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| 04 - Karni Bheel, who
boasted the longest moustache in India at 2.3m (7ft 10in) from tip to
tip, is found decapitated |
| 25 - Prince & Princess of
Wales visit Australia |
| 26 - Australia turns on a
Bicentenary Bash |
| 27 - Australian Reserve
Bank issues a polymer $10 note |
| 05 - Panama's General
Noriega arrested on drug charges |
| 08 - Mikhail Gorbachev
announces Soviet troops will begin withdrawal from Afghanistan on May
15 |
| 21 - Only a year after
calling Jim Bakker a "cancer on the body of Christ," Evangelist
Jimmy Swaggart makes a tearful television confession to an illicit affair
with Debra Murphee, a Louisiana prostitute |
| 24 - South African
government announces new curbs on the antiapartheid movement |
| 26 -
Gorbachev makes a
television appeal for calm following nationalist unrest in Armenia |
| 29 - Archbishop Desmond
Tutu and 100 clergy are arrested in Cape Town while petitioning
parliament |
| 03 - US Senate approves
support for the Nicaraguan Contras and aid for children caught in the
fighting |
| 07 - Three suspected IRA
bombers are shot dead in Gibraltar by British security forces |
| 10 - Royal ski party in
avalanche tragedy. Prince of Wales narrowly escapes death |
| 10 - Singer
Andy Gibb dies
at the age of 30 of inflammation of the heart |
| 11 - Robert C McFarlane,
former US National Security Adviser, pleads guilty in Iran-Contra
case |
| 15 - Sydney Sun
newspaper ceases publication |
| 16 - Mayhem erupts as the
three IRA members who were killed in Gibraltar, are buried in
Belfast. Three people are killed and fifty injured during funeral
violence |
| 16 - Lt. Col. Oliver North
is indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he conspired to
defraud the government in connection with the
Iran-Contra Affair. Two
days later, North resigns from the Marine Corps |
| 19 - In full view of
television cameras, two British soldiers blunder into an IRA funeral
cortege in West Belfast and meet their deaths at the hands of a
crazed lynch mob |
| 03 - Ethiopia and Somalia
conclude a peace agreement, ending 11 years of border disputes |
| 16 - PLO deputy Abu Jihad
murdered in Tunisia |
| 18 - US forces destroy
Iranian oil installations in retaliation for Iranian damaging of a US
frigate on April 14 |
| 20 - Senate votes 69-27 to
give $20,000 and an official apology to each of the
Japanese-Americans interned during World War II who are still living |
| 23 - US Stealth bomber
officially unveiled |
| 30 - Massive crowds flock
to Brisbane Expo in Australia |
| 04 - Queen opens Darling
Harbour, a new tourist retail park in Sydney, Australia |
| 08 - François Mitterrand is
re-elected president of France |
| 09 - The Queen opens
Australia's new Parliament House |
| 13 - Jazz great, Chet Baker
dies |
| 02 - Australian High Court
approves the publication of Peter Wright's book Spycatcher
despite UK government opposition |
| 05 - Australian Kay Cottee
becomes the first woman to sail the world non-stop |
| 20 - The Australian $2 coin
goes into circulation |
| 27 - Mike Tyson takes all
of 91 seconds to win $20 million by defeating Michael Spinks in an
Atlantic City championship fight |
| 01 - The National
conference of the USSR Communist party resolves to implement
Perestroika (reform of the Soviet system) |
| 03 - US warship
Vincennes shoots down an Iranian airliner and kills 286 people |
| 05 - US Attorney General
Edwin Meese, under fire for various alleged criminal misdeeds,
announces his resignation |
| 06 - 167 people die in an
explosion and fire on the North Sea oil rig Piper Alpha |
| 10 - Ethnic disputes flare
up in Burundi between the dominant Tutsi and the Hutus, leaving
thousands dead |
| 11 - Terrorists kill nine
tourists on Aegean cruise |
| 18 -
Velvet Underground
chanteuse Nico dies |
| 18 - A rock concert at
Wembley Stadium marks Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday and agitates for
