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1988-12-20
Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected pres of Sri Lanka
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1988
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20
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Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected pres of Sri Lanka
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12/1 - "596 dead after cyclone hits Bangladesh, half a million homeless"
12/1 - Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Moslem country (Pakistan)
12/1 - Chinese minister of Foreign affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow
12/1 - NBC bids record $401M to capture rights to 1992 Barcelona Olympics
12/1 - NY Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs St Louis Blues
12/2 - "Naked Gun premieres, a movie based on TV's ""Police Squad"""
12/2 - "5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel"
12/2 - "UN votes 151-2 (Isr & US) to move PLO debate to Geneva, Brit abstains"
12/3 - NY Lotto pays $45 million to twelve winner (#s are 1-8-13-18-28-48)
12/3 - "54th Heisman Trophy Award: Barry Sanders, Oklahoma State (RB)"
12/4 - Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash
12/4 - Amy Benz/John Huston wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
12/4 - Orioles trade veteran 1B Eddie Murray to the Dodgers
12/4 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
12/5 - Shuttle Atlantis launches world's 1st nuclear-war-fighting satellite
12/5 - NC federal grand jury indict PTL founder Jim Bakker on fraud & conspiracy
12/6 - Agnes Neil Williams purchases Baltimore Orioles for $70 million Eli Jacobs becomes CEO of Balt Orioles
12/6 - "Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown"
12/6 - "Milwaukee Bucks win their 1,000th NBA game (2nd fastest)"
12/6 - Merv Hughes takes 13 wickets v WI at the WACA but Australia lose
12/6 - Carlos Andres Perez re-elected president of Venezuela
12/6 - "Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden"
12/7 - Rangers sign free-agent pitcher Nolan Ryan to a one-year contract
12/7 - "NY Islanders fire Simpson, Arbour new coach"
12/7 - Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St crowds upon arrival in NYC
12/7 - Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN
12/7 - "6.9 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia (>25,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless)"
12/8 - "Knick's set NBA record of 11 3-pointers & sink Bucks, 113-109"
12/9 - "The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland is officially opened."
12/9 - NY Yankees sign 12-year television contract with MSG for $500M
12/10 - "Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie, vs Mont Canadiens"
12/12 - "3 trains collide in London, 40 die"
12/12 - NYC Subway system adds new stations (Z line)
12/12 - PLO leader Yasi Arafat accepts Israel's right to exist
12/12 - Sandra Miller of Queens sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
12/13 - Arafat addresses UN in Geneva
12/14 - US agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org (1st time in 13 yrs)
12/14 - Spanish General strike to protest austerity measures
12/14 - "NBA's Miami Heat wins 1st game ever, 89-88 (Clippers), after 17 loses"
12/14 - CBS' $1.1 B bid wins exclusive 1990-94 major-league baseball rights
12/15 - Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks
12/16 - "Political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche convicted of tax, mail fraud"
12/17 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
12/17 - "USS Tennessee, 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned"
12/17 - "NY Islanders break 12 game losing streak, beat Devils 5-2"
12/17 - Bryan Murray becomes 17th NHL coach to win 300 games (Wash Caps)
12/17 - 77th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Gothenburg (4-1)
12/18 - Seattle Seahawks win their 1st ever division title with 9-7 record
12/18 - "5th meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets win & eliminate Giants from playoffs"
12/19 - NASA unviels plans for lunar colony & manned missions to Mars
12/19 - Oklahoma's College football team gets 3 year probation
12/19 - "Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany-5,000 evacuated"
12/20 - "Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's dept store, London"
12/20 - "NBC signs lease to stay in NYC, 33 more years"
12/20 - Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected pres of Sri Lanka
12/21 - Pan AM Flight 103 was destroyed by a bomb killing 243 passengers and 16 crew (also known as the Lockerbie bombing)
12/21 - Vladimir Titov & Musa Manarov return to earth (a year) with Chretien
12/21 - NY bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die
12/21 - "Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine"
12/22 - "Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, is assassinated."
12/22 - "Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 mi of WA & BC coast"
12/22 - South Africa signs accord granting independence to South West Africa
12/22 - 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 M in NJ
12/26 - Legs Diamond opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 64 performances
12/26 - Anti African student rebellion in China PR
12/27 - Bulgaria stops jamming Radio Free Europe after more than 3 decades
12/28 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
12/28 - US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism
12/28 - "John Tarrant, 1st Aust born Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission"
12/29 - "Soviet Red Army Team edges NY Islanders, 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum"
12/29 - Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes
12/30 - Canadian Senate OK's free trade pact:: with US
12/30 - Former Soviet Pres Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery)
12/30 - Mercedes-Benz pays $20.2-M fine failed to meet '86 government fuel standard
12/30 - North subpoenas Reagan & Bush as defense witnesses for upcoming trial