Event of Interest
Sep 27 The National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi is founded in Burma (Myanmar)
- Sep 28 American athletes go 1-2-3 in the 400m at the Seoul Olympics with Steve Lewis taking the gold medal in 43.87 ahead of teammates Butch Reynolds & Danny Everett
- Sep 28 Australian Debbie Flintoff-King wins the 400m hurdles gold at the Seoul Olympics in 53.17, just 0.01 ahead of Tatyana Ledovskaya of the Soviet Union
- Sep 28 Bronx Museum for Arts opens
- Sep 28 Despite totally dominating his sport for 14 years, Ukrainian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka wins his only Olympic gold medal with a vault of 5.90m at the Seoul Games
- Sep 28 Javed Miandad scores his 19th Test Cricket century (v Aus, Faisalabad)
Sports History
Sep 28 LA Dodger Orel Herschiser breaks former Dodger Don Drysdale's record by pitching 59 consecutive scoreless innings
- Sep 29 26th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Discovery 7 launches
Olympic Gold
Sep 29 American athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee wins her second gold medal of the Seoul Olympics by taking the long jump with an Olympic record leap of 7.40m; previously won the heptathlon
World Record
Sep 29 American sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner sets women's 200m world record 21.34; completes sprint double at the Seoul Olympics
- Sep 29 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- Sep 29 East German athlete Christian Schenk beats countryman Torsten Voss by 89 points to win the decathlon gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; Canadian Dave Steen is another 71 points back in third place
- Sep 29 UN peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize
- Sep 29 Union Station reopens in Washington, D.C.
- Sep 29 US men's basketball team beats Australia 78-49 to take the bronze medal at the Seoul Olympics; last time US represented by a team that doesn't feature NBA players
- Sep 29 US retain women's basketball title at he Seoul Olympics with a 77-70 win over Yugoslavia; star guard Teresa Edwards top scores for the Americans with 18 points
- Sep 30 Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko retires as Soviet Foreign Minister
- Sep 30 Dave Stieb loses 2nd consecutive no hitter bid with 2 outs in 9th
- Sep 30 IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer
- Sep 30 Louise Ritter, US, jumps 6'8" to win Olympic gold medal
Givens, Tyson and Barbara Walter
Sep 30 Robin Givens and Mike Tyson appear on Barbara Walter's Show
- Sep 30 Soviet Union beats Yugoslavia 76-63 to win the men's basketball gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; US finishes 3rd; final time US field non-NBA team
