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Events on the year of 1987 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1987 60 bodies recovered in Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in Puerto Rico
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01 Jan 1987 International Year of Shelter for Homeless begins
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01 Jan 1987 A value-added tax is introduced in Greece for the first time.
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02 Jan 1987 Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ
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03 Jan 1987 "Oh Coward!" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 56 performances
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03 Jan 1987 "Smile" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 48 performances
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03 Jan 1987 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin
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03 Jan 1987 Singer / Miss America Vanessa Williams marries Ramon T Hervey in New York City
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04 Jan 1987 16 die in a train crash in Chase, Maryland
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04 Jan 1987 The 1987 Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route to Boston from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, killing 16 people.
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05 Jan 1987 Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack, New Jersey
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06 Jan 1987 100th US Congress convenes
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06 Jan 1987 Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy
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07 Jan 1987 French airplanes harass Libyan positions in Duadi Doum
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07 Jan 1987 Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket, at 28 the youngest
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08 Jan 1987 Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25)
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09 Jan 1987 Chinese / Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed
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09 Jan 1987 New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect
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09 Jan 1987 Sir Rudolph Bing (of New York Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass
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11 Jan 1987 Largest crowd (76,633) at NFL New York Giant Stadium (beat Washington 17-0)
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12 Jan 1987 Britain's Prince Edward resigns from his Royal Marines training
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13 Jan 1987 W German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking
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13 Jan 1987 7 top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each
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14 Jan 1987 Catfish Hunter & Billy Williams are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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17 Jan 1987 President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran
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18 Jan 1987 11th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Days of Our Live wins
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19 Jan 1987 Guy Hunt becomes Alabama's 1st Republican governor since 1874
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20 Jan 1987 Church of England envoy Terry Waite is kidnapped in Lebanon.
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20 Jan 1987 Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon
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20 Jan 1987 Rhino Records 1st #1-Billy Vera & the Beaters' "At This Moment"
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21 Jan 1987 Archbishop's envoy Terry Waite disappears in Lebanon
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21 Jan 1987 BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to University of Mississippi
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22 Jan 1987 Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañang Palace, Manila, killing 13.
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22 Jan 1987 Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself during a televised press conference, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.
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22 Jan 1987 Blizzard in New Jersey, as 334 attend the Devils-Flame NHL game, New Jersey wins 7-5
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23 Jan 1987 Dow Jones rises 64 points then drops 110 points (44.15 point loss)
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23 Jan 1987 Japan 1st exceeds military spending cap of 1% of GNP ($23 billion)
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24 Jan 1987 61st Australian Women's Tennis H Mandlikova beat M Navratilova (75 76)
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25 Jan 1987 75th Australian Mens Tennis S Edberg beats Pat Cash (63 64 36 57 63)
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25 Jan 1987 Super Bowl XXI New York Giants beat Denver Broncos, 39-20 in Pasadena; Super Bowl MVP Phil Simms, New York Giants, Quarterback
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26 Jan 1987 14th American Music Award Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie & Alabama
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26 Jan 1987 Hart Foundation beat British Bulldogs for WWF tag team title
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27 Jan 1987 Midnight Rockers beat Buddy Rose & Doug Somers for AWA World Tag Team
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28 Jan 1987 US Foreign minister George Shultz meets ANC-leader Oliver Tambo
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28 Jan 1987 Wrestler Jim Neidhart indicted for assaulting a flight attendant
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29 Jan 1987 Lisa files for separation from husband New York Met Darryl Strawberry
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29 Jan 1987 William J Casey, ends term as 13th director of CIA
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31 Jan 1987 United Steelworkers union ratified a concessionary contract with USX Corp
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31 Jan 1987 44th Golden Globes Platoon, Marlee Matlin win
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01 Feb 1987 163 day strike against Deere and Co ends, workers accept wage freeze
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01 Feb 1987 38,873 NBA crowd watch Chicago at Detroit
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01 Feb 1987 Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
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01 Feb 1987 NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 10-6
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02 Feb 1987 Kansas City Royal pitcher Dennis Leonard (3X 20 game winner), retires
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02 Feb 1987 Philippines adopts constitution
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02 Feb 1987 After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution.
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03 Feb 1987 Expos trade Jeff Reardon to Twins for Neal Heaton
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04 Feb 1987 Sacramento Kings score only 4 points 1st quarter against Lakers; fewest in a period since introduction of 24 second shot-clock in 1954
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05 Feb 1987 Dow Jones average closes above 2,200 for 1st time
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05 Feb 1987 Soyuz TM-2 launches
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06 Feb 1987 No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings
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06 Feb 1987 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
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06 Feb 1987 Justice Mary Gaudron is appointed to the High Court of Australia, the first woman to be appointed.
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07 Feb 1987 "Ronnies Rap" by Ron and DC Crew peaks at #93
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07 Feb 1987 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
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08 Feb 1987 37th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 154-149 (OT) at Seattle
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08 Feb 1987 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
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09 Feb 1987 Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide
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09 Feb 1987 New York Stock Exchange installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club
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10 Feb 1987 Philippine troops murder 17 civilians-Lupao Massacre
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11 Feb 1987 British Airways begins trading stocks
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11 Feb 1987 England beat Australia 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
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11 Feb 1987 Philippines constitution goes into effect
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11 Feb 1987 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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12 Feb 1987 Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 million damages
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13 Feb 1987 Tigers' Jack Morris awarded $1.85 million salary by arbitrator
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14 Feb 1987 53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Philadelphia at Detroit
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15 Feb 1987 ABC-TV begins broadcasting "Amerika" mini-series
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15 Feb 1987 Craig Stadler disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot
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15 Feb 1987 Karlstad skates world record 10km (14:03,92)
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15 Feb 1987 Nikolai Guljajev becomes world champion skater
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16 Feb 1987 John Demjanjuk, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" trial begins
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16 Feb 1987 The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.
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17 Feb 1987 Don Mattingly wins highest salary arbitration ($1,975,000 per year)
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17 Feb 1987 Michelle Renee Royer, 21, (Texas), crowned 36th Miss USA
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19 Feb 1987 "Stardust" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 102 performances
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19 Feb 1987 Minnesota sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G Harrelson
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19 Feb 1987 Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner
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19 Feb 1987 Less than a month after re-signing, A's pitcher Vida Blue retires
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19 Feb 1987 Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland
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20 Feb 1987 Unabomber: In Salt Lake City, a bomb explodes in a computer store.
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20 Feb 1987 Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City
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20 Feb 1987 David Hartman quits ABC's "Good Morning America", after 11 years
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21 Feb 1987 Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Tsumura Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
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21 Feb 1987 Syrian army marches into Beirut
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22 Feb 1987 Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200 meter indoor (20.36 seconds)
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23 Feb 1987 Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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23 Feb 1987 Supernova 1987A in LMC 1st seen; 1st naked-eye supernova since 1604
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23 Feb 1987 Dick Howser retires from managing Kansas City Royals, due to brain tumor
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23 Feb 1987 Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member
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24 Feb 1987 Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack
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24 Feb 1987 29th Grammy Awards Higher Love, Graceland, Bruce Hornsby win
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24 Feb 1987 Los Angeles Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point
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25 Feb 1987 Southern Methodist University's football program is the first college football program to receive the death penalty by the NCAA's Committee on Infractions. It was revealed that athletic officials and school administrators had knowledge of a "slush fund" used to make illegal payments to the school's football players as far back as 1981.
