2nd » Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.
5th » General elections are held in Nicaragua with the Sandinista National Liberation Front winning a majority.
7th » U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-Texas named TX) and 15 others die in a Aviation accidents and incidents called plane crash in Ethiopia.
8th » Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
18th » Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
19th » President of Poland Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity (Polish trade union) Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-Communism communist prime minister in 42 years.
19th » Radio Caroline, the offshore pirate station in the North Sea, is raided by British and Netherlands called Dutch governments.
19th » Several hundred East Germany named East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events that began the process of the Berlin Wall The Fall named Fall of the Berlin Wall.
20th » The pleasure boat Marchioness disaster e.g 'Marchioness' sinks on the River Thames following a collision. Fifty-one people are killed.
22nd » Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
23rd » Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way).
24th » Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Government of Colombia e.g Colombian government.
24th » Cincinnati Reds Manager (baseball) called manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner of Baseball (MLB) known as Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
24th » Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central Europe or Central and Eastern Europe.
25th » Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the second to last planet in the Solar System at the time.