| January 1 | 5% sales tax on consumer goods and services goes into effect in U.S.S.R. |
| January 1 | Iraq rejects peace proposal from Egyptian President Hosi Mubarak |
| January 1 | Les Miserables opens at Festival Theatre, Adelaide |
| January 2 | Colorado wins its 1st AP national title poll |
| January 3 | Israel reopens consulate in U.S.S.R. after 23 years |
| January 3 | Los Angeles King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against New York Islanders |
| January 4 | AT&T workers in Newark accidentally snap a cable |
| January 4 | Fu Mingxia, 12, of China wins World Swimming Championships gold medal |
| January 4 | Iraq agrees to send Aziz to Geneva to meet Baker on Jan 9th |
| January 4 | Jan Krzystof Bielecki becomes premier of Poland |
| January 5 | Edwin Jongejans of Netherlands wins 1-meter springboard diving title |
| January 5 | Kevin Bradshaw of U.S. International scores NCAA Div 1 record 72 pts |
| January 5 | "Oh, Kay!" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City after 77 performances |
| January 6 | "Gypsy" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 477 performances |
| January 6 | Jorge Serrano Elias elected president of Guatemala |
| January 6 | Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 sec) |
| January 6 | "Real Life With Jane Pauley" premieres on NBC-TV |
| January 7 | "Nia Peeples Party Machine" premieres on TV |
| January 8 | "Davis Rules," with Jonathan Winters and Randy Quaid premieres on ABC-TV |
| January 8 | Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins and Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame |
| January 8 | Rod Carew is 22nd player elected to Hall of Fame on 1st try |
| January 8 | Tamas Darnyi swims world record 400m medley (4:12.36) |
| January 9 | Baker and Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse gulf crisis |
| January 9 | Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame |
| January 9 | Dean Smith of North Carolina is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games |
| January 10 | Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans |
| January 10 | U.S. Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis |
| January 11 | Ben Johnson 1st race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished 2nd |
| January 11 | Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq |
| January 11 | Ric Flair wins NWA/WCW wrestling title |
| January 11 | Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence |
| January 12 | Largest crowd to watch Atlantic Coast Womens Basketball game (11,520) |
| January 12 | Melvin Stewart swims world record 200 m butterfly (1:55.69) |
| January 12 | U.S. Congress gives George Bush authority to wage war against Iraq |
| January 13 | 12th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 25 awards |
| January 13 | 42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg South Africa |
| January 13 | Phil Mickelson wins PGA Northern Telecom Golf Open |
| January 13 | President Mario Soares of Portugal re-elected |
| January 13 | Soccer stadium riot in Orkney South Africa, at least 40 die |
| January 13 | U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam |
| January 14 | "Barbara DeAngelis Show" premieres on CBS-TV |
| January 14 | Jorge Serrano Elias sworn in as president of Guatemala |
| January 14 | Valentin Pavlov become new premier of U.S.S.R. |
| January 15 | Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win the World Series Cup |
| January 15 | UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't) |
| January 16 | 7th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins |
| January 16 | U.S. and 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait (U.S. time) |
| January 17 | Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles on Israel |
| January 17 | Mountie Jacques Rougeau beats Hart for WWF intercontinental title |
| January 17 | Operation Desert Storm begins - U.S. led allies vs Iraq |
| January 17 | Operation Desert Storm: 1st U.S. pilot shot down (Jeffrey Zahn) |
| January 18 | Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel |
| January 18 | Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 hours and 11 minutes |
| January 18 | U.S. acknowledges CIA and U.S. Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career |
| January 18 | WLAF's New York Knights become NY-New Jersey Knights |
| January 19 | 42nd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 11-5 at Chicago |
| January 19 | 48th Golden Globes: Dances with Wolves |
| January 19 | Eastern Airlines shuts down operation |
| January 19 | Jumbo Tsuruta beats Stan Hansen to win All Japan Triple Crown title |
| January 19 | Sergeant Slaughter defeats Ultimate Warrior for WWF championship belt |
| January 20 | 13th UCP Telethon |
| January 20 | "Black and Blue" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 829 performances |
| January 20 | Buffalo Bills beat Los Angeles Raiders 51-3 for AFC title |
| January 20 | Jane Geddes wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic |
| January 20 | "Les Miserables," opens at Pantages Theatre, LA |
| January 20 | Matt Barr's field goal with no time left gives New York Giant 15-13 Victory over defending champs San Francisco 49ers, for NFC title |
| January 20 | "Peter Pan" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City or 45 performances |
| January 20 | "Shogun - The Musical" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 72 performances |
| January 20 | U.S. Patriot missiles begins shooting down Iraqi missiles |
| January 21 | CBS News correspondant Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf |
| January 23 | Seinfeld debuts on NBC-TV |
| January 23 | World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait |
| January 24 | "Les Miserables," opens at Theatre St. Denis, Montreal |
| January 25 | Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 50 goals in less than 50 games (49) |
| January 25 | Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by U.S. government |
| January 25 | Mark Waugh scores ton in 1st Test Cricket innings, vs. England Adelaide |
| January 25 | Soap opera "Generation's" last episode after a 2 year run |
| January 26 | 65th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats J Novotna (57 63 61) |
| January 26 | Alfaro Vive guerrilla group of Ecuador gives arms to Catholic church |
| January 26 | "Few Good Men" closes at Music Box Theater New York City after 497 performances |
| January 26 | Houston guard Vernon Maxwell is 4th NBAer to score 30 pts in a quarter |
| January 26 | Jan Stenerud becomes 1st pure placekicker to make NFL Hall of Fame |
| January 26 | New York Lotto pays $90 million to nine winner (#s are 5-15-30-35-46-50) |
| January 27 | 79th Australian Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats I Lendl (16 64 64 64) |
| January 27 | Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, disbands |
| January 27 | Nadine Strossen is 1st female president of the ACLU |
| January 27 | Superbowl XXV: New York Giants beat Buffalo Bills, 20-19 in Tampa Superbowl MVP: Ottis Anderson, New York Giants, RB |
| January 28 | 18th American Music Award: M C Hammer and Janet Jackson |
| January 28 | "A Closer Look" with Faith Daniels premieres on NBC-TV |
| January 28 | Boon completes ninth Test century, 121 vs. England at Adelaide |
| January 28 | Dictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending 22 year rule |
| January 29 | Nelson Mandela and Mangosuthu Buthelezi meet after 28 years |
| January 29 | "Piano Lesson" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City after 320 performances |
| January 31 | Nugget's Michael Adams becomes shortest NBA player to get a triple-double |
| January 31 | Robert Gibson flies record 27,040 feet altitude |
| February 1 | Afghanistan and Pakistan hit by earthquake, 1,200 die |
| February 1 | Craig McDermott takes 8-97 vs. England at the WACA |
| February 1 | President F. W. de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws |
| February 1 | U.S. Air and Skywest Fairchild jet collide at LA Airport killing 32 |
| February 2 | Aravinda De Silva scores 267 vs. New Zealand at Wellington |
| February 2 | U.S. postage is raised from 25 cents to 29 cents |
| February 3 | Meg Mallon wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic |
| February 3 | NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-21 |
| February 4 | Hall of Fame's board of directors vote 12-0 to bar Pete Rose |
| February 4 | Martin Crowe and Andrew Jones make 467 stand vs. SL, world record |
| February 5 | All American Bowl ends after 14 years |
| February 5 | Big East Football conference forms |
| February 5 | Howard Stern kisses New York Giant Leonard Marshall's ass over bet Stern lost claiming the Giants would lose the Superbowl |
| February 5 | Joni Mitchel inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame |
| February 5 | L.A. King Dave Taylor becomes 29th NHler to score 1000 points |
| February 5 | Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides |
| February 6 | Mousey Davis becomes 1st coach of NY-New Jersey Knights |
| February 7 | Bob Knight, Larry O'Brien, Tiny Archibald, Dave Cowens, Harry Gallatin and Larry Fleisher elected to NBA Hall of Fame |
| February 7 | Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected president |
| February 8 | Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract |
| February 9 | Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5k (6:41:73) |
| February 9 | Terry Norris knocks down Sugar Ray Leonard twice and beats him |
| February 9 | "This Is Ponderous" by 2nu peaks at #46 |
| February 9 | U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear Joseph Doherty case |
| February 9 | Wally Joyner wins record $2.1 million salary arbitration |
| February 10 | 41st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 116-114 at Charlotte |
| February 10 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament |
| February 10 | Johann Koss skates world record 10 km (13:43.54) |
| February 10 | "La Bete" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 24 performances |
| February 10 | Lithuania votes for independence from U.S.S.R. |