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25 Feb 1987 Michael Jordan, scores Chicago Bull record 58 points in a game
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25 Feb 1987 US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action
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25 Feb 1987 LaMarr Hoyt is banned from baseball for 1987, due to drug abuse
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26 Feb 1987 Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
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26 Feb 1987 1st release of Beatles compact discs
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26 Feb 1987 NASA launches GEOS-H
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26 Feb 1987 NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points is a Chicago Bull record
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26 Feb 1987 Washington blocks 20 Indiana shots tying NBA regulation game record
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26 Feb 1987 Tower Commission probes Iran-Contra affair
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27 Feb 1987 "Washington Week In Review, " 20th anniversary on PBS
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27 Feb 1987 Donald Regan resigned as White House chief of staff
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27 Feb 1987 NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption
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27 Feb 1987 Mike Conley triple jumps world indoor record (17.76 meters)
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03 Mar 1987 Ray Dandridge, 3rd baseman in Negro Leagues, eleected to Hall of Fame
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06 Mar 1987 6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, kills 100
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06 Mar 1987 Belgium ferry boat "Herald of Free Enterprise" capsizes / sinks; 192 die
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06 Mar 1987 The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
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07 Mar 1987 Mike Tyson beats Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
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08 Mar 1987 17th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,184,425
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08 Mar 1987 FBI apprehends most wanted Claude L Dallas, Jr in California
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08 Mar 1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA GNA / Glendale Federal Golf Classic
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08 Mar 1987 Nelli Cooman becomes world champion 60m indoor
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09 Mar 1987 Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion
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10 Mar 1987 Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization & embryo transfer
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11 Mar 1987 Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point
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12 Mar 1987 "Les Miserables" opens at Broadway / Imperial NYC for 4000+ performances
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12 Mar 1987 Ice Pairs Championship at Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva and Grinkov (URS)
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12 Mar 1987 David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game
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12 Mar 1987 Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North
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12 Mar 1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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12 Mar 1987 World Ice Dance Championship in Cincinnati won by Bestemianova & Bukin (USSR)
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12 Mar 1987 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva & Grinkov (USSR)
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12 Mar 1987 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt (German Democratic Republic)
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12 Mar 1987 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (Canada)
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13 Mar 1987 Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS)
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13 Mar 1987 John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering
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13 Mar 1987 Washington Capitals score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 minutes & 3 seconds
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14 Mar 1987 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt
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14 Mar 1987 New York Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl
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14 Mar 1987 Providence, with Billy Donovan's 25 points, beats Austin Peay 90-87
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14 Mar 1987 Skier Piotr Fijas jumps record 194 meter
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15 Mar 1987 "Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 761 performances
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15 Mar 1987 "Sweet Charity" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 368 performances
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15 Mar 1987 13th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby
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15 Mar 1987 Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes & Joel Garner
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15 Mar 1987 New Zealand beat West Indies by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket
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15 Mar 1987 US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay
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17 Mar 1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3
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17 Mar 1987 Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an inning of 96 vs Pakistan
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18 Mar 1987 Gerber survey find most popular names for newborns (Jessica & Matthew)
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18 Mar 1987 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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19 Mar 1987 Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell.
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19 Mar 1987 Bonnie Blair skates ladies world record 500 meter (39.43 seconds)
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19 Mar 1987 Fred Currey acquires Greyhound Bus Company
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19 Mar 1987 Hassanali inaugurated as President of Trinidad & Tobago
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19 Mar 1987 PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns after sex scandal with Jessica Hahn
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19 Mar 1987 Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 3 km (4:16.85)
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20 Mar 1987 Soap opera "Capitol" final episode
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20 Mar 1987 The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
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20 Mar 1987 FDA approves sale of AZT (AIDS treatment)
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20 Mar 1987 NASA launches Palapa B2P
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20 Mar 1987 Soap opera "Capitol" final episode
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20 Mar 1987 Soviet filmmakers arrive in Hollywood for an entertainment summit
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20 Mar 1987 Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 5 km (7: 0.36)
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21 Mar 1987 PSV sells soccer player Ruud Gullit to AC Milan (
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22 Mar 1987 Betsy King wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open
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23 Mar 1987 Soap "Bold and the Beautiful" premieres
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23 Mar 1987 Soap opera "Bold & Beautiful" premieres
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23 Mar 1987 US offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf
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23 Mar 1987 West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns
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24 Mar 1987 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win
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24 Mar 1987 Western Australia win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria
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25 Mar 1987 Supreme Court rules women/minorities may get jobs if less qualified
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26 Mar 1987 August Wilson's "Fences" premieres in New York NY
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26 Mar 1987 Hyderabad beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
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26 Mar 1987 NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit
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26 Mar 1987 National Federation of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet)
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27 Mar 1987 President Habr
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28 Mar 1987 Stacking of Discovery's SRBs gets underway
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29 Mar 1987 7th Golden Raspberry Awards: Howard the Duck wins
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29 Mar 1987 6th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Louisiana Tech 67-44
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29 Mar 1987 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
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29 Mar 1987 Wrestlemania III-93,173 watch Hulk Hogan beat Andre the Giant
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29 Mar 1987 Yitzhak Shamir re-elected chairman of right wing Herut Party
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30 Mar 1987 59th Academy Awards - "Platoon, " Paul Newman and Marlee Matlin win
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30 Mar 1987 Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" sells for record
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31 Mar 1987 49th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Syracuse 74-73
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02 Apr 1987 Doc Gooden undergoes cocaine rehabilitation
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02 Apr 1987 IBM introduces PS / 2 and OS / 2
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03 Apr 1987 Bill Elliott sets NASCAR qualify record of 212.809 mph at Talladega
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04 Apr 1987 Dow Jones up 69.89 points, ending at record 2,390.34 pts
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05 Apr 1987 16th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King
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05 Apr 1987 Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children and Tracey Ullman
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05 Apr 1987 Wayne Gretzky wins 7th straight NHL scoring title
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06 Apr 1987 22nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis and Hank Williams Jr
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06 Apr 1987 Al Campanis appears on Niteline saying blacks may not be equiped to be in baseball management, sparking a racial controversy
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06 Apr 1987 Sugar Ray Leonard upsets Marvelous Marvin Hagler
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07 Apr 1987 Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on "Nightline"
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07 Apr 1987 National Museum of Female Physician opens in Washington DC
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08 Apr 1987 Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racially charged remarks he had made while on Nightline.
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09 Apr 1987 For 3rd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 goals in a Stanley Cup game Wayne Gretzky passes Jean Beliveau as all time playoff scoring champ
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11 Apr 1987 The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
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11 Apr 1987 Yankees score 12 runs in 7th inning vs Kansas City Royals
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11 Apr 1987 Zoja Ivanova wins 2nd female World Cup marathon (2:30:39)
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12 Apr 1987 Texaco files for bankruptcy
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12 Apr 1987 51st Golf Masters Championship Larry Mize wins, shooting a 285
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12 Apr 1987 Ahmed Salah wins 2nd World Cup marathon (2:10:55)
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12 Apr 1987 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
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13 Apr 1987 1st 3 SD Padres hit HRs off SF starter Roger Mason
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13 Apr 1987 Portugal and the People's Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999.
