highest Aug temp in Neth) |
| August 4 | European community proposes a boycott of Iraq |
| August 5 | Barb Mucha wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
| August 5 | Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan inducted into hall of fame |
| August 6 | New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 11th home run in 1st 86 at bats |
| August 6 | President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses premier Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan |
| August 6 | U.N. Security Council votes 13-0 to place economic sanctions against Iraq |
| August 7 | Desert Shield begins - U.S. deploys troops to Saudi Arabia |
| August 7 | New York Yankee Kevin Mass sets record with 12th home run in 1st 92 at bats and becomes 21st to hit a ball into 3rd deck of Seattle's Kingdome |
| August 8 | Baltimore Orioles pull their 10th triple play (1-6-3 vs Oakland) |
| August 8 | Carlton Fisk ties Johnny Bench hitting 327 home runs as a catcher |
| August 8 | Iraq annexes Kuwait as its 19th province |
| August 8 | Pete Rose begins 5-ms prison term at Marion (IL) Federal prison camp |
| August 9 | 12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia |
| August 9 | Soyuz TM-10 lands |
| August 10 | U.S.'s Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus |
| August 11 | Egypt and Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion |
| August 11 | New York Yankee Kevin Maas is fastest to get 13 home runs (110 at bats) |
| August 12 | 12th annual Macy's Tap-o-mania |
| August 12 | 72nd PGA Championship: Wayne Grady shoots a 282 at Shoal Creek Ala |
| August 12 | Cathy Gerring wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic |
| August 12 | Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories |
| August 14 | Angel's Louis Palonia is 74th to hit an inside park grandslam |
| August 14 | Denver vote for a 1% sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise |
| August 15 | 51st PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player |
| August 15 | Mark McGwire is 1st to hit 30 home runs in each of his 1st 4 seasons |
| August 15 | Phils Terry Mulholland no-hits Giants 6-0 (8th no hitter of 1990) |
| August 16 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| August 16 | Iraq orders 4,000 Britons and 2,500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq |
| August 17 | Carlton Fisk hits White Sox record 187th home run |
| August 17 | Phyllis Polander sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment |
| August 19 | Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
| August 19 | Dodger Jose Offerman hits home run in his 1st at bat |
| August 19 | New York Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 14 home runs (approx 128 at bat) |
| August 20 | Gene Michael names New York Yankee Vice President/General Manager replacing Harding Peterson |
| August 20 | George Steinbrenner steps down as New York Yankee owner |
| August 20 | Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields) |
| August 20 | New York Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 15 home runs (approx 132 at bat) |
| August 22 | President Bush calls up military reserves |
| August 23 | Armenia declares independence |
| August 23 | East and West Germany announced that they would unite on Oct 3 |
| August 23 | U.S. begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf |
| August 24 | 3,500 peacekeepers arrive in Liberia |
| August 24 | Iraqi troops surround U.S. and other embassies in Kuwait City |
| August 25 | Li Hui Rong of China sets triple jump woman's record (47'8 ") |
| August 25 | U.N. security council authorizes military action against Iraq |
| August 26 | 2 slain college students found in Gainesville, Florida |
| August 26 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Northgate Golf Classic |
| August 26 | Bo Jackson hits 4th of 4 consecutive home runs |
| August 27 | 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq |
| August 27 | Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes due to gnats |
| August 27 | Rosa Mota wins female marathon (2:31:27) |
| August 27 | WWF Summer Slam-Ultimate Warrior beats Rick Rude |
| August 28 | Cub's Ryne Sandberg is 1st 2nd baseman to hit 30 home runs, consecutively |
| August 28 | Stefan Edberg (#1 seeded player) loses in 1st round to Alex Volkov |
| August 29 | C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13 |
| August 29 | Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq |
| August 30 | Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey, Jr. become 1st father and son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning |
| August 31 | Dennis Eckersley saves his 40th game of the season |
| August 31 | East and West Germany sign a treaty to join legal and political systems |
