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- Jan 1 5% sales tax on consumer goods & services goes into effect in USSR
Iraq Rejects Peace
Jan 1 Iraq rejects peace proposal from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak over occupation of Kuwait
Gretsky Youngest to 700
Jan 3 Wayne Gretzky becomes fastest and youngest player in NHL history to score 700 goals (886 games at age 29 years, 342 days) in LA Kings’ 6-3 win over the NY Islanders at the Nassau Veteran Memorial Coliseum
- Jan 4 12-year-old Chinese diver Fu Mingxia wins 10m platform gold medal at World Swimming Championships in Perth, Australia; youngest world champion in the history of any aquatic event
- Jan 4 AT&T workers in Newark accidentally snap a cable
- Jan 4 Iraq agrees to send Aziz to Geneva to meet Baker on Jan 9th
- Jan 4 Jan Krzystof Bielecki becomes premier of Poland
- Jan 5 Edwin Jongejans of Netherlands wins 1-metre springboard diving title
- Jan 5 Kevin Bradshaw of US Intl scores NCAA Div 1 record 72 pts
- Jan 6 "Real Life With Jane Pauley" premieres on NBC-TV
- Jan 6 Jorge Serrano Elias elected President of Guatemala
- Jan 6 Portland Trail Blazers beat the Seattle SuperSonics, 114-111 before a sellout crowd at the Portland Memorial Coliseum; marks the Blazers' 600th consecutive sellout at home
- Jan 6 Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 sec)
- Jan 7 "Nia Peeples Party Machine" premieres on TV
Hussein Prepares Troops
Jan 7 Saddam Hussein prepares his troops for what he says will be a long violent war against the US
"Davis Rules"
Jan 8 "Davis Rules" with Jonathan Winters & Randy Quaid premieres on ABC-TV
- Jan 8 Tamas Darnyi swims world record 400m medley (4:12.36)
- Jan 9 Baker & Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse gulf crisis
Jordan Reaches 15,000 Points
Jan 9 Chicago's Michael Jordan scores a game-high 40 points to lead the Bulls to a 107-99 win over Philadelphia at the Spectrum; reaches the 15,000 point mark of his career
- Jan 9 Dean Smith of NC is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games
- Jan 10 Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans
- Jan 10 US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis
- Jan 11 Ben Johnson's 1st race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finishes 2nd
- Jan 11 Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq
- Jan 11 Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence
- Jan 12 Largest crowd to watch Atlantic Coast Women's Basketball game (11,520)
- Jan 12 Melvin Stewart swims world record 200 m butterfly (1:55.69)
US Congress Authorizes War
Jan 12 US Congress gives George H. W. Bush authority to wage war against Iraq
- Jan 13 Football fans of the Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates clash in Orkney, South Africa leading to a riot and 42 deaths in the Oppenheimer Stadium disaster
Soares Re-elected
Jan 13 President Mário Soares of Portugal re-elected
- Jan 13 Soviet troops continue attack on Vilnius, capital of Lithuania; 13 people killed and 140 injured as
- Jan 13 UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar meets with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
- Jan 14 "Barbara DeAngelis Show" premieres on CBS-TV
- Jan 14 Jorge Serrano Elias sworn in as President of Guatemala
- Jan 14 Tyne Daly arrested for drunk driving in Van Nuys, California
- Jan 14 Valentin Pavlov become new premier of USSR
Australia Own Victoria Cross
Jan 15 Elizabeth II signs letters patent that allows Australia to institute its own Victoria Cross, the first Commonwealth realm to do so
- Jan 15 UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't)
6th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Jan 16 6th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: LaVern Baker; The Byrds; John Lee Hooker; The Impressions; Wilson Pickett; Jimmy Reed; Ike and Tina Turner; Howlin' Wolf; Dave Bartholomew; and Ralph Bass
- Jan 17 Andy Van Hellemond sets NHL record for most games worked by a referee when he appears in his 1,173rd regular season encounter as the St. Louis Blues host the Montreal Canadiens
- Jan 17 Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V
- Jan 17 Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles on Israel
- Jan 17 Operation Desert Storm begins, with US-led coalition forces bombing Iraq, during the Gulf War
- Jan 18 Eastern Air Lines goes out of business after 62 years, citing financial problems.
- Jan 18 Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel
Noriega Paid $320,000
Jan 18 US acknowledges CIA and US Army paid Manuel Noriega $320,000 over his career
- Jan 18 WLAF's NY Knights become NY-NJ Knights
- Jan 19 Eastern Airlines shuts down operations
- Jan 19 Iraq files SCUD missiles at Tel Aviv and other cities in Israel during the Gulf War
- Jan 20 13th UCP Telethon
- Jan 20 Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.