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13 Apr 1987 1st 3 San Diego Padres hit homeruns off San Francisco starter Roger Mason
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13 Apr 1987 Portugal signs agreement to return Macau to China (in 1999)
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14 Apr 1987 Turkey asks to join European market
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15 Apr 1987 "Barbara Cook: A Concert..." opens at Ambassador NYC for 13 performances
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15 Apr 1987 "Barbara Cook A Concert For Theatre, Grand Hotel, and The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public" opens at Ambassador NYC for 13 performances
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15 Apr 1987 Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss Daisy", premieres in NYC
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16 Apr 1987 Pulitzer prize awarded to August Wilson for "Fences"
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16 Apr 1987 FCC imposes a broader definition of indecency over airwaves
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16 Apr 1987 Michael Jordan, becomes 2nd NBA to score 3000 points in a season
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16 Apr 1987 Peter Taylor's "Summons to Memphis" wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction
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16 Apr 1987 Howard Stern & Infinity Broadcasting are warned by FCC
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17 Apr 1987 Julius Erving becomes the 3rd NBA player to score 30,000 points
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17 Apr 1987 Richard Wilbur appointed as US poet laureate
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17 Apr 1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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18 Apr 1987 An unconscious skydiver is rescued by another diver in mid-air
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18 Apr 1987 Bob Land wins his 6th straight Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race
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18 Apr 1987 Mike Schmidt hits 500th home run (vs. Robinson-Pirates)
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18 Apr 1987 Pat Knauff, France sets 1-leg downhill ski speed record (115.012 mph)
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18 Apr 1987 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
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19 Apr 1987 Brewers score 5 runs in 9th to win 6-4 and record 12th straight AL win
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19 Apr 1987 The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show.
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19 Apr 1987 Jacqueline Blanc, sets women's downhill ski speed record (124.902 mph)
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19 Apr 1987 Los Angeles Clippers end season with a terrible 12-70 record
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19 Apr 1987 Brendon Kuruppu scores 201 on Test Cricket debut (Sri Lanka vs New Zealand)
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19 Apr 1987 Gregory Robertson does 200-mph free fall to save unconscious skydiver
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19 Apr 1987 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Santa Barbara Golf Open
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19 Apr 1987 Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve
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19 Apr 1987 Milwaukee Brewers score 5 runs in 9th to win 6-4 & record 12th straight American League win
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19 Apr 1987 USSR performs underground nuclear test
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20 Apr 1987 16th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:21
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20 Apr 1987 91st Boston Marathon won by Toshihiko Seko of Japan in 2:11:50
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20 Apr 1987 Sri Lanka Tamils shoot 122 Singalezen dead
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20 Apr 1987 US deports Karl Linnas, charged with nazi war crimes, to USSR
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21 Apr 1987 Brewers lose, ending AL season-opening winning streak at 13 games
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21 Apr 1987 Milwaukee Brewers lose after 13th straight victory to start season
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21 Apr 1987 The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that detonates in the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, killing 106 people.
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21 Apr 1987 Dow Jones Average soars 664.7; 2nd biggest one-day gain in history
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21 Apr 1987 Milwaukee Brewers lose, ending American League season-opening winning streak at 13 games
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21 Apr 1987 Richard Hadlee makes highest Test Cricket score of 151 (v Sri Lanka)
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21 Apr 1987 Tamil bomb attack in Colombo Sri Lanka, 115 killed
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22 Apr 1987 Sri Lanka Air Force bomb Tamil, 100s killed
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23 Apr 1987 28 construction workers killed in an apt collapse in Bridgeport, Connecticut
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23 Apr 1987 New Jersey Devils farm team Maine Mariners (AHL) move to Utica (Devils), New York
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23 Apr 1987 28 construction workers killed in an apartment building collapse in Bridgeport CT
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24 Apr 1987 Howard Stern holds a free speech rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York City
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26 Apr 1987 "Barbara Cook: A Concert..." closes at Ambassador NYC after 13 performances
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27 Apr 1987 The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
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27 Apr 1987 US Justice Department bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering US, due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WWII
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28 Apr 1987 NBA announces expansion to Charlotte NC and Miami Florida in 1988, Minneapolis Minn and Orlando Florida in 1989
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28 Apr 1987 American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
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29 Apr 1987 Chicago Cub Andre Dawson hits for the cycle
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29 Apr 1987 Japan's premier Nakasone visits the US
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30 Apr 1987 New York Islander Mike Bossy plays his final game
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30 Apr 1987 Lou Lamoriello is named New Jersey Devils president
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01 May 1987 46 HRs hit in 13 baseball games
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01 May 1987 Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun
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01 May 1987 Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
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02 May 1987 113th Kentucky Derby: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 2:03.4
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03 May 1987 "Mikado" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 46 performances
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03 May 1987 Cindy Hill wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
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03 May 1987 Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday and Saturday with Gary Hart
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03 May 1987 A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
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05 May 1987 Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings
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05 May 1987 Detroit Tigers are 11 games back in AL, but go on to win AL East
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05 May 1987 Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
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06 May 1987 Gary Hart denies affair with model Donna Rice
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06 May 1987 Mario Andretti sets one-lap speed record at Indy at 218.204 mph
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06 May 1987 Niroslav Milhailovic begins 54 hours of telling jokes
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08 May 1987 Gary Hart quits democratic presidential race (Donna Rice affair)
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08 May 1987 The Loughgall ambush: The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
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09 May 1987 183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw
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09 May 1987 Actor Tom Cruise (27) and actress Mimi Rogers (33), marry
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09 May 1987 Oriole Eddie Murray is 1st to switch hit HRs in 2 consecutive games
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09 May 1987 LOT Flight 5055 Tadeusz Kościuszko crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.
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10 May 1987 Jody Rosentha wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
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11 May 1987 In Baltimore, the first heart–lung transplant takes place. The surgery is performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz of the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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11 May 1987 Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
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11 May 1987 1st heart-lung transplant take place (Baltimore)
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11 May 1987 Corazon Aquino is elected President in the Philippines
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13 May 1987 Ajax wins 27th Europe Cup II
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14 May 1987 "Little Shop of Horrors" is released in Germany
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14 May 1987 Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for $242,000
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15 May 1987 The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.
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15 May 1987 1st Energiya Launch (USSR)
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15 May 1987 Record archery score for a pair over 24 hours, is set
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16 May 1987 "Bobro 400", a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage, set sail from NY, beginning an unsuccesful 8-week search for a dumping site
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16 May 1987 "Mystery of Edwin Drood" closes at Imperial NYC after 608 performances
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16 May 1987 113th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 1:55.8
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16 May 1987 Rocker David Crosby weds Jan Dance in Los Angeles
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16 May 1987 Weird Al Yankovic performs live at 72nd National Orange Show
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17 May 1987 An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. Navy warship USS Stark, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
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17 May 1987 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
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17 May 1987 USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die
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19 May 1987 1st American Comedy Award
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20 May 1987 Wrestler Jerry Lawler sues WWF and Harley Race for trademark name "king"
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20 May 1987 G
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21 May 1987 Military coup in Fiji Islands under Lieutenant Colonel Sitivani Rabuka
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21 May 1987 Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama
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22 May 1987 Hashimpura massacre in Meerut, India.
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22 May 1987 First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand.