| February 10 | NBA All Star Game at Charlotte North Carolina |
| February 11 | UNPO, Unrepresented Nations and People Org forms in Hague |
| February 12 | Iceland recognizes Lithuania's independence |
| February 12 | North and South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition |
| February 13 | Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel |
| February 13 | U.S. bombs Iraqi air raid shelter, killing 334 |
| February 14 | "Mule Bone" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater New York City for 67 performances |
| February 14 | NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 mil salary arbitration |
| February 15 | Freighter with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand, 120 die |
| February 15 | Troy State sets NCAA Div II record with 103 points in 2nd half routing DeVry Institute 187-117 |
| February 16 | Dutch PPR, Political Party Radicals, disbands |
| February 16 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding |
| February 17 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge |
| February 18 | Edmonton Oiler goalie Grant Fuhr returns to NHL after season-long suspension for substance abuse and shuts out New Jersey Devils 4-0 |
| February 20 | 33rd Grammy Awards: Another Day in Paradise, Mariah Carey |
| February 20 | "Taking Steps" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 78 performances |
| February 21 | "Lost in Yonkers" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City for 780 performances |
| February 21 | Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers," premieres in New York City |
| February 21 | U.S.S.R. announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War U.S. calls the plan unacceptable |
| February 22 | Actor Bill Bixby (57) weds Laura Michael (32) |
| February 22 | Bush and U.S. Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hours to begin Kuwait withdrawal |
| February 22 | Kelli McCarty, 21, (Kansas), crowned 40th Miss USA |
| February 22 | Test Cricket debut of Sanath Jayasuriya, vs New Zealand at Hamilton |
| February 23 | Greg Haugen scores a split decision over Hector "Macho" Camacho |
| February 23 | Military coup in Thailand, Premier Choonhaven arrested |
| February 23 | North Carolina is 1st NCAA basketball team to win 1,500 games |
| February 23 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open |
| February 23 | U.S. insists Iraq publicly announce it is leaving Kuwait by 12 PM EST |
| February 24 | End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft |
| February 24 | "Those Were The Days" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 126 performances |
| February 24 | U.S. and allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops |
| February 25 | Andrew Jones scores twin Test Cricket tons vs. Sri Lanka (122 and 100*) |
| February 25 | Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky and John Candy buy CFL's Toronto Argonauts |
| February 25 | U.S., barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by scud missile, kills 28 |
| February 26 | Asanka Gurusinha scores twin Test Cricket tons vs. New Zealand (119 and 102) |
| February 26 | Bill Veeck and Tony Lazzeri elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| February 26 | Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital |
| February 26 | New York - New Jersey Knights (WLAF) players 1st come together |
| February 27 | 6 week Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreated and Kuwait is liberated |
| February 27 | Ben Elton's "Silly Cow," premieres in London |
| February 27 | Noureddine Morcelli set 1500m mark at 3:34:16 |
| February 27 | Singer James Brown is released from prison |
| February 28 | Don Mattingly named 10th New York Yankee Captain |
| February 28 | "Les Miserables" opens at Theatre Carre, Amsterdam |
| February 28 | Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m indoor (3:34:16) |
| February 28 | "Speed of Darkness" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 36 performances |
| February 28 | U.S. and allied forces grant Iraq a cease fire |
| March 1 | U.S. Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens |
| March 2 | "Aspects of Love" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 377 performances |
| March 2 | Deb Richard wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
| March 2 | Del Ballard, Jr. throws most famous gutter ball in PBA Tour history |
| March 2 | "La Bete" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 24 performances |
| March 2 | North Carolina State Chris Corchiani becomes 1st NCAAer to get 1,000 assists |
| March 2 | U.N. votes in favor of U.S. resolutions for cease fire with Iraq |
| March 3 | 25 die as United Airlines Boeing 737 crashes in Colorado Springs |
| March 3 | "Big Love" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 41 performances |
| March 3 | Boon completes 10th Test Cricket century, 109* vs. WI at Kingston |
| March 3 | Four Los Angeles Police severly beat Rodney King, captured on amateur video |
| March 3 | Iraqi generals and General Schwarzkopf meet to discuss cease fire |
| March 3 | Latvia and Estonia vote to become independent of the U.S.S.R. |
| March 3 | Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (22.24 sec) |
| March 3 | Miguel Trovoada installed as president of Sao Tome e Principal |
| March 3 | Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18 |
| March 3 | United Airlines crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25 |
| March 4 | Bank of Credit and Commerce International divests itself of 1st American Bank |
| March 4 | Iraq releases 6 U.S., 3 British and 1 Italian POW |
| March 5 | Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait |
| March 5 | Reggie Miller (Indiana) begins NBA free throw streak of 52 games |
| March 6 | Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over" |
| March 7 | Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait |
| March 8 | 17th People's Choice Awards: Julia Roberts, Bill Cosby, Pretty Woman |
| March 8 | Harry Hamlin and Nicollette Sheridan wed |
| March 8 | Planeloads of U.S. troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists and 2 American soldiers it captured |
| March 8 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 9 | 5th American Comedy Award: Dennis Wolfberg |
| March 9 | Joe Dumaars (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 62 games |
| March 9 | "Les Miserables," opens at Lyric Theatre, Brisbane |
| March 9 | U.S. 70th manned space mission STS-39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit |
| March 10 | Eddie Sutton is 1st NCAA coach to lead 4 schools into playoffs |
| March 10 | Laura Davies wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic |
| March 10 | Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg clinches his 4th slalom World Cup |
| March 10 | Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 m indoor (22.24 sec) |
| March 10 | Rico Lieder/Jens Carlowitz/Karsten Just/Thomas Schonlebe walk 4x400m indoor world record (3:03.05) |
| March 11 | Janet Jackson signs $40M 3 album deal with Virgin records |
| March 11 | John Smith, amateur wrestler, wins James E Sullivan Award |
| March 11 | Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked first |
| March 12 | 5th Soul Train Music Awards |
| March 13 | Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines and cleanup of Valdez oil spill |
| March 14 | British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment |
| March 14 | Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave |
| March 14 | Ice Dance Championship at Munich won by Isabel and Phil Duchesnay (FRA) |
| March 14 | Ice Pairs Championship at Munich won by N Mishkutenok and A Dmitriev |
| March 14 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kurt Browning (CAN) |
| March 15 | 4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney King |
| March 15 | Sergei Bubka pole vaults record 20' |
| March 15 | Territories of Amapa and Roraima become states in Brazil |
| March 16 | 7 of Reba McEntire band members are killed in a plane crash |
| March 16 | Members of Irish Gay and Lesbian Organization march in New York City parade |
| March 16 | New Jersey Net coach Bill Fitch is 4th coach to win 800 NBA games |
| March 16 | New York Lotto pays $33.3 million to one winner, with the numbers 18-21-32-33-35-38 |
| March 16 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Munich won by Kristi Yamaguchi |
| March 17 | 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty |
| March 17 | Irish Lesbians and Gays march in St. Patrick Day parade |
| March 17 | John Robin Baitz' "Substance of Fire," premieres in New York City |
| March 17 | New Jersey raises turnpike tolls 70% |
| March 17 | Penny Hammel wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International |
| March 18 | Apple computer head Steve Jobs weds Laurene Powell |
| March 18 | Mike Tyson beats Razor Ruddock in the 7th round |
| March 18 | Philadelphia '76ers retires Wilt Chamberlain's #13 jersey |
| March 18 | Reggie Miller (Indiana) ends NBA free throw streak of 52 games |
| March 19 | Kansas City Royals announce they are putting Bo Jackson on waivers |
| March 19 | NFL owners strip Phoenix of 1993 Super Bowl game due to Arizona not recognizing Martin Luther King Day |
| March 19 | Sacramento Kings set NBA record of 29 consecutive road loses |
| March 19 | St. Louis Blue Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 80 goals in a season |
| March 20 | Court awards Peggy Lee $3 million in suit against Disney |
| March 20 | Michael Jackson signs $65M 6 album deal with Sony records |
| March 20 | Supreme Court rules unanimously employers can't exclude women from jobs where exposure to toxic chemicals could potentially damage fetus |
| March 20 | U.S. forgives $2 billion in loans to Poland |
| March 21 | 27 lost at sea when 2 U.S. Navy anti-submarine planes collide |
| March 21 | Largest wrestling crowd in Japan (64,500) at Tokyo Dome |
| March 21 | Tatsumi Fujinami beats Ric Flair for NWA wrestling championship |
| March 21 | U.N. Security Council panel decided to lift the food embargo on Iraq |