- Jan 20 US Patriot missiles begins shooting down Iraqi missiles
- Jan 21 CBS News correspondant Bob Simon and four TV crew captured and held for 40 days by Iraqis in the Persian Gulf
- Jan 21 Sacramento's Dick Motta coaches in his 1,648th regular season game, a 97-94 Kings' victory over Houston; at the time an NBA record for the most regular-season coaching appearances
- Jan 22 Cholera epidemic begins in Peru with first known sufferer, 300,000 people infected over the next 12 months
Kuwaiti Oil Fires
Jan 22 Kuwaiti oil facilities are destroyed by Iraqi forces
- Jan 23 Bagogwe Massacre of Tutsi in and around Ruhengeri, Northern Rwanda
- Jan 23 World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait
- Jan 25 Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by US government
- Jan 25 Soap opera "Generation's" last episode after a 2½ year run
Hull's 50 Points Record
Jan 25 St. Louis right wing Brett Hull scores twice in Blues' 9-4 win at Detroit, to give him 50 goals in 49 games; becomes 3rd player in NHL history with 50 goals in less than 50 games
- Jan 26 Alfaro Vive guerrilla group of Ecuador gives arms to Catholic church
- Jan 26 Jan Stenerud becomes 1st pure placekicker to make NFL Hall of Fame
- Jan 26 NY Lotto pays $90 million to nine winners (#s are 5-15-30-35-46-50)
- Jan 27 Dutch Pacifist Socialistic Party disbands
- Jan 27 Nadine Strossen is 1st female president of the ACLU
- Jan 27 Super Bowl XXV, Tampa Stadium, Tampa, FL: New York Giants beat Buffalo Bills, 20-19; MVP: Ottis Anderson, NY Giants, RB
- Jan 28 "A Closer Look" with Faith Daniels premieres on NBC-TV
Boon's 9th Test Century
Jan 28 David Boon completes ninth Test century, 121 v England at Adelaide
- Jan 28 Dictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending 22 year rule
Mandela, Buthelezi Meet
Jan 29 Nelson Mandela and anti-Apartheid leader and Zulu prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi meet after 28 years
- Jan 29 The Battle of Khafji begins, the first major ground engagement of the Gulf War
- Jan 30 Iraqi troops gain control of Al Khafji inside the Saudi Arabian border
- Jan 31 "Close-Up", Iranian film directed by Abbas Kiarostami, starring Hossain Sabzian and Mohsen Makhmalbaf, is released
- Jan 31 Denver Nuggets Michael Adams becomes shortest NBAer to get a triple-double
- Jan 31 Robert Gibson flies record 27,040 feet altitude
- Feb 1 Afghanistan and Pakistan hit by earthquake, 1,200 die
"The Firm"
Feb 1 American writer John Grisham publishes his second novel "The Firm" (bestselling novel of the year)
- Feb 1 Australian cricket fast bowler Craig McDermott sets up a 9 wicket, 5th Test win over England with a career best 8-97 in Perth
Apartheid Laws To Be Repealed
Feb 1 South African President F. W. de Klerk says he will repeal all apartheid laws
- Feb 1 US Air & Skywest Fairchild jet collide at LA Airport killing 32
- Feb 2 Aravinda De Silva scores 267 v NZ at Wellington
- Feb 2 NH snaps its 32-game losing streak at home beating Holy Cross, 72-56
- Feb 2 US postage is raised from 25 cents to 29 cents
Trebak Makes Game Show History
Feb 4 Alex Trebek becomes first person to host three American game shows at the same time (Jeopardy!, Classic Concentration, To Tell the Truth)
- Feb 4 Baseball's Hall of Fame board of directors vote 12-0 to bar Pete Rose, due to his betting on games while a player and manager
Record 467 Stand
Feb 4 NZ cricketers Martin Crowe and Andrew Jones make a world record 467 run stand, against Sri Lanka at the Basin Reserve in Wellington
- Feb 4 US postage raises from 25 cents to 29 cents
Kevorkian Barred Assisting Suicides
Feb 5 A Michigan court bars Dr Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides
- Feb 5 All American Bowl ends after 14 years
- Feb 5 Big East Football conference forms
Stern Kisses Marshall
Feb 5 Howard Stern kisses NY Giant Leonard Marshall's ass over bet, Stern lost claiming the Giants would lose the Super Bowl
- Feb 5 LA King Dave Taylor becomes 29th NHler to score 1000 points
- Feb 6 Mousey Davis becomes 1st coach of NY-NJ Knights
NBA Hall of Fame
Feb 7 Bob Knight, Larry O'Brien, Tiny Archibald, Dave Cowens, Harry Gallatin & Larry Fleisher elected to NBA Hall of Fame
- Feb 7 Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected president
Attempt on John Major
Feb 7 Provisional Irish Republican Army launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting in an attempt to assassinate UK Prime Minister John Major, injuring four people