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22 May 1987 30 killed in a Texas tornado
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24 May 1987 33rd LPGA Championship won by Jane Geddes
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24 May 1987 Al Unser Sr, 47, wins his 4th Indianapolis 500
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26 May 1987 Cecilia Bolocco, 22, of Chile, crowned 36th Miss Universe
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26 May 1987 Great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka
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26 May 1987 Supreme Court ruled dangerous defendants could be held without bail
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26 May 1987 William H Webster replaces Robert M Gates as 14th director of CIA
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27 May 1987 Jim and Tammy Bakker appear on "Nightline" after PTL scandal
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27 May 1987 Postage wins 32nd Europe Cup 1 in Vienna
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27 May 1987 Yankee Phil Niekro is 3rd pitcher to make 700th start (Young & Sutton)
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28 May 1987 Southern League no-hit record-Bob Milacki pitches 11 1 / 3 no-hit inn
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28 May 1987 West German pilot Mathias Rust, who was 18-years-old, evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. He is immediately detained and would not be released until August 3, 1988.
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28 May 1987 60th National Spelling Bee: Stephanie Petit wins spelling staphylococci
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28 May 1987 Baltimore Oriole Mike Young hits 2 homeruns in extra innings
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28 May 1987 Bob Milacki sets Southern league pitching record 11 1/3 no hit innings
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28 May 1987 Mathias Rust, 19, West German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in USSR
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28 May 1987 Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot
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28 May 1987 Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard in Augusta
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28 May 1987 Stacking of Discovery's SRBs completed
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29 May 1987 "Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent in death of actor
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29 May 1987 "Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent in death of actor Vic Morrow
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29 May 1987 Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains
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29 May 1987 Robin Ventura set a college baseball record with hits in 57 games
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30 May 1987 Tony Tucker TKOs Buster Douglas in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
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30 May 1987 Mike Tyson TKOs Pinklon Thomas in 6 for World Boxing Council heavyweight boxing title
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30 May 1987 North American Philips Company unveils compact disc video
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30 May 1987 Tony Tucker TKOs Buster Douglas in 10 for International Boxing Federation heavyweight boxing title
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30 May 1987 West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square
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31 May 1987 Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
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31 May 1987 Saul Ballesteros drives 3 golf balls off Mount McKinley, Alaska
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31 May 1987 Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4 games to 3
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01 Jun 1987 Phil Niekro 314th combines with Joe to have most wins by bros (530)
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02 Jun 1987 Mariners draft Ken Griffey Jr #1
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03 Jun 1987 "Little Shop of Horrors, " released in France
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03 Jun 1987 Cubs and Astro tie Oriole and Ranger record of 3 grand slams in a game
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03 Jun 1987 The Vanuatu Labour Party is founded.
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04 Jun 1987 Danny Harris beats Edwin Moses, ends streak of 122 cons hurdle wins
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05 Jun 1987 Dwight Gooden returns from drug rehabilitation and allows wins game
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06 Jun 1987 119th Belmont: Craig Perret aboard Bet Twice wins in 2:28.2
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06 Jun 1987 57th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (64 46 86)
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06 Jun 1987 New York Yankees play their 13,000th game
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07 Jun 1987 41st Tony Awards: Fences and Les Miserables win
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07 Jun 1987 57th French Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (75 62 36 76)
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07 Jun 1987 Andy Van Slyke HRs off R McDowell in both ends of double header
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08 Jun 1987 21st Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis
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08 Jun 1987 New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
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10 Jun 1987 Discovery's SRBs and External Tank are mated
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11 Jun 1987 Margaret Thatcher is 1st British Prime Minister in 160 years to win 3rd cons term
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11 Jun 1987 Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black Parliamentarians in Great Britain.
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12 Jun 1987 The Central African Republic's former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
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12 Jun 1987 Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
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13 Jun 1987 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel and Anne Knabe complete cycling journey of 15,266 mi from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Argentina
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13 Jun 1987 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe complete
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14 Jun 1987 41st NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
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14 Jun 1987 Colleen Walker wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
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14 Jun 1987 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor
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14 Jun 1987 LA Lakers win NBA title with a 106-93, victory over the Celtics
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15 Jun 1987 Michael Spinks TKOs Gerry Cooney in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
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16 Jun 1987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him
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16 Jun 1987 Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens
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16 Jun 1987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession
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17 Jun 1987 With the death of the last individual of the species, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
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18 Jun 1987 Charles Glass, ABC journalist, kidnapped in Lebanon
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19 Jun 1987 ETA bomb attack in Barcelona, 15 killed
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19 Jun 1987 Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation
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19 Jun 1987 Geffen records sign their 1st artist (Donna Summer)
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19 Jun 1987 Wee Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak ends
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20 Jun 1987 Johnny Carson marries 4th wife Alexis Mass
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21 Jun 1987 87th US Golf Open: Scott Simpson shoots a 277 at Olympic Club in San Francisco
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21 Jun 1987 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
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21 Jun 1987 Discovery rolls over from OPF to Vandenberg AFB
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21 Jun 1987 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a parking lot attendent
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22 Jun 1987 Tom Seaver retires after 3rd try with New York Mets
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23 Jun 1987 W Landgraf discovers asteroid #3683 Baumann
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24 Jun 1987 Salt Lake City Trappers begin pro baseball record 29 consecutive win streak
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25 Jun 1987 Pope John Paul II receives Austrian President Kurt Waldheim
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26 Jun 1987 Supreme Court Justice Lewis F Powell Jr announces his retirement
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26 Jun 1987 Losing 9-0 to Red Sox, Yanks score 11 in 3rd & win 12-11 in 10 inn
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27 Jun 1987 Supreme Court Justice Powell retires
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28 Jun 1987 "Dreamgirls" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 177 performances
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28 Jun 1987 Deb Richard wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
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28 Jun 1987 For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
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28 Jun 1987 Don Baylor sets career hit-by-pitch mark at 244 (Pitcher Rick Rhoden)
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28 Jun 1987 E F Helin discovers asteroid #3680 Sasha
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29 Jun 1987 Yanks blow 11-4 lead but trailing 14-11 Dave Winfield's 8th inning
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30 Jun 1987 Emmy 14th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 8th time
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30 Jun 1987 Patrik Sjoberg of Sweden set a new world record in the high jump
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01 Jul 1987 Bork nominated to Supreme Court, rejected in October by Senate
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01 Jul 1987 New York City radio station WFAN-AM becomes 1st 24 hour all sports radio
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01 Jul 1987 The American radio station WFAN in New York, New York is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
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02 Jul 1987 Jim Eisenreich, comeback after nervous disorder in 1984
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03 Jul 1987 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic
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03 Jul 1987 New York Met Darryl Strawberry threatens teammates Wally Backman and Lee Mazzilli for criticizing his play
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04 Jul 1987 94th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (75 63)
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04 Jul 1987 Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission
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04 Jul 1987 Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life in France
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04 Jul 1987 In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (a.k.a. the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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05 Jul 1987 101st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pat Cash beats Ivan Lendl (76 62 75)
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05 Jul 1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
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05 Jul 1987 The LTTE uses suicide attacks on the Sri Lankan Army for the first time. The Black Tigers were born and, in the following years, continued to kill with the tactic.