| March 22 | Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at University of Virginia seizing drugs |
| March 22 | New York Daily News begins using motto "Forward with NY" |
| March 22 | Pamela Smart (High School teacher) found guilty in New Hampshire of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband |
| March 23 | 1st World League of American Football games, London beats Frankfurt 24-11, Sacramento beats Raleigh-Dur 9-3 and Mont beats Birmingham 20-5 |
| March 23 | 20 Tornadoes kill 5 in Tennessee |
| March 23 | Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.12m) |
| March 24 | 11th Golden Raspberry Awards: Ford Fairlane and Ghosts Can't Do It wins |
| March 24 | Banks reopen in liberated Kuwait |
| March 24 | Barcelona Dragons beat NY/New Jersey Knights 19-7 in their 1st WLAF game |
| March 24 | Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament |
| March 24 | "Les Miserables," opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago |
| March 24 | New York Yankees beat New York Mets, 9-3 |
| March 24 | Wrestlemania VII in LA, Hulk Hogan pins Sergeant Slaughter |
| March 25 | 63rd Academy Awards - "Dance with Wolves," Kathy Bates and J Irons win |
| March 25 | Allan Border takes 5-68 vs. WI at Bourda (!), Georgetown |
| March 26 | Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street and Lexington Ave, New York City |
| March 26 | Marc Camoletti's "Don't Dress for Dinner," premieres in London |
| March 26 | Orlando Thunder beats San Antonio Riders in their 1st WLAF game 35-34 |
| March 26 | Victoria beat NSW by 7 wickets to win Sheffield Shield Final |
| March 27 | NCAA bans University of Minnesota football team from postseason play in 1992 |
| March 27 | New Kid Donnie Wahlberg, arrested on arson charges in Kentucky |
| March 27 | Scotty Bowman and Neil Armstrong elected to NHL Hall of Fame |
| March 28 | Mike Tyson admits paternity to Kimberly Scarborough's son |
| March 30 | 1st exhibition baseball games at Joe Robbie Stadium (Yankees-Orioles) |
| March 30 | Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vroe Folk" (Free People) |
| March 30 | Northern Michigan wins its 1st NCAA hockey title |
| March 30 | PBA National Championship Won by Mike Miller |
| March 30 | "Speed of Darkness" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 36 performances |
| March 31 | 10th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Tennessee beats Virginia 70-67 |
| March 31 | 20th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott |
| March 31 | Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years |
| March 31 | Danny Bonaduce attacks a transvestite prostitute in Phoenix Az |
| March 31 | Georgian SSR votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union |
| March 31 | Musical "Will Rogers Follies," premieres in New York City |
| March 31 | Soviet Republic of Georgia endorsed independence, Warsaw Pact dissolves |
| March 31 | St. Louis Blues Brett Hull scores his 86th goal |
| April 1 | 53rd NCAA Mens Basketball Champion: Duke Bluedevils beats Kansas 72-65 |
| April 1 | Dwight Goodin signs $5.15 million 3 year contract with New York Mets |
| April 1 | Iran releases British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years |
| April 1 | Supreme Court rules jurors can't be barred from serving due to race |
| April 1 | U.S. minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour |
| April 2 | Rotterdam Daily Newspaper begins publishing |
| April 3 | 12th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| April 3 | Bo Jackson signs 1-year contract with Chicago White Sox |
| April 3 | "Penn and Teller - Refrigerator Tour" opens at Eugene O'Neill New York City |
| April 3 | Thomas Bos skates world record 3 km (3:65.16) |
| April 3 | U.N. Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution |
| April 4 | "Lucifer's Child" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 28 performances |
| April 5 | Joe Dumaars (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 62 games |
| April 5 | Kitty Kelly publishes a book knocking Nancy Reagan |
| April 5 | Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Georgia, killing 23 |
| April 5 | Space Shuttle STS-37, Atlantis 8, launched |
| April 5 | U.S. begins air drops to Kurd refugees in Northern Iraq |
| April 6 | Argentine soocer star Diego Maradona suspended for 15 month by Italian League for testing positive for cocaine use |
| April 6 | Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy |
| April 6 | New York - New Jersey Knights 1st home game (Giant Stadium) lose to Frankfurt 27-17 |
| April 6 | Subhana, becomes 1st Australian woman to become a Zen teacher |
| April 7 | 3rd Seniors Golf Tradition: Jack Nicklaus |
| April 7 | "Big Love" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 41 performances |
| April 7 | Chris Johnson wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship |
| April 7 | Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth |
| April 7 | George Washington Bridge raises toll from $3.00 to $4.00 |
| April 7 | "Shadowlands" closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City after 169 performances |
| April 7 | Wrestlemania VII scheduled in LA, actually performed 03/24 |
| April 8 | "I Hate Hamlet" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City for 88 performances |
| April 8 | Jockey, Bill Shoemaker, paralyzed in a car accident |
| April 8 | Major league umpires and baseball reach a 4-year agreement |
| April 8 | Michael Landon announces he has inoperable cancer of pancreas |
| April 8 | Oakland A's stadium becomes 1st outdoor arena to ban smoking |
| April 9 | Date of Microsoft MS DOS 5.0 |
| April 9 | Georgia SSR votes to secede from U.S.S.R. |
| April 10 | Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138 |
| April 10 | Last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd and 42nd St, New York City) |
| April 10 | Los Angeles King Wayne Gretzky scores NHL record 93rd playoff goal |
| April 10 | Martin Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:52.51) |
| April 11 | "Miss Saigon," opens at Broadway Theater New York City |
| April 11 | New York City's Museum of Broadcasting becomes "Museum of Radio and Television" |
| April 11 | Space Shuttle STS-37, Atlantis 8, lands |
| April 11 | U.N. Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration |
| April 12 | 2,500th episode of Entertainment Tonight airs |
| April 12 | Nepalese Congress party wins general elections |
| April 12 | U.S. announces closing of 31 major U.S. military bases |
| April 13 | BPAA U.S. Open by Pete Weber |
| April 14 | 55th Golf Masters Championship: Ian Woosnam wins, shooting a 277 |
| April 14 | Chicago Blackhawks becomes 1st NHL regular season champion in 20 years to lose in 1st round of the playoffs (To Minnesota North Stars) |
| April 14 | "Mule Bone" closes at Ethel Barrymore Theater New York City after 67 performances |
| April 14 | "Oh, Kay!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City |
| April 15 | 20th Boston Women's Marathon won by Wanda Panfil of Poland in 2:24:18 |
| April 15 | 95th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:11:06 |
| April 15 | East-Europe Bank forms in London |
| April 15 | Europe foreign ministers lift most remaining sanctions against South Africa |
| April 15 | Former child actor Adam Rich charged with burglary |
| April 15 | Magic Johnson sets NBA record for career assistswith 9,898 |
| April 15 | Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $280 per week |
| April 15 | Sacramento Kings set NBA record, losing 35th consecutive game on road |
| April 15 | "Secret Garden" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 706 performances |
| April 15 | Ton Sijbrands improves world record blind checker games (15 wins) |
| April 16 | M Leander and E Seago's musical "Matador," premieres in London |
| April 16 | St. Louis Blues becomes 8th NHL team in Play-off to come back from a 3-1 deficit as they beat the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 in game 7 |
| April 17 | Dow Jones closes above 3,000 for 1st time (3,004.46) |
| April 17 | Railroad workers go on strike in U.S. |
| April 18 | Census Bureau said it failed to count up to 63 million in 1990 census |
| April 18 | Congress ends railroad worker 1 day strike |
| April 18 | John Stockton breaks his own NBA season assist record at 1,136 |
| April 19 | Evander Holyfield beats George Foreman in 12 for heavywgt boxing title |
| April 19 | Greyhound Bus posts $195 million loss for 1990 |
| April 20 | 1st non stop flight Schiphol-Flamingo airport Bonaire |
| April 20 | "Les Miserables," opens at Odense Teater, Odense |
| April 20 | Mark Lenzi is 1st diver to score 100 pts on a dive (101.85) |
| April 20 | Raghib "Rocket" Ismael signs with Toronto Argonauts for $26.2 million |
| April 21 | 52nd PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Jack Nicklaus |
| April 21 | Greatest extra-inning comeback, Pitts scores 6 in bottom of 11th erasing 5 run Cub lead, Pirates also trailed 7-2 in bottom of 9th |
| April 21 | Jakov Tolstikov wins 4th World Cup marathon (2:09:17) |
| April 21 | Rosa Mota wins 4th World Cup female marathon (2:26:14) |
| April 22 | Earthquake strikes Costa Rica and Panama, kills 95 |
| April 22 | Frank Thomas is 1st White Sox to homer at new Comiskey Park |
| April 22 | Intel releases 486SX chip |
| April 22 | Johnny Carson announces he will retire next year from Tonight Show |
| April 22 | Shalom America (Jewish cable network) is launched in Brooklyn and Queens |
| April 23 | Bjorn Borg loses 6-2, 6-3 to Jordi Arrese after 8 year lay off |
| April 23 | Gordon Greenidge scores 223 vs. Aus, his last Test Cricket knock at home |
| April 23 | U.S.S.R. grants republics right to secede under certain conditions |
| April 24 | 26th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks |
| April 25 | Designer Mary McFadden (52) announces divorce of Kohie Yohannan (23) |
| April 25 | "Grand Hotel" closes at Beck Theater New York City after 1018 performances |
| April 25 | Lisa Olson brings suit against NFL New England Patriots for sexual harassment |
| April 25 | Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman's musical premieres in New York City |