| August 31 | Ken Griffey Sr &, Jr. are 1st father and son to play on same team each goes 1 for 4 for Seattle Mariners |
| September 1 | Gelindo Bordin sets European marathon record (2:14:02) |
| September 1 | "Heidi Chronicles" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 621 performances |
| September 1 | Highest combined CFL score (111), Toronto Argonauts beat BC 68-43 |
| September 1 | "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" closes at Imperial New York City after 634 performances |
| September 2 | "Grapes of Wrath" closes at Cort Theater New York City after 188 performances |
| September 2 | Steve Allen, installed as a new abbot of Hartford St. Zen Center, SF |
| September 3 | 9th no-hitter of 1990: Blue Jay Dave Steib beats Cleveland 3-0 |
| September 3 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| September 3 | Helen Hudson sings national anthem in 26th park of year (San Diego) |
| September 3 | Jerry Lewis' 25th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $44,172,186 |
| September 3 | White Sox reliever Bobby Thigpen sets save record at 47 en route to 57 |
| September 5 | Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West |
| September 5 | Pete Sampras ends Ivan Lendl's bid for 9th straight U.S. Open final |
| September 6 | 7th MTV Awards: Sinead O'Connor wins |
| September 7 | Marjorie Judith Vincent (Ill), 25, crowned 64th Miss America 1991 |
| September 7 | "Street Scene" opens at New York State Theater New York City for 6 performances |
| September 8 | 104th U.S. Womens Tennis: Gabriela Sabatini beats Steffi Graf (62 76) |
| September 9 | 110th U.S. Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi (64 63 62) |
| September 9 | Bush and Gorbachev meet in Helsinki and urge Iraq to leave Kuwait |
| September 9 | Liberia president Samuel K Doe is captured by Mr. Johnson's forces |
| September 9 | Oakland beats New York 7-3 to complete a 12-game sweep of Yankees this year |
| September 9 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Ping-Cellular One Golf Championship |
| September 10 | 19 year old Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi to win U.S. Open |
| September 10 | 1st time in New York Yankee history they are completely swept season series, Oakland A's beat them 12 games to 0 |
| September 10 | 1st time since 1966 that all 8 grand slam tennis champs are different |
| September 10 | Ellis Island reopens as a museum |
| September 10 | George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki |
| September 10 | Hard Rock Cafe opens in Las Vegas, Nevada |
| September 10 | Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq |
| September 10 | Mariner Matt Young becomes 21st AL'er to strike out 4 in 1 inning |
| September 12 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| September 12 | "Les Miserables," opens at Cirkus Theater, Stockholm |
| September 12 | US, England, France, U.S.S.R., East and West Germanys sign agreements allowing 2 Germanys to merge |
| September 13 | Commuter train at Johannesburg South Africa attacked, 36 die |
| September 13 | Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait |
| September 13 | Robert E. Nederlander appointed New York Yankee managing general partner |
| September 13 | Senate Judiciary Com opens hearing on confirmation of David Souter |
| September 14 | Ken Griffey, Sr and, Jr., hit back-to-back home runs in 1st inning |
| September 15 | 42nd Emmy Awards - LA Law and Murphy Brown win |
| September 15 | Chicago White Sox Bobby Thigpen is 1st to record 50 saves |
| September 15 | Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
| September 15 | Florida lottery goes over $100,000,000 |
| September 15 | France announce it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf |
| September 16 | 101 year old Sam Ackerman weds 95 year old Eva in New Rochelle, New York |
| September 16 | 42nd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Murphy Brown, Peter Falk and Patricia Wettig |
| September 16 | Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan wed |
| September 16 | Iraq televises an 8 minute uncensored speech from George Bush |
| September 16 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
| September 17 | Newspaper Guild votes 242-35 to keep New York Post publishing |
| September 17 | Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties |
| September 18 | 500 pound Hershey Kiss is displayed in Times Square |
| September 18 | Atlanta is chosen to host 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics |
| September 20 | Both Germanys ratify reunification |
| September 20 | Saddam Hussein demands U.S. networks broadcast his message |
| September 20 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 21 | Faye Vincent turns down White Sox bid to reinstate Minnie Minoso, 68, |