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06 Jul 1987 1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India
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06 Jul 1987 Pakistan score their 1st innings win over England, at Leeds
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07 Jul 1987 Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women
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07 Jul 1987 Lt Col Oliver North began public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing
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07 Jul 1987 Yanks trailing by 7 score 7 in 7th on 7 / 7 and 5 in 8th-Beat Twins 12-7
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08 Jul 1987 Kitty Dukakis, revealed addiction to amphetamines for 26 years
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09 Jul 1987 1 million South Koreans demonstrate against Chun Doo Hwan regime
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09 Jul 1987 Colonel Oliver North admits to shredding Iran-Contra evidence
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11 Jul 1987 Orioles Cal Ripkin becomes 1st to manage 2 sons, as Billy joins Cal
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11 Jul 1987 Heart's "Alone," single goes #1 for 3 weeks
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12 Jul 1987 15th du Maurier Golf Classic: Jody Rosenthal
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12 Jul 1987 1st time in 20 years a delegation from USSR lands in Israel
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12 Jul 1987 50 white South Africans meets ANCers in Dakar
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12 Jul 1987 8th US Seniors Golf Open: Gary Player
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12 Jul 1987 Phillies Kent Tekulve pitches his 900th game in relief
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13 Jul 1987 Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against
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14 Jul 1987 58th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-0 in 13 at Oakland - Alameda Stadium
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14 Jul 1987 All star MVP: Tim Raines (Montreal Expos)
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14 Jul 1987 Rookie of the Year Award is renamed to honor Jackie Robinson
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14 Jul 1987 Montreal, Canada, is hit by a series of thunderstorms causing the Montreal Flood of 1987.
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14 Jul 1987 Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million
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14 Jul 1987 Lt Col Oliver North concludes 6 days of Congressional testimony
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14 Jul 1987 NL defeats AL, 2-0 in 13, in 58th All-Star Game in Oakland, Calif
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14 Jul 1987 Steve Miller's star is unveiled on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
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14 Jul 1987 Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
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15 Jul 1987 Boy George barred from British TV show, he may be a bad influence
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15 Jul 1987 State of siege ends in Taiwan
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15 Jul 1987 John Poindexter testifies at Iran-Contra hearings
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16 Jul 1987 Don Mattingly hits his 4th grand slam of season and ties AL record of homers in 6 straight games (on way to tie major league record of 8)
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16 Jul 1987 Said Aouita runs world record 2000m (4:50.81)
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16 Jul 1987 Don Mattingly hits his 4th grand slam of the season & ties AL record
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17 Jul 1987 Don Mattingly is 2nd to hit HRs in 7 straight AL games (en route to 8)
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17 Jul 1987 Dow Jones closes above 2,500 (2,510.04) for 1st time
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17 Jul 1987 Iran and France breaks diplomatic relations
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17 Jul 1987 10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood (Comfort, Tx)
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18 Jul 1987 Molly Yard elected new President of National Organization for Women
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18 Jul 1987 New York Yanks Don Mattingly ties record of HRs in 8 cons games
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18 Jul 1987 Molly Yard elected new pres of Natl Org for Women
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18 Jul 1987 Yanks Don Mattingly ties major league record of HRs in 8 cons games
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19 Jul 1987 116th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 279 at Muirfield Gullane
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19 Jul 1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
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19 Jul 1987 Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games
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20 Jul 1987 Don Mattingly ties 1st base majors fielding record with 22 put-outs
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21 Jul 1987 Kristi Addis, of Mississippi, crowned 5th Miss Teen USA
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22 Jul 1987 Said Aouita of Morroco sets the 5k record (12:58.39) in Rome
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22 Jul 1987 Soyuz TM-3 launched with 3 cosmonauts (1 Syrian)
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22 Jul 1987 US began escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers in Persian Gulf
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23 Jul 1987 Red Sox waive Bill Buckner, the goat of last years World Series
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23 Jul 1987 RNI (Brooklyn New York pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
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23 Jul 1987 Petra Felke (E Ger) throws javelin 78.89 m (women's record)
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23 Jul 1987 Said Aouita of Morocco runs world record 5,000 m (12:58.39)
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24 Jul 1987 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released
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25 Jul 1987 Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt
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25 Jul 1987 USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite
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26 Jul 1987 Catfish Hunter Billy Williams and Ray Dandridge inducted in Baseball HOF
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26 Jul 1987 Stephen Roche wins Tour de France
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27 Jul 1987 John Demjanjuk, accused Nazi "Ivan the Terrible" testifies in Israel
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27 Jul 1987 Salt Lake City Trappers lose 7-5 to Billings Mustangs, ending their professional-record winning streak at 29 consecutive
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28 Jul 1987 Angel Cordero Jr becomes the 4th jockey to win 6,000 races
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29 Jul 1987 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
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29 Jul 1987 Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.
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29 Jul 1987 Ben & Jerry's & Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia
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31 Jul 1987 "Living Daylights" premieres in US
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31 Jul 1987 Battle between Iranian pilgrims and Saudi-Arabian troops, 402 killed
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31 Jul 1987 Eddie Murray hits his 300th HR
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31 Jul 1987 Guns and Roses song "Appetite for Destruction" is released
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31 Jul 1987 Oriole Eddie Murray hits his 299th and 300th career home runs
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31 Jul 1987 Rockwell International awarded contract to build a 5th shuttle
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01 Aug 1987 Mike Tyson beat Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
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01 Aug 1987 Nurse Mary R Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America
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02 Aug 1987 25th Tennis Federation Cup: Germany beats USA in Vancouver Canada (2-1)
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02 Aug 1987 Chris Johnson wins Columbia Savings LPGA National Golf Pro-Am
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02 Aug 1987 Cin Red Eric Davis becomes 7th and earliest 30 HR 30 steal man
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02 Aug 1987 Eric Davis is 7th to hit 30 HRs and steal 30 bases in one season
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02 Aug 1987 Kevin Seitzer (Kansas City Royals), gets 6 hits in one baseball game
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02 Aug 1987 Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 mph)
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03 Aug 1987 Chicago Bears beat Dallas Cowboys 17-6 in London, England (NFL expo)
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03 Aug 1987 Discovery in Orbital Processing Facility is powered up for STS-26
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03 Aug 1987 Jack Morris ties AL record with 5 wild pitches in a 4-2 lose
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03 Aug 1987 Twins Joe Niekro is caught with a file on the mound and is ejected
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04 Aug 1987 At the Kingdome, Ruppert Jones hits a foul ball that sticks in speaker
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04 Aug 1987 FCC vote 4-0 to rescind fairness doctrine for broadcasters
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04 Aug 1987 The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly".
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07 Aug 1987 5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala
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07 Aug 1987 Javed Miandad scores 260 vs. England at The Oval, 28 fours 1 six
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07 Aug 1987 Lynne Cox becomes first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union
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08 Aug 1987 Lynne Cox became 1st to swim from US to Russia across Bering Strait
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08 Aug 1987 Pakistan all out 708 vs. England at The Oval, Botham 3-217
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09 Aug 1987 "Les Miserables, " opens at Cameri Theatre, Tel Aviv
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09 Aug 1987 69th PGA Championship: Larry Nelson shoots 287 at PGA National, Palm Beach
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09 Aug 1987 LA Rams beat Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in London, England (NFL expo)
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09 Aug 1987 Mary Beth wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
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10 Aug 1987 Kevin Gross is 2nd pitcher in 8 days to be ejected for scuffing ball
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10 Aug 1987 Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successful
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11 Aug 1987 France and Great-Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf
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12 Aug 1987 Charles Cole climbs 870'Tyrolean Traverse from top of Elephant Rock
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13 Aug 1987 Cards outfield sets record of no putouts in a 4-2 in 13 inning
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14 Aug 1987 "Les Miserables, " opens at Rock Theatre, Szeged Hungary
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14 Aug 1987 All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.
