Mamta Bansal
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History of 7 September
1998 - Mark McGwire set a
new major league baseball record for most homeruns hit in a single
season. The previous record was 61 set in 1961 by...
History of 6 September
1998 - Mark McGwire set a
new major league baseball record for most homeruns hit in a single
season. The previous record was 61 set in 1961 by...
History of 5 September
1990 - Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein urged for a Holy War against the West and former allies.1991 - Soviet lawmakers created an
interim government to usher...
History of 4 September
1993 - Jim Abbott (New York Yankees)
pitched a no-hitter. Abbott had been born without a right hand.1993 - Pope John Paul II started his
first...
History of 3 September
1994 - Russia and China announced
that they would no longer be targeting nuclear missiles or using force against
each other.1999 - Mario Lemieux's ownership
group officially...
History of 31 August
1990 - East and West Germany signed
a treaty that meant the harmonizing of political and legal systems.1991 - Uzbekistan and Kirghiziz
declared their independence from...
History of 30 August
1991 - The Soviet republic of
Azerbaijan declared its independence.1993 - On CBS-TV "The Late Show
with David Letterman" premiered.1994 - Rosa Parks was robbed and
beaten...
History of 29 August
1990 - Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein, in a television interview, declared that America could not defeat
Iraq.1991 - The Communist Party in the
Soviet Union had its...
History of 28 August
1990 - Iraq declared Kuwait to be
its 19th province and renamed Kuwait City al-Kadhima.1995 - The biggest bank in the U.S.
was created when Chase...
History of 27 August
1990 - The U.S. State
Department ordered the expulsion of 36 Iraqi diplomats.1991 - The Soviet republic of
Moldavia declared its independence.1996 - California Governor
Pete Wilson signed an order that...
History of 26 August
1990 - The 55 Americans at
the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait left Baghdad by car and headed for the
Turkish border.1991 - Soviet President Mikhail S.
Gorbachev promised that...
History of 25 August
1990 - Military action was
authorized by the United Nations to enforce the trade embargo that had been
placed on Iraq after their invasion of Kuwait.1991...