| April 26 | 23 killed in Kansas and Oklahoma by tornadoes |
| April 26 | "Dinosaurs" premieres on ABC-TV |
| April 26 | Soccer star Diego Maradona, suspended for using cocaine, arrested in Argentina for possession and distribution of illegal narcotics |
| April 27 | Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by David Ozio |
| April 27 | "Lucifer's Child" closes at Music Box Theater New York City after 28 performances |
| April 28 | "Gypsy" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 105 performances |
| April 28 | Space Shuttle STS-39 (Discovery 12) launched |
| April 28 | "Taking Steps" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 78 performances |
| April 29 | Croatia declares independence |
| April 29 | Cyclone strikes Bangladesh, 139,000 die/10 million homeless |
| April 29 | Earthquake in Georgia, kills 100 |
| April 29 | "Our Country's Good" opens at Nederlander Theater New York City for 48 performances |
| April 30 | In Bangladesh a cyclone killed over 131,000 and left 9 million homeless |
| May 1 | A's Rickey Henderson steals an all time record 939th base vs Yankees |
| May 1 | Actor Robert Duvall weds Sharon Brophy |
| May 1 | Angola's civil war ends |
| May 1 | Last day of Test cricket for Gordon Greenidge |
| May 1 | Milwaukee Brewers beat Chicago Cubs, 10-9, in 19 innings |
| May 1 | Nolan Ryan pitches his 7th no-hitter, beating Toronto |
| May 1 | Rickey Henderson breaks Lou Brocks record with his 939th steal |
| May 1 | Texas Ranger Nolan Ryan pitches record 7th no hitter (beats Toronto 3-0) |
| May 1 | "Will Rogers Follies" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 983 performances |
| May 2 | Pope John Paul II's encyclical on Centesimus annus |
| May 3 | 356th and final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke |
| May 3 | Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass |
| May 4 | 117th Kentucky Derby: Chris Antley aboard Strike the Gold wins in 2:03 |
| May 4 | ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Doug Kent |
| May 4 | Actress Sharon Gless and producer Barney Rosenzeig wed |
| May 4 | Indians' Chris James sets club record for most RBIs in a game (9) |
| May 4 | Mo Udall, Representative-D-Arizona, resigns due to Parkinson disease |
| May 4 | New York Mets M Sasser and Mark Carreon are 8th to hit consecutive pinch home runs |
| May 4 | President Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat |
| May 5 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic |
| May 6 | Phillie Lenny Dykstra slams his sports car into 2 trees |
| May 6 | Seppo Raty of Finland sets javelin record to 301' 9" |
| May 6 | Space Shuttle STS-39 (Discovery 12) lands |
| May 7 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| May 7 | Haryana beat Bombay in the Ranji Cricket Trophy final by 2 runs |
| May 8 | CIA director William H. Webster resigns |
| May 9 | Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession |
| May 9 | Michael Landon appears on Tonight Show to talk about his cancer |
| May 10 | Oakland A's Jose Canseco is seen leaving Madonna's apt |
| May 12 | A new cancer drug is announced, which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest |
| May 12 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Crestar-Fresh Farm Golf Classic |
| May 13 | Apple releases Macintosh System 7.0 |
| May 13 | "Michael Jackson: Magic and Madness" goes on sale |
| May 13 | South African activist Winnie Mandela convicted of abducting 4 blacks |
| May 13 | Yankee Stadium fans sing "Like a Virgin" to Jose Canseco |
| May 14 | 42 die in a train collision is Japan |
| May 14 | Robert M. Gates becomes head of CIA |
| May 14 | Winnie Mandela sentenced to 6 years for complicity in kidnapping and beating of four youths, one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal |
| May 14 | World's Largest Burrito created at 1,126 lbs |
| May 15 | Defense releases docs claiming Noriega is "CIA's man in Panama" |
| May 15 | Edith Cresson becomes France's 1st female premier |
| May 15 | Manchester United wins 31th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam |
| May 15 | Nepal premier Bhattarai resigns |
| May 15 | President Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland A's-Baltimore Oriole game |
| May 15 | Red Sox and White Sox play then slowest 9 inning game (4:11) |
| May 16 | Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character) |
| May 16 | Queen Elizabeth becomes 1st British monarch to address U.S. congress |
| May 17 | Lupita Jones, 23, of Mexico, crowned 40th Miss Universe |
| May 18 | 117th Preakness: Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in 1:54 |
| May 18 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| May 18 | U.S.S.R. launches 2 cosmonauts to MIR space station |
| May 19 | "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story" closes at Shubert New York City after 225 performances |
| May 19 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic |
| May 19 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Centel Senior Golf Challenge |
| May 19 | Willy T. Ribbs becomes 1st black driver to make Indianapolis 500 |
| May 20 | Chicago Bull Michael Jordan, named NBA's MVP |
| May 20 | Jeff Reardon gains his 300th career save |
| May 20 | Soviet parliament approves law allowing citizens to travel abroad |
| May 21 | Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns |
| May 22 | Inter Milan wins 20th UEFA Cup at Rome |
| May 22 | NFL Owners agree to add 2 teams in 1994 |
| May 22 | Roh Jai Bong resigns as premier of South Korea |
| May 23 | Last Cubans troops leave Angola |
| May 23 | Phillie Tommy Greene no-hits Mont Expos, 2-0 |
| May 23 | San Diego Sockers win 4th consecutive Major Soccer League championship |
| May 23 | U.S. Supreme Court bars subsidized clinics from discussing abortion |
| May 25 | Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews |
| May 25 | "People Are Still Having Sex," by LaTour hits #35 |
| May 25 | Stanley Cup: Pittsburgh Penguins beat Minnesota North Star, 4 games to 2 |
| May 26 | Betsy King wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
| May 27 | Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die |
| May 28 | Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa |
| May 29 | Crevena Zvezda wins 36th Europe Cup I |
| May 29 | "Les Miserables," opens at ACTEA Theatre, Auckland New Zealand |
| May 30 | 64th National Spelling Bee: Joanne Lagatta wins spelling antipyretic |
| May 30 | Arturo Barrios runs world record one-hour distance (21,096 km) |
| May 30 | Supreme Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they give police and can be held accountable |
| May 31 | Oldest bride - Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia |
| May 31 | Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war |
| June 1 | Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time in 600 years |
| June 1 | Roseanne Arnold and Tom Arnold wed again, they divorced later |
| June 1 | Warsaw Pact officially dissolves |
| June 2 | 45th Tony Awards: Lost in Yonkers and Will Rogers Follies win |
| June 2 | 4th Children's Miracle Network Telethon |
| June 2 | Rosie Jones wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
| June 2 | Seppo Raty of Finland improves his world javelin record to 318' 1" |
| June 2 | Three Andrettis finished 1-2-3 in the Miller 200 at Wisconsin |
| June 3 | Mount Unzen erupts in Japan, worst eruption in Japanese history |
| June 3 | New York Yankees selected 19-year-old Brien Taylor, #1 in amateur draft |
| June 3 | Thomas Hearns captures WBA light-heavyweight title |
| June 4 | 1st post WW II non-communist government in Albania |
| June 4 | Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl is ordained in Episcopal Church |
| June 4 | Pope John Paul II compares abortion with nazi murders |
| June 4 | Robert Strauss becomes U.S. ambassador to Soviet Union |
| June 5 | Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in Episcopal Church |
| June 5 | Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize |
| June 5 | Space Shuttle STS-40 (Columbia 12) launched |
| June 6 | Albert Belle is shipped to minors for not running out a ground ball |
| June 6 | Dana Plato receives 6 yr suspended sentence for robbing a video store |
| June 6 | NBC announces Jay Leno will replace Johnny Carson on May 25, 1992 |
| June 6 | Test Cricket debut of Graeme Hick, vs. West Indies at Headingley |
| June 7 | Singer Jimmy Osmond weds Michelle Larson |
| June 8 | 123rd Belmont: Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in 2:28 |
| June 8 | 61st French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A S Vicario (63 64) |
| June 8 | College World Series: Louisiana State defeats Wichita State 6-3 |
| June 8 | Former New York Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds |
| June 8 | "Our Country's Good" closes at Nederlander Theater New York City after 48 performances |
| June 8 | Victory parade held in Washington D.C., Persian Gulf War |
| June 8 | Warren Schutte, is 1st non American to win NCAA Div 1 golf title |
| June 9 | 61st French Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats A Agassi (36 64 26 61 64) |
| June 9 | 9th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Jim Albus |
| June 9 | Bruce Springsteen weds his backup singer Patty Scialfa |
| June 9 | Jack La Lanne, 76, arrested for suspicion of DWI |
| June 9 | Jane Geddes wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic |
| June 9 | WLAF 1st world bowl London Monarchs defeat Barlecona Dragons 21-0 |
| June 10 | 25th Music City News Country Awards: Ricky Van Shelton |
| June 10 | Mother of All Parades - New York City welcomes desert storm troops |
| June 10 | South Florida and Denver picked for 1993 NL franchises |
| June 10 | "Twin Peaks" airs on ABC-TV |
| June 11 | Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0 |
| June 12 | 45th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 1 |
| June 12 | Boris Yelstin elected president of Russian Federation |
| June 12 | Mount Pinatubo volcano on Philippines erupts |
| June 13 | A spectator is killed by lightning at U.S. Open Golf tournament |