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15 Aug 1987 At Pan Am games in Indianapolis, USA and Cuba are tied with 2 outs in 9th, Ty Griffin HR, Cuba 1st loss in 20 years of Pan Am competition
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15 Aug 1987 US beats Cuba in the Pan-Am baseball
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16 Aug 1987 Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives)
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16 Aug 1987 New York Mets beat Chicago Cubs, 23-9
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16 Aug 1987 Val Skinner wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am
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16 Aug 1987 156 die as Northwest Flight 255 crashes at take off in Detroit
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16 Aug 1987 Astrological Harmonic Convergence-Dawn of New Age
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17 Aug 1987 Bunt single gives Paul Molitor longest hit streak of 1980s at 32 games
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17 Aug 1987 Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57)
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18 Aug 1987 Houston Oiler Earl Campbell, retires from NFL
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18 Aug 1987 Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentence to triple life (poisoned 24)
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18 Aug 1987 Philip Rush of New Zealand, set record for triple crossing English Channel his time 28:21, 10 hours faster than 1st man to do it
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21 Aug 1987 "Mack Lobell" set harness racing's trotting mil (1:52)
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21 Aug 1987 Clayton Lonetree, 1st marine court-martialed for spying, convicted
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22 Aug 1987 Madonna's "Who's "That Girl," single goes #1
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23 Aug 1987 15-years old boy hijacks KLM B737, demands $1 billion
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23 Aug 1987 Betsy King wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic
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23 Aug 1987 Violent rainfall / floods in Bangladesh, kills 100s
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24 Aug 1987 Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
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25 Aug 1987 Dow Jones Industrial Stock Average reaches record 2722.42
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25 Aug 1987 Madonna sings in Rotterdam
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26 Aug 1987 Paul Molitor goes 0-for-4 ends hitting streak at 39 consecutive games
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28 Aug 1987 Mike Schmidt passes Ted Williams and Willie McCovey with 522 HRs
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29 Aug 1987 Nolan Ryan passes the 200-strikeout barrier for record 11th time
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29 Aug 1987 Rosa Mota becomes wins female Rome marathon (2:25:17)
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30 Aug 1987 87th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair
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30 Aug 1987 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
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30 Aug 1987 Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with 2 HRs in Minn 10-6 win over Milwaukee
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30 Aug 1987 Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls
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30 Aug 1987 Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec
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30 Aug 1987 Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump women's record (6'10
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30 Aug 1987 Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57)
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31 Aug 1987 South Africa longest mine strike in history ends
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31 Aug 1987 Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.
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31 Aug 1987 Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for the year record ($697,385)
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01 Sep 1987 15 yr old Michael Chang is youngest man to win US Tennis Open match
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01 Sep 1987 Smoking forbidden in public buildings in Belgium
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02 Sep 1987 Donald Trump takes out a full page New York Times ad lambasting Japan
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02 Sep 1987 Kevin Bass is 1st NLer to switch hit HRs in a game twice in 1 season
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02 Sep 1987 Philips introduces CD-video
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03 Sep 1987 Coup in Burundi suspends constitution
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03 Sep 1987 In a coup d'état in Burundi, President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza is deposed by Major Pierre Buyoya.
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05 Sep 1987 Carlton Fisk clubs his 300th career HR off Danny Jackson
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05 Sep 1987 John McEnroe is fined $17,500 for tirades at US Tennis Open
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06 Sep 1987 Benjamin and Patrick Binder separated at John Hopkins Hospital
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06 Sep 1987 Douglas Wakiihuri wins marathon (2:11:48)
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07 Sep 1987 Netherlands routes 2 minesweepers to Persian Gulf
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07 Sep 1987 Rosie Jones wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
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09 Sep 1987 Gary Hart admits on "Nightline, " to cheating on his wife
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09 Sep 1987 Largest US Tennis Open single night session (total) 21,016
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09 Sep 1987 Larry Bird (Celtics), begins NBA free throw streak of 59
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09 Sep 1987 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter
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10 Sep 1987 Pope John Paul II starts his 11-day papal visit to Fort Simpson, Canada and afterwards to several southern and western cities in the United States.
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11 Sep 1987 4th MTV Awards: Peter Gabriel wins
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12 Sep 1987 101st US Womens Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (76 61)
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12 Sep 1987 Ethiopia adopts constitution
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12 Sep 1987 Vince Coleman steals his 100th base for 3rd straight year
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13 Sep 1987 Cesium-137 stolen from abandoned hospital in Rio de Janeiro
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13 Sep 1987 Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
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13 Sep 1987 Paul Lynch of Great Britain does 32,573 push-ups in 24 hours
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14 Sep 1987 "Les Miserables, " opens at Rock Theatre, Vigzinhaz Budapest
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14 Sep 1987 107th US Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (67 60 76 64)
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14 Sep 1987 Ivan Lendl defeat Mats Wilander to win US Tennis Open in 4 hours 47 minutes
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14 Sep 1987 The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, hitting 10 of them.
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14 Sep 1987 Oriole Cal Ripken Jr sets record of playing 8,243 inn in 910 games
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14 Sep 1987 Toronto Blue Jays hit a record 10 HRs vs Baltimore Orioles
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15 Sep 1987 United States Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sign a treaty to establish centers to reduce the risk of nuclear war.
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16 Sep 1987 The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
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16 Sep 1987 NASA launches space vehicle S-209
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16 Sep 1987 NY's WNET-TV channel 13 begins round the clock broadcasting
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17 Sep 1987 Philadelphia celebrates 200th anniversary of Constitution
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17 Sep 1987 Pope John Paul II embraces an AIDS-infected boy while visiting San Francisco.
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18 Sep 1987 US and Russia sign accord to remove mid range missiles
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18 Sep 1987 Jerzy Kukuczka becomes the second mountaineer to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
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18 Sep 1987 Detroit Tiger Darrell Evans is 1st 40 year old to hit 30 HRs
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19 Sep 1987 Kaye Lani Rae Rafko (Mich), 24, crowned 61st Miss America
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20 Sep 1987 39th Emmy Awards: LA Law, Bruce Willis and Sharon Gless wins
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20 Sep 1987 Dwight Clark ends NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
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20 Sep 1987 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
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20 Sep 1987 Alain Prost wins record 28th Formula one auto race
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20 Sep 1987 Walter Payton scores NFL record 107th rushing touchdown
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21 Sep 1987 3 Belgian minesweepers depart to Persians Gulf
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22 Sep 1987 Dow-Jones index rises record 75.23 points
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22 Sep 1987 Janet B Evans swims female world record 400m freestyle (4:03.85)
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22 Sep 1987 NFL players go on strike for 24 days
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22 Sep 1987 Red Sox Wade Boggs ties AL record of 200 hits for 5 straight seasons
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22 Sep 1987 2nd regular-season National Football League player strike begins
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22 Sep 1987 Red Sox Wade Boggs gets his 200th hit in 5 straight seasons
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25 Sep 1987 2nd coup on Fiji led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka
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26 Sep 1987 Padres Benito Santiago sets rookie hitting streak to 28 games
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27 Sep 1987 27th Ryder Cup: Europe beats US, 15-13 at Muirfield Village Golf Club - Ohio
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27 Sep 1987 Jan Stephens wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
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27 Sep 1987 Phil Niekro final appearance and is pounded for 5 runs in 3 innings
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27 Sep 1987 NFL players' strike
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28 Sep 1987 "Star Trek: The Next Generation, " debuts on syndicated TV
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28 Sep 1987 Gladys Knight and Smokey Robinson on "$10,000 Pyramid"
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29 Sep 1987 "thirtysomething, " debuts on ABC-TV
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29 Sep 1987 8th Emmy Sports Award presentation
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29 Sep 1987 NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits record 6th grand slam of the year
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30 Sep 1987 Suriname constitution ratified
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01 Oct 1987 "Roza" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 12 performances
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01 Oct 1987 6 killed by an earthquake measuring 6.1 in LA
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01 Oct 1987 The Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley, registering as magnitude 5.9.