| September 21 | Oakland A's Bob Welch becomes 1st 25 game winner in 10 years |
| September 21 | Pirate Bobby Bond is 2nd to hit 30 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season (so he can play in 6 decades) because it is a publicity stunt |
| September 22 | Andre Dawson steals his 300th base and is only player other than Willie Mays to have 300 home runs, 300 steals and 2,000 hits |
| September 22 | Saudi Arabia expels many Jordanian and Yemeni envoys |
| September 23 | Nancy Lopez wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic |
| September 23 | PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on Civil War |
| September 23 | Saddam says he will destroy Israel |
| September 24 | East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact |
| September 24 | South African president F W de Klerk meets President Bush in Washington D.C. |
| September 24 | Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market |
| September 24 | West German President Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty |
| September 25 | 1st 8 New York Yankees hit safely vs Baltimore Orioles to tie record |
| September 25 | "Les Miserables," opens at Forrest Theatre, Philadelphia |
| September 25 | Oakland A's clinch 3rd straight AL West title |
| September 25 | Saddam Hussein warns that U.S. will repeat Vietnam experience |
| September 25 | U.N. Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq |
| September 26 | Motion Picture Association of America creates new NC-17 rating |
| September 27 | Dee Dee Ramone arrested on marijuana possession |
| September 27 | Deposed emir of Kuwait address United Nations General Assembly |
| September 27 | Gunman holds 33 people (killing 1) hostage in Berkeley California |
| September 27 | Senate Judiciary committee approves Souter's Supreme Court |
| September 27 | Tour de France champion Greg LeMond visits White House |
| September 27 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 28 | Exiled emir of Kuwait visits White House |
| September 28 | Marvin Gaye gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame |
| September 29 | Brook Yeaton weds Traci Lords |
| September 29 | "Love and Affection" by Nelson peaks at #1 on pop singles chart |
| September 29 | "Millie's Book" written by 1st Lady Barbara Bush for president's dog is a best-selling non-fiction book |
| September 29 | Reds are 1st NL team to clinch title, staying in 1st place all year |
| September 29 | "Street Scene" closes at New York State Theater New York City after 6 performances |
| September 29 | U.S. Secretary of State James Baker meets with Vietnam's foreign minister |
| September 29 | Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years |
| September 30 | Chicago White Sox beat Seattle 2-1 in last game at Comiskey Park |
| September 30 | Pittsburgh Pirates wins NL East title |
| October 1 | 10,000 Uganda RPF rebels move into Rwanda |
| October 1 | Meteorite explodes above Pacific Ocean |
| October 1 | President Bush at U.N., condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait |
| October 1 | Serbs in Croatia proclaim autonomy |
| October 2 | Allies cede any remaining rights as occupiers of Germany |
| October 2 | Chinese plane explodes, about 100 die |
| October 2 | "Michael Feinstein in Concert -" opens at Golden New York City for 30 performances |
| October 2 | Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by Doors |
| October 2 | U.S. Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter to Supreme Court |
| October 3 | East Germany and West Germany merge to become Germany |
| October 3 | Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obsenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records |
| October 3 | George Brett becomes 1st to lead league in batting in 3 decades |
| October 3 | Tiger Cecil Fielder becomes 11th, to hit 50 home runs (& 51st) |
| October 4 | "Stand Up Tragedy" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 13 performances |
| October 5 | Cincinnati jury acquits art gallery of obsentity (Mappelthorpe photos) |
| October 6 | Spacecraft Ulysses launched towards pole of Sun |
| October 6 | U.S. 67th manned space mission STS-41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit |
| October 7 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic |
| October 7 | Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens |
| October 8 | 24th Country Music Association Award: George Strait wins |
| October 8 | Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters |
| October 8 | U.S. doctors Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize |
| October 9 | David Hackett Souter, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
| October 9 | Radio stations around world play "Imagine" honoring John Lennon |
| October 9 | Saddam threatens to hit Israel with a new missile |