| June 13 | NHL owners present contract to players, leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike |
| June 13 | The National, 1st all-sports daily newspaper, ceases publication |
| June 14 | Leroy Burrell of USA sets 100m record (9.90) in New York City |
| June 14 | "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" opens |
| June 14 | Space Shuttle STS-40 (Columbia 12) lands |
| June 15 | Carolyn Tanny and Bob Trischel wed |
| June 15 | Philippines volcano Mount Pinatubo erupts |
| June 16 | 91st U.S. Golf Open: Payne Stewart shoots a 282 at Hazeline National Golf Club Minnesota |
| June 16 | Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR |
| June 16 | Colleen Walker wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| June 16 | "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 241 performances |
| June 16 | Minnesota Twins win a team record 15 games in a row |
| June 16 | New York City Mayor Dinkins declares "Joseph Doherty Week" |
| June 16 | Otis Nixon steals NL record 6 bases in 1 day |
| June 16 | With 3 runs in 9th, Baltimore ends Twins 15 game win streak 6-5 |
| June 17 | President Zachary Taylors body is exhumed to test how he died |
| June 17 | South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws |
| June 18 | Boris Yeltsin, president of Russia, arrives in U.S. |
| June 18 | Mud storm in Antofagasta Chile, kills 80 |
| June 18 | San Francisco Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky's cancerous left arm is amputated |
| June 18 | Yankee pitchers pick-off 3 Toronto Blue Jays |
| June 19 | 2 of Mia Farrow's daughters arrested for shoplifting lingerie |
| June 19 | Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar surrenders to police |
| June 19 | New York Yankee Steve Howe records his 1st major league save since 1987 |
| June 21 | Islanders Denis Potvan and Michael Bossy inducted into NHL Hall of Fame |
| June 21 | Jorg Haider resigns as premier of Karinthia |
| June 21 | New York Islanders Denis Potvin and Mike Bossy, elected to Hockey Hall of Fame |
| June 22 | "I Hate Hamlet" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City after 88 performances |
| June 22 | Quebec Nordiques pick Eric Lindros #1 at NHL entry draft |
| June 22 | Underwater volcano, Mount Didicas, erupts in Philippines |
| June 23 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
| June 23 | Mazda becomes 1st Japanese car to capture Le Mans 24 hour race |
| June 23 | "Odd Couple" opens and closes at Belasco Theater New York City |
| June 23 | "Weird Al" Yankovic records "Babalu Music" |
| June 24 | NHL adopts instant-replay and tenth of second clock in final minute |
| June 25 | Martina Navratilova wins record 100th singles match at Wimbledon |
| June 25 | Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia |
| June 26 | Amy Elizabeth Goodman, of California, crowned America's Junior Miss |
| June 26 | ANC leader Nelson Mandela addresses congress |
| June 26 | Charlotte Hornets make Larry Johnson of UNLV, NBA's #1 draft pick |
| June 26 | "Getting Married" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 70 performances |
| June 27 | Emmy 18th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 12th time |
| June 29 | 6.0 earthquake hits southern California |
| June 29 | Britain's Nick Brown, 591st rank beats 10th-seeded Goran Ivanisevic 4-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 in 2nd round at Wimbledon |
| June 29 | "Jackie Mason - Brand New" closes at Neil Simon New York City after 216 performances |
| June 30 | 37th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Meg Mallon |
| July 2 | Riot at Guns N' Roses concert in St. Louis |
| July 3 | Donald Trump gives Marla Maples a 7.45 karat diamond ring |
| July 3 | Gateway Board of Trustees approve a 20-year lease with Cleveland Indians |
| July 5 | Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins given final approval by owners |
| July 5 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| July 5 | Lillian Cucuzza wins name Florida baseball team contest (Marlins) |
| July 6 | 98th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats G Sabatini (64 36 86) |
| July 7 | 105th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Michael Stich beats B Becker (64 76 64) |
| July 7 | Alice Miller wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
| July 7 | Nolan Ryan possible 8th no-hitter ends in the 8th inning |
| July 8 | Major league umpire Steve Palermo and former NFL defensive lineman Terence Mann were shot trying to help 2 waitresses from being robbed |
| July 8 | Pittsburgh Pirate President Carl Barger becomes 1st President of Florida Marlins |
| July 9 | 62nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-2 at SkyDome, Toronto |
| July 9 | All star MVP: Cal Ripken, Jr. for the Baltimore Orioles |
| July 9 | "Little Night Music" opens at New York State Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| July 9 | South Africa readmitted to Olympics |
| July 10 | Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected president of Russian Rep |
| July 10 | L'Express Airlines Beechcraft C-99 crashes in Alabama, killing 13 |
| July 11 | Calumet Farm, home to 8 Kentucky Derby winners, files bankruptcy |
| July 11 | Nigerian DC-8 crashes near Saudi-Arabia, 261 die |
| July 11 | Total solar eclipse is seen in Hawaii |
| July 13 | Bob Milacki and 3 other Baltimore Oriole pitchers no-hit A's 2-0 |
| July 14 | 46th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Meg Mallon |
| July 14 | Failed military coup in Mali |
| July 15 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| July 15 | Sandhi Ortiz-DelValle is 1st woman to officiate a men's pro basketball (USBL) game, game between New Haven Skyhawks and Philadelphia Spirit |
| July 15 | U.S. troops leave northern Iraq |
| July 18 | Florida Marlins' logo unveiled |
| July 18 | Mike Tyson meets Miss Black America contestants |
| July 19 | Cal Ripken plays in his 1,500th consecutive game |
| July 19 | With New York Yankee victory, 10 of 14 AL teams are at .500 or better |
| July 20 | Kirk Cameron marries Growing Pains co-star Chelsea Noble in upstate New York |
| July 20 | Mike Tyson is accused of raping a Miss Black America contestant |
| July 21 | 120th British Golf Open: Ian Baker-Finch shoots 272 at Royal Birkdale |
| July 21 | Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
| July 21 | Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry, Rod Carew, Tony Lazzeri, and Bill Veeck are elected into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York |
| July 21 | Sharmell Sullivan (Gary, Indiana), 20, crowned 23rd Miss Black America |
| July 22 | Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978 |
| July 23 | James Farentino of Dynasty arrested in Canada for cocaine possession |
| July 23 | Rob Dibble back from 3-game suspension, is ejected for throwing at and hitting Cubs baserunner Doug Dascenzo Cubs win, 8-5 |
| July 24 | Ottawa Rough Riders Board of Directors resign |
| July 24 | University of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system |
| July 25 | Howard Stern adds a 4th radio market (KLSX FM-97.1 Los Angeles) |
| July 25 | Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long treated for an apparent suicide attempt after he learned he tested positive for steroid use |
| July 25 | Seattle Jay Buhner hits a 479' home run in Yankee Stadium |
| July 26 | CFL assumes ownership of Ottawa Rough Riders |
| July 26 | Expo's Mark Gardner no hits Dodgers for 9 innings, but loses in 10th |
| July 27 | Rocker Jani Lane, Warrant-Cherry Pie, marries model Bobbie Brown |
| July 27 | TV Guide publishes it's 2000th edition |
| July 28 | 12th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus |
| July 28 | 29th Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Nottingham England (2-1) |
| July 28 | Buffalo Bills beat Philadelphia Eagles, 17-13 in American Bowl in Wembley |
| July 28 | Dennis Martinez pitches the 15th perfect game in baseball history |
| July 28 | "Gypsy" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 105 performances |
| July 28 | Juli Inkster wins LPGA Bay State Golf Classic |
| July 28 | Miguel Indurain of Spain wins Tour de France bicycle race |
| July 29 | 1st Sunday Night game at Shea Stadium, Mets beat Cubs 6-0 |
| July 29 | Yankee Stadium fans throw cups and blowup dolls at Jose Canseco |
| July 30 | MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993 |
| July 30 | Red Sox Carlos Quintana is 11th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd) |
| July 31 | Russia and U.S. sign long range nuclear weapons reduction pact |
| July 31 | Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft |
| August 1 | Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida |
| August 1 | Italian/Argentine Soccer star Diego Maradona retires |
| August 2 | Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges |
| August 2 | Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in Los Angeles |
| August 2 | Mike Jeffcoat is 1st AL pitcher to get an RBI since 1972 |
| August 2 | Space shuttle STS-43 (Atlantis 9) launched |
| August 3 | Giant Victory, driven by Jack Moiseyev, wins Hambletonian |
| August 3 | Pan Am games open in Havana |
| August 4 | 1st time Seattle Mariners are 9 games over .500 |
| August 4 | Deb Richard wins LPGA Phar-Mor in Youngstown Golf Tournament |
| August 5 | Sergeo Bubka of U.S.S.R. sets pole vault record (20'") in Malmo Sweden |
| August 6 | Debbie Doom (U.S.) pitches 2nd consecutive perfect game in women's softball at the Pan American Games, beats Nicaragua, 8-0 |
| August 7 | Charles Austin breaks U.S. high jump record at 7'10 " |
| August 7 | Court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret U.S. documents |
| August 7 | Darrin Lewis hits his 1st major league home run |
| August 7 | Manhattan Cable final day of amnesty to return illegal cable boxes |
| August 7 | U.S. sets 400m relay record at 37.67 seconds |
| August 8 | Carlos Santana pleads no contest to marijuana possession charge |
| August 8 | Shite Moslems release British hostage John McCarthy |
| August 8 | With two months left, White Sox set new home attendance (2,150,951) |