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03 Oct 1987 Benito Santiago ends longest catcher / rookie hitting streak at 34
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03 Oct 1987 Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 mph at Portillo, Chile
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04 Oct 1987 1st "Scrub Sunday" of NFL football with replacement players
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04 Oct 1987 Blues Jays lose final 7 games allowing Tigers to win AL pennant
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04 Oct 1987 James Jefferson of Winnipeg scores 2 TDs on interception returns without making an interception. (He scored on laterals)
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06 Oct 1987 Military coup leader Major-General Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a Republic
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06 Oct 1987 Fiji becomes a republic.
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07 Oct 1987 Sikh nationalists declares the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized.
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09 Oct 1987 Japanese bank buys "Lady McGill" stamp for $1,100,000
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10 Oct 1987 Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love"
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10 Oct 1987 Garfield Park Nature Center opens, latest in Cleveland Metroparks
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11 Oct 1987 Start of Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka that killed thousands of ethnic Tamil civilians and hundreds of Tamil Tigers & Indian Army soldiers.
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11 Oct 1987 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
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12 Oct 1987 21st Country Music Association Award: Hank William Jr wins
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12 Oct 1987 George Harrison releases "Got My Mind Set On You"
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12 Oct 1987 Oscar Arias (Costa Rican President) wins Nobel Peace Prize
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12 Oct 1987 Minnesota Twins beat Detroit Tigers for AL pennant
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13 Oct 1987 Costa Rican President Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize
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13 Oct 1987 1st military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf)
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14 Oct 1987 St. Louis Cardinals beat SF Giants, 4 games to 3 in NLCS
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14 Oct 1987 In Midland, Tx 1
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15 Oct 1987 "Late Nite Comic" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 4 performances
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15 Oct 1987 6th Belgium government of Martens falls
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15 Oct 1987 Coup in Burkina Faso, President Sankara dies
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15 Oct 1987 NFL Players Association orders an end to 24 day strike
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15 Oct 1987 The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.
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16 Oct 1987 338,500,000 shares traded on New York stock exchange (record)
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16 Oct 1987 Dow Jones for 1st time falls more than 100 pts (108.35)
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16 Oct 1987 Mike Tyson TKOs Tyrell Biggs in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
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16 Oct 1987 175-kph winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England
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16 Oct 1987 Jessica McClure rescued 58 hrs after falling 22' into a well shaft
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17 Oct 1987 "Late Nite Comic" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 4 performances
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17 Oct 1987 1st indoor World Series game (Minnesota Metrodome)
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17 Oct 1987 1st lady Nancy Reagan undergoes a modified radical mastectomy
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17 Oct 1987 1st World Series game in a covered stadium (Minnesota Metrodome) (World Series #84)
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19 Oct 1987 "Anything Goes" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 804 performances
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19 Oct 1987 Dow Jones Index drops 508.32 points (22%) (record)
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19 Oct 1987 Woody Woodward resigns as New York Yankee GM, Lou Piniella is named GM and Billy Martin is named New York Yankee manager for 5th and final time
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19 Oct 1987 The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
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19 Oct 1987 Black Monday - the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
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19 Oct 1987 "Black Monday"-Dow Jones down 508.32, 4
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19 Oct 1987 Billy Martin hired as manager of NY Yankees for 5th time
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19 Oct 1987 US warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf
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20 Oct 1987 Dow-Jones increases 102.27 pts / 608,120,000 shares traded (record)
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20 Oct 1987 10 die as Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis
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20 Oct 1987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail
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21 Oct 1987 7th Belgium government of Martens forms
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21 Oct 1987 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Robert M Solow
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21 Oct 1987 Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 70 ethnic Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.
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21 Oct 1987 Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork's Supreme Ct nomination
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22 Oct 1987 "Cabaret" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 262 performances
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22 Oct 1987 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Joseph Brodsky
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24 Oct 1987 Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by senate
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24 Oct 1987 NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike
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25 Oct 1987 Minnesota Twins win their 1st World Series championship beating St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 84th World Series
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26 Oct 1987 Dow Jones down 156.83 points
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26 Oct 1987 Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Comm assassinated by death squads
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27 Oct 1987 Lucas Mangopes Democratic Party wins Bophuthatswana elections
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27 Oct 1987 South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution
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29 Oct 1987 Thomas Hearns wins unprecidented 4th different weight boxing title
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30 Oct 1987 In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit (fourth generation) video game console, the PC Engine, which is later sold in other markets under the name TurboGrafx-16.
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31 Oct 1987 1st jockey to win 9 races in 1 day (Chris Antley at Belmont)
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31 Oct 1987 A pair in Coventry, England ties the world record for the longest singles tennis match at 80 hrs 21 minutes
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01 Nov 1987 18th NYC Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein in 2:11:01
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01 Nov 1987 22,000 run in NYC Marathon (won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya 2:11:01)
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01 Nov 1987 Fukumi Tani wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship
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01 Nov 1987 New Orleans Saints shutout Atlanta Falcons 38-0
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01 Nov 1987 New York Jets retire Don Maynards #13
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02 Nov 1987 Entertainer Lola Falona is diagnosed with multiple schlerosis
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02 Nov 1987 Harrison releases "Cloud 9" andMcCartney releases "All the Best"
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03 Nov 1987 Oakland 1st baseman Mark McGwire wins AL Rookie of Year
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03 Nov 1987 On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56
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04 Nov 1987 Benito Santiago, Padres catcher, wins NL Rookie of Year
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04 Nov 1987 Lisa Steinberg, battered into coma by her adoptive father Joel
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04 Nov 1987 NBA announces 4 new franchises; Charlotte and Miami for 1988 and Minneapolis and Orlando for 1989
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05 Nov 1987 "Into the Woods" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 764 performances
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05 Nov 1987 Iceberg twice size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic
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05 Nov 1987 South Africa ANC-leader Govan Mbeki freed
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05 Nov 1987 Supreme Court nominee Douglas H Ginsburg admitted using marijuana
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05 Nov 1987 Govan Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years of a life sentence for terrorism and treason.