| October 10 | Oakland A's sweep Red Sox in 4 games to win ALCS |
| October 10 | U.S. 67th manned space mission STS-41 (Discovery 11) returns from space |
| October 11 | Center for Urban archaeology opens in New York City South Street Seaport Museum |
| October 11 | "Miser" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 93 performances |
| October 11 | Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature |
| October 11 | Oil hits a record $40.42 per barrel |
| October 12 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| October 13 | 1st Russian Orthodox service in 70 years held in St. Basil's Cathedral |
| October 13 | Target Center in Minneapolis opens |
| October 14 | Cathy Gerring wins LPGA Trophee Urban World Golf Championship |
| October 14 | Jeff Goldblum and wife Geena Davis file for divorce |
| October 14 | SF 49er Joe Montana passes for 6 touchdowns vs. Atlanta (45-35) |
| October 15 | Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize |
| October 16 | Reds beat A's 7-0, ending Oakland's 10-game post-season winning streak |
| October 16 | Reds Eric Davis is 22nd player to homer in his 1st World Series at bat |
| October 16 | "Stand Up Tragedy" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 13 performances |
| October 16 | U.S. forces reach 200,000 in Persian Gulf |
| October 17 | "Jackie Mason - Brand New" opens at Neil Simon New York City for 216 performances |
| October 17 | "Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, New York and His Majesty's Theatre, Perth |
| October 18 | "Once on this Island" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 469 performances |
| October 19 | HCA, Helsinki Citizens Assembly, forms in Prague |
| October 20 | 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obsenity charges in Florida |
| October 20 | Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 U.S. cities (for U.S. - Iraq war) |
| October 20 | Cincinnati Reds sweep Oakland A's in 86th World Series |
| October 21 | Esther Canseco calls Oakland A's manager Tony La Russa a "punk" for not starting husband Jose in the World Series |
| October 23 | Iraq announces release of 330 French hostages |
| October 24 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| October 25 | Evander Holyfield KOs Buster Douglas in 3 for heavyweight boxing title |
| October 25 | New York Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991) |
| October 27 | Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Fly So Free, In The Wings, Meadow Star, Royal Academy, Safely Kept, Unbridled |
| October 27 | "Michael Feinstein in Concert" closes at Golden New York City after 30 performances |
| October 29 | 30 die in a (5.7) earthquake in Algeria |
| October 30 | England and France complete Chunnel |
| October 31 | Pakistan make 3-0 drubbing of New Zealand, Waqar Younis 29 series wkts |
| November 1 | Last of Margaret Thatcher's original government resigns, Deputy Prime Minister Howe |
| November 1 | "Oh, Kay!" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City for 77 performances |
| November 1 | Sandra Miller awarded $100 for Mike Tyson fondling her breasts |
| November 2 | 1st NBA game at Target Center, Minnesota Timberwolves beat Mavericks 98-85 |
| November 3 | Gro Harlem Brundtland installed as premier of Norway |
| November 4 | 20th New York City Women's Marathon won by Wanda Panfil in 2:30:45 |
| November 4 | 21st New York City Marathon won by Douglas Wakiihuri in 2:12:39 |
| November 4 | "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" opens at Shubert New York City for 225 performances |
| November 4 | Debbie Massey wins LPGA Mazda Japan 133 Golf Classic |
| November 4 | Iraq says it is preparing for a "dangerous war" |
| November 4 | Secretary of State James Baker visits U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia |
| November 6 | Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame |
| November 6 | Braves Dave Justice wins NL Rookie of Year |
| November 6 | Fire destroys some of Universal Studio's stages |
| November 6 | Guam Republican governor Joseph Ada re-elected |
| November 7 | Cleveland Indian Sandy Alomar, Jr. wins AL Rookie of Year, unanimously |
| November 7 | "Little Night Music" closes at New York State New York City after 11 performances |
| November 7 | Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland |
| November 7 | "Those Were The Days" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 126 performances |
| November 8 | 100,000 additional U.S. troops are sent to Persian gulf |
| November 8 | "6 Degrees of Separation" opens at Vivian Beaumont New York City for 496 performances |
| November 8 | Darryl Strawberry signs 5-year contract with Los Angeles Dodgers |
| November 8 | Gina Marie Tolleson of USA, 21, crowned 40th Miss World |