| August 10 | "Little Night Music" closes at New York State New York City after 7 performances |
| August 10 | NFL sportscaster Paul Maquire suffers a heart attack at 53 |
| August 11 | 400,000 demonstrate for democracy in Madagascar, 31 killed |
| August 11 | 73rd PGA Championship: John Daly shoots a 276 at Crooked Stick Ind |
| August 11 | Melissa Mcnamara wins Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic |
| August 11 | Shite Moslems release U.S. hostage Edward Tracy |
| August 11 | Space shuttle STS-43 (Atlantis 9) lands |
| August 11 | Wilson Alvarez hurls a no-hitter in his 1st big league start |
| August 12 | Creditors vote to support Greyhound Bus reorganization plan |
| August 12 | Last day in Test Cricket for Viv Richards, Dujon and Marshall |
| August 13 | Michael Ray Barrowman swims world record 200m breaststroke (2:10.60) |
| August 13 | Test Cricket debut of Mike Whitney versus England at Old Trafford |
| August 14 | Comedian Jackie Mason marries his manager Jyll Rosenfeld (37) |
| August 14 | Twins Dave Winfield is 23rd to hit 400 home run |
| August 15 | 750,000 attend Paul Simon's free concert in Central Park |
| August 15 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| August 16 | Belgium census is 10,000,963 inhabitants |
| August 16 | President Bush declares recession is near an end |
| August 17 | Royals Warren Cromartie's 1st major league home run since 1983 |
| August 18 | Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic |
| August 18 | Hurricane Bob hits North Carolina with 115 MPH wind |
| August 18 | Pan Am games closes in Havana |
| August 19 | Hurricane Bob hits U.S. |
| August 19 | Janajev and KGB coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev |
| August 19 | Janel Bishop, 17, of New Hampshire, crowned 9th Miss Teen USA |
| August 20 | Dolphin Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid NFL player with a 5-year extension for $25 million |
| August 20 | Estonia declares it's independence from U.S.S.R. itself independent |
| August 20 | Norbert Rosza swims world record 100m breast stroke (1:01.29) |
| August 21 | Communist coup is crushed in U.S.S.R. in 2 days |
| August 21 | Latvia declares it's independence from U.S.S.R. |
| August 22 | Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 100 m backstroke (1:00.31) |
| August 24 | Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
| August 24 | Gorbachev resigns as head of U.S.S.R. Communist Party |
| August 24 | Silky Stallone, wins the Cane Pace at Yonkers Raceway |
| August 24 | Taiwan captures its 15th Little League World Series, 11-0 |
| August 24 | Ukraine declares independence from U.S.S.R. |
| August 25 | 43rd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Cheers, Kirstie Alley and Patricia Wettig |
| August 25 | 91st U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Mitch Voges |
| August 25 | Carl Lewis rus 100m in 9.86 seconds |
| August 25 | Cubs Doug Dascenzo commits his 1st career error after 242 games |
| August 25 | "Getting Married" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 70 performances |
| August 25 | Krizstina Egerszegi swims world record 200m backstroke (2:06.62) |
| August 25 | Martha Nause wins LPGA Chicago Sun-Times Shoot-Out Golf Tournament |
| August 25 | Norway and Denmark recognize independence of former U.S.S.R. Baltic reps |
| August 25 | Wanda Panfil wins 3rd female world champion marathon (2:29:53) |
| August 26 | Royal Brett Saberegen no-hits White Sox 7-0 |
| August 27 | Moldavia declares independence from U.S.S.R. |
| August 28 | Lexington Ave IRT subway train derails at Union Square, 5 die |
| August 28 | Red Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martinez both perfect game pitcher |
| August 29 | John F. Kennedy, Jr. wins his 1st battle as an attorney |
| August 29 | U.S.S.R. suspends Communist Party activities |
| August 30 | Dan O'Brien sets U.S. decathalon record with 8,812 points |
| August 30 | France beats U.S. by narrowest Ryder Cup margin - 14 to 13 |
| August 30 | Mike Powell of U.S., sets then long jump record at 29' 4 " (8.95m) |
| August 30 | Tamil Tigers capture Sri Lanka poet Selvi |
| August 31 | Houston quarterback David Klingler sets NCAA record with 6 touchdown passes in the 2nd quarter as the Cougars clobbered Louisiana Tech 73-3 |
| August 31 | Jan Berry (Jan and Dean) weds Gertie Filip |
| August 31 | Richard J. Kerr, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
| August 31 | Rockies bat out of order against Expos in 1st inning |
| August 31 | William H. Webster, ends term as 14th director of CIA |
| September 1 | Hiromi Taniguchi wins 3rd world championship marathon (2:14:57) |
| September 1 | Richard J Kerr, serves as acting director of CIA |
| September 2 | Jerry Lewis' 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,071,657 |
| September 2 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
| September 2 | U.S. officially recognizes independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania |
| September 4 | "Most Happy Fella" opens at New York State Theater New York City |
| September 4 | Panel of 8 baseball experts vote to drop asterisk next to Roger Maris home run record and determine an official no hitter must go at least 9 innings |
| September 4 | Rte 35 Theater in Hazlit, last drive-in in New Jersey, closes |
| September 5 | 8th MTV Awards: REM |
| September 5 | Actor John Travolta weds Kelly Preston |
| September 5 | Nelson Mandela chosen president of South African ANC |
| September 5 | U.S. trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins |
| September 6 | 33rd Walker Cup: U.S., 14-10 |
| September 6 | Ronald Venetiaan chosen president of Suriname |
| September 6 | Soviet Union recognizes Estonian independence |
| September 6 | U.S.S.R. recognizes independence of the 3 Baltic republics |
| September 7 | 105th U.S. Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Martina Navratilova (76 61) |
| September 7 | 1st South African international competition in 25 years, gymnastics |
| September 7 | Die Laughing wins Messenger Stakes |
| September 7 | Harry Hamlin weds Nicollette Sheridan |
| September 7 | Monica Seles (17) defeats Martina Navratilova (34) to win U.S. Open |
| September 7 | Ty Detmer of Brigham Young passes NCAA record 11,606 yards |
| September 8 | 111th U.S. Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Jim Courier (62 64 60) |
| September 8 | Buffalo Bill Jim Kelly passes for 6 touchdowns vs Pitts (52-34) |
| September 8 | Macedonia votes for independence from Yugoslavia |
| September 8 | Michelle Estill wins Ping-Cellular One LPGA Golf Championship |
| September 9 | Only 1,695 fans watch Boston Red Sox play Cleveland |
| September 10 | Senate Committee begins hearings on Clarence Thomas' nomination |
| September 10 | Yolanda Gail Devers runs U.S. female record 100m hurdles (12.48 seconds) |
| September 11 | 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston |
| September 11 | Atlanta Braves Kent Mercker, Mark Wohlers and Alejandro Pena pitched 1st combined no-hitter in NL, beating San Diego Padres, 1-0 |
| September 11 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| September 11 | "La Toya: Growing Up in The Jackson Family" goes on sale |
| September 11 | New York Yankees final game at Baltimore Oriole's Memorial Stadium |
| September 12 | Nolan Ryan's 4-3 victory over Twins is his 312th career win |
| September 12 | Space shuttle STS-48 (Discovery 14) launched |
| September 13 | 55 ton concrete beam falls in Montreal's Olympic Stadium |
| September 13 | Joe Carter is 1st to have 3 consec 100-RBI seasons with 3 differ teams |
| September 13 | Joe Coleman 3rd 100 RBI season in a row 3 teams (Cleveland, San Diego and Toronto) |
| September 13 | Kim Zmeskal is 1st American to win a medal at World Gymnastics Championships, she wins the gold with 39.848 pts |
| September 14 | 386 yards and scored 7 touchdowns as the Aztecs beat Pacific 55-34 |
| September 14 | Carolyn Suzanne Sapp (Hawaii), 24, crowned 65th Miss America 1992 |
| September 14 | Freshman Marshall Faulk of San Diego State rushed for NCAA record |
| September 14 | Magic Johnson weds Erieatha "Cookie" Kelly |
| September 14 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 15 | 19th du Maurier Golf Classic: Nancy Scranton |
| September 15 | NBA star Magic Johnson marries Earletha "Cookie" Kelly |
| September 15 | "Party Machine with Nia Peeples" final show |
| September 15 | SD State freshman Marshall Faulk sets NCAA rushing record of 386 yards |
| September 15 | U.S. women's gymnastics team win 1st World Championships medal (silver) |
| September 16 | Atlanta's Otis Nixon suspended for rest of 1991 due to cocaine |
| September 16 | Norm Charlton suspended for 7 days for intentionally hitting Steve Scioscia with a pitch |
| September 16 | U.S. trial of Panamanian leader Noriega begins |
| September 17 | 4,355 turn out to see Expos play New York Mets at Shea Stadium |
| September 17 | U.N. admits Estonia, Latvia, Lithuiania, North and South Korea, Marshall Islands and Micronesia |
| September 18 | John Hart becomes general manager of Cleveland Indians |
| September 18 | NCAA places Tenn on 2 years probation for football recruting violations |
| September 18 | Robert Helmick resigns as President of U.S. Olympic Committee |
| September 18 | Space shuttle STS-48 (Discovery 14) lands |
| September 19 | Precious Bunny wins the 46th Little Brown Jug |
| September 20 | Lion's Terry Taylor reinstated after 1 year drug related suspension |
| September 21 | Armenia votes on whether to remain in Soviet Union |
| September 21 | USA Basketball announces "Dream Team" for the 1992 Olympics |
| September 22 | ABN and AMRO Dutch banks merge |
| September 22 | California University makes Dead Sea Scrolls public |
| September 22 | Harry Gant wins NSACAR Goody's 500 |
| September 22 | Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula records his 300th career NFL victory |
| September 22 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
| September 23 | New York Islanders Mike Bossy and Denis Potvin inducted into NHL Hall of Fame |