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07 Nov 1987 Tunisian Premier Zine al-Abidine fires President Habib Bourguiba
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08 Nov 1987 11 die as a bomb planted by Irish Republican Army explodes
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08 Nov 1987 IRA-bomb attack in Enniskillen North Ireland, 11 killed
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08 Nov 1987 Yuko Moriguchi wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
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10 Nov 1987 Steve Bedrosian edges Rick Sutcliffe 57-55 to win NL Cy Young Award
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11 Nov 1987 "Roza" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 12 performances
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11 Nov 1987 Moscow party secretary Boris Jerusalem resigns
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11 Nov 1987 Judge Anthony M Kennedy nominated to the Supreme Court
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11 Nov 1987 Van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 M at auction
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12 Nov 1987 "Teddy & Alice" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 77 performances
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12 Nov 1987 Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine
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13 Nov 1987 1st condom commercial on BBC TV
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14 Nov 1987 "La Cage aux Folles" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 1761 performances
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15 Nov 1987 Carla Beurskens runs Dutch female record marathon (2:26:34)
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15 Nov 1987 Leile McBridge (Denver), crowned Miss Black America
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15 Nov 1987 New York Giant Raul Allegre kicks 2, 50 or more yard field goals in a game
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15 Nov 1987 28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9 die in crash at Denver
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16 Nov 1987 Actress Lisa Bonet marries singer Lenny Kravitz
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16 Nov 1987 Paul McCartney releases "Once Upon a Long Ago"
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16 Nov 1987 Lisa Bonet marries Lenny Kravitz
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17 Nov 1987 George Bell is 1st Blue Jay ever to win the AL MVP
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18 Nov 1987 Congressional committee reports on Iran-Contra affair
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18 Nov 1987 Cubs Andre Dawson is 1st from last-place club ever to win an MVP
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18 Nov 1987 31 die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station
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21 Nov 1987 Actress Demi Moore marries actor Bruce Willis
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22 Nov 1987 Patriots shutout Indianapolis 24-0
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24 Nov 1987 Li Peng succeeds Premier Zhao Ziyang in China PR
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25 Nov 1987 Abdul Qadir takes 9-56 against England at Lahore
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25 Nov 1987 India all out for 75 vs. West Indies at Delhi, Patterson 5-24
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27 Nov 1987 "Les Miserables, " opens at Theatre Royal, Sydney
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27 Nov 1987 Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset England
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28 Nov 1987 South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on board.
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28 Nov 1987 South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die
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29 Nov 1987 "Dreamgirls" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 177 performances
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29 Nov 1987 75th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Toronto Argonauts, 38-36
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29 Nov 1987 Joe Montana of 49ers completes NFL record 22 consecutive passes
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29 Nov 1987 Korean Air jetliner disappears off Burma, all 115 lost
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29 Nov 1987 New Orleans Saints win, assuring their 1st winning NFL season
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29 Nov 1987 Korean Air Flight 858 explodes over the Thai–Burmese border, killing 115.
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29 Nov 1987 Korean Air Boeing 707 disappears off Burma, on route to Seoul. All 115 lost
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29 Nov 1987 Ranger's Bob Frosse becomes 2nd goalie to score a goal (vs Isles). It was later ruled that he should not be credited with the goal
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30 Nov 1987 Afghanistan Constitution adopted
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01 Dec 1987 Digging begins to link England and France under English Channel
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02 Dec 1987 Chicago City Council elects Eugene Sawyer acting mayor
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04 Dec 1987 Karlstad skates world record 10 km (13:48.51)
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05 Dec 1987 53rd Heisman Trophy Award: Tim Brown, Notre Dame (WR)
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06 Dec 1987 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun"
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06 Dec 1987 Christa Rothenburger skates female world record 500m (39.39 seconds)
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06 Dec 1987 Jane Crafter / Steve Jones wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
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07 Dec 1987 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots)
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07 Dec 1987 Gorbachev arrives in US for a summit meeting
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07 Dec 1987 Pacific Southwest crashes near Los Angeles, kills 43
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07 Dec 1987 Palestinian uprising against Israel in West Bank
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07 Dec 1987 Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.
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08 Dec 1987 Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel
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08 Dec 1987 President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles
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08 Dec 1987 The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed.
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08 Dec 1987 Frank Vitkovic shoots and kills eight people at the Australia Post building in Melbourne, before jumping to his death.
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08 Dec 1987 The Alianza Lima air disaster occurs.
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08 Dec 1987 An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel–Gaza Strip border, sparking the First Intifada.
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09 Dec 1987 Larry Bird, ends streak of 59 consecutive free throws
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09 Dec 1987 Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank
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09 Dec 1987 Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
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10 Dec 1987 "Nightline" is seen in the USSR for 1st time
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11 Dec 1987 Test debut of Carl Hooper, West Indies vs India at Bombay
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12 Dec 1987 Mookie Blaylock sets NBA record of 13 steals in a game
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12 Dec 1987 Rollermania at Madison Square Garden, Eastern Express beats Midwest Pioneers
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12 Dec 1987 Oklahoma sets NCAA record of 33 steals vs Centenary
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13 Dec 1987 Belgium Christian Democrats (CVP) loses parliamentary election
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13 Dec 1987 Browns set club record for most points scored in a quarter, 28
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13 Dec 1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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14 Dec 1987 Allan Border scores 205 vs New Zealand to become Australia's top rungetter
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14 Dec 1987 Chrysler pleads no contest to selling driven vehicles as new
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15 Dec 1987 "Les Miserables" opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston
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16 Dec 1987 Roh Tae Woo elected President of South Korea
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16 Dec 1987 Roh Tae Woo wins Presidential Election in South Korea
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17 Dec 1987 Final Fantasy is released in Japan on the Famicon, marking the start of the Final Fantasy series and saving Square from bankruptcy.
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17 Dec 1987 Czechoslovak party leader Gustav Hus
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18 Dec 1987 Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perl programming language.
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18 Dec 1987 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's future president, marries Asif Ali Zardari
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18 Dec 1987 Ivan F Boesky sentenced to 3 years for insider trading
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19 Dec 1987 Bruins' Linseman & Blues' Doug Gilmore score goals, 2 seconds apart
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19 Dec 1987 Gari Kasparov becomes world chess champion
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20 Dec 1987 "Nuts" with Barbra Striesand premieres
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20 Dec 1987 Dona Paz ferry sinks after crash with oil tanker Vector, 4386 die
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20 Dec 1987 Nancy Lopez / Miller Barber wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
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20 Dec 1987 In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).
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20 Dec 1987 Worst peacetime shipping disaster, Dona Paz ferry sinks after collision with oil tanker Vector; 1,749 confirmed deaths (probably closer to 3,000)
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20 Dec 1987 "Nuts" with Barbra Streisand premieres
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20 Dec 1987 76th Davis Cup: Sweden beats India in Gothenburg (5-0)
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21 Dec 1987 Soyuz TM-4 launches 3 Cosmonauts to space station Mir
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21 Dec 1987 Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov launched
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21 Dec 1987 3 white New York teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man
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21 Dec 1987 Soyuz TM-4 carries 3 cosmonauts (Musa Manarov, Anatoly Levchenko & Vladimir Titov) to space station Mir
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22 Dec 1987 In Zimbabwe, the political parties ZANU and ZAPU reach an agreement that ends the violence in the Matabeleland region known as the Gukurahundi.
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23 Dec 1987 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison
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25 Dec 1987 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who escaped 2 days earlier, recaptured
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26 Dec 1987 "Les Miserables" opens at National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik
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27 Dec 1987 Steve Largent sets all-time NFL record for career catches when he catches his 752nd pass
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27 Dec 1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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28 Dec 1987 In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 2, later bodies of 14 of his relatives are found at his home near Dover AR
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30 Dec 1987 Australia hangs on for draw vs New Zealand at MCG, 1 wicket left 17 runs short
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30 Dec 1987 Premier Mugabe elected President of Zimbabwe
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