| November 8 | Saddam fires his army chief and threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula |
| November 9 | Tanzania government of Malecela forms |
| November 10 | Lebanon releases 2 french hostages (Camille Sontag and Marcel Coudari) |
| November 11 | Calif's Chuck Finley and Seattle's Randy Johnson combine to pitch a no-hitter in exhibition game between U.S. and Japanese all-star teams |
| November 11 | "Shadowlands" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City for 169 performances |
| November 13 | Oakland's Bob Welch wins AL Cy Young Award |
| November 14 | Doug Drabek (22-6) wins NL Cy Young Award |
| November 14 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| November 14 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| November 14 | Michael Heseltine contests Thatcher's leadership of party |
| November 14 | Philippines hit by typhoon, 110 die |
| November 15 | President Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990 |
| November 15 | Producers confirm that Milli Vanilla didn't sing on their album |
| November 15 | U.S. 68th manned space mission STS-38 (Atlantis 7) launches into orbit |
| November 16 | Manuel Noriega claims U.S. denied him a fair trial |
| November 18 | 1st Solheim Cup: U.S. beats Europe 11 -4 at Lake Nona CC FLA |
| November 18 | "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City for 241 performances |
| November 18 | NFL New York Giants beat Det Lions 20-0, to run 1990 record to 10-0 |
| November 18 | Saddam offers to free an estimated 2,000 men held in Kuwait |
| November 19 | Greyhound files reoganization plan so they can be traded publically |
| November 19 | Iraq announces it will free all German hostages |
| November 19 | Pittsburgh's Barry Bonds wins NL MVP |
| November 20 | Oakland's Rickey Henderson wins AL MVP |
| November 20 | Sacramento Kings last NBA win on the road for over a year |
| November 20 | Thatcher fails to defeat Heseltine's bid for party leadership |
| November 20 | U.S. 68th manned space mission STS-38 (Atlantis 7) returns from space |
| November 21 | Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations |
| November 22 | Dr. Amos Sawyer installed as interim President of Liberia |
| November 22 | George Bush visits U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia |
| November 22 | Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister |
| November 23 | Model Cheryl Tiegs marries actor Tony Peck |
| November 23 | Test Cricket debut of Saeed Anwar (Pak vs. WI), scores 0 and 0 |
| November 25 | 78th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Edmonton Eskimos, 50-11 |
| November 25 | Lech Walesa wins in Poland's 1st popular election |
| November 25 | NFL's New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers after winning their 1st 10 games both |
| November 25 | Sri Lanka all out 82, Venkatapathy Raju (I) 6-12 off 17 lose, Phil Eagles beat Giants 31-13 and L.A. Rams beat 49ers 28-17 |
| November 26 | 1st Billboard Music Awards: Janet Jackson wins |
| November 26 | Buffalo Bills become 6th 1st place NFL team to lose on same weekend |
| November 26 | Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion |
| November 26 | Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait |
| November 26 | Premier Mazowiecki of Poland, resigns |
| November 26 | Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew resigned, ends his reign longest-serving PM |
| November 27 | Britain's conservatives chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher |
| November 28 | Margaret Thatcher resigns as Britain's PM, replaced by John Majors |
| November 29 | Expos President Claude Brochu agrees to buy club from Charles Bronfman |
| November 29 | "Shogun - The Musical" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 72 performances |
| November 29 | U.N. Security Council sets Jan 15th military deadline against Iraq |
| November 30 | Actor Burt Lancaster suffers a stroke |
| November 30 | Bush proposes U.S. - Iraq meeting to avoid war |
| December 1 | 56th Heisman Trophy Award: Ty Detmer, Brigham Young (quarterback) |
| December 1 | British and French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel) |
| December 1 | Hissene Habre of Chad flees to Cameroon |
| December 1 | Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks |
| December 1 | Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia hold their 1st joint session |
| December 1 | New York Knicks Patrick Ewing scores 50 points beating Charlotte 113-96 |
| December 2 | 1st parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany |
| December 2 | 1st time 12 people in space |
| December 2 | 79th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in St. Petersburg (3-2) |
| December 2 | Beth Daniel/Davis Love wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| December 2 | U.S. 69th manned space mission STS-35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit |
| December 3 | NL batting champ Willie McGee signs as a free agent with San Francisco Giants |
| December 4 | Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in New York City |
| December 4 | Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages |
| December 5 | Blue Jays trade F McGriff and T Fernandez to SD for R Alomar and J Carter |
| December 5 | Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty |
| December 5 | Salman Rushdie, author, ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy, appears in public for 1st time in 2 years |
| December 6 | NHL grants conditional membership to Tampa Bay Lightning |
| December 6 | Saddam anounces release of all foriegn hostages |
| December 6 | Shoeless Joe Jackson's signature is sold for $23,100 |
| December 7 | Iraqi parliment endorses Saddam's decision to free hostages |
| December 7 | Ted Turner and Jane Fonda announce their engagement |
| December 8 | Galileo Earth-1 Flyby |
| December 8 | Indians agree to a lease new ballpark in Gateway (Jacobs Field) |
| December 9 | Betsy King wins Itoman LPGA World Match Play Golf Championship |
| December 9 | Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3k ladies (4:10.80) |
| December 9 | Houston scores most points against Cleveland, Oilers 58, Browns 14 |
| December 9 | Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland |
| December 9 | NFL New York Giant Otis Anderson becomes 8th to rush for 10,000th yard |
| December 10 | Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die |
| December 10 | Soyuz TM-10 lands |
| December 10 | Space Shuttle STS-35 (Columbia 11) lands |
| December 11 | 13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga Tennessee I-75, due to fog |
| December 11 | U.S. 69th manned space mission STS-35 (Columbia 11) returns from space |
| December 12 | U.S. accuses Iraq of dragging its feet on dates for talks |
| December 12 | U.S. ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait |
| December 13 | Heavy earthquake strikes Sicily, 18 die |
| December 13 | "Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 45 performances |
| December 13 | President De Klerk of South Africa meets with Mandela to talk of end of apartheid |
| December 14 | Louis Jordan's revue "Five Guys Named Moe," premieres in London |
| December 14 | Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later |
| December 15 | Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter |
| December 16 | Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected President of Haiti |
| December 16 | KUSW, Salt Lake City Utah, final shortwave radio transmissions |
| December 17 | KTBN, Salt Lake City Utah, begins shortwave radio transmissions |
| December 18 | NL announces Buffalo, Denver, Miami, Orlando, Tampa-St. Petersburg, and Washington D.C. as 6 finalist for 1993 expansion (Miami and Denver win) |
| December 18 | NL releases short list of teams for 1993 NL expansion |
| December 20 | Pentagon warns Saddam that U.S. air power is ready to attack on 1/15 |
| December 20 | Robert F X Sillerman purchases WAFL NY-New Jersey Knights for $11 million |
| December 20 | Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns |
| December 21 | Steve and Mark Waugh complete 464* partnership for NSW vs. WA |
| December 22 | Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait |
| December 22 | Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 U.S. servicemen |
| December 22 | Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president |
| December 23 | "Lettice and Lovage" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 284 performances |
| December 23 | Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia |
| December 24 | Expos trade Tim Raines to White Sox for Ivan Calderon and Barry Jones |
| December 24 | Saddam says Israel will be Iraq's 1st target |
| December 25 | "Godfather III" premieres |
| December 26 | Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship |
| December 26 | Reggie Williams becomes 1st General Manager of WLAF's NY-New Jersey Knights |
| December 26 | Senior Professional Baseball Association folds |
| December 28 | 2 die in a New York City subway accident |
| December 28 | Blockbuster Bowl 1: Florida State beats Penn State, 24-17 |
| December 29 | Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton weds Shannon Kelley |
| December 30 | 11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000 |
| December 30 | "Miser" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 93 performances |
| December 31 | Iraq begins a military draft of 17 year olds |
| December 31 | Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting |
| December 31 | United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace |
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