| September 24 | After 3 year reign as AL champs, A's are eliminated from AL West |
| September 24 | Deion Sanders, left Braves July 31 to report to NFL Falcons, returns |
| September 24 | "Good and Evil" and "Sibs" premieres on ABC TV |
| September 24 | Robin Yount is 37th to hit 2,000 singles |
| September 25 | "Good and Evil" premieres on ABC TV |
| September 25 | Paramount at Madison Square Garden in New York City opens |
| September 26 | 2 year experimental Biosphere 2 in Oracle Arizona begins |
| September 27 | 1st scheduled NHL exhibition game in St. Petersburg Fla, is cancelled due to poor ice conditions (New York Islanders vs Boston Bruins) |
| September 27 | President Bush decides to end full-time B-52 bombers alert |
| September 27 | "Princesses" premieres on CBS TV |
| September 28 | "Commish," debuts on ABC-TV |
| September 28 | "Good Time" by Ziggy Marley and Melody Makers peaks at #85 |
| September 28 | "Love Of A Lifetime" by Firehouse peaks at #5 |
| September 28 | New York Yankees set record of 75 games without a complete pitched game |
| September 28 | "Shiny Happy People" by REM peaks to #10 |
| September 28 | U.N. weapons inspectors ends 5-day standoff with Iraq |
| September 29 | 29th Ryder Cup: U.S. beats Europe, 14 -13 at Ocean Course (SC) |
| September 29 | "My Own Private Idaho" premieres |
| September 29 | Pat Bradley wins MBS LPGA Golf Classic |
| September 30 | Reverend Jean Betrand Aristide ousted as president of Haiti |
| October 1 | Howard Stern adds Baltimore to his radio network on WJFK-AM |
| October 2 | Eric Lindros, refused to sign with Quebec Nordiques |
| October 2 | Steffi Graf becomes the youngest woman to win 500 pro tennis matches |
| October 2 | Toronto Blue Jays clinches AL East title and becomes 1st team to draw 4 million fans |
| October 3 | 25th Country Music Association Award: |
| October 4 | NHL New York Rangers trade Bernie Nichols to Edmonton for Mark Messier |
| October 4 | San Jose Sharks lose 4-3 to Vancouver Canucks in their 1st NHL game |
| October 4 | Whiteland Janice, driven by Mike Lachance, wins Kentucky Futurity |
| October 5 | Actor Ted Shackelford (Knots Landing) weds Annett Wolf |
| October 5 | Carlos Huerta's NCAA record streak of successful points after a touchdown ends at 157 |
| October 5 | Fresno State ties NCAA record with 49 points in a quarter, as they route New Mexico 94-17 |
| October 5 | Military transport plane crashes at Djakarta, 133 dies |
| October 5 | New Jersey Devils begin their 10th Anniversary with a 7-2 win over the Blues |
| October 5 | U.S.S.R. reduces nuclear weapons arsenal |
| October 6 | Elizabeth Taylor weds for 8th time (Larry Fortensky) |
| October 6 | Meg Mallon wins LPGA Daikyo World Golf Championship |
| October 6 | New York Met David Cone ties NL record by striking out 19 Phillies |
| October 6 | Orioles last game at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium (vs Detroit Tigers) |
| October 7 | Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics |
| October 7 | Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriat comments to her |
| October 7 | Scorecard Harry, Space Appeal and Cafe Lex in 9th race at Belmont, creating 2nd triple dead heat in New York thoroughbred racing history |
| October 9 | Bush declares "total confidence" in nominee Clarence Thomas |
| October 9 | "On Borrowed Time" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 99 performances |
| October 9 | San Jose Sharks beat Calgary for their 1st NHL win, 4-3 |
| October 10 | Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers |
| October 10 | Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy |
| October 10 | U.S. cuts all foreign aid to Haiti |
| October 11 | Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harrased her |
| October 11 | Chip Beck ties PGA lowest 18 hole score of 59 |
| October 11 | Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart seen soliciting a prostitute |
| October 12 | Doug Flutie of BC Lions sets CFL passing record of 582 yards despite losing to Edmonton 45-38 in overtime |
| October 12 | Mike Lerch of Princeton ties NCAA record with 370 receiving yards |
| October 12 | Statler Brothers Show premieres on TNN |
| October 12 | Steven Spielberg weds Kate Capshaw |
| October 12 | Wrestler Rip Oliver forced to retire after being injured by Crush |
| October 13 | Actress Katey Segal suffers a miscarriage |
| October 13 | Blue Jay Cito Gaston is 1st manager ejected in a playoff game |
| October 13 | Minnesota Twins win AL pennant beating Toronto in 5 games |
| October 14 | Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize |
| October 14 | New York Rangers right wing Mike Gartner scores his 500th NHL goal |
| October 15 | Clarence Thomas is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice |
| October 16 | Dallas Mavericks Roy Tarpley becomes 7th to be banned from NBA for life under the league's anti-drug agreement |
| October 16 | George Jo Hennard, 35, kills 23 and himself and wounds 20 in Texas |
| October 16 | U.S. Supreme Court begins to hear Joseph Doherty case |
| October 17 | Angel Cordero is 3rd jockey to win 7,000 horse races |
| October 17 | Atlanta Braves beat Pittsburgh Pirates for NL pennant in 7 games |
| October 17 | News anchor Bree Walker Lampley files an FCC complaint that LA radio KFI-AM personally attacked her by discuss her having a disformed baby |
| October 17 | Pitts Penguin Paul Coffey sets NHL defenseman scoring record with 1,053 career points (309 goals and 744 assists) |
| October 18 | "Most Happy Fella" closes at New York State Theater New York City |
| October 18 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| October 19 | Longest NCAA football game (3:52) as RI beats Maine 52-30 (6 OTs) |
| October 19 | Lonnie Glieberman purchased Ottawa Rough Riders from CFL |
| October 20 | 6.1-7.1 earthquake in Uttar Kashi, India, about 670 die |
| October 20 | Actress Lisa Hartman weds country singer Clint Black |
| October 20 | "Andre Heller's Wonderhouse" opens at Broadhurst New York City for 9 performances |
| October 20 | Formal opening ceremony of International One Mind Zen center in Crestone, Colorado |
| October 21 | 24 die in a fire in Oakland, California |
| October 21 | Former California Governor Jerry Brown announces run for presidency |
| October 21 | U.S. hostage Jesse Turner released from 5 years in captivity in Beirut |
| October 22 | General Motors announces 9 month loss of $2.2 billion |
| October 23 | Clarence Thomas, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
| October 23 | Dr. Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine kills 2 women |
| October 23 | "Les Miserables," opens at Mogador Theatre, Paris |
| October 24 | "Dancing at Lughnasa" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 421 performances |
| October 24 | Larry Ryckman purchases CFL Calgary Stampeders |
| October 25 | Aaqib Javed takes 7-37 in 10 overs vs. India in cric 1-dayer at Sharjah |
| October 27 | "Andre Heller's Wonderhouse" closes at Broadhurst New York City after 9 performances |
| October 27 | "Homecoming" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 49 performances |
| October 27 | John Brodie wins Security Pacific Senior Golf Classic |
| October 27 | Minn Twins beat Altanta Braves 1-0 in 10 to win World Series in 7 |
| October 29 | Buck Showalter replaces Stump Merrill as New York Yankee manager |
| October 30 | Colombian government negotiate with M-19-guerrilla |
| October 30 | Mark Sauer becomes CEO of Pittsburgh Pirates |
| October 30 | Mid East peace conference begins in Madrid Spain |
| October 30 | Singer Clint Black (34) weds actress Lisa Hartman (29) |
| October 31 | Palestinians attend U.S. mideast peace talks in Madrid |
| November 1 | New Dutch Regulations Traffic rules and Traffic signs enforced |
| November 2 | Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arazi, Black Tie Affair, Dance Smartly, Miss Alleged, Opening Verse, Pleasant Stage, Sheikh Albadou |
| November 2 | Jermaine Jackson releases "Word to the Badd!!" anti Michael song |
| November 2 | Nevada makes biggest comeback in NCAA football history, overcoming a 35-pt deficit in the 3rd quarter and rallying to beat Weber State 55-49 |
| November 3 | 21st New York City Women's Marathon won by Liz McColgan of Scotland in 2:27 |
| November 3 | 22nd New York City Marathon won by Salvador Garcia of Mexico in 2:09:28 |
| November 3 | Ayrton Senna wins shortest Formula One race ever run (17 laps) |
| November 4 | Mid East peace conference ends in Madrid Spain |
| November 5 | Kiichi Miyazawa elected premier of Japan |
| November 5 | Richard J. Kerr, ends term as acting director of CIA |
| November 6 | Grand duke Vladimir Kirillovitsj returns to St. Petersburg |
| November 6 | Keck II, biggest telescope in use at Mauna Kea Hawaii |
| November 6 | Maximus 2.0 BBS released |
| November 6 | "Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin" opens at Gershwin New York City for 32 performances |
| November 6 | Robert M. Gates, becomes 15th director of CIA |
| November 6 | Russian president Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party |
| November 7 | 1st NBA game in Delta City, Utah Jazz beats Seattle 103-95 |
| November 7 | "Brigadoon" opens at New York State Theater New York City for 12 performances |
| November 7 | Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus and retires from Los Angeles Lakers |
| November 7 | "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" opens at Music Box New York City |
| November 8 | Paul Coffey sets NHL defensman soring mark with 311th goal |
| November 9 | Houston's Roman Anderson is 1st NCAA to kick 400 pts |
| November 10 | Bernie Kosar ends NFL record of 308 passes without an interception |
| November 10 | Browns set club record for largest lead blown (led 23-0), Philadelphia 32-30 |
| November 10 | Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
| November 10 | Martina Navratilova ties Chris Evert, 157 pro tennis tournament wins |
| November 10 | Marty Glickman broadcasts his 1,000th football game |
| November 10 | South Africa's 1st cricket international since 1970 - one-day vs. India |
| November 12 | Atlanta Brave Tom Glavine wins NL Cy Young Award |
