Jan 1David Dinkins sworn in as 1st African American mayor of New York City

Jan 3 Panama's leader GeneralManuel Noriega surrenders to US authorities

Jan 9Jim Palmer &Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

Jan 10 China lifts martial law, imposed after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989

Jan 11 NHL New York IslanderPat Lafontaine sets team record by scoring goals in 11 straight games

Jan 12 Civil rights activist ReverendAl Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn

Jan 14 Un Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in Gulf

Jan 15 42-year-old former world heavyweight boxing championGeorge Foreman stops Gerry Cooney in 2 rounds in Atlantic City in a non-title bout; Cooney's last fight

Jan 15 In a shrewd move, Detroit Tigers sign first basemanCecil Fielder who spent previous season in Japan; hits 51 homers this MLB season and becomes a premier power hitter for most of the 1990s

Jan 17 5th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Hank Ballard; Bobby Darin; The Four Seasons; The Four Tops; The Kinks; The Platters; Simon and Garfunkel; The Who;Louis Armstrong; Charlie Christian; Ma Rainey; Gerry Goffin andCarole King; and Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland

Jan 21John McEnroe becomes the first player to be expelled from the Australian Open

Jan 22 PresidentMikhail Gorbachev sends Red Troops into the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan

Jan 28 Super Bowl XXIV, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, LA: San Francisco 49ers beat Denver Broncos, 55-10; MVP:Joe Montana, SF, QB

Jan 30 LA centerWayne Gretzky sets NHL record by scoring his 100th point of the season for the 11th straight season; milestone comes with an assist in a 5-2 Kings' win over visiting New Jersey Devils

Feb 2 South African PresidentF. W. de Klerk promises to freeNelson Mandela and legalizes ANC and 60 other political organizations

Feb 3 American jockeyBill Shoemaker (58), retires after his 40,350 horse race, he continues his career as a horse trainer

Feb 3Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Smither Center for Alcohol rehabilitation

Feb 6Brett Hull becomes 1st son of NHL 50 goal scorer (Bobby Hull) to also score 50 goals

Feb 10 South African PresidentF. W. de Klerk announcesNelson Mandela will be freed on February 11th

Feb 11 In a huge upset, James "Buster" Douglas KOsMike Tyson in 10th round in Tokyo, Japan to win the world heavyweight boxing title

Feb 12 Rock for the Rainforest benefit concert held in Beverly Hills, California; performers include:Sting,Bruce Springsteen,Herbie Hancock,Paul Simon, Don Henley, and Bruce Hornsby

Feb 13Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games

Feb 18 32nd Daytona 500: Derrike Cope wins afterDale Earnhardt shreds right rear tyre on last lap

Feb 21 "The Batman Theme" byDanny Elfman wins Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition at 32nd Annual Grammy Awards

Feb 21 32nd Grammy Awards:Bette Midler's "Wind Beneath My Wings" (both Record of the Year and Song of the Year), and Bonnie Raitt's "Nick of Time" (Album of the Year) win

Feb 25 On a BBC taped interview, American rock starStevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children and that no man can stand her for long

Feb 26 PresidentDaniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front is defeated in the Nicaraguan general election by the National Opposition Union

Feb 27 Final day of the rum ration in the Royal New Zealand Navy

Mar 20 LA Lakers retiresKareem Abdul-Jabbar's #33

Mar 20 SingerGloria Estefan fractures her spine when a truck hits her tour bus near Scranton, Pennsylvania

Mar 21 TV sitcom "Sydney" starringValerie Bertinelli,Matthew Perry and Craig Bierko premieres on CBS-TV

Mar 26 62nd Academy Awards: "Driving Miss Daisy",Daniel Day-Lewis,Jessica Tandy win

Mar 26 Japanese filmmakerAkira Kurosawa wins the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement

Mar 28Michael Jordan scores 69 points, 4th time he scores 60 pts in a game

Mar 28 US PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush posthumously awardsJesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal

Mar 30Jack Nicklaus debuts on the Senior PGA Tour with a 71 (-1) in the first round of The Tradition at Desert Mountain and wins the event by four strokes overGary Player

Mar 31 "Carol & Company" starringCarol Burnett premieres on NBC-TV

Mar 31 20-year old Quebec Nordiques' centerJoe Sakic scores a goal in a 3-2 loss to Hartford to become the youngest player in NHL history to score 100 points in a season

Mar 31 Robert Wilson,Tom Waits, andWilliam S. Burroughs' avant garde opera "The Black Rider" premieres March 31, 1990 at the Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Germany

Apr 5John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record 3 yrs in a row

Apr 5Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity

Apr 7Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations

Apr 8 "Twin Peaks" created byDavid Lynch and starring Kyle MacLachlan premieres on ABC-TV

Apr 9Don Mattingly signs a $19.7 million 5-year contract extension with New York Yankees

Apr 12 Anime TV series "Moomin", based on Moomin children's books byTove Jansson 1st appears on Tokyo TV

Apr 12James Brown moves to a work-release center after serving 15 months of 6 year sentence for weapon and drug related convictions

Apr 13 Final episode ofPat Sajak's late night TV show on CBS