his release from prison |
| 18/21 - Massachusetts
Governor Michael Dukakis is nominated for president by the Democratic
National Convention. Texas Senator Lloyd Bensten, Jr is nominated as
his running mate |
| 21 - Sydney monorail begins
operating |
| Yellowstone National Park suffers
the worst fire in its history. 88,000 acres burned |
| 08 - Iran-Iraq war ends in
ceasefire. The war has lasted eight years and more than one million
people have died |
| 15/18 - The Republican
National Convention nominates George Bush for president and Indiana
Senator Dan Quayle for Vice-President |
| 17 - Pakistan president
Zia-ul-Haq killed in plane crash |
| 25 - Space probe Voyager
II passes the planet Neptune |
| 04 - Floods devastate
Bangladesh - 25 million people are left homeless |
| 10 - The worst hurricane of
the century, Hurricane Gilbert, hits the South of Mexico and the
Caribbean |
| 17 - Canadian sprinter Ben
Johnson is stripped of his Olympic 100m Gold Medal and world record
for taking steroids |
| 30 - Soviet premier
Gorbachev is appointed President while retaining his position as
General Secretary of the Communist Party |
| 12 - Australian Police
officers shot dead in a Melbourne street |
| 13 -
Reagan signs a welfare
reform bill requiring single parents with children over three years
of age to get regular jobs, or enrol in job training or education
courses if they can't find work |
| 21 - Ferdinand and Imelda
Marcos, former President and first lady of the Philippines, are
indicted by a federal grand jury in New York City. The pair are
accused of embezzling more than $100 million of their government's
money and using it to buy office buildings in Manhattan, as well as
to add to Imelda's ever-expanding shoe collection |
| 08 -
George Bush is elected
US President, winning by a margin of nearly 7 million popular votes |
| 10 - UK resumes diplomatic
links with Iran |
| 16 - Benazir Bhutto is
elected prime minister of Pakistan, the first woman to lead a Muslim
country |
| 07 -
Roy Orbison dies aged
52 |
| 07 -
Gorbachev slashes Red
Army troops by 500,000 |
| 07 - PLO leader Arafat
renounces terrorism and recognises the state of Israel in a speech to
the UN |
| 10 - Armenian earthquake
wipes cities "off the face of the earth". More than 100,000 people
are dead, and ten times that amount are left homeless |
| 12 - Faulty signals cause
train tragedy at Clapham Junction, London, when a packed train piles
into the back of another. 36 dead |
| 21 - En route from London
to New York, a Libyan terrorist bomb causes a Pan Am Boeing 747 to
crash on the Scottish village of Lockerbie. 259 onboard are dead and
at least 11 on the ground |
| 31 - Prime Ministers Rajiv
Gandhi and Benazir Bhutto sign the first agreement between India and
Pakistan in 16 years |
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Feb 21 - US Evangelist
Jimmy
Swaggart confesses affair with prostitute
Mar 16 - Oliver North indicted by federal grand jury over
Iran-Contra
Affair
Mar 19 - Two British soldiers murdered by IRA funeral mob in Belfast
May 08 - François Mitterrand re-elected President of France
Sep 17 - Canadian Ben Johnson is stripped of Olympic 100m Gold Medal and
world record for taking steroids
Nov 08 -
George Bush
is elected US President
Nov 16 - Benazir Bhutto is elected prime minister of Pakistan, the first
woman to lead a Muslim country
Dec 07 - PLO leader Arafat renounces terrorism and recognizes the state
of Israel
Dec 12 - 36 die in train crash at Clapham Junction
Dec 21 - Libyan bomb causes a Pan Am 747 to crash on Scottish village of
Lockerbie. Over 260 dead
 British
novelist Salman Rushdie publishes his controversial novel Satanic Verses
Radiocarbon dating shows that the Turin Shroud, believed by some to carry the
imprint of Christ's face, in fact only dates from the 14th century
Construction begins on Sydney Harbour Tunnel
'Empire
Rose' wins Melbourne Cup |
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