Clemens Signs Contract
Feb 8 Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract
- Feb 9 "This Is Ponderous" by 2nu peaks at #46
- Feb 9 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5k (6:41:73)
Norris vs. Leonard
Feb 9 Terry Norris knocks down Sugar Ray Leonard twice and beats him to defend his WBC Super Welterweight title
- Feb 9 US Supreme Court agrees to hear Joseph Doherty case
- Feb 10 Johann Koss skates world record 10 km (13:43.54)
- Feb 10 Lithuania votes for independence from USSR
- Feb 11 Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) forms in The Hague, Netherlands
- Feb 12 Iceland recognizes Lithuania's independence
- Feb 12 North & South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition
- Feb 13 Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel
- Feb 13 US air raid on the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad kills more than 408 civilians
- Feb 13 US bombs Iraqi air raid shelter, killing 334
The Silence of the Lambs
Feb 14 "The Silence of the Lambs" film based on the book by Thomas Harris, directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, is released (Best Picture 1992)
- Feb 14 NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 mil salary arbitration
- Feb 15 Daily market volatility as Hussein mentions withdrawal, but Bush calls his offer a "cruel hoax"
- Feb 15 Freighter with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand, 120 die
- Feb 15 Troy State sets NCAA Div II record with 103 points in 2nd half routing DeVry Institute 187-117
- Feb 16 Dutch PPR, Political Party Radicals, disbands
- Feb 17 33rd Daytona 500: Ernie Irvan, driving for Morgan-McClure Motorsports coasts to win after challengers crash on finals laps
Sports History
Feb 18 Edmonton Oiler goalie Grant Fuhr returns to NHL after season-long suspension for substance abuse & shuts out NJ Devils 4-0
Night Ride Home
Feb 19 Geffen Records releases "Night Ride Home", Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's 14th studio album
Grammy Awards
Feb 20 33rd Grammy Awards: "Another Day in Paradise"; Mariah Carey win
Event of Interest
Feb 20 A gigantic statue of Albania's long-time dictator, Enver Hoxha, is brought down in the Albanian capital, Tirana, by mobs of angry protesters
Cricket Debut
Feb 22 Test Cricket debut of Sanath Jayasuriya, vs NZ at Hamilton
- Feb 23 Greg Haugen scores a split decision over Hector "Macho" Camacho
- Feb 23 Military coup in Thailand, Premier Choonhaven arrested
- Feb 23 NC is 1st NCAA basketball team to win 1,500 games
- Feb 23 US President George H. W. Bush gives Iraq a 24-hour deadline to withdraw from Kuwait or face a ground war
- Feb 24 End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft
- Feb 24 Gulf War: US-led forces begin Operation Desert Sabre, the ground invasion of southern Iraq and Iraqi-occupied Kuwait
- Feb 25 Andrew Jones scores twin Test Cricket tons v Sri Lanka (122 & 100*)
- Feb 25 Businessman Bruce McNall, hockey legend Wayne Gretzky and actor John Candy buy CFL's Toronto Argonauts
- Feb 25 Gulf War: Iraqi Scud missile hits US barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, kills 28
- Feb 26 Asanka Gurusinha scores twin Test Cricket tons v NZ (119 & 102)
Baseball Hall of Fame
Feb 26 Bill Veeck & Tony Lazzeri elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
- Feb 26 Gulf War: Battle of 73 Easting - Coalition forces win decisive victory over Iraq in tank battle involving 500-700 combined vehicles
Highway of Death
Feb 26 Gulf War: Coalition planes bomb Iraqi forces retreating from Kuwait, killing hundreds and creating the so-called 'Highway of Death'
- Feb 26 Gulf War: Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital
- Feb 26 NY-NJ Knights (WLAF) players 1st come together
- Feb 26 Signs of Iran crude now an option for US refiners, but no imports from Iran likely in near future
- Feb 27 Ben Elton's "Silly Cow" premieres in London
- Feb 27 Noureddine Morcelli set 1500m mark at 3:34:16
Music History
Feb 27 Singer James Brown is paroled from prison after serving 2 years of 6 year sentence for weapon and drug related convictions
- Feb 28 Gulf War ends after Iraq accepts a ceasefire following their retreat from Kuwait
Sports History
Feb 28 New York Yankees Don Mattingly named 10th team captain
- Feb 28 Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m indoor (3:34:16)
- Mar 1 US Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens
- Mar 2 Del Ballard Jr throws most famous gutter ball in PBA Tour history
- Mar 2 NC State point guard Chris Corchiani becomes 1st NCAA Div I player to record 1,000 career assists in a 89-84 loss to Wake Forest
- Mar 2 St. Louis right wing Brett Hull becomes a 70-goal scorer for the 2nd straight season and has 3 assists to help the Blues earn a 4-4 tie in Philadelphia; finishes season with NHL career-best 86 goals
- Mar 2 UN votes in favor of US resolutions for cease fire with Iraq
- Mar 2 US Army controversially destroys a retreating Iraqi Republican Guard column at Rumaila Oil Field, despite a ceasefire being observed
- Mar 3 David Boon completes 10th Test Cricket century, 109* v WI at Kingston
Event of Interest
Mar 3 Iraqi generals and US general "Stormin' Norman" Schwarzkopf meet to discuss Gulf War cease fire
- Mar 3 Latvia & Estonia vote to become independent of the USSR
Rodney King Riots
Mar 3 Los Angeles police officers severely beat motorist Rodney King, the beating is famously captured on amateur video and later leads to riots when the police officers are acquitted
- Mar 3 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (22.24 sec)
- Mar 3 Miguel Trovoada installed as president of Sao Tomé e Principal
- Mar 3 Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18
- Mar 3 United Airlines 737 crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25
- Mar 4 Bank of Credit & Commerce Intl divests itself of 1st American Bank
- Mar 4 Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British & 1 Italian POW
- Mar 5 Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait
- Mar 5 Reggie Miller (Indiana Pacers) begins NBA free throw streak of 52 games
- Mar 6 Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, US President George H. W. Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over"
- Mar 7 Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait
- Mar 8 Planeloads of US troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists and 2 American soldiers it captured
- Mar 8 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Mar 9 Joe Dumaars (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 62 games
- Mar 9 US 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit
- Mar 10 Eddie Sutton is 1st NCAA coach to lead 4 schools into playoffs
- Mar 10 Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg clinches his 4th slalom World Cup
- Mar 10 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 m indoor (22.24 sec)
- Mar 10 Rico Lieder, Jens Carlowitz, Karsten Just and Thomas Schonlebe walk 4x400m indoor world record (3:03.05)
Music Concert
Mar 10 Rock for the Rainforest benefit concert held at Carnegie Hall, NYC; performers include: Sting, Elton John, Gilberto Gil; Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Caetano Veloso
Music History
Mar 11 Janet Jackson signs $40M 3 album deal with Virgin records
- Mar 11 John Smith, US amateur wrestler, wins James E Sullivan Award
Sports History
Mar 11 Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1
- Mar 12 OPEC announces oil production cut to 22.3 Mbbl/d (3,550,000 m3/d)
- Mar 13 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill
- Mar 13 Saudi Arabia and Iran say OPEC oil production cuts will take effect April 1
- Mar 14 Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave
- Mar 14 English Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment
- Mar 14 Ice Dance Championship at Munich won by Isabel & Phil Duchesnay (FRA)
- Mar 14 Ice Pairs Championship at Munich won by N Mishkutenok & A Dmitriev
Music Concert
Mar 14 The Dave Matthews Band perform their first show as part of a benefit for the Middle East Children's Alliance, in Charlottesville, Virginia
US History
Mar 15 Four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department are charged with excessive force over the beating of Rodney King
- Mar 15 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record 6.14m (20 feet 1 3/4)
- Mar 15 Territories of Amapa & Roraima become states in Brazil
- Mar 16 Members of Irish Gay & Lesbian Organization march in NYC parade
- Mar 16 NJ Net coach Bill Fitch is 4th coach to win 800 NBA games
- Mar 16 NY Lotto pays $33.3 million to one winner (#s are 18-21-32-33-35-38)
Plane Crash
Mar 16 Seven members of Reba McEntire's band, and the road manager, are killed in a plane crash; one of two private jets being used by the group clipped a mountain near San Diego, California shortly after take-off, pilot and co-pilot also
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