| November 12 | "Full House" 100th episode-twins are born |
| November 12 | Indonesian army shoots on funeral possession: 270-520 die |
| November 13 | Bomb attack on Aad Kosto, Dutch social dem party - Assistant Secretary of state |
| November 13 | Boston Red Sox Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award |
| November 14 | Michael Jackson's "Black or White" video premieres on FOX TV |
| November 14 | Pittsburgh Steelers guard Terry Long loses his steroids appeal and is suspended without pay by NFL for 4 weeks |
| November 15 | Dow Jones avg drops 120.31 points (5th largest dive) |
| November 15 | Ricky Pierce (Seattle) begins NBA free throw streak of 75 game |
| November 17 | 1st TV condom ad aired (FOX- TV) |
| November 17 | "Brigadoon" closes at New York State Theater New York City after 12 performances |
| November 17 | Detroit Lion Mike Utley is paralized in a game vs Los Angeles Rams |
| November 18 | Auburn men's basketball team was placed on 2 yr probation for recruiting violations and is not eligble for post-season play in 1991-92 |
| November 18 | France deports Marlon's daughter Cheyenne Brando to Tahiti |
| November 18 | Moslem Shites release hostages Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland |
| November 19 | Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken wins his 2nd AL MVP |
| November 20 | Atlanta Braves Terry Pendleton wins NL MVP |
| November 21 | Poet Maria Elene Cruz Varela arrested in Cuba |
| November 22 | New York Knicks pay Patrick Ewing a record $18.8 million for 2 yr extension |
| November 23 | A day before he dies, Freddie Mercury, 45, confirms he has AIDS |
| November 23 | Brigham Young Ty Detmer finishes NCAA career with record 4,031 yards passed in a season and 15,031 for career |
| November 23 | Evander Holyfield TKOs Bert Cooper in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
| November 23 | Martin Lopez-Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:56.57) |
| November 23 | Sacramento Kings ends NBA's longest road losing streak at 43 games |
| November 23 | Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Lorrie Nichols |
| November 24 | 1st International flight from Long Island's MacArthur Airport (to Mexico) |
| November 24 | 79th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Calgary Stampeders, 36-21 |
| November 24 | After going 12-0, Washington Redskins lose to Dallas 24-21 |
| November 24 | Monica Seles, sets female tennis record winning $2,457,758 in a year |
| November 24 | Rachmon Nabijev elected President of Tadzjikistan |
| November 24 | U.S. 75th manned space mission "STS-44" Atlantis 10 launched |
| November 26 | Condoms are handed out to thousands of New York High School students |
| November 27 | "Peter Pan" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 48 performances |
| November 27 | Poet Maria Elene Cruz Varela sentenced to 2 years (Cuba) |
| November 27 | Undertaker beats Hulk Hogan to become new WWF champ |
| November 29 | Test Cricket debut of Javagal Srinath, vs. Australia at the Gabba |
| November 29 | TV show "Roc" has a gay wedding episode - Can't Help Loving that Man |
| November 30 | 1st world championship of women's soccer, U.S. defeats Norway 2-1 |
| November 30 | 93 cars and 11 truck accident near San Francisco during a dust storm, 17 die |
| November 30 | Rob Pilatus, 27, of Milli-Vanilli attempts suicide |
| November 30 | San Diego State's Marshall Faulk is 1st freshman to capture national rushing and scoring titles |
| December 1 | 80th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Lyon (3-1) |
| December 1 | AIDS awareness day |
| December 1 | Colorado party wins Paraguay parliamentary election |
| December 1 | "Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin" closes at Gershwin New York City after 32 performances |
| December 1 | Nursultan Nazarbayev sworn in as president of Kazakhstan |
| December 1 | "Once on this Island" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 469 performances |
| December 1 | U.S. 75th manned space mission "STS-44" Atlantis 10 lands |
| December 1 | Ukrainian people vote for independence |
| December 2 | Bobby Bonilla signs record $29 million-5 year pact with New York Mets |
| December 2 | Muslim Shites release American held in Lebanon hostage Joseph Cicippio |
| December 3 | Hulk Hogan defeats Undertaker to become 4th time WWF champion |
| December 3 | Muslim Shites release U.S. hostage Alan Steen |
| December 3 | White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns |
| December 4 | Judds final concert (Nashville) |
| December 4 | Muslim Shites release last U.S. hostage Terry Anderson (held 6 years) |
| December 4 | Pan American World Airways ceased operations |
| December 5 | "Catskills on Broadway" opens at Lunt-Fontanne New York City for 452 performances |
| December 5 | Charles Keating, Jr. (Lincoln Savings and Loan fraud), found guilty |
| December 5 | NY Daily News files for protection under chapter 11 |
| December 6 | "Les Miserables" opens at Circustheater, Scheveningen |
| December 6 | "Star Trek VI-Undiscovered Country" premieres |
| December 7 | A J Kitt, U.S., wins World Skiing Cup |
| December 8 | "Homecoming" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 49 performances |
| December 8 | Kris Tschetter/Billy Andrade wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| December 8 | "Nick and Nora" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 9 performances |
| December 8 | Russia, Belorussia and Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States |
| December 9 | 2nd Billboard Music Awards |
| December 10 | "Crucible" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 32 performances |
| December 10 | Howard Spira sentenced to 2 years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner |
| December 10 | IM Pei receives $5 million for design of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
| December 10 | Jackie Martling walks off of Howard Stern show for one day |
| December 12 | Actor Richard Gere marries supermodel Cindy Crawford |
| December 12 | Maastricht Treaty signed to create a European Community |
| December 12 | New Jersey Nets set NBA record of 22 blocks beating Nuggets 121-81 |
| December 12 | Orion Pictures filed Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection |
| December 12 | Tampa Bay Bucaneer Dexter Manley, retires after failing drug test |
| December 13 | Both Koreas sign an accord calling for reconcilliation |
| December 13 | NY assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud |
| December 13 | Ricky Pierce (Seattle) ends NBA free throw streak of 75 games |
| December 14 | 57th Heisman Trophy Award: Desmond Howard, Michigan (WR) |
| December 14 | Ferry boat Salem Express sinks in Red Sea, 476 killed |
| December 15 | Deb Richard wins JBP Cup LPGA Match Play Golf Championship |
| December 15 | "Nick and Nora" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 9 performances |
| December 16 | Florida Marlins sign their 1st player, 16 year old pitcher Clemente Nunez |
| December 16 | U.N. reverses ruling that Zionism is racism by 111-25 (13 abstain) vote |
| December 17 | Cleveland Cavaliers beat Miami Heat 148-80, by record 68 pts |
| December 17 | NBA's most lopsided game Cleveland beats Miami 148-80 |
| December 17 | Patrick Manning becomes premier of Trinidad and Tobago |
| December 17 | Soap opera "One Life To Live" airs its 6,000th episode |
| December 18 | DeForest Kelly (Dr. McCoy on Star Trek) gets a star in Hollywood |
| December 18 | General Motors announces closing of 21 plants |
| December 19 | 6,000th episode of One Life To Live |
| December 19 | Boris Yeltsin takes control of Kremlin |
| December 19 | "Christmas Carol" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 14 performances |
| December 19 | New York Yankee pitcher Steve Howe arrested for cocaine possession |
| December 20 | NHL grants permanent membership to Tampa Lightning and Ottawa Senators |
| December 20 | Paul Keating installed as premier of Australia |
| December 21 | 95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery (#47996) |
| December 21 | El Sayid Nosair acquitted of killing Meir Kahane |
| December 21 | Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States |
| December 21 | U.S. actress Jane Fonda marries CNN-director Ted Turner |
| December 23 | NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns |
| December 25 | Last day of a washout Pakistan vs. Sri Lanka at Gujranwala |
| December 25 | Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigned as President of U.S.S.R. |
| December 26 | Chuck Knolls retires as NFL coach after 23 years |
| December 26 | Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220,000 in auction |
| December 26 | Militant Sikhs kill 55 and wound 70 in India |
| December 26 | New York Islander Derek King ties New Jersey Devils 5-5 with second left |
| December 27 | Bengals hire Dave Shula as youngest NFL coach (32) |
| December 27 | "Carol Burnett Show" last airs on CBS-TV |
| December 27 | Chuck Knox retires as Seattle Seahawks coach |
| December 28 | 8 are crushed to death at a RAP basketball game at City College, New York City |
| December 28 | Blockbuster Bowl 2: Alabama beats Colorado, 30-25 |
| December 28 | Irene the Icon of Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen |
| December 28 | Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiminez, 20, of Venezuela, crowned 41st Miss World |
| December 28 | Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of Year |
| December 29 | 12th United Negro College Fund |
| December 29 | Boeing 747-200F of China Airlines crash into mountain at Taipei |
| December 29 | "Christmas Carol" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 14 performances |
| December 31 | CPN, Communist Party of Netherland, last day of existance |
| December 31 | Daniel R McCarthy elected New York Yankee managing general partner |
| December 31 | Dow Jones closes at record high 3168.83 |
| December 31 | J Donald Crump resigned as CFL Commissioner |
| December 31 | U.S.S.R., last day of